It seems likely that the network had been looking for a reason to cancel Kimmel for some time; losing tens of millions to keep an overpaid, unfunny drone yakking no longer made sense.
If that's correct, "overpaid" doesn't begin to describe him. Though one wonders: Do they have kickbacks in the entertainment world, like they have in government?
09/18/25: "Overpaid," in Kimmel's instance, starts at $1.99. Has anyone else besides myself noticed his personality-similarity to the late Howard Cosell, the man who "normalized" rude / bad / obsessively selfish / obnoxious behavior on TV?
In other news, THIS is why Trump is winning.
The last thing in the world the NY Times should do is "paywall" their own article on the internet about HOW WELL they're (allegedly) doing:
Free speech is the freedom to say what you want without the GOVERNMENT arresting you. ABC pulled the plug on Kimmel not the DOJ. This concept eludes many people.
However, we don't know whether it was due to the government's pressure on ABC or the announced intention of Nexstar and the Sinclair Group to reject any future shows that resulted in cancellation. The loss of Nexstar and Sinclair would move a marginally profitable show into the red.
So why now? Kimmel has been lying and distorting the truth for years. This was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back. There’s also a term called moral suasion. If you have a half wit like Kimmel spewing verbal diarrhea it’s acceptable for any political figure to say he’s lying and shouldn’t have a show. That’s not a violation of the 1st Amendment. It’s a common sense response to irresponsible people.
I remember JFK’s assassination. I was heartbroken. From that point on things began changing in the USA. Innocence was lost. It’s as if evil descended upon us.
I trace all the damage done to our country by liberals commies and cultural Marxists to have begun in the wake of that tragic day.
I felt the same heartbreak last week when Charlie was assassinated. But this time deep inside I felt that death grip the left has had on us loosen. It was a literal turning point.
America opened its eyes and rallying around Charlie’s death said no more.
Finally I believe our country is on its way back to the one we knew growing up.
I see the Hand of God in a lot of what’s happened this past week. It truly has been a Turning Point, and I’d love to hear Charlie’s explanation of why he named his organization that…people are turning all over the country. Turning away from the sickness of liberalism, away from the hate. No one rioted. Lefties are losing jobs and facing consequences for once, for what they thought they could say. People in the middle are looking at the left and their eyes have opened to their darkness and derangement. Most importantly, young people everywhere are listening to Charlie and his ideas of God, faith, family and country. The media is waking up, too. And they’re afraid, which is just what I want. Charlie’s life and death were both Turning Points, one for him and his followers of which I always was one; and the sadder though hopeful one for this country and the world we’re facing with his death. I just know he’s having a great discussion up there with Ghandi, MLK, Rush, JFK and maybe even good old Abe himself. And of course, Jesus. That’s Charlie’s crowd now and no one deserved their company more.
I did not follow Charlie Kirk closely, but I did know who he was and what he did. I listened to his radio show now and then, and I never once heard him raise his voice to anyone, or express a demeaning word to any opponent in any discussion. He was the classic Happy Warrior, always expressing his viewpoint without denigrating his opponent. The absolute antithesis of a Leftist. We could all aspire to be more like Charlie.
He’s getting pulled because he is losing his company millions of dollars, he’s not funny and he’s a piece of s**t. Has nothing to do with first amendment.
“Trump’s extreme rhetoric” was in the D talking points starting Saturday. Count how many times, and by whom, it is used. (My snarky side wants to add that it is a spelling challenge for most.)
N. Wallace I believe that Kimmel, Colbert, et al are symptoms of the sickness that infects the left. They are quite sure they can smugly say anything about the right, true or not, and get away with it. Their audience, like the first century Romans just eat it up. It is greed, sloth and ignorance that feeds this abomination.
Bingo! They are the spoiled brats who have never been rebuked or disciplined for their actions. When they finally cross some line and find themselves receiving some unwanted consequence, they react in utter bewilderment because nothing ever happened to them before. They imagine they have immunity from everything because they fancy themselves the "good guys" in the cartoon world they have constructed for themselves. Never do they reflect and ask themselves, "Are we the baddies"? They are not much different from the career criminals who perpetrate most of the crime in our society and continue doing it because they are constantly excused on account of their race or some other leftist construct of "victimhood." It's truly about time the hammer of reality was brought down on their self-important heads.
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
Self-important, indeed. When reality (and financial loss to their employers) smacks them up side the head, they’re in shock. There is no self-awareness, whatsoever, and dare I say humility.
Up until now the bosses were willing to take the losses. It's about something deeper than money, they sense our anger growing and their sponsors don't want to be the next Bud light.
I like to call him Superman, I have NO idea how he tolerates what he does, keeps all his projects in mind and how they are going, stays awake and doesn't seem to get jet lag, forges ahead no matter what,; truly a super man.
Is anyone else as worried as I am about all our heroes gathering in one spot on Sunday? I believe that Charlie and God will be watching and His many angels will be at every gate, but I hope everyone who gathers there has their head on a swivel and security is beyond tight.
Will the funeral service be held in an outdoor stadium? Agree, prayers for their safety are in order. Formal prayers are great, but also spur of the moment prayers will get through.
I’m not bothered by the Bok cartoon. I kinda like that he didn’t sanitize the brutality.
To me it says Charlie challenged his opponents and asked to be challenged. And so lacking any arguments, they killed him. That’s the modern woke left in a nutshell. They have no arguments, only hatred and rage.
Maybe due to my AMD,GA (macular degeneration) I wasn't see what you all were. I didn't see blood and actually found the "figure" confusing. The colors were dark and drab so , I didn't understand it. Opinion and Op Ed pages are bird cage floors or garbage wrappers for me. You have no idea how many times TDS appears in each edition of the Phila Inquirer and maybe other papers these days but I have NEVER seen so much hate in a paper on a regular basis as this one. Shocking, really.
In 1856, much of the US was shocked when Senator Charles Sumner was attacked from behind with a metal-handled cane by Representative Preston Brooks. Sumner had recently made an anti-slavery speech on the Senate floor, and criticized another Senator who was a relative of Brooks. The attack was vicious; but it was applauded by Democrats all over the South. Many people sent Brooks new canes, because he had broken the one he used on Sumner. Sumner was laid up and unable to serve in the Senate for 3 years after the event. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm
These days the country is the most divided it has been since the lead up to the Civil War. The difference is, the Democrats are scattered around the country in the cities, rather than in a fairly contiguous region. I was living in Indianapolis during the RFRA controversy when Pence was governor; the Indianapolis libs were howling mad that they couldn't outvote the rest of the state like Chicago could, because they didn't actually have that much population. (But I knew from that incident that Pence was a squish, so I wasn't that happy when Trump picked him for Veep.)
Because of the geography of the divisions, a hot civil war is not viable. https://brilliantmaps.com/county-1992-v-2024/ But the Dems will keep mouthing off, and some of their followers will keep getting violent--until they face the fact that they are destroying themselves rather than Trump.
Trump seems to have assembled a much better team than he had in 2017. I was impressed with the way Kash Patel handled the Dem Senators this week. And before that, RFK reminded senators how much money they were getting from Big Pharma during a committee meeting. I'm looking forward to Vance taking office in '29.
I have read his columns, but not his books. But I have written before--on my own Substack and in comments here and other places, about why an actual war like the 1860s can't happen. https://autisticredneckphilhawkins.substack.com/p/another-civil-war In 1861, the pro-slavery group had solid control of a block of contiguous states; today, the Dems are scattered around in coastal cities, and other cities--and the countryside is mostly red. The British lost the American Revolution because, despite having the world's most powerful navy and a strong army, they could not control the American countryside. They could take any city on the coast, but they still lost. All those Democrat voters in cities are an advantage in elections; in a hot war they will be a liability. They will want their food, water, electricity, fuel for cars and heat--and most of that comes from outside the city limits. Whoever controls the countryside can cut most of that off. And if it comes to actual military campaigns, all those scattered cities can be picked off one at a time.
The Dems may continue the violence for a while yet. But terrorism, despite its attraction to some, seldom wins wars. The Palestinians have been doing it for 50 years; have they managed to destroy Israel yet? I suspect that Kirk's assassination may be a turning point. The event in Butler may have secured the election for Trump; that Robinson kid may have wrecked the Democrats for years.
I’m truly not trying to be impertinent, but I urge you to read even one of his novels about a second hot civil war and LMK your thoughts. His most recent one ( from earlier this summer) is what I’d recommend.
What's the name of the one you recommend? You've got me interested. I appreciate Phil Hawkins view too, as it does seem like a disadvantage for the libs to be scattered in urban enclaves.
His most recent one is a stand alone book: "American Apocalypse : The Second American Civil War"
His "Kelly Turnbull" series is all about the second civil war that centers around that character (Turnbull). His writing gets better with time so his most recent one from this year is where I'd recommend starting.
And if you REALLY want to be kept up at night - or run to your nearest gun store to stock up, x10 - read The Attack that he wrote right after the 10/7 terrorist attack in Israel.
Gail (and Phil H), you are both right. I have read all of Kurt's books and they are generally pretty distopian because that's how it would be. Phil, your point about the countryside being a strength for the "reds" and Indian Country. for the "blues" in a second civil war is quite clear in his novels, and in particular the most recent one, "American Apocalypse." Remember the old Hank Williams Jr. song, "A Country Boy Can Survive?" Good discussion, folks.
Gail, I will contribute what I can. I agree with you about "The Attack" and I'm thinking at this point that the only reason it did NOT occur in similar fashion was Pres. Trump's decisive action to take out Iran's nuke facilities. That told the Mullahs that they were dealing with something very different than the weak old autopen presidency. Still, it was terrifying in its own way, and I still think about it.
"Americans Apocalypse" was also somewhat terrifying, given that both Pres. Trump and VP Vance were murdered in a single set of strikes. It was very hard to think about that, and with the backdrop of Charlie's murder now, even harder to contemplate. I don't for one minute think that the Left would not welcome another opportunity like Butler but it seems that we should have a different Secret Service organization now, and much more intelligent tactical use of military drones for surveillance. Sure, that was likely available at Butler, but we know why it wasn't used to any great effect.
It would be fun to have Kurt join in at some point in a discussion of his books and he's probably the kind of guy that would. Over to you (or whoever would like to join in.)
Wim, German surnames are very common in much of the US. Immigrants from Germany started coming to the American colonies in the late 1600s, and there was a big wave of them in the late 1840s. A lot of them came to Cincinnati, OH, my hometown. (I'm a bit odd, being a Cincinnatian with NO German ancestry--my family had been in a rural county east of the city, and my ancestry is English and Scots-Irish.) There's still a lot of German culture in Cincinnati. But the German language mostly died out after WWI.
On my mother's side I am a Polish Jew. Our names are German. Dad's family was from Bavaria and Switzerland. The Swiss are either German French or Italian. Grandma was Italian.
losing Vietnam can be placed squarely @ the feet of the Jacka$$ Party.
look no further than @ the feet of the phony warrior, Senator John Kerry (Commie, MA) whose self-inflicted wounds allowed him to write his own commendations of “valor” for the Silver Star, Bronze Star & Purple Heart, just to shorten his Vietnam tour to 6 months.
Algore, Sr.(Commie, TN) was able to shorten his idiot sons tour to 6 months, too.
“W” lost Afghanistan but won Iraq. We were never in Iran, but Israel fights proxy wars with them. If Israel ever wants peace, they need to destroy this so-called “palestinian state”, then vaporize Tehran.
No matter what context is going on when I hear of JFK's murder--words attributed to Lady Bird Johnson come to mind. "I just hate that all happened in Dallas." From how my words are sometimes misunderstood, I now wonder if she really said such a thing.
Jeremy, I don't know how old you are. I'm 75, and I was a teenager during the Vietnam War years. In the last years of the war, the US was actually fighting the North Vietnamese army rather than the Viet Cong. Nixon finally got a peace agreement from North Vietnam. After Nixon was forced out of office, the Democrat-controlled Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese army invaded and took over South Vietnam.
Iran--the Shah had been propped up by the CIA for years. Carter ended that, and Khomeini took over. But no US troops ever fought in Iran.
Afghanistan and Iraq--the original wars were won by the US, and over quickly. The mistake was trying to stay there and turn them into modern democracies. I thought Bush was a fool for trying that. The English-speaking peoples took hundreds of years to develop our systems of government; there was no way Bush could turn those countries into modern democracies in a few years. We should have toppled Saddam and the Taliban, and then left as quickly as possible and let the locals clean up the mess.
Phil, I'm just a kid. I was in the Minnesota guard when the failed hostage rescue took place. True we didn't have troops there other than that embarrassment, but it was terrorist activities that toppled the regime none the less.
Afterwards a counter insurgency took place where men on motorcycles would drive past an imam, gun him down then escape. The iatoilet responded by banning motorcycles over 150cc iirc, may be wrong on that number.
As for Iraq and shitholistan, I largely agree. The only way to get them into modern humanity would have been to occupy the country for fifty years or longer.
Back to Iran, I was in commo. My supervisor was old school, WW2 vet and had been a Morris key operator there, Korea and nam. He was called back to active duty to handle coms from this end for the rescue attempt.
I’ve read them all, and he sure was spot on about the angry tranny gangs, except they took out their anger on the doctors and people who lied to them about “transitioning.” That might still happen someday…
When people are unhappy, angry about the choices they made, sometimes they lash out at people who didn't make their mistakes. Usually it's limited to some jackass in a beater door dinging a nice Challenger, Camero or Mustang.
Kurt Schlichter is another Texas Cyclops - a total fraud. Both he and Crenshaw are FAKE, PHONY - whatever the hell you want to call it - conservatives.
They may have been honorable once but not anymore.
Being former CIA, I would imagine he’d be a good writer with a lot of interesting information available to him. I won’t support him by buying his books, just get them from the LieBarry.
Crenshaw’s not even a RINO, just anti 2nd Amendment & pro-Red Flag laws. He needs to be primaried.
In 1860 there were numerous pockets of dems in the north who thought just like the southern ones. Riots were put down in New York and other places. Most were small.
Our next civil war is already happening. The democrat rioting has gone unchecked until Trump put the guard on the streets in Washington.
Other than that, it's been a one sided affair as conservatives do nothing.
Some years ago I wrote a blog post suggesting that one way to bring back civility in political discussion might be to bring back dueling. If some of these Congresscritters had to pick up a gun, figure out how to use it, and go face somebody else who has a gun (and maybe more experience with one), maybe the mouthing off would tone down a bit.
tell that to the incestuous, brother-marrying Muslim terrorist from Somalia now representing Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, and her sister terrorist from Michigan, Rashida Tlaib.
Can we deport them Bukele’s hellhole in El Salvador where they’ll be the Belles of the Balls.
This administration excepting Bondi have excelled at [ debating ?] debunking the msm/dems be it in hearings on the hill or [ news?] shows. Simply outstanding !!
The white, female over 60, college educated, Democrat voting, screaming totalitarians I’m friends with on fb are pitching a fit about it. I’m kind of enjoying their misery.
Don puts this all in the perfect nutshell:
“Who in the hell slams the victim of an assassin and his supporters?
Stuff the free speech argument. None of Kimmel’s supporters seem bothered that Charlie Kirk did not lose his job over free speech. He lost his life.”
Dear Jimmy K:
And I ain't sayin' that you're the sleep that I lost
But I never slept this good before
I ain't sayin' you're the weight on my back
I'm just sayin' that it ain't there no more
roses are red,
violets are blue
kimmel is gone,
boo f hoo
It seems likely that the network had been looking for a reason to cancel Kimmel for some time; losing tens of millions to keep an overpaid, unfunny drone yakking no longer made sense.
at least we didn't shoot him. he gets to go play with his $200m .
If that's correct, "overpaid" doesn't begin to describe him. Though one wonders: Do they have kickbacks in the entertainment world, like they have in government?
google says $50m but still, he was overpaid as you say.
09/18/25: "Overpaid," in Kimmel's instance, starts at $1.99. Has anyone else besides myself noticed his personality-similarity to the late Howard Cosell, the man who "normalized" rude / bad / obsessively selfish / obnoxious behavior on TV?
In other news, THIS is why Trump is winning.
The last thing in the world the NY Times should do is "paywall" their own article on the internet about HOW WELL they're (allegedly) doing:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/media/new-york-times-earnings.html
If they're truly doing that well, then how come they need my money so I can read about how well they're doing? Morons.
Fun and games as the Communists in City Hall ransack the NYT / NYC's finances in the coming years.
Anything over $1.00 per show was over paying by half imho.
i give it a couple weeks maybe less and he'll be back. abc is so far gone even they don't realize it.
Ha!
Just sent that to some friends. Thanks for the inspiration.
just trying to do something positive for charlie!
Love this!!!
thanks.
Rosanne Barr enters the chat https://x.com/therealroseanne/status/1968503495826301375?s=61
The Lyndon Johnson Administration got the Smothers Brothers cancelled back in the 60's.
They were such revolutionaries. LOL.
https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/12860/smothers-brothers-comedy-hour-replaced-by-hee-haw-cbs/
The cherry on top , thank you Tm.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1968502145788809291?s=61
https://x.com/AmiriKing/status/1968748686956957940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1968748686956957940%7Ctwgr%5Ed267b8bf9e58df1cf7a35034c7e41370b9b03253%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F745489%2F
Free speech is the freedom to say what you want without the GOVERNMENT arresting you. ABC pulled the plug on Kimmel not the DOJ. This concept eludes many people.
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However, we don't know whether it was due to the government's pressure on ABC or the announced intention of Nexstar and the Sinclair Group to reject any future shows that resulted in cancellation. The loss of Nexstar and Sinclair would move a marginally profitable show into the red.
So why now? Kimmel has been lying and distorting the truth for years. This was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back. There’s also a term called moral suasion. If you have a half wit like Kimmel spewing verbal diarrhea it’s acceptable for any political figure to say he’s lying and shouldn’t have a show. That’s not a violation of the 1st Amendment. It’s a common sense response to irresponsible people.
An anonymous quote I happened upon:
“Charlie Kirk tried to show that the left could be reasoned with. In the end, the left finally proved him wrong.”
May God have mercy on us all.
EXCELLENT QUOTE!
I remember JFK’s assassination. I was heartbroken. From that point on things began changing in the USA. Innocence was lost. It’s as if evil descended upon us.
I trace all the damage done to our country by liberals commies and cultural Marxists to have begun in the wake of that tragic day.
I felt the same heartbreak last week when Charlie was assassinated. But this time deep inside I felt that death grip the left has had on us loosen. It was a literal turning point.
America opened its eyes and rallying around Charlie’s death said no more.
Finally I believe our country is on its way back to the one we knew growing up.
Thank you Charlie.
I see the Hand of God in a lot of what’s happened this past week. It truly has been a Turning Point, and I’d love to hear Charlie’s explanation of why he named his organization that…people are turning all over the country. Turning away from the sickness of liberalism, away from the hate. No one rioted. Lefties are losing jobs and facing consequences for once, for what they thought they could say. People in the middle are looking at the left and their eyes have opened to their darkness and derangement. Most importantly, young people everywhere are listening to Charlie and his ideas of God, faith, family and country. The media is waking up, too. And they’re afraid, which is just what I want. Charlie’s life and death were both Turning Points, one for him and his followers of which I always was one; and the sadder though hopeful one for this country and the world we’re facing with his death. I just know he’s having a great discussion up there with Ghandi, MLK, Rush, JFK and maybe even good old Abe himself. And of course, Jesus. That’s Charlie’s crowd now and no one deserved their company more.
I did not follow Charlie Kirk closely, but I did know who he was and what he did. I listened to his radio show now and then, and I never once heard him raise his voice to anyone, or express a demeaning word to any opponent in any discussion. He was the classic Happy Warrior, always expressing his viewpoint without denigrating his opponent. The absolute antithesis of a Leftist. We could all aspire to be more like Charlie.
Absolutely steady and calm in debating, ergo Charlie and (prove me wrong ).
don’t forget Winston Churchill, #40 & Maggie Thatcher, too.
💔💔💔
Well said.
Considering what we know now about who actually was involved in JFK's assassination....imagine if we knew then...
I pray you are correct V.G. .
Me too! 😂👍🙏🍷
From your lips, to God's ear. 🙏
as long as there are grifting politicians & their NGO’s, EVIL will persist.
Rubio drove a stake thru the heart of USAID and the blood sucker is dead. How long til a pol creates a new one ??
He’s getting pulled because he is losing his company millions of dollars, he’s not funny and he’s a piece of s**t. Has nothing to do with first amendment.
“Who in the hell slams the victim of an assassin and his supporters?”
Harris voters!
Satan's minions, that's who.
Same thing really.
Yes.
Remember, they killed Dilbert.
Scott Adams was the canary in the coal mine.
@ScottAdamsSays
"Wouldn't you expect Trump's extreme rhetoric to influence conservatives to attack liberals?
His extreme rhetoric seems to have only one directional cause, which is people attacking conservatives."
Watch this analysis https://x.com/jayplemons/status/1968079358259523803
“Trump’s extreme rhetoric” was in the D talking points starting Saturday. Count how many times, and by whom, it is used. (My snarky side wants to add that it is a spelling challenge for most.)
Dilbert got ‘cancelled’?? I thought Adams quit/ retired of his own volition.
Is he still able to do his podcasts or is he in his final hours?
I’d be curious what his reaction to Charlie has been.
Listen to Scott's podcast on X. He's there daily. Easy to find. He has found medication that is prolonging his life.
Thanks for that information and suggestion.
Yes, I will have to find him there. I hope he is able to have a miracle and find not only relief but restoration of his health. 🙏
Oh to have Johnny Carson reruns!!!!!! Jimmy Kimmel is a pig in a suit and even worse than Colbert.
Alice, that is defaming pigs!
perhaps we can feed Kimmel & Colbert to the pigs. leftists makes for tastier bacon.
LOL, true that!
Amen D.B. !
You can find Johnny Carson reruns on YouTube. I watch them all the time.
Could not have woken up to better news. I heard the clip yesterday while taking a break from work. What a vile and disgusting human being.
Don’t worry Kimmel…I’m sure they will have a special Emmy award for you for your “bravery”.
Maybe you will be able to auction it off when you lose everything.
I’ve never found Mr Kimmel funny. Just mean spirited.
I never watched him in the first place, however I never missed a Johnny Carson show but he was someone who was truly funny !
And nobody watching ever knew what Carson’s politics were.
Dittos. I watched them in reruns, too. Those stopped after Carson passed away.
"Cartoons change the world, not words." Exactly! Humor is a shortcut to the soul.
N. Wallace I believe that Kimmel, Colbert, et al are symptoms of the sickness that infects the left. They are quite sure they can smugly say anything about the right, true or not, and get away with it. Their audience, like the first century Romans just eat it up. It is greed, sloth and ignorance that feeds this abomination.
Bingo! They are the spoiled brats who have never been rebuked or disciplined for their actions. When they finally cross some line and find themselves receiving some unwanted consequence, they react in utter bewilderment because nothing ever happened to them before. They imagine they have immunity from everything because they fancy themselves the "good guys" in the cartoon world they have constructed for themselves. Never do they reflect and ask themselves, "Are we the baddies"? They are not much different from the career criminals who perpetrate most of the crime in our society and continue doing it because they are constantly excused on account of their race or some other leftist construct of "victimhood." It's truly about time the hammer of reality was brought down on their self-important heads.
...from P.J. O'Rourke...
At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.
P. J. O’Rourke. Gone far too soon. Somewhat a modern day Will Rogers.
Parliament of Whores describes both the House & Senate.
Self-important, indeed. When reality (and financial loss to their employers) smacks them up side the head, they’re in shock. There is no self-awareness, whatsoever, and dare I say humility.
Up until now the bosses were willing to take the losses. It's about something deeper than money, they sense our anger growing and their sponsors don't want to be the next Bud light.
Great point. Isn’t it interesting that fear is now palpable to every single corporate entity? People can make a difference, even one at a time.
Spot on J.R. ! Follow the MONEY !!
“Constantly excused” wraps it up.
I agree and THANK GOD FOR TRUMP WHO IS THE. ONLY. COLOSSUS. who can stand up to this abomination and has a chance to BEAT IT BACK TO HELL!
Good word, "Colossus"--hits the nail on the head.
Thanks. Yes, Trump has outgtown my words for him of "Hero" and "Superhero".
I like to call him Superman, I have NO idea how he tolerates what he does, keeps all his projects in mind and how they are going, stays awake and doesn't seem to get jet lag, forges ahead no matter what,; truly a super man.
Is anyone else as worried as I am about all our heroes gathering in one spot on Sunday? I believe that Charlie and God will be watching and His many angels will be at every gate, but I hope everyone who gathers there has their head on a swivel and security is beyond tight.
Actually, from now on, there needs to be a very strict separation of Trump and JD Vance as to not both attending the same public event.
"Suffer it to be so now."
Will the funeral service be held in an outdoor stadium? Agree, prayers for their safety are in order. Formal prayers are great, but also spur of the moment prayers will get through.
Agree--it is not wise to concentrate in one geographical place like that.
And laughing at ourselves is good medicine.
leftists are humorless.
True dat G.O.
I’m not bothered by the Bok cartoon. I kinda like that he didn’t sanitize the brutality.
To me it says Charlie challenged his opponents and asked to be challenged. And so lacking any arguments, they killed him. That’s the modern woke left in a nutshell. They have no arguments, only hatred and rage.
I like your interpretation and that you felt able to share it in this virtual arena. 👍👍
An empty chair in the darkness, sans the gore, would’ve been my editorial suggestion.
Maybe due to my AMD,GA (macular degeneration) I wasn't see what you all were. I didn't see blood and actually found the "figure" confusing. The colors were dark and drab so , I didn't understand it. Opinion and Op Ed pages are bird cage floors or garbage wrappers for me. You have no idea how many times TDS appears in each edition of the Phila Inquirer and maybe other papers these days but I have NEVER seen so much hate in a paper on a regular basis as this one. Shocking, really.
In 1856, much of the US was shocked when Senator Charles Sumner was attacked from behind with a metal-handled cane by Representative Preston Brooks. Sumner had recently made an anti-slavery speech on the Senate floor, and criticized another Senator who was a relative of Brooks. The attack was vicious; but it was applauded by Democrats all over the South. Many people sent Brooks new canes, because he had broken the one he used on Sumner. Sumner was laid up and unable to serve in the Senate for 3 years after the event. https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm
These days the country is the most divided it has been since the lead up to the Civil War. The difference is, the Democrats are scattered around the country in the cities, rather than in a fairly contiguous region. I was living in Indianapolis during the RFRA controversy when Pence was governor; the Indianapolis libs were howling mad that they couldn't outvote the rest of the state like Chicago could, because they didn't actually have that much population. (But I knew from that incident that Pence was a squish, so I wasn't that happy when Trump picked him for Veep.)
Because of the geography of the divisions, a hot civil war is not viable. https://brilliantmaps.com/county-1992-v-2024/ But the Dems will keep mouthing off, and some of their followers will keep getting violent--until they face the fact that they are destroying themselves rather than Trump.
Trump seems to have assembled a much better team than he had in 2017. I was impressed with the way Kash Patel handled the Dem Senators this week. And before that, RFK reminded senators how much money they were getting from Big Pharma during a committee meeting. I'm looking forward to Vance taking office in '29.
Read the novels by Kurt Schlichter and then get back to me about the viability of a second hot civil war.
I have read his columns, but not his books. But I have written before--on my own Substack and in comments here and other places, about why an actual war like the 1860s can't happen. https://autisticredneckphilhawkins.substack.com/p/another-civil-war In 1861, the pro-slavery group had solid control of a block of contiguous states; today, the Dems are scattered around in coastal cities, and other cities--and the countryside is mostly red. The British lost the American Revolution because, despite having the world's most powerful navy and a strong army, they could not control the American countryside. They could take any city on the coast, but they still lost. All those Democrat voters in cities are an advantage in elections; in a hot war they will be a liability. They will want their food, water, electricity, fuel for cars and heat--and most of that comes from outside the city limits. Whoever controls the countryside can cut most of that off. And if it comes to actual military campaigns, all those scattered cities can be picked off one at a time.
The Dems may continue the violence for a while yet. But terrorism, despite its attraction to some, seldom wins wars. The Palestinians have been doing it for 50 years; have they managed to destroy Israel yet? I suspect that Kirk's assassination may be a turning point. The event in Butler may have secured the election for Trump; that Robinson kid may have wrecked the Democrats for years.
I’m truly not trying to be impertinent, but I urge you to read even one of his novels about a second hot civil war and LMK your thoughts. His most recent one ( from earlier this summer) is what I’d recommend.
What's the name of the one you recommend? You've got me interested. I appreciate Phil Hawkins view too, as it does seem like a disadvantage for the libs to be scattered in urban enclaves.
His most recent one is a stand alone book: "American Apocalypse : The Second American Civil War"
His "Kelly Turnbull" series is all about the second civil war that centers around that character (Turnbull). His writing gets better with time so his most recent one from this year is where I'd recommend starting.
And if you REALLY want to be kept up at night - or run to your nearest gun store to stock up, x10 - read The Attack that he wrote right after the 10/7 terrorist attack in Israel.
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/kurt-schlichter/
The Attack was one I sent to friends in late ‘23 and ‘24
Thanks!
Gail (and Phil H), you are both right. I have read all of Kurt's books and they are generally pretty distopian because that's how it would be. Phil, your point about the countryside being a strength for the "reds" and Indian Country. for the "blues" in a second civil war is quite clear in his novels, and in particular the most recent one, "American Apocalypse." Remember the old Hank Williams Jr. song, "A Country Boy Can Survive?" Good discussion, folks.
I think a virtual book discussion with folks here over zoom on Kurt’s recent book might be fun! 😊
Gail, I will contribute what I can. I agree with you about "The Attack" and I'm thinking at this point that the only reason it did NOT occur in similar fashion was Pres. Trump's decisive action to take out Iran's nuke facilities. That told the Mullahs that they were dealing with something very different than the weak old autopen presidency. Still, it was terrifying in its own way, and I still think about it.
"Americans Apocalypse" was also somewhat terrifying, given that both Pres. Trump and VP Vance were murdered in a single set of strikes. It was very hard to think about that, and with the backdrop of Charlie's murder now, even harder to contemplate. I don't for one minute think that the Left would not welcome another opportunity like Butler but it seems that we should have a different Secret Service organization now, and much more intelligent tactical use of military drones for surveillance. Sure, that was likely available at Butler, but we know why it wasn't used to any great effect.
It would be fun to have Kurt join in at some point in a discussion of his books and he's probably the kind of guy that would. Over to you (or whoever would like to join in.)
Sorry to say this, Gail, but novels are novels, nothing more; entertaining at best, and welcome diversions, but almost never a guide to history.
Moreover, Kurt Schlichter ought to change his name because it suggests, quite falsely, that he knows German.
Wim, German surnames are very common in much of the US. Immigrants from Germany started coming to the American colonies in the late 1600s, and there was a big wave of them in the late 1840s. A lot of them came to Cincinnati, OH, my hometown. (I'm a bit odd, being a Cincinnatian with NO German ancestry--my family had been in a rural county east of the city, and my ancestry is English and Scots-Irish.) There's still a lot of German culture in Cincinnati. But the German language mostly died out after WWI.
On my mother's side I am a Polish Jew. Our names are German. Dad's family was from Bavaria and Switzerland. The Swiss are either German French or Italian. Grandma was Italian.
I don't disagree with any of that. What bothered me was Schlichter writing as if he knew German, by using totally wrong mock-German grammar.
Terrorism won in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
We suck at countering it, preferring to ignore it.
losing Vietnam can be placed squarely @ the feet of the Jacka$$ Party.
look no further than @ the feet of the phony warrior, Senator John Kerry (Commie, MA) whose self-inflicted wounds allowed him to write his own commendations of “valor” for the Silver Star, Bronze Star & Purple Heart, just to shorten his Vietnam tour to 6 months.
Algore, Sr.(Commie, TN) was able to shorten his idiot sons tour to 6 months, too.
“W” lost Afghanistan but won Iraq. We were never in Iran, but Israel fights proxy wars with them. If Israel ever wants peace, they need to destroy this so-called “palestinian state”, then vaporize Tehran.
Well said.
No matter what context is going on when I hear of JFK's murder--words attributed to Lady Bird Johnson come to mind. "I just hate that all happened in Dallas." From how my words are sometimes misunderstood, I now wonder if she really said such a thing.
Jeremy, I don't know how old you are. I'm 75, and I was a teenager during the Vietnam War years. In the last years of the war, the US was actually fighting the North Vietnamese army rather than the Viet Cong. Nixon finally got a peace agreement from North Vietnam. After Nixon was forced out of office, the Democrat-controlled Congress cut off all aid to South Vietnam, and the North Vietnamese army invaded and took over South Vietnam.
Iran--the Shah had been propped up by the CIA for years. Carter ended that, and Khomeini took over. But no US troops ever fought in Iran.
Afghanistan and Iraq--the original wars were won by the US, and over quickly. The mistake was trying to stay there and turn them into modern democracies. I thought Bush was a fool for trying that. The English-speaking peoples took hundreds of years to develop our systems of government; there was no way Bush could turn those countries into modern democracies in a few years. We should have toppled Saddam and the Taliban, and then left as quickly as possible and let the locals clean up the mess.
Phil, I'm just a kid. I was in the Minnesota guard when the failed hostage rescue took place. True we didn't have troops there other than that embarrassment, but it was terrorist activities that toppled the regime none the less.
Afterwards a counter insurgency took place where men on motorcycles would drive past an imam, gun him down then escape. The iatoilet responded by banning motorcycles over 150cc iirc, may be wrong on that number.
As for Iraq and shitholistan, I largely agree. The only way to get them into modern humanity would have been to occupy the country for fifty years or longer.
Back to Iran, I was in commo. My supervisor was old school, WW2 vet and had been a Morris key operator there, Korea and nam. He was called back to active duty to handle coms from this end for the rescue attempt.
I’ve read them all, and he sure was spot on about the angry tranny gangs, except they took out their anger on the doctors and people who lied to them about “transitioning.” That might still happen someday…
When people are unhappy, angry about the choices they made, sometimes they lash out at people who didn't make their mistakes. Usually it's limited to some jackass in a beater door dinging a nice Challenger, Camero or Mustang.
Kurt Schlichter is another Texas Cyclops - a total fraud. Both he and Crenshaw are FAKE, PHONY - whatever the hell you want to call it - conservatives.
They may have been honorable once but not anymore.
I don't follow Kurt that closely. I only read his books which I find very entertaining and have a level of credibility of 'could happen'.
Crenshaw is a RINO to me but what has Kurt done?
Being former CIA, I would imagine he’d be a good writer with a lot of interesting information available to him. I won’t support him by buying his books, just get them from the LieBarry.
Crenshaw’s not even a RINO, just anti 2nd Amendment & pro-Red Flag laws. He needs to be primaried.
Maybe with the re-drawing of the TX congressional maps it will make his race more challenging too. The non-MAGA Republicans need to GO.
In 1860 there were numerous pockets of dems in the north who thought just like the southern ones. Riots were put down in New York and other places. Most were small.
Our next civil war is already happening. The democrat rioting has gone unchecked until Trump put the guard on the streets in Washington.
Other than that, it's been a one sided affair as conservatives do nothing.
IF only, Vance is a winner. And his wife, as well.
Canes? Bring back DUELING!
Some years ago I wrote a blog post suggesting that one way to bring back civility in political discussion might be to bring back dueling. If some of these Congresscritters had to pick up a gun, figure out how to use it, and go face somebody else who has a gun (and maybe more experience with one), maybe the mouthing off would tone down a bit.
tell that to the incestuous, brother-marrying Muslim terrorist from Somalia now representing Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, and her sister terrorist from Michigan, Rashida Tlaib.
Can we deport them Bukele’s hellhole in El Salvador where they’ll be the Belles of the Balls.
This administration excepting Bondi have excelled at [ debating ?] debunking the msm/dems be it in hearings on the hill or [ news?] shows. Simply outstanding !!
I’m sure the dozens of people who watched jimmy K will be disappointed he’s gone.
The white, female over 60, college educated, Democrat voting, screaming totalitarians I’m friends with on fb are pitching a fit about it. I’m kind of enjoying their misery.
We have the same “friends”!
Haha!
Good on you girl!
You need better friends instead of bitter ones.
Yes!
dozens? a bit on the high side. the cameramen rarely show his audiences…
Yep; all eight of them.
> Or better yet, have Gandhi tell Charlie, “The odd thing about assassins, Mister Kirk, is they think they killed you.”
This was both funny and delightful.
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Enjoying my new subscription!
WELCOME to the gang! 🙂
Welcome to the Party. This is the smartest and funniest group in all media. Cheers 🥂
T.P. is now going to grow like the weeds in my garden as the truths he preached find daylight.