by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
It definitely seems as though we’re careening towards the type of situation that happened as Putin was consolidating power in the early 2000s: Russia’s vibrant late night TV industry was strangled.
Now, I haven’t actually heard what Jimmy Kimmel joked about in regards to the now-martyred Charlie Kirk, but the fact that Disney is so feckless and weak willed as to pull him off TV “indefinitely” over it is extremely alarming. It shows you that we really are in a new era.
The great irony is, of course, that the very group that bitches and moans about “cancel culture” is now using the very techniques of cancel culture on people they don’t like. I guess you really do become the thing you hate if you are around long enough.
I do think that Kimmel should have maybe paused on joking about anything to do with Charlie Kirk. What happened was tragic and the MAGA Right is so crazed at the moment that every day we don’t have a revenge murder is a blessing.
And we all know that if there is a revenge murder on the part of the Right it’s going to be someone big, someone really big. That’s usually how these fucking dumb tit-for-tat things happen.
Anyway. I wish we could all just calm down. We also can be thankful that Trump hasn’t demanded Enabling Acts be passed by Congress in response to Charlie Kirk’s murder. If Trump was more of a Hitler-like figure, that’s exactly what he would be doing right about now.
As it stands, while a lot of fucked up shit is going to happen in Charlie Kirk’s name, it probably will continue to happen in dribs and drabs.
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