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Protesting and Public Pressure on Corporate Stooges can Work [1]
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Date: 2025-09-20
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There’s one thing that Corporate CEOs fear more than unconstitutional threats from a geriatric buffoon — and that is loud and persistent threats, from their paying customers.
Threats to stop paying for their products. That apparently works.
Jimmy Kimmel and Disney Work to Reach Compromise to Bring His Show Back
Variety; via Cynthia Littleton and Brian Steinberg,; via MSN.com by — 09/19/2025
Jimmy Kimmel and Disney are working toward reaching a compromise that would allow "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to return to ABC. The veteran host's business and legal representatives are deep in discussions with Disney and ABC leaders in the hopes of finding a path to a compromise that would allow for the return of "Jimmy Kimmel Live," according to three people with knowledge of the situation.
[...] There is no guarantee Kimmel and Disney will come to terms on agreement to return to the airwaves, these people cautioned. Nor is it clear where Kimmel's mindset stands on what he would and would not accept from ABC as conditions of taking the stage again for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." It's understood that Kimmel is mindful of the effects a shutdown would have on dozens of his production staffers as well as vendors in Los Angeles who work on the show, according to one source with knowledge of the situation. The host is also aware some staff and crew members are still digging out of the financial hole created by the months-long writers and actors strikes in 2023.
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Corporations should not comply in advance to anti-American threats — just like regular citizens should not do.
Falling in line, without a fight — is exactly the proscription to END our experiment in democracy.
Who do they think will protect their income streams, once the Oligarchy gets fully entrenched. One only need look at other failed police-state, autocratic regimes around the world, to see how long they typically last.
And Newsflash: The Oligarchs themselves generally end up footing the bill, for the clueless leaders’ extravagant and reckless edicts. Demands to ‘pony-up’ time and time again.
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It is exactly the daring and fearless “entertainment” of comedians — and 1st Amendment advocates, like Jimmy Kimmel, et al. — that help to inform the common denominator viewers. Inform them of the “rising authoritarian tide” which threatens to “swamp all boats” … both corporate and working class boats, alike.
Buyers Beware. Now more that ever, in perilous times like these.
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Don’t be left “high and dry” — in a sea of endless muck.
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