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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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[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 319 points 1 week ago

The UN is headquartered in New York. This guy therefore is directly calling for terrorist acts to be committed on US soil. That's slammer-worthy.

Who's doing the political violence again?

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 61 points 1 week ago

It was also founded in San Francisco.

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[-] hyperhopper@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

The UN is not on US soil, it's been international territory for a very long while

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 1 week ago

"akshually."

You do get it, right, buddy? It is located within the boundaries of the contiguous lower 48. Moreover, in its most populous city.

Quit being obtuse.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

It was acute attempt though.

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[-] dickalan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Bro, what the fuck are you babbling about? It’s in New York you weirdo

[-] JonEFive@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago

It's like saying an embassy is not US soil. Sure, politically, that might be true, but for all non-political purposes, it very much is within the US.

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[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Downvoted for actually knowing the truth. Am I back on Reddit?

“though the structure is physically situated in the United States, the land occupied by the United Nations headquarters and the spaces of buildings that it rents are under the sole administration of the United Nations. They are technically extraterritorial through a treaty agreement with the U.S. government.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 1 week ago

Downvoted for being a redditor by missing the point to argue something inconsequential.

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[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 209 points 1 week ago

For anyone curious. This is terrorism. Specifically "Stochastic Terrorism"

Textbook example. Because there's a real solid chance some fucking lunatic decides to act on his careless words.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago

careless words.

There's nothing careless about this. This is intentional.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago
[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 70 points 1 week ago

But Jimmy Kimmel's remarks were too inflammatory for him to stay on the air.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago

So much violent rhetoric from the right. And yet the right and their "centrist" boosters keep saying it's the left that is so hateful and violent.

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[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago

And yet despite making a specific direct call to violence yet another Fox host will not be held accountable.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

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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[-] xyzzy@lemmy.today 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it."

Cool. Perhaps someone could bomb, emotionally, Jesse Watters? Like a really emotional F-bomb, I mean.

By the way, the intended purpose of this isn't to comment on the UN or whatever. The purpose is to openly flaunt the fact that the rules don't apply to them whatsoever. With this and the "kill the homeless" comment, they want to rub it in the faces of leftists and liberals. If those groups say anything even slightly controversial about Charlie Kirk, it's disgusting and vile and they demand severe consequences. But Confederates can say whatever, because they have the power and they want everyone to know it and feel it.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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 spoken on a large public platform doesn't mean he isn't increasing the likelihood of actual violent acts by saying what he does.

edit I mean really, it would be one thing to sit around a firepit with your drinking buddies and throw something this disgusting out of your mouth and laugh about it, which I still find disgusting and lame, but we are talking about saying these words as a prominent public figure which makes it that much more a damning commitment to bigotry.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Triumph@fedia.io 48 points 1 week ago

FOX is definitely going to suspend him, right?

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 32 points 1 week ago

I await with bated breath the FCC statement saying this can be resolved the easy way or hard way.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago

Trump's FCC:

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago

UN headquarters needs to be in Geneva or something, not in one of the 5 nuclear powers. Seriously wtf, this looked biased AF. Like how would the average American feel if UN was located in Moscow or Shanghai?

[-] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Somewhere in Switzerland would be a better place for the UN headquarters.

P.S.: That Watters guy is calling for terrorist attacks in New York, what a violent traitor.

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[-] rustyfemboy 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Republicans: We're not Nazis, the Nazis were actually left-wing.

Also Republicans:

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 week ago

This is not the sweet onion of satire. This is the strong garlic of reality.

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[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Fucker doesn't know what insurrection means.

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[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago

And just like the dude that said we should kill the homeless. Nothing will happen.

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[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 week ago

If he was a Trans or hated Nazis this would be TERRORISM! FORTUNATELY he isn't So it's just a LoL!

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

I can't decide whether Fox and Friends or The Five is the worst segment on Fox. Seems like they're in competition for the title. The both of them are technically comedy or even satire segments, but of course they use that as a shield from criticism. "No reasonable person would take this seriously", just like they argue in court when they get sued for the raw sewage they spew into public discourse.

But "Kill all of the homeless" and "destroy the UN and everyone who's part of it" are only jokes if you find those actions amusing.

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[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Motherfucker thinks demolishing the building will destroy the UN.

[-] don@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago

The right are murderous stochastic terrorists and we are the infidels.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

The right: "Everything not actually an insurrection that I don't like is AN INSURRECTION. The actual J6 insurrection? NOT an insurrection, Taco was being just when he set those political prisoners free!"

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago

And it turned out both of these failures were caused by Trump's team.

So Trump hires incompetent people (because they are yes men), they fuck up and make him look bad, and the intermediate solution is to kill the people who happened to be near by at the time before there's any actual information available.

Got it.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago

Is Fox News rebranding to The Murder Channel? Killing the homeless, gassing the UN. Why are republicans allowed to roam free, they are a danger to Humanity.

[-] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

Wtf is wrong with these people? And WTF is wrong with those who find them worth watching?

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago

Still has a job for some reason.

[-] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

And the "left" is wringing its hands impotently, worried about appearing threatening.

[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

And he'll keep on talking like that until he feels consequences for his actions.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Ah, but we incite violence.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Inb4 some incel takes the cue.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Wow. These "radical left lunatics" have even infiltrated FOX News,? I never would have guessed Jesse Waters was actually a member of antifa.

[-] RegularJoe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection.


But according to the Associated Press’s Farnoush Amiri, an anonymous U.N. official said the escalator in question was actually stopped prematurely by someone from Trump’s group, who ran ahead of the group and accidentally triggered a stop mechanism. The official added that the teleprompter that Trump was so upset about was also being operated by his White House.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/turns-trump-own-team-messed-200956972.html

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It's incredible how good they are at tripping over their own dicks considering how little they have to work with.

[-] chosensilence@pawb.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i took a section of what was said and gave it a quick edit to demonstrate how this is a great example of stochastic terrorism. the clear sections are focused on while the highlighted portions are prioritized. the rest can be disregarded as either media theater, filler, or a strategy for plausible deniability. the people influenced by this will hear or read it all but their minds won't treat everything as equal, and these fascists know that and are counting on it.

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