Well, Jimmy Kimmel is finished. Nexstar Media, who owns his show, announced they are pulling him off of ABC after he made comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. The comments?

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Aside from the fact that the murderer came from a right-wing family and was a non-voter, maybe he was wrong about something? I’m still figuring it out. Troll under the bridge that got picked on too much as a kid FCC Chairman Brendan Carr decided to roll out the censorship brigade for this one.

But Kimmel’s aside — in a monologue mostly focused on mocking President Donald Trump — did not justify what came next. During a Wednesday podcast appearance, FCC head Brendan Carr threatened to revoke the broadcasting licenses of any stations that continued to air Kimmel’s content.

“It’s time for them to step and say this garbage…isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities,” he said.

Carr’s threat should have been toothless. The FCC is prohibited by lawfrom employing “the power of censorship” or interfering “with the right of free speech.” There is a very narrow and rarely used exception for “news distortion,” in which a broadcast news outlet knowingly airs false reports. What Kimmel did — an offhand comment based on weak evidence — is extremely different from creating a news report with the intent to deceive.

Let’s be honest, these special snowflakes and their fee-fee’s hurt by Jimmy picking on them. Where is “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk now? These folks are using the powers of the government to silence liberal comedy. Kimmel is just the latest. Before him? Stephen Colbert. From Google AI:

CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” citing financial reasons, shortly after Colbert accused the network’s parent company, Paramount, of paying a “big fat bribe” to Donald Trump for regulatory approval of a major merger. While CBS insists the decision was purely financial, the timing led to accusations that Trump or his administration pressured CBS to silence Colbert, a prominent critic. Colbert has since fired back at Trump, calling the accusations of a bribe “baffling” and suggesting Trump celebrated the show’s cancelation. 

Let’s be honest, Jimmy Fallon and others are probably gone by the end of the year, regardless of what they say. This is a coordinated attempt by Trump to effectively end all comedic criticism of him. Howard Stern will be leaving satellite radio at the end of his contract, Colbert is gone, and now Kimmel. All the conservative soy boys that whined during the Biden years about “cancel culture,” censorship, and silencing comedy are awfully quiet right now. The troll at the FCC is using his power to bully the networks, and the networks are complying. As someone who likes comedy, almost entirely regardless of who it makes fun of and what words it sometimes uses, it’s very disappointing.

There is a bit darker way to look at this though- it’s not just Trump and Carr being a couple of wimpy beta cucks, it’s the entire conservative movement. They simply did “cancel culture” more effectively than the “empathetic Democrats.” They recognized that Colbert and Kimmel not only were making fun of their guy, but largely them as well, and they stopped watching. If Colbert and Kimmel’s ratings were continuously going up and generating more profits, the networks would probably be fighting like hell to keep them on the air. They’re not. These guys have huge contracts and very large operating budgets for their shows. If they were producing the kind of wealth the networks wanted to match that, there would be a fight going on right now. Instead, the networks are somewhat viewing the current Trump-censorship climate as a chance to get out of showing shows they already weren’t sure they loved anymore.

A few years back, the theory was that changing demographics were going to move our society towards a more progressive/liberal future. It turns out that was utter bullshit. Conservative Americans are canceling what they want by not watching their critics. MSNBC and CNN are struggling to keep it up. Liberal comics are being canceled. Most of the NFL is holding moments of silence for Charlie Kirk, a podcaster who never held any public office in our country. Trump dominated the influencer game, getting most of the good ones to support him in 2024. The entertainment and news industry in America have surveyed the world over the last decade and came to the conclusion that their conservative consumers are the future, not the liberals. It is a dark reality to realize, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

This is certainly not a call to acquiesce. I will tell you right here, Donald Trump is a fat, stupid soy boy whose wife certainly prefers the pool boy to his foul stench. Come see me, Brendan Carr. With all of that said, liberals need to consider that they are losing. Given the choice, the entertainment industry is choosing to appease their conservative viewers, because that’s where they see the future going. That’s alarming.