The Battle for Free Speech: Jimmy Kimmel vs. MAGA Media Monopoly

Posted on 2025/09/242025/09/24 by admin

by Daniel Brouse
September 24, 2025

PSA: “Killing humor isn’t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?”

Nexstar Joins Sinclair in Silencing Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC Return

Disney and ABC have put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air! His first night back drew record viewership, even as dozens of affiliate stations continued enforcing prior censorship. The coordinated actions of Sinclair and Nexstar appear politically motivated—driven by pressure from Trump-aligned officials, including the FCC, and by Nexstar’s commercial interest in securing approval for its proposed $6.2 billion acquisition of TEGNA, announced in August 2025 and still awaiting FCC sign-off. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr even went so far as to threaten ABC’s license, saying, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Equally significant is Sinclair’s overt alignment with far-right MAGA politics. Together, these factors created powerful incentives for strategic censorship—and that is exactly what we witnessed.

ABC/Disney, however, do not appear to be part of the same collusion. ABC initially pulled the show under intense affiliate and regulatory pressure, then reversed course to bring Kimmel back—suggesting a response to coercion, not conspiracy. Whether ABC should have held firm from the start is debatable, but their actions triggered public pushback and mobilized resistance. That pushback—including advertiser pressure and widespread outrage—likely did far more to protect free speech than quiet capitulation or permanently pulling Kimmel ever would have. ABC proved that active resistance works.

This situation mirrors CBS’s experience but now involves ABC affiliates. Sinclair is a massive MAGA operation, and Ellison is equally extreme. ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar are tied to the pending TEGNA acquisition. For context, Paramount Global—the parent of CBS and its owned-and-operated stations—was recently acquired by Skydance Media in a deal approved by the FCC in July 2025. The new owners, Oracle’s far-right MAGA billionaires the Ellisons, are also working to fold TikTok into the broader MAGA media propaganda machine. Trump’s pattern is unmistakable: silence Stephen Colbert on CBS and Jimmy Kimmel on ABC. In an obvious quid pro quo, CBS and ABC were forced to capitulate—or risk the FCC denying mergers and acquisitions, or even revoking broadcast licenses—an unmistakable case of mob-style extortion at the highest levels of government. Not to be overlooked, Trump has already extorted millions from both ABC and CBS through personal lawsuits.

The Choice to Raise Your Voice

Make the choice to raise your voice! Just say NO! to censorship. This is about silencing opposition. This is about killing comedy before it can mock power — and make no mistake, satire has always been the sharpest blade in democracy’s arsenal — democracy’s secret weapon.

That’s why tyrants fear it, that’s why dictators ban it, and that’s why Trump is trying to kill it. Humor exposes lies. Humor punctures egos. Humor topples emperors who think they wear clothes.

Long live comedy. Long live satire. It’s time for all of us to pick up the torch and rise. Sharpen your wit, wield your words, and refuse to be silenced.

Here’s How You Can Fight Back

Nexstar has now joined Sinclair in refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel’s return on ABC.

🔗 Sinclair station list
🔗 Nexstar station list

What you can do:

→ Tune in tonight — check if your local newscast is on when Kimmel should be airing.

→ Take notes — if your local news is airing instead of Jimmy, jot down the companies advertising during the broadcast.

→ Take action — call those companies and tell them you’ll boycott until they stop funding Sinclair and Nexstar’s censorship.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

Trump’s Climate Lies at the UN: Misinformation on a Global Stage

Posted on 2025/09/23 by admin

by Daniel Brouse
September 23, 2025

During his speech at the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2025, Donald Trump once again spread false and misleading claims about climate change, echoing statements he made while in office and on the campaign trail. His rhetoric not only undermines science but also threatens global efforts to combat climate disasters.

Key False Claims

“Climate change is the ‘greatest con job ever perpetuated on the world’”
Trump dismissed overwhelming scientific consensus. In 2023, over 99% of peer-reviewed studies confirmed that climate change is real and human-driven. Calling it a “con job” ignores decades of rigorous research from scientists worldwide.
“Carbon footprint is a hoax”
By denying the concept of a carbon footprint, Trump rejects a basic tool for measuring human contributions to global warming. Carbon accounting is fundamental to understanding emissions and implementing policies to reduce them.
“Climate predictions are wrong, made by stupid people”
This attacks the credibility of climate scientists who follow strict peer-reviewed methodologies. The IPCC and other expert bodies provide consensus-based predictions grounded in decades of observations and climate modeling.
“The Green New Deal is a green scam”
Trump characterized climate policies as a “scam,” dismissing the real costs of extreme weather events, which have already cost businesses and taxpayers billions globally.

Scientific Consensus vs. Trump’s Claims

Government reports: A November 2018 report from 13 U.S. federal agencies warned that unchecked climate change could cost the U.S. hundreds of billions annually. Trump dismissed this, saying, “I don’t believe it.”
Expert analysis: In August 2025, experts called a climate report from Trump’s Department of Energy “a farce” riddled with misinformation and based on debunked research.
Physical evidence: Satellite data show declining Arctic and Antarctic ice, accelerating sea-level rise, and increasing extreme weather events — contrary to Trump’s claims that polar ice is “at a record level.”
International condemnation: Trump’s 2025 withdrawal from the Paris Agreement drew formal UN criticism, reflecting global concern over the U.S. abandoning international climate commitments.

Potential Consequences

Experts warn that Trump’s misinformation carries real risks:

Distraction from action: The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) warned that climate misinformation “turn[s the] crisis into a catastrophe” by delaying urgent interventions.
Policy distortion: Suppressing data on climate costs benefits polluters while ignoring the societal and economic consequences of global warming.
Disruptive rhetoric: During his first term, Trump rolled back over 100 environmental regulations. His anti-climate messaging, amplified by sympathetic media, signals a likely repeat of harmful policy decisions in a second term.
Unreliable and Untrustworthy: Most importantly, Trump has undermined the U.S.’s reputation as a credible and dependable global partner. His attacks on science and scientists will not be forgotten and have significantly contributed to the accelerating decline of American leadership and credibility.

Conclusion

Trump’s statements at the UN are not harmless bluster — they are part of a broader pattern of denial and obstruction that jeopardizes scientific integrity, global cooperation, and public safety. The world faces increasingly urgent climate challenges, and misinforming the public only makes the crisis harder to solve.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment

Resistance 101

Posted on 2025/09/232025/09/23 by admin

by C. Moore
September 23, 2025

I’ve been getting a flood of questions about how to resist the Trump Regime: “What can I do?” in the midst of growing feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. My answer: focus on your strengths. Build a strong individual plan. Be resourceful. And sharpen your wits — because wit is often the best weapon.

The Censorship Example

As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I’ve faced threats, targeted attacks, assaults by both criminals and police, fines, arrests, jail time, and years of court battles. Yet never — not once — have I seen anything as alarming as what is happening today. I’m furious at the erosion of our First Amendment rights, and I’m returning to my roots. In protest of this assault on free speech — and in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the countless journalists silenced worldwide this year — I’m returning to my roots: sharp-witted satire. Words are swords, and comedy is our shield. That’s why tyrants fear it, why dictators ban it, and why Trump is trying to kill it. Humor exposes lies, punctures egos, and topples emperors who think they wear clothes.

During one period when I was illegally detained, silenced, and stripped of my rights, I adopted the pseudonym Mootmute. My lawyer was on speed dial, and I even had a plan to publish from jail. The name itself became a symbol of resistance. As they tried to turn me into a moot mute, I turned their strategy back on them. As I often say: hold up your sword and stand firm. If they continue to impale themselves on your defensive position, so be it.

Another form of resistance was publicly exposing their hypocrisy. For amusement and effect, while under oath I asked prosecutors what I wasn’t allowed to say. Their response? They wheeled in file cabinets overflowing with papers they themselves had published and read, line by line, everything that was now forbidden as “speech.” And so the name Mootmute stuck. They tried to silence me, but instead they became my unwitting mouthpiece, committing the very crime they accused me of.

Expanding the Resistance

In addition to the personal defiance above, I found other ways to resist oppression. While I was under attack, my publishing company — and the entities that had licensed my intellectual property — also became targets. To protect the innocent, I created a new publishing company. Much like Prince, who famously changed his name to a symbol when stripped of his own, I adopted a symbol too — only mine was crafted from ASCII characters and represented “the finger.” The irony was delicious: every time prosecutors wheeled in stacks of paper and read the forbidden words into the record, each page carried my publishing company’s logo at the bottom. The very emblem of defiance they sought to erase stared back at them from their own exhibits.

For added effect — and a touch of legal one-upmanship — I included a copyright notice on every page:

“These pages and their content may not be used without our expressed written consent. Violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed under the law.”

In their zeal to prosecute me, they inadvertently committed yet another offense: publishing my work without consent while declaring in court that no one was allowed to say what they themselves had just published.

Conclusion

So, “What can I do?” in the face of rising helplessness and hopelessness? Focus on your strengths. Develop a solid, individual plan. Be resourceful. And hone your wit — because wit is often your sharpest weapon and, in some cases, may literally save your life.

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Words as Swords: Fighting Tyranny with Satire

Posted on 2025/09/212025/09/21 by admin

by MootMute
September 21, 2025

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The new release of the day, “Mootmute,” was born from the flood of questions I keep hearing: “What can I do?” in the middle of this growing sense of helplessness and hopelessness. My answer? Focus on your strengths. Build a strong individual plan. And sharpen your wits — because wit is a weapon.

As an investigative journalist with decades defending the First Amendment, I’ve been threatened, targeted, assaulted by both criminals and police, fined, arrested, jailed, and dragged through years of court battles. But never — not once — have I seen anything as alarming as what’s happening today. I’m furious at the loss of our First Amendment rights, and I’m going back to my roots. In protest of this assault on free speech — and in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the countless journalists slaughtered worldwide this year — I’m returning to satire. Words are swords, and comedy is our shield. That’s why tyrants fear it, that’s why dictators ban it, and that’s why Trump is trying to kill it. Humor exposes lies, punctures egos, and topples emperors who think they wear clothes.

During one period when I was illegally detained, silenced, and stripped of my rights, I adopted the pseudonym Mootmute. I had my lawyer on speed dial and even had a plan to publish from jail.

So, what is a moot mute? It’s the absurdity of censorship itself — being forced into silence until your very voice becomes a moot point. If a town crier had their tongue cut out, how would they warn the people? If a writer were pressed so hard that the only escape was invoking the Fifth, would they become a moot mute? That’s what censorship does: it tries to erase you into irrelevance.

Much to my amusement, when I was under oath I asked prosecutors what I wasn’t allowed to say. Their response? They wheeled in file cabinets overflowing with papers they themselves had published and read, line by line, everything now forbidden as “speech.”

And so the name stuck — Mootmute. They tried to silence me, but instead they became my unwitting mouthpiece, committing the very crime they accused me of.

PSA: “Remember, killing humor isn’t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?”

ABOUT THE SONG: The Death of the First Amendment: Trump’s War on Free Speech

The Dangerous Adventures of Mootmute

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

Trump v. The First Amendment: A Mismatch for the Ages

Posted on 2025/09/20 by admin

by C. Moore
September 20, 2025

Trump’s $15 Billion Tantrum: When a Lawsuit Becomes Performance Art

President Donald J. Trump’s $15 billion lawsuit against The New York Times has been tossed like yesterday’s fast-food wrapper, for now.

Calling the president’s 85-page magnum opus of grievance “decidedly improper and impermissible,” U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday effectively told Trump to either learn how to write like a lawyer or go back to yelling at clouds. The judge, apparently unamused by the creative writing project, noted that the suit only contained two actual claims of defamation — Count I appearing on page 80, Count II on page 83 — buried beneath 79 pages of ego stroking, political invective, and what could best be described as a rejected campaign speech.

Judge Merryday reminded the former president that a legal complaint is supposed to be a “short and plain statement” of facts, not a “megaphone for public relations” or a “passionate oration at a political rally.” Translation: save the ranting for Truth Social. Oh, and trim it down to 40 pages or less — think of it as Twitter with footnotes.

This latest courtroom spectacle follows Trump’s ongoing legal vendetta tour against the media — having already aimed lawsuits at ABC, CBS, and The Wall Street Journal. His beef with The Times? That it acted as a “mouthpiece” for Democrats and gave Kamala Harris a campaign contribution in the form of journalism he didn’t like. In other words, reporting = rigging.

Free Speech, Unless You’re Pro-Palestinian

Meanwhile, in Trumpworld, free speech is sacred — unless you say something he doesn’t like. Multiple lawsuits have been filed against the administration’s alleged policy of targeting pro-Palestinian non-citizens for deportation, simply for expressing political views. Critics call it a direct violation of the First Amendment, creating a climate of fear on university campuses.

Take the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University alum and legal U.S. resident. On September 17, 2025, an immigration judge in Louisiana ordered him deported — either to Algeria or Syria — over alleged misrepresentations on his green card application. Federal courts, however, are still blocking his deportation while his case proceeds. The irony, of course, is that Trump insists on defending the “freedom” of Confederate statues while trying to silence actual human beings.

The Pentagon Redefines “Free Press”

Not to be outdone, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled new rules limiting Pentagon press access. Reporters now risk being banned for “unprofessional conduct” or even attempting to obtain information — whether classified, unclassified, or simply embarrassing to the administration.

In short: report at your own risk. The rules are so broad, you could probably lose access for asking where the bathroom is without “appropriate authorizing official” approval.

Trump’s Top Hits: Freedom Edition

As academics around the world scratch their heads, one burning question remains: which Trump-era attack on free speech is the most idiotic?

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” — because nothing says freedom like renaming water.
Renaming the Department of Defense the “Department of War” — because why bother hiding it?

Perhaps, in the end, Trump’s lawsuits and renamings are all just a form of performance art — a legal and political avant-garde movement where coherence, constitutionality, and common sense are strictly optional.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

PSA: Killing Humor Isn’t Funny

Posted on 2025/09/202025/09/20 by admin

by C. Moore
September 20, 2025

The Death of the First Amendment: Trump’s War on Free Speech

As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I’ve endured more than my share of danger. My life has been threatened, my family targeted. I’ve been assaulted by both criminals and police, fined, arrested, jailed, and dragged through years of court battles. But never — not once — have I seen anything as alarming as what is happening today.

On September 18, 2025, Donald Trump declared that any television network critical of him would risk having its broadcast license revoked. This came just one day after ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended, following the earlier cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Trump’s message is clear: dissenting voices will not be tolerated.

Let’s be perfectly honest: this isn’t about “bias in the media.” This is about censorship. This is about silencing opposition. This is about killing comedy before it can mock power — and make no mistake, satire has always been the sharpest blade in democracy’s arsenal.

The Palin–Trump Paradox

When asked why he doesn’t care if Russia invades EU countries, Trump said the U.S. isn’t “geographically close” to Russia, and that Europeans should shoulder the burden for Ukraine’s defense.

“They’re our next-door neighbors — you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska,” Sarah Palin once said.

And I always thought Sarah wasn’t that swift. Turns out, compared to Trump, she’s Einstein — with a side of cottage cheese.

A Call to Arms — Through Laughter

In protest of this ongoing assault on free speech — and in solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the many journalists slaughtered around the globe this year — I am returning to my roots: satirical wit. Words are swords, and right now, satire is our shield.

Comedy has always been democracy’s secret weapon. That’s why tyrants fear it, that’s why dictators ban it, and that’s why Trump is trying to kill it. Humor exposes lies. Humor punctures egos. Humor topples emperors who think they wear clothes.

Long live comedy. Long live satire. It’s time for all of us to pick up the torch and rise. Sharpen your wit, wield your words, and refuse to be silenced.

PSA: “Killing humor isn’t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?”

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

The Death of the First Amendment: Trump’s War on Free Speech

Posted on 2025/09/182025/11/18 by admin

As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I’ve faced more than my share of danger. My life has been threatened, my family targeted, I’ve been assaulted by both criminals and police. I’ve been fined, arrested, jailed, and dragged through years of court battles. But I have never seen anything as alarming as what is happening today.

On September 18, 2025, Donald Trump declared that any television network critical of him would risk having its broadcast license revoked. These words came the day after ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended, following the earlier cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Trump’s message is unmistakable: dissenting voices will be silenced.

Since his return to power, Trump has wasted no time weaponizing the legal system against his perceived enemies — especially the press. Major networks like ABC, CBS, and even independent journalists are drowning under an endless barrage of lawsuits. These suits are not designed to win in court; they are designed to financially cripple media organizations, bury them in legal fees, and intimidate others into silence. A Justice Department that now resembles a political death squad is carrying out these vendettas. The question is no longer “will someone stop him?” but “is there anyone left who can?”

Access to the White House briefing room has also become a weapon. Critical outlets — including Reuters, once considered the gold standard of global journalism — have been barred from daily briefings, their press credentials revoked without explanation. Independent reporters are routinely denied access, while hand-picked pro-Trump media figures are given front-row seats and unlimited opportunities to lob softball questions. By choking off access to information, Trump has turned what was once the people’s press room into a propaganda stage.

And the assault extends beyond the newsroom. Across the country, state and federal authorities are escalating their crackdowns on peaceful protests. Ordinary Americans exercising their constitutional rights to assembly and free speech are being arrested and charged. Their “crime”? Opposing war, genocide, or environmental destruction. At the recent Hands Off! protests, chants weren’t just against military aggression — they demanded the release of political prisoners currently held inside the United States.

Disturbingly, several activists have been detained without due process. Others have been deported, in open violation of constitutional protections. This is not the America our founders envisioned.

It’s no longer a matter of speculation whether your First Amendment rights are under attack. They are. And as someone who has dedicated a career to protecting those rights, I can report — without hesitation — that the First Amendment has already been compromised. The only question now is whether Americans will recognize it in time to fight back.

The Growing Threat to Press Freedom: How Trump’s Influence Is Reaching Beyond U.S. Borders

The Battle for Free Speech: Jimmy Kimmel vs. MAGA Media Monopoly

Trumpenomics: The Decline of the US

Energy Secretary Disbands Controversial Climate Working Group After Scientific Rebuke

Posted on 2025/09/16 by admin

by Daniel Brouse
September 16, 2025

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has officially disbanded the Department of Energy’s controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), a body that came under fire for producing a climate report riddled with inaccuracies and scientific distortions.

The move, first reported by CNN and later confirmed by NPR, follows months of scrutiny over how the CWG was formed and how its report was produced. On September 3rd, Wright sent a letter to the group’s five members — all hand-picked climate skeptics — thanking them for their service and formally dissolving the group.

The CWG’s report immediately sparked outrage in the scientific community. Dozens of independent climate scientists issued a joint rebuttal, stating the report was filled with errors, selective use of data, and misrepresentations of established climate science. Many characterized the report not as science, but as propaganda designed to cast doubt on the overwhelming consensus that human-driven greenhouse gas emissions are destabilizing the planet’s climate system.

The decision to disband the CWG comes against the backdrop of an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). As NPR previously reported, the lawsuit alleges that Wright and the Department of Energy violated federal law by secretly assembling the group and excluding qualified experts with diverse scientific perspectives. By limiting authorship to five individuals who shared a narrow, skeptical view of climate science, critics argue, the administration attempted to manufacture doubt where there is none.

For many observers, the CWG represented yet another attempt by the Trump administration to sideline mainstream climate science and replace it with industry-aligned skepticism. The episode illustrates the political battles surrounding climate science in the U.S., where overwhelming peer-reviewed evidence of warming, extreme weather intensification, and feedback-driven risks continues to clash with efforts to delay meaningful action on fossil fuel dependence.

By dissolving the CWG, Wright has effectively acknowledged the group’s lack of credibility. But for environmental advocates and scientists, the damage done by such efforts lingers: each attempt to undermine climate science erodes public trust, delays urgently needed climate policy, and deepens the crisis at hand.

* Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — which incorporates complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures are becoming unsustainable this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years, highlighting a dramatic acceleration in global warming. We are now entering a phase of compound, cascading collapse, where climate, ecological, and societal systems destabilize through interlinked, self-reinforcing feedback loops.

We examine how human activities — such as deforestation, fossil fuel combustion, mass consumption, industrial agriculture, and land development — interact with ecological processes like thermal energy redistribution, carbon cycling, hydrological flow, biodiversity loss, and the spread of disease vectors. These interactions do not follow linear cause-and-effect patterns. Instead, they form complex, self-reinforcing feedback loops that can trigger rapid, system-wide transformations — often abruptly and without warning. Grasping these dynamics is crucial for accurately assessing global risks and developing effective strategies for long-term survival.

What Can I Do? → “Solutions to the Fossil Fuel Economy and the Myths Accelerating Climate and Economic Collapse.“

Tipping points and feedback loops drive the acceleration of climate change. When one tipping point is toppled and triggers others, the cascading collapse is known as the Domino Effect.

America First, America Hurt: How Trump’s Trade War and Immigration Crackdowns Are Backfiring

Posted on 2025/09/16 by admin

The Trump tariff-driven global trade war and anti-immigration agenda are already proving to be an economic disaster for the United States. What was promised as a strategy to “rebuild American strength” is instead triggering a slowdown marked by weakening growth, collapsing job markets, rising inflation, declining wage gains, and a dollar under pressure. To make matters worse, the Federal Reserve’s independence is increasingly under political threat — a dangerous precedent for global markets that depend on U.S. monetary stability.

Ironically, the loudest supporters of Trump’s “America First” policies — farmers and rural voters — are among the hardest hit. U.S. agriculture, once a dependable pillar of American exports, is facing its harshest season in decades. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed this week that the USDA is working with Congress to consider emergency aid for farmers this autumn, citing both the fallout from ongoing trade disputes and record-high yields that now have nowhere to go.

Soybeans, in particular, illustrate the crisis. In 2024, the U.S. shipped an estimated $12.8 billion worth of soybeans to China, accounting for roughly 25% of all U.S. exports, according to the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. But for the 2025–2026 crop year, China has placed zero new soybean orders. That loss is catastrophic not just for Midwestern farmers, but for the entire trade balance, rural economies, and the global credibility of U.S. agricultural markets.

Adding to the irony is the sheer hypocrisy of Trump’s trade policy. His administration has justified sweeping tariffs as retaliation against “unfair trade practices,” particularly government subsidies supporting farmers in Japan, China, India, Canada, and across the EU. Yet, at the very same time, Trump has expanded U.S. subsidies to American farmers as emergency aid and even directed taxpayer-backed stakes in major corporations such as U.S. Steel and Intel — a patchwork of protectionism critics have dubbed “Trump-socialism.” What he condemns abroad, he quietly embraces at home, undermining his own argument while fueling the very distortions in global markets he claims to oppose.

The ripple effects extend beyond farms. Supply chains tied to agricultural equipment, transportation, and processing are already scaling back. Rural banks are bracing for a wave of loan defaults. Meanwhile, anti-immigration crackdowns are worsening labor shortages in both farming and food production, pushing costs up while productivity drops.

In short, Trump’s trade and immigration policies are backfiring — leaving the very communities that rallied hardest for “America First” paying the steepest price. The irony is brutal: instead of strengthening the U.S., these policies are isolating it, damaging trust with trading partners, and undermining the very foundation of American economic stability.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America

Subjectivism 101: Why Charlie Kirk’s “Opinions” Aren’t Opinions

Posted on 2025/09/152025/09/16 by admin

by Daniel Brouse
September 15, 2025

Subjectivism is the philosophical stance that reality, knowledge, or morality is dependent on the individual subject’s perception, consciousness, or experience, rather than on an objective, independent external reality. In essence, “truth” is seen as subjective and varies from person to person or culture to culture. There are different forms, such as metaphysical subjectivism, which holds that reality depends on consciousness, and ethical subjectivism, which claims that moral truth is determined by personal attitudes or societal feelings, not universal facts.

At first glance, subjectivism can sound appealing — after all, it seems tolerant to say “everyone has their own truth.” But the problem becomes clear when we confuse two very different categories: preferences and moral claims.

Preferences are opinions. Liking or disliking broccoli, rooting for the Eagles or the Cowboys, or preferring jazz to rap — these are matters of taste. They’re subjective, and no one can be “right” or “wrong” about them. If broccoli tastes bad to you, that’s an opinion, nothing more.
Moral claims, on the other hand, are not opinions. They are universal. Saying “prostitution is bad” or “racism is wrong” isn’t just a statement of taste — it’s a moral judgment about human beings, their dignity, and society. Morality, unlike food or music preferences, carries consequences for how we treat each other and how we structure laws and institutions.

This is where subjectivism collapses. If morality is just a matter of opinion, then slavery, genocide, or racism can all be excused as “just someone’s perspective.” That’s why subjectivism is often used as a freshman-level philosophy example to show its failings.

Enter Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, often hides behind this exact confusion. He makes inflammatory statements — such as claiming Black women “don’t have the brain processing power” — and when challenged, his defenders insist he’s merely “sharing an opinion.” But this is not an opinion about broccoli or football. It’s a racist moral claim, one that demeans millions of people and perpetuates discrimination.

Kirk has also attacked feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, and higher education using the same rhetorical sleight of hand — reducing serious moral and social issues to mere “opinions.” By doing so, he disarms criticism: after all, how can you argue with an opinion? But this is precisely the trap of subjectivism. It pretends that harmful ideologies are as harmless as a preference in music, when in fact they inflict real damage.

Why It Matters

Words are not always harmless. The old saying “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is comforting, but false. Words shape values, justify policies, and can incite violence. Racist, sexist, or bigoted statements are not trivial expressions of taste — they are moral claims with social consequences.

That’s the fundamental distinction many miss:

Taste is subjective.
Morality is universal.

When people like Charlie Kirk blur that line, they smuggle destructive moral claims into public discourse under the cover of “opinion.” And when his defenders repeat that excuse, they’re not being tolerant — they’re enabling harm.

If morality were truly just opinion, then nothing would be right or wrong, and the most horrific injustices in history could be justified. That’s the dead end of subjectivism.

Trumpenomics: The Decline of America