1w ago

Jesse Watters says America needs to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations

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WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection. And what we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York though right?
GUTFELD: Yeah, it is.
WATTERS: Could be some fallout there. Alright, maybe gas it?
DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): Let's not do that.
WATTERS: Don't gas it. Okay, but we need to destroy it. Maybe can we demolish the building? Have everybody leave and then we will demolish the building.

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1w ago

Jesse Watters says America needs to bomb or “maybe gas” the United Nations

www.mediamatters.org /fox-news/jesse-watters-says-america-needs-bomb-or-maybe-gas-united-nations

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The UN is headquartered in New York. This guy therefore is directly calling for terrorist acts to be committed on US soil. That's slammer-worthy.
Who's doing the political violence again?
- It was also founded in San Francisco.
  
  I always wondered why it was called UN plaza
- The UN is not on US soil, it's been international territory for a very long while
  
  "akshually."
  You do get it, right, buddy? It is located within the boundaries of the contiguous lower 48. Moreover, in its most populous city.
  Quit being obtuse.
  
  Bro, what the fuck are you babbling about? It’s in New York you weirdo
  
  Downvoted for actually knowing the truth. Am I back on Reddit?
  “though the structure is physically situated in the United States, the land occupied by the United Nations headquarters and the spaces of buildings that it rents are under the sole administration of the United Nations. They are technically extraterritorial through a treaty agreement with the U.S. government.”
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations
  
  My parents live in Ohio, I live in the moment.
  
  @hyperhopper@lemmy.world @ExtremeDullard@piefed.social if it's international soil, why (and how) could US deny Mahmoud Abbas from attending the UNGA, especially during an increasing recognizance of State of Palestine from other countries and the current UN proposals towards a two-state solution? I can also point out examples of this regarding an the country I reside: why (and how) could US make it difficult for part of the Brazilian delegation (such as Ricardo Lewandowski, current Brazilian Ministry of Justice, and Alexandre Padilha, current Brazilian Ministry of Health, the latter of whom ended up not attending in protest to all the restrictions imposed by US) to attend the UNGA?
For anyone curious. This is terrorism. Specifically "Stochastic Terrorism"
Textbook example. Because there's a real solid chance some fucking lunatic decides to act on his careless words.
- careless words.
  There's nothing careless about this. This is intentional.
- Nailed it.
But Jimmy Kimmel's remarks were too inflammatory for him to stay on the air.
So much violent rhetoric from the right. And yet the right and their "centrist" boosters keep saying it's the left that is so hateful and violent.
- It always depends. They are either scary terrorists or weak soyboys.
And yet despite making a specific direct call to violence yet another Fox host will not be held accountable.
- Yeah, and my favorite part is that the UN said the White House was responsible for the prompter. So they likely just forgot a flash drive or something dumb
  So not only does the host not know what an insurrection is, nor what the UN is apparently, they clearly don't care at all about anything but spreading hate
  
  They're intentionally misusing 'insurrection' to try to make it seem like NOBODY knows what it is, so that January 6th seems like a hoax or Democratic hot air.
  
  I think he just wanted a reason to ramble for an hour so he made up the "teleprompter is broken" story replete with threats.
"I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it."
Cool. Perhaps someone could bomb, emotionally, Jesse Watters? Like a really emotional F-bomb, I mean.
By the way, the intended purpose of this isn't to comment on the UN or whatever. The purpose is to openly flaunt the fact that the rules don't apply to them whatsoever. With this and the "kill the homeless" comment, they want to rub it in the faces of leftists and liberals. If those groups say anything even slightly controversial about Charlie Kirk, it's disgusting and vile and they demand severe consequences. But Confederates can say whatever, because they have the power and they want everyone to know it and feel it.
- Does that mean they just need to laugh maniacally while bombing him? Or cry tears of joy? I wonder if the MAGA world will emotionally mourn the loss of this hateful little goblin as much as they did Charlie Kirk.
Again, why is it ok for rightwing people to openly call for violence using their public platforms?
Other groups can not and do not do this in US politics, why are rightwing people the only ones allowed to do this?
I don't think anybody should speak this callously and invoke specific targeted violence with such carelessness, just because Jesse Watters doesn't understand or care about the consequences of his words spoken on a large public platform doesn't mean he isn't increasing the likelihood of actual violent acts by saying what he does.
edit I mean really, it would be one thing to sit around a firepit with your drinking buddies and throw something this disgusting out of your mouth and laugh about it, which I still find disgusting and lame, but we are talking about saying these words as a prominent public figure which makes it that much more a damning commitment to bigotry.
- Because they're fascists and fascists currently control our government.
  The proper response is to arm yourself and help everyone you know arm themselves.
- It's not that anyone is "allowed" we all are. We can say basically anything we want in this country. Conservatives are just a bunch of crybaby sheep bitches that can't handle reality.
  
  It's not that anyone is "allowed" we all are. We can say basically anything we want in this country.
  some people can
FOX is definitely going to suspend him, right?
- I await with bated breath the FCC statement saying this can be resolved the easy way or hard way.
  
  Trump's FCC:
  
  Even though it was a completely idiotic thing to say, especially given recent events, the FCC has far less control over cable/paid television compared to broadcast TV.
UN headquarters needs to be in Geneva or something, not in one of the 5 nuclear powers. Seriously wtf, this looked biased AF. Like how would the average American feel if UN was located in Moscow or Shanghai?
- Somewhere in Switzerland would be a better place for the UN headquarters.
  P.S.: That Watters guy is calling for terrorist attacks in New York, what a violent traitor.
  
  So cool to have a New York Republican announce "America needs a second 9/11" like that
- It's complicated. As modern as the building looks today, the UN's construction and planning began before the nuclear arms race.
- The average American thinks those are in Wisconsin.
- Well when the UN was founded it was right after a war on European soil. Guess other nations didn’t trust the Europeans after two world wars. Also at the time Europe was the US’s bitch so they didn’t have much influence.
  And New York had probably the best infrastructure at the time to safely receive and transport diplomats to the HQ. Because the rest of the world was either still in rubble or didn’t have modern infrastructure.
Republicans: We're not Nazis, the Nazis were actually left-wing.
Also Republicans:
- I get that at work a lot with men in their 20s.
  I don't hesitate at all to correct their ignorance.
  One guy argued that the whole political spectrum was left. I said: "Where does conservatism fit in"? He said that conservatives don't follow this spectrum and that is why they are not in it.
  They are fed lies early, by god knows who, and they regurgitate them as talking points.
  When challenged, their ideas usually change but some are not as intelligent and are harder to break through to.
  Fuck fascism, it's destroying young minds.
This is not the sweet onion of satire. This is the strong garlic of reality.
- Hey... I happen to like garlic. This is more like the stinky smell of durian fruit
  
  Same here. Garlic is awesome.
Jesse Watters is a fascist and a terrorist, his fuhrer's own people fucked up the teleprompter and he's calling for mass murder of allies and civilians over it.
The UN doesn't control the teleprompter. Trump's team controlled the teleprompter. If someone else had access to it, they could fuck with the speeches and change words and shit. Under normal circumstances, the speech given by the president to the UN would need to be very carefully worded to avoid international incidents. Trump is a walking international catastrophe, so that's a silly accusation regardless.
- I'm Ron Burgundy?
  
  "Fuck you San Diego"
Fucker doesn't know what insurrection means.
- Right? January 6th was not an insurrection but a teleprompter issue is? Dude’s a joke and anyone who sucked that shit up nasty style is dumber than a sack of dirt.
And just like the dude that said we should kill the homeless. Nothing will happen.
- They might build statues to him and put them in the schools. its not safety from school shootings, but we cant say they did 'nothing'.
If he was a Trans or hated Nazis this would be TERRORISM! FORTUNATELY he isn't So it's just a LoL!
I can't decide whether Fox and Friends or The Five is the worst segment on Fox. Seems like they're in competition for the title. The both of them are technically comedy or even satire segments, but of course they use that as a shield from criticism. "No reasonable person would take this seriously", just like they argue in court when they get sued for the raw sewage they spew into public discourse.
But "Kill all of the homeless" and "destroy the UN and everyone who's part of it" are only jokes if you find those actions amusing.
- None of it is satire, except in the way "You should be shot for watching Fox News" is satire.
Ok, what corporations do we need to boycott to get this guy fired?
Edit: Here's a few as of April Advertisers embrace conservative media in the new Trump era
According to the TV measurement firm iSpot. tv, new blue-chip advertisers appearing on Fox News national linear broadcasts since the election include Gucci, Busch Beer, and Netflix. New advertisers in this analysis were characterized as having not advertised on the channel since 2022. These brands didn't respond to requests for comment.
Fox News has attracted 125 new blue-chip advertisers since the US election, as Rupert Murdoch’s cable television channel commands soaring audiences during Donald Trump’s second presidency.
Companies including Amazon, GE Vernova, JPMorgan Chase, Netflix and UBS have recently aired advertisements on Fox News for the first time in at least two years.
Oh cool, even more reason to hate JP Morgan. Pedophile protectors always seem to flock together.
- Russia
- I'm pretty sure Faux was running in the red for years. The people backing Confederate Pravda view having Faux as an investment that will pay them dividends even if Faux itself were to be in the red. So I don't think they are really prone to boycotts. I think it's much the same for hate radio.
  It's too bad that deep-pocketed billionaires don't do similar things to prop up something similar for progressives. I've been told my entire life by conservatives, moderates, and most especially the corporate news outlets themselves, that we are inundated by "liberal media", but I still have yet to see evidence of such.
  
  Idk I think it's become pretty clear when something hurts their pockets it's the only way to force changes.
  If they had to give an individual the axe in order to avoid a profit loss, I'm pretty sure they would do it in a heartbeat. Loyalty isn't really a priority for them, and it's not like Jesse Watters is America's sweetheart. He is easily replaceable.
- I would say News Corp but no one who isn't Maga interacts with anything they own anyway so...
Motherfucker thinks demolishing the building will destroy the UN.
The right are murderous stochastic terrorists and we are the infidels.
The right: "Everything not actually an insurrection that I don't like is AN INSURRECTION. The actual J6 insurrection? NOT an insurrection, Taco was being just when he set those political prisoners free!"
Is Fox News rebranding to The Murder Channel? Killing the homeless, gassing the UN. Why are republicans allowed to roam free, they are a danger to Humanity.
And it turned out both of these failures were caused by Trump's team.
So Trump hires incompetent people (because they are yes men), they fuck up and make him look bad, and the intermediate solution is to kill the people who happened to be near by at the time before there's any actual information available.
Got it.
Wtf is wrong with these people? And WTF is wrong with those who find them worth watching?
- Wtf is wrong with these people?
  They're nihilists, Donnie. They don't believe in anything
Still has a job for some reason.
And he'll keep on talking like that until he feels consequences for his actions.
And the "left" is wringing its hands impotently, worried about appearing threatening.
Ah, but we incite violence.
Inb4 some incel takes the cue.
Wow. These "radical left lunatics" have even infiltrated FOX News,? I never would have guessed Jesse Waters was actually a member of antifa.
WATTERS: And then they sabotaged the teleprompter. I mean, this is an insurrection.
But according to the Associated Press’s Farnoush Amiri, an anonymous U.N. official said the escalator in question was actually stopped prematurely by someone from Trump’s group, who ran ahead of the group and accidentally triggered a stop mechanism. The official added that the teleprompter that Trump was so upset about was also being operated by his White House.
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/turns-trump-own-team-messed-200956972.html
- It's incredible how good they are at tripping over their own dicks considering how little they have to work with.
i took a section of what was said and gave it a quick edit to demonstrate how this is a great example of stochastic terrorism. the clear sections are focused on while the highlighted portions are prioritized. the rest can be disregarded as either media theater, filler, or a strategy for plausible deniability. the people influenced by this will hear or read it all but their minds won't treat everything as equal, and these fascists know that and are counting on it.
I think someone should just take a whip cream pie and throw it in Jesse’s face in public. Remember when people used to pie people? Let’s bring that back.
- Better times.
- Play clown games, win clown prizes.
  I'm still on board with this idea if you took out the word "whip" though.
so where is Brendan Carr and his threats?
So. Is it ok to ask the universe to cancel this dudes television career? Nothing mean. Just fire his ass and put him on unemployment.
- Let him apply for his own unemployment. Pull himself up by his bootstraps (of other people's money). Maybe he should even pull the old "as a black man ..." while he's at it and see how it goes there.
No, this is absolutely unacceptable, and I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I hope they really injure, emotionally, the people that did it.
Nice little catch there with the "emotionally" add on there. But it's the left that's violent, right guys? Totally not stochastic terrorism.
Likelihood is very low, but if I'm ever taking an escalator and I see Trump on it behind me - you better bet I'm dropping my phone and awkwardly hitting the 'emergency stop' button at the top.
I'm just clumsy like that 🤷🏻
Wonder if someone else was clumsy in this case?
Edit: I just read that it was someone in Trump's own escort/group that pressed the 'emergency stop' ahead of him. Fucking what? This whole inconvenience/attack is manufactured.
Hear me out. "The boys" isn't a parody on the US. It's the other way around.
- Ok, but please don't let AOC be based on congresswoman Neuman, fooling everyone. That thought is way too bleak.
Watters is a piece of shit and he doesn't deserve his wealth and peace.
Pretty sure the US is the only country in America that's gonna consider that one
The U.N. headquarters must be moved out of that joke of a country.
This reads like the translated Russian propaganda that i used to laugh at.
Now I still laugh but with more gusto because itd not just "brain washed" Russian who fall for it.
Now it's Americans too
- This reads like the translated Russian propaganda
  American doing Americanism Americanly
  This sounds Russian
  
  Russians to the left, Russians to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with more Russians. Russia Russia Russia!!
I hate that gay man. What an awful man. Everything he says is poison gas. Stupid Jesse waters
- Narnia is close for Jessie Waters. He loves to play pretend masculinity but we all know the truth. Maybe if he left the Narnia closet he would be a happier person filled with less hate.
Twatters is a terrorist.
Huh, I have the same feelings about the Fox News building. But I don't think they'll like THAT, even though it's the same thing just a different target. Cuz hate goes both ways, and I could bomb the stupid Fox Building with a home made contraption, but suddenly I'll labeled as the 'terrorist' and everyone on Fox as the 'chad martyr'
Disgusting what these assholes consider funny.
This guy needs to be charged and imprisoned.
You have to wonder if any of these tools know or care where the UN is? I figure they don't know and they don't care. But mainly I figure they are just willfully ignorant.
The most pathetic kind of ignorance.
Oh wow that transcript reads like his cohosts may push for him to get fired
Maybe "America needs to bomb or “maybe gas” the White House” would be a better alternative to get rid of the orange turd that shouldn't be in there.
Tough guy lol
What fucking hypocrites.
Jesse Waters has the most punchable face on television.
I hace to believe they are joking. No one who eriously says that it must be bombed would then be careful in their actual call to violence (he said "we need to emotionally harm the person responsible". The fact that they said "emotionally" to me suggest that they were avoiding getting into trouble. So the rest was not said seriously)
Stop sharing stupid shit, we know they're dumb. Mute it.
the fascists think this is their version of The Daily Show because they are violent and boring
also mediamatters is a work, don't read or post them
- also mediamatters is a work, don’t read or post them
  Huh?
  
  *the pricks who downvoted this good faith conversation can gargle my floppy balls
  sorry op i'm being opaque with wrestling jargon
  mediamatters is an news entertainment site where they skew and gossip about reporting from other agencies, it's a "work of in-character fiction"
Jesse is a coward who is too afraid to do his own dirty work.

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