• EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    I’m glad he s the president on the sole fact he seem to piss you a lot.

    Of course you’re happy Americans are upset about Trump. Because you care more about him than America. Obviously.

    I just care about the constitution he’s violating. And you would too if you cared about this country as much as you do Trump.

    Lmao. I dont know what s your fixation on him…

    YOU HAVE THE FIXATION, sir. Not me. And your fixation is why you can’t hear Kimmels words instead of Trumps. That’s why I’ve asked 9 times. You literally can’t hear someone if Trump tells you what they said first.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-returning

    The Kimmel controversy erupted last week after conservatives criticized a Kimmel monologue comment on Monday about the MAGA responses to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

    MAYBE he never said the shooter was MAGA: yes or no?

    You can’t admit someone MIGHT be correct instead of Trump.

    The shooter wasn’t leftist: Yes or No? You can’t admit this is a lie. One you’ve now spread for days.

    The head of our FBI accused the wrong person of being the shooter: Yes or No?

    You can’t even admit how poorly this makes our government look because Trump has lied to you about it being better than ever.

    Because you let Trump speak and do everything for you without considering if it’s true.

    Thats why this conversation has always been about Trump, because you are the best example of why your own advice about the Truth in society is needed:

    if u question why telling the truth is better for society i feel all your argument regarding the other side of yours can be dismissed.

    Let’s prove it now - would Trump be better for society if he told the truth? Yes or no?

    According to you, your garuanteed failure to answer that question means the entire side of your argument should be dismissed.

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      Your article sir

      Kimmel said the MAGA movement was trying to score political points by trying to prove that the 22-year-old suspect accused of killing Kirk is not one of its own.

      Also if it was gouvernement overeach dont u think they would do more than simply one official answering during an interview that maybe he broke the law ? Like having real consequence. Cause here it s simply the major that said jimmy u fucked it up. Take one week vacation. And that s all. What was the attack on free speech ?

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        Respectfully, read the statement again focusing on the word NOT.

        Kimmel said the MAGA movement was trying to score political points by trying to prove that the 22-year-old suspect accused of killing Kirk is NOT one of its own.

        “NOT one of its own” = NOT MAGA

        Shooter = NOT MAGA

        MAGA wants the shooter = NOT MAGA.

        Which is what Kimmel said. And is very true.

        As for why it’s an attack on Free Speech, it’s not hard to show. However, it is going to require a few links to paint the bigger picture -

        To start, here’s how Republicans felt about executive orders in 2014 and how it’s tyranny to use them to bypass congress:

        https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/01/gop-leaders-are-appalled-that-the-president-would-issue-an-executive-order.html

        finding a Republican who’d denounce [Presidents] executive actions… was easier than breathing. “There’s a Constitution that we all take an oath to, including him, and following the Constitution is the basis for House Republicans.”

        More resonant warnings followed, from Republicans who had been characterizing all of [Presidents] actions—as petty tyranny… wrote Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the Wall Street Journal - When a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president.”

        Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul weighed in, too, “I think it’s disturbing… on the idea that he can go around Congress

        Basically, a President using executive orders to bypass 1/3 of our system of government (congress) is tyranny, and against the constitution that President is supposed to protect. Ted Cruz stated any President who ruled entirely through executive order like this was not a President.

        Something I agree with.

        Because the FCC was an independant government agency until 2025. They regulated what was on TV with no influence from the government at all.

        The FCC has long held that ‘the public interest is best served by permitting free expression of views,’” the FCC says on its website.

        Until this year. When Trump expanded our government to control them. By issuing an executive order that bypassed congress (1/3 of our checks and balances) to expand the executive branch to control dozens of agencies that used to be Independant. The FCC is one of those agencies, and is now part of the executive branch instead of existing outside the government.

        https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2025/02/26/trump-takes-control-of-independent-agencies/

        This is VERY important to understand when it comes to the first amendment, because:

        In 1963, the US Supreme Court issued a key ruling that the government cannot create a “system of informal censorship” by putting pressure on private companies.

        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/19/does-jimmy-kimmels-removal-over-charlie-kirk-violate-freedom-of-speech

        The FCC is now the government, not independant, so it cannot influence private companies without violating the Frist Amendment as ruled by the Supreme Court in 1963.

        Yet here’s the head of the FCC doing just that:

        FCC Chair Brendan Carr suggested Jimmy Kimmel should be suspended and said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,”… Within a matter of hours, ABC suspended Kimmel’s show “indefinitely,” a stunning move that has raised serious First Amendment concerns.

        https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/media/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment

        Those concerns are about government overreach from the FCC. Which is now a part of our government through the tyranny of executive order. Trump is using them to censors private companies despite that clearly being protected by the First Amendment as I’ve linked above.

        And he will keep doing it because Republicans only have a spine to protect our Constitution from a black president, not actual tyranny.

        TYRANNY - Dictionary - noun

        cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control.

        Give me a reason the FCC is now part of the executive branch that isn’t a MAGA lie.

        This wasn’t needed for 9/11. Or Covid. Or anything else. But it is now? Why? What reason could possibly be more important than 9/11?

        If there’s no good reason, his expansion of government to control them is unreasonable.

        Which is literal, by definition, Tryanny. And what Republicans used to care about.

        Instead, Trump is actively using his extended powers over the FCC, granted to him by himself (not congress) to attack Kimmels right to Free Speech despite it clearly being Constitutionally protected as coming from a private company.

        If Trump didn’t control the FCC, this likely wouldn’t be against the First Amendment. But the FCC wouldn’t do anything like this unless it was controlled by Trump. That’s why he issued an executive order to control it.

        Which again, is both tyrannical AND and a very explicit and intentional disregard for the Constitution and our First Amendment rights over censorship it protects. The government cannot censor private companies, yet Trump took control of the FCC so his government could do just that.

        What happens next is Trump will keep overruling the Constitution by executive order, as he has been, eventually to the point where only some groups are safe to practice free speech. Effectively robbing it from everyone the Constitution grants it to, and giving it only to whoever he wants.

        And you will be okay with it because Trump will surely give MAGA another lie to believe.

        At least until he takes away something you do care about. Then it’ll matter.

        Until then, you’ll likely just keep running away from any yes or no questions that might indicate this is what’s happening as a consequence of Trumps lies.