Disney wants Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric, as well as provide an apology to Charlie Kirk’s family and donate to his right-wing organization, Turning Point USA
Ahahaha, fuck Disney!
Apparently they had a reconciliation meeting with Kimmel this week, asked him to do all this, and Jimmy’s counteroffer was to give the same fuck-off speech he had planned to give anyway. This is how it should be done.
The only way to fix this is through Trump. Enjoy your match against Trump, Disney. We will be entertained.
All impacts were discussed. Disney did expect this.
don’t believe a word of this
Outcome predictions probably came from a room filled with bean counters at the behest of a soulless wraith in a suit saying that profits would be maximized because 51% of subscribers would continue buying Disney+. But now they’re realizing that the blatant 1A violation profits were slightly below the 50% margin so they’re all shitting their pants trying to fix the fuckup that came about because people aren’t robots and MAGA cultists are less of their demographic than they’d anticipated.
I think they barely cared, and still don’t care. It barely constitutes a footnote.
“A larger amount of subscribers will ‘churn’ this month and we have reason to believe most will be back to watch the next season of Andor.”
Yep. They knew exactly what was going to happen and calculated that this is the best option.
Seriously? Fucking how did they not expect this? These companies were already facing a festering hatred for the past several years, how on earth could they claim to be surprised? Come on, these executives are idiots, but they aren’t stupid.
So they’re gonna uncancel Kimmel, right? Or are they gonna fire even more of their own talent that has been speaking out against their fealty to fascists?
Didn’t they try to but he refused to accept their terms by not apologizing? (I don’t watch Kimmel but he earned my respect for that.)
Same, I don’t dislike Kimmel but just never really watched him. Still cancelled Disney+ even though I have a kid that will be very angry not having Bluey on demand.
It’s us against them for at least the next ~3.5 years (hopefully not longer),
Well personally I’d go the piracy route and get Stremio + Torrentio + Real-Debrid. That way the kid will stay happy and you’ll sleep easy knowing that you’re not giving Disney a single cent.
Kid can just move on to something else. There’s plenty of content out there even without sailing the high seas
It’s worse they also demanded a donation to tpusa.
Remember the end of the lion king when scar gets eaten by his army of hyenas?
They can’t bring him back because they don’t want to piss of Tump.
They can’t keep him off air and not lose paying customers.
There is no fixing this. They made their choice, now suffer the consequences.
They didn’t expect people cancelling? Oh boy then Disney has much bigger problems than this.
I want the executives to come out now and say “look this was an honest mistake, we’re terribly sorry we let it appear that we continue to support and bend the knee to a dictator.”
Then watch as all the people who cancelled Disney+ and Hulu not give a flying fuck.
The freedom of speech, is arguably the most important right we have. Without it? We have no rights. The second amendment becomes useless. The third becomes useless. There becomes no point in having the fourth. The fifth becomes unusable. The sixth becomes needless effort. The seventh is pointless, as then double jeopardy can just be said it ISNT double jeopardy because the government says so and your arguments against it are illegal speech. 8 and 9 pretty much mean you can’t voice opinions that would affect those two. And 10 can no longer be argued against the executive.
Trump and ABC, in my mind, crossed a line that they were foolish to cross before they had concrete power. They have too much power now, but they do not have nearly enough to squash the entire country in opposition.
According to the article it looks like executives are pissed at the CEO and pointing out that the previous CEO’s short tenure was partly due to caving to Florida’s homophobic laws
They need to bring back Michael Eisner.
But he’s Jewish!
The second amendment
becomesremains useless.Well its currently the leading cause of child deaths in america because less kids are being killed by cars than they used to.
So less than useless.
I meant as far as the original purpose goes, certainly it has caused a lot more suffering than prevented tyranny in any way.
I will lose all respect for Kimmel and refuse to watch him if he accepts their proposal to make an apology and donation. Nothing he said warrants that. Plus unless he switches to constantly kissing Trump & MEGA asses, they will be trying to shut him down again in the near future. Unless Trump is gone, all US media will soon be propaganda only. Maybe he can get picked up in the UK or EU or Canada instead.
Maybe he can get picked up in the UK or EU or Canada instead.
Don’t look to us to solve your self-inflicted problems for you.
We’re already too busy protecting ourselves from the chaos of the USA’s implosion.
The one consideration he should have is making sure his writers and crew have jobs. Jimmy himself will be fine, but that’s not true of all of them.
Which is why it’s important that the WGA has put out a statement of support.
If anyone is about to reply “it doesn’t matter unless they’re willing to strike”, please go read up on how unions operate first. A strike is your big gun, and you don’t bring it out on a whim.
Wasn’t TELLING him to donate a considerable amount extortion? No one merely suggested he make a contribution. Hmm. I think Kimmel’s lawyers won’t let him accept their proposal.
As OP said, I doubt Kimmel viewers would let him accept it either.
It’s lose on all fronts if he does.
I read somewhere (unconfirmed but I’m hopeful) that Kimmel is suing Disney for $1 BILLION over this.
Anything that causes the Walt Disney Company to lose money is a good thing.
You can ask for however much you want in a lawsuit. It’s fiction.
In the US. Other countries have better civil laws.
Yeah but he can probably get a lot. His entire brand has been destroyed by the government, this is some China-level shit. Bet he could get 300M easily.
Maaaybe? It’s all hypothetical as we don’t even know what he would sue for.
Trump’s the outward facing person.
Because despite popular belief, the left has never been good at cancel culture. That’s always been a right-wing thing. And they are aware of that. So I’m sure they were shocked that the left could boycott in an effective way like the right has in the past.
Just look at the Charlie Kirk aftermath. How many people lost their jobs because they showed the wrong emotion and posted about it? I haven’t heard of a single person on the right fired for threatening retaliatory violence.
How many jokes did I hear about Nancy Pelosi’s husband?
That’s the thing that actively pisses me off the most. The right has been fucking monsters when it comes to their reactions to violence like that. Absolute, psychopathic, proudly hypocritical monsters, willing to joke about an elderly man being assaulted in his home because he happened to be the husband of a Democrat. And silence when asked about whether urging their sick followers to commit violence might be leading their sick followers to commit violence.
And the murders that took place in Minnesota a few months ago? Jokes and silence there, too.
But a late-night comedian says something that isn’t even disrespectful or in any way condones violence, just acknowledges the kind of person Kirk was… and they lose their fucking minds.
Always remember this, folks: It’s all performative. They don’t actually care. They know Kimmel didn’t say a goddamn thing that could be interpreted as support for violence. They know.
Time to tap the “Wilhoit’s Law” sign again:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
The hypocrisy is central to the brand.
And it came from the highest level - Orange Jesus cracked some “jokes” about it. So did his son.
Kirk himself said “some patriot should go bail that guy out” or something similar.
I would so love to see some of them actually lose their fucking jobs for the death threats they made right after Kirk getting popped.
I live in a red state. I’m constantly surrounded by pro-slavery confederate flags, open threats of violence in the form of punisher and 2A bumper stickers, and then direct calls for violence against all of “the left”.
I’ve never considered calling their employers just to see which ones are okay with terroristic threats.
Live in a red town and also been seeing 3%’er and “shoot your local pedophile” window stickers a lot lately. The amount of murder fetishization over on that side of the aisle is sickening.
If you see the “shoot your local pedophile” sticker tell them suicide isn’t a good option and they should get therapy
by “shoot your local pedophile” clearly they meant “make a pedophile the president”.
Just look at the Charlie Kirk aftermath. How many people lost their jobs because they showed the wrong emotion and posted about it? I haven’t heard of a single person on the right fired for threatening retaliatory violence.
Though only tangentially related, the fact that this man still has a job tells you everything you need to know about these alleged “conservative values”. (like so many countless examples before)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/business/brian-kilmeade-fox-news-apology-homeless
Gone nowhere have they? I can’t imagine why.
These are the times that try men’s souls. They are also the times that put the “Fuck You” in “Fuck You Money”.
Jimmy did nothing wrong but they want him to apologise AND donate to a hate group? Fuck that bullshit.
Hey, Disney shareholders! Wanna know what’ll get us to start watching Marvel movies or Star Wars or Pixar again? I’ll bet you do! And it’ll be easy.
Just demand the resignations of any person who decided to bow to fascism. Give them all the boot. Show them the door. Then bring in folks who actually give a shit about whether or not this country remains viable as a place to do business beyond this fucking quarter. Oh, and while you’re at it, get some diversity, equity, and inclusion going on.
Who are you worried about losing by doing that? Right-wing conservatives? They already hate you, and watch Veggie Tales instead! Stop trying to cater to people who think your whole business model - depicting strong princesses for kids - is evil incarnate because they’re not barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
Ball’s in your court, Disney!
I started boycotting Disney when they bought Fox and became way too close to a monopoly for me to be comfortable with them. I’ll continue to boycott them until their financial situation becomes so dire that they have to start selling off their major IPs instead of buying more.
Speak for yourself, I haven’t paid for anything Disney for years because of the way they’ve been abusing copyrights for decades.
Fair point. Add it to the list!
I’d also want them to start writing those movies well before I start watching them again. That might be more of a challenge.
VeggieTales is giving them too much credit - there’s good moral lessons in there! (And the creator said all the botanically-fruit male veggies are canonically trans??)
I’m happy to watch it but I wont pay for it
Lol what? There’s no profit/loss calculation between any number of consumers vs a fascist admin more than willing to chop you up and eat your corporate lunch. Their revenue could get cut in half and bending the knee is still the right business choice.
Their business model is selling media, they don’t give a shit if they need to write out every minority princess protagonist for a white Jesus. So yeah, kill the scape goat, get some brownie points and wait for the media shit storm to blow over by next month.
