The widespread work mantra has been that you have the right to remain silent — anything you say against Charlie Kirk can be used against you in a performance evaluation. Matthew Dowd got fired for essentially saying what goes around comes around and Perkins Coie fired an associate for saying that Charlie Kirk was “one of America’s leading spreaders of hatred, misinformation, and intolerance” — guess the firm didn’t think that truth was a strong enough defense. Anyway, some washed-up reality TV star didn’t get the memo and made the career-ending mistake of making light of our most recent national tragedy:
What was it that JD Vance said again? Call them out, and hell, go to their employers? Shame that people have been trying to go to the American public about Trump being an abuser or being really good friends with Epstein to no avail. In fact, it seems like the only people who have really faced consequences have been the whoever has had the balls to say, “Hey, this guy isn’t following the law!” And he’s doing whatever he can to crush dissent:
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I don’t know, man, that sounds like an unconstitutional content-based regulation of free speech to me. And while it’s true that ABC is the one that “indefinitely suspended” Jimmy Kimmel, the fallout has made it pretty clear that they only did so because they were afraid of pressure from the FCC:
That’s what folks in the biz called jawboning — the government can’t regulate speech in a way that would be unlawful for itself to do by outsourcing the policing to a private entity by threatening them: that’s just government suppression of speech with extra steps! It’s the constitutional equivalent of a kid gettting an adult to buy them the alcohol so they don’t have to go into the store themselves.
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Will Trump actually get in to any trouble for making a death joke about Charlie Kirk on Fox News? No, because he’s Donald Trump. He is the road all of this hoopla about offense and civility and violence leads back to. It’s why Kash Patel, head of the FBI, had no clue who Dylann Roof was. It’s why JD Vance was able to make light of being killed on a boat if you were a little too close to Venezuela. As long as you’re on the winning team, you can say whatever you want with little to no consequence. Because even if the facts don’t support you, the alternative facts will.
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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord™ in the Facebook group Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim, is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at [email protected] and by tweet at @WritesForRent.