Our modern-day history lesson

[Mac1958]

Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are ‘against’ him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended

Looking at 2025 current events from a historical perspective. Say, 90 years ago:

A bold and brash intruder enters the scene, painting a picture of a once-great country that has fallen victim to "the other". He describes a current distopia so brutal and unforgiving that widespread pain and suffering are only days away. Then he announces the classic promise: "Only I can fix this", and enough of the public believes him and grants him power.

With each new individual and troubling move, the leader has two critical groups enabling him -- an intimidated and compliant government that is essentially paralyzed, and the street-level "useful idiots" (Lenin's term) who have an immediate, impulsive and aggressive excuse for the move, questioning the patriotism of anyone who doesn't comply, issuing vague threats of retribution.

Then the moves just keep piling up, and become more commonplace and normalized through sheer repetition. A large segment of the population are just living their lives and not paying particular attention to the details. One by one, corporations bend the knee and comply/capitulate. One by one, media outlets make their changes. One by one, opposing voices go quiet. What was once alarming is now just part of a daily flow.

And then, one day, it's in full effect.

God damn. Now we know what it looks like. Now we know "how they could have let this happen". I really didn't need to learn this first hand, though.

 

[Rogue AI]

Perhaps the real problem is businesses finally decided profit was more important than the loony leftwing agenda, particularly in the media. The People also decided that enforcing our laws superceded the immigration anarchy brought by Obama and then Biden. Try harder, your TDS insanity is getting old.

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

Dear Leader floats pulling licenses if networks are ‘against’ him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended

Looking at 2025 current events from a historical perspective. Say, 90 years ago:

A bold and brash intruder enters the scene, painting a picture of a once-great country that has fallen victim to "the other". He describes a current distopia so brutal and unforgiving that widespread pain and suffering are only days away. Then he announces the classic promise: "Only I can fix this", and enough of the public believes him and grants him power.

With each new individual and troubling move, the leader has two critical groups enabling him -- an intimidated and compliant government that is essentially paralyzed, and the street-level "useful idiots" (Lenin's term) who have an immediate, impulsive and aggressive excuse for the move, questioning the patriotism of anyone who doesn't comply, issuing vague threats of retribution.

Then the moves just keep piling up, and become more commonplace and normalized through sheer repetition. A large segment of the population are just living their lives and not paying particular attention to the details. One by one, corporations bend the knee and comply/capitulate. One by one, media outlets make their changes. One by one, opposing voices go quiet. What was once alarming is now just part of a daily flow.

And then, one day, it's in full effect.

God damn. Now we know what it looks like. Now we know "how they could have let this happen". I really didn't need to learn this first hand, though.

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"


If he had said something that celebrated kirks death, or disparaged it, then I would be done with Kimmel (I already don't watch him); however, he said nothing about Kirk at all.
Brian Kilmead on FOX suggested that mentally ill homeless people be given a lethal injection and ‘just kill them’
Kimmel was pointing out Trump’s well documented narcissism in his comments about how he was holding up and the way that his MAGA followers not only accepting it, but embrace it. The FCC threatening action is a breach of 1A rights.
How about the orange blimp acting like he was devastated over Mr Kirk being murdered but quickly start talking about things he has done. A conman never stops

 

[gipper]

Trump certainly has fascistic tendencies, but solely blaming him for the destruction of individual liberties and the imposition of government tyranny is foolish. We’ve been on this road to serfdom for some time.

Looking at this dilemma from a different perspective, Trump’s blatant actions may hasten the death of the empire leading to a new beginning.

 

[Mac1958]

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"


If he had said something that celebrated kirks death, or disparaged it, then I would be done with Kimmel (I already don't watch him); however, he said nothing about Kirk at all.
Brian Kilmead on FOX suggested that mentally ill homeless people be given a lethal injection and ‘just kill them’
Kimmel was pointing out Trump’s well documented narcissism in his comments about how he was holding up and the way that his MAGA followers not only accepting it, but embrace it. The FCC threatening action is a breach of 1A rights.
How about the orange blimp acting like he was devastated over Mr Kirk being murdered but quickly start talking about things he has done. A conman never stops

They're just looking for the slightest excuse, the smallest opening, now. The horrific thing that Kilmeade said was off their radar faster than the latest slaughter of innocent children in a school classroom.

And the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The environment is now established in EVERY INCH of the country: Criticize the leader and you're a target of the government. The useful idiots will do what they always do, and equate what is happening with the comparitively benign Biden years. And that's how they enable more of the same.

The government is under control, corporations are under control, and now the media is under control. Step by step, by the playbook.

 

[Rogue AI]

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"


If he had said something that celebrated kirks death, or disparaged it, then I would be done with Kimmel (I already don't watch him); however, he said nothing about Kirk at all.
Brian Kilmead on FOX suggested that mentally ill homeless people be given a lethal injection and ‘just kill them’
Kimmel was pointing out Trump’s well documented narcissism in his comments about how he was holding up and the way that his MAGA followers not only accepting it, but embrace it. The FCC threatening action is a breach of 1A rights.
How about the orange blimp acting like he was devastated over Mr Kirk being murdered but quickly start talking about things he has done. A conman never stops

The assassin is yet another murderous degenerate queer. One of yours. Try harder.

Kimmel was dead weight. Bleeding away his meager audience year after year, and for profit's sake blessedly removed from further polluting the air waves.

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

The assassin is yet another murderous degenerate queer. One of yours. Try harder.

Kimmel was dead weight. Bleeding away his meager audience year after year, and for profit's sake blessedly removed from further polluting the air waves.

It wasn't his comments that got the Jimmy Kimmel show cancelled. It was Trump's hatred of him, because he has successfully humiliated Trump.

The bit where he showed a reporter asking Trump about how upset he was at his "good friend Charlie Kirk" being killed to which Trump said "very upset but look at all those construction vehicles, the ballroom is really coming along and we are going to have a great chandelier in there!" That was how upset Trump was.

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

They're just looking for the slightest excuse, the smallest opening, now. The horrific thing that Kilmeade said was off their radar faster than the latest slaughter of innocent children in a school classroom.

And the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The environment is now established in EVERY INCH of the country: Criticize the leader and you're a target of the government. The useful idiots will do what they always do, and equate what is happening with the comparitively benign Biden years. And that's how they enable more of the same.

The government is under control, corporations are under control, and now the media is under control. Step by step, by the playbook.

Nexstar has a profitable merger planned, for which they need approval from the Trump regime. Nexstar has chosen corporate greed and capitulation to authoritarianism over public interest and standing up for free speech and democracy.

A $6.2 billion deal looms over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension

Jimmy Kimmel drew the wrath of Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair after the FCC's Carr criticized him. Nexstar has a $6.2 billion deal on the line.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[IM2]

Perhaps the real problem is businesses finally decided profit was more important than the loony leftwing agenda, particularly in the media. The People also decided that enforcing our laws superceded the immigration anarchy brought by Obama and then Biden. Try harder, your TDS insanity is getting old.

Incorrect. What's happening is Trump is using the powers of his office to threaten sanctions against anyone who doesn't do what he wants.

Both Obama and Biden deported more people than Trump. Trump created the border problem during his first term. Get out of the right-wing chamber of lies.

 

[Mac1958]

Nexstar has a profitable merger planned, for which they need approval from the Trump regime. Nexstar has chosen corporate greed and capitulation to authoritarianism over public interest and standing up for free speech and democracy.

A $6.2 billion deal looms over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension

Jimmy Kimmel drew the wrath of Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair after the FCC's Carr criticized him. Nexstar has a $6.2 billion deal on the line.

www.businessinsider.com

Yeah, I guess part of the playbook is depending on the capitulation of key people and industries for their own gain.

Craven politicians are comparitively easy, I'd guess. And then there are people who will be affected financially, and that's where it becomes more of a gray area. But once the momentum is established, it's probably easier to gain compliance by those people, too.

It's human nature. We want to believe that we'll stand up for the altruistic, but we may or may not. And the people who are doing this are probably well aware of that.

 

[IM2]

The assassin is yet another murderous degenerate queer. One of yours. Try harder.

Kimmel was dead weight. Bleeding away his meager audience year after year, and for profit's sake blessedly removed from further polluting the air waves.

Stop lying about Robinson. He was no leftist. You are supporting fascism. If you don't ike Kimmel, don't watch his show. Trump is polluting our nation and your and other people's support of this subhuman scum is going to cause the hammer to be brought down on this country in a way that no one will ever forget.

 

[Rogue AI]

Stop lying about Robinson. He was no leftist. You are supporting fascism. If you don't ike Kimmel, don't watch his show. Trump is polluting our nation and your and other people's support of this subhuman scum is going to cause the hammer to be brought down on this country in a way that no one will ever forget.

All yours, own it.

 

[Rogue AI]

It wasn't his comments that got the Jimmy Kimmel show cancelled. It was Trump's hatred of him, because he has successfully humiliated Trump.

The bit where he showed a reporter asking Trump about how upset he was at his "good friend Charlie Kirk" being killed to which Trump said "very upset but look at all those construction vehicles, the ballroom is really coming along and we are going to have a great chandelier in there!" That was how upset Trump was.

Kimmel ostracized a majority of his meager audience with his batshit crazy TDS. Try harder.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

It wasn't his comments that got the Jimmy Kimmel show cancelled. It was Trump's hatred of him, because he has successfully humiliated Trump.

The bit where he showed a reporter asking Trump about how upset he was at his "good friend Charlie Kirk" being killed to which Trump said "very upset but look at all those construction vehicles, the ballroom is really coming along and we are going to have a great chandelier in there!" That was how upset Trump was.

Much better on video..............

 

[IM2]

All yours, own it.

I don't own anything. You guys really need to stop lying. So tell me fuckhead, what makes Charlie Kirks death so much more than the 3 lawmakers murdered by a right-winger in Minnesota that you sorry bitches tried blaming on the left?

 

[Mac-7]

“The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it"


If he had said something that celebrated kirks death, or disparaged it, then I would be done with Kimmel (I already don't watch him); however, he said nothing about Kirk at all.
Brian Kilmead on FOX suggested that mentally ill homeless people be given a lethal injection and ‘just kill them’
Kimmel was pointing out Trump’s well documented narcissism in his comments about how he was holding up and the way that his MAGA followers not only accepting it, but embrace it. The FCC threatening action is a breach of 1A rights.
How about the orange blimp acting like he was devastated over Mr Kirk being murdered but quickly start talking about things he has done. A conman never stops

The lib news media dug its own hole through 30-40 years of bias, slanted reporting of the news

And now they are losing viewers, power and influence to new independent media through the internet

But the network execs arent totally stupid

They know that trump cant pull their license even if he wanted to

This is just an excuse for ABC to dump an expensive former comic who isn't funny anymore and blame it on trump

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Kimmel ostracized a majority of his meager audience with his batshit crazy TDS. Try harder.

You're FOS.

Pres. Trump reacts to 'Late Show' cancellation: 'I absolutely ...​

KTLA
https://ktla.com › entertainment › pres-trump-reacts-to-l...
Jul 18, 2025 — President Donald Trump is celebrating the end of CBS's “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” “I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” he wrote on Truth Social.



President Donald Trump is celebrating the end of CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” he wrote on Truth Social. “His talent was even less than his ratings.”

The president then directed his attention to other late night hosts.

“I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great ‘Tonight Show.'”

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

The lib news media dug its own hole through 30-40 years of bias, slanted reporting of the news

And now they are losing viewers, power and influence to new independent media through the internet

But the network execs arent totally stupid

They know that trump cant pull their license even if he wanted to

Then why is the retarded tyrant threatening their licenses?

This is just an excuse for ABC to dump an expensive former comic who isn't funny anymore and blame it on trump

 

[Mac-7]

Then why is the retarded tyrant threatening their licenses?

Because he’s a good showman who knows that the lib networks are a soft target

A majority of the public does not like them or trust them

 

[Rogue AI]

I don't own anything. You guys really need to stop lying. So tell me fuckhead, what makes Charlie Kirks death so much more than the 3 lawmakers murdered by a right-winger in Minnesota that you sorry bitches tried blaming on the left?

Walz's hitman is a lefty, just like this one. You loons need to stop denying reality.