• buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Should be fun to see that first monologue. I hope he roasts the shit out of them all for all their stupidity.

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      16 days ago

      I have very little faith in our liberal late night hosts in shaking the boat very much.

      I mean, he never even said anything actually controversial in the first place.

      I hope I’m wrong, I hope the first thing he says is “Fuck Trump the Fascist! Retake the white house! End the genocide in Gaza!” and then gets turned off immediately, because he’s going to have a LOT of people watching him. He has an opportunity to say something shocking and lasting and he will still retire with wealth and respect.

      But I am not holding my breath.

      edit: yeah it was pretty tepid. Good on him for showing emotion and compassion and trying to be unifying, it will look “alright” in the history books, but he lost a chance to utterly denounce Trumpism and the right’s war on the social contract.

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        17 days ago

        Colbert has been great since his cancellation… although tbh I haven’t watched the late show since he moved. I was salty about the Colbert character retiring… which apparently he came back.

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      17 days ago

      “I’d like yo thank my fans for costing the mouse more than trumps bribe would have”

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      The classic dilemma they teach in business school. Is it worth it to alienate the customers we need to sustain our business so that we can appease a treasonous child raping shit bag that will continually shake us down for more cash, especially if we easily fold and show we won’t put up a fight?

      There’s no way Disney is going to pay ‘less’ under Trump. The fact that they couldn’t realize that from an Au away is mind boggling

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    17 days ago

    Well this should chap taco’s ass. Hope Jimmy doesn’t give one cent to them either! Or maybe just 2cents. That is a donation of meaning…

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      I get why he did what he did

      He…himself is rich he’s fine he knows this. Fuck part of me thinks a tiny little piece of him might have enjoyed the time off…and almost wished it’d last a bit longer who the hell knows.

      However he knows he has staff that need the income from that job in order to provide for their families.

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    I worry Mr Kimmel will have to make a big apology and sign some self-gag order, just to his team and crew can work.

    It’ll become super milquetoasty for a painful partial season before it dies of ratings.

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    17 days ago

    Everyone should go watch John Oliver’s last show about this. I got chills when he said his last line. I won’t ruin it if you haven’t seen it.

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      An apology isn’t good enough. The fascist-complying execs have to be fired.

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        As a shareholder, I agree. The boards actions show that their priorities don’t align with shareholder profits, American ideals, or a worthwhile moral footing. In a just world, they would be stripped of all of their assets, and given a stipend to live in an apartment that can be afforded in the lowest paying wage their old company offered, doing that job, day in, and day out, until they reach the same retirement age everyone else has to, or the pension age, if the company has one(spoiler, they don’t). Make them unable to accept money from outside accounts, and monitor their savings like you would a disabled person on Medicare. If they make too much, they go to prison, or have the extra seized.

        Being a CEO who has the power of themselves as a person, and the power of a corporation as a ubiquitous person free of liability and direct punishment, it should be an incredibly high risk, high reward proposal. You want the the 100 million a year payout for a position, that literally anyone could do? Then fine, failure means becoming the lowest tier your company has. If anything you’ll see higher wages across the board. It would be stupid to not hedge your bets

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    17 days ago

    I wonder if this means Nextstar is going to air it. Or if they will continue blocking it on their channels.

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    I hope he roasts them and ditches them at end of contract. If they bend this easy, they shall again.

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      Well, by definition, indefinitely mean a timeline that is not defined. It could have been indefinitely and back on the air later that night and still have been ‘indefinitely’ if that hadn’t been decided beforehand.