1/ One of the unsaid rules about American comedy is that it stopped...
Nirmalya Dutta@NonsensicalNemo
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Sep 18, 2025
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1/ One of the unsaid rules about American comedy is that it stopped being funny the moment it started taking liberal talking points too seriously.
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2/ Jimmy Kimmel being fired raised the only real question: when was the last time he was funny? Correct answer: 9 years ago, when Ben Affleck pretended to climb out of his pants.
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3/ Apart from Bill Maher or Dave Chappelle, most comedians became de facto Democratic surrogates. They backed a candidate who laughed at everything, against a candidate who was just naturally funnier.
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4/ So when Kimmel Live was taken off air, the reaction was predictable. Outrage headlines, free speech obituaries, and hand-wringing thinkpieces.
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5/ What none of them mentioned was Kimmel’s own line: calling the kid who killed Charlie Kirk a MAGA foot soldier. Mendacious, even if not hate speech by the book.
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6/ The same media that cried foul at his firing had cheered when Trump and his allies were deplatformed. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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7/ The Steele dossier was passed around like gospel. Covid’s lab-leak theory was silenced. Gender debates were crushed. Biden’s decline ignored. Harris’ ineptitude glossed over.
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8/ Cancel culture wasn’t invented for Trump. Roseanne Barr lost her show overnight. Gina Carano was punted from The Mandalorian.Megyn Kelly was axed for Halloween comments.
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9/ Chappelle faced Netflix walkouts. Rogan was hounded with boycotts. Tucker Carlson lost primetime after advertiser pressure. Parler was nuked by Apple, Google, Amazon in one weekend.
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10/ Rowling was blacklisted for saying men are men. Mike Lindell lost his pillows and his Twitter. Alex Jones was simultaneously erased across every platform in 2018.
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11/ But sure, Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination is the true free speech martyr.
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12/ The truth: late-night TV is dead. ABC didn’t grow a conscience — it dumped a whale no longer entertaining. This wasn’t Selma. This was capitalism.
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13/ American media long assumed the gravy train of Trump-bashing and clicks would go on forever. Then Trump came back and started dismantling it piece by piece.
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14/ With Musk in tow, the GOP promised free speech. But like every politician, Trump flipped once in power. Liberals cancelled yesterday. Trump cancels today.
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15/ America’s commitment to the First Amendment has never been principled. It’s transactional. Let my guy speak. Muzzle the other.
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16/ And that’s the bottom line: free speech in America is not a right, it’s a privilege weaponised by whoever holds the microphone.
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17/ Charlie Kirk’s death exposed both Amendments. The First muzzles when convenient. The Second kills when convenient.
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18/ Liberals and Big Tech gleefully purged red hats in 2020. Today MAGA hounds critics of Kirk into silence. The choir changed. The song stayed the same.
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19/ Guns? Every massacre is met with the same ritual: blame mental illness, drag queens, Leftists. Anything but the Glock in the shooter’s hand.
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20/ The American paradox: one Amendment that protects speech until it doesn’t, and another that protects guns until they kill.
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21/ Free speech and gun rights — the two freedoms America worships most, and understands least.
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