Disney did not learn the lesson of Target and Tesla: if your product/service targets a premium/educated/high income customer - it is not smart to try to appease political officials or to make performative decisions. Now they are scrambling to avoid a boycott, but it’s likely too late. At some point business leaders will learn to keep politics and religion out of their businesses.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna232396
It never surprises me when woke liberals try to push their agenda through literally any hole they can find
Chief
Yikes - very aggressive comment.
This thread / board is pretty funny. I know precisely zero ppl at MBB who still actively support Trump, yet according to this board—we're somehow supposed to believe it's much more balanced. I know some ppl who voted for him, because they were under the belief that he would actually stimulate the economy and be better for business—they all now recognize how much of a mistake this was.
Even if you lean more fiscally conservative, the only ppl benefiting from Trump's economic policies are those who are uber wealthy. Even if you're in the upper tax brackets where you would technically get a net gain in take home pay, is paying 3-5% less in tax really worth losing so much geopolitical soft power, most of that tax differential being made up by higher prices via tariffs, the USD plummeting, fracturing our relationships with key, longstanding allies, and a volatile economy which has the worst job market for white collar professionals making six figures (you know, like almost everyone on this board) since 2008?
It's penny wise, dollar foolish thinking like this which makes it difficult for me to believe fairly bright ppl still support this (esp when their given designation is in strategy).
We likely will not even know the true devastating aftermath of Trump's second term until years after his term is over (that's if he decides to leave, ofc).
I will say one thing about hardcore MAGA types is they don't have any actual true beliefs or values. I know one who goes on and on about how free market capitalism is the best thing ever—but the moment Trump declared 'fReEdOm DaY'—they somehow rationalized it away. Direct quote: "Tariffs are just a tax on imported goods bro! It's tots fine!"
What a clown 🤣🤣
“Educated, premium” sure if that’s how you wanna describe the woke crowd
I upgraded my Disney service over the weekend to “no ads”. Where is that story?
No it doesn’t. But it does make you wrong.
Chief
Go anti woke, go broke
Cool, show me the business only door and will gladly make all decisions from that vantage point only
Disney has been declining for years
Isn’t it rumored that Disney is going to try to sell ESPN shortly which will require some government approval?
Chief
You’re mashing together unrelated things. There are no restrictions to selling a division. The issue comes up based on who the buyer is. Who is a direct competitor to ESPN? CBS Sports wouldn’t. be for example. Sports betting would be a problem. I wonder how Disney/ABC can’t make it really profitable. Not my world.
The problem with Tesla is they don't market themselves as an automotive company. It's mostly just Musk grifting that they're leaders in cutting edge robotics technology that's getting idiots to pump the stock for him (not to mention the massive stock buyback he performed recently).
Unfortunately, I've met a number of decently educated and intelligent people still unironically think he's some sort of genius (though to be fair, most of these people are extremely low information), and they ignorantly eat up all the BS he feeds them.
Anyone who's looked at Tesla's Balance Sheet or Income statement knows this grift is the only thing keeping them going at this point.
As expected, Disney has caved. Huge blunder, hopefully they learned a valuable lesson. Rapidly losing $4B tends to get the point across effectively.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/disney-says-jimmy-kimmel-live-to-return-following-backlash?embedded-checkout=true