WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right?

GUTFELD: Yeah, it is.

WATTERS: Could be some fallout there. Alright, maybe gas it?

DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): Let’s not do that.

WATTERS: Don’t gas it. Okay, but we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building? Have everybody leave and then we will demolish the building.

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    Again, why is it ok for rightwing people to openly call for violence using their public platforms?

    Other groups can not and do not do this in US politics, why are rightwing people the only ones allowed to do this?

    I don’t think anybody should speak this callously and invoke specific targeted violence with such carelessness, just because Jesse Watters doesn’t understand or care about the consequences of his words doesn’t mean he isn’t increasing the likelihood of actual violent acts by saying what he does.

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      Because they’re fascists and fascists currently control our government.

      The proper response is to arm yourself and help everyone you know arm themselves.

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    Jesse Watters is a fascist and a terrorist, his fuhrer’s own people fucked up the teleprompter and he’s calling for mass murder of allies and civilians over it.

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    I hace to believe they are joking. No one who eriously says that it must be bombed would then be careful in their actual call to violence (he said “we need to emotionally harm the person responsible”. The fact that they said “emotionally” to me suggest that they were avoiding getting into trouble. So the rest was not said seriously)

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    Ok, what corporations do we need to boycott to get this guy fired?

    Edit: Here’s a few as of April Advertisers embrace conservative media in the new Trump era

    According to the TV measurement firm iSpot. tv, new blue-chip advertisers appearing on Fox News national linear broadcasts since the election include Gucci, Busch Beer, and Netflix. New advertisers in this analysis were characterized as having not advertised on the channel since 2022. These brands didn’t respond to requests for comment.

    Fox News has attracted 125 new blue-chip advertisers since the US election, as Rupert Murdoch’s cable television channel commands soaring audiences during Donald Trump’s second presidency.

    Companies including Amazon, GE Vernova, JPMorgan Chase, Netflix and UBS have recently aired advertisements on Fox News for the first time in at least two years.

    Oh cool, even more reason to hate JP Morgan. Pedophile protectors always seem to flock together.

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      I’m pretty sure Faux was running in the red for years. The people backing Confederate Pravda view having Faux as an investment that will pay them dividends even if Faux itself were to be in the red. So I don’t think they are really prone to boycotts. I think it’s much the same for hate radio.

      It’s too bad that deep-pocketed billionaires don’t do similar things to prop up something similar for progressives. I’ve been told my entire life by conservatives, moderates, and most especially the corporate news outlets themselves, that we are inundated by “liberal media”, but I still have yet to see evidence of such.

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        Idk I think it’s become pretty clear when something hurts their pockets it’s the only way to force changes.

        If they had to give an individual the axe in order to avoid a profit loss, I’m pretty sure they would do it in a heartbeat. Loyalty isn’t really a priority for them, and it’s not like Jesse Watters is America’s sweetheart. He is easily replaceable.

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      Yeah, and my favorite part is that the UN said the White House was responsible for the prompter. So they likely just forgot a flash drive or something dumb

      So not only does the host not know what an insurrection is, nor what the UN is apparently, they clearly don’t care at all about anything but spreading hate

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        They’re intentionally misusing ‘insurrection’ to try to make it seem like NOBODY knows what it is, so that January 6th seems like a hoax or Democratic hot air.

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          Indeed. These assholes have been doing that ever since J6, really. Everything and anything was an “insurrection”. They’d go apeshit when the media would use that term, even though insurrection is rather neutral, when it’s probably more accurately called terrorism.

          One regular commenter on DP would often just post “INSPLURECTION!” as a response since they basically lost their minds that people even in the corporate media were pointing the finger at their movement. They were even touchy about calling them “rioters” - they wanted them to be called “peaceful protesters” who were just “airing their grievances”, LOL. I have a feeling some of the people that were especially upset about it might have been there and weren’t caught (yet).

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        I think he just wanted a reason to ramble for an hour so he made up the “teleprompter is broken” story replete with threats.

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    Huh, I have the same feelings about the Fox News building. But I don’t think they’ll like THAT, even though it’s the same thing just a different target. Cuz hate goes both ways, and I could bomb the stupid Fox Building with a home made contraption, but suddenly I’ll labeled as the ‘terrorist’ and everyone on Fox as the ‘chad martyr’

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    The UN doesn’t control the teleprompter. Trump’s team controlled the teleprompter. If someone else had access to it, they could fuck with the speeches and change words and shit. Under normal circumstances, the speech given by the president to the UN would need to be very carefully worded to avoid international incidents. Trump is a walking international catastrophe, so that’s a silly accusation regardless.