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Tucker Carlson says Trump admin using Charlie Kirk’s killing to trample free speech
(www.independent.co.uk)
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This is what I keep saying. When our we going to We The People on this?
Kimmel didn’t even say anything about Kirk he criticized the machine trying to create a narrative.
Who he really criticized was Trump. He showed the clip of how mournful Trump was. A reporter asks how he’s doing with the death and he waves a hand dismissively saying “Im fine” and in the same breath starts waxing poetic on the ballroom he’s building.
THATS why Kimmel was suspended.
Even his critique of the MAGA side could be applied to pretty much everyone:
I think everyone knew there's political benefit to the shooter not being on "their side" and many people actively pointed to evidence that indicates he wasn't. Kinda didn't help that the shooter basically turned out to just be some dude with no obvious affiliation.
It just so happens that there's one political party that controls every aspect of the hill and who's been clamoring to suppress dissent that make them an obvious stand-in for the subject of the joke when anyone else coulda been seamlessly slotted in.
It's infuriating that this is how we're losing our freedom of speech. The most milquetoast, unprovoking recognition of the state of things. He didn't even call the fascist Nazi president a fascist Nazi--just described him as being like a child and that was enough.
It is so fucking bizarre because it has been a favorite American past time to hate the president. Motherfucking Trump tried to float the idea that Obama wasn't even an American citizen. That is a hundred more times disrespectful than anything that has been done to Trump.
Trump constantly talked shit about who was President. Why the fuck does he think he deserves some special kind of respect he refused to give anyone else. He is the worst kind of snowflake crybaby man child I have ever seen.
This is how Cluster B Personality Disorders work. Narcissistic type is a fragile snowflake that creates a false reality and freaks out / throws abuse when anyone contradicts that reality. Worse, if they’re exposed for what the ly are. The difference with Trump is he has a following playing up that false reality to an entire nation.
Trumps behavior is not bizarre, it’s Cluster B doing Cluster B things, on script.
The problem is he’s been ramping up on power grabbing and this is step one of suspending the bill of rights.
That's what baffled me. I watched the episode and couldn't figure out what he said about Kirk that was so bad.
The video https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115223084434305207