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What about the Antifa Air Force? We heard about that in 2020. Seems like this Trump administration really dropped the ball on Kirk if it knew this organization was so sophisticated to have an Air Force, but turned a blind eye to the organization when back in power. So, applying the tortured Trump logic about Antifa to the Kirk murder, Kirk’s blood is on Trump’s hands.

Sweet. How did the government lean on business interests there? Who did the FCC threaten under Obama, or Biden, or Clinton? Apparently the switch has flipped, eh? Government ownership of Intel all of a sudden isn't socialism, but . . . whatever it is that MAGA calls it these days.

Apparently America is great when we threaten license holders for exercising speech. Even assuming that he has been lying, so has Fox and Trump, to far more significant degrees. Why was the ABC broadcasting license threatened, but not that of Fox? And, is it acceptable to lie on cable news (no FCC license), or in an elected position, but not on broadcast television?

I thought about this last night. The difference between this issue and a different private sector firing is that the FCC stepped in and (to my knowledge) impliedly threatened the license(s) of ABC. I don't think what Kimmel said was in great taste, although I happen to think it to be arguably true. I am appalled by the government's intervention and thumb on the scale on this issue. It is completely wrong. If that's the trigger for cancellation, then the President should have been cancelled quite awhile ago. Yeah, he found out that MAGA is into using the government to cancel people.

Hoax. You responded.

How do you feel about Trump trying to silence critics using the FCC and about government ownership of Intel? Seems a bit … commie to me.

Sure. The kid comes from a MAGA family and grandma didn't know any Democrats in the family. Also, when asked about his grieving, Trump quickly changed the subject to his waste of money ballroom that nobody but him thinks is a good idea. There you go.

The thread title is inaccurate. Antifa, whatever that is, was designated as "A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION," whatever that is. Not a minor terrorist organization. Not a terrorist organization. But "A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION." This guy's marbles are long gone.

I didn't find it funny. But it's arguably true. The murder is being politicized by some (including Trump, from this vantage point), and it appears that the murderer was a child of MAGA parents.

It's amazing. I get the reaction to the abhorrent comments and glee over the murder made on social media. I don't begrudge private actors acting as they wish relative to those comments. ABC can to the same, I suppose. But, objectively, I don't think what Kimmel said merited ABC's overreaction. It was political commentary, and it's arguably true.

Nice dodge. Looks like you’re fine with that guy having his gun at work, but you want private employers to cancel people for using (hateful) word or expressing (obviously inappropriate and classless) thoughts. To be expected from you and your one way street perspective.

What about the MAGA security guard who had enough misguided rage in his heart to enter the Capitol on J6? Should he carry a gun at work? Are the “liberals” he protects safe from him?

You guys should focus less on transsurrections and more on J6.

So, it was acceptable for DJT to mock and laugh at an old man getting assaulted with a hammer?

This is exactly the point I'm making. The thought police appears to be in formation right now. I don't know if it's a good idea, and I have no dog in the fight in the private arena. But if the government is going to put its thumb on the scale, then . . . it shouldn't, and it should reconsider, but if it's gonna do it anyway, it's gotta go both ways.

Indeed. The question is whether "right wing" influencers, like Kirk, now have more time on task or impressions or whatever you'd like to call with metric than do college professors with college students.

Actually it's called inflation, and it's getting worse. As noted, grocery prices now are at their highest point in three years. Maybe if more actual cherries were picked we'd be in better shape here.

Not the issue. Why are Kirk comments cancelable, but Don Jr.'s comments about Pelosi not?

Nope. He's gotta go. That's my opinion. It's bad for any political party to run somebody like that now. It's representative of something greater than a job in the private sector.

Again, life is a matter of degree. So your point appears to be that getting hit in the head in a brutal attack with a hammer is funny because the victim didn't die, but premeditated murder is not funny and horrid comments about that incident therefore merit firing? Agreed. But JD is putting a thumb on the scale for this issue. Is he right? And, if so, should be more affirmative and direct about Don Jr.?

So he should be fired from whatever private sector job he has. Now we're getting somewhere.

It's not eggs. It's groceries in general. And, while what you say about the cattle count might be true, nobody wanted to hear it when the bird flu was the problem.

Not the issue. This is Don Jr., and the issue whether good applies to goose and gander, and if so, then why not.

Nope. You changed the nature of the point. I said "at institutions of higher learning." Influencers nowadays can be anyone--professors, the Kardashians, and anyone with a microphone and an audience. Like Kirk. How much of his content is consumed at universities? My guess is a lot based on what I read here.

That's part of the point here. Nearly everyone has said things that are objectionable. The Kirk stuff might be the most objectionable. Or it might not be. It's certainly the most recent, and it's certainly pervasive. But I wonder if we're going to establish a thought police and speech police how many people are going to get swept up in it. I don't know where he's employed. But JD seems to be calling for the private sector to act on comments like his. So should Don Jr. be terminated from whatever private sector position he might hold?