Sure. Start from the top.
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Is he gonna get fired for spreading hate and advocating violence? No that only applies to news outlets we don’t like? Got it.
Cancel that fucker!
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.
Open cabinet position in the administration probably.
Yup, just like the nazis. It’s funny how much the “WWII armchair historian” overlaps with the maga base, like bro didn’t your fucking DAD kill these dudes all over the place? My granddad literally bombed them, from a plane, not like insurrectionist shit. And now my dad, HIS SON, thinks maga is great, and I’m the one getting strapped to kill Nazis again
Nazi huntin’ skips a generation.
It must be passed down on the mother's side
The portion of my mom's side who actually participated in WW2 worked on Stukas, V1s, and V2s. So no Nazi killing amongst my family that I know of. My great grandfather was on the right side of history though even if he was a bastard, Navy had him doing R&D on whatever the boys in Europe jacked.
Just in: Mass Suicide in FOX studios!
Is he talking about killing Trump?
Trump is a mentally ill person who committed a crime.
No apology. No consequences. At all. This is fine, because it's a conservative saying it.
Certainly sounds like the opinion of a mentally stable individual.
Are they talking about ICE personnel?
So... conservatives?
They do seem to have a lot of conspiracy theorists.
They haven’t been following the news.
Or maybe they want to kill right-wingers.
Everything is scripted.
Gonna be a lot of state-sanctioned TPUSA-on-groyper violence, I guess?
That'd be unfortunate.
That sounds like a pretty mental thing to say. Haven't committed any petty crimes, have we? Check yourself.
Uh, does that include the traitor bitch president?
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!
Private prison lobby is not gonna like this.
Keep your grifters in mind, MAGA. SMH.
Hey, that's sounds like my mother
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.
I watched the whole clip. Your framing is more misleading than the headline.
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'"
No, the headline is a pretty accurate representation of the clip actually
Just for context, this was before Kirk got merc’d
But if they kill all of their viewers, how are they gonna brainwash people for profit?
Soooo....most billionaires?
I agree with the headline if you remove everything after "host" until the colon.
Since when is the death penalty used for anything less than murder?
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.
How very Himmler of him.