Attribution: MAGA Speech Police by Rick McKee, CagleCartoons.com
39 thoughts on “PC or not PC?”
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
ABC has “indefinitely” pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air after Trump’s FCC chair criticized the host’s Charlie Kirk comments. “This is just the latest chapter in Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to crack down on free speech, dominate the media, and essentially render the First Amendment meaningless” says Chris Hayes.
News that ABC had suspended Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely from “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” moved like a tidal wave of alarm and dismay across social media Wednesday night.
As people announced that they were canceling their Hulu and Disney+ subscriptions in response to the decision, celebrities, TV writers and comedians condemned the silencing of Kimmel. Some issued calls to organize against the network’s actions.
Many of Kimmel’s comedy peers called the decision to cut his show censorship, symptomatic of creeping fascism that had suddenly creeped ever closer, or authoritarianism that was already here.
ABC suspended Kimmel because of comments he made on the show in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk. The late-night host criticized Republican reactions to the political identity of Tyler Robinson, who is charged with killing him.
Actor-comedian Wanda Sykes was booked as a guest on Kimmel’s show before the ABC decision was announced.
“So I’m in a full face of makeup because I was supposed to go over and have a chat with my friend Jimmy Kimmel on his show, but as you have heard by now, the Jimmy Kimmel show has been pulled indefinitely, abruptly, because of the complaints from the Trump administration,” Sykes said. “So let’s see. (President Donald Trump) 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.”
Jean Smart just won her third Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for playing Deborah Vance on the HBO Max series “Hacks.”
In the show’s most recent season, Vance is both a veteran comedian and a new late-night talk show host.
Smart posted a photo she took with Kimmel in sharing her response to his suspension on Instagram.
“I am horrified at the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel Live,” she said. “What Jimmy said was FREE speech, not hate speech. People seem to only want to protect free speech when it suits THEIR agenda. Though I didn’t agree at ALL with Charlie Kirk; his shooting death sickened me; and should have sickened any decent human being. What is happening to our country?”
Comedian Mike Birbiglia posted a handwritten note about free speech.
“I’ve spent a lot of time in public and private defending comedians I don’t agree with,” he said. “If you’re a comedian and you don’t call out the insanity of pulling Kimmel off the air — don’t bother spouting off about free speech anymore.”
Kathy Griffin pointed to the power of people’s wallets to make them heard about the loss of free speech.
“Please, take it from me, it is very important to have Jimmy Kimmel’s back right now,” Griffin said on Threads. “Be vocal. Be an ideological consumer. Money is all their crowd cares about.”
Kimmel’s suspension was announced just two days after he made the comments about the response to Kirk’s death on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Monday and three days after the 77th Emmys, where the late-night show was nominated for outstanding talk series.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing anything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on the show.
He then cued up footage of a reporter asking Trump how he was holding up while mourning Charlie Kirk.
“I think very good,” Trump said, quickly pivoting to talk about the construction of a ballroom at the White House.
“It’s gonna be a beauty,” the president said.
Later, Trump, reacting to Kimmel’s suspension while abroad in the United Kingdom, called it “great news for America.“ He went on to label Kimmel’s fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers “two total losers,” calling for their ouster at NBC as he had Kimmel’s at ABC.
The ABC decision arrives in a TV landscape of major money movements, as Variety and other outlets have reported.
Disney suspended Kimmel after Nexstar Media, which owns TV stations across the country, criticized Kimmel for his comments, saying that its stations carrying Kimmel’s show would be airing other programming instead of the late-night fixture.
Nexstar, which owns 32 ABC stations, is looking to acquire Tegna, another company that owns TV stations, for $6.2 billion. Such a deal would require the approval of the Federal Communications Commission.
Kimmel’s suspension came hours after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr railed against ABC for Kimmel’s comments.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said on a podcast with Benny Johnson, per Variety. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Marc Maron, actor-comedian, podcasting giant and New Jersey native, pointed to all of these connections in a video on Instagram (watch below).
“It’s happening,” Maron said. “Jimmy Kimmel has been muzzled and taken off the air by his network ABC, who are buckling to and trying to appease the Nexstar media conglomerate who have a lot of affiliates, and they threatened to preempt him at the suggestion of the FCC chair.
“This is government censorship,” Maron continued. This is the Trump administration coming after people who speak out against him. This is the end of it. If you have any concern or belief in real freedom or the Constitution and free speech, this is it. This is the deciding moment. This is what authoritarianism looks like right now. It’s happening. So if you’re a free speech warrior, or you really talk the talk about protecting free speech, this isn’t about saying the R word or the T word or any of that. This is government censorship.
“This isn’t f—ing Twitter,” he continued. “This isn’t people getting canceled because of a cultural pile-on. This is the United States government silencing voices that they disagree with. FCC Chair Carr put this out. This is his directive. This is the U.S. government. Look, if they can come for Kimmel, they can come for anybody.”
Maron urged people to “push back” — “because if this goes, it’s over.”
“It’s time to act,” he said in the caption of his post. “Organize, speak out, be peaceful, be urgent. It’s happening very fast.”
[…]
The Screen Actors Guild condemned Kimmel’s suspension.
“Our society depends on freedom of expression,” the labor union said in a statement.
“Suppression of free speech and retaliation for speaking out on significant issues of public concern run counter to the fundamental rights we all rely on.”
SAG called the suspension of Kimmel and the show “the type of suppression and retaliation that endangers everyone’s freedoms.”
Lawrence: Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel. So we’ll talk about Trump & Jeffrey Epstein
Desi Lydic covers Congress grilling Kash Patel over buried details of the Epstein files and Trump’s attempt to put an ocean between himself and the Epstein controversy via a castle-filled king cosplay in the U.K.
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Sep 18, 2025 #9News #BreakingNews #NineNewsAustralia
American late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air indefinitely after 23 years over a comment he made about Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin.
WASHINGTON—Corporate leaders regularly praise the Trump administration and its policies in public. Behind closed doors, their mood is darker.
At a meeting of CEOs and other executives on Wednesday convened by the Yale School of Management, dozens of America’s business leaders sounded off on their concerns about tariffs, immigration, foreign policy matters and what many described as an increasingly chaotic, hard-to-navigate business environment.
“They’re being extorted and bullied individually, but in private discourse, they’re really upset,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale management professor who organized the event, referring to recent deals that give the U.S. government a cut of certain Nvidia chip sales and a “golden share” in U.S. Steel.
The meeting included prominent corporate executives such as Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown, who also received an award for leadership; Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel; and Ethan Allen CEO Farooq Kathwari. Other attendees included the heads of major manufacturers, consumer brands, automakers, technology companies and investment firms. Many who shared their concerns Wednesday in the confines of a private conference room didn’t want to speak publicly for fear that their companies could be targeted by the administration or that they could attract criticism from Trump.
[continues]
looming shades of “1984” in latest ‘toon from Florida’s Andy Marlette
Well, Covid numbers are beginning to rise. Test positivity is up 6% over the past month or so, ER admissions are starting to rise, there’s a mild increase in deaths attributed to Covid – all according to CDC numbers. Time to change CDC leadership. Oh, wait…
Of course here’s the rub. We will not know what’s going on with Covid, flu, measles, hepatitis … you name the disease. Due in large part to the success of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, John’s Hopkins quit gathering Covid data in 2023 – it was the gold standard. Think we’ll be able to trust the CDC numbers under Bobby Brainworms and Jim O’Neill? If you think so, think again.
I’m with Lawrence…
“He didn’t end the Ukraine war… or solve Gaza… but he did end freedom of speech within his first year.”
Wanda Sykes reacts to Trump getting Jimmy Kimmel’s show pulled →
today’s meme…
RR, i was just researching the Nextar angle when you’re meme popped. There is a pattern here.
Here’s the receipts:
Nexstar is the largest local TV station group in the U.S., with over 200 stations or affiliate/partner stations in 116 U.S. markets.
Nexstar preempted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely on its ABC affiliates, citing Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk. That happened before/alongside ABC’s own indefinite suspension.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr publicly leaned on broadcasters over Kimmel and then praised Nexstar for pulling him.. That’s the same FCC whose sign-off Nexstar needs on a big merger.
Nexstar announced a $6.2B bid for TEGNA in August. That deal needs FCC approval (license transfers) and a DOJ antitrust review.
Trade/industry coverage is already connecting the dots outright: Deadline flatly notes Nexstar’s Kimmel decision lands while it “seeks FCC approval for [a] major merger.”
Sequence matters: Nexstar’s move came fast; ABC’s broader suspension followed. The timing is too neat to ignore.
Olbermann Contra Eiger.
Yesterday I drove up to my “local” (34 miles each way) H-Mart, large Asian market, because I ran out of things such as soy sauce, and other yummies that have no English on the labels. They sell the best fresh packaged BiBimBap ingredients and kimchi too. Other than being charged at by some self-righteous anti-service dog store employee trying to get me to leave, my shopping experience was more shocked by prices.
The produce was as usual exquisite, but the prices were so much higher than what I remember from January, the last time I was shopping there. U.S. produce was higher, probably over ten percent, but imported was probably twenty percent higher. Package goods were similar in price increases. It was the kitchen goods that were around thirty percent higher. A little electric cook pot went from twenty-four dollars to thirty eight dollars. I did see a few specials, Siracha sauce was on sale at four ninety-nine with a regular price of eight ninety-nine, which essentially was the regular price a year ago.
There were no shortages, all the products I usually looked at were there, regardless of country of origin. The pricing was so stunning. I used to shop there at least once each month. There are several reasons for not doing that since krasnov took office was I knew the prices would be higher. I expected shortages, those did not affect me.
What was surprising, not surprising, was the lack of customers. The store typically had three lines open all the time and there were always people in line, but not yesterday. Only one lane open and no line. The store also eliminated baggers, you have to bag your own groceries.
Free speech is dead in the Republican party. If you have access to this, read it. WaPo.
A resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) over comments and a social media repost she made regarding conservative leader Charlie Kirk’s death failed Wednesday.
The resolution was introduced under special rules by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) on Monday, fast-tracking it to a floor vote. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Massachusetts) introduced a motion to table — essentially, to dismiss — the resolution Wednesday.
The motion to table succeeded by a vote of 214-213, with four Republicans — Reps. Mike Flood (Nebraska), Jeff Hurd (Colorado), Tom McClintock (California) and Cory Mills (Florida) — voting with Democrats.
“This is a First Amendment issue,” Mills said. “We may not like or agree with what someone says, but that does not mean we should deny their First Amendment right.”
The vote followed bitter exchanges between Omar and Mace over social media.
Had the resolution succeeded, it would have removed Omar from her congressional committees for comments she made about Kirk during an interview with liberal commentator Mehdi Hasan. The resolution also criticized Omar for reposting a video to X from an anonymous user who called Kirk a “reprehensible human being” who was “spewing racist dog whistles” in his “last, dying words.”
During the interview with Hasan, Omar expressed “empathy” for Kirk’s wife and children but also chastised those who “completely pretend” that the conservative influencer just wanted a “civil debate,” pointing to his views on guns, slavery and George Floyd.
In the wake of his death, congressional Republicans launched an aggressive campaign to punish individuals they accuse of posthumously smearing Kirk, threatening to bring them before lawmakers, defund entities that protect them and oust them from positions of power….
IMHO this is an excuse to remove outspoken Democrats from committee assignments, eroding what power Democrats have in Congress, and has little to do with Republicans’ delicate sensibilities because they are speaking an uncomfortable truth about Charlie Kirk.
Thanks to the wise and noble voters in Nancy Mace’s district
🤮
you might as well acquaint yourself with the likelihood that Dems will not win midterms now
Republicans got wasted in Trump’s first midterm. They could do even worse in the next one.
And here in East Bumfuckistan…
Charleston, WV (WOAY) – West Virginia political leaders are planning a memorial vigil to honor Charlie Kirk.
According to a media release from the West Virginia House of Delegates, the memorial vigil is scheduled for Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. at the West Virginia State Capitol complex located at 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East.
Organizers for the event are calling the vigil, “Remembering Charlie Kirk – a Call to Courage.” The vigil is free and open to the public to attend.
State Senator T. Kevan Bartlett (R-Kanawha) and Delegate Jonathan Pinson (R-Mason), local representatives, pastors and Turning Point USA representatives, will lead the vigil. The keynote address will be delivered by West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey.
“Charlie Kirk’s life reminds us that one person with conviction can influence a generation,” Pinson said. “This event is about more than looking back; it is a call to each of us to stand with courage for the values that matter most.
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Trump says he is working to get Afghan air base from Taliban
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LONDON — President Donald Trump said that his government is working to regain U.S. control of Bagram air base from the Taliban in Afghanistan, describing it as “one of the biggest air bases in the world” and suggesting it is “an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”
“Okay, that could be a little breaking news,” Trump said during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back.”
Trump was speaking about the base as he criticized former president Joe Biden for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, which he described as a “total disaster.” Trump, who had made the initial plans to withdraw from Afghanistan during his first term in office, said that he would have done it with “strength and dignity.”
Located in the Parwan province of Afghanistan, roughly 40 miles north of the capital city of Kabul, Bagram had served as the center of a U.S. counterterrorism campaign across Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion. The base was originally built for the Soviet Union in the 1950s. With two large concrete runways, it was able to serve as the launch site for fighter jets, cargo planes and drones.
The base was handed over to the Afghan government in July 2021 as the U.S. military prepared to withdraw. It was overrun by Taliban forces the following month and has seen little use since then.
It was not immediately clear how far talks over the return of the base to U.S. control have progressed or how they were conducted.
Earlier this month, Adam Boehler, special envoy for hostage response, traveled to Kabul to meet with the Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. The Taliban later released a statement that said the two sides had agreed to a prisoner swap as part of an effort to normalize relations.
I’m embarassed USA not on this list…
The Cat’s in the Cradle and He’s Blocking the Door for Everyone.
Lotus the judgemental cat being extra judgy about Stephen Miller.
Renee,
Just curious – what’s the source of that list?
Pogo… good question.
It’s something called Auri Canada. I got if off of FB from a trusted friend.
Hah, found it. It’s SEA Infographics’ list of most loved countries in the world. Appears in Facebook from WorldAtlas and the annual Country RepTrak® report. A bit of the fine print explains it a little more.
could do even worse
assuming legitimate elections, do you think libprogs are more motivated and less intimidated than the kooks?
i don’t see it 🤷♂️
there is an uncaptured voting base out of there, as I mentioned before, uninvolved black women among them, but as I’ve demonstrated, it’s not going to be me that captures such potential voters, leadership is needed
That the Democrat political elite has not deliberately coalesced around one is rather disheartening to me personally
…and others, i’ve heard 😉
all your networks are getting crushed and everybody’s going to be afraid to go to public events though, sooooooooo
Anybody in one of those 20 countries wanna marry this hot tamale?
Wait, not one of the cold ones
like hey Dems pick one leader and get them out there, this is politics 101 come on
so much for smokey backroom decision-making eh
you CAN say to your maga pals: “so hey, you can see how all of your ‘powerful elite Dem’ conspiracy theories were obviously a lie now, right?”
The government’s lawyers acknowledged in their filing on Thursday that the Fed “plays a uniquely important role in the American economy.” But they told the justices that the Fed’s importance only “heightens the government’s and the public’s interest in ensuring that an ethically compromised member does not continue wielding its vast powers.”
.. as opposed to the ethically compromised 34 time felon trying to direct the use of the Fed’s vast powers? Please, god, would the federal courts please start invoking Rule 11 of the F. R. Civil Proc.
Save us🙏
Scared Yet?” isn’t just a joke — it’s the point. When the press goes quiet, power throws a party. Support local news and keep asking the question they hate most: Why are they so scared of questions?
Watch the short →
As I was saying…
It’ll be one nutzi rally after another…
I recall dems once held a funeral that turned into a pep rally and it backfired. Just sayin’ law of unintended consequences.
Glad to see my local branch of 2nd & Charles bookstore has a Banned Books display. I was tempted to move all the nearby editions of Hillbilly Elegy to those shelves but decided that might accidentally make them attractive.
Disney’s $15B Deal, Trump’s DOJ — and the Night Kimmel Went Dark — by Craig Crawford
Turns out there’s another plot point in the firing of Kimmel. Disney is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar merger that requires Justice Department approval.
Disney is playing the biggest hand in streaming TV since it bought Hulu — and the timing is impossible to ignore. The company is seeking federal approval for a multibillion-dollar merger with Fubo that could be worth $15 billion, while its ABC network just yanked late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, a persistent critic of the president. The move raises an unavoidable question: did Disney decide it couldn’t afford to offend the very administration that must bless its deal?
Disney’s proposed merger of Hulu + Live TV with Fubo could be one of the company’s most lucrative streaming bets yet, with analysts valuing the combined business at roughly $15 billion today and as much as $20-plus billion if subscriber and ad revenue targets hold. The deal would give Disney about a 70% controlling stake in the new venture, an asset expected to throw off $6 billion a year in revenue right away and grow toward $7.5 billion by 2028.
Because this is effectively Disney buying and absorbing another live-TV streaming platform, it falls under federal antitrust review. The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is already investigating whether the transaction could reduce competition in sports streaming — the same DOJ that just months ago joined lawmakers in blocking Disney’s previous sports streaming joint venture, Venu Sports. The deal can’t close without the DOJ giving at least a quiet nod.
All this lands just as Disney’s ABC network abruptly pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air. Kimmel has been one of late-night TV’s most consistent and visible critics of the president. The timing invites uncomfortable questions: was this a business decision made in a vacuum, or a strategic move by Disney to avoid angering an administration that holds the fate of a multibillion-dollar merger in its hands?
sources:
— FuboTV Inc. & FuboTV Media Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. (Amicus Brief by US DOJ)
— Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Letter to DOJ Antitrust on Disney-Fubo Acquisition (Feb 19, 2025)
— DOJ “Second Request” Directive, Formal Anti-trust review in Disney-FUBO
ABC has “indefinitely” pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air after Trump’s FCC chair criticized the host’s Charlie Kirk comments. “This is just the latest chapter in Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to crack down on free speech, dominate the media, and essentially render the First Amendment meaningless” says Chris Hayes.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/comedians-writers-and-celebrities-react-to-jimmy-kimmel-s-suspension-at-abc-what-is-happening-to-our-country/
Lawrence: Trump wants us to talk about Jimmy Kimmel. So we’ll talk about Trump & Jeffrey Epstein
Desi Lydic covers Congress grilling Kash Patel over buried details of the Epstein files and Trump’s attempt to put an ocean between himself and the Epstein controversy via a castle-filled king cosplay in the U.K.
back to cancel culture and how it went down according to our friends downunder
Sep 18, 2025 #9News #BreakingNews #NineNewsAustralia
American late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air indefinitely after 23 years over a comment he made about Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin.
CEOs toe the line outside but inside’s a different story according to WSJ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/inside-the-room-where-ceos-say-what-they-really-think-of-trump-s-policies/
looming shades of “1984” in latest ‘toon from Florida’s Andy Marlette
Well, Covid numbers are beginning to rise. Test positivity is up 6% over the past month or so, ER admissions are starting to rise, there’s a mild increase in deaths attributed to Covid – all according to CDC numbers. Time to change CDC leadership. Oh, wait…
Of course here’s the rub. We will not know what’s going on with Covid, flu, measles, hepatitis … you name the disease. Due in large part to the success of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, John’s Hopkins quit gathering Covid data in 2023 – it was the gold standard. Think we’ll be able to trust the CDC numbers under Bobby Brainworms and Jim O’Neill? If you think so, think again.
I’m with Lawrence…
Wanda Sykes reacts to Trump getting Jimmy Kimmel’s show pulled →
today’s meme…
RR, i was just researching the Nextar angle when you’re meme popped. There is a pattern here.
Here’s the receipts:
Nexstar is the largest local TV station group in the U.S., with over 200 stations or affiliate/partner stations in 116 U.S. markets.
Nexstar preempted “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” indefinitely on its ABC affiliates, citing Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk. That happened before/alongside ABC’s own indefinite suspension.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr publicly leaned on broadcasters over Kimmel and then praised Nexstar for pulling him.. That’s the same FCC whose sign-off Nexstar needs on a big merger.
Nexstar announced a $6.2B bid for TEGNA in August. That deal needs FCC approval (license transfers) and a DOJ antitrust review.
Trade/industry coverage is already connecting the dots outright: Deadline flatly notes Nexstar’s Kimmel decision lands while it “seeks FCC approval for [a] major merger.”
Sequence matters: Nexstar’s move came fast; ABC’s broader suspension followed. The timing is too neat to ignore.
Olbermann Contra Eiger.
Yesterday I drove up to my “local” (34 miles each way) H-Mart, large Asian market, because I ran out of things such as soy sauce, and other yummies that have no English on the labels. They sell the best fresh packaged BiBimBap ingredients and kimchi too. Other than being charged at by some self-righteous anti-service dog store employee trying to get me to leave, my shopping experience was more shocked by prices.
The produce was as usual exquisite, but the prices were so much higher than what I remember from January, the last time I was shopping there. U.S. produce was higher, probably over ten percent, but imported was probably twenty percent higher. Package goods were similar in price increases. It was the kitchen goods that were around thirty percent higher. A little electric cook pot went from twenty-four dollars to thirty eight dollars. I did see a few specials, Siracha sauce was on sale at four ninety-nine with a regular price of eight ninety-nine, which essentially was the regular price a year ago.
There were no shortages, all the products I usually looked at were there, regardless of country of origin. The pricing was so stunning. I used to shop there at least once each month. There are several reasons for not doing that since krasnov took office was I knew the prices would be higher. I expected shortages, those did not affect me.
What was surprising, not surprising, was the lack of customers. The store typically had three lines open all the time and there were always people in line, but not yesterday. Only one lane open and no line. The store also eliminated baggers, you have to bag your own groceries.
Free speech is dead in the Republican party. If you have access to this, read it. WaPo.
IMHO this is an excuse to remove outspoken Democrats from committee assignments, eroding what power Democrats have in Congress, and has little to do with Republicans’ delicate sensibilities because they are speaking an uncomfortable truth about Charlie Kirk.
Thanks to the wise and noble voters in Nancy Mace’s district
🤮
you might as well acquaint yourself with the likelihood that Dems will not win midterms now
Republicans got wasted in Trump’s first midterm. They could do even worse in the next one.
And here in East Bumfuckistan…
🙄
You have got to be friggin’ kidding me. WaPo.
I’m embarassed USA not on this list…
The Cat’s in the Cradle and He’s Blocking the Door for Everyone.
Lotus the judgemental cat being extra judgy about Stephen Miller.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lotuspurrspective/p/the-cats-in-the-cradle-and-hes-blocking?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Renee,
Just curious – what’s the source of that list?
Pogo… good question.
It’s something called Auri Canada. I got if off of FB from a trusted friend.
Hah, found it. It’s SEA Infographics’ list of most loved countries in the world. Appears in Facebook from WorldAtlas and the annual Country RepTrak® report. A bit of the fine print explains it a little more.
assuming legitimate elections, do you think libprogs are more motivated and less intimidated than the kooks?
i don’t see it 🤷♂️
there is an uncaptured voting base out of there, as I mentioned before, uninvolved black women among them, but as I’ve demonstrated, it’s not going to be me that captures such potential voters, leadership is needed
That the Democrat political elite has not deliberately coalesced around one is rather disheartening to me personally
…and others, i’ve heard 😉
all your networks are getting crushed and everybody’s going to be afraid to go to public events though, sooooooooo
Anybody in one of those 20 countries wanna marry this hot tamale?
Wait, not one of the cold ones
like hey Dems pick one leader and get them out there, this is politics 101 come on
so much for smokey backroom decision-making eh
you CAN say to your maga pals: “so hey, you can see how all of your ‘powerful elite Dem’ conspiracy theories were obviously a lie now, right?”
I.Just.Can’t.Stand.It. NYT.
.. as opposed to the ethically compromised 34 time felon trying to direct the use of the Fed’s vast powers? Please, god, would the federal courts please start invoking Rule 11 of the F. R. Civil Proc.
Save us🙏
Scared Yet?” isn’t just a joke — it’s the point. When the press goes quiet, power throws a party. Support local news and keep asking the question they hate most: Why are they so scared of questions?
Watch the short →
As I was saying…
I recall dems once held a funeral that turned into a pep rally and it backfired. Just sayin’ law of unintended consequences.
Glad to see my local branch of 2nd & Charles bookstore has a Banned Books display. I was tempted to move all the nearby editions of Hillbilly Elegy to those shelves but decided that might accidentally make them attractive.
Disney’s $15B Deal, Trump’s DOJ — and the Night Kimmel Went Dark
— by Craig Crawford
Turns out there’s another plot point in the firing of Kimmel. Disney is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar merger that requires Justice Department approval.
Disney is playing the biggest hand in streaming TV since it bought Hulu — and the timing is impossible to ignore. The company is seeking federal approval for a multibillion-dollar merger with Fubo that could be worth $15 billion, while its ABC network just yanked late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, a persistent critic of the president. The move raises an unavoidable question: did Disney decide it couldn’t afford to offend the very administration that must bless its deal?
Disney’s proposed merger of Hulu + Live TV with Fubo could be one of the company’s most lucrative streaming bets yet, with analysts valuing the combined business at roughly $15 billion today and as much as $20-plus billion if subscriber and ad revenue targets hold. The deal would give Disney about a 70% controlling stake in the new venture, an asset expected to throw off $6 billion a year in revenue right away and grow toward $7.5 billion by 2028.
Because this is effectively Disney buying and absorbing another live-TV streaming platform, it falls under federal antitrust review. The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is already investigating whether the transaction could reduce competition in sports streaming — the same DOJ that just months ago joined lawmakers in blocking Disney’s previous sports streaming joint venture, Venu Sports. The deal can’t close without the DOJ giving at least a quiet nod.
All this lands just as Disney’s ABC network abruptly pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air. Kimmel has been one of late-night TV’s most consistent and visible critics of the president. The timing invites uncomfortable questions: was this a business decision made in a vacuum, or a strategic move by Disney to avoid angering an administration that holds the fate of a multibillion-dollar merger in its hands?
sources:
— FuboTV Inc. & FuboTV Media Inc. v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. (Amicus Brief by US DOJ)
— Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Letter to DOJ Antitrust on Disney-Fubo Acquisition (Feb 19, 2025)
— DOJ “Second Request” Directive, Formal Anti-trust review in Disney-FUBO
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nice work, Mr. C 🫡
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