Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Nexstar Drops Late Nighter From Affiliates Over Charlie Kirk Comments
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the offensive comments:
full monologue
Can't risk offending the boy king now can we?
The king who went golfing instead of attending Jesus 2’s vigil-a-go-go?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
i fully expect him to start wandering around the white house naked just to see if he can get away with a real life "emperor's new clothes"
That’s offensive? I guess pointing out the obvious is just to much for them to handle.
Truth has a well known liberal bias.
And yet they failed to stop any of this
Only so much you can do when the voters choose fascism.
The only thing they needed to do was make themselves more appealing than fascism, and they failed
And those same people are still in charge of the opposition, hiring hordes of trolls on social media to distract from their failure and blame it on voters.
Logically it doesn't make any sense, they nominate people that aren't popular that can't win, or if they do win like Joe Biden they're going to do nothing with it and hand it right back.
This is what controlled opposition looks like
Trump in 2018:
"Just remember: What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
If you're seeing and reading Fox News, that's probably true.
Reality has a liberal bias
The left also scrambled to say, "Not my guy!"
Hell, I've seen people downvoted around here for mentioning the shooter had a trans lover/roommate. No idea if that's true, seems a little too pat, but I've read the alleged text messages.
Nothing there screams fake to me, and this administration sucks at impersonating liberals, let alone Trump himself. They're hilariously obvious when they try.
In any case, a Hitler Youth recruiter got blown out the neck from a 30.06 cannon shell. Fine by me, whoever did it, for whatever reason they did it. Just glad he didn't use an AR-15! :)
"Nothing there screams fake to me"
Are you wearing ear plugs, by any chance?
What do you mean? I always talk about "retrieving things" and "my vehicle". Grabbing things from "cars" (or "trucks" ) is for cucks, and I'm a macho alpha male™®.
I've known plenty of people who talk exactly like that.
And if you're planning a murder, using "tactical" terms seems pretty normal to me.
fuck i didn't notice the sovcit bullshit in there because i wasn't looking now i gotta go reread. did he say conveyance at all?
This comment smells of hopium, what about that seems fake to you?
That's how far the scales have tipped now, sadly
That’s just the actual events of record!
It’s funny how absolutely true this statement is too. I’ve seen so many headlines over the past week about what political affiliations he might have. And we really still don’t know.
Didn’t you know that having a queer friend magically turns all your right wing extremist indoctrination, hate, and bloodthirst leftist! Queer people can turn you trans-political, now.
The guy murdered a conservative talking head and no one else, in a crowd of thousands. You can't possibly suggest he's not 100% liberal?
E: you little are literally insane.
Have you not noticed how often right wingers get into public fights with each other? They hate their own people nearly as much as they hate everyone else
The guy murdered a human talking head and no one else, in a crowd of thousands. You can't possibly suggest he's not 100% Martian?
Was he notorious for being a human?
The guy murdered one man, and no one else, in crowd of thousands. You can't possibly suggest he's not 100% a woman?
E: you people are literally insane.
Was he notorious for being a man?
I was so certain that he was being cancelled over something else that he said, but no!
I watched the whole video here and that was it! In addition to some regular dunking on Trump about how he was in the 4th stage of Denial, Construction.
This is absolute insanity.
That is so tame. And accurate.
Well I mean what do you expect? it's a fascist country, that's what facists do.
you think Nazi Germany allowed anti-party rhetoric or even anything that they could consider remotely offensive to them? no. they got rid of those people.
Americans, please don't allow yourselves to become more Nazi than you already are.
What are we supposed to do? I always imagined in Nazi Germany that the govt was working against the wishes of the people and they just didn't fight back but Americans seem to constantly celebrate being stepped on and now I'm thinking maybe the Germans did too. I just never could have imagined humanity was capable of ignorance of this scale.
Germans did in fact like being stepped on just the same and when the war was over one of the biggest immediate issues of the allies was the de-nazification of the remaining population. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
Leaders like these tend to be a symptom of a deeper systemic issue, rather than a pesky bug you could just squash and move on.
I think it's just not how people feel and this illusion is one of the ways the Nazi party was so effective. You have bot's, paid-pundits, and controlled social spaces just like the propagandist's and silencing of the dissenters before. Look at any poll, local action, or how people around you actually feel. I live in deep red country and everyone who was so pro-maga before kinda are just silent at this point on the actions of the administration but can still focus in on the "them" like they're told. Only takes a few questions to break it down though with reality.
The breaking up of communities is one of the most effective tactics they have, it should be a focus of progressive factions to double down on keeping open communication between neighbors.
There are lots and lots of people around me who feel this way. That's what makes it so difficult and so hopeless to fight back. We're not just fighting authorities, we're fighting our families and friends, everyone of of them so dug in that they will hate and insult you if you so much as try to have a conversation about it.
I think I understand your situation, a lot of the times I feel the same way. I think it's more realistic to focus on those close to us versus trying to solve the countries problems by ourselves. Everything I read or hear is just a study in what are good arguments to bring up and positions that make sense while reaching across the aisle. I consume conservative media and engage in online debates with conservatives for this very reason. It's all just a preamble to understand and try to reach someone on a topic.
There are definitely times and places where it's not welcomed (like in group settings), but if you continue educating yourself and understanding what fallacy they've indoctrinated within themselves, you can find those good times to engage. For example a recent immigration conversation I had with a relative, didn't go so well. Afterwords I reflected and found a good response asking them, "If masked armed people showed up to your neighbors house and started dragging people out, would you intervene or sit there watching?" It put them into the perspective of actually being there during a raid of someone they knew and benefited from, also allowed them to feel the fear and hopelessness when authoritarians come crashing into your reality. It's not much but it's a start and you just gotta go from there one step at a time.
It's too late. Just nuke us.
Extra crazy because he didn't even speak poorly of Charlie or say any distasteful comments. He didn't even really make a statement about the situation at all. He just said MAGA is trying to categorize the shooter as not them and played some clips of Trump being 100000x more interested in the new Whitehouse ballroom than the public assassination of his dear friend.
You can't cancel someone over comments they didn't make. This is pandering, plain as day. Same reason Colbert got canceled.
Colbert cancellation was more clever. There are numbers that they could point to (though others that paint him well). They gave him a few months to finish things out. It was temporally too close to the merger talks but besides that the façade could’ve been worse.
This time it’s a nakedly anti-1A FCC. :(
I do hope some reality tv stars speak out. It's a win/win either some networks grow a backbone or we get some trash off tv.
John Oliver's gonna have one hell of a field day on sunday
You know what they say, "Field day on Sunday, deported on Monday."
Wait..
Who says that?
Isn't John Oliver a US citizen?
Deporting US citizens isn't new?
Yeah, but he’s got that nose, doesn’t he?
You got me there
Yes, but he's still an immigrant. That's enough for them.
Considering his parent company want to get bought by Paramount, I doubt it.
The Labour Party and ACAB squirms in response.
oh i know an orange reality tv star that will speak out for sure.
This isn't even cancel culture at this point. It's a violation of our rights to free speech.
Direct threat from the administration:
Trump had Colbert cancelled and said Kimmel was next on Truth Social back in July: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114874422468516376
The FCC chairmen threatened ABC: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-1236522406/
Lmao, I don't like him, but that's pretty fucked. I don't see how anyone could view this as anything but harassment and intimidation. They really want a new civil war don't they? Accelerationists are eating great lately. That should scare the shit out of everyone, left and right included.
Yeah I also dislike Jimmy Kimmel but his comment seems super tame
Huh?
Who said anything about lame?
Check it again, I said his comments were TAME
This must be this famed "free speech" that JD Vance lectured the Germans about when he visited Munich.
Whoa, that’s fucked up
Isn't this that Cancel Culture™ that MAGA's always talking about?
It's worse. It's state controlled media. Cancel Culture is about the population shunning individuals they dislike. In this instance it's authoritarian government.
Wow, now they are just pulling whoever without a real reason or even a pretext.
It is cancel whoever we want because we can.
James Kimmel? Now they are just making up people to cancel.
America will no longer exist by 2026 at this rate.
Cowards
9/10/2025 the death of
charlie kirkmaking fun of nazis.You only get in trouble for telling the truth.
It's all according to the plan: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5410016-donald-trump-jimmy-kimmel-stephen-colbert-cbs/
Yup
Trump had Colbert cancelled and said Kimmel was next on Truth Social back in July: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114874422468516376
The FCC chairmen threatened ABC: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/brendan-carr-abc-fcc-jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-1236522406/
Gutfeld is a useful moron.
But he sucks at everything.
The mob boss glares at Kimmel.
Wild watching free speech crash and burn in American. This isn't a company pulling him for his speech, this comes as a direct threat from the government regarding his speech.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr:
“Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
One's opinion on Kirk's murder is the litmus test. You one of us or one of them? The administration is excelling at not letting a tragedy go to waste. Where were the Democrats when the Minnesota legislators were murdered? Nope. Seems the left is too fair to spin propaganda. And that's why the fascists have won. It's over. They've won.
Get armed, learn and train, defend yourselves even if it means your personal extinction, not an easy path. In any case, hunker down and wait for history to eat them. Gonna take some time, always does, and evil always eats itself in the end.
Jimmy should run for office now. I don't think Jimmy Kimmel is some kind of saint but they put him in a place of power by pulling his show.
Colbert is the one well placed, to dust off his satire schtick after a maga conversion on his own channel.
He should quit the network early and start, the colbert reported.
Kimmel idk, but these networks will find conservatives have no sense of humor and cannot drive ratings. If they censor things the right cries about no one will subscribe to their dogshit streaming platforms.
The satire schtick won't get Colbert elected. Kimmel is charismatic and likeable with his own personality. No point in chasing conservative votes; just get liberals excited and showing up.
I'm not saying for Colbert to run for office, I just want him to dust off his satire bit, I think he has way more effective at that than he has been as a establishment Democrat cheerleader.
But since we are on the subject, I do want to see Jon Stewart as the Presidential nominee in 2028, at the head of a host of Reform minded candidates be there Progressive or other flavor of candidate matching their constituencies, that do not think people should be as fucked by the super rich without their consent.
Because that is almost everybody electorally. Red State and blue. And the only way to win here now is with a massive electoral Landslide and even then it might be hard to overcome the Party Machine fixing the elections every way they can.
Could you imagine an entire administration run by talk show hosts.
Kimmel, Colbert, John Stewart.
I'm not sure they'd do a good job or that they'd even side with the public with issues or avoid bribes, but they'd be charistmatic AF.
Despite them being good people it would defacto be a step closer to Idiocracy.
We want leaders who've built a career doing things.
Speaking truth to power is an entirely different skillset.
I fully agree in concept, but i fear our career politicians (even the best ones) are corrupted or at least working complicately in a fully corrupt system.
I don't think that talk show hosts are the answer. Although, Stewart at least is 100% up to speed on political matters which is more than I can say about some presidents.
Doing things doesn't necessarily mean politics. Could mean education, or administration, or front line work. Real life experience that qualifies someone to be in charge of things.
Jon, Jimmy, and Stephen would be wasted upon the presidency. They should join forces and start an independent media organization.
This is wrong but fuck ABC. Go start some independent media and get a huge following. Fuck these networks.
You spelled Disney wrong
He didn't even say anything other than the truth and played videos of the president himself ignoring the death and talking about his stupid ballroom that he was bribed with.
I refuse to deal with republicans who ignore these blatant fascist moves the adminstration makes. We would have had a normal country, but no. Project 2025 and the heritage foundation couldn't have that, so they bought donald the presidency and got elon to fund the campaign.
It's only a matter of time till people are arrested for talking out against donald trump and the fact he is a POS who ignores all law and order.
But many of us would rather be locked up than bow down to a pedophile.
We need to stop thinking that catching right-wingers in their hypocrisy and exposing it is actually going to achieve something. They know they have a double standard and that they get the clean end of the stick from it. They like that, and want more of it. They know they're doing cancel culture and are anti-freedom of expression. The belief that they might suddenly have a dawning realisation that they've been hypocritical and two-faced and will thereafter either shut up or change their ways is leftist 'pornography plot' daydreaming. We need to accept that they're unashamedly cunts who want non-MAGAs to be second-class citizens in every way possible. So trading blows with them on Twitter and posting gotcha "this you?" screenshots of them saying the opposite shit about George Floyd or whoever is just wasting everyone's time.
Voting is all there is, and that's not a good state of affairs to be in. But it's something you can actually work towards, at least. If you don't intend to vote against them, there's really not much use in complaining when they do their usual reprehensible shit like cost people their livelihoods because they weren't adequately-deferential towards a dead bigot.
You can't win by playing nice is there are no rules for the other side. There is no democracy left in America, and there will be no fair election in 2028 whether Trump is still alive or not.
Anyway, Tyler Robinson showed there is another way. Am I saying Robinson specifically is a good guy? No. But realistically, evil leaders and administrations have been stopped by good guys fighting back with violence, and then stopping when the goal has been achieved and returning to peace. The difference between good and bad isn't non-violence and violence, but restrained violence to achieve the goal of peace and violence as the goal itself.
tHe PaRtY oF fReE sPeEcH
capitalists are so scared of gov influence affecting profits they’ll bootlick instantly when uncle sam pretends he’s upset.
this is all just the pot starting to boil with us in it.
Dear USA, fight for your rights. What's happening now reminds me of what happened to Baseem Youssef in Egypt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27671642
Fighting for our fights at this point requires killing. Democrats have this weird idea that taking the high road will pay off. It won't. So ultimately we're kinda doomed.
Damn, I remember the whole Jon Stewart thing, the movie, the episode after Youssef's show was cancelled...
Cancel your Hulu and Disney+ if you pay for it
Sailing the seas it is.
I just want to say publicly that Charlie Kirk was a Nazi piece of shit
But I thought Elon said comedy was legal now 🥲
Get ready for further change with the ongoing reshaping of the media (e.g. oracle). This is not looking good.
You can talk about how hot underaged actresses are on radio but you can't speak the truth, well how about it.
You can advocate killing all the homeless and only have to give an off-hand non-apology.
ABC = Disney = the mouse
That's what happens in fascist countries
there goes your freeze peach Muricans
"New lows? Hold my beer."
9 months after showing Knocked Loose on national television they finally found a reason to cancel him.
And the Fourth Estate crumbles once again.
New Disney Plans announced Make Disney Great Again
How is bro's face so small
so who wants to crowdfund a buyout of nextar and sicnlair media groups? I ain't got that kind of pull, but i'm good with numbers. could ensure everyone got an ownership share proportional to their contribution
Free speech doesn't mean free from consequences. Or is it different now?
Well, I'm no American, but US free speech means freedom from consequences from the government, doesn't it? This was directed by the FCC, which is the government.
But I'm no American, what do I know?
(It's embarrassing that non-Americans know the rights of Americans better than Americans. As designed by the powers that be.)
Constitutionally yes, assuming US context.
Outside of that it's case by case depending on context.
Stating that megacorps pulling this cowardly shit is well... Cowardly isn't complaining that they are doing something illegal it's just pointing out that it's shitty.
Hey, man, he's getting screwed, but I for one think it's well past time for him to have been gone.
Nah, Kimmel was the only one left who truly shit on Trump. Fallon will ignore politics entirely because late night is the only thing keeping him relevant.
I would have instant mad respect for late night if they all pulled a big solidarity move. They should all say the exact thing Kimmel said.