Posted on 05/29/2022 7:25:35 PM PDT by lightman
The reaction to the National Rifle Association hosting its conference in Houston, Texas continues to draw unhinged responses. Ethan Klein on Friday broadcast calls to violence during his "H3 After Dark" episode which he hosts with his wife, Hila Klein. They have nearly 3 million subscribers.
The Blaze TV's Elijah Schaffer tweeted out a clip of Ethan Klein saying "someone should bomb that building" when it comes to where the NRA conference is being held. Hila Klein initially reacts with an "mhm," seemingly in agreement.
It's important to mention that Klein walked back his remarks immediately, though he then went on to once more call for violence, even laughing and joking about it.
The extended clip in question shows Ethan, in the same breath, saying "okay, I'll roll that back." His wife comments "everything but violence," though he is still heard laughing as they walk it back. A "technical difficulties" graphic appears.
When the show comes back, as he and Hila are laughing, Ethan admits "I got a little carried away there, nobody bomb the building, all right? I take that back, thank you. It's a--I took it a little too--I got a little passionate there, let's roll it back," as he continues to laugh. A sound effect of clapping can be heard being played.
Hila and Ethan Klein also wished to express that they could go back in time. "Rewind time," says Ethan, still with laughter in his voice. "Let's protest that building," he goes on to say instead. "Let's bomb it with emotional protest," as they then discuss a "love bomb."
The clip in question still ends on a concerning note, before once more heading into "technical difficulties," as Ethan continues to laugh and joke about calls to violence. After hearing a suggestion of "let's kill them with kindness," he goes on to say "let's kill everyone in that f*cking building," as his wife nervously laughs and begs to end the show, with her husband once more calling for "let's bomb that f*cking..." before being cut off. This time, his expletive is bleeped out.
Our friends at Twitchy picked up on the clip, as well as reactions to another account who shared it, the Willy Mac Show.
These particular comments in question are bad enough, but in a report for The Post Millennial and via several tweets, Ashley St. Claire highlights how this is a pattern. Klein also called for violence against Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX), and for confrontations.
"More people need to be getting loud, more people need to be getting angry, getting in people’s f*cking faces," he also said.
A separate clip, clearly from a separate podcast episode, shows Ethan sharing, as he appears quite unhinged, that he "thinks about that obsessively every night" when it comes to how imaging in bed how he will use his gun on his haters and dares them to "test" him.
St. Claire also shared that she is waiting for comment from YouTube.
Her tweets and retweets highlight an issue of one-sidedness from YouTube, as accounts have faced repercussions for far less worse, including when it comes to topics of gender. Such selective enforcement certainly points to a bias from the platform.
What if they don’t want to be bombed?
No doubt the Feds will be investigating this threat...
Ethan Klein needs to be red flagged.
That BS is legally actionable.
We need firearms to protect us from nazis like Ethan Klein.
FBI is on it like a flea on a dog! ;-)
He looks like a psycho who should be locked up in a mental institution.
OOps! should have written Ethan Klein!
There’s a reason idiots like him do podcasts - nobody would listen otherwise except idiots like him.
Ethan was already considered a lolcow online. Now he’s one of the most talked about everywhere, even here. I never watched him, but even I heard of him now.
Was this is a huge PR coup or a disaster? Never know.
Please tell me that’s some kind of weird photoshop job ...
No need to bomb it. It is full of NRA people, right? They will just shoot each other. :-)
It is the idiots that you have to be concerned. Or don’t and they bury you.
Heh.
The FBI is a fart in Church on a hot Summer Sunday morning.
He was making lots of money off silly videos, but then the Adpocalypse happened and like lots of other YouTubers, he had to depend on superchat donations while live streaming.
Streaming hours a day for days at a time eventually led him to do and say irresponsible things.
He is now considered a pariah and YouTube pet. He has gone past his Sell By Date.
But, like Ray Epps’s call that people need to go into the Capitol, it’s not a xrime when they do it.
Since when ex-president was going there, shouldn’t be a matter for Secret Service?
How in the hell is someone that butt ugly even married?
I mean I know there are mail order brides and all, but one would assume that even they would have some sort of standards.
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