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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 115 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is he gonna get fired for spreading hate and advocating violence? No that only applies to news outlets we don’t like? Got it.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Though the professional crybabies among the Confederates always are moping about "cancel culture", no such thing really exists for Republicans. It is only a thing for anyone to the left of Hannity.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Open cabinet position in the administration probably.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago

No apology. No consequences. At all. This is fine, because it's a conservative saying it.

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 22 points 2 weeks ago

Certainly sounds like the opinion of a mentally stable individual.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They do seem to have a lot of conspiracy theorists.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They haven’t been following the news.

Or maybe they want to kill right-wingers.

[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 weeks ago

Everything is scripted.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gonna be a lot of state-sanctioned TPUSA-on-groyper violence, I guess?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That'd be unfortunate.

[–] Hanrahan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is he talking about killing Trump?

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Trump is a mentally ill person who committed crimes.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uh, does that include the traitor bitch president?

[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

And all the lunatics calling for civil war and death to their "opponents" before knowing it was conservative gang violence? Are we sure they're not mentally ill? In which case, not death, but help. Except they gotta get their shit together first. Stop blaming the wrong people!

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Private prison lobby is not gonna like this.

Keep your grifters in mind, MAGA. SMH.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

Just in: Mass Suicide in FOX studios!

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Are they talking about ICE personnel?

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds like a pretty mental thing to say. Haven't committed any petty crimes, have we? Check yourself.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, that's sounds like my mother

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Just for context, this was before Kirk got merc’d

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

But if they kill all of their viewers, how are they gonna brainwash people for profit?

I agree with the headline if you remove everything after "host" until the colon.

[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hey friends,

Take it from an ally - this is a misleading headline.

The utterance was uttered in the context of things one would want to avoid. It doesn't even strike me as a threat by Brian Kilmeade, and is more of a gaffe.

The whole clip is STILL a steamy shitty take.

They are saying "mental illness sufferers, particularly the subset who are inclined to commit public violence, need to 'come to Jesus' and take the overly-bountiful government assistance available to them. That silver bullet will cure them of their issues such that they'll no longer threaten poor old me. And if any refuse, they deserve whatever else might happen to them which, as stated earlier, is to be involuntarily placed into a mental institution."

And then Brian Kilmeade, the homunculus muppet that he is, thinks "I'm helping," grabs the bag of Shake'n Bake his parents never gave him, and chimes in "and other bad things could happen, uhh hyuck, even inVoLuntaRy letHaL injEcTion (as a consequence of the implied context of a person who refuses help for their mental illness, who later takes a life during a mental episode, and who will suffer ramifications up to and including being tried for murder and sentenced to death).

Maybe it would have been a dog whistle call to violence if anyone other than Brian Kilmeade said it.

Maybe it's foolish of me to disregard the words because the words were still aired, on a network with a vested interest in launching wind-up murder meatbots towards the left. If this is the point of the report, then this is a criminal choice of headline.

[–] dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

I watched the whole clip. Your framing is more misleading than the headline.

[–] livejamie@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think you're suggesting that it's misleading not to mention the initial "If they don't take help" part of the statement, because it gives the impression that they want to kill everyone by default.

A more accurate title would be "Fox News host on mentally ill criminals who refuse help: 'Just kill them'"

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, the headline is a pretty accurate representation of the clip actually

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since when is the death penalty used for anything less than murder?

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Judging from the transcript, they are specifically talking about a fatal stabbing on a bus in Charlotte.

They've jumped all over this because:

  • It's a stabbing so they don't have to worry about the gun control debate
  • The city had a Democrat mayor and NC has a Democrat governor they can pretend made the stabbing happen to villify the Democrats

Bonus points, they threw Thom Tillis (R) under the bus, because he actually said that maybe sometimes he didn't fully agree with Trump.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sure. Start from the top.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

How very Himmler of him.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Soooo....most billionaires?