cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36374796
The abrupt programming decision quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America under the Trump administration.
By John Koblin, Brooks Barnes, Benjamin Mullin and Michael M. Grynbaum
Sept. 18, 2025Mr. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, and Dana Walden, his head of television, were also hearing from skittish advertisers and employees who had begun to receive threatening messages. When the team reviewed Mr. Kimmel’s planned remarks, they grew concerned that his monologue would only inflame the situation further.
So they made the call: “Jimmy Kimmel Live” would temporarily go dark.
That decision — the product of a spider’s web of interlocking political and financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest corporations — quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America. Many Democrats, actors and comedians cried foul as right-wing activists celebrated. On a diplomatic trip in Britain, President Trump knocked Mr. Kimmel for “bad ratings” and proclaimed that ABC “should have fired him a long time ago.”
Crazy how the saying “the 2 companies you dont want to fuck with are Disney and Nintendo” is now down to just Nintendo. I never thought it possibly the Mouse would be a pussy bitch, but here we are
The real lesson here, if you’ve watched Andor, is that nobody is coming to save you. There’s no jedis, no magic, no superhero, no company coming to save you. There’s only what you can do. If you are able to join up with your friends and neighbors, all the better, but even then there’s no savior coming. Not even Nintendo.
Everything is in our hands and in our hands alone.
Lots of love, friend.
Bending the knee to a weak little bitch like Trump is just embarrassing.
Nintendo just doesn’t give a fuck.
It’s also a Japanese company why does it care about American politics.
Nintendo is using American politics right now to get away with their anti consumer behavior knowing the Trump administration isn’t going to do shit about it.