Matt Walsh: “If Trump is elected, he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested”
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Citation From the October 31, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Look, I know we all get a little exhausted by the constant complaints of double standards. Right? On the right, we're always whining about double standards, and it does get exhausting after a while. But also, it — we have to complain about it because the other option is to just accept the double standards and say nothing about them, which is not an agreeable option either. So, that's why I have to say, in this case, a guy named Douglass Mackey was put on trial by the Biden administration, and they're trying to send him to prison for exactly the kind of joke that Kimmel just told. Douglass MacKay, as we've talked about on the show many times — if you listen to the show, you're familiar with the case — he posted a meme, encouraging Hillary supporters to vote by text, and apparently, some of them were dumb enough to actually do it. And — but it was a joke because, of course, you can't vote by text. I'm sure we'll get to the point pretty soon where you can, but right now you can't. And Kimmel's telling exactly the same joke. The punch line is exactly the same, which is that, oh, I'm advising you to vote in a way that you can't really vote. If you try to vote that way, then your vote won't count. It's the same joke.
Which is why I am honestly not joking when I say that if Trump is elected, he should have Jimmy Kimmel arrested for that. He should have him arrested. He should open up a federal investigation and have this guy arrested, have him frog-marched from his studio into a jail cell. You gotta make these scumbags live according to their own rules. it's the only way. So, that's the only way that I stop complaining about the double standard is if we force one standard. If we say to them, like, this is the standard you're setting for us, and now we're gonna force you to live by it too.
Now, you might say that Jimmy Kimmel's joke is free speech. And it is. It totally is. It was free speech for Douglass Mackey too. But are we gonna continue protecting the free speech rights of people who are actively trying to imprison us for exercising our own free speech rights? I mean, that's just suicide.