I Stand With Jimmy Kimmel and Freedom of Speech

All your support helps! I appreciate you! Upgrade at 40% offHello Friends!Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is returning to the air after getting suspended for speaking the truth. We live in terrifying times. Lies are revered as sacred texts and the incomprehensible utterances of Big Brother are considered above even the word of god herself.What nonsense.They want us scared, reverential, and obedient. But it’s kind of difficult to respond that way in the face of this incompetent clown show that’s so dead-set on ruining every aspect of our lives. They want to take Tylenol away? Are you kidding me? Tylenol?Notice that nobody ever mentions the ill-effects of dick hardening pills. The Republicans wouldn’t be able to take advantage of their fully paid retreats to suspicious billionaire owned islands in the middle of nowhere without those.Jimmy went against the state narrative about the most recent school shooting. He dared to cite the facts that demonstrate school shootings are a Republican issue. They’re the ones who support white supremacy hate podcasts that radicalize kids. They’re the ones who refuse to prevent mentally deranged individuals from purchasing military grade weapons. Last weekend the nepo baby would-be tyrant hosted some bizarre ‘triumph of the will’ type propaganda festival. It was a flash forward to what we’re going to get in a new era of deranged conservative programming. Instead of clever comedians who present us with the truth, we’ll be getting glowering right-wing creepers who force children to be their “porn accountability buddies.”No thanks.For the time being, Jimmy Kimmel has emerged as a focal point in all these conflicts. Of all the late night comedians, he’s the one my wife prefers. I think it has a lot to do with Guillermo, who is frankly hilarious.In the aftermath of the election that brought “unquestionable leader” to power, Kimmel provided a lot of comfort. There was an episode where he came on and started packing his bags because he knew “he was on the list.” But Guillermo stepped forward and entreated him to stay because he had a platform and he had a voice.He had the power to resist!It was all done in the spirit of comedy, but when he said that I began to cry. For the last year, my emotions have run very close to the surface. All rational and empathetic people knew the pain that was about to be inflicted by giving power to this terrible, criminal Republican.I cried when I first saw the episode, and I cried again when I told my wife about it because I knew that this was our mission statement. We have to stay and fight because WE HAVE A VOICE!So, it was a gut punch when they announced they were taking Kimmel off the air, but I didn’t cry that time. All these months later, I’m dug in. We’ve endured many unprovoked and cruel attacks. They still hurt, but we have accepted the truth of our reality. When one of our allies goes down, ten more must rise to fill the gap.We’re not losing this fight. We’re not turning over our kids to the party that protects pedophiles by refusing to release the Epstein files or hold anyone accountable whether we’re talking about bribes or child rape or treason.This regime is dismantling and defiling our Constitution!But now, the first miracle has happened and Kimmel is back on the air. I know that there are some people out there who are afraid. They think he must have agreed to apologize or pay some absurd sum, or some other b******t.But I don’t think that’s the case.If Kimmel was going to apologize, he would have done it early in the negotiations. But the reports I heard were that he held firm. He waited. He gave the people of the United States the chance to cancel their subscriptions, and the people rose to the occasion!This isn’t the type of thing you can organize. It just happens. There’s a collective awakening. The abuser goes too far and the abused stand up and say, “This ain’t f*****g happening!”A few days ago I was talking about this with Ben Ulansey, and we wondered if it was really possible to make the titans of media take note. Everything has been bought up by two or three groups, and you wind up supporting your enemies without even knowing it.But things have changed in the last twenty-four hours. The titans have heard and retreated. They’re scared. They’ve found out that there IS a consequence for those who fail to stand up in defense of freedom.A lesson we must take from this is that our work is far from done. When we regain control of our country, we have to bring those anti-trust laws back into effect. We have to dismantle the conglomerates because they’re very close to becoming all powerful. There are a few shadow billionaires in suits who own everything and who spend all their time chortling at us on their private islands.Well, they aren’t chortling today. Today, they’re looking at a portfolio that is several billion dollars lighter and they’re slightly pale. They’re pale and Kimmel is coming back on the television.I don’t expect him to retreat from this. This is his hour. He’s got a real chance to deliver a knock-out blow to fascism. Because the big key here is that he made the regime LOOK WEAK!They LOOK WEAK! They can’t even silence a comedian!I don’t expect him to come out and grovel. I expect him to come out and speak facts. The bigger part is that the whole world will be watching. Before big brother stepped in, he had an audience of around 2 million. Tonight, everybody is paying attention. The whole world is watching.I’m confident Kimmel will seize this moment because, at the end of the day, he’s a decent human being. We the people have hit the pause button on the authoritarian takeover. We’ve lit one more candle in the darkness. The illusion has yet another crack in it, and eventually it will crumble like every weak and cowardly and incompetent dictator that has come before.Go get ‘em Jimmy. This is your moment! We’re with you!You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your sponsorship! I have payment tiers starting at as little as twenty dollars a year.Upgrade at 30% offUpgrade at 40% offUpgrade at 50% offUpgrade at 60% offI'm so happy you're here, and I'm looking forward to sharing more thoughts with you tomorrow.My CoSchedule referral linkHere’s my referral link to my preferred headline analyzer tool. If you sign up through this, it’s another way to support this newsletter (thank you).I'd Rather Be Writing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to I'd Rather Be Writing at walterrhein.substack.com/subscribe