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FormerDittoHead

(5,159 posts)
Fri Sep 19, 2025, 07:43 PM Sep 2025

Challenge to Conservatives - What right wing politicians / speakers now feel intimidated to speak?

Seriously, what person on the right is now too scared to speak their mind out of intimidation?

I'm tired of hearing this "violent left" meme going on when it's been shown that not only does the right speak traffic in violent terms more than the left, they act on it.

We've since seen the 'cancelling' of many people far outside of the media limelight getting fired from their jobs after they made social media posts supposedly celebrating the slaying of Mr. Kirk. (full disclosure: I haven't seen any of them)

And now with Jimmy Kimmel's show being cancelled (clearly related to the Kirk situation unlike the BS "ratings" excuse that CBS used for cancelling the The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) it's been stated by Trump that it is just the beginning...

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Challenge to Conservatives - What right wing politicians / speakers now feel intimidated to speak? (Original Post) FormerDittoHead Sep 2025 OP
To paraphrase President Vunder chocolate bar ... take a shot at it. GreenWave Sep 2025 #1

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