ABC Affiliate Owner Demands Jimmy Kimmel Make Charlie Kirk Donation

Not to mention both Sinclair and Nexstar are publicly traded companies. Surely getting involved in politics to the point where you are denying your viewership popular programing would eventually negatively affect shareholder value?

I think if I had shares in either of these companies I'd be questioning the leadership of the organization.

I sure hope someone is keeping stock. Taco himself does so many egregious acts that I can barely keep up with what he did this week, nevermind what he's done so far in this disastrous second term.

There are often times when someone will bring up something from his first disastrous term and I'll have this feeling of - oh yeah, how could I have forgotten about that?

And that's just him. Then there are all the things being done on his behalf by all his Little Eichmanns both when he was in office and not...there is a lot to track. And some of these assholes are so old - like, say, Roger Stone or Bannon - that they will likely die of old age before they get properly sent to (or back to) prison.

I have a feeling a lot of them are going to definitely attempt to do the modern equivalent of burn their Nazi uniforms afterwards, too, and the "liberal media" will do all the heavy lifting to sane wash these dickheads as much as possible. So I'm sure many, probably most, will escape justice.

I don't know if the rot can be cleansed without a complete collapse of the country, which won't have the infrastructure to go after the fascists.

It's probably another example of Murc's Law. And once you see Murc's Law in action, you can never unsee it. You'll see it everywhere, and every day.

https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/

Murc’s law is named after the insight of the eponymous LGM commenter that, in American politics, only Democrats are assumed to have agency. Republicans are like rocks rolling down hill or perhaps sharks eating seals: they do what they do because that’s just what they are, so there’s no point in holding them responsible for anything, since they could not do o[t]herwise.

[emphasis mine]

That great description from : https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/the-paradoxical-limits-of-murcs-law

Two things can be true at the same time.

Bad take. It's not hindsight when everyone was screaming about it, again, literally over a decade ago, and no attempt was made by the Obama or Biden era FCC to regulate it. Maybe you personally weren't aware of how dangerous this issue was becoming, but many of us were, including, importantly, Democrats in Congress.

When a train is heading for you, and you see it several minutes away, it's also your responsibility to step off the tracks before it actually runs you over.

He and Colbert and Stewart should legit start a new network and just constantly troll the regime. Maybe get Al Franken too - I’m still pretty livid about how he got character assassinated by the fucking DNC.

Hell, maybe they can rope in some actual progressive members of congress (AOC, Tlaib, Sanders, Porter, and so on - but absolutely not the ones who only pay lip service, and fucking NONE of the old guard or corporatists or neoliberals or political consultant class) and seriously bootstrap an actual progressive party to challenge and supplant the Democratic Party. If they were to do that, I’d definitely be willing volunteer my time and expertise to help them make it work.

He’s got a few hundred employees that are out of work. I wouldn’t be surprised if he bends if only to keep their paychecks.

Oh, thank you for the correction. I just did a cursory look and didn’t see them being involved.

Funny I was just joking how Canada is definitely going to be the 51st state unless we put Kirk on our money instead of King Charles