We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic – is violence against the truth.
BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel gets the last laugh as his heroic return to late night smashes viewership records with the Youtube upload alone racking up 13 million views already.
And it gets so much better...
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Kimmel's monologue from last night could end up being his "most-watched" ever, a dose of bitter medicine for conservative broadcasting affiliates like Sinclair that refused to air the show. They sided with Donald Trump and now they're reaping the business consequences.
As of this writing, the show's official Youtube account has raked in 13,086,809 views in just 13 hours. Currently, Kimmel's most-watched monologue is one from eight years ago in which he discussed his son's birth and health challenges. It has 14 million views. This new video is on pace to exceed those views in record time, likely by end of day today.
CNN’s Harry Enten has pointed out that the median Youtube viewership for one of Kimmel's uploads is roughly 240,000. This is a smashing success.
While the official Nielsen ratings for television viewership have not yet been released, all indications are that they'll be much higher than the 1.6 million viewers that Kimmel usually brings in.
The show itself has been met with universal acclaim (with the marked exception of MAGA world which is absolutely furious of course). Kimmel thanked those who stood by him and defended free speech during his suspension and he brutally tore into Donald Trump and MAGA FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
He called Carr "Trump's hitman" and said that his actions are "not legal" and "unAmerican."
“The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs," said Kimmel.
"Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke," he said. "He was somehow able to squeeze Colbert out of CBS. Then he turned his sights on me and now he’s openly rooting for NBC to fire Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers and the hundreds of Americans who work for their shows who don’t make millions of dollars.”
“If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominoes. One by one, they’ll go down," he added.
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Both are true:
1. Biden was too old. He should’ve been honest about his condition and announced in 2022 he wasn’t running again. Shame on him.
2. Trump is too old. Trump is also a corrupt, lawless, ignorant, cruel, un-American pathological liar & authoritarian. Shame on us.
So…Americans had to pay a 10% tax before the “deal,” and Americans have to pay a 10% tax after the “deal.” We have some of the most economically illiterate people in the world in charge of trade policy.
MAGAs were just saying MS-13 was on the picture for demonstration purposes. Here’s Trump clearly and adamantly saying the picture was real. Do you all ever get tired of looking like morons for the sake of defending this man? It’s genuinely pathetic.
Host: You could call and get Abrego Garcia back.
Trump: I could
Host: But the Supreme Court has ordered you to facilitate his release.
Trump: I'm not the one making this decision
Host: You're the president!
Thank you, President Trump.
Two months ago, your conservative friends were 25 points ahead in the polls. Yesterday, they lost.
It only took 100 days for you to convince Canadians that the far right has no place in government.
Americans will say the same in our next election.
Canadian voter: I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole. He shouldn’t be president of the United States
So those tariffs aren't staying? Which means manufacturing isn't coming back (not that it was going to, anyhow).
The real "suckers" are the people who voted for this imbecile who bases his decisions on a mood he happens to be in at the moment.
The pain on Obama’s face watching what the felon POTUS and his criminal administration is doing to our country is beyond heartbreaking 💔
Republicans need to stop this madness ‼️‼️‼️