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We Are Not Going To Have A Debate About Free Speech
The Federalist ^ | September 19, 2025 | John Daniel Davidson

Posted on 09/19/2025 3:56:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s show doesn’t matter. What matters is the left’s embrace of political violence.

The national conversation we need to have right now is not about free speech.

The conversation we need to have is about the normalization of political violence on the left. We need to be talking about left-wing Antifa/trans terrorists gunning down Christians in broad daylight while Democrats and the corporate press justify it and the online left celebrates it.

That’s the only conversation that matters right now. The manufactured outrage over ABC canceling Jimmy Kimmel’s show is an attempt to change the conversation, to flip the script so that instead of talking about the first major political assassination in America in sixty years, instead of talking about the mainstream left’s embrace of political violence and the institutional ecosystem that foments and funds that violence, we can talk about whether President Trump is using Kirk’s murder as a pretext to crack down on free speech and silence his enemies.

What nonsense — and what a tell. It speaks volumes that Democrats, liberal media, and online leftists are so desperate to pivot away from talking about Kirk’s assassination that they have chosen to take up the transparently stupid cause of Kimmel’s free speech rights. Remember, these are people who don’t care at all about free speech. Some of those rending their garments this week over Kimmel’s cancellation were the same people who cheered on government censorship during Covid. They love censorship, so long as it’s their side doing the censoring.

And it hardly needs to be said that nothing about the Kimmel story implicates free speech in any way. Kimmel didn’t just mock MAGA or criticize Kirk, he patently lied about the ideology of Kirk’s alleged assassin, and by allowing his comments to air, ABC arguably...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; cruzbashing; cruzwhining; democrats; domesticenemies; freespeech; kirk; leftwingviolence; violence; wtfabouttedcruz

1 posted on 09/19/2025 3:56:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Remember, these are people who don’t care at all about free speech. Some of those rending their garments this week over Kimmel’s cancellation were the same people who cheered on government censorship during Covid. They love censorship, so long as it’s their side doing the censoring.


Bingo! Well put.


2 posted on 09/19/2025 4:02:01 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Their desertion was spawned when Hilary could not ascend to the throne, er,Presidency.


3 posted on 09/19/2025 4:05:03 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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Somebody clue in that despicable, Texas ice storm abandoning, tone deaf, nasty wimpy Texas republican senator Ted Cruz:

“Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sharply criticized Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr.
“He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way’ ... that’s right out of Goodfellas,” Cruz said of Carr.
Cruz’s comments put him at odds with President Donald Trump, who applauded Kimmel’s suspension and later called Carr “outstanding.”


4 posted on 09/19/2025 4:09:29 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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I’m embarrassed to say I’m unfamiliar with the author of this piece.

But he is very, very good. Thanks for posting.

5 posted on 09/19/2025 4:13:17 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

YESSSSS!!!!


6 posted on 09/19/2025 4:14:34 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: stanne

Ted once in awhile shows why Trump had to carry him over the finish line in two elections. He’s just not like able by anyone


7 posted on 09/19/2025 4:32:06 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bkmk


8 posted on 09/19/2025 4:39:46 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: stanne

Jacksss. Should be gis last term.


9 posted on 09/19/2025 4:49:44 PM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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Bookmark


10 posted on 09/19/2025 4:52:07 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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Such a jackass

Republicans are the worst offenders. At least AOC has an excuse. Shes a democrat to begin with

Cruz is a Christian Christie. Pain in the cajoolias


11 posted on 09/19/2025 4:58:32 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Kimmel is still free to say whatever he wants. He just can’t do it on ABCs network because he’s bad for business.


12 posted on 09/19/2025 5:12:07 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To some ultra leftists, there is no connection between speech and violence. At least as seen on CNN.


13 posted on 09/20/2025 4:14:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Thanks.

I ended up reading this. article.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/19/the-only-way-to-end-leftist-violence-is-to-defeat-leftism-itself/

14 posted on 09/21/2025 2:55:37 AM PDT by combat_boots
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