ABC takes Jimmy Kimmel off the air over remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing

But I thought that "cancel culture" was anathema to the GOP and MAGA?

Is this something I'm too Canadian to understand?

That's just fucking outrageous. Taking about lunatics.

Capitulating to fascists and bullies NEVER ends well...

Canceled my D+ and Hulu subscriptions and wrote in other:

“Capitulating to Trump’s version of fascist America and knee jerk reaction to Kimmel made me rethink why I should give you my money. I don’t even like or watch Kimmel, but you are allowing free speech to be violated. I don’t support free speech abolitionists.“

Not only do I agree, but I will comment to show visible support. This isn't about Charlie it's free speech.
We need to start poisoning Disney brands.
Never thought I’d see the day the Mouse wore a swastika.
- Are you kidding? Walt Disney was a virulent anti-semite.
I cancelled mine too. Clicked other but don't remember seeing a place to comment. Missed opportunity. Well done you, though.
- Nice! Good on you! Don’t worry about not saying why, if everyone is canceling today then they probably know why. Hulu didn’t have a spot to leave a why but Disney did. 🤷‍♂️

He barely even remarked on it. He said nothing about Kirk himself.

Honestly he said more about how little Trump gave a shit about him and how much more Trump cared about his stupid ballroom

So they've now gotten rid of Colbert and Kimmel, 2 of the most brutally honest guys going after trump. Interesting.

Video of monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j3YdxNSzTk

free speech absolutists
- And all the cocksuckers in the comment section saying "fwee speech has conseqwences uwu" deserve to be duct taped into a porta potty and set ablaze.
- More hate speech absolutists
Sooo... I'm guessing the complaints are coming from people who didn't watch it? Because I can't put my finger on anything that was horrible or false or anything.
- I'm confident they were just looking for a reason after Colbert. Seth Meyers better use his last few weeks before he gets pinched to come up with a contingency plan, cus this is a fucking crackdown.
- My guess is that the right wing propaganda machine to hide the epstein connections, doesn't want it shown that trump takes kirk lightly and doesn't give a shit about his death. It's hard to keep it going if dear leader doesn't even care.
- Both Taco and his cult are whiny little bitches.
- his mocking of Trump's grieving of that dude's death was low and distasteful regardless, to say the least.
  Edit (and keep downvoting me if you want):
  Trump is a narcissistic psycopath who is incapbable of symapthy that's why he is expressing his grief through emotionless shock. This is the way all psycopaths sincerely express their condolences. It does not mean you make fun of them or make fun of death of someone who is already dead.
  Charlie Kirk is meeting up with god in front of all the maimed kids of Gaza which he advocated for their slaughter and genocide. He deserves that and it's ironic how he was killed and the world is better without him.
  I want to say a million thing but I can't bring myself to make fun of his death or make fun of the grieving of his supporters or family. That is not in me regardless of how much I disagree, hate and wish harm upon these people.
This is why they got rid of him. WTF there was nothing bad I guess making daddy Trump look bad is against the law.
July 2025 Paramount/CBS agreed to pay $16 million to trump over a 60 Minutes lawsuit, then announced The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is being cancelled.
July 2025 PBS and NPR were federally defunded in a Congressional tribute to trump.
December 2024 Disney/ABC agreed to pay $15 million to trump over a defamation lawsuit, then in September 2025 cancelled Jimmy Kimmel Live.
September 2025 New York Times, Penguin Books, several authors are now being sued by trump for $15 billion because, still, that 60 Minutes segment.
Just a reminder: No Kings
- Hey do you mind if we try an alternate timeline for a few days
I've been saying that the billionaires and oligarchs — who own the majority of the S&P500 and political class — WANT fascism for the last 2 decades. They are behind it's political resurgence, globally; most have already publicly stated things that prove they are authoritarian sociopaths (Musk, Thiel, the Koch's, Ellison, Zuck, etc).
This explains why Trump has never seen the invite or a prison cell, despite 100 clear as day felonies, why the Dem establishment has never done more than performative resistance, etc.
- They always do. When capitalism starts to falter and the public opinion starts to turn on the system the ownership class goes right to fascism to crush the population.

Fucking bitch ass move by a bitch ass corporation capitulating to a bitch ass administration.

The decision by Nexstar comes as the broadcast station is seeking FCC approval for its $6.2 billion mega deal to acquire Tegna, a deal that would make Nexstar by far the largest owner of local TV stations in the country.
The FCC would have to raise the 40 percent ownership cap in order to let the deal advance.
Quote from The Hollywood Reporter. Just like CBS with Colbert.
I came here to say exactly this.

Washington Post fired its black opinion editor because she quoted Charlie Kirk for saying:

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot.”

Let’s stop taking the Washington Post seriously

You were still taking Washpo seriously????
They are basically natuonal enquirer.

^ Kirk’s words ^

Those are paraphrases of Kirk's words. It might be more accurate to say those are his positions.
I've seen this before. It would really be a lot nicer if these quotes all had sources. Just showing someone a list of quotes with no context doesn't really scream "credible" to this target audience.
Why were universities letting this shit bag talk to their students?
- Especially since he never attended any college or had any education after high school.
- Because they are institutions that are trying to provide comprehensive discussion since the world is grey. We don’t have to like it, but that’s probably why they allow it. Plus, yes, they make money.
- Reporter: "Mr. Krab, why were universities letting this shit bag talk to their students?"
  Mr. Krab: "...MONEY."
  E: grammar
- Cause they agree with him?? Cause he paid them to be there? Who the fuck knows.
ThAt'S oUt oF cOnTeXt!!!! /s
- I mean it is though. I don't see how a list of quotes with no sources is helpful.

The three letter news channels are not to be trusted anymore.

🌎 👨‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀
- I’d argue you could’ve trusted them MORE before the Fairness Doctrine was murdered. Certainly still needed to apply skepticism and discernment though

This is why the fediverse matters. Kimmel or Colbert, right now they can turn to platforms like YT and will still be able to get the voice out.

But guess what. The same corporatism that control ABC control google. You live on their platforms your message is dependent on their approval.

The future is free; the future is federated.

As an immediate illustration to your point apparently Reddit politics has apparently been removing this story left and right.
- Out of curiosity, I went and checked the front page of r/all. Of the current top 25 posts, these are the ones which pertain to the Kimmel situation followed by their respective subreddit:
  /1. news /2. askreddit /3. cringetiktoks /7. technology /9. nofilternews /10. politics /13. fauxmoi /14. facepalm /18. whitepeopletwitter /23. popculturechat
  The post on r/politics pertains to before the show was pulled, but it was posted after it was officially pulled. Some subreddits do delete repeat posts that are about the same story to keep the discussion all in one thread, so maybe that has happened with that subreddit?
  [Edit: added slashes to prevent auto-formatting from changing the numbers]
- Spez got invited to talk to Congress about radicalism on social media. I bet that has something to do with it. Steve "Bugeyes" Huffman will not turn down an opportunity to help Trump out.
- surprisedpikachu.gif
They can't monetize on PeerTube, so they won't
- How we monetize might need to change. Maybe less ads, more donations? Budgets will have to go down, but that's not so bad if the leash finally comes off.
If the fediverse was a threat then it would also be a target.
- Antiwork Mod Situation 2: Electric Boogaloo
EDIT: I misread your comment. Forget I said anything. Carry on.
Hear hear!

Even this framing is dishonest - he didn't make comments about Charlie Kirk, he was mocking MAGA for rushing to weaponize his death. ABC shut down his show for a valid criticism of MAGA.

Yeah, it's not looking good for them. Everyone is siding with trump in fear of being targeted.

Fascism, folks. Time to resist

But... Someone tried actually resisting and now we're all hand wringing over it...
- That's why we all need to do it. NOW
We just found out when someone does something that all the top supposedly leftist commentators immediately capitulate and actually cry about it like a bunch of bitch-baby neoliberals
- So, don't be a commentator

They're just getting started. Colbert was fired as a demand to allow the sale of CBS' to Larry Ellison, 2nd richest man, and a vicious MAGA. With Colbert out, the decks were cleared for the sale.

CBS used to have the reputation of being the gold standard of broadcast news. Now it's just going to be one more mouthpiece in the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

Phew! Thank GOD We're ONLY keeping True Americans on the Air like people who ADVOCATE FOR MURDERING POOR PEOPLE and NOT People who Quote Dead People!

There was just a mass shooting at a homeless camp

Okay, I bet Charlie will be off the air for longer though.

Elon musk, noted free speech absolutist, falls to his knees

"Why can't we put all the people that disagree with our speech in jail? Why?!"
Free speech absolutist means they want to be able to say the horrible things they believe out loud so they can encourage others to act on those beliefs. At the same time, they believe its their "right" to continue to hold everyone in their life hostage and force them to tolerate their lies and hate speech.

Dear USA, fight for your rights. What's happening now reminds me of what happened to Baseem Youssef in Egypt: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27671642

No one wants to give up their comforts. We're all just sitting here letting this happen. No one wants to get violent or have a general strike or stop paying taxes or camp out in front of the white house or stop buying shit... We're afraid of losing things that are going to be taken away in the future anyway.
It’s getting close.
- No it isn't. People are to comfortable and lazy.

ABC confirmed fascist propaganda network. Good to know.

Absolutely! I've been an ABC News viewer for many years, but I've been concerned lately. This cements it. I'll be switching my news to NBC for the time being.

The Republic has fallen. The fascists have won.

Y'all ain't even fight yet, what's this loser talk about?
- Laying down and giving up.
- They aren't going to buy design. 2025 wants it to be bloodless and looks like it well be.
- Listen to the martial aid with intestinal fortitude!

I just cancelled my Hulu account this sucks, my daughter loves volleyball and I'm a football fan

Perhaps sail the seas and look at some IPTV options

I knew Trump was coming for Kimmel eventually. How long until American television is all pro-trump propaganda?

Never. Have you even Democracy Now?

I didn't know ABC could bend over.

It is Disney
I didn't know ABC still existed, or that Kimmel was on them.
- Okay I know we're all pretty deep into the nerdweb here, but let's not lose the thread of reality here. ABC still pulls close to 5 million individual viewers every night, JUST on broadcast and cable rebroadcast. That ain't fuckin nothing; TV is still an important and influential medium.

Well what are the remarks? What a shit article. It's barely longer than a sentence.

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,”
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-abc-charlie-kirk-nexstar-rcna232036
Also, every headline I've seen portrays it as a comment on Kirk or on the shooting. But it's entirely about the MAGA reaction.
- Yeah all the articles are trying to leave out the actual remarks because there isn't anything bad about what he said. Maga just didn't like it.
- Thank you.

Trump just declared antifa a terrorist organization. We're not even one year into this yet people.

Something needs to be done

I still don't know whether ANTIFA is supposed to be a left group, a right group. Or just some made up entity.
- It's an ideology and a fairly simple one. If you don't like fascism, you're part of it.
- It’s not an even a cohesive group or one that exists. Like, I’m anti-fascist. But there is no antifa for me to join. This is 🤡💩 💯
- Or just some made up entity.
  Kinda. It's sorta like anonymous where pretty much anyone can hack a system and claim they're part of anonymous. The shooter could have killed Kirk and said he's antifa, but there is no actual group.

Here is ABCs feedback form

https://support.abc.com/hc/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511

Let them know what you think about them prostrating themselves to the fascists

I could see some little snitch inside there feeding to their doxxing resources to try to get complainers fired.

All late night shows and their crews should walk out in protest.

No, they should not only stay on the air, but lean into this and talk about the situation even more. Being silent on the issue is exactly what those in power want.
- Great idea. I didn’t mean to imply that a protest wouldn’t also include them being vocal about why they are protesting and what they would do during that time frame. I would assume it would be covered by media along with interviews, etc.
  Either way, good point.

I expected nothing and yet I'm still let down.

Time to use your millions to set up a home shop, Jimmy. Keep doing the thing, but indie style

Reminder to everyone to cancel their Hulu/Disney+ subscriptions if they still have them.

Instead of shitting their pants, they should fight against the system Trump and Murdoch.

Taco has always been a whiny little bitch about both of them.

Seems like a great recipe for unrest. Destroy economy and even take away any relief valves like Colbert and Kimmel.

Cannot imagine that will make anyone happier with Taco. The dumbfucks that hate Kimmel and Colbert don't watch their shows anyway, so the only way they will be "happy" is that they will sit there with dark little hearts and a smug grin about "owning the libs". But that won't improve their life one iota and these broken people definitely will not be happier for it.

indefinitely preempt

So he's on paid vacation. Getting an eight figure salary to do nothing ain't so bad for a guy who got into comedy selling "Women jumping on trampolines" as his main gimmick.

Excited to see what kind of mindless AI slop they get replaced with.

Even worse than that. He started off working a shitty job at a radio station, fetching coffee for coworkers and whatnot.
- What, he didn't start as a TV show host right away? What a loser!