{"id":46856,"date":"2025-09-20T17:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=46856"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:59:39","slug":"killjoy-kill-humor-kill-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/09\/20\/killjoy-kill-humor-kill-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Killjoy (Kill Humor, Kill Freedom!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Killjoy (Kill Humor, Kill Freedom!) *Best Of* #jimmykimmel #trump #freespeech\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2FLt7gQP2v0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XVI\/Killjoy-Best-Of.mp3\">Killjoy-Best-Of.mp3<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XVI\/Killjoy-Best-Of.mp4\">Killjoy-Best-Of.mp4<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XVI\/Killjoy.mp3\">Killjoy.mp3<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XVI\/Killjoy.mp4\">Killjoy.mp4<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XVI\/Killjoy-intro.mp3\">Killjoy-intro.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>PSA: \u201cRemember, killing humor isn\u2019t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>1, 2, 3&#8230;<br \/>Ripcord<br \/>(Discord)<br \/>Ohhhhh, lord!<br \/>(Killjoy)<\/p>\n<p>[Refrain]<br \/>Too late to jump<br \/>(When there&#8217;s no ledge left)<br \/>Out of the slump<br \/>(Best make the best)<br \/>&#8230; of what&#8217;s left<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>Ripcord<br \/>(Discord)<br \/>Ohhhhh, lord!<br \/>(Killjoy)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\u201cKilljoy, killing humor isn\u2019t funny.<br \/>Kill humor, kill freedom.<br \/>Not so funny now, is it?\u201d<br \/>Ripcord<br \/>(Discord)<br \/>Ohhhhh, lord!<br \/>(Killjoy)<br \/>Not so funny now, is it?<\/p>\n<p>PSA: \u201cRemember, killing humor isn\u2019t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG: <a href=\"https:\/\/everything.membrane.com\/the-death-of-the-first-amendment-trumps-war-on-free-speech\/\">The Death of the First Amendment: Trump\u2019s War on Free Speech<\/a><br \/>As an investigative journalist with decades of experience defending the First Amendment, I\u2019ve faced more than my share of danger. My life has been threatened, my family targeted, I\u2019ve been assaulted by both criminals and police. I\u2019ve been fined, arrested, jailed, and dragged through years of court battles. But I have never seen anything as alarming as what is happening today.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended, following the earlier cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Trump\u2019s message is unmistakable: dissenting voices will be silenced.<\/p>\n<p>My response:<br \/>When asked why he doesn\u2019t care if Russia invades EU countries, Trump said the U.S. isn\u2019t \u201cgeographically close\u201d to Russia and that European nations should shoulder more of Ukraine\u2019s defense and financial support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re our next-door neighbors \u2014 you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska,\u201d Sarah Palin once said.<\/p>\n<p>And I always thought Sarah wasn\u2019t that swift. Turns out, compared to Trump, she\u2019s Einstein with a side of cottage cheese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Call to Arms<\/strong><br \/>In protest of the ongoing assault on free speech \u2014 and in support of Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and the many journalists slaughtered around the world this year \u2014 I\u2019ve decided to return to my roots: satirical wit, where words cut sharper than swords. Long live comedy! It\u2019s time for all of us to pick up the torch and rise. Get your satire on \u2014 let\u2019s roll.<\/p>\n<p>PSA: \u201cKilling humor isn\u2019t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/undercover\/\">Undercover<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killjoy-Best-Of.mp3Killjoy-Best-Of.mp4Killjoy.mp3Killjoy.mp4Killjoy-intro.mp3 [Intro]PSA: \u201cRemember, killing humor isn\u2019t funny. Kill humor, kill freedom. Not so funny now, is it?\u201d 1, 2, 3&#8230;Ripcord(Discord)Ohhhhh, lord!(Killjoy) [Refrain]Too late to jump(When there&#8217;s no ledge left)Out of the slump(Best make the best)&#8230; of what&#8217;s left [Bridge]Ripcord(Discord)Ohhhhh, lord!(Killjoy) [Outro]\u201cKilljoy, killing humor isn\u2019t funny.Kill humor, kill freedom.Not so funny now, is it?\u201dRipcord(Discord)Ohhhhh, lord!(Killjoy)Not so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,15],"tags":[4166],"class_list":["post-46856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-mootmute","tag-undercover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46876,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46856\/revisions\/46876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}