CNN put out a statement and Abby Philip released a clip:
https://x.com/abbydphillip/status/1851104454247903688
Girdusky is doubling down saying it was a joke:
This is such a nuts clip. The dude is a piece of shit, immediately realizing he fucked up then saying “well I thought he said he supports Hamas” even though Medhi didn’t even mention Hamas.
They’re getting so close to slaping swastikas on their arms, this guy realized immediately that he can’t quite put the arm band on yet. But he desperately desperately wants to.
Fuck this guy. Medhi Hasan is an amazing journalist and he doesn’t deserve this shit.
Kinda like Musk after the first assassination attempt. These people are chomping at the bit to go all-in fascist as soon as they think the gates are open
Ryan James Girdusky, the POS in this clip, just posted on X: “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.” (I’m not going to post a link because fuck that platform.)
“Oh I was joking”. If you were joking you wouldn’t have told people you responded because you thought Mehdi said Hamas (which you didn’t think, you heard Palestinian and got angry). You would have said it was a bad joke. What a typical Nazi crybully Girdusky is.
“I was just joking” is every fascist’s go-to line when they realize their hatred is not accepted by present company. Walking that line between serious hate speech/incitement and “only joking” is absolutely characteristic of fascism.
Republicans think that a joke is what you retroactively call something you said in earnest as soon as you get pushback.
Note that Girdusky is listed as one of the board of advisors of American Moment which is a group that’s listed by the Heritage Foundation as a Project 2025 partner
Turns out, that guy used to write for Richard Spencer.
Wow.
Oh this country is so fucked.
When people vote to fuck everything up in their country, you get a country that is fucked, yes.
This goes beyond electoral politics. Political discourse as a whole in that country is fucked.
Dude realizes he said a heartfelt, knee-jerk “quiet part out loud” and frantically tries to walk it back. It’s SO obvious that in his heart all Palestinians, and anyone who supports Palestinian rights, is a) Hamas and b) a valid target.
Medhi is a fucking gem. If you aren’t subscribed to his YT or Zeteo, the fuck are you even doing.
How the fuck do you accuse someone of being a terrorist and then threaten to blow them up? Also, I am slowly missing the “talking stick”, more and more.
If the story hadn’t been written out, I would definitely not be able to follow the cacophony that was that goddamn video.
The conch?
Sucks to your ass-mar
Part of the reason why this is encouraged is a lack of condemnation and sanctions on Israel for its pager terror attack. Instead you had many media outlets praise how “sophisticated” that attack was and many made “beeper jokes” on twitter and co.
The endorsement this terror attack by Israel gained from all parts of the mainstream political spectrum of course results in the American and European fascists endorsing to use it to terrorize their political opponents. if Israeli fascists get praised for terror attacks, ehy shpuldnt western fascists be also praised for it?
After all, many of these opponents parties themselves praised this kind of terror. Note that this is not exclusive to the US. In Germany there also have been dozens of supposed liberal and progressive politicians and journalists cheering on the terror attack and making “beeper jokes” to suggest killing people in Germany in this way too.
I… I feel like this is basically something that would happen in some kind of prequel to V for Vendetta, like the ‘expanded universe’ of archived clips, stored in Stephen Fry’s secret art dungeon.
… fucking hell.
No X links please.
I know I don’t know where else to get the source from I’m so used to getting it from Twitter before it was X. Suggestions?
I’ve seen a mirror; I think it was xcancel.com. (I just checked that and it does seem like a mirror.)
Or also nitter.poast.org
Screen record and post it on mastodon or even Bluesky.
The suggestion is “don’t link to Nazi sites”.
How entirely unhelpful.
Reposted as unlisted on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@Zikeji/113389042020055586
And here it is on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3l7mmjjh6od2h
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