Classic government censorship. Just the threat qualifies. Kimmel and Colbert should be using their networks and the Trump Administration for censorship and violating their 1st Amendment Rights.
They probably don’t have standing to sue. The First Amendment is a restriction on government and not the networks, and the Trump administration’s assault on the First Amendment is against the networks and not the hosts.
The fascists are being more careful about who and how they target their enemies than people realize.
It has come out that most of the execs at ABC were against the Kimmel “suspension,” but the few top decision makers were concerned about Trump pulling their broadcast license.
So this was a decision to censor based on pressure from the administration. That is classic censorship, and a violation of the 1st Amendment.
It was the same for Colbert. If CBS wanted government approval for their sale, they had to shut him up. Again, classic censorship.
Each of those hosts makes millions each year, and probably had another 20 years on their careers. Then there are all the crew members out of work. It would be a great class action lawsuit.
But against who?
The Trump admin didn’t fire them, and the networks can fire them. It’s the network that has standing to sue the administration, but they won’t.
If donny taught us anything it’s that we can insult whoever we want - Jimmy only reacted to and followed donny’s own playbook.
donny should be flattered.
I bet you if more of our corporate leaders demure to his craven demands that he’ll just go away and be reasonable.
These media outfits have forgotten the old saying “Don’t fuck with people who buy their ink by the barrel.” If these networks got together and started a strategic media campaign against Trump and MAGA, people would be demanding their heads in 8 weeks, even many MAGA followers. They are extremely stupid, ignorant, gullible, and malleable If the media pulled out all the stops, they could convert them easily.
The problem is, those media companies are becoming owned by conservative companies, and now CBS is owned by Larry Ellison, 2nd richest man, and a vicious Psychopathic MAGA. ABC is owned by Disney, who seems to have no problems appeasing the administration. And NBC is owned by Comcast, a company who consistently places at or near the top of the worst customer service. They clearly don’t care how their customers feel.
These broadcast companies are perfectly comfortable playing along with, and being media shills for, the MAGA Nazis.
Exactly, spineless fuckers can’t stand their ground at all in the situation where it is known that if you ignore him - he can’t do anything about it.
The US is officially the North Korea of the western hemisphere.
Team North Korea World Police
Um… forgot about UK?
It doesn’t even feel like the number is rising substantially since I’ve been following this website.
The challenge is that workers in the States aren’t sufficiently organized to weather a general strike (much less coordinate to start one). So how do we get sufficient mutual aid in place so that workers have the support they need to strike?
Thought people were being hyperbolic about trump packing the supreme court. This guy has wasted no time completely destroying any shred of legitimacy the supreme court has ever had. I kind of see this as a positive. Now people see that trusting the supreme court with interpreting the constitution is extremely dumb. If one president can pack the court with fascists what’s the point in even having this system? Obviously our constitution was never meant to be beneath the supreme court. This is an extremely clear violation of the right to free speech and of a free press. Our 1st amendment, not even our 2nd one.
He’s gonna do to TV what he has done to manufacturing. What a guy.
Hey Disney/ABC, capitulation hasn’t worked. What’s your next move?
Capitulate harder
Guess I’m going to have to torrent Disney’s new film, 50 shades of Mickey.
Fervently waiting their next film, Triumph of the Birth of the Will of a Nation (after they finish editing out all the woke parts)
No, no, capitulate up stupid!
What a dumbfuck; doesn’t realize everybody is against him.
Just watch how 51% of voters will vote for him again, because the opposing party’s candidate isn’t a saint actually and might have some flaws.
Hahaha, who am I kidding, there will be no next free election, nobody will need to vote anymore.yeah, after reading your comment, I realize I meant something slightly different than I wrote. So to clarify… a lot of people are on-board with the “policies” he’s pursuing since the policy is always some variation of “crime with impunity” for people on his side. There are hordes of people who want to get in on that. Nevertheless, they don’t like him, don’t trust him, don’t believe anything he says; and they wouldn’t hesitate to stick a knife in his back if a better option emerged.
Not everybody, apparently a lot of americans are ok with all this.
I mean, if they weren’t ok with it there’d be a visibly decent amount of push back about it all. Yet all they’ve done is post memes, and went out and had a walkabout with some signs a few months ago.There are massive protests they just don’t cover them on TV and YouTube.
The people saying that shit want us to just shoot everyone while they don’t have to face any of the potential consequences and are safe.
“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Martin Niemöller, a German Lutheran pastor and anti-Nazi dissident. 1945 after being imprisoned for opposing Hitler.
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That’s because a lot of this hasn’t really started to affect them yet. Sure he has his merry band of loyal supporters but there’s also a lot of people who are just not really very politically aware and aren’t paying attention.
Think about your grandparents or if you’re old enough just your parents. They sit around watching fox news and seeing posts on Facebook and they assume that those are viable sources of trustworthy information. Which obviously they are not.
At some point in the next few years they will start to wonder why the shelves are always empty now, and why are the products they do have so expensive? Also why are so many businesses closing, I was told the economy was doing well.
Getting the media to lie for you only works for so long.
they will start to wonder why the shelves are always empty now, and why are the products they do have so expensive?
And fox/oan/whatever will convince them it’s because of the illegal trans immigrants and they’ll vote for whichever fascist shows up after Trump dies.
Getting the media to lie for you only works for so long.
For Hitler, it worked until the Russians were literally on top of him and he was putting a bullet in his own head. And this was after years of his cities being bombed into rubble.
One thing that has been an eye-opener about all of this is how much cowardice there is in the U.S… It’s easy to talk a big game about free speech and freedom of the press, but when push comes to shove, most buckle.
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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Now that’s what I call Facism
Say goodbye to SNL.
Fucking do it. When the only news feed people have access to is state sponsored Fox News and AI generated MAGA memes on Facebook maybe we’ll get enough people waking up to make a difference.
My brother in christ. They are pulling people from the streets. They are re-writing what schools have to teach. They are removing references to an inconvenient history (slavery). They are calling for civil uprising. They are denominating opposing political groups as terrorists.
If people haven’t snapped out of it now, they definitely won’t when only state sponsored news is on the air.
Live in a right wing state…
They’ll still call it the “Liberal media” any time it says ANYTHING against their world view. Fox is “liberal media” around here.
No, the majority will blindly consume whatever’s the easiest to get access to.
I am not 100% sure about that. I could see some growing quite bored with their options and maybe waking up. I can see some falling into The Algorithm and getting way, way radicalized into more Nazi stuff.
But yeah, if Taco even takes away the soma, it might be that some people get well and truly pissed. At him. And the Republicans and the conservatives that are destroying this country.
Yeah, admittedly it is probably wishful thinking on my part.
And this is why you never give these people what they want.
Imagine the shitshow if the FCC pulled ABC’s broadcasting license for hurting the administrations feelings. They should have played hard ball.
The government can’t stop ABC from broadcasting… Especially if laws have no meaning…why would they care?
If you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative on in years or something, somebody said.
So, he basically read some ragebait on Facebook
