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(128,712 posts) Thu Sep 18, 2025, 03:16 PM Yesterday

Jeff Tiedrich - ABC can pretty much fuck all the way off

no, seriously. fuck you, ABC. fuck all the way off. start fucking off over here, and then just fuck yourself all the way over to there — and then keep on going, until you’ve fucked yourself right to the very edge of the universe.

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ABC announced on Wednesday evening that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after conservatives accused the longtime host of inaccurately describing the politics of the man who is accused of fatally shooting the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

unlike with CBS’s shitcanning of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, ABC and their parent company, Disney, aren’t even pretending to come up with some bullshit cover story about canceling the show for ‘financial reasons.’ no, they’re straight up admitting they just folded like a pack of cards.

“In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say, senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed.”

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We are all now subject to the whims of an insane, demented old man. sop Yesterday #1

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1. We are all now subject to the whims of an insane, demented old man.

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(TPM) "What matters is we are are all now subject to the whims of a coercive government that runs roughshod over the Constitution and its protections. It matters that corporate America is not holding the line against Trump, instead capitulating in what it perceives as its own business interests. It matters that the broadcast airwaves — a public commodity that belongs to all of us — have been co-opted like so many other public goods in service of Donald Trump and his personal and political interests. It matters that the rich, the powerful, and the well-connected are vulnerable to Trump because that means we all are."

"Some say it’s short-term thinking by businesses. I hope we’re that lucky and that it’s not a reflection of long-term strategy based on a cold-eyed view of the world. Regardless, the capitulation only gets you so much, fleeting protection from Trump’s racket — and now he knows you’ll pay to play. He’ll come back later, asking for more to secure further protection. The price will go higher as your leverage diminishes."

"In the week since Kirk was killed, we seen an astonishing restriction of free expression. We usually refer to it as a chilling effect. It is that, but so much more. The rules of the new game are being written. How far you can go, who gets to decide, who gets to enforce it, and who is exempt from enforcement entirely."

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