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As already said, the FCC are threatening these broadcasting companies with revocation of their licences if they don’t comply with their wishes. Trump had already said publicly that he wanted Kimmel gone. The two late night hosts on NBC will be next if they don’t bend the knee. Kimmel talking rubbish? It was very clear that Trump and Trumpists were using Kirk’s death to score political points almost immediately. As for Trump’s comments about how he was holding up after the death of his friend and he started to talk about the building of a ballroom at the Whitehouse, Kimmel was spot on when he said that was like a child mourning a goldfish, not an adult mourning a friend. The very thin skinned narcissist cannot handle the slightest bit of criticism. Apparently companies are now being encouraged to fire people for saying “horrible things!” Free speech? I don’t think so. It is only so if you say something complimentary or in support of Trump and his regime. We have also had a Fox host, Brian Kilmeade, say, live on air, that mentally ill homeless people should be given a lethal injection. The suppression of dissent, blatant censorship when it comes to questioning those in power (the main Australian broadcasting corporation was not given accreditation to today’s presser with Trump because one of their journalists asked him an awkward question), the use of “alternative facts” as opposed to real facts and the use of euthanasia against the mentally ill are all straight from the fascist playbook from the 1930s. You have to be a special kind of Trump apologist to deny what is currently happening in and to the USA by this President and his administration. Not all Fascists wear smart black uniforms with jodhpurs and shiny boots.

Another big name cancelled for using his right to Free Speech in the land that preaches to the rest of the world about the sanctity of Free Speech. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-live-suspended-indefinitely-after-hosts-charlie-kirk-comments

It’s amazing what people will do to get billions of pounds of investment for this country isn’t it? Meanwhile, how does this square with your belief in Free Speech and the First Amendment Donald? https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/media/trump-lawsuit-new-york-times-hnk And I noticed that over 150,000 people were exercising their right to Free Speech in London on Saturday.

Can we expect hoards of flag waving patriots turning up at Oldbury to demonstrate against this assault on a woman? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sikh-woman-rape-racist-oldbury-b2826234.html

Good to see that “Free Speech” is still alive and well in The Land Of The Free. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/17/ben-jerrys-co-founder-jerry-greenfield-quits-saying-unilever-silenced-social-mission But only if you are supportive of Trump and his actions it seems. Their hypocrisy is quite staggering given that they (by they I mean Trump and his acolytes) are constantly berating us for, supposing, not having Free Speech. To be fair to Trump, he did say that he would be a dictator. Another lie though because he said he would be a dictator ON day one. He actually meant FROM day one.

The “offense” as you put it is making it very clear that you would have a major problem if your wife were Muslim. Surely, if you loved her enough to marry her and build a life and a family with her, her religious beliefs should not be an issue. On another point, if Hamas had come out and said that their aim on 7th October two years ago was to kill Israeli soldiers on the basis that they have been suppressing the rights of Palestinians and that the civilians killed and taken hostage were just collateral damage, would you have been ok with that? You might also recall having a go at me when I said that not all Muslims were responsible for terrorist acts. Your view as posted at the time was that they were all responsible because they weren’t going to the police with information that would help prevent the acts. You didn’t seem remotely interested in the idea that most of them have no idea of terrorist plans being made by extremists and we’re just as horrified by their actions as anyone else. Just man up and admit it. You hate Muslims and have zero empathy for what the occupants of Gaza and the West Bank are being subjected to by the IDF and the so called Settlers.

No surprise at the ruling, which has come too late, or by the response which, as usual, claims anti-semitism. What those claiming anti-semitism seem to ignore is that the ruling used many comments made by Israeli leaders for its conclusions. Four out of five boxes ticked in the test for a genocide ruling. Some legacy Netanyahu and his cronies is leaving for the state of Israel.

Of course there should be. Can you imagine the meltdown amongst the Gammons if one of their MPs or councillors left Reform for the Labour Party? If you stand as a representative for a certain party you owe it to the people who voted for you to have a choice to carry on supporting you or not. If you cast your vote for a Tory and they are elected, why should you end up with that person representing another party without another vote?

The guy who currently cuts my hair is from Iraq, so not black. My dentist is black though if that helps? We wouldn’t have a polite conversation. All of my conversations are polite but I wouldn’t give you the time of day. I avoid people who go out of their way to support the views of certain extemists with certain political views or who clearly hate certain people because of their religious views. Your use of the alt right avatar is not forgotten and this pretence that you are some kind of even handed liberal is a total facade. Your famous quote that “Socialism is dangerous” sums you up perfectly. You go out of your way to “be fair” to people with extreme right wing views whereas you immediately jump on anyone with liberal views. You hate left wing liberal views and you hate Muslims. You would have us believe that you are actually an even handed decent bloke yet at the same time you kick off about the ULEZ charge (brought in my a Muslim no less) because you have to pay because you brung in a car that pollutes the air that your gramps breathes every day. Here’s a thought, put his health before your own selfishness. “Thank God my wife isn’t Muslim”, another of your infamous quotes. If anyone is a bellend it is you. We have absolutely nothing in common other than we support the same football club. I would no more have a polite conversation with you as I would the morons throwing firebombs at hotels housing asylum seekers or lobbing bricks at the police. As for listening to people with different viewpoints, how does that work when you yourself shout down posters that you don’t agree with as you do almost daily? You have a very long history on here of supporting far right views and posting against those who speak out against them. I’d have far more respect for you if you had the balls to admit where you are coming from. I am way more likely to have a “polite” conversation with Duckhunter. At least he doesn’t pretend to be anything other than he is.

Wow. If it isn’t bad enough being stalked by nutty nic on here he is following me around the internet too. 🥴 Make your mind up nic. Am I a racist or not? You seem to be confused. Mind you, you seem to be confused about a lot of things. No surprise given that people with a low IQ tend to follow Trump and Farage. I am guessing you are the bloke on TUI who is further right than Rupert Lowe? Tell me, do you get agitated every time that Trump, Farage and Jenrick bring race into conversations too?

Nothing about Trump adds up or makes sense so why would that stop a lot of people voting for Farage? We have already voted to cripple ourselves financially by Brexit. What’s to say there aren’t enough idiots who will vote in Farage as the next PM? I hear plenty of people saying that they cannot do any worse. Oh yes they can.

It will just be dismissed as anti semitism, blood libel or some other nonsense by Netanyahu and his cohorts but it doesn’t bode well for them with an international court ruling coming early next year too. What is the current saying? It is “not a good look” to be found guilty of committing genocide.

She’s gone

A bunch of “9 pinters” who have just fallen out of the Farage Arms ale house and are on their way to tie some flags to lamp posts. If they want to deter asylum seekers from coming here perhaps they should show them these type of clips before they climb aboard the dingies. Meanwhile it takes an American to put Farage in his place. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-washington-jamie-raskin-free-speech-b2819428.html

The question we need to ask is why are two different parties expected to be held to different levels of accountability? Surely it should be the same for all but the bar for Labour seems to be a lot higher than that for the Tories in recent years. Integrity went out of the window when Johnson got rid of any hint of propriety from his party. Remember the “form a square around the Pritster” comment? There are still people in opposition who have gotten away with worse, many know having been elevated to the Lords, but guilty of deliberately not paying the proper amount or not, as housing minister her position is now untenable. If she does resign it will not change anything though. Labour will still be expected to be held to a higher level of behaviour and accountability than the Tories (or Reform).