The
widespread
work
mantra
has
been
that
you
have
the
right
to
remain
silent
—
anything
you
say
against
Charlie
Kirk
can
be
used
against
you
in
a
performance
evaluation.
Matthew
Dowd
got
fired
for
essentially
saying
what
goes
around
comes
around
and
Perkins
Coie
fired
an
associate
for
saying
that
Charlie
Kirk
was
“one
of
America’s
leading
spreaders
of
hatred,
misinformation,
and
intolerance”
—
guess
the
firm
didn’t
think
that
truth
was
a
strong
enough
defense.
Anyway,
some
washed-up
reality
TV
star
didn’t
get
the
memo
and
made
the
career-ending
mistake
of
making
light
of
our
most
recent
national
tragedy:
What
was
it
that
JD
Vance
said
again?
Call
them
out,
and
hell,
go
to
their
employers?
Shame
that
people
have
been
trying
to
go
to
the
American
public
about
Trump
being
an
abuser
or
being
really
good
friends
with
Epstein
to
no
avail.
In
fact,
it
seems
like
the
only
people
who
have
really
faced
consequences
have
been
the
whoever
has
had
the
balls
to
say,
“Hey,
this
guy
isn’t
following
the
law!”
And
he’s
doing
whatever
he
can
to
crush
dissent:
I
don’t
know,
man,
that
sounds
like
an
unconstitutional
content-based
regulation
of
free
speech
to
me.
And
while
it’s
true
that
ABC
is
the
one
that
“indefinitely
suspended”
Jimmy
Kimmel,
the
fallout
has
made
it
pretty
clear
that
they
only
did
so
because
they
were
afraid
of
pressure
from
the
FCC:
That’s
what
folks
in
the
biz
called
jawboning
—
the
government
can’t
regulate
speech
in
a
way
that
would
be
unlawful
for
itself
to
do
by
outsourcing
the
policing
to
a
private
entity
by
threatening
them:
that’s
just
government
suppression
of
speech
with
extra
steps!
It’s
the
constitutional
equivalent
of
a
kid
gettting
an
adult
to
buy
them
the
alcohol
so
they
don’t
have
to
go
into
the
store
themselves.
Will
Trump
actually
get
in
to
any
trouble
for
making
a
death
joke
about
Charlie
Kirk
on
Fox
News?
No,
because
he’s
Donald
Trump.
He
is
the
road
all
of
this
hoopla
about
offense
and
civility
and
violence
leads
back
to.
It’s
why
Kash
Patel,
head
of
the
FBI,
had
no
clue
who
Dylann
Roof
was.
It’s
why
JD
Vance
was
able
to
make
light
of
being
killed
on
a
boat
if
you
were
a
little
too
close
to
Venezuela.
As
long
as
you’re
on
the
winning
team,
you
can
say
whatever
you
want
with
little
to
no
consequence.
Because
even
if
the
facts
don’t
support
you,
the
alternative
facts
will.
Earlier:
Perkins
Coie
Fires
Lawyer
Over
This
Charlie
Kirk
Post
We’re
In
The
Cancelling
Talk
Shows
Phase
Of
Free
Speech
Crackdowns
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.