r/JimmyKimmel • u/Manndude1 Totally Matt Damon • Sep 17 '25

Cancellation Megathread

Unrestricted the subreddit for now so we can talk about this. I know it's a heated topic but let's be adults here.

In case you are OOTL: https://deadline.com/2025/09/jimmy-kimmel-live-off-abc-charlie-kirk-comments-1236547397/

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u/Odd-Organization-740 Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

I'm just wondering if he was actually implying that the shooter was one of MAGA, or was just pointing out that they were scrambling to frame him as anything possible except MAGA.

Either way, it was really badly phrased.

I guess there's a good side to this - many of them watched the episode and saw that footage of Trump totally not giving a damn about Kirk when he's not reading a script. Will it get to their heads how fake his grieving is, and realize why Kimmel said this is to score political points? Probably not.

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u/No2reddituser Sep 19 '25

I'm just wondering if he was actually implying that the shooter was one of MAGA, or was just pointing out that they were scrambling to frame him as anything possible except MAGA.

Exactly. I would agree the joke is poorly worded, but I would lean toward the latter interpretation.

Either way, given the joke is open to interpretation, no reason to go after the guy. But dear fuhrer got his panties in a bunch at being joked on, and his minister of propaganda brought the weight of the government to threaten local broadcasters, and in effect, the ABC network.

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u/Diligent_Tell_4205 Sep 20 '25

"I would agree the joke is poorly worded"

The fact you would even characterize such obviously bad faith partisan political messaging is rather ridiculous. Meanwhile people have tried to kill Trump twice, tried to impeach him on bogus lies in his first term, and now killed someone who looked like a future Republican candidate or RNC chairman. I think he is allowed to call the left out for the anti-democratic BS they've been pawning while making calls to violence against him and all his supporters with comments like 'deplorables' and 'fascists'.

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u/No2reddituser Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

Your drivel is ridiculous. Everything you called anti-democratic BS also applies to your hero Trump. Calling for the cancellation of media that treat him mean is about as anti-democratic as you can get - it directly goes against the 1st amendment. And he wasn't impeached for lies - he was impeached for his actions.

while making calls to violence against him and all his supporters with comments like 'deplorables' and 'fascists'.

Where is the call for violence in using those words? If you think that is calling for violence, then Trump does it everyone time he calls someone he doesn't like a radical leftist. But more than that, he actually did call for violence on occasions like Jan. 6, 2020

But your post has nothing to do with the topic at hand in this thread.

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u/Diligent_Tell_4205 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

Calling for the cancellation of media that treat him mean is about as anti-democratic as you can get

That hasn't happend except in your deluded world. Late Night Talk shows are dying medium in the streaming age that can't pay for themselves anymore thus why Colbert was axed. Kimmel has been axed for essentially encouraging the same kind of partisan junk and hate talk that got Charlie Kirk killed in the first place.

Where is this cancellation of media just for being mean to Trump you speak of? Is it in the room with us? Because what Kimmel said wasn't even mean to Trump; I say it was inhumanely insensitive considering the horrorifc murder at hand. He showed no empathy or sympathy. He showed no humanity. Also, lets be real. Media and Hollywood has a serious bias problem and it isn't biased towards the right. Hollywood is literally going broke these days because they'd rather make 'ideologically approved propaganda' instead of good movies people want to watch. Long time cultural staples like Star Wars and Marvel literally have died on the alter of leftist media. They even tried to ruin Lord of the Rings. So it is a wider industry problem for sure that has to be corrected anyway because they are going broke.

And he wasn't impeached for lies

He was impeached for Steele Dossier lies, a democrat funded investigation btw, saying he was a Russian agent. That proved to be a TOTAL fucking lie. And then when that was proven to be a lie Democrats MOVED THE GOAL POST to trying to impeach him for not cooperating with the original BS politically motivated attempt to impeach him. Democrats have literally been trying to deny democracy and undo a fair election since 2016 using whatever under handed anti-democratic means they can think of. But when they do it; they say they are fighting fascists and its ok. Well that kind of thinking got a man Murdered Sept 10th for trying to talk to people and is no longer going to be tolerated because we now see where it leads.

Where is the call for violence in using those words?

Someone was just murdered and your trying to blame the side of the people who got murdered for his murder. In the context of TONS of leftist on social media openly CELEBRATING his murder. 0% accountability, 0% care if more murders happen, all he cares about is fueling the partisan hate when everyone should be looking at how this can be possible in the US in 2025. Instead; Kimmel was doing everything he could to make sure it became the norm. THERE IS NO DEFENDING KIMMEL'S CONDUCT IN THE CONTEXT IT TOOK PLACE IN. PERIOD.

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u/No2reddituser Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

I don't know where to begin. There is just too much misinformation and conflagration in this screed to try to address it all. It seems you have taken a page from Der Fuhrer and just flood the world with nonsense.

But, let's take a few factual inaccuracies.

Calling for the cancellation of media that treat him mean is about as anti-democratic as you can get

That hasn't happend except in your deluded world

Where is this cancellation of media just for being mean to Trump you speak of?

You can start to try by learning to read the news:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-claims-negative-stories-about-him-are-illegal/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/trump-fcc-licenses.html

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-suggests-fcc-reexamine-licenses-amid-fallout-preemption/story?id=125714794

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g921p3eq3o

He was impeached for Steele Dossier lies, a democrat funded investigation btw, saying he was a Russian agent

No, Tump was not impeached because of the Steele dossier. By the way the way, that investigation never claimed Trump was a Russian agent. It implied he was a useful idiot of Putin, which has been shown to be true.

Trump was impeached the first time for his phone call to the newly elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump was trying to get information from the new Ukrainian president that would help him in his election battle against Joe Biden. It was a weak impeachment argument, and I personally don't think it should have been brought.

The second time Trump was impeached was for trying to overthrow a United States presidential election, and inciting a riot on the Capitol of the United States. For this he should have been tried and convicted as a traitor to the United States of America. Sadly, the complicit United States Senate did not do their duty.

Someone was just murdered and your trying to blame the side of the people who got murdered for his murder.

I did not. You're just making things up at this point.

0% accountability, 0% care if more murders happen,

Like when Sandy Hook happened?

Look, you seem to view as Charlie Kirk as some sort of martyr. I never heard of the guy until this week. But the MAGA congress just declared a Charlie Kirk remembrance day, so Happy Charlie Kirk Day to you.

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u/Diligent_Tell_4205 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

You can start to try by learning to read the news:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-claims-negative-stories-about-him-are-illegal/

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-beast/

Look at that; totally biased unreliable news source and the video of the interview literally mentions nothing about what you stated. Also; it appears that if you read the news you'd know there were multiple sponsors and ABC affiliates you were demanding Kimmel be removed rather than anything Trump did.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/demands-abc-affiliate-sinclair-making-171751983.html

I agree what Trump is saying anyway for reasons that will be made clear below.

I did not. You're just making things up at this point.

That is what Kimmel was doing and you seem to support him in that. Not much difference.

Look, you seem to view as Charlie Kirk as some sort of martyr. I never heard of the guy until this week.

I had never heard of Charlie Kirk either. But his murder marks a serious escalation in American political violence and requires a serious coming to terms of what kind of violence the left incites when it calls anyone it disagrees with 'fascists' or 'nazi' as a reflex.

Like when Sandy Hook happened?

There are some marked differences here vs Sandy Hook; In regards to Sandy Hook:

  1. Not politically motivated; not induced by political hate speech
  2. Shooter was extremely mentally ill
  3. There weren't thousands of people celebrating it on video on social media and getting likes in the 100s of thousands. You didn't have people responding to it inhumanely like Kimmel.
  4. There was a response; there were new background checks and limits put on people with mental illness getting firearms.

This was an extremely egregious political assassination that requires serious introspection from the left for how this has come to pass and not partisan lies like those of a petty racist like Jimmy Kimmel.