Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | TV | September 23, 2025
Monday afternoon saw a joyous bit of news as ABC walked back its latest adventure in capitulation by restoring Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves after suspending his show indefinitely because he said the wrong words about the president’s favorite podcaster. Those words prompted a massive overreach by FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who as of this writing, is already walking back his threats to pull ABC’s license. It was a much-needed win that left the administration humiliated and showed that the First Amendment is still sacred in this country on both sides of the aisle. To extremely varying degrees, of course.
While the return of Jimmy Kimmel is cause for celebration, it didn’t take long for social media to do what it does best by finding something to complain about. You see, Disney may have done the right thing, but did you know it only did it for money?!
The following skeet has the nihilistic takes piling in because, if true, it means that Disney only brought back Kimmel to commit the most nefarious first-world sin of them all: Raising streaming prices. Oh no!
SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Folks, I don’t know how to put this without sounding even more condescending, but here goes: Welcome to the entire point of the boycott. By cancelling your subscriptions, you hit Disney where it hurts, and it worked. You won! So, to sit here and act like the above revelation exposes some dastardly plot is freaking absurd.
Obviously, Disney wants to hold on to its subscribers so it can extract more money from them. That’s why streaming services exist. Yeah, it sucks when these platforms raise the price each year, but we’re talking about an entertainment product; it’s not insulin. Watching Daredevil: Born Again is neither food nor shelter. These services are luxuries, and they still wouldn’t be free even if Bernie were president.
Of course, the Kimmel situation isn’t completely resolved. Sinclair stations are still refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel Live! and will preempt his show with the evening news. Now, this next part will be harder to do than squawking on the internet or clicking “cancel,” so I understand if we see less traction here. What you want to do is watch one of those news broadcasts, note the local advertisers, and proceed to give them hell over the phone. If Sinclair wants to play state media, like Disney, you gotta hit ‘em square in the wallet.
Turns out capitalism is pretty handy.
