Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are 'against' him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended
Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are 'against' him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended
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.”
I bet you if more of our corporate leaders demure to his craven demands that he'll just go away and be reasonable.
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.
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.
I'm not sure why people expected them to do anything else.
These companies exist to make money not resist fascism. If they can do both that's great but they will always choose money.
They have no morals and they don't care what happens in the world so long as stock ticker goes up. The incentives don't allow for anything else.
They are extremely stupid, ignorant, gullible, and malleable If the media pulled out all the stops, they could convert them easily.
Except that MAGA is immune to facts and logic. It's all Fox News/OANN/AmericaFirst or whatever that thing from Steve Bannon is called.
The US is officially the North Korea of the western hemisphere.
Team North Korea World Police
Um... forgot about UK?
UK is North Korea of the West's little brother.
Classic government censorship. Just the threat qualifies. Kimmel and Colbert should be suing 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.
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?
Now that's what I call Facism
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Actually, that makes a lot of sense...
Given that Trump is the best president ever (I'm sure I have heard people say so), then anyone who opposes him is, ipso facto, an enemy of the state and should be treated as such.
The more I think about it, the more obvious it is. I mean, why even have another election?
What an awful mobile site. The don't is so big there's 1-2 words per line
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?
It doesn’t even feel like the number is rising substantially since I’ve been following this website.
What a whiney fucking baby. Someone needs to change his diaper... AGAIN
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.
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.
No, the majority will blindly consume whatever's the easiest to get access to.
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.
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.
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.
He's gonna do to TV what he has done to manufacturing. What a guy.
Someone pull tRump's license...
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
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.
We can't pull licenses for death threats to homeless people, that provoked the murder of them, but we can for this? I don't know what the disconnect here is for people to not be terrified of this administration and the direction it is going, that they aren't becoming active in opposition. Oppose the politics, the businesses, the media, the communities and the people who support this. There will be no safe spaces from the violence of the state and it's allies. They must be disempowered before it gets to that point.
That's means voting in every election you are eligible to across all levels of government and for politicians who are clearly and absolutely opposed to this and are actively opposing it. That means taking actions that confirm the integrity of the democratic system and taking actions to make it known and work to make sure it is.
That means spending money only at businesses who are clearly and absolutely opposed to this are actively opposing it.
That means disengaging from media sources that provide content that supports this fascism, gives voice to those that do and that does not openly and actively impose it. They have crossed so many lines already that it should not even need to be said that it is already too far.
That means only engaging in communities that are clearly and absolutely opposed to this and are actively opposing it.
That means only maintaining relationships with people who are clearly and absolutely opposed to this and are actively opposing it.
Doing this looks different for everyone and only individuals can figure out the details of moving their life towards resisting the fascist takeover of the American civilization, it is not just the government, it is the entire civilization.
If I asked what you are doing in your daily life to better oppose this shit, and you have no answer, then you failing yourself, your country and the future generations that will have to suffer under the boot of dictatorship. You are not alone in this, there are allies all around you, but we all need to start walking the direction we know we need to go to find each other on the path.
The best time to start was yesterday, the second best time is today.
We are fucking terrified. Please tell us what you're doing since apparently you're the only one who knows what to do
So long, freedom of speech.
This is what happens when fascism goes unchecked. Fuck dumpy.
Say goodbye to SNL.
Frankly, hardly any of them deserve broadcast rights anymore. They sold out decades ago and it will never be enough. We need ferocious, independent, professional journalists, not billionaire minions.
Another day another treason
Yep, that's a fascism.
I'm about to have a really angry 8 year old.
Imagine if he didn't do these interviews on his plane. Might be a less uncohesive interview if he didn't.
Threatens seems like a more appropriate word than floats.
Oh boy I hope this is what makes groceries, gas, and housing cheaper. So much winning everywhere!
That's sure to stop them broadcasting.
I can’t wait until they pull his plug
What a loser.
Pull em you dumb fucking fascist. Who uses rabbit ears anyway?
Trump: Death sentences with no trial for everyone involved!
He’ll start deporting citizens to Venezuelan boats…
Got some bad news, dumb-dumb: most of the country is against you, Taco.
Are they though? Seems like there’s still a lot of brainwashed turds out there?
As prescient as ever.
WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!?????
You have better ideas on how to advance a fascist regime? Stick with the classics for success, media control is very important.
Wtf watches that shit anyways. Just use peer tube and it will help the Google dependency of the population. Only problem is, they are probably coming after Fediverse soon.
^ this is what being terminally online looks like.
Being a subculture of a subculture and thinking everyone else should just shift to your thing. While also belittling the thing that nearly everyone outside of your hyperfixation uses and takes for granted.
Honestly I think I should take your "terminally online" comment to heart and touch grass today. I think you just knocked me out of my phone holding slump.
I'll switch to PeerTube when it has something to watch on it other than random news segments in French.
Who cares, only old people watch cable TV. Can they do the same to streaming services or youtube?
Yes
Can you show me a source on that? From what I can tell they don't regulate any streaming services yet.
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.
No, no, capitulate up stupid!