[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

ABC pay him a very lucrative contract. The normal way would be to let his contract expire and not renew. Now, they have to pay his contract

He's near the end of his contract...

Jimmy Kimmel’s future at ABC was already up in air before Charlie Kirk uproar as contract came to a close
https://pagesix.com/2025/09/18/enter...e-kirk-uproar/

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"They have a license granted by us at the FCC that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest," Carr told Johnson. "I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take actions, frankly on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

Before ABC announced it was halting Kimmel’s show, two companies that own a range of ABC affiliates, Nexstar and Sinclair, said they would be preempting his show. Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a merger with Tegna, while Nexstar and Sinclair are asking the FCC to repeal a rule that limits any broadcasting company from reaching more than 39% of U.S. households.

In an interview after Kimmel’s show was pulled, Carr again cited his agency’s public interest obligation. Speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Carr said: "We at the FCC are going to enforce the public interest obligation. If there’s broadcasters out there that don’t like it, they can turn their license in to the FCC. But that’s our job, and again we’re making some progress now."

Publications and legal experts say Carr overstepped his mandate, using the threat of government action to police what should qualify as free speech.

"When a network drops high-profile talent hours after the FCC chairman makes a barely veiled threat, then it’s no longer just a business decision. It’s government coercion," wrote the right-of-center publication The Free Press. "Is it now Trump administration policy to punish broadcasters for comedy that doesn’t conform to its politics? That is censorship."

You're once again ignoring a lot of fact and lacking any rational objectivity which makes having a discussion with you almost impossible.

[Maru]

FCC were involved so no matter what, Trump's involvement can't be completely ruled out. They have a duty to and are able to correct the record but they won't immediately if it's even possible. Carr has said out loud their intention is to expect broadcasters and media conglomerates to take matters into their hands and clean up their own house instead of forcing them to wage war. Public sentiment has shifted significantly towards concerns about what media we are consuming, especially after the shooting.

In my opinion, both parties at this point have already said in different ways that social media has now become a problem so both want to do something about it but just haven't admitted it out loud yet... if they're not on the same page, they're just about there. I wouldn't be surprised if at least some in the party felt very similarly about TV as well...

Kimmel and personalities like him were useful cows for a time but they are just about milked. The Democrat establishment doesn't actually care about the free speech issue and won't do much more than complain about it unless they can somehow use this opportunity to make permanent their extended soapbox into the entertainment space.

Just my two cents.

[bots]

everything boils down to money in the end. free speech is great if it makes me money

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

everything boils down to money in the end. free speech is great if it makes me money

It's smart as hell because they're playing the right. "Look, we've come to our senses!"... yeah ok...

[Crimson Dynamo]

NEWS: OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE NOT IN TOP 3 UK UNIVERSITIES FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

This is the price you pay for DEI schemes and promoting hateful people

#Charlie

[Parmy]

All probably single at the time of offences though.Hopefully.

Lots off down trodden men sat at home with the female version of Walter schofield mitty, slightly scared to mention going out for ten minutes, love...if the lesbian and bi sexual stats are to be believed.


It all weighs out in the end.

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Oh dear.

[Parmy]

Can you imagine what's going through his killers head right now.

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Beso

Can you imagine what's going through his killers head right now.

Sadly, yes.

[BBXX]

Fox News: Charlie Kirk said there was no such thing as hate speech.
Trump: He might not be saying that now.

[BBXX]

Look Cherie, you obviously have your right to reply and that’s fair but I don’t want to argue with you anymore, so I won’t be replying any further once you’ve replied.

There is not much more I can say and I don’t want to just keep on debating with people.

All the best.

[Maru]

Sacramento man arrested after opening fire on ABC10 news station lobby in broad daylight
https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/us-new...tion-shooting/

A Sacramento man who railed against President Trump online allegedly opened fire on a local ABC affiliate in a brazen drive-by shooting — just a day after furious protesters demonstrated outside the station over the suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Anibal Hernandez-Santana, 64, was busted Friday night at an apartment in the River Park neighborhood and charged with blasting three bullets into the lobby window of ABC10’s Broadway headquarters hours earlier, according to reports.

Police said they linked the accused gunman’s vehicle to the shooting.

[Glenn.]

[Crimson Dynamo]

Glasgow yesterday

The face of the deranged far-left summed up in one photograph

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Glasgow yesterday

The face of the deranged far-left summed up in one photograph

the actual state of it

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

the actual state of it

Sad as hell.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Maru

Sad as hell.

depressing and i guarantee if you looked at the upbringing, their would be serious father issues

[Maru]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

depressing and i guarantee if you looked at the upbringing, their would be serious father issues

We also vastly underestimate the power of substances. What from what I have seen, most of these individuals cite early mental health trauma of some kind. Many have been on psych meds from a young age and also have experimented with other methods of self-medication. All these methods have a profound effect on the development of the mind and it's not talked about nearly enough... experimenting with things like acid for self-medicative purposes can also bring on things like schitzophrenia.

I have a friend who had to be hospitalized from Kratom abuse (I didn't know that was possible...). This was after years of therapy, including one therapist who took him so far down the New Age rabbit hole during a particularly traumatic divorce, thaty they affirmed to him their soon-to-be ex was a soulmate and asserted how easily connected they were. His ex was highly abusive. There was more importance placed on the therapist's ability to discern his state of mind from simple woo than him being able to pick up the skills to discern for himself. He never regained objectivity. He broke down mentally while looking for other methods to self-medicate. He's still suffering privately. I contacted him recently and his moral compass is starting to slip also... It feels horrible.

The attraction to "witchcraft" as a personal weapon is massive tell. It's a huge admission of feeling like one's life is out of their hands... that's a cry for help, imo. These "alternative" methods have gained massive popularity in the US and they are considered as part of legitimate therapy so it can come up even in a simple office visit. And insurance covers this... Hollywood is shoulder deep in these philosophies and it's not as if that's going to fix anything going on internally.

These are the kind of people scrambling for quick solutions. Exercising anger through violence is only one of them. It feels cliche to say this really, but we have a growing mental health problem that is unaddressed.. but unfortunately in the US, we're encouraging the problem by suggesting most solutions to a personal issue involve the cutting out of key figures in our lives, taking very strong prescription meds or otherwise adopting coping strategies that involve largely playing a victim ... too many are being given placebos for their problems by a predatory industry and don't even know it.

[Maru]

Whether they end up being related or not to Kirk, the bio of this group is interesting as hell.

Founder of Armed Queers group investigated in Charlie Kirk shooting is radical trans leftist who advocated violence
https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/us-new...trans-leftist/

The cache of information includes posts from Ermiya Fanaeian, the child of Iranian immigrants, according to the source familiar with the federal investigation, whose Instagram bio calls for “Revolution + Trans liberation in our lifetime!”

Despite her fringe leftist views, Fanaeian has time and again been welcomed by the political mainstream, and even rewarded for her advocacy.

In 2022, Fanaeian was given a “7 for 17” award for “gender equality” by the Utah Global Diplomacy, a nonprofit that worked with the State Department to “promote citizen diplomacy and international exchange in Utah.”

Fanaeian also joined then-presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) onstage during an April 2019 campaign event in Salt Lake City, an archived picture from Fanaeian’s since-deleted Facebook page shows.

A Warren spokesperson didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

In 2020, Fanaeian, 25, started the Salt Lake City chapter of Pink Pistols, a national organization “whose mission is to arm LGBTQ people,” Utah’s KUER wrote that year in a puff piece heralding Fanaeian’s involvement in the group.

I used to think that guns were a scary thing,” Fanaeian told the outlet. “Back then, I would have agreed with Joe Biden’s assertion to take everyone’s AR-15s away. And now I own one.”

In Utah those statements would just be another normal day.

It was quite a pivot — just a year earlier, she founded the local chapter of March for Our Lives — David Hogg’s group, which campaigns to restrict gun rights.

However, the honeymoon phase with Pink Pistols was short-lived; Fanaeian, then a University of Utah student, and the group parted ways just a year later. Pink Pistols now disavowing any connection to the former chapter leader.

“The Party for Socialism and Liberation is not a liberal movement — we are a leftist movement,” Fanaeian told the outlet. “We are an anti-capitalist movement. We are a working class revolutionary movement.”

PSL’s main backer is Neville Singham, a US millionaire tech mogul with extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) who bankrolls other radical organizations including National Students for Justice in Palestine, International People’s Assembly, Code Pink and ANSWER Coalition.

A few former affiliates of her scrubbed links to her interestingly enough.

[Maru]

Al Green has his moments...

"Mr. Speaker, I speak as a liberated Democrat"...
"Unbought, unbossed, unafraid"
*pokes sign from the closest participating Office Depot*

Youtube video

[arista]

President Trump
is in Arizona, the Charlie Kirk Memorial.

The service starts at 7PM UK Time.

[MTVN]

Looks like huge crowds, hope all passes peacefully

[bots]

i think its a lot simpler than that, these are just people demanding attention that no-one would ever do in a sane world.

[Maru]

Originally Posted by bots

i think its a lot simpler than that, these are just people demanding attention that no-one would ever do in a sane world.

We treat that behavior with medications in the US, though, and then people use the fact that they're getting therapy/medications as a validation that their professed problems (imagined or not) are legitimate. So it feeds into the same issue.

Edit: *Clarity