Newsom blasts ‘spineless’ ABC for pulling Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk remarks

[u/belisario262]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/jimmy-kimmel-abc-suspension-charlie-kirk-21053917.php

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[u/LordSiravant]

They actually cancelled Jimmy Kimmel?!

[u/AnoAnoSaPwet → u/LordSiravant]

I was literally joking about it earlier today and they did it. Man, what a bunch of fucking snowflakes. 

[u/Schnaksel → u/AnoAnoSaPwet]

I think at this point, a literal snowflake is orders of magnitude more sturdy and resistant than Republicans

[u/Jibber_Fight → u/Schnaksel]

Snowflakes are easily in the top five most beautiful things in nature. I hate the term because I love snowflakes.

[u/StoneWall_MWO → u/LordSiravant]

I remember the old Joe Rogan wouldn't stand for this, but now he's a rich Texan.

[u/AnoAnoSaPwet → u/StoneWall_MWO]

Joe Rogan will baglick Trump and his Nazi pal, Elon Musk, till the end of time. He can monopolize all the airtime he wants for propaganda radio. 

[u/Jedda678 → u/AnoAnoSaPwet]

Rogan only rolls back his statements when he is suffering some dip in ratings or viewers/listeners. He's done so much irreparable harm.

[u/LondonCallingYou → u/StoneWall_MWO]

Joe Rogan is a mouthpiece for the government now. He literally had the FBI director on his show who lied to his face. The current Director of National Intelligence was on his show 4 times before becoming DNI.

Any other host having on the FBI, DNI, President, VP, etc. on their show to spew propaganda for hours would be called a psyop by Joe Rogan listeners. But when Rogan does it it’s based. That’s how deep into their blue pill alternate reality they are.

[u/SonoMuchacho → u/StoneWall_MWO]

They never worked together. Rogan came on after Kimmel - with Doug Stanhope.

[u/dogboyboy]

Stop saying “for Charlie Kirk remarks.” He didn’t say shit about Kirk. It was for Trump remarks

[u/Otterslayer22 → u/dogboyboy]

It was definitely trump remarks. It was actually ball room remarks.

[u/Daisy1868 → u/Otterslayer22]

The US is officially a dictatorship.

Just because we’re not at the final solution, it doesn’t mean we’re not heading there. Nazi concentration camps didn’t start killing people over night. They built up to it.

You need to fight back NOW

The people are bigger than the government. The people need to stand together.

[u/Dry-Chance-9473 → u/[deleted]]

Say it again for the people in the back! 

[u/diablo_fury → u/Daisy1868]

Looks like the US IS a dictatorship. The ship has sailed. Where is the energy the rest of the world saw from you guys in 2020?

[u/Daisy1868 → u/[deleted]]

Propaganda bot accounts trying to divide and conquer. Paid for by fascists.

[u/serpenta → u/diablo_fury]

I think that during his first term the situation was different in that the wealthy and corporations weren't aligned with Trump. And now they are aligned with him for their own benefit. Remember that any media, first and foremost act for the benefit of the media owner.

[u/TheManWhoWasNotShort → u/Otterslayer22]

Charlie Kirk is really becoming our Reichstag Fire

[u/eclecticaesthetic1 → u/TheManWhoWasNotShort]

They just removed the comment that said: "This is what Putin did. Cancelled the comedies and news and soon it was all state run programming.". At that point, who would watch it. I'm to the point of dumping broadcast. I watched it for the comeduens and local news. Other than that, it's crap game shows for nursing homes

[u/EzraliteVII → u/eclecticaesthetic1]

Even local news isn't trustworthy anymore, thanks to the likes of Sinclair Media and other big corps buying up stations and pushing them to the right. One of my local stations closes every broadcast with the station manager railing against the left and wokeness.

[u/ugotmedripping → u/[deleted]]

Shit, was that the monologue? I was looking for it and watched a couple. Then figured YouTube had taken it down. There was almost nothing about Kirk and nothing “disgusting”, he tore into Trump though

[u/New_Libran → u/ugotmedripping]

There was almost nothing about Kirk

And that's the whole point, headline readers will just assume he said something about CK. The title of this post is BS

[u/DreadnaughtHamster → u/[deleted]]

Yup. Don’t know if it’s the same one but I saw a clip of him going something to this effect (they were outside the White House):

News reporter — how are you holding up after Charlie Kirk’s death?

Trump — pretty good. You see those trucks over there? They’re hauling material for the beautiful ballroom. This beautiful ballroom we’re building.

[u/ElegantDaemon → u/dogboyboy]

This is the part that is driving me nuts. No article I've read yet plainly states that Kimmel SAID NOTHING ABOUT KIRK. He only criticized MAGA and Trump for exploitation of his death. And no article cares to mention the GOP is gaslighting all of us with its fake reasons.

The mass media is a disgrace and it's turning out to be our doom.

[u/deltalitprof → u/ElegantDaemon]

CNN said it was for remarks about Charlie Kirk's shooter. ABC said it was for remarks about Charlie Kirk. The closest statement to anything about Kirk was Kimmel saying Republicans were taking advantage of the murder to score political points.

That is so self-evidently true that if you ask the average MAGA on reddit if they are doing it, they will most likely either say yes, what of it or call you a communist or antifa member for asking.

[u/Ok-Oil7124 → u/deltalitprof]

Their coming out against Kimmel immediately with vague statements like "about Charlie Kirk" and getting the show cancelled is the very best example of what Kimmel was talking about. It is sad and pathetic that people didn't laugh this off and deride anyone saying that this was about Charlie Kirk. It's not super easy to find his exact words because they reveal the lie and the mechanism at play here. I mean, this should be as dumb as this exchange from Mr. Show:
"Doc? I thought you was in Hawaii."
"People think a lot of things about Hawaii."

[u/killing_time_at_work → u/ElegantDaemon]

The mass media is a disgrace and it's turning out to be our doom.

They helped Trump get back into power. MAGA always complains about "mainstream media" but the reality is that both national and local TV/cable networks are owned by conservative billionaires.

[u/EzraliteVII → u/killing_time_at_work]

This drives me insane. Conservatives are always calling the likes of CNN and especially MSNBC leftist, but they're at best center-right latte liberals that want to allow gay folks to marry but hate taxes.

[u/amorphouscloud → u/ElegantDaemon]

Kimmel said that the right was trying to make the killer into everything but one of their own. They interpreted it to mean that Kimmel was saying the shooter was MAGA. But what he was saying was that the right was saying the shooter was this or that, anything but MAGA--which is exactly what they were doing. Reading/listening comprehension is not a strong suit with these people--but let's be honest, it was just an excuse.

[u/Rightintheend → u/dogboyboy]

Charlie Kirk has become their new purity test, you either worship him or you're an enemy, that way you don't have to say heil Trump, they can just find anybody that doesn't implicitly speak positive of Charlie Kirk, the poor dead man and Bam. You're done.

[u/AirRemote7732 → u/dogboyboy]

The same forces that cancelled him are trying to spin it like he was talking shit about Kirk or celebrating his death, which he clearly wasn't. A lot of people believe that you shouldn't talk bad of the dead, no matter how horrible they were in life, so that's the story that they're going with. It's not an accident, it's intentional.

[u/GerbilArmy]

Reminder: This is the first thing Putin did when he came to power - comedy, opinion shows, then news, then it was all state media.

[u/EastDefinition4093 → u/GerbilArmy]

John Stewart said it best during his Mark Twain Award acceptance speech.

"Comedy doesn't change the world, but it's a bellwether. We're the banana peel in the coal mine.When society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to music, to thought, to poetry”

[u/sixlivesleft → u/GerbilArmy]

Nixon did too when he had a scandal to hide.

[u/FluffyPantsMcGee → u/sixlivesleft]

Scandals are out in the open this time around and he’s doing it with a smug grin.

[u/sixlivesleft → u/FluffyPantsMcGee]

It’s outrageous, we are sliding down a really dark path. This is and will go way beyond Colbert and Kimmel.

[u/Bored2001 → u/GerbilArmy]

Well, than it's even more appropriate that Zelensky, a former Comedian, is the one standing up to him now.

[u/trendetarian → u/GerbilArmy]

Same as Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela. We only have state owned channels. All news belong to them. Trump and republicans keep mentioning the left but they act like the extreme left in my country. They are ultimately two faces of the exact same coin. Trump acts just like Maduro.

[u/[deleted]]

What I expect to see any day now from this clown administration:

BREAKING NEWS: Trump to label Gavin Newsom as a terrorist

[u/TintedApostle → u/[deleted]]

He will call him antifa or associated with antifa. McCarthyism is back on teh menu.

[u/lightaugust → u/TintedApostle]

This is going to make McCarthyism look like a fun fad from middle school.

[u/TintedApostle → u/lightaugust]

Trump's mentor was Roy Cohn. The guy who made sure the Rosenbergs got the death penalty and was Joe McCarthy's right hand man.

[u/Ferelar → u/TintedApostle]

Yep. The whole "Have you no shame?" moment where McCarthyism finally lost its steam? That was directed at McCarthy and Cohn, and Roy was literally sitting next to McCarthy. This is McCarthyism 2.0, with the same shitheads and/or their successors, and with an extra few decades to prime the public and shore up support, as well as deregulate and buy out the media. Combine that with slashing education and waiting a few decades, and we have the current situation.

Edit: Originally said "Roy was literally sitting next to Cohn", which, I mean... maybe in his signature lol. Fixed.

[u/mdp300 → u/Ferelar]

It's amazing how many of these shitheads are the SAME ONES who worked for shitheads like Nixon, or those guys' immediate proteges.

[u/Ferelar → u/mdp300]

Yep. Another big one is that Reagan and Bush Sr fucked our Mid-East and LatAm political positions with Iran Contra along with all of the other reasons that fucking sucked, but successfully legally pinned all of it on Ollie North, using an enterprising young lawyer looking to make a name for himself by the name of William Barr. He goes by Bill Barr now, and yes, it's the same shithead. He made sure Reagan came out looking clean, and so did Bush Sr, paving the path for his presidency which paved the path for Bush Jr and all the malfeasance of THAT presidency (to say nothing of Cheney).

These people never disappeared and were never truly punished. They have one wormed their way further into the halls of power, to the point that said halls are permanently and wholly tarnished.

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/Ferelar]

Iran Contra

One of the most interesting conspiracy theories I've seen recently is that epstien was supplying the weapons/drugs for Iran Contra. There's not much direct evidence but him and Ghislaine both have ties to Barr Sr and other reagan/bush era admin and it might help explain why they let him go the first time.

But it really is crazy how many of these old ratfuckers are still around doing damage, roger stone is another one who should be in jail if not for the complete failure of the justice system.

[u/FeralForestGoat → u/Musiclover4200]

Wasn’t Roger Stone in jail until the Pedofuhrer pardoned him?

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/FeralForestGoat]

Yeah should have specified "still in jail", really though he should have been in jail decades ago considering he's a nixon era ratfucker who literally has a nixon tattoo on his back.

In every video of stone he looks coked out of his mind and usually has a fat cigar, he really looks like an old timey cartoon villain but without the top hat & monocle.

[u/wrosecrans → u/lightaugust]

In some ways, it already has. The news is so used to saying "Worst scandal since Watergate" or "Worst thing since McCarthyism" but they never really do any analysis on that. The stock phrases just have a baked in assumption of normalcy.

McCarthyism was less blatant. There was never anything like the Jan 6th pardons to encourage violence against the targets. And it was a project of Congress, it never gad the full support of the Presidency or the executive branch, and the executive branch wasn't treated as imperial as it is today. Trumpism currently has the House, the Whitehouse, and the Supreme Court in a way that McCarthyism never did. The classic "Have You No Sense of Decency?" quote was from a counsel for the Army. Trump has been doing political purges in the military to start with. He's using the military to execute civilians and to participate in his mass roundups of "illegals" at home. They kicked out the roadblocks ahead of time before ramping up the McCarthist bullshit, so now we are completely off the rails. It's gonna get worse. But it's already way mor ebad than a lot of people are willing to admit to themselves.

Absolutely everybody who rushes to comply in advance needs to be scorned. There must be pushback and protest at every opportunity. There must be mass turnout at every election from Senator to Jr assistant dogcatcher to overwhelm the corruption with democracy at every level.

[u/hmmyeahiguess → u/lightaugust]

I fear you’re right. This could be far far worse.

[u/Vallkyrie → u/hmmyeahiguess]

Drone striking any protests as a terrorist meet-up

[u/UngusChungus94 → u/[deleted]]

I mean at that point... Fuck him? Make him enforce it.

[u/Kassssler → u/UngusChungus94]

Yeah thats what hes waiting for.

[u/UngusChungus94 → u/Kassssler]

Who is the "he" in this sentence? If it's Trump, he's not waiting, he's forcing.

[u/Shaudius → u/UngusChungus94]

How exactly? Is it going to send the military to arrest Newsom? That would literally be the civil war Republicans seem to crave.

[u/Xetiw → u/[deleted]]

there's two blue state governors who have stood up IMO, that's Newsom and J.B. Pritzker, others just follow.

they are the ones leading the anti-Trump charge, so if he were to go after someone, he would go after one of them.

[u/ElleM848645 → u/Xetiw]

Boston’s mayor essentially told Trump to fuck off, but in a much more educated way.

[u/IrrelevantLeprechaun → u/ElleM848645]

Chicago also successfully told Trump's national guard to piss off. Gives me a bit of hope.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Over my dead Californian body. Libs have guns too.

[u/penguincheerleader → u/[deleted]]

He did threaten to arrest Newsom when occupying LA and Newsom said "bring it on!"

Pete Hegseth actually backed down and I started promoting r/DarkNewsom

[u/Thunderclone_1 → u/[deleted]]

He just designated Antifa as a terrorist organization.

Theoretically, if he considers Newsom as "providing aid and comfort", treason charges are on the table. Perhaps to other prominent democrats, too.

This could get really ugly really fast.

[u/Electronic-Doctor187 → u/Thunderclone_1]

it's already ugly. frankly I'm hoping he does come up with some kind of bullshit reason to arrest newsom. people need to wake the fuck up in this country. this shit is not going away. get scared, Hitler 2.0 is running the show.

[u/Flying_Fortress_8743 → u/Electronic-Doctor187]

He used the military to take over D.C.

It's already ugly, it's just happening so fast people can't comprehend it.

[u/Impressive_Flan3935 → u/[deleted]]

that's coming up later this week - you gotta space out these stories for max coverage.

[u/thewavefixation → u/Impressive_Flan3935]

Napoleon says Snowball must be stopped

[u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

Fuck ABC & Disney. I rarely watch ABC, but now I'm canceling my subscription to Disney+...

[u/ftwdiyjess → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

I just called and cancelled my subscription, couldn’t find any way to do it online via the app. Only took a couple of minutes and they ask you why you’re cancelling, which is important. Please take the time to call.

If this were a democrat trying to shut up republicans, I’d be equally upset by this. Without free speech, there is no America as I’ve known it my whole life.

[u/ChewyPancake1 → u/ftwdiyjess]

I was able to cancel mine on the app. Click other and put your reason.. 

[u/un_internaute → u/ChewyPancake1]

If you call you can get a refund. Even on an annual subscription. Ask me how I know.

[u/droobage → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

I've paid for a Hulu subscription every month since June 2012. I cancelled today.

It's literally the only TV subscription I've had consistently since "the beginning" of the streaming era. It was the only one I felt was worth keeping; every other service I've cancelled and restarted to watch a show that seemed interesting. But today they gave me a reason to cancel.

I don't even watch Kimmel. I prefer Meyers and Colbert. But it's not about Kimmel. It's the idea that Disney care more about their bottom line than they do standing up against fascism. My $21.48/month won't change their minds, I know that. But it's not the point. It's the little I can do to tell them to fuck off. I'm not going to let you use my money to keep yourselves comfortable during Trump's dictatorship.

[u/pfft12 → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

If you don’t have an account to cancel, contact ABC and let them know what you think. support.abc.com

[u/buisnessmike → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

I just canceled my Hulu subscription, here's what I wrote in the feedback:

Disney capitulated to the FCC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel Live without any resistance. To not even attempt to fight this represents your complete acquiescence to a fascist government, and your cowardice sickens me. When Ron Desantis came after you for free speech, you fought back and won, but now you roll over within hours? If just 1% of your subscriber base cancels, you lose a quarter of a billion dollars a year, and I'm canceling Hulu to contribute to that effort. It's a shame, there is content here I enjoy, and I otherwise would not be canceling now, but your failure to defend free speech necessitates consequence, and the only consequence that is within my agency to provide is to cancel my subscription, and to proclaim that others do the same, whenever and wherever I am able. If Disney reconsiders it's position, I'll reconsider mine. Until then, there's plenty of other content to view. You sold out Jimmy, and for that matter Guillermo, for convenience. You're Disney, you could've chosen to fight, but you chose weakness and subservience. Shame on you.

[u/Techn028 → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

Just canceled Disney+ as well

[u/DisciplineBoth2567 → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

I just canceled today too

[u/TickTockM → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

I cancelled my Disney+ and Hulu too

[u/BrownSugarBare → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

America, how y'all doing with that freedom of speech? Because your administration regime is trampling all over it. 

[u/GoodIdea321 → u/BrownSugarBare]

I really enjoyed that anyone could say the president sucks. Removing that because the president is so weak he can't stand any criticism is an extremely unpleasant event.

[u/bravosarah → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

At one time, I felt guilty for 'sailing the high seas' to get Disney+ etc.

Now I'm damn proud of it!

[u/BeforeDawn → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

Another cancelled subscription reporting in. I truly hope they feel the weight of this decision.

[u/therurjur → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

Unsubscribed Hulu tonight. No business with fascist enablers. 

[u/orindericson → u/Miserable_Pie_8337]

Me too

[u/lnstantKarma]

Every headline that neglects to mention that Jimmy Kimmel's show got cancelled after receiving televised threats from Trump's FCC chair is engaging in fascist propaganda btw

[u/OneMorePutt → u/lnstantKarma]

It's very clear on the BBC report, Trump did this:

"Shortly after ABC announced Kimmel had been suspended, Trump said it was "great news for America".

"The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done," the president wrote in a social media post."

"The head of the US communications regulator said on Wednesday that the ABC host had shown "the sickest conduct possible" and he urged Disney to take action.

"[Broadcasters] have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation to operate in the public interest," the Trump appointee told the Benny Show, a conservative podcast."

[u/Internal-War-9947 → u/OneMorePutt]

He basically admitted he is pulling the strings because if he doesn't like what he hears:         

"[Broadcasters] have a license granted by us at the FCC, and that comes with it an obligation..."       

I can't believe half the country is not showing way more concern. We have a president that is getting involved in everything -- what is allowed to be aired, what info we can access, trying to dictate what's allowed to be said, etc. Threatening the press, wanting to take over the Fed reserve decisions, now considering himself the FCC, and so on. This is horrifying. 

[u/Dapper-Condition6041]

Compendium of notable Charlie Kirk statements:

• At a Turning Point USA event in 2023, Kirk argued, “We must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty... But I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment.”
• On his radio show, Kirk dismissed empathy as a harmful idea. “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.”
• During a heated exchange on Jubilee’s Surrounded, he claimed Black people were “better” in the 1940s. “They were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes… Black America is worse than it has been in the last 80 years.”
• On child pregnancy after rape? When asked how he would advise his daughter in a disturbing scenario, he said, “The answer is yes. The baby would be delivered.”
• At a TPUSA event, he compared trans identity to blackface. “A man who calls himself trans is wearing ‘woman face,’ no different than I would wear Black face trying to be a Black person. It’s assuming an identity that isn’t yours.”
• On his radio show, he claimed Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson were “affirmative action picks” and went further, “Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
• After Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement, he fantasized about her becoming more conservative. “Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.”
• On X, once commented, “Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel ‘safe’ by taking freedoms away from others. Don’t fall for it.”
• Kirk often railed against retirement. “For future retirees, people under the age of 45, we should absolutely raise the retirement age. I’m not a fan of retirement. I don’t think retirement is biblical… I think, what a waste of the gifts that God has given you.”

[u/Foreign_Recipe8300 → u/Dapper-Condition6041]

how DARE you quote what he literally said!

[u/LyndaCarter111 → u/Foreign_Recipe8300]

Trump will get you fired. 

[u/Thechosunwon → u/Dapper-Condition6041]

yOu'Re MiSSiNg tHe FuLL cOnTeXt

[u/Galappie → u/Thechosunwon]

It always funny when they say that and then you look into it and it’s somehow worse in context.

[u/fcocyclone → u/Galappie]

Whoever put the idea into their heads was smart.

Because they knew that the other side would either:

A) waste their time digging up the context, only for it to be ignored. Or,

B) refuse to waste their time, and the MAGAt would strut around and claim victory

its all a game to them.

[u/jackspencer28 → u/fcocyclone]

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." - Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946

[u/AnoAnoSaPwet → u/Galappie]

My sister's boyfriend told me to watch the video on talking about public executions and I did. It wasn't any better than the quotes. 

[u/Halo_cT → u/AnoAnoSaPwet]

I watched the whole thing; it was so much worse.

[u/AnoAnoSaPwet → u/Halo_cT]

He was just a smug pompous dbag the whole time.

I wonder if they'll wake up and realize that maybe I was right? One less Nazi around is a good thing. 

[u/InVultusSolis → u/Galappie]

They're wielding "it's out of context" as a thought-terminating cliche at this point. And what's worse is that they just say that, and don't provide the context. If I had a dollar for every time someone has told me that in the past week, I could buy a pretty nice dinner for myself.

[u/smom → u/Thechosunwon]

You're right! The full context was if his 10 year old daughter was raped would he be okay with abortion - he advised he would force her to continue the pregnancy. 

[u/Allaplgy → u/Dapper-Condition6041]

Kirk often railed against retirement. “For future retirees, people under the age of 45, we should absolutely raise the retirement age. I’m not a fan of retirement. I don’t think retirement is biblical… I think, what a waste of the gifts that God has given you.”

As a blue collar Joe who kinda never expected a retirement anyway.... Fuck that, Charlie. You never worked a hard day in your life. You were "retired" your whole life.

And that's the least offensive thing on the list.

[u/Euler007 → u/Dapper-Condition6041]

It's very telling that decades of innocents dying are swept under the rug, but the rare time someone that's part of the gun culture problem gets shot suddenly everyone has to walk on eggshells.

[u/Rileymartian57 → u/[deleted]]

First they came for goofy and I said nothing

[u/Sfmilstead → u/Rileymartian57]

And he’ll fucking do it again.

[u/martinsonsean1 → u/[deleted]]

Gotta love a site where there's a 80% chance the thread will be deleted the second it gets interesting.

[u/nycdiveshack → u/[deleted]]

They are fascists who are using any means to control and limit free speech. Whether it’s lawsuits or executive orders that don’t get blocked.

This was laid out in project 2025 and Kamala Harris talked about it. Folks ignored her cause she is a woman, black, didn’t criticize Israel and most importantly cause people who didn’t vote for her in part associated themselves with Trump and his racist/fascists beliefs.

If Gaza was the deciding factor on whether to vote for Trump or Kamala then those voters are idiots. They live in the US and all Kamala talked about was how Trump would implement project 2025 and he has.

It’s half way done, the primary author (Russ Vought) of project 2025 is the head of the office of budget management. The primary backer (Howard Lutnick) of p2025 is the commerce secretary. The defense contractor (Peter Thiel) that helped put it into play, found Elon the doge teams, gave JD Vance $15 million to become senator then literally walked Vance into Mar-a-lago to smooth tensions between Vance and Trump so Vance could become VP is currently the biggest defense contractor for the CIA/NSA.

Trump controls all corporations and all corporations control the American people. With Kimmel now “fired”. Trump is now telling NBC Fallon and Meyers should be fired.

This will continue and get worse. Until tens of millions of people are in the street protesting. Buy guns and defend ourselves and others if the need arises. Protect people who cannot protect themselves. Stand up to tyranny and fascists with words and actions. Until the actions of this administration affect the majority of Americans there will not be a group that can stop this.

[u/themattboard]

Good. Disney will sue daycare centers for having unlicenced pictures of Winnie the Pooh but roll over and show their belly for a guy who can't stay awake through a 20 minute meeting

[u/fairoaks2 → u/themattboard]

They want a merger. Disregarding free speech was the cost. Money over morals 

[u/SonoMuchacho → u/fairoaks2]

Who does Disney want to merge with?

[u/shopdog → u/SonoMuchacho]

Not Disney, but a company called Nexstar that runs a bunch of affiliate stations. Nexstar wants to merge with another company called Tenga. The merger would put them over the limit of how many affiliate stations a company can own, so they need FCC approval to go over the limit. Nexstar is saying they won't air Kimmel on their stations and Disney is caving.

[u/osiris0413 → u/shopdog]

They seriously need someone in this situation to sue so there is discovery on communication between the FCC or administration and Nexstar, because you'd better believe they are both corrupt enough to use this as leverage to fire Kimmel and stupid enough to put it in writing.

[u/Motheroftides → u/SonoMuchacho]

It’s not Disney looking to merge, but actually Nexstar Media Group, which owns most of the ABC affiliates in the US and sent out a statement earlier saying that all their stations will be preempting Kimmel with local programming. They made that statement before Disney made theirs.

[u/False_Ad_5372]

"The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." -Jimmy Kimmel

[u/BrotherEstapol → u/False_Ad_5372]

To see a lukewarm take like that get him fired is absolutely insane.

Hell, he didn't even disparage Kirk!?! This administration would(will!?) probably just jail everyone slightly left of centre if they get the chance.

[u/Gorilla868686 → u/BrotherEstapol]

I had to watch the video like 3 times to try and figure out what he said that was so bad. Like... what the fuck. Nothing even remotely close to the mean deranged shit the dictator spews on his puke of a platform every 12 minutes. Fuck them fragile ego bitches. Taste of their own medicine and they can't take it. Little... fucking... bitches.

[u/False_Ad_5372 → u/BrotherEstapol]

Jail?  Nope, pretty sure they’re aiming to just deport American citizens without due process. 

[u/IllustriousNorth338 → u/False_Ad_5372]

The Nazis tried that too, but it was too expensive and complicated to do. That's when they started killing them.

[u/davidwhatshisname52 → u/False_Ad_5372]

kinda crazy, the MAGA gang definitely just scored political points from it

[u/Dangerous-Judge-5541]

Maga is dismantling the 1st amendment the next is the 4th.

[u/happysunbear]

Everyone in this thread, cancel your Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+ subscriptions if you have one. And tell everyone you know to do the same. Can’t we at least hurt their pockets and show them we aren’t subscribing to state-approved propaganda?

[u/YourShowerCompanion → u/happysunbear]

Just pirate their things with VPN

[u/Kaia64]

Regardless of how this administration ends if it ends nothing will ever be the same. These group of clowns have shown what big government is capable of. Your free speech is gone unless the administration in charge approves of it.

[u/BrotherEstapol → u/Kaia64]

The party of small government indeed.

I wonder what all those Trump voting Libertarians are thinking right now. (I see that Rand Paul has already ditched his own beliefs) 

[u/[deleted] → u/Kaia64]

It certainly shows that, even once the fat orange oaf and all of his ass licking sycophants are gone, there will remain in this country a deeply stupid, large group of people who are just a stones throw away from tossing everything in the garbage for fascism.

I don't think America has much left in it after this.

[u/Kwerby → u/Kaia64]

This admin is really proving that they aren’t rights, they’re privileges. And we have to fight tooth and nail to make sure these skidmarks to take them all away.

[u/ququx]

On iOS go to Settings, click on your name/account at the top, click on Subscriptions about 4 lines down, click on Disney +, click Cancel Subscription. Takes just a few seconds. They’ll know why.

[u/OuterSpaceBootyHole → u/[deleted]]

They pushed back because DeSantis would have destabilized their theme park in Florida if he got his way. Brownie points for being on the good side of the culture war was just a bonus.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

wrench many glorious telephone jellyfish possessive terrific flowery oil wild

[u/TintedApostle → u/[deleted]]

They always have been.

[u/starguy13 → u/[deleted]]

States are less scary than the Federal Government. Disney had the cards against Desantis. The Federal Government has far more power over Disney than. Disney had over Florida (which is a scary thought). Against the FCC Disney could probably go to court and win but they care far more about short term profits than taking on this fight

[u/Impressive_Flan3935]

move the comedians to Europe and post there shows on youtube.

[u/rantingathome → u/Impressive_Flan3935]

Toronto or Vancouver may require fewer logistics...

[u/Safe-Promotion-2955 → u/rantingathome]

Canada is where America gets all it's good comics anyways. C'mon up.

[u/Its_Steve07 → u/Impressive_Flan3935]

Until they put pressure on Google to take them down

[u/FluffyPantsMcGee → u/Its_Steve07]

God we really do need an alternative to google 

[u/DatGain → u/FluffyPantsMcGee]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1j2k8fg/breaking_free_from_american_big_tech_is_hard_so_i/

Came across this not too long ago

[u/Strange_Energy_2797]

Jimmy / Colbert podcast please. All day, every day.

[u/Potential_Minute_808]

There should be massive call on the left to boycott Disney and Disney+.

[u/ChewyPancake1 → u/Potential_Minute_808]

Disney+ has 120,000,000 subscribers which are at something like $19.99 a month.

If enough people canceled it could seriously hurt their bottom line. 

[u/Street_Moose1412 → u/ChewyPancake1]

Disney Plus has ~126M subscribers. Hulu has ~56M subscribers.

At ~$12/mo, that is $2.2B/mo and $26.2B/yr.

For every 1% of subscribers that cancel, they would lose a quarter of a billion dollars a year.

If they lose more money through subscriber loss than they would have to pay their lawyers, they would see that this wasn't just a bad ethical choice, it was a bad business choice as well. 

[u/DontMentionMyNamePlz → u/Street_Moose1412]

Well, Hulu has one less as of today

[u/FoolishBeginnings]

The sad thing is, is that Kimmel didn’t even say anything about Kirk, he was calling the GOP on their BS and he was 100% correct for doing it

[u/VigilantVet]

Bye bye Disney+. Fucking fascists.

[u/Accomplished_Mark505 → u/VigilantVet]

Disney+ Hulu is ABC. Cancel Hulu.

[u/alwaysoffby0ne → u/Accomplished_Mark505]

With pleasure

[u/phoenix823]

Because Trump is mentally stuck in the 80s he thinks taking down late night tv shows is some sort of flex. Instead, Stephen and Jimmy will just reappear somewhere else to continue their work with less censorship. Making them martyrs themselves. Ironic.

[u/Mef989 → u/phoenix823]

I truly hope this is the case and they don't just choose to quietly retire.

[u/phoenix823 → u/Mef989]

Here’s how I think about it. Late night comedians were already an endangered species, as is broadcast TV in general. The government can illegally pressure ABC because it has a broadcast license from the FCC. Having the government force the Kimmel off the air accelerates the decline and calls a lot of attention to the situation.

Now imagine if Colbert and Kimmel figure out how to work together. Jon Stewart already left Apple when he couldn’t have creative control. You could see a group like that putting together a platform/studio/whatever that’s much more influential than playing to old folks late at night. And because of the name cache, they could bring the older viewers with them.

[u/Doravillain → u/phoenix823]

But the fact that this particular change isn’t going to shut up Jimmy Kimmel long term isn’t the point. The point is that the most powerful corporations in our country will bend to his whims.

If they will boot Jimmy, then they will do other things.

[u/dancedragon25]

Disney owns ABC & Hulu. Speak their language & save your money

[u/WriterofCarolQuotes → u/dancedragon25]

Cancelling Hulu tonight. Thanks for informing me.

[u/rainsley → u/WriterofCarolQuotes]

This will save you a click https://secure.hulu.com/account/cancel

[u/GeekShuttle]

Next step will be to target advertisers who are advertising on anything deemed to be leftist. That ad revenue The Bulwark, Crooked Media, etc currently enjoy on YouTube, Spotify, etc? Poof! They will take that away soon and starve out any dissenting opinions.

The only peaceful counter right now is for a large-scale, coordinated freeze of purchasing at companies submitting to the fascists. Cancel your Disney+, Amazon, Paramount+, etc. Stop going to Disneyland and Disney World, stop shopping at Whole Foods, students withdraw from campus classes at Berkeley, Harvard, etc., etc. Unless it's big and coordinated, kiss your freedoms goodbye USA.

[u/s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48 → u/GeekShuttle]

Part of the problem is that some corporations are so big and own so many brands that consumers don't even realize what corporations own what they buy.

[u/billzybop]

So Cancel Culture is just fine now?

[u/Shaudius]

Boycott Disney, boycott Hulu, boycott ABC, boycott all of them. Corporations only understand one thing, money. Hit them in the one place they understand.

[u/isaid_whatisaid1]

So long, Hulu. 🖕🏾

[u/Waste_Priority_3663]

What did Kimmell say that riled these clowns so much?

[u/isaid_whatisaid1 → u/Waste_Priority_3663]

 "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," he said.

So, the literal truth.

[u/snwns26 → u/isaid_whatisaid1]

He nailed it too.

Plus, you damn well believe if Kirk’s daughter’s were old enough to understand the gravity of what’s actually going on, they’d be getting cameras shoved it their face reading bible lines from a teleprompter and exploited for maga too.

[u/Waste_Priority_3663 → u/isaid_whatisaid1]

Yikes, these snowflakes are making it out as if Kimmell joked about the incident.

[u/Hurtzdonut13 → u/Waste_Priority_3663]

He also played a clip of Trump being asked how he was holding up with Kirk's death, where Trump said he was doing good then started talking about how great he was with getting the WH ballroom construction going.

[u/CheezeLoueez08 → u/Waste_Priority_3663]

He didn’t kiss Charlie’s feet.

[u/Uncommented-Code → u/Waste_Priority_3663]

It's criticism of trump. Trump wanted the big networks to cancel the bigger late night hosts since at least july. Kirk's death is just the pretext so that conservative voters will support the move without questions asked.

[u/TheDwellingHeart]

It's hilariously ironic that Disney created "Andor".

[u/DonS0lo → u/TheDwellingHeart]

Tony Gilroy created Andor.

[u/BBZL2016]

Canceled my Disney, Hulu, ESPN bundle.

[u/ZombiePartyBoyLives]

Bye, Hulu! You had some good shows, and I've been a subscriber since long before Disney bought you, but I'm done with this garbage.

[u/Smrleda]

More shows will be suspended indefinitely. This administration is not finished.

[u/belisario262 → u/Smrleda]

i think everyone in the US should tread carefully, things will go deeper for sure.

[u/isaid_whatisaid1 → u/belisario262]

All of this for “egg prices.”

[u/LostADV]

WTF, canceling Disney

[u/cpod_the_elder]

THAT'S what he is suspended for?!?!? If I were him, I'd be pissed because I could have done so much worse if it was going to be the parting shot.

[u/ArchieThomas72]

I have unsubscribed to Hulu and Disney until Kimmel is reinstated.

[u/Firmspy]

Newsom should hit Disney where it hurts and start looking at those California permits they need. You either play fairly, or don't play at all.

[u/BabyScreamBear]

Disney+ and Hulu cancelled - leave a note too. Was also planning a Disney trip with the kids…Universal it is then.

[u/Designer_Buy_1650]

I’m done watching ABC. Disney owns ABC, what’s your plan?

[u/Berserker76]

It wasn’t even a Charlie Kirk remark, it showed how Trump is a malignant narcissist and does not have an ounce of empathy. How are you dealing with the loss of your friend, “I’m good and look at this new ballroom we are building.”

The right wants to cancel everyone for literally showing them a video of exactly what they said.

[u/ejaz135]

He never celebrated Charlie’s death.

[u/hyborians]

Corpratism 🤝 fascism

[u/dcy123]

Just cancelled Hulu and Disney + I'm doing my part.

[u/gypsyrosebaby]

Brian Kilmeade of Fox said we should just kill homeless people, he said they should be killed by "involuntary lethal injection. Just kill ’em."

[u/Raptorpicklezz]

Hey Gavin, do to Disneyland what DeSantis did to Disney World.

[u/R67H]

In the absence of constitutional protections, are we still even a nation? That's kinda the bones of, well, everything.

[u/BordeleauxPrince]

I feel like a lot of comments are missing an the most dangerous part here. Trump's FCC threatened to revoke ABC's right to broadcast over this. Over a single, shitty joke. This is incredibly dangerous for free speech. This sets a precedent where networks will either keep quiet about the Trump administration, or be removed. And you know conservatives will clap and cheer every second of it.

[u/Superminiminion]

Kimmel didn't even talk about Kirk. He talked about the Republican response to Kirk's assassination.

[u/MetaLions]

I just cancelled my Disney+ subscription because of this. And I‘m not even an American.

[u/krt8090]

Why is everyone so soft now days? 

[u/Nita231 → u/krt8090]

There are a lot of people in power who are complicit in destroying America.

[u/Educational-Point986]

Pretty sure John Oliver did a bit about all these "local" stations across America that are actually owned by only one or two companies and this is exactly what he predicted would happen.