Posted on 09/23/2025 8:03:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“It’s going to go down a lot further if they cancel his show. Disney does not want to be the ones that broke America.” — Mark Ruffalo.
Perhaps Mark Ruffalo really does think he has an indestructible giant lurking inside his insufferable jerk exterior. After all, not long after he posted that on Threads, Disney executives reversed course and decided to put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air.
But don’t expect Disney stock to suddenly bounce back, or subscriptions to Disney+ to surge. Mark Ruffalo is no Warren Buffett.
Yes, Disney’s stock price had gone down 3% since last Wednesday, when the Disney-owned ABC gave Kimmel the boot.
But so what?
Disney stock plunged 38% after the company decided to step into the political swamp in early 2022 and attack a Florida bill that banned schools from teaching children up to the third grade about transgenderism – a bill Disney vilified as “Don’t say gay.”
That was a move, by the way, that Ruffalo publicly praised, saying at the time that “I want to be crystal clear: I and the entire leadership team unequivocally stand in support of our LGBTQ+ employees, their families, and their communities. Bravo!”
Disney stock was down 41% from its March 2021 high and had been trading around 100 ever since. That was at least in part due to the company’s embrace of the woke agenda, which caused it to churn out a series of leftist agitprop movie and TV flops and sparked waves of Disney+ cancellations. (Worldwide subscriptions are 23% lower now than the peak in late-2022.)
In other words, the company has been in serious trouble precisely because it had been listening to the likes of Mark Ruffalo about how to run its business, while ignoring the desires of Americans who want to be entertained, not lectured.
But, the idea that firing Jimmy Kimmel would somehow break America is truly a Hulk-sized absurdity.
The only reason anyone knew anything about Jimmy Kimmel is that the liberal media would traffic his rantings to their audiences. He hasn’t been funny in decades, if he ever was. His show had been getting ratings that were lower than Keith Olbermann’s 14 years ago — on MSNBC.
The only reason ABC kept Kimmel on the air as long as they did, and the only reason Disney rehired him, has been to appease the never-satisfied leftist gods.
Nobody wins from Disney’s cowardice. Not its investors. Not viewers who — for a brief moment — saw the possibility of something better to watch on ABC. And not anyone hoping for a return to civility.
As long as Disney puts politics over entertainment, the poisoning of America’s culture will continue.
I am sure Walt would be very disappointed.
This won’t make anyone happy.
Looks like Nexstar is joining Sinclair.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/nexstar-not-air-jimmy-kimmel-145211766.html
Another in a long line of bad decisions by weak leadership at Disney.
Gubmint is operated for the benefit of those who operate it.
Taxpayers be damned.
Same deal with large conglomerates, they are operated for the benefit of those who operate it.
Shareholders be damned.
And along came Trump.
He is a disruptor.
He is doing his best to break things that needed to be broken a long time ago.
Answered prayers.
Nextar plus Sinclair = 71 affiliates
Total ABC affiliates = 250.
Jimmy coming back 75%
The Magic Mouse of the past, now turns everything it touches into crap.
I haven’t watched network TV for decades and I see no reason to start now. Good luck Disney, you seem to have a knack for exactly the wrong decision at the wrong time.
Disney World 'empty' as Americans fear tourism is 'finished' in Florida
"Disney World has been a ghost town this summer, with visitors sharing different theories about what might be behind the quiet scenes at the popular theme park."
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/disney-world-empty-americans-fear-1398349
The Disney parks have gotten prohibitively expensive - far removed from the days when my dad would take all of us kids and our cousins (maybe once a year). For a family of four now it is well over $1,000 for a day's visit.
71 is a big hit in audience estimates used to generate ad rates. The show is already losing money. If it continues, it will leave a mark.
Jimmy Kimmel definitely won.
We win by Disney and ABC throwing millions of dollars in the toilet bringing them closer to bankruptcy and ending the cultural globohomo rot they promote.
“I want to be crystal clear: I and the entire leadership team unequivocally stand in support of our LGBTQ+ employees . . .”
The “T” in that jumble of letters stands for transgender.
“T” is a lifestyle that pretends a man can become a woman by wishing and self-mutilation.
I don’t believe that and for good reason. I don’t believe it because it is not true.
The leadership of the plastic rat claims it is true. And that means they can’t be trusted.
Hey, give Jimmy a break ... I’m sure all 97 of his viewers rejoiced at this decision to bring him back.
Trump is the equivalent of the meteor that supposedly killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Disney and the legacy media are the dinosaurs of 2025 America.
And the “+” in LGBTQ+ includes pedophiles, who they are trying to normalize.
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