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1 minute ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Thanks for the invite. Where is it?

Is there a secret surly handshake or shoulder check or something I need to know?

You have to make a one-time $350 donation to Antifa.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Thanks for the invite. Where is it?

Is there a secret surly handshake or shoulder check or something I need to know?

The password is "muledick"

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Cancelled all Disney and Hulu live this morning, will switch to YTTV.  Given the horns games so far this year I am not sure how much I am going to miss sports.  As I’ve gotten older I’m having a hard time caring as much.

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Posted (edited)
11 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

I may just go buy a big ass external and torrent every disney thing I can. Sports streams aren't that hard to find.

Every movie they have ever made took like 2hr with a shit number of peers and a VPN through a foreign country last year. Pirating has never been faster.

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55 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

That's the only answer.  Even if 1% of its subscriber base canceled Disney+--and that would be a metric fuckton of people--that's a tiny price to pay for Disney to remain in the regime's good graces.

If, however, the talent refuses to produce the content, that's a gamechanger.  Nobody pays for Disney+ for movies that came out 30 years ago.  It requires new content to command the fees they charge.  If the talent goes on strike, then Kimmel is back in a couple weeks.  If they don't, then I don't want to hear all their overdramatic speeches at the Oscars about how democracy is at risk.

There might be something to this as the unions are speaking out.

https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-live-trump-abc-cancelled-fcc-free-speech-2131701

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Hollywood rallies behind Jimmy Kimmel after ABC suspension

Major Hollywood figures are defending Jimmy Kimmel after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely following his remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The move, prompted by backlash from affiliate owners and FCC pressure, has sparked outrage across the entertainment industry.

Actors including Ben Stiller, Wanda Sykes, and Jamie Lee Curtis voiced support for Kimmel, while SAG-AFTRA condemned the suspension as a violation of free speech. Critics say the decision reflects growing political influence over broadcast media and raises concerns about censorship in an election year.

Sykes commented on the issue, saying: "Let's see. He didn't end the Ukraine war or solve Gaza within his first week. But he did end freedom of speech within his first year. Hey, for those of you who pray, now's the time to do it. Love you, Jimmy."

One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush said: "The First Amendment doesn't exist in America anymore. Period. Fascism is here and it's chilling."

"@jimmykimmel his humor, his insights are important to keep showing us who we are. AND he is a most wonderful fellow," actor Henry Winkler tweeted.

 

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10 hours ago, NYTransplant said:

I read this, and then I look at Bud Light and Cracker Barrel. If boycotts don't work, someone please explain how the fuck these corporations just roll over for MAGA's whining.

Cracker Barrel caved to investor pressure, first and foremost. Yeah, Trump whined about it on TV, but the reality is they wasted $700m on turning a good logo into a shitty, sterile one and it was their own fault. It's not like the government was going to or threatening to shut down Cracker Barrel for adopting a boring logo.

Bud Light drew the ire of MAGA for the Dylan Mulvaney (sp?) thing but it was a one-off collaboration that wasn't meant to be continuous in the first place and they didn't actually do anything in response to MAGA whining (unless you count their later partnership with the UFC, I guess?), they just kind of weathered the storm. The boycott was real and it did cost them some money but there was no real action taken that could be considered "caving" from what I recall.

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Oh No!  Death of Democracy!  The Constitution in tatters......

 

Hahahahahahahahahaha..... FUCK Jimmy Kimmell 

 

Now go ahead and neg me into Bolivia.....

 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

Cracker Barrel caved to investor pressure, first and foremost. Yeah, Trump whined about it on TV, but the reality is they wasted $700m on turning a good logo into a shitty, sterile one and it was their own fault. It's not like the government was going to or threatening to shut down Cracker Barrel for adopting a boring logo.

Bud Light drew the ire of MAGA for the Dylan Mulvaney (sp?) thing but it was a one-off collaboration that wasn't meant to be continuous in the first place and they didn't actually do anything in response to MAGA whining (unless you count their later partnership with the UFC, I guess?), they just kind of weathered the storm. The boycott was real and it did cost them some money but there was no real action taken that could be considered "caving" from what I recall.

Bud Light did hire Shane Gillis to be their spokesperson in a huge effort to move away from any association with LGBTQ folks. (Except during Pride Month then it’s “slay queen”) so I wouldn’t say they did nothing in response. 

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1 minute ago, turtlepond said:

Oh No!  Death of Democracy!  The Constitution in tatters......

 

Hahahahahahahahahaha..... FUCK Jimmy Kimmell 

 

Now go ahead and neg me into Bolivia.....

 

Is this how you cope with voting and supporting someone who likes to rape children? Let me guess, you go to church and have kids of your own? 

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3 minutes ago, turtlepond said:

Oh No!  Death of Democracy!  The Constitution in tatters......

 

Hahahahahahahahahaha..... FUCK Jimmy Kimmell 

 

Now go ahead and neg me into Bolivia.....

 

Pussy.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, turtlepond said:

Oh No!  Death of Democracy!  The Constitution in tatters......

 

Hahahahahahahahahaha..... FUCK Jimmy Kimmell 

 

Now go ahead and neg me into Bolivia.....

 

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regardless if someone likes Kimmel or not, or they completely disagree with what he says, any American should be concern when a President shuts down a critic because of what he says. But many won't because they're happy with this outcome.

I don't think that I will struggle much to boycott ABC, ESPN and Disney. I don't believe they get any of my money even indirectly through other subscriptions. 

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Posted
14 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, you could avoid going through any legitimate Disney/ABC/ESPN channel.  Have your cake and eat it too.

eat your cake and have it to ....ted k 

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10 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

But you are paying for it. And you know it. Tell Verizon you don't want it, and drop your rate or you will switch to Metro. 

 

 

 

9 hours ago, Burt said:

Same!  I'm stuck between being pissed at Disney and pissing off Verizon, who has been trying to entice me to switch plans for years to get me off Disney/ESPN/Hulu.

Yea I think I am fucking them harder by keeping this.  This is a legacy plan that they have tried for years to get me to drop by offering everything they can think of,  but I just keep on keeping on.  The plan is cheaper then their current  unlimited plans and included Disney/Hulu+ for free.  I will have to figure out a different way to join the movement.

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When Colbert got fired, there was some cover provided by the network saying the show was too expensive to continue. But let's be real, that was Trump bullying CBS. 
So now Colbert and Kimmel are gone, and Trump is immediately taking aim at Fallon and Seth Meyers. Trump is threatening reporters to their face on the White House lawn. The inability of so many people to take a step back and see what's happening is truly frightening. 
 

Trump was asked a question about what Pam Bondi had said about hate speech, and Trump immediately attacked the reporter. It ended with “Maybe they (DOJ) will go after you next!”.

You would think something like that would garner a lot of attention. But no not really.
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The FCC chair Brendan Carr says that Kimmel appeared to mislead the public and that his jokes upset people and were not funny.

Appear to mislead. Upset people. Not funny. Whatever happened to the Right offending as many people as possible and then falling back to the excuse that they were only making a joke and people need to get a sense of humor?

If anyone doesn't see that the Right doesn't plan to ever relinquish power, they're blind.

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Posted
10 hours ago, PhillyD said:

I think in order for this to work, the talent needs to participate too.  Most of the actors and producers would probably be on board.  What would be huge would be if the sports workforce got involved and I doubt they would.  Loss of subscribers plus a refusal of talent to work for ABC until the decision is reversed would have an impact.

But acting greats like Kevin Sorbo, Chachi, Dean Cain and Jon Voight would just step up and save them.

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I've never watched a single minute of Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon or Seth Meyers, unless you count me watching the monologues that apparently got Kimmel cancelled. None of them should be silenced by the government. If a Charlie Kirk impersonator was on NBC, ABC, CBS, etc., repeating his views at 10:30 every night the government shouldn't threaten the networks' licenses over that either. The people that laugh at folks identifying the assault on America's core beliefs will eventually feel the loss of American freedoms at the hand of the government.  

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Posted (edited)
7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Appear to mislead. Upset people. Not funny.

That describes literally every right wing media outlet. 

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1 hour ago, Modessit said:

They make their money off ad revenue. If you're watching the ad, then it worked.

ABC only cares about shutting down the streams because of the NCAA or conference copyrights. Just like the NFL is getting them shut down. I doubt the networks care that much about a feed that can be picked up for free with an antenna.

They're only getting money off of ads if they can meter them. In a digital age where your cable company knows exactly what the fuck you're watching at any one time, the metrics show one person watching, not the other thousand people watching the stream. And if it's from OTA then they don't even have that metric.

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1 hour ago, Modessit said:

They make their money off ad revenue. If you're watching the ad, then it worked.

ABC only cares about shutting down the streams because of the NCAA or conference copyrights. Just like the NFL is getting them shut down. I doubt the networks care that much about a feed that can be picked up for free with an antenna.

You have zero clue what you're talking about. 

 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Honestly, fuck going to the games and fuck UT. The student government just canceled about 30 student organizations that they did not agree with after some fuckhead frat boy got elected student body president, and then colluded with the administration to strip the student court of any and all power to check the student president. This had affected hundreds of students and no one even fucking knows about it. 

Link?

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Democrats getting a spine?  Probably too much to hope for.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-68cc022e8f0816a4522bd35a#block-68cc022e8f0816a4522bd35a

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Top House Democrats are calling on Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to resign over the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show.

The congressional leaders accuse Carr – who runs the US’s media watchdog – of engaging in a “corrupt abuse of power” by “bullying ABC” and forcing the media company to “bend the knee to the Trump administration”.

Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, minority whip Katherine Clark, Democratic caucus chair Pete Aguilar, as well as other leading Democrats in the lower chamber, all said the move to take Kimmel’s show off the air “will not be forgotten” and promised an investigation if necessary.

"Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s war on the first amendment is blatantly inconsistent with American values. Media companies, such as the one that suspended Mr. Kimmel, have a lot to explain. The censoring of artists and cancellation of shows is an act of cowardice. It may also be part of a corrupt pay-to-play scheme. House Democrats will make sure the American people learn the truth, even if that requires the relentless unleashing of congressional subpoena power."

 

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1 hour ago, Brian Fantana said:

Cracker Barrel... the reality is they wasted $700m on turning a good logo into a shitty, sterile one and it was their own fault.

That price right there is why they're a moronic company. I suspect all the best logos in history were produced by throwing a week's pay at a couple of in-house graphic designers, and the CEO and a couple other guys looked at them, couldn't decide, and had the secretary pick one out.

As for football, if you OD missing it, just go sit in a bar. They're paying for it whether you're there or not.

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The government of the United States, via multiple officials of said government, is using the power of the state and the threat of state action to silent political speech.  And not a peep of concern, resistance, argument, anything from the "true American Constitution-loving patriot" supporters of the regime.  Not a fucking peep.

Tucker Carlson has more fucking integrity and love of the Constitution than any of them.  Chew on that awful fact.

Any MAGA who tells you that they are a Constitution-loving patriot is not just an idiot, they are a fucking liar.  The ACLU believes in PRINCIPLES (like those in the Constitution), and will defend those principles regardless of the viewpoint; they've defended hippies, they've defended actual Nazis.  But MAGA?

Brian Kilmeade can call for fucking mass-murder of people.  He just issues a milquetoast apology.

Kimmel says something that's true -- AFTER making unambiguous statements about Kirk's murder being wrong, sympathy for Kirk's family, etc. -- and the government gives ABC a "get rid of him or else" message.  

Make the message that Kimmel said whatever you want.  Shit, make Kimmel a right-winger who stood up and just lied and said Charlie Kirk never said anything about worrying about a black pilot because DEI....and imagine the government telling his employer "get rid of him, or we'll pull your license."  If you are okay with that, even a little bit, you are a fucking fascist who literally hates America, freedom, liberty, and the Constitution.

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52 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

When Colbert got fired, there was some cover provided by the network saying the show was too expensive to continue. But let's be real, that was Trump bullying CBS. 

So now Colbert and Kimmel are gone, and Trump is immediately taking aim at Fallon and Seth Meyers. Trump is threatening reporters to their face on the White House lawn. The inability of so many people to take a step back and see what's happening is truly frightening. 

 

I continue to realize I over-estimated the intelligence of about 70% of the people in this country. 

16 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

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100% of libertarians are frauds, take two.

His x post is incredibly stupid. It’s obvious the corporations are trying to steer clear of government abuse. 

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Kimmel’s cancellation confirms what many suspected after Colbert’s

Media companies must punish Trump critics if they want their mega-mergers approved.

WaPo opinion piece: https://archive.ph/Y2ht1#selection-265.0-279.28

It doesn't really touch on any new ground but I found this eye-opening:

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But it reads as one, because the decision to target Kimmel appears to have very little to do with the public interest and quite a bit to do with the private interests of the parties concerned.

In the least surprising news in the world, Nexstar is seeking approval from President Donald Trump’s FCC to acquire Tegna, another media company. The $6.2 billion dollar deal would transform Nexstar-Tenga into an unprecedented mega-company whose reach would grow to 80 percent of U.S. households. There’s a hitch: A long-standing broadcasting rule prevents any one company from reaching more than 39 percent of U.S. households. So Nexstar doesn’t just need the FCC’s approval; it also needs the FCC to change that rule, or the deal can’t go through.

Luckily for Nexstar, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has signaled he’s open to ending “arcane artificial limits” on station ownership.

 

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Posted
13 hours ago, Foosters said:

Why are you guys watching ESPN to begin to with?

They are all secretly turned on by a sleeveless Pat McAfee.

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Posted
57 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The FCC chair Brendan Carr says that Kimmel appeared to mislead the public and that his jokes upset people and were not funny.

Appear to mislead. Upset people. Not funny. Whatever happened to the Right offending as many people as possible and then falling back to the excuse that they were only making a joke and people need to get a sense of humor?

If anyone doesn't see that the Right doesn't plan to ever relinquish power, they're blind.

Good. Let's get this shit over with.

Posted
1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

Cancelled all Disney and Hulu live this morning, will switch to YTTV.  Given the horns games so far this year I am not sure how much I am going to miss sports.  As I’ve gotten older I’m having a hard time caring as much.

Subscribing to YTTV still puts money in ABC’s pocket, but I guess it’s better than subscribing to the Disney, Hulu package. I’m rolling off Uverse this week and was planning to get the Hulu Live ESPN package. I will switch to YTTV as at least a tiny protest.  

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1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

Lol imagine being so unimportant to everyone in your life that you run to a message board trying to get negged so you can feel like somebody finally paid attention to you. Hahaha. 

It's what they do.

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The talent really should go on strike or the only jobs they will get in the near future is making MAGA propaganda content.



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