Hey! You like The Huskers! 
Sorry about Saturday.
And not just a few actors:
The public figures who have signed the letter range from comedians like Chelsea Handler, Maya Rudolph and Ike Barinholtz; to political activists like Gloria Steinem and Jack Schlossberg; to filmmakers like Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham and Lin-Manuel Miranda; to actors including Annette Bening, Nathan Lane, Christine Baranski, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kerry Washington, Laura Linney, Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts, Parker Posey, Pedro Pascal, Regina King, Tony Goldwyn and Noah Wyle
And not just a bunch of random “B” listers:
Many celebrity signatories include artists who are currently in business with Disney properties
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Jesus Christ, we’ve nearly reached peak idiocy.
This simply translates to “Charlie was not a racist, he simply believed in racism and said racist things.”
What the fuck? Was he joking? Being ironic?
The mind boggles.
He died because some asshole had a gun. A-holes dont need reasons.
I knew nothing about Charlie before he died.
I don’t want to be some target for scumbag MAGAs.
I don’t want to be some mentally ill assassin who died defending his home and family.
I don’t want any of the jobs offered by the Rich Bastard Right. I gave up my guns;
I don’t want more.
Maybe I just want to post music until the end comes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCkJ5lGPqFs&list=RDDCkJ5lGPqFs&start_radio=1
Sinclair will continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel, despite ABC returning him to lineup:
Well, more fool them.
The suspension should not have happened.
If this was a knee-jerk reaction to a shot over the bow of Free Speech, perhaps the corporate guys might consider backing the Constitution next time.
I don’t get to see the late-night guys except YouTube where Colbert’s open is my go-to, yet I am glad that every late-night host, present and retired, fully backed him.
Still, the writers of the monologue will have to consider the fallout of making jokes about the Right at the expense of the Right, esp. where the Right can take the high ground and say stuff like Democrats support murder.
Yeah. Especially since they must be aware that Kimmel’s remarks will be all over YouTube the next day, posted by those who watch him in non-Sinclair markets.
Sinclair is basically evil.
They were saying that before Kirk was murdered.
Also, they’d have to show a Democrat supporting Kirk’s murder in a sane universe.
“the Right” is not taking the high ground even if they want to pretend that they are. Any comedian or late night host’s writers room trying to “pass a camel through the eye of the needle” by making reference to Trump or any Republican/MAGA figure without giving the opportunity for the targets to engage in performative outrage is playing a rigged game because these are people who will find offense at anything. Personally, I hope Kimmel comes back out with a rhetorical broadside of biting sarcasm and goading, because nothing looks worse on these people than foaming at the mouth over what some politically ineffectual late night comedy guy says in an otherwise forgettable opening monologue.
Stranger
And more for the rest of us.
Would you mind citing an example of racism, please cite the entire clip.
Well said!
There have already been protests outside the Seattle ABC TV station this last week. And that was before this latest update.
Oh, come on, you’re not even trying now.
Is HoneyBadgerDC gonna change his name to SeaLionDC?
But in the past year, Kirk has shifted from fetishizing free markets to fetishizing whiteness, authoring tweets on how “whiteness is great,” that there is an undeniable “War on White People in The West,” and about various innovations like “[o]wning property” and “[a]bolishing slavery” that he claims “you can thank the White European for.” If you search Kirk’s tweets for mentions of “white,” you’ll find a similar transition. Prior to 2020, the majority are mentions of the White House. After 2020, they tend to refer to white people or rail against perceived instances of “anti-white” bias.
The far-right has been approvingly watching Kirk’s overtures. His tweets praising whiteness and European heritage are often mobbed by gleeful replies from Groypers claiming victory for their racist politics. Fuentes himself even reposted Kirk’s “War on White People” tweet to brag about how it was “a testament to how thoroughly Groypers have taken over the conversation.” And in January, Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute—a think tank that has tried to provide intellectual ballast to the far-right—tweeted in praise of Kirk’s platforming of Sailer and Yarvin, saying that Kirk, “arguably the most influential leader for young conservatives, is quietly expanding the range of voices that can be heard on the mainstream right and its great to see…”
Kirk’s sway with young conservatives is harder to parse than Carl suggests, but his reach is certainly far wider than those of people like Fuentes—even if the Turning Point base lacks the Groypers’ reverence and fervor. But despite his prominence, it might be better to see Kirk not as an influencer, but as a window into shifting right-wing permission structures.
That is in general, His Turning Point started countering the seemingly anti free enterprise environment in colleges, but it was already going for the support of racist conspiracy ideas.
On race, Kirk was blunt and dismissive. He denied the existence of systemic racism, called white privilege a “racist idea,” and vilified critical race theory as dangerous indoctrination. In one speech, he called George Floyd a “scumbag,” showing open contempt for a man whose death triggered a national reckoning on race and policing (WHYY). These rhetorical choices were not accidental—they functioned as a political strategy to delegitimize Black pain and deny the realities of structural racism in America.
Inside TPUSA, the culture reflected the same hostility. A New Yorker investigation described the workplace as “difficult … and rife with tension, some of it racial.” One African American staffer reported being the only person of color when hired in 2014, only to be fired on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The organization’s then–national field director, Crystal Clanton, was exposed for texting, “I hate black people. … End of story.” TPUSA claimed it acted after the texts surfaced, but the damage was undeniable—the rot reached the top (New Yorker).
Kirk’s movement also courted or tolerated figures openly tied to the far right. Political Research Associates documented cases where TPUSA chapters hosted or aligned with Nick Fuentes and his white nationalist followers. Kirk’s allies relied on antisemitic tropes, praising authoritarianism in Israel while denouncing “liberal Jews” in the United States (PRA). TPUSA severed ties when public exposure threatened its reputation, but the repeated associations revealed how far Kirk was willing to go in pursuit of influence.
The mainstream press tracked this trajectory. The Guardian reported that Kirk’s rhetoric increasingly mirrored white supremacist and authoritarian themes, while campus watchdog groups chronicled repeated incidents of racist, homophobic, and transphobic speech at TPUSA events (Guardian; AAUP). This was not about “a few bad apples.” It was a culture, nurtured by leadership, that normalized bigotry and dressed it up as “truth-telling.”
And owning people as enslaved property! Thank you White Europeans!
/bitter sarcasm
Thanks for this reasoned and well cited post.
I have less patience, and simply would have replied “Fuck off, Asshole.”