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I usually don't watch his show (I prefer Stephen Colbert and John Oliver).
But I've just watched the whole return monologue, and subscribed to Jimmy's channel because of recent events.
Why? They bent the knee and went back on it when they lost money. How does that stop a boycott?
Like what? Any example?
15000 children dead because of Kamala Harris? No wonder no one takes leftists seriously. Insert self-inserting stick into bicycle spokes meme here.
No one wants to hear your anti-leftist rhetoric because of one random internet person
I'm sorry, what? It's anti-leftist to call out the idiots dragging the left down and making us look like deranged lunatics? A group of people chanting in a crowd is one internet person? Are you quite sure about all that?
Oh, I get it. It's like how it's anti-American to stand up to the people destroying America.
Here is the monologue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY
"Low ratings"
Trump is a jackass, so he lies about everything. Kimmel has the second-highest viewership in the States, behind Colbert.
If we want to talk numbers, Trump's "The Apprentice" had a max 20 million viewers (peak was in season 1 😂), which took a nosedive each year for the entire run of the show.
Kimmel's YouTube channel has over 13 BILLION views with over 20 million subscribers and gaining over 100,000 new subscribers per month. Factor in viewers from TV and he destroyed Trump's show no contest.
Maybe not on "TV", but as a streaming show, it's far from dying.
Well with people ditching TV as a whole, I wouldn't be surprised if late night were suffering the worst.
It had like 1.2 million views by 1 hour in after posting.
I also think the channel crossed the 21 million subscriber threshold overnight.
Will, having some controversy/talk around the show will do that for a show. Just like Colbert. Do you remember him?
He should have gone on the attack and went after Trump even harder in the return monologue.
It looks as if he is just scared of losing his job and capitulated.
Disappointing, but I never did like Kimmel so I’m not surprised.
It wouldnt be just his job, but the entire production crew as well, which is quite a lot of people.
He should have called them out for trying to make it about Charlie Kirk when clearly it was retaliation for exposing Trumps disregard for Kirk as well as turning attention back to the Epstein files.
I like Kimmel and watch him regularly. I honestly don't know how real those tears were. Everyone was speculating he'd have to apologize. I feel like he narrowly skirted admitting any wrong doing by appeasing the mob with an appeal to emotion.
this more than anything proves, they only care about one thing: money.
Was that ever in doubt?
And this is why non-violent resistance is more effective than violent resistance. Non-violent resistance can be expensive to those in power. Since they only care about money, they will go whichever way costs them the least.
Violent resistance on the other hand doesn't cost the powers that be very much. In fact, given there's a privatized prison industry and a massive defense industrial complex, a violent resistance movement is very profitable to a lot of people in power. Why else would they be trying to push a civil war so hard?
But it only has 17 million views!
Don't get me wrong, that's a lot—but a drop in the ocean by YouTube standards. Kimmel's a lot less popular than I thought...

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