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Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-burr-goes-full-ahole">Bill Burr</a> on Wednesday night refused to level any blame on California Democrats for the historic Los Angeles County wildfires that have killed at least 25 people and destroyed more than 12,300 structures.
Burr, who said he was &#8220;lucky&#8221; that the winds shifted away from his home, told Kimmel that anyone online criticizing the response to the fires is a &#8220;f***ing idiot&#8221; and has no idea what they&#8217;re talking about. He also dismissed the notion that the fire response was in any way &#8220;mismanaged.&#8221;
&#8220;I think everyone did a great job — unlike the internet,&#8221; Burr told Kimmel.
&#8220;Oh my gosh, all of these &#8216;fire experts,'&#8221; the comedian complained. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you just fly a helicopter into the ocean? &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, because there were 100-knot winds? You wanna do that at night? You f***ing lunatic.&#8221;
&#8220;This was definitely mismanaged,&#8221; Burr said in a mocking tone. &#8220;&#8216;Mismanaged?&#8217; Like some f***ing idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in LA, sitting there in his underwear.&#8221;
Instead, Burr took aim at insurance companies, yelling out, &#8220;Free Luigi,&#8221; a reference to Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a UnitedHealthcare executive.
Thousands of Los Angeles homeowners were <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fires-california-palisades-fire-homeowners-insurance-state-farm-fair-losses/#:~:text=About%201%2C600%20policies%20in%20Pacific,Soller%20said%20in%20an%20Thursday">dropped</a> by their insurers in the past year or so due to the massive insurance crisis in California. A recent Wall Street Journal editorial <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-fires-los-angeles-insurance-regulation-premiums-risk-fair-victoria-roach-gavin-newsom-1306d0a1">pinned</a> that crisis on the state’s Democrat politicians. For example, California bars companies from raising premiums to reflect the increasing fire risks. As a result, insurers have limited their coverage or stopped doing business in California altogether. Additionally, the state’s supposed safety net for those left without private insurance, called “FAIR,&#8221; has a $458 billion exposure, while it only has around $700 million in cash on hand to pay claims.
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BURR: “The winds moved. I feel lucky. I think everybody did a great job- unlike the Internet + all these *fire experts*.”
Bill defends folks trying to handle an impossible fire situation, mocks keyboard warriors calling it “mismanaged”, blaming the homeless, etc (i.e. Joe Rogan) <a href="https://t.co/WRpdfa0UqJ">pic.twitter.com/WRpdfa0UqJ</a>
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1879729221133914289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Notably, California&#8217;s leadership has been criticized by even legacy media for a number of outrageous actions. For example, L.A. Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has been accused of ignoring warnings of the forecasted high winds and fire threat, opting to leave town for a taxpayer-funded trip to Africa. The mayor also cut the fire department budget by <a href="https://abc11.com/post/los-angeles-cut-175m-fire-department-budget-months-before-palisades-signed-mayor-karen-bass/15782731/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$17.5 million</a> just months before the fires broke out.
Businessman Rick Caruso, a Democrat who lost the 2022 mayoral race by nine percentage points, has publicly said that firefighters’ hands were tied by leadership and fire hydrants in the area were “bone dry.”
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“We’ve had decades to remove the brush in these hills that move so quickly,&#8221; Caruso said. &#8220;You’ve got to have water. And my understanding is the reservoir was not refilled in time and in a timely water to keep their hydrants going … it’s all about leadership and management that were seeing a failure of. And all of these residents are paying a price for that.”
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According to Fox 11&#8217;s Rick Caruso, Los Angeles fire hydrants are out of water because the county refused to refill the reservoirs. <a href="https://t.co/2wgQJzdwXg">pic.twitter.com/2wgQJzdwXg</a>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1876901604734984649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom is also taking criticism in the wake of the historic fires, specifically for the lack of water to fight them. One of California&#8217;s top water supply systems has been heavily regulated over concerns about two specific fish populations. When President-elect Donald Trump was serving as president back in 2019, he tried to pump more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta but was stonewalled. 
Folks online were quick to criticize Burr for neglecting to go after those in power. &#8220;Bill Burr lost all his credibility in less than 60 seconds,&#8221; comedian Tim Young bluntly wrote on X. 
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Bill Burr lost all his credibility in less than 60 seconds. <a href="https://t.co/Gyk7piyCJ1">https://t.co/Gyk7piyCJ1</a>
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1879710838006923579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-burr-goes-full-ahole">Related: Bill Burr Goes Full A**hole</a>

BILL BURR, JIMMY KIMMEL

Bill Burr Says LA Fire Response Has Been ‘Great’, Mocks Critics As ‘F***ing Idiots’

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California

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Remember Gov. Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry gaffe?
Many have likely forgotten, even though it showed the California Democrat as the ultimate hypocrite. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-masks-all-indoors-award-winning-journalist-claims-22-people-attended-newsom-dinner-not-12-15k-bar-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wannabe president dined, sans mask</a> with a large group at the height of the pandemic lockdowns.
No social distancing. No chance for Californians to similarly enjoy a carefree meal. He got caught red-handed defying his own rules.
That memory might have lingered if late-night comics or “Saturday Night Live” had parodied the moment. They had the material, of course. The jokes all but wrote themselves.
Instead, they collectively stood down. And other politicians followed Newsom’s embarrassing lead, from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-admits-breaking-lockdown-for-salon-visit-blames-business-says-she-did-nothing-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Nancy Pelosi</a> to then-<a href="https://reason.com/2021/09/17/london-breed-san-francisco-mask-covid-hypocrisy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Mayor London Breed.</a> Comedy Nation looked the other way during those news cycles, too, and the American people suffered as a result.
Some of those same politicians won re-election post-COVID.
It’s why political humor has consequences. The right joke or comedy sketch can linger longer than a white paper or news headline. We laugh and then we think, and suddenly we’re looking at an issue in a new, startling way.
Even false political jabs can linger longer. Sarah Palin never said, “I can see Russia from my house.” Tina Fey’s Palin “Saturday Night Live” sketch character did, though, and people tied it to the real Palin.
Politicians hold considerable sway over us, yet they can be brought to heel by laughter. It’s why free speech matters and stinging satire leaves a mark.
<div id="attachment_855679" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-855679" class="size-large wp-image-855679" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2192407154-864x576.jpg" alt="LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 8: California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds, the Palisades Fire has grown to over 2,900 acres and 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate while a second major fire continues to burn near Eaton Canyon in Altadena." width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2192407154-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2192407154-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2192407154-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/GettyImages-2192407154.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Credit: Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images.</div>
Will we see comedians hold the politicians at the heart of the California wildfires accountable in the days ahead? If not, shame on them.
We’re watching gross incompetence in real time as thousands flee their homes and worry if they’ll be still standing upon their return. The raging fires are like something out of a Hollywood disaster movie.
It’s often unhealthy to score political points during a tragedy. At times, it’s unavoidable, and now is certainly the case.
We know L.A. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.6 million from the city’s fire department budget. The progressive mayor wasn’t even in L.A. when the fires broke out. She was in Ghana on a political junket.
The optics couldn’t get much worse. Remember how “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaqTdV4pqI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saturday Night Live</a>” and late-night comedians mocked Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas when he was out of state in Cancun during a deadly cold weather front in 2021?  It’s hard to forget given the nonstop jokes on the subject.
Fair? Unfair? He probably thinks twice now before jetting out of town. What Bass and Co. have done to California is immeasurably worse.
Need more material tied to the fires? <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karen-bass-ignores-questions-about-her-handling-of-devastating-fires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor Bass literally stood silent</a> as a European journalist pelted her with tough but fair questions about the unfolding tragedy. Later, the Mayor tried to steer locals to a website where they could get more information, except during her speech she simply said “URL” <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/la-mayor-karen-bass-stumbles-through-presser-script-failing-to-share-emergency-information-website-address-this-can-be-found-at-url/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and omitted the actual website’s address</a>.
More comedy gold for satirists speaking truth to power. An A.I. bot could probably crank out a few monologue jokes. Will late-night comedians bite?
So far, they’re <a href="https://latenighter.com/news/heres-how-the-late-night-shows-addressed-the-l-a-wildfires/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking the high road</a> regarding the devastation.
Far-Left “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert kept the mood serious.
“We want to send our love and concern to all the residents of Los Angeles who are facing what is being described as the most destructive fire in the city’s history.”
The host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” took a similar tack.
“The scenes we’re seeing on television are obviously harrowing, and there are no real words that I can share other than that we are thinking about you and we are hoping for your safety.”
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That’s understandable … for now. Although, if a Republican governor was in charge the tone might be different. Might.
It’s what happens next that matters, and it could have political repercussions.
Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” won’t hold back. The Libertarian host <a href="https://x.com/greggutfeld/status/1877334892398129301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already weighed in</a> via his X account, and his 10:00 p.m. show will likely do the same.
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Another possible source of comedy? HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.” The long-running host has shown a knack for truth-telling regardless of party affiliation. He’s been a thorn in the Left’s side for several years, mocking progressives for their extreme culture war positions and woke overreach.
He’s based in L.A. and might skewer pols who have made the problem exponentially worse. He’s also a Climate Change alarmist and might focus on that angle, even if there’s no evidence climate change played a role in the catastrophe.
So far, late-night hosts are living down to their partisan reputations.
Rather than satirize Newsom or Bass — or others directly overseeing the city and state — they&#8217;re targeting President-elect Donald Trump for his rhetoric.
Both &#8220;Daily Show&#8221; host Desi Lydic and Meyers <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/late-night-hosts-mock-trump-response-la-fires-1236271464/">attacked Trump&#8217;s critiques</a> rather than the actions, or inactions, of key Democrats. That&#8217;s a sign it will only grow more one-sided from here.
Will Jimmy Fallon courageously skewer the politicians who let their constituents down? Colbert? Meyers? Kimmel? Stewart?
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We’ll have to wait and see. If the past is prologue, these comedians will find a way to blame President-Elect Donald Trump for the crisis or avoid political name-calling in general. It may be up to YouTube-based comedians and podcasters to pick up the slack, and their social media platforms will only grow in response.
Too many modern journalists have refused to hold Democratic politicians accountable over the past few years. Just consider how many questions Vice President Kamala Harris has fielded of late over President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
Try zero, and that’s inexcusable.
It’s no laughing matter when mainstream comedians choose politics over the truth.
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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers – Season 12

Will Late Night Roast Newsom And Bass For Fires? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

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Hollywood

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Jimmy Fallon

Jon Stewart

Leftists

Satire

Seth Meyers

U.S. Politics

Late-night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> joined the conversation following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime">arrest</a> of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, sharing text exchanges from show staffers who made light of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">assassination</a>.
Kimmel used his monologue on Tuesday night to share screenshots of text exchanges between people who work on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and their family members and friends.
“We definitely know who wins Time‘s &#8216;Sexiest Alleged Murderer of the Year,&#8217; that would go to Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,” Kimmel began. He added that Mangione has “become the hottest cold-blooded killer in America” as social media users circulated photos of him online.
“I’m not sure what this says about us, but ever since these photos of him came out from his holding cell, from his mug shot … someone found his abs somewhere online,” the 57-year-old comedian continued. “Ryan Murphy right now is flying to Netflix headquarters in a jetpack.”
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“So many women and so many men are going nuts over how good-looking this killer is,” Kimmel said. “There’s a huge wave of horny washing over us right now. It’s like when one of the guys you work with says, ‘I had a dream about you last night.’ When it’s the FedEx guy with the big muscles and the rolled-up sleeves, you’re like, ‘Ohh.’ But if it’s the bald IT guy wearing Crocs with black socks, you’re on the phone with HR.”
Kimmel went on to introduce staffers&#8217; text exchanges about Mangione, keeping the conversations anonymous “to protect the guilty.”
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In one text thread, a staffer wrote, “People are saying a NY jury has the power to find him innocent, bc we all love him,” to which someone replied, “I’m not mad at him.”
“Please tell me you’re as obsessed as I am with this handsome CEO killer,” another text about the accused murderer said. “Yes! So many questions,” the response said. “Like, ‘Can I fix you?&#8217;” the original texter wrote back. 
One staffer said she was “texting all my friends in NY that I hope they get called for jury duty,” and posted a reply saying, “God I want to do jury duty so bad.”
Another staffer said she hoped to “bake him cookies” in prison, while another said she was “about to be a jailhouse bride.”
“At least it’s stirring up a passion for civic duty, I guess,” Kimmel joked, discussing how people are making merch and having lookalike contests. “It’s bananas. But I have to say, it does feel kind of good; we’re moving away from nonstop election coverage and back to drooling over a cold-blooded murderer’s eyebrows and abs. I think that might be progress, maybe not, I don’t know.”
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JIMMY KIMMEL

Jimmy Kimmel Laughs, Shares Staffers’ Texts About CEO Killer Being ‘Hot’

Jimmy Kimmel Laughs, Shares Staffers' Texts About CEO Killer Being 'Hot' 

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Murder

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> Republican commentator Scott Jennings roasted late-night comedians for their obvious descent — fueled by President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s landslide victory on Tuesday — into naked Democratic activism, arguing that &#8220;at some point, people might expect it to be funny.&#8221;
Jennings ripped into the comedians — name-dropping Jimmy Kimmel, who was brought to tears after Trump won — and argued that they were alienating half the country by telling them that only the Trump-hating people in their audience really mattered.
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Jennings noted that liberal comedian and HBO host Bill Maher — who has repeatedly swiped at his own side for going too far with regard to gender surgeries, COVID lockdowns, and more — seemed to understand that going all-in on activism instead of comedy — and in the process, potentially alienating half the country &#8212; was not the wisest course of action.
&#8220;The rest of these people have become pathetic. I mean, they stopped being comedians and they started becoming political activists. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel out here crying? I mean, it’s pathetic,&#8221; Jennings said. &#8220;And so my my question is, if you’re going to have a late-night comedy show, at some point, people might expect it to be funny and not just a constant political screed against one party, and I don’t — I don’t know that this activism for four more years is sustainable if you’re going to market something as comedy, but the actual product is nothing more than sort of a lowbrow political activism.&#8221;
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&#8220;These people represent the way a lot of people feel, so it’d actually be interesting if the Trump folks could actually make us feel like, ‘we’re not going to take away your rights,’ and that doesn’t make sense, you think it doesn’t make sense a lot of people actually think that makes sense. That’s the way a lot of people feel,&#8221; Touré protested.
&#8220;That is their audience,&#8221; CNN host Abby Phillip said.
“Is that their mission? To be activists and not comedians?” Jennings pressed.
“Well, sometimes the comedian does stop telling jokes and says serious things,&#8221; Touré replied.
Jennings pushed on, adding, &#8220;During the Biden years, there was nobody who provided more comedy fodder possible than Joe Biden.&#8221;
That was enough for the rest of the panel, who all began protesting at once that Biden had been on the receiving end of plenty of criticism and mockery.

Scott Jennings Roasts Late-Night Comedians: ‘At Some Point, People Might Expect It To Be Funny’

Scott Jennings Roasts Late-Night Comedians: 'At Some Point, People Might Expect It To Be Funny'

2024 Election

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Media

Politics

Stephen Colbert

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel literally cried on Wednesday over Donald Trump winning the 2024 election, claiming it was a &#8220;terrible day&#8221; for all Americans, even for those who voted for Trump.
Kimmel, along with other late-night hosts, is an ardent anti-Trumper who routinely mocks the former, and future, president in mean-spirited monologues and sketches.
“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech,&#8221; Kimmel said through tears to his liberal audience in Hollywood.
“I’ve been trying to come up with something positive, the best I can come up with is we’ve been through this once before and yes this time it’s probably gonna be worse, maybe a lot worse,&#8221; Kimmel amped up the dramatics.
The host went on to take some not-so-subtle shots at Trump&#8217;s supporters, too, like suggesting they lack &#8220;common sense&#8221; and are ignorant or stupid.
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“I’m disappointed, I know a lot of you are too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I thought common sense would prevail. I’m so stupid, I always think it’s gonna but for a lot of people, this just isn’t important. It’s not high on their list.”
&#8220;It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what?&#8221; Kimmel continued. &#8220;It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too. You just don&#8217;t realize it yet.&#8221;
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Jimmy Kimmel is holding back actual tears lmaooo 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/ZsVootqJbr">pic.twitter.com/ZsVootqJbr</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1854527460391473409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jimmy Kimmel: &#8220;It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too. You just don&#8217;t realize it yet.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/2Iw1awVAXH">pic.twitter.com/2Iw1awVAXH</a>
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Kimmel recently made headlines for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prison-time-biden-doj-jailed-memester-for-joke-like-jimmy-kimmel-just-made">joking</a> that Trump supporters should vote after Election Day. &#8220;If you want to vote for Trump, vote late,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.&#8221;
Despite Kimmel&#8217;s cries of supposed authoritarianism under Trump, it was the Biden-Harris DOJ who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-supporter-douglass-mackey-sentenced-to-7-months-in-prison-over-voting-memes">sentenced</a> a young man named <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-trying-to-lock-up-a-pro-trump-meme-maker-for-ten-years-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Douglass Mackey</a> to prison time for a similar joke made online about Hillary Clinton supporters.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prison-time-biden-doj-jailed-memester-for-joke-like-jimmy-kimmel-just-made" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Prison Time’: Biden DOJ Jailed Memester For Joke Like Jimmy Kimmel Just Made</a>

Jimmy Kimmel, Kamala Harris

Jimmy Kimmel Literally Cries Over Trump Win, Suggests Trump Voters Are Stupid

Donald Trump

Democrats are now becoming desperate and they are trotting out their last line of defense: Celebrities.
Yes, it&#8217;s celebrity time. Now, it&#8217;s always bewildered me that Democrats believe celebrities are really going to move the needle in a major way in favor of their party. It has never worked in my lifetime.
Barack Obama didn&#8217;t need celebrities, he was a celebrity. Hillary Clinton tried using celebrities and failed. Joe Biden really didn&#8217;t have much by the way of celebrity endorsements because his entire campaign was run from his basement.
Well, now Kamala Harris is calling on all of her Hollywood friends to cut endorsements for her.
Members of “The Avengers” cast decided to cut a commercial that is indeed the weirdest commercial ever. They literally end it by shouting “Down with democracy” as they say that Kamala Harris should be the president:
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‘AVENGERS’ stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Danai Gurira, Don Cheadle and Paul Bettany have reunited to make a video endorsing Kamala Harris’ campaign for President. <a href="https://t.co/Erh31rowps">pic.twitter.com/Erh31rowps</a>
&mdash; DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) <a href="https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1852101867376926874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Are you going to vote based on that? Are you going to listen to Mark “I hate Jews” Ruffalo? Those are the people who are going out with? All right.
Jennifer Lopez was also out campaigning. She apparently was incredibly offended, as a Puerto Rican woman, by Tony Hinchcliffe.
Here she was at a rally for Kamala Harris:
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Jennifer Lopez: I am Puerto Rican and yes I was born here, and we are Americans. I am a mother. I am a sister. I am an actress and I like Hollywood endings and I like it when the good guy, or in this case the good girl wins. And with an understanding of our past, and our faith in… <a href="https://t.co/0Elnsy1jIG">pic.twitter.com/0Elnsy1jIG</a>
&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1852203248184152115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So, when I have questions about character, the first person I go to is the woman who dated Diddy. Her judgment on humans is stellar.
Jimmy Kimmel, by the way, is now so excited for Kamala Harris that he is actually violating the law. Here he was the other night doing just that:
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When I made an election joke, the Deep State used it as a pretext to conduct a fishing expedition against me, subpoenaing all financial records, leases, employment information and pay stubs, and email accounts.
Will Jimmy Kimmel enjoy the same? <a href="https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i">https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i</a>
&mdash; Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) <a href="https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1851952707826819183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So, yes, that&#8217;s a joke. The problem is, the Department of Justice actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-supporter-douglass-mackey-sentenced-to-7-months-in-prison-over-voting-memes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prosecuted a man</a> named Douglass Mackey back in October of 2023 for this exact same joke.
Mackey had about 58,000 Twitter followers when he tweeted out and texted some information suggesting that black voters should show up late for the election. They prosecuted him and he went to jail. Jimmy Kimmel, however, can apparently do it with no problem at all.
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But the desperation is setting in for the Democratic Party. They&#8217;re looking for a closing argument.
Their latest attempt comes courtesy of President Trump himself. President Trump was out on the campaign trail with Tucker Carlson last night in Glendale, Arizona, and he started talking about Liz Cheney. Here is what he had to say:
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🚨To every FAKE NEWS reporter taking President Trump’s words out of context:
President Trump was CLEARLY explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves.<a href="https://t.co/UlHvKszEIY">pic.twitter.com/UlHvKszEIY</a>
&mdash; Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/karolineleavitt/status/1852339440208810004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I actually don&#8217;t like the Chicken Hawk argument. It was crap when it was trotted out against George W. Bush and all of his supporters back in the 2000s and I think it’s crap now. I don&#8217;t think congressmen are sitting there thinking, “Well, it&#8217;s not me, so I&#8217;m just going to send troops.”
The reality is, there are wide differences of opinion about foreign policy among people who have served in the military and people who have not served in the military. So, I don’t like the Chicken Hawk argument because it&#8217;s specious, empty, and foolish.
But that is not the rip on Trump. What they are ripping Trump for is the part where he said, “Let&#8217;s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her&#8230;”
They&#8217;re claiming he wants her assassinated. I&#8217;m sorry, but that’s just not true. It&#8217;s not real. Trump is not calling for the killing of Liz Cheney. He&#8217;s clearly making the exact same argument the entire Left made about the entire Right during the period 2002 to 2008 in which they said, “You guys are really sanguine about sending troops into harm&#8217;s way, but very few of you have served in the military and it would be totally different if you were on the front lines with barrels trained at you.”
Liz Cheney then put out a <a href="https://x.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1852292100844621974">statement</a> saying:
<blockquote>This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.</blockquote>
Listen, it&#8217;s not my fault you can&#8217;t speak English or that you&#8217;re being radically dishonest by taking President Trump out of context.
Then, this was the literal headline today over at <a href="https://www.drudgereport.com/">Drudge</a>:
<blockquote>TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY&#8217;S EXECUTION
WANTS MILITARY TRIBUNAL
ARIZONA AG INVESTIGATES!
HARRIS CONDEMNS HIS VIOLENT RHETORIC</blockquote>
That&#8217;s not remotely true.
And then there was this one from the <a href="https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/153330/vile-trump-shot-liz-cheney">Daily Express</a>:
<blockquote>Trump says Liz Cheney should be &#8216;shot in the face&#8217; by nine guns in sickening fantasy.
Donald Trump has caused controversy by suggesting Liz Cheney should have &#8220;guns trained on her face&#8221; in an alarming firing squad fantasy.</blockquote>
Not a fact. That&#8217;s not remotely what he said. 
This is the stupidest game — and they&#8217;re now playing this game full-time. They&#8217;re finding things that Trump says that are actually unobjectionable on their face. You can disagree with the argument, but the actual language is being skewed and twisted in order to achieve something that Trump never said.
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Donald Trump Campaigns In Michigan In Final Days Before Election

Four Days To Go: Democrat Desperation!

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department prosecuted and jailed a meme-maker for making a similar joke that comedian Jimmy Kimmel made during his show on Wednesday night — with less than a week left until the 2024 general election on November 5.
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Kimmel, who is openly opposed to former President Donald Trump, suggested on live, broadcast television that Trump voters should wait to vote until Thursday or Friday — two days after the election.
WATCH:
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Jimmy Kimmel: &quot;If you want to vote for Trump, vote late. Vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday or maybe Friday.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Il1Ch6S0eE">pic.twitter.com/Il1Ch6S0eE</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1851929090548211731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you guys know about this, but we have an election coming up on — I feel pretty relaxed about it and I&#8217;ve really been enjoying the week,&#8221; Kimmel began from his southern California studio. &#8220;In times like this, it is important to remember that cannabis is legal in our state.&#8221;
&#8220;You have to vote,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You can vote early. If you can&#8217;t vote early, vote on time. If you want to vote for Trump, vote late, vote very late. Do your voting on Thursday, maybe Friday. This will be my third time voting against Donald Trump — fifth, if you count the two times he was nominated for an Emmy for a reality show host.&#8221;
Kimmel went on to cite a CNN poll that said less than one-third of American voters believed Trump would concede if he were to lose the 2024 election. &#8220;What would give them that idea? Of course he won&#8217;t concede,&#8221; Kimmel said.
But as critics quickly noted, Kimmel&#8217;s joke mirrored a meme posted by Douglass Mackey ahead of the 2016 election. That meme, sent out to his 58,000 Twitter followers, said that voters could &#8220;avoid the line&#8221; and vote from home if they would just &#8220;text &#8216;Hillary&#8217; to 59925.&#8221; Mackey, who maintained that the meme was &#8220;a joke,&#8221; was convicted on election interference charges in March of 2023 and sentenced to seven months in prison.
&#8220;The Biden Administration sent Douglass Mackey to prison for making this exact joke. I&#8217;m dead serious when I say if Trump wins he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested and jailed. Force these scumbags to live by their own rules,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh posted in response.
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The Biden Administration sent Douglass Mackey to prison for making this exact joke. I&#39;m dead serious when I say if Trump wins he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested and jailed. Force these scumbags to live by their own rules. <a href="https://t.co/SMHtwwBlAQ">https://t.co/SMHtwwBlAQ</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1851982795918225682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yo…that’s straight to jail, right!? We lock people up for this. Them’s the rules now,&#8221; added &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; cohost Will Cain.
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Yo…that’s straight to jail, right!? We lock people up for this. Them’s the rules now. <a href="https://t.co/P1Mi9dHfeg">https://t.co/P1Mi9dHfeg</a>
&mdash; Will Cain (@willcain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willcain/status/1851999001425387788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Prison time. I don’t make the rules,&#8221; the Dank Knight posted.
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Prison time. I don’t make the rules
&mdash; The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) <a href="https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1851930531723612212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Biden’s DOJ put a conservative in prison for this same joke. And that one was just a meme that reached a few hundred. This reaches millions. There are two sets of rules,&#8221; he added.
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Biden’s DOJ put a conservative in prison for this same joke. And that one was just a meme that reached a few hundred. This reaches millions. 
There are two sets of rules <a href="https://t.co/gHDAupeYJu">https://t.co/gHDAupeYJu</a>
&mdash; The Dank Knight 🦇 (@capeandcowell) <a href="https://twitter.com/capeandcowell/status/1851930438316507330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mackey himself even weighed in on Kimmel&#8217;s &#8220;joke,&#8221; saying, &#8220;When I made an election joke, the Deep State used it as a pretext to conduct a fishing expedition against me, subpoenaing all financial records, leases, employment information and pay stubs, and email accounts. Will Jimmy Kimmel enjoy the same?&#8221;
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When I made an election joke, the Deep State used it as a pretext to conduct a fishing expedition against me, subpoenaing all financial records, leases, employment information and pay stubs, and email accounts.
Will Jimmy Kimmel enjoy the same? <a href="https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i">https://t.co/uAMI9saL2i</a>
&mdash; Douglass Mackey (@DougMackeyCase) <a href="https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1851952707826819183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jimmy Kimmel Joins Sen. Jacky Rosen As She Campaigns For Reelection In Las Vegas

‘Prison Time’: Biden DOJ Jailed Memester For Joke Like Jimmy Kimmel Just Made

'Prison Time.': Biden DOJ Jailed Memester For Joke Like Jimmy Kimmel Just Made 

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Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-walz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Walz</a> (D-MN) revealed the strange nickname he uses on his phone for Vice President Kamala Harris, who chose him to be her running mate on the 2024 Democratic ticket.
Walz made the revelation during a Monday appearance on &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; prompted by a discussion about the fact that he had initially missed her call on the day she asked him to join her in the presidential race.
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Walz has Kamala listed in his phone contacts as his “Dry Cleaner” <a href="https://t.co/B3hyy0vDKD">pic.twitter.com/B3hyy0vDKD</a>
&mdash; Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) <a href="https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/1843633941158273253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;And then is she in your contacts now so that doesn&#8217;t happen again?&#8221; Kimmel asked, referencing the missed call situation.
&#8220;She is, yes, she is,&#8221; Walz replied, but Kimmel did not just leave it at that.
&#8220;How — may I ask how you have vice president listed in your contacts?&#8221; Kimmel pressed.
Walz closed his eyes for a split second, then replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s my dry cleaner.&#8221;
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Kimmel laughed, as did the audience.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what it says,&#8221; Walz continued, laughing too.
&#8220;Is it really?&#8221; Kimmel asked, and Walz nodded his head. &#8220;Is that right?&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, so —&#8221; Walz tried to explain.
&#8220;My dry cleaner,&#8221; Kimmel repeated, prompting more laughter.
&#8220;They told me to come up with something,&#8221; Walz shrugged, adding, &#8220;And that was all I could think of.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you&#8217;re probably going to have to change it now,&#8221; Kimmel joked, and Walz agreed — but Kimmel wasn&#8217;t quite ready to let the bit go. &#8220;But then what happens if your dry cleaner needs to get in touch with you? You&#8217;re not going to be —&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think that far ahead on that,&#8221; Walz admitted.
Kimmel was not finished with the laundry references, however, and wrapped up the interview with what he claimed was the highest compliment he could think of to give: &#8220;Honestly, and I can come up with no higher compliment than this, but you seem to me like the kind of guy who cleans the lint out of the dryer after every use.&#8221;
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Gushing over Tim Walz. <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JimmyKimmel</a>: “I think I speak for a lot of people when I say we like you a lot. Honestly, and I can come up with no higher compliment than this, but you seem to me like the kind of guy who cleans the lint out of the dryer after every use.” <a href="https://t.co/Uov69wjKjA">pic.twitter.com/Uov69wjKjA</a>
&mdash; Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1843511474364325889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Walz also made headlines when, at a fundraiser at California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s home, he called for the end of the Electoral College.

JD Vance And Tim Walz Face Off In Vice Presidential Debate In New York

Walz Goes Full Knucklehead, Reveals Strange ‘Nickname’ He Has For Kamala On His Phone

Walz Goes Full Knucklehead, Reveals Strange 'Nickname' He Has For Kamala On His Phone

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Some of the most revealing moments from the sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein came when government officials were asked direct questions, then ducked them without any real explanation. Case in point: Five years ago, the Labor Secretary at the time, Alex Acosta, was speaking to reporters about his handling of the first Epstein criminal case from 2008, when Acosta was a U.S. Attorney in Florida. This was the press conference right before Acosta&#8217;s resignation as Labor Secretary. For roughly an hour, Acosta tried to explain why his office had offered an extremely lenient <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-secretary-to-hold-news-conference-to-defend-himself-amid-outcry-over-handling-of-epstein-plea-deal/2019/07/10/b136b9a4-a321-11e9-b7b4-95e30869bd15_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plea deal</a> to Epstein — one that offered immunity to his co-conspirators, and barely required Epstein to spend any time in a jail cell. Acosta was generally responsive to most questions during this press conference. In fact, at one point, he waved off his assistant who wanted to end the press conference early.
But there was one question that Alex Acosta very clearly did not want to answer. It concerned <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/i-was-told-epstein-belonged-to-intelligence-and-to-leave-it-alone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> in the Daily Beast that, in a discussion with Trump administration officials before his appointment as Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta had said that Epstein, &#8220;belonged to intelligence.&#8221; In other words, Acosta had reportedly suggested to the Trump team that, when he was the U.S. Attorney, he was told by senior U.S. government officials to go easy on Epstein so that he could stay out of jail. Presumably, the idea was that Epstein could then continue connecting various powerful figures to his sex-trafficking ring. That would, in turn, benefit U.S. intelligence agencies in some way. Maybe they might want to blackmail Epstein&#8217;s associates or collect information about them, for example.
Here&#8217;s how Alex Acosta answered — or rather, didn&#8217;t answer — a reporter&#8217;s question about the Daily Beast&#8217;s reporting:
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That wasn&#8217;t exactly a denial. Instead of saying, &#8220;No, I wasn&#8217;t told to go easy on Jeffrey Epstein because he &#8216;belonged to intelligence,'&#8221; Alex Acosta said that department policy prevented him from offering any kind of response. It&#8217;s not hard to conclude that Acosta was hiding something. That&#8217;s especially true since, according to public documents in Epstein&#8217;s plea deal, it&#8217;s stated that Epstein had <a href="https://x.com/TheViewFromLL2/status/1149424300438577153" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to provide, &#8220;information to the FBI.&#8221;
The government&#8217;s handling of Epstein&#8217;s case raised the obvious question of how many other deviants like Epstein might enjoy protection from the government, in one way or the other. How many other sex traffickers have been operating with impunity because the government is deliberately looking the other way?
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That&#8217;s a particularly important question to be asking after what happened yesterday involving Sean Combs — a.k.a. Diddy, a.k.a. Puff Daddy, a.k.a. P. Diddy. The U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York held a press conference announcing a series of criminal charges against Combs, including racketeering and sex trafficking. And by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s own admission, these alleged offenses have been occurring for a very long time, and often involved something that Combs called &#8220;freak-offs.&#8221; Watch:
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According to the U.S. Attorney, there&#8217;s overwhelming evidence that these illegal &#8220;freak-offs&#8221; occurred, such as text messages, videos, and more than a thousand bottles of baby oil and lubricant. As soon as the feds executed the search warrants earlier this year on two of Combs&#8217; mansions, the evidence was all there. And according to the indictment that was unsealed yesterday, there&#8217;s also a lot of evidence that Sean Combs has been committing serious crimes for the past decade, right <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1iSrpU9eql323koZY7Omi0TmOWzrIOpSQ/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">out in the open</a>: &#8220;Physical abuse by Sean Combs &#8230;. was recurrent and widely known. On numerous occasions from at least in or about 2009 and continuing for years, Combs assaulted women by, among other things, striking, punching, dragging, throwing objects at, and kicking them.&#8221; That&#8217;s directly from the Grand Jury indictment.
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What&#8217;s not stated in the Grand Jury indictment is why this &#8220;widely known&#8221; conduct was ignored for so long. Why wasn&#8217;t Sean Combs charged criminally for any of this conduct at any point until yesterday? Why was he allowed to allegedly commit crimes that were, &#8220;recurrent and widely known&#8221; ever since 2009? As it happens, that was the very first question that the U.S. Attorney received at yesterday&#8217;s press conference. Here&#8217;s how the U.S. Attorney responded:
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Like Alex Acosta, he has no answer whatsoever. But this is the single most important question he was asked during the entire press conference. How exactly can people have any confidence in the government, or federal prosecutors, if — by their own admission — it takes them well over a decade to bring charges when someone is allegedly committing crimes that are &#8220;recurrent and widely known&#8221;? Why exactly shouldn&#8217;t we believe that P. Diddy was being protected for some reason, just like Jeffrey Epstein was apparently protected? 
At this point, the burden of proof is not on us to answer that question. The burden is on the government.
It certainly looks as though there was ample reason to at least investigate Combs, going back a long time. There&#8217;s so much creepy and inappropriate footage involving Sean Combs that we could spend all day going through it. Here for example is a video of Combs with Justin Bieber, who at the time was just 15 years old. Watch:
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Given “custody” of him. Signed to usher. 
This interaction is not normal and I want to know what, if anything, happened to Justin Bieber.
Glad Diddy was denied bail. 
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&mdash; Jordan Karr (@JordanLkarr) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanLkarr/status/1836148616475611464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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What kind of adult records a video like this with a child? He&#8217;s saying he&#8217;s going to do some undisclosed things with Justin Bieber. He&#8217;s talking about having custody of him, like he had custody of Usher. This would be disturbing even if there were no other videos like it. But there&#8217;s a lot of videos like it. Here&#8217;s another. Watch as Sean Combs tells Kevin Hart that he used to &#8220;wrestle&#8221; with Usher when Usher was just 10 years old. And then he says something else that sounds inappropriate, and Kevin Hart reacts as you&#8217;d expect. Watch:
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Sean &quot;P Diddy&quot; Combs telling Kevin Hart that him and R&amp;B singer Usher used to wake up and &quot;wrestle&quot; in the morning when Usher was only 10 years old <a href="https://t.co/FMG7Sdxq2D">pic.twitter.com/FMG7Sdxq2D</a>
&mdash; Vision4theBlind (@Vision4theBlind) <a href="https://twitter.com/Vision4theBlind/status/1762828449180217605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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These kinds of videos have been all over the Internet for years. Did anyone in the government follow up on any of this? Did they ask anyone any questions about them? Did they apply for any kind of search warrant to look closer at Sean Combs&#8217; text messages, or to look for incriminating evidence on his properties? If not, why not? And for that matter, why wasn&#8217;t Combs charged after this video surfaced from a hotel in 2016, which appears to show him violently beating a woman on camera? Watch:
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NEW: Sean “Diddy” Combs won’t be charged for the 2016 Century City hotel beating of his former girlfriend that became public on Friday
The DA’s Office said it found the video “disturbing,” but charges couldn’t be filed due to the amount of time that has passed
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&mdash; Unlimited L&#39;s (@unlimited_ls) <a href="https://twitter.com/unlimited_ls/status/1791924566828130731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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How exactly did that footage stay hidden for so long — long enough that the statute of limitations ran out, and local prosecutors couldn&#8217;t bring charges anymore? That&#8217;s the kind of question that a lot of people in the entertainment industry have been asking for a very long time. When there are multiple videos where you appear to be committing a crime, or engaging in very bizarre and disturbing conduct, then under normal circumstances you&#8217;d expect some follow-up. But there wasn&#8217;t any follow-up here. For his part, Kanye West repeatedly called Sean Combs a &#8220;fed&#8221; — both in interviews, and in text messages — probably because there didn&#8217;t appear to be any other rational explanation for how he could get away with this for more than a decade. How can anyone engage in conduct like this, without suffering any consequences for it, for so long?
One theory is that, like Epstein, Sean Combs was very well-connected with powerful people in Washington. In April of 2020, for example, Kamala Harris tweeted out <a href="https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1248624302682828802" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this message</a>: 
&#8220;Thank you, @Diddy, for hosting this town hall last night. There&#8217;s a lot at stake for our communities right now and it&#8217;s critical we bring to the forefront how coronavirus is perpetuating racial inequality and health disparities.&#8221;
So Sean Combs was helping to push Democrats&#8217; messaging that COVID was racist. This was during the summer of 2020, when calling everything racist was the Democrats&#8217; official campaign strategy. Meanwhile, other prominent &#8220;entertainers&#8221; — people like Jimmy Kimmel — suggested that Sean Combs could serve as president of the United States. After all, he&#8217;s not morally bankrupt like Donald Trump, right? Watch:
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmykimmel</a>, will you still be running for office as P Diddy’s Vice President? 
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&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1836098537102414079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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One of the main takeaways from this is that the entertainment industry is full of extravagantly degenerate scumbags. These are people engaging in debauchery and opulence once reserved for the most corrupt Roman emperors. Diddy produced some low IQ gangsta rap in the 90s and found himself in the same position. This is why so much of what the entertainment industry produces is garbage. It’s made by morally reprobate parasites. These aren’t flawed artistic geniuses like we’ve had in the past, but vacuous airheads who’ve figured out how to sell trash to an audience even more vapid than they are. 
Jimmy Kimmel probably knew Sean Combs was a piece of garbage when he did this interview. But Jimmy Kimmel is also a piece of garbage, along with pretty much everyone else in the industry. So we get clips like that one.
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Meanwhile, the &#8220;#MeToo&#8221; movement successfully canceled a lot of guys for some bad dates, but somehow it missed Sean Combs. Somehow he flew under the radar for more than a decade, even though, according to yesterday&#8217;s indictment, he wasn&#8217;t particularly good at hiding what he was doing. If those details are true, Sean Combs is an Epstein-level monster, if not worse. And yet no one did anything about it.
The question now is whether Sean Combs will meet the same fate as Jeffrey Epstein. Combs was just denied bail, even though his defense team offered to put up a $50 million bond, secured by his various properties. That&#8217;s a sign that he&#8217;ll be staying in jail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for a very long time. So as with Epstein, the government is now bringing down the hammer on Sean Combs, abruptly and without any real explanation. And if the Epstein case is any indication, we probably will never get an explanation.
All we can say with certainty is that a lot of people in Sean Combs&#8217; orbit are probably very nervous right now. And in turn, that should make Sean Combs himself very nervous. Five years after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, we&#8217;re no closer to getting a full explanation of his crimes or who he was associated with. Instead, with the arrest of Sean Combs and the sudden disclosure of his &#8220;freak offs&#8221;, there&#8217;s reason to think that yet another massive coverup is already underway.

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TV host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> predicts that late-night shows as we know them will probably be gone in a decade.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">host</a>, who has been doing the gig for 21 years, made the remarks on the latest episode of the “Politickin’” podcast.
“I don’t know if there will be any late-night television shows on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">network TV</a> in 10 years,” Kimmel said. 
“Maybe there’ll be one but there won’t be a lot of them,” the 56-year-old celeb continued. “There’s a lot to watch and now people can watch anything at any time, they’ve got all these streaming services. It used to be Johnny Carson was the only thing on at 11:30 p.m. and so everybody watched and then David Letterman was on after Johnny so people watched those two shows, but now they’re so many options.”
Kimmel said social media is partially to blame because viewers don’t feel an urgency to watch the show live when they can just revisit clips at their leisure.
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“Maybe more significantly, the fact that people are easily able to watch your monologue online the next day, it really cancels out the need to watch it when it’s on the air,” he said. “Once people stop watching it when it’s on the air, networks are going to stop paying for it to be made.”
The host said he’s not happy about his prediction. 
“I will have a hard time when it’s over. It worries me,” Kimmel said on the podcast. “That’s part of the reason I keep going. Each time, I think this is going to be my last contract and then I wind up signing another contract, it’s because I fear that day, that Monday after my final show, where it’s like, ‘OK, now what am I going to do?’ There aren’t a huge amount of options for late-night hosts after the shows are over. People think of you like a late-night talk show host, it’s not like you are suddenly going to start starring in films.”

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are still looking for a host for their 97th annual ceremony after prior host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Kimmel</a> and comedian John Mulaney have reportedly both turned down the gig.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oscars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oscars</a> and ABC reportedly made an offer to Kimmel &#8212; who has hosted the annual movie awards show already four times, including the last two years &#8212; but he said no, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-john-mulaney-not-hosting-oscars-1235961406/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Hollywood Reporter.
After taking on the gig last year, the late night host said, “I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times,” as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-will-return-to-host-2024-oscars">reported</a>.
Comedian and talk show host John Mulaney also reportedly was offered the job after thrilling the Oscar crowd at the non-televised 2024 Governor’s Awards this year.
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The Oscars are now looking for a new host.
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— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) <a href="https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1818119956829295019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
After previously telling THR he would definitely consider taking on the hosting gig, saying it “would be really fun. It’s hosting the Academy Awards. Johnny Carson did that,&#8221; and telling the outlet in June that he “wouldn’t necessarily say no,” he’s reportedly decided to pass this year, the outlet noted. Both the Academy and ABC reportedly did not respond to THR for the piece.
Kimmel previously hosted in 2017, 2018, 2023, and of course earlier this year.
In 2023, Academy CEO and President Bill Kramer said of Kimmel returning, “We are thrilled about Jimmy returning to host and Molly [McNearney] returning as executive producer for the Oscars.&#8221;
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“They share our love of movies and our commitment to producing a dynamic and entertaining show for our global audience,” he added. “We are deeply grateful to Jimmy, Molly and their teams for their incredible creativity and partnership and for going on this ride with us again.”
President of ABC Entertainment, Hulu and Disney Branded Television Streaming Originals, Craig Erwich, also sang the host’s praises, at the time, saying, “After his triumphant return to the Oscars stage last year, we are honored to have Jimmy back to guide us through one of the most beloved celebrations in entertainment.”
“He is such a valuable member of our Disney family, and we could not be more appreciative of him and his entire team,” Erwich added.
Kimmel is tied with Whoopi Goldberg and Jack Lemmon, who emceed the Oscars four times. Celebrities who hosted more times than Kimmel include Johnny Carson (5 times), Billy Crystal (9 times), and Bob Hope (11 times).
The 97th Oscars are scheduled to take place in Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

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Late-night host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> said he’s looking at America in a new light after a recent visit to Japan.
The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the U.S. is unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun.
“After traveling to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/japan">Japan</a>, I realize that this place, this USA we’re always chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country,” he said during his monologue on Monday night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
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Kimmel went on to describe how he used to believe that while the U.S. had “areas for improvement,” it was mostly ahead in terms of cleanliness compared to most of the rest of the world.
“I go to Europe, and there are dirt holes where plumbing is supposed to be. I hold my breath, and I go, ‘I’m glad I’m not one of these people,’ and then I go back home,” he continued. Kimmel went on to praise the cleanliness of the bathrooms in Japan.
“The bathrooms in Tokyo and Kyoto are cleaner than our operating rooms here. Everywhere you go the bathrooms are clean, they don’t smell bad, they have those toilets that wash you from the inside out,” he marveled. Kimmel also joked that even truck stop restrooms were “cleaner than Jennifer Garner’s teeth — the cleanest. Beautiful.”
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“And it’s not just the bathrooms,” the host added. “People carry their own trash. There are no garbage cans,” Kimmel said, mentioning the 1995 terrorist incident when a man put poisonous sarin gas in trash cans. This resulted in the country removing public trash receptacles and Japanese citizens adapting to dispose of their own garbage.
“They’re like OK, no more trash cans, everybody clean up after yourselves. And guess what — they clean up after themselves! They bring their garbage to their houses,” he added.
“It’s like the whole country is Disneyland, and we’re living at Six Flags,” Kimmel said. “I’ve been home 36 hours, I have never felt dirtier. We are like hogs compared to the Japanese. I can’t imagine what they must think of us. ‘Oh, the garbage people. Yes, the Americans. Garbage.&#8217;”

Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA ‘Filthy And Disgusting’ After Traveling To Japan: ‘We Are Like Hogs Compared To The Japanese’

Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA 'Filthy And Disgusting' After Traveling To Japan: 'We Are Like Hogs Compared To The Japanese'

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