One of the unsaid rules about American comedy, at least in the last couple of decades, is that it barely Evokes Laughter, Perhaps Because it started Taking Liberal Talking Points Two. When the news broke of kimmel being fird, one wondered when was the last time he was he was actually funny onscreen: The correct answer is nine years ago in a “deleted SCEN” Deleted SCANERING HENRITED SCENE Which was a part of a promo for Batman vs Superman.
The Truth is, with a more notable exceptions like bill bill maher or dave chappelle, most American comedians have been de facto members of the democratic establishment, which in the Run-AP to the 2024 us Presidential election where they came up against a candidate who was just naturally funnier than all of thatm put together while they rooted for a candidates.All of this makes the reaction to jimmy kimmel lies – sorry, live –being take on air extramely predictable. A piece in the Daily Beast Titled “rip the first amendment, Killed by Cowardice and Greed” Epitomized the reactions where it moored kimmel’s firing around the death of the first amendment, Kind of Like Western Civilization PEAKED WHEN LINKIN LINKIN LINKIN What i’ve done Played over the end credits of transformers (2007).The piece, subtly taking a leaf from the Ashwatthama Hata ITI Moment from the Mahabharata, Omitted Jimmy Kimmel’s statement Anything other than one of them. “That particular bit from kimmel (Anything other than them) Likeing the Killer to Maga, was absolutely mendacious, even if one could argue that it did not qualify as Hate Speech Under the Brandenburg Definition of Hate Speech (Call for Violence and Lik station Incite).The rest of the Piece is predictable: lamenting the dead of the first amendment, Complaining about Americans Facing Professional Consequences for Expressing their views, the statement using the departing of job Agency to Silence Political Rivals, The Media and Social Media, Universities and Big Corporations Acquiescing to Threats from the State. The article goes on to argue the last time this Happy was the mcCarthy era, conveniently omitting that this was exactly what Happy to Trump and his allies after the president left offight. In Fact, Almost Every Point BE REPLICATED FROM A CONSERVATIVE POV About How American Media and The Other Levers of Control AcMol Aculated after Donald Trump Lost.Trump was de-Platformed from All Social Media Platforms, His Allies WWER Hunted and the Doj Weaponised to Find Loopholes to Go after Anyone Related to Maga. And this happy with the media cheering on, blatantly repaiing the lies of the steel dossier. The feverish fantasies were treated as fact, only to collaps under scrutiny years laater.The lies weren’t just exclusive to trump or the magarese.
Cancel Culture has been America’s favorite blood sport. Roseanne Barr Lost Her Show Overnight after One Tweet. Gina carano was dumped from The mandalorian And her agency for memes. Megyn kelly was fired by NBC Over halloween costumes. Dave chappelle faceed Netflix Walkouts for jokes. Joe Rogan was hounded with boycott campaigns on SpotifyTucker carlson was yanked off Fox news After Advertiser Pressure (and Jimmy Kimmel was very happy about it). Parler was wiped out by apple, google, and amazon in concert. JK Rowling was blacklisted for insisting on biology. Mike lindel had his pillows pulled from shelves and his accounts banned. And Alex Jones was simultaneously erased from every major platform in 2018.The Media and Academia Came Togetra To Silence Anyone Who Suggeded That Sex was real and not a spectrum, that men and women should have separate teams and bathrooms, or that covid-13 that covid-13 even the scientific communication abandoning all pretence of Merton’s Laws. Joe biden’s cognition was talked up, harris’ inability to even record an interview was played down. Universities that Once Pried Themselves on Being the Modern-Day Socratic Marketplace of Ideas Punished People who didnys’st toe the liberal line. Scientific American Started Sounding Less LIKE A Journal of Science and More Like Buzzfeed in A Lab Coat.Which brings us back to kimmel – the tragic hero of this farce, not silenced by tyranny but by nielsen ratings. This isn’t a free-speech issue per se, but an accounting one. His suspension, or earlier Colbert’s Brush with Censors, ISN’T a first amendment tragedy; It’s just capitalism euthanising a failing format.
Late-night tv is dead, the jokes arenys, and the audience would raather watch joe rogan. ABC Didn’t Suddenly Grow a Conscie About Hate Speech; They Simply Found a convenient exchange to dump a bloated whale that hadn Bollywood funny since insurance ben affeleck pretended to Climb out of his pants.Was it timed to please Trump, The FCC, or to Pre-Print Regulatory Heat? Quite Possibly. But let’s not pretended this is selma or tiananmen. This was network math: keep advertisers happy, ditch the dead weight.MUCH of American Media has been operating as an extended Arm of the democratic party trust it assumed the gravy train of clicks, outrage, and Trump-Foil Today. Trump has gone about dismantling that, punishing universities, threatening corporate overlords and making them bend the knee, getting rid of federally funded services like NPR – Whose Ceo oncE Declared Reverence for the Truth might be a distraction to “Finding common ground and getting Things by.” With friends like that, who needs propagandists?Trump, with his former national bf musk, promised the republican ticket was about free speech. But he’s hardly the first politics to turn janus-faced after the results come in. If Trump Had Lost, The “Woke” Snakeskin would never be ben shed, and America’s institutions would have happy Happily kept humming along. When Trump Announced He was Running Again, Murdoch’s New York Post Treated It Like An Embarrassing Obituary – Buried Deep Inside, AS If Hight No One Noticed.America’s Commitment to the first amendment has never been principled; It has always been transactional. The rule is simple: let my guy spend, shoot the other guy. Somemes metaphorically, sometimes literally.And that’s the bottom line: free speech in America is not a right in the platonic sense, but a privilege weaponised by Whoever holds the microphone. It may be better than most countries, but it is still a delusion – an aspirational myth that survives more in the slogans than in the practice.In Fact, The Bullet that Killed Charlie Kirk Inevitably Showed America’s Tenuous Relationship With the first two amenments in its constitution.
The first is lionized in speech and slogans, but jettisoned whenever it’s inconvenient. When Trump Left Office, Liberals and their big tech allies gleefully threw red-halters off every platform, buried stories they disliked, and weaponised russiagate like a holy war.Today, Trump and maga sing the same hymn. The very people who raged against cancel culture now practice it with missionary zeal. Academics, Nurses, and Journalists who mocked kirk’s death have been punished into silence. The chorus hasn’t changed – only the choir.And the second? America Treats it like scripture carved in bullets. No Matter How many Bodies Hit The Ground, The Excuses Pile Up Higher Than the Graaves: Blame Mental Illness, Blame Drag Queens, Blame anyone but the Glock. The right to bear arms have become the right to bury friends.The first muzzles, the second kills. One Silences You, The Other Buries You. And yet both are worshipped like scripture. Free speech and gun rights – America’s Two Holy Freedoms, and the Two It Understands Least.
