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17 Sep 2025, 7:11 pm

Corporate America again demonstrates they lack vertebrae of any kind. Jimmy Kimmel has gotten the axe:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/abc ... 24518.html


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17 Sep 2025, 7:22 pm

If JKL is cancelled (from what I've read, the show was only suspended, though Jimmy Kimmel hinted that he might retire after his contract is up--this was before the suspension, though), and with the Late Show ending next year, I guess The Tonight Show is the last one.


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17 Sep 2025, 7:43 pm

right on schedule, Pam Bondi threatened to prosecute anybody who protests against right wing anything at all.



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17 Sep 2025, 8:54 pm

And to think, the only network I know of so far that stands up to Trump, is tiny Comedy Central.


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17 Sep 2025, 10:38 pm

I think they were looking to get rid of him and needed a reason, so they went with this. Also, there have been government employees getting fired for comments made about Charlie Kirk on social media. This is why I tell people do not allow your employer or anyone connected to the workplace have access to you on social media.

It's like Rahm Emmanuel once said " never let a crisis go to waste" and it seems Trump & co are doing just that.


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18 Sep 2025, 3:59 am

King Kat 1 wrote:
I think they were looking to get rid of him and needed a reason, so they went with this. Also, there have been government employees getting fired for comments made about Charlie Kirk on social media. This is why I tell people do not allow your employer or anyone connected to the workplace have access to you on social media.

It's like Rahm Emmanuel once said " never let a crisis go to waste" and it seems Trump & co are doing just that.


So don't be friends with co-workers on FB?


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18 Sep 2025, 4:32 am

Is it a coincidence Stephen Colbert (also not a fan of trump) was cancelled back in July?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20n4q0q9zqo

Perhaps Kimmel was also already in the MAGA crosshairs. this just provided the excuse



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18 Sep 2025, 5:52 am

Once upon a Time in America. ( There was a capacity for Free Speech )


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18 Sep 2025, 7:05 am

^^^ Not really, in the 1950s Americans were arrested or had to leave the country if they were accused of being a communist.



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18 Sep 2025, 7:22 am

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^^^ Not really, in the 1950s Americans were arrested or had to leave the country if they were accused of being a communist.


Yeah that is true. They referred to that decade as "McCarthyism", named after Jospeh McCarthy who was basically the Donald Trump of his time. :nerdy:



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18 Sep 2025, 7:32 am

I had a Japanese language school teacher that was rounded up and had to live in an Internment Camp.



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18 Sep 2025, 7:42 am

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I had a Japanese language school teacher that was rounded up and had to live in an Internment Camp.


Definitely a stain on America's history along with African slavery and the genocide of the indigenous people who were here first.

Also I don't like the way that a lot of fellow Americans I know feel essentially zero guilt over nuking Japan not once but twice. Hell they practically take pride in it and will say stupid crap like "It ended the war and saved lives!! !"

To me using the atom bomb was opening the pandora's box for our apocalypse. And it was a terrible thing to do to the Japanese even if they were our enemies at the time.



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18 Sep 2025, 11:26 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
King Kat 1 wrote:
I think they were looking to get rid of him and needed a reason, so they went with this. Also, there have been government employees getting fired for comments made about Charlie Kirk on social media. This is why I tell people do not allow your employer or anyone connected to the workplace have access to you on social media.

It's like Rahm Emmanuel once said " never let a crisis go to waste" and it seems Trump & co are doing just that.


So don't be friends with co-workers on FB?

Or, if you do have co-workers as FB friends, then don't talk about politics or anything else even remotely controversial on FB.

In general, unless you are earning a living from something related to politics, don't discuss politics in any online context where your legal name is visible.


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18 Sep 2025, 1:33 pm

Maybe Tucker Carlson or The Daily Show.


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18 Sep 2025, 4:57 pm

Daily Show's Desi Lydic basically did the same thing as Jimmy Kimmel, alluding indirectly to the shooter having MAGA influence and ridiculing trump's response to the shooting. Jon Stewart is coming out of retirement to cover for Kimmel.



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18 Sep 2025, 5:16 pm

Tucker’s podcast is his own opertion


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