That was fast
Hey Democrats, check it out. When you stand up to fascists, they relent.
Try it sometime.
Edit: I see your downvote, Chuck Schumer.
Chuck Schumer doesn’t have the spine to down vote.
“We didn’t downvote, but we sent a strongly worded letter about how we weren’t going to upvote it that will make them think twice about commenting lest next time we downvote it when the timing is right.”
We used a very strong emoji.
>:-(
(and then they upvoted it anyway)
they can’t, they’re too busy sitting in committees ensuring they make witty comments so they end up as sound bites on some random tiktok or video on reddit.
We should start a betting pool to see how badly they fuck up trying to force a shut down without having a single well-communicated and widely accepted policy demand, trying to play the cautious middle, and wrapped in 37 layers of “We have to play the political game they hand us to even hope of making small incremental change to the massive steamrolling happening right now.”
FFS, demand a $15 minimum wage, legalized weed, and better ACA subsidies. No American not working in the WH will balk at that.
The idiots will wheedle and whine before demanding UBI and national ACA coverage and garner exactly zero support.
The Democrats are structurally incapable of making any of those demands, except for legalized weed, as that does not improve the material economic conditions of the 99%.
Anything that improves material economic conditions of the 99% are policies that are violently opposed by their donor class, and the donor class always wins.
It would release thousands of people from Federal prisons on BS drug charges, mostly people of color, and create agricultural jobs. Legalizing weed has been shown to be a huge economic net benefit every time it’s been studied.
That’s not what I’m saying.
Giving people more, or better, health insurance, or raising minimum wage, are policies that the donor class feels comes at their expense. Either monetarily, or by giving the peasants more financial freedom, which they view as weakening their strangle hold on society.
They may have moral objections to marijuana, but enough of them also want to get richer off of it, so it’s not the same thing.
Now imagine if as many Americans cared about Gaza as they do a late night comedian.
Or school kids vs a bigot that got killed by guns
Chuckles is too busy composing strongly-worded letters to downvote.
I condemn this comment in the strongest possible terms. The American people will not tolerate edits and if it continues we will convene a hearing in the interest of norrrrrrrrrrms.
send tweet
make my taco supreme
Wouldn’t it be SACO? Sinclair Always Chickens Out?
Schmuck Schumer
Can’t sell those sweet primetime ads when all you are showing is news.
From what I’ve learned several factors played a part in this.
- Contracts, the sinclair can only say no to disney so many times before disney can cut sinclair off things like NFL games, and other contents that sinclair wants access to
- Advertisers were pissed
- Lots of complaints from viewers.
All kinds of ideology until it costs money.
Sinclair is still a fascist-loving company and will never make a dollar of ad revenue off of me ever again. Sucks for me when a football game I want to see is on ABC (my local affiliate is Sinclair-owned), but otherwise anything worth seeing on ABC is available on YouTube. I’ve never really watched Kimmel, but now I watch and like his monologues on YouTube every day.
Unless you’re a Neilsen household (or buying the advertised products), you watching OTA programming doesn’t really benefit Sinclair.
I’d say give yourself grace and watch what you want.
Or dvr the programming, use software to automatically cut out the ads, then watch it a bit after it airs. It’s not like watching it live impacts the outcome…
This really isn’t true anymore with smart TVs. They take samplings of everything you’re watching all the time and send it back to the mothership. And I guarantee you that Sinclair and other stations buy that information from, say Samsung for example.
Sinclair needs to lose it’s affiliation. They should be a FOX affiliate instead.
Sure. Let’s just spread more Fox around. That’ll show everyone.
They own affiliates for different networks. Sinclair does own my local FOX station and Nexstar owns our ABC.
Wait - was this the easy way or the hard way?
While it’s great that the little bitch ass fascism supporter capitulated, well like a bitch, it’s important to remember they’re still supporters of fascism and the boycott should and must go on.
Here’s a Sinclair and nexstar advertiser tracking site. Feel free to flip through the affiliate and log those local advertisers and let them know you don’t support fascism and you don’t support fascism enablers like them either and share it around.
Fuck Sinclair. Everyone in a Sinclair market should start bombing their advertisers social media accounts telling them that they don’t appreciate the fact that they’re supporting a company that is trying to enable authoritarianism and thus undermine our Democracy.
What? No you can’t do that! That’s economic TeRrOrIsM!
Lmao. All that matters is making money. They realized it would crush revenues, so they backed out
Jimmy Kimmel supporters continue their Sinclair boycott
Money talks, bullshit walks.
One Disney said no sports or News. Sinclair buckled.
Should have been their opening move
Still not subscribing to Disney.
Guessing their wallets were thinning a little
tRump will shit how
pantsdiapers.
