Ted Cruz Rips FCC Over ABC Broadcast License Review Following Kimmel Joke: ‘It Is Not Government’s Job to Censor Speech’
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ted-cruz-fcc-abc-broadcast-license-review-kimmel-censor-speech-1236733070/
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leoj@piefed.social · 86 pts · 111d
How sad is it that supporting the most basic tencents of free speech is a win?
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 111d
a tenet is a philosophical axiom. a tenant is a resident of a particular property
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 111d
Nicely pedanted. Capital.
leoj@piefed.social · 3 pts · 111d
danke schon
I'm just gonna pretend I used the wrong one to avoid activating a sleeper agent from a Nolan film.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 111d
while we're at it, schön (which can also be spelled schoen if umlauts are unavailable) means beautiful, and other strongly positive connotations depending on context. schon means already
leoj@piefed.social · 2 pts · 111d
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 111d
Ted Cruz is a piece of shit.
But, one thing he has remained consistent about is defense of free speech. Usually defending the freedom of right wingnuts to say what they want, but he did defend Kimmel and criticize Kimmel’s removal.
That said, Ted Cruz is still a piece of shit.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 111d
This is giving him too much credit considering he voted for Carr to lead the FCC in the first place. The one thing Cruz has remained consistent on is knowing how to improve his own reputation by saying something reasonable sounding every so often, but in terms of his actions he's a party apparatchik and total piece of shit.
Retail4068@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
In 8 yearsnI fear we'll look at the Cruizes like we look at Mitt these days.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 111d
No we won't.
Retail4068@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 111d
Fantastically cool story.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 110d
These people have proven to be traitors and pedophiles. There is no redemption for them, just prison. We will NEVER look back on them as benign Republicans.
Romney wasn't even that anyway. He became a Sociopathic Oligarch with a weird religious obsession by buying companies and stripping them of their assets. He stole his fortune by destroying carefully built lifelong careers, and forcibly unemploying thousands, perhaps millions of people. He's a monster, with money to pay for nice clothes, a good haircut, and a first-rate political smile, but he's still a monster.
The only reason that people look back on people like Romney and Bush with fondness is because the compare favorably to the absolute shitshow that occupies the government right now. That doesn't change the fact that they were still jackals, the very ones that led to where we are now. They may not like what's happening now, but I guarantee, they are still cashing in. Especially Romney.
When he dies, that religion that he claims to believe in so much, is going to punish him harshly. I wish I believed in that nonsense so I could enjoy it.
TheRiskiestBiscuit@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 110d
Hopefully, in 8 years we’ll be looking back at all of them the way we look back at the Confederates now; as traitors.
Donkter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 111d
Ted cruz is a rare politician who is in politics because he fights for his convictions and wants to advocate for them
Now his convictions are dogshit, and he does nothing but harm, but it does mean he's a breath of fresh air compared to his compatriots
sobchak@programming.dev · 11 pts · 111d
Disagree. He became one of Trump's biggest defenders; even defending the capital attack, and spreading The Big Lie. Before Trump got elected the first time, Trump basically called Cruz's wife ugly, and Cruz basically told voters not to vote for Trump because he is immoral. Cruz is likely just trying to position himself for a 2028 presidential run, or being bribed by ABC or whatever.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 111d
Behold, Schrödinger's shit sandwich. Now, a shit sandwich is when you take something shitty, and bracket it with two nice things. If you've heard of this before, you've probably talked to management, or more clearly, heard someone vent about talking to management. If you haven't, well, good on you for avoiding the notice of management.
Now, what could a Schrödinger's shit sandwich be? Well, it would have to be something that somehow both follows and rebels against that definition above. So let's take the quote.
So this could be represented as:
Yep, that looks like a classic shit sandwich, alright. But! Could it not also be:
Well, fuck me if that isn't a reverse shit sandwich! So which is it. A shit sandwich? A reverse shit sandwich? Both at the same time‽ Schrödinger's Shit Sandwich!
But you can only be sure which one it is by taking that bite.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
You really overcomplicated “a broken clock is right twice a day.”
Ilandar@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 110d
All we can be sure of is that Americans eat shit.
ghostpony@infosec.pub · 42 pts · 111d
SaltSong@startrek.website · 19 pts · 111d
I guess he thinks Trump is about to crash and burn.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 111d
Nah he just likes being a dick to people. Stopped clock, etc.
IAmLamp@fedia.io · 7 pts · 111d
Damage control for midterms
wjrii@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 111d
We're at a point where America's great public protectors of free speech and baseline decency are:
They're doing good work, but christ on a cracker they shouldn't have been tasked with this job.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 111d
I got that the latter two were Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver. You lost me on this one.
Edit: Also, don't forget 4. The man so good at satire that he simultaneously convinced stupid right wingers he represented them and only slightly less stupid left wingers that satirizing the right meant that he actually represented them until he got a new non-satire show and turns out he's just a left leaning centrist with an expert level knowledge of The Lord Of The Rings lore, but still calls a fascist a fascist.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
Number 1 is Jon Stewart, though to be fair I had kinda thought he was on the 80s game show "Remote Control" on MTV and had to pivot when I learned he was not. :-)
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 111d
I get your point but I do think it's a little reductive to gloss over the fact that Oliver and Stewart have done an actually-good job of covering news all these years.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 111d
I was sort of intentionally being reductive to make the point that it's pretty fucked up that our bravest and most trustworthy media figures all come out of comedy, some of it pretty low-brow.
There's some decent voices in the American mainstream media, but most of them are so terrified of getting canceled by the so-called free-speech absolutists that the satirists (if one can even call Kimmel that) are having to do real work in spreading information and speaking truth to power.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 111d
I get what you were saying, I just think we can also recognize comedians can do good work while making jokes at the same time. They always have done this. The good ones, anyhow.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 111d
He wouldn't be saying shit if ttumps approval rating didn't drop 2 points after an assassination attempt.
I can't wait till we hit 27% approval rating
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 110d
Yep, election is coming.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 110d
Not if Republicans have anything to say about it.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 111d
Trump has not been doing governments job since day one, but if he'd pull his head out of trumps ass far enough he'd see that
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 111d
Are we sure that wasn't actually Bobby Moynihan?
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 110d
It must be that time of day. I am agreeing with a broken clock. Honestly, I will agree twice within a 24 hour period.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 110d
its the time of the month with rafael cruz needs to shed his lizard skin.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 110d
its his turn to pretend his party has gone beyond the pale. The party is so beyond acceptable to me its really hard for me to imagine they have lines somewhere out in that trumpin trump.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 111d