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Jimmy Kimmel Got Paid $16 MILLION Yearly for NOTHING

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Jimmy Kimmel’s downfall was not sudden, nor was it really about one offensive remark regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination. 

The truth is, ABC had been looking for a reason to push him out. Kimmel’s contract, set to expire next year, gave the network an easy out: if he became a liability to the company’s image, he could be suspended. 

That is precisely what happened. The Charlie Kirk controversy was only the excuse.

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For years, Kimmel collected a staggering $16 million annually, while his ratings were collapsing. 

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” fell from nearly two million viewers in January 2025 to just 1.1 million by August, trailing his late-night competitors.

Those numbers told ABC all it needed to know. Why keep paying one of television’s most enormous salaries when the show could no longer justify the cost?

Kimmel’s political imbalance only exacerbated the situation. 

According to NewsBusters, he hosted just one Republican guest in three years—Mike Lindell, who was mocked by being forced into a claw machine. 

By contrast, Kimmel welcomed 13 left-leaning guests this year alone. His monologues became partisan screeds: 1,128 jokes about Donald Trump in 2025, compared to just 26 about Joe Biden. 

Nearly 97% of his political jokes targeted conservatives. Kimmel wasn’t a comedian anymore. He was a political activist with a studio audience.

The network could tolerate this bias when ratings were high. 

But once his audience shrank and his public reputation soured, Kimmel no longer looked like an asset. 

His comments about Charlie Kirk’s death—claiming the “MAGA gang” tried to spin the murder—only accelerated the inevitable. 

ABC didn’t suspend him because of “free speech” or political pressure. They suspended him because his contract allowed them to whenever he embarrassed the company.

The hypocrisy is hard to ignore. 

Kimmel mocked conservatives endlessly, misled viewers about one of the most shocking assassinations in modern American history, and still got paid millions for it. 

Meanwhile, his audience dwindled, his jokes lost relevance, and his public image grew toxic.

Even within liberal circles, Kimmel had become hard to defend. 

As Roger Stone bluntly put it, “Kimmel’s greatest crime was that he wasn’t funny, and that his rhetoric often veered into the hateful. He won’t be missed.” 

That sentiment resonates across the spectrum: Kimmel was expensive, polarizing, and ultimately replaceable.

ABC framed his suspension as indefinite, but the writing is on the wall. 

His contract was nearly up anyway, and the network was already preparing for life after Kimmel. The Charlie Kirk controversy was simply the final straw.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t lose his show because of one comment. He lost it because his time was already up.

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Not What He Expected: Van Jones Asks Black Trump Voters If They Would Vote for Him Again-“1,000% Absolutely Yes!”

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During a segment on CNN, leftist Van Jones asked three Black voters who have supported President Trump in the past if they could do it over, would they vote for him again.

The responses were yeses across the board, with one noting emphatically, “1,000% absolutely yes!”

Jones: If you had to do it all over again, would you vote for Donald Trump again, yes or no?

Voter one: Yes, I would. Now, in the future, I am not a diehard Democrat or diehard Republican. If there were a Democratic candidate who was more aligned for me, then I would vote Democrat.

Jones: If you go back in time, would you vote for Donald Trump, yes or no?

Voter two: Yes.

Jones: I think I might know the answer on this.

Voter two: She said yes. It’s immediately yes.

Jones: If you had to draw over again, would you vote for Donald Trump, yes or no?

Voter three: 1,000% absolutely yes!

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President Trump Absolutely TORCHES Spoiled U.S. Olympic Athlete Who Whined That It was “Hard” to Represent America Due to ICE Crackdowns

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President Trump is livid over a handful of ungrateful U.S. Olympic athletes trashing the greatest nation in the world in front of a global audience and has responded accordingly.

As The Gateway Pundit’s Cassandra MacDonald reported, 27-year-old Hunter Hess, who is competing in freestyle halfpipe, whined to reporters that wearing the American flag “brings up mixed emotions” and is “a little hard” right now because of ICE going after illegals.

Hess added that he’s not the “biggest fan” of much that’s happening in the U.S.

“Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S. I just kind of want to do it for my friends and family, the people who supported me getting here,” Hess said.

His teammate Chris Lillis, a 27-year-old aerials specialist and gold medalist from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, told reporters he also feels “heartbroken” about ICE raids and protests.

He went on to add that he feels the country needs to “focus on respecting everybody’s rights and making sure that we’re treating our citizens as well as anybody with love and respect.”

The two’s comments were made during a press conference on Friday, just after the Games’ opening ceremony.

When Trump got wind of these remarks, he absolutely went off on Truth Social.

The president decided to focus his ire on Hess, whose comments were the most anti-American. He called Hess a “real loser” who “should have never tried out for the team.”

Trump added that it was “very hard to root for someone like this.”

“U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics,” Trump wrote.

“If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this,” he added.

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MN Dem Candidate Shares’ ICE Fear’ Food Deliveries — Mom of Daughter Left Disabled by Illegal Hits Back

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Carissa Aspnes was permanently disabled by an illegal./Image: GoFundMe

Minnesota Congressional candidate, Democrat Kaela Berg, perhaps inspired by Olympic fever, is certainly competing for woke-gold, and the mother of a young woman permanently disabled by an illegal was not impressed with Berg’s virtue signalling.

On Saturday, Berg shared a self-congratulatory video delivering food to people “scared to leave their homes because of ICE.”

“We just finished delivering groceries to folks too afraid to leave their homes because of this ICE occupation in our community,” she preened on camera.

“An amazing amount of people have put together their boxes of produce and meat as well as toilet paper and diapers for those that need it….to dry goods…even some treats to help our neighbors. And we will continued to do this as long as we need to.”

Berg’s self-aggrandizement fell flat for the mother of 22-year-old Colorado woman Carissa Aspnes. On March 28, 2025, Carissa was catastrophically injured in a hit-and-run crash on March 28, 2025. The suspect, an illegal who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration, allegedly crashed into her vehicle and fled the scene.

Carissa survived but suffered permanent, severe disabilities: she is wheelchair-bound, nonverbal, minimally conscious, unable to smile or laugh, and requires full-time care.

Carissa’s mother responded to Berg’s post, noting, “My daughter could use a meal since she can no longer go to the grocery store for herself after she got hit by an illegal alien that fled and left her for dead.”

“While you’re at it, you can stay and feed her a meal through her g-tube since she can no longer eat by mouth.”

Carissa’s mother shared the devastating details of the incident.

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Republican Colorado State Rep. Brandi Bradley introduced the “Carissa Amendment,” which would crack down on crimes committed against US citizens by illegal aliens, yet not a single Democrat voted for it.

Carissa’s family has a GoFundMe to help cover her extensive medical bills.

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