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"Hi. In today's episode, Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss the ongoing fallout from Charlie Kirk's murder and how it overshadowed yet another school shooting. They dig into the increasingly vitriolic language on the right and the doxxing of people, mostly teachers, who post even remotely negative things about Kirk."
Initial reaction based just on the title and text description: I mean, yeah. Of course they are. It would be more surprising if they didn't act like hypocritical jackasses. It's certainly what Charlie Kirk himself would have been doing, if it had been some other RWNJ asshole that got murdered instead of him.
Now to actually watch the video.
Yeah... there was a school shooting on the same goddamn day that Charlie Kirk was shot, if you didn't already know about it.
So... Donald Trump is a flagrant hypocrite, is what you're saying. Yeah, this was already well known. In any case, the real problem here is the fact that Donald Trump said that the "radical left" is the real problem.
So yeah, Donald Trump didn't actually say that he "could [not] care less about bringing our country together" (though it's very easy to see that he explicitly does not care at all about bringing our country together), and the thing that he actually did say was horrible enough that it would have been more than sufficient to simply quote him verbatim to demonstrate what a vile shithead he is, rather than inaccurately paraphrasing the thing he said.
To hell with the New York Post, just like Faux Noise and all the rest of RWNJ "news" "media." They're going to spin this shit in the way that they always spin this shit, and they all need to be shut down yesterday. Or, like, thirty years ago.
Matt Walsh can entirely fuck right off the planet Earth, too, as far as I'm concerned.
Ben Shapiro can entirely fuck right off the planet Earth, too, as far as I'm concerned.
And, hell yeah, you go, Bill Maher. Rare props where props are due, I guess. I mean, the fact that you had Ben Shitpiro on your show at all, to being with isn't great, obviously, but still, at least you shut down his spew of horseshit a tiny bit.
Also... wow. If anyone takes anything that's been said (or, at least, that I personally have seen/heard said) on Some More News and Even More News and uses that as an excuse to go out and murder someone, then that person was already so far out of touch with reality that the light of the sun hasn't reached the place they were at yet. And yet, I can still get why Cody was "fucked up" about it. Had no idea that they were literally considering canceling the show as a result of it. Granted, this is the first I'm even hearing about that at all. (The context here being that something like this absolutely did happen with Ben Shapiro, and he apparently publicly displayed not even an ounce of remorse or self-reflection as a result of it.)
Jonathan: "No one's saying that criticizing someone leads to violence, but no one's saying that people don't get ideas in their head based on the words they hear, whether those words are incendiary or not. Right? I think we can stand tall in the argument that the right's language is more incendiary than the left's. Like, flat out, I would stand behind that. I will pull quote for quote with Matt Walsh."
Cody: "100%"
Katy: "Yeah, that is a hill I would die on."
Also, this. Basically, Ben Shapiro does, on a regular basis, the very thing that he condemns the left for supposedly doing.
There's certainly nothing wrong with calling a thing what it actually is, though.
(They keep talking about Hasan, in both this and previous videos, and though I've never watched any of that guy's stuff before, I'm kind of wondering if maybe I should start. I don't care about watching Twitch streams at all, but he does have a Youtube channel as well. Then again, I already feel like I'm too bombarded with political shit, even aside from the stuff I actively seek out like Some More News and Last Week Tonight and The Daily Cartoonist and the like, so... maybe I won't.)
