This is a blatant free speech violation and corrupt abuse of power. Even though Kimmel’s joke was in bad taste, he’s allowed to make jokes. This isn’t North Korea. And yet here we are.

He's even allowed to make jokes that are in bad taste. Nobody's trying to pull licenses over, say, the Oscars, or the Super Bowl halftime show, or any of a thousand other things that were in poor taste going back the last several decades.

So either it's in poor taste, in which case, deal with it by growing a thicker skin, or else it's actually against the law, in which case, prosecute it.

But instead, it's intimidation for speech that the administration doesn't like, and I have zero sympathy. We don't have lese majeste laws for the same reason we don't have kings.

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