MOUSE TRAPPED: Disney is experiencing "not massive" protests & Disney Plus Subscription Cancellations

[Miles Archer]

Deadline executive editor Dominic Patten said that he's hearing Disney may back down after public backlash over the yanking of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, nearly 24 hours after the news broke, Patten said, "There is some hope that they can find a pathway back," speaking about ABC's parent company Disney.

"Jimmy Kimmel is still hosting 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'" he noted. "But it's going to be a hard road because we've seen the repercussions of this. There are protests happening outside the Disney offices in Burbank. There are protests happening on Hollywood Boulevard. Are they massive? No, but they're they're there. People are canceling their. Disney+ subscriptions. Are they massive? No, but they're there," Patten noted.

The "fact of the matter is there's always been a tendency in American life — we saw it with the Smothers Brothers in the '60s. We saw with Bill Maher in 2002, who got canceled because he said that he would not accept calling the 9/11 terrorists cowards. He called them terrorists, but not cowards. That was how Jimmy Kimmel got his show in 2003, because of that. Irony of ironies, unfortunately," Patten recalled.

https://www.rawstory.com/jimmy-kimmel-2674008035/

[Crunchy Frog]

1. If he comes back I bet he'll be extremely careful about what he says in the future.

I doubt it will be a genuine victory for freedom of speech.

[hamsterjill]

9. They will hold his crew positions over his head, I'm sure.

He's got money and probably doesn't have to worry. I remember his sadness when his son was ill, and I just felt he was a genuine human being after that. But I'm sure the executives will hold the jobs of his crew, etc. over his head to try to force him to do what they want him to do.

[Chasstev365]

2. MORE PLEASE!

[pcdb]

3. Somehow Trump made Democrats join Republicans in boycotting Disney.

These are strange times.

[Justice matters.]

15. Not enough. People need to boycott ABC itself

Easy: Stop watching ALL of abc cowards. End of diffusion. All of their crap.

[newdeal2]

4. The protests should be massive

ABC offices are mainly in LA and NYC.

[popsdenver]

7. The protests

should have been MASSIVE since the Presidential Election in 1980, when HWBush committed TREASON to steal the election from Carter.
AND in 2000......2004......2016....etc etc etc.

The perfect title for a book on the last 45+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Or while they doom scrolled or played video games and then sometimes slept.

[ananda]

16. Yes, that was really underhanded and dirty.

Almost as bad as what the Dulles Brothers and the
MIC did to Kennedy.

[pat_k]

18. So many events that also earned the title: None Dare Call It Treason

Bugliosi was absolutely correct. By every definition, Bush v. Gore was a treasonous act committed by five black-robed traitors. (His article None Dare Call It Treason, and the expanded case in his book, The Betrayal of American.)

What is almost more difficult to bear is that the original betrayal of Bush v. Gore was compounded by the failure of members of Congress to defend against that treason by rejecting the Florida electors on 1/6/01.

It was one more intolerable treachery in a line of treacheries committed by Republicans in the years before and since.

Of all the treacheries, the day the Florida electors (unlawfully appointed pursuant to an election that was incomplete under Florida law) were counted; the day America allowed a decision to betray our most essential right -- the right to cast our vote and have that vote accurately counted -- to stand, is the one that is burned in my mind as the event that set us on the road to hell

And so here we are. Now, every mechanism by which the will of the people is measured, and every mechanism by which our will is made manifest through the executive branch, is being corrupted beyond all recognition.

I will never lose hope that we can turn the tide and redeem our national soul. Keeping hope alive is an act of wil. It is an act of will that must be renewed again and again because hope is the life's blood of resistance.

Who knows? Perhaps we are in the darkness before the dawn. Perhaps, like the alcohol abuser spurned to recovery when they "hit bottom," the outrages being committed by the 47 regime will spurn enough Americans into action to spark massive changes for the better.

And when I feel overwhelmed, when hope feels out of reach, I find inspiration wherever I can find it. This is my latest go to:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Eibfo6IkBhE

[Rebl2]

5. Glad they

are experiencing some backlash.

[Endlessmike56]

6. I can't see Kimmel holding back.

I’d like to see him , Colbert, and whoever else gets canned form some type of collaboration and keep targeting this administration

[ReRe]

8. I predict that it's going to be "a hot time in the old town tonight" this weekend!!!! n/t

[Mblaze]

11. Further proof that this Right Wing purity test

Has been going on a long, long time.

Instead of "America Love It Or Leave It" it's now "We're The Real Americans So Bugger Off".

[allegorical oracle]

12. The only thing big corporations understand is their bottom lines. Have seen

various boycotts accomplish more -- and faster-- than even the large protests. When Musk's businesses received bad publicity and the car owners started getting publicly mocked, he began shrinking away from the spotlight to work on repairing his reputation. We the people can speak with our feet and our wallets.

[Justice matters.]

17. Call for a national boycott of ABC and all of their crap.

No more "tuning in" anything they produce. En masse.

NOW they'll have a real reason to be cowardly scared!

[moonshinegnomie]

13. I've heard Kimmel is looking for an out on his contract

My hunch is he ends up elsewhere on a streaming network the moron can’t control

[crud]

14. His first show back...

Cold opening as if in North Korea...

His monolog being continuously interrupted by phone calls from the criminal president suggesting jokes.

Holding his script with 90% redactions and telling non-sensical jokes because of the redactions.