The full might of Sinclair's *kulturkampf* couldn't withstand wine moms being angry for a single week. These people are weak and fragile and we can and will win.

The pressure on KOMO 4/Sinclair advertisers is working. Seattle Theater Group and Seattle Opera say they are no longer advertising on KOMO. More info on companies that advertise on KOMO is here: www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/...

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

our great american corporations, everyone: run by panicky dipshits who have no idea what they're doing

doomers: there’s not going to be elections in America ever again me: if they can’t even cancel an entertainer due to popular pushback what the fuck makes you think they can cancel elections

the entire second term is just going to be one long object lesson in why corporations used to want their customers to think of them as apolitical

Last week, Disney/ABC caved to Trump administration pressure. Millions of Americans helped them find their backbone. Whether you watch Jimmy Kimmel or not, today's decision is a victory for free speech. We've reached out to WABC to reschedule the town hall.

i kind of think the failed circus around charlie kirk is the bigger one, but they’re both symptoms of the same thing

"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel

They are in such panic mode right now, lol. The Mando movie opens in late May, there are other big Disney/20th Century films lined up for release before that (such as 'The Devil Wears Prada 2') that don't even have theatrical trailers out. It feels like "Uhhhh, uhhhh- LOOK, a Star War!"

The beauty of art and life and nature isn't always in what is permanent. Things do last, but those that don't take on their own eternity - as what they're made of is gifted to them from the stars to be molded into limiltless forms. And that perseveres long past the physical forms they take.

Never listen to anyone who talks like if you haven’t lit the world on fire by 30, or even 40, it’s just too late for you. If you’re breathing it’s never too late, and figuring yourself out is an ongoing journey.

All these nazis ever wanted was to make the rest of us take them seriously and treat them with respect. Nothing rattles and throws them off their game more than being laughed at. THAT is what the Kirk censorship is about, especially the attack on Kimmel.

I get panicked sometimes watching the elite institutions capitulate, but it also reminds me: we are a country full of cussed people who keep finding creative ways to liberate ourselves despite the elites' best efforts.

Even after abusing his power to get Kimmel fired, Trump is still seething with resentment. Hopefully to the point of ill health. KEEP RIDICULING THEM, THEY CAN’T HANDLE IT.

Like if they could, Sarah McBride would've been expelled a long time ago. She hasn't because they realistically can't do so and I don't think anything they attempt will change that. It's a difficult road ahead of us, yes, but it's a road we will make it through and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

If there's one thing that gets on my nerves more than doomerism, it's fearmongering with exaggerated or inaccurate info. It's not a hopeless situation. They can't just snap their fingers and it's all over. It never has and never will work that way, especially for such an incompetent administration.

once again there is some distance between how much a collaborating party thinks they're collaborating and how much the administration thinks they're collaborating

To fuck things up, because Bob Iger.

I'm not particularly a Jimmy Kimmel fan but I have never wanted to watch anything more than I want to watch this Jimmy Kimmel monologue right now

bringing iger back has been kind of a disaster for disney

also confirms @proptermalone.bsky.social's theory that they never intended this to be permanent. whoops.

the most interesting part of this reporting is that they didn't pull him off the air for what he had *already* said, they pulled him off the air for what he was *going* to say, which, i expect, has them in quite the pickle now, because he's unlikely to be *more* conciliatory after this

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Anyways, never forget Ken Klippenstein was an Assad dickrider and was spending the night before Russia invaded Ukraine smugly poasting about how this was all a propaganda move by AmeriKKKa to justify nuking Moscow or whatever.

And are we really going to entertain the idea that the FBI that's been so hollowed out they probably wouldn't have caught that kid that iced Charlie Kirk if he hadn't told half his block about it is going to monitor every trans person in the US?

Like, let's assume the "secret watchlists" are true (I'm willing to entertain the idea, although "COINTELPRO never stopped" is somewhat bold, the FBI got ripped a new one in the 90's). The thing about a secret watchlist is that it's secret. They can't stop someone from buying a gun with it.

If you are in a position where you 1) Are subject to an obvious profit motive by keeping your readerbase in a space where they're *almost* about to undergo total nervous collapse, and 2) are obviously acting in accordance with that motive, you are a horrible person.

I just find everything feels a bit better when I watch this.

Broke: secession Woke: Just make more unions

As a Disney fan myself, I’ll say that cancelling your Disney+ membership is one thing, but if there’s something else you have where you put a bigger investment towards something Disney related like a trip to the parks, threaten the company of taking that away from them so that they set things right.

Disney execs and Jimmy Kimmel are meeting today to discuss the future of his show. The parties will discuss whether there’s a way to have Kimmel’s show return. (Source: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)

Not one damn thing that has happened in the last year would have been remotely believable to any media dude 10 years ago.

a last thought on this whole mess for the night: this is terrifying but it is an overreach one of the foundational myths people build their conception of america on is "land of the free" and "regime cancels comedian it doesn't like" is cartoon villain shit this is a winnable argument

@oliverdarcy.bsky.social's reporting on ABC's suspension of Kimmel suggests that the company has no idea what to do and took him off the air temporarily to try to make the problem go away while they figured it out. That means they can be pressured. www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

The Trump presidency never really came off the rails the first time. Not even during COVID. Their second outing, however, seems like it's headed for an implosion before the first year is even over

This tells me Nexstar and Sinclair have too much power over the broadcast networks that they can strongarm them

yeah. so Nextar isn't popular... so people are blaming Disney. to the point of calling for ANYTHING associated with it to be boycotted. (like it's valid to hate a billion dollar corporation... but there's a rational level some people go way beyond.)

also looks like this situation was more on Nextar than Disney anyway.

I think it is unfair to the other people that company employs to boycott literally ANYTHING afilliated. it's easier to pick and chose which parts to boycott. especially when it's a company that owns like 70% of mainstream media.

corporations aren't people. They may legally have protection as them, but in real life, a corporation is not a single person. it is an entity made up of hundreds of thousands of people. and usually it's only one or a few people with too much power making all the terrible choices.

there's a fucking reason for the "views are of the individuals and not the company" disclaimers, you know.

Friendly reminder that there's a HUGE difference between supporting the creative side of Disney and the corporate side of Disney. One cares about the art they make, the other doesn't. #disney #minivent

Anyways, the worst people in the country run the country, and the corporations go where they smell the money. They’ll all conveniently change their tune when MAGA comes crushing down, as if it were some phase moooooom. Don’t let em forget.

I remember on the other place, there were Disney fans who were weirdly stannish of Iger. A literal CEO. Because under him, Disney bought Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm… like? You’re cheerleading that?

Thing is, Iger was never good, and all that hype about him was overblown. Yeah sure, he undid some of his predecessor’s mess and got the machine running okay again, but big deal, anyone could’ve done that. And all those acquisitions set us on the path to this hellscape.

I think that a lot of this stuff is going to turn people in a way the establishment is really not expecting.

it's extremely funny to me that the more they act like caricature insane radicals, changing everything all at once and immediately because they think they can and it'll end great for them, the more the fundamentally-conservative "the hell're you motherfuckers doin' over there?" is kicking in

I feel so bad for Jared and his crew they really don't deserve this