I would be surprised if Paramount acquires CNN and turns it súper maga. If the WB purchase from Netflix goes forward, we will be seeing two Melania shows for a total of 1 billion compensation and one of Barron’s manliness for 1 billion.
Not yet, just a right wing fuck is in charge of it. It’s still part of WB, but the cable networks of CNN, TBS, and TNT are being spun off into a separate entity
NUB will have to have a series called “Trump: why only he can save us from the blue menace” with new episodes each week. You’ll have to watch an episode each day before you can watch anything else.
Yep, and they’ll happily do it. Then when the democrats are in power they’ll cry all day about tax increases to pay for things like health care and food stamps, cause all of a sudden they’ll be just barely getting by
To quote a wise man: “Some folks are born with a silver spoon in hand, lord don’t they help themselves. But when the tax man comes to the door, lord the house is looking like a rummage sale”
The Netflix co-founder and chairman of Netflix is a Democratic mega-donor who most recently gave out $2 million for Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign. I dunno why everyone assumes it's a Republican owned company.
This. Cancelled my 10 year Netflix subscription last month. Slowly but surely I’m nearly complete in my boycotting of oligarchs. I like living back in the 1980’s. It’s actually refreshing.
Hate to break this to you, but Larry Ellison is of the Oracle fortune, the tech that's used on.. everything, including Tiktok.
To truly avoid all the Oligarch influence you'd need to just get offline entirely, stop using any bank, don't drive any modern cars. Government's use oracle software also, so don't pay taxes and flee the country.
I like this option far and above allowing him control of any Netflix content. If we can placate him with sparkly placards every time he farts, just to distract him from…literally anything else, then so be it!
Checking doesn't even matter when so much of the balancing has been taken away. The US has gradually turned their executive branch into a post held by an elected autocrat. Rolling back every presidential power granted since the second world war is the only chance you have of ever regaining control of your democracy.
What difference would that make? That's no silver bullet at all. The judicial branch and supreme court are stacked with republican ideologues, who have shown they will twist themselves into knots to legally justify whatever the fuck they want. And they'll have a built in advantage in the Legislative branch due to the electoral college, gerrymandering, and population distribution in rural vs urban areas/states.
They are supposed to have equal powers, but all of these cowardly traitors have gleefully handed their's over to biggest con man to ever hold the presidency. The entire system of government was designed to prevent one man from having full control, and these "patriots" subverted the system.
If we ever come back from this, they have to be remembered for their shameful acts for the rest of time.
I'mean, that's been like that for a good while already. I'm not even american and I still remember Mitch McConnell refusing to swear in the supreme court justice Obama had picked for nearly an entire year. However as soon as Trump was in office he immediately swore in the supreme court justice Trump picked. It quite literally can't get more brazen than that
Turns out you can overthrow the entire US government that represents over 340 million people by just corrupting 276 people (president, VP, half of Senate, House, and SCOTUS).
Because those same senators, congresspeople and courts rely on the population not accepting this bullshit.
If Americans liked freedom and rights a tenth as much as their founding myth says they do, they wouldn't keep voting for this. It wouldn't be close. It wouldn't depend on if the alternative laughed funny.
Because the government agencies that have oversight on such matters have been gutted and their leadership and non-partisan board members replaced with Trump loyalists. Then there's Congress and the Supreme Court, both of which are along for the ride because they love the lasting damage Trump is doing to the Federal government which they want torn down and the remaining bits weaponized against anyone who doesn't stand with them.
Before loyalists to prez were appointed loyalists to party were, this is the slow rot of 50 years of concerted effort to kill the republic in all but name.
The US is going through a pretty serious cultural, economic, political upheaval right now. A large percentage of people are not okay with this, but are hoping against hope that it can be resolved by future elections or court decisions.
We hope this not because we have faith in Congress or the courts, but because the alternative is too unthinkable to consider.
The government is not playing around; they've made it clear that they will commit acts of violence, even military violence, against people who resist too loudly. They financially and legally ruin people's lives.
I think most of the US wants to avoid violence. So people are biting their tongues and hoping for a peaceful change. I really hope that can be achieved. Sometimes I wonder if not fighting back harder now is a mistake. I am extremely afraid for the future of the world if the US doesn't change course soon.
Most people are apathetic and focused on their wallets. The culture war bullshit is for the people who need a distraction and will latch onto it, or get "caught up in the fishing net", if you will. People are so disconnected even the idea of a community is foreign to them; we spend all the time on our phones and put up cameras outside our door even when there is no crime. Paranoia and disconnection are antithetical to community. And if you talk to your neighbors without talking "politics", you'll realize before you know it that they're not so different from you and generally also want good things for the world. The rich and the corporations are the root cause of all problems, they have disproportionate power that allows constituencies to be bypassed by money thus rendering folks no longer meaningfully represented in government, with nobody to "kick out" for not supporting them. That's what we need - accountability. If it doesn't start at the top, it has to start from the bottom.
MAGA morons eager to gobble up Russian disinformation. Trans people whom they've never met are a bigger threat to them in their minds than this type of corruption, tarrifs, abuse of power, fraud waste and abuse, and so on.
It was a brilliantly crafted psy-op if you let yourself appreciate its insidiousness for a second:
Disenfranchise midwestern, poor southern, and poor urban communities by systematically underfunding their education systems and, as a result, leaving them feeling further and further out step with a nation otherwise progressing both technologically and socially at an increasingly rapid pace
Exploit their growing rebellious mentality, grown as a result of subconsciously sensing their societal exile, by feeding them a candidate who’s entire public persona is one of petulance and an uncompromising drive to TAKE WHATEVER WONT BE FREELY GIVEN, evoking feelings compassion and comradery from said disenfranchised citizens who logically harbor a wish to do the same
Exploit the aimlessness and untethered nature of the people in these facets of society for whom no faction of the previous political stage seemed to reflect their cultural position, a position of being left “on the outside”, by providing them with a new uniting flag, cause, and identity. A MAGA identity
Recognize the biggest strength of a group is a united effort toward a cause, and therefore, the largest weakness of a united nation is its ability to be divided. Further the division and weaken the ability of your support base to recognize its being exploited by separating it from as many other demographics and opinions as possible
Promote in all forms of media and mass communication, a growing following of the “MAGA” movement. Make it culturally loud and constant until anyone not participating in the MAGA cultural wave now feels like an outsider amongst their MAGA peers surrounding them in their daily lives. Until they now feel out of step with their MAGA family, pressuring assimilation amongst the weaker minded, further bolstering votership
Recognize a significant portion of the current voter base is xenophobic to varying degrees, an easy foothold to further an image of kinship with the candidate. Also a convenient cornerstone from which to launch a campaign for seizing an increasing amount of power. Easiest achieved by working backwards. Vilifying the demographic most recently being at the forefront of the base voter’s attention: Hispanic central and southern Americans. Declare in the media through repetition and emotional manipulation that immigrants are an enemy that MUST AT ALL COSTS be thwarted from American society. Take increasingly drastic steps with an increasing assumption of power to “battle the immigrant threat”. Subtly, at first, but with bold increase, expand actions against immigrants to other less desirable factions.
I could go on forever about the many OTHER ways that this regime of bad actors has set out to work against the psychological vulnerabilities of the American public. And not just conservatives. But I just think it amazing to step back and take a look at the evil greedy complex brilliant plan they’ve enacted.
Much like nazi Germany, the republican party representatives are 99% lockstep behind Trump. You have outliers like MTG( ... I know, right?), but anyone who could call on trump to stop has been fired by Doge, or rendered harmless by budget cuts the president enacts ... which goes against the constitution in and of itself, but here we fucking are.
If our country survives, we need to finish reconstruction and close. The. Fucking. Loopholes. Ffs.
Yes, or as it was called in medieval times ‘the divine right of kings’. Trump is their guy, he represents white supremacy and they are white supremacists.
It's both. The hardcore true "Trump Train" types absolutely believe in the mandate of heaven, as evidenced by all the Trump as Jesus fan art out there. Which is funny since everything else he sells comes from China so why not the source of his authority? But you also have plenty of people who think they're just a few good moves away from attaining a status similar to his and so they don't want to lock the gate ahead of themselves. "Yeah but one day I'll be big and then people like me better watch out!"
Well the political class are all giddy they can be more corrupt and voters will stomach anything as long as it’s “their guy”. Trump threw the door off its hinges, and it’s never getting fixed.
They voted for it! The minority of Americans who voted against him try and comfort themselves with tales of Musk interfering etc. but that doesn’t explain that a clear majority didn’t vote against Trump, despite knowing what sort of a man he was.
But we all know that Redumbicans just say what they’re going to do/doing. Never fails. Kamala will start a war if she is elected….she will end healthcare…they want to stop free speech…the list goes on.
This open corruption at the highest level of government is fucking insane. He isn’t saying any of this in good faith, he’s using mafia tactics to extort them. A functioning democracy would’ve put this maniac in a prison after January 6.
Ah yeah the dictator needs a hand in all private equity.
The government wanting to own the means of production & the means of cultural expression is literally textbook fascism. Trump is just a baby that wants more money, but the Heritage Foundation want a Confederate North Korea.
The fact that this behavior has become normalized and is seen as acceptable is infuriating.. Imagine the reaction if Obama pulled this exact move that Trump is doing with these media companies
Since when does the President of the United States get involved in such things? Jesus fucking christ people. WISE UP.
This is him reaching out for a bribe and it's fucking disgusting. Get him out of office STAT. Donald Trump is the worst and harmful President that the United States of America has ever had.
The administration meddling in private companies' business with the blessings of the GOP, you couldn't make this up. If a Democrat suggested something like that, you'd see Republicans foaming at the mouth over "socialism".
Is he going to demand that the U.S. government be a significant shareholder in the “deal” for it to be approved? It’s the only kind of deal he understands.
There may be a case of such a merger being anti-competitive in nature. As such, I assume, the FTC would be investigating (like in the case of the ARM-Nvidia merger).
What an embarrassment the USA has become. In a democracy the president would have nothing to do with this, someone else in government would refer it to a monopolies commission who would assess it independently, in the US, the president is saying ‘make it benefit me personally or it doesn’t happen’ while all other branches of government look on impotently because they’re terrified of low IQ voters.
Obviously this is a bribe, but the optics are "i don't know what monopolies are or that it is my job to stop them".
Seriously, I guarantee you a major problem in contemporary politics is many of the politicians legit DO NOT know their jobs. Like, some of them I doubt even know they are supposed to arrest trump with no ifs ands or buts.
President Donald Chump is awarded the very first Netflix Golden Oscar d'Or and Bestest Reality TV Show Presenter Ever double gold Big Mac shaped medal with a 24k Venetian box necklace.
Netflix announce that they will be making Super Rush Death Manly Man 1 and 2, and are proud to announce President Donald Chump will be returning in his role of meeting a child and directing them along a corridor just like in Home Alone, which is guaranteed to win the next Netflix Golden Oscar d'Or for bestest actor ever.
This is his way of saying, “bribe me.”
Yup.
Probably the same as paramount. Put a MAGA in charge of CNN will probably be enough.
CNN isn't included in Netflix's purchase of WB.
(The Ellisons or another MAGA-aligned figure could still buy it...)
Future headlines: Tiffany on the Netflix board and CNN given to the Heritage Foundation
Netflix: We were thinking about maybe a position for someone in your organization on the board.
Trump: Well I think that's great—just great. I really do.
Netflix: We've been talking to Tiffany, and we think we see a future with her.
Trump: Wait. Who? Does anybody know who in the hell he's talking about?! Who's Tiffany?!
Tiffany? Is Eric doing drag shows again?
Trump “The singer from the 80’s?”
CNN was purchased by such a figure few years ago who fits the description.
Doesn’t mean he can’t ask them to make it more MAGA to make the deal go through.
It's the TV stuff he doesn't watch though, a bribe should be enough, ty Godfather.
Jon Stewart made a joke fifteen years ago about crowdfunding $10 billion to buy CNN.
Ellison’s are already positioning to buy the cable offshoots
I would be surprised if Paramount acquires CNN and turns it súper maga. If the WB purchase from Netflix goes forward, we will be seeing two Melania shows for a total of 1 billion compensation and one of Barron’s manliness for 1 billion.
Maga already owns cnn
I thought cnn was already bought by some right wing fuck?
Not yet, just a right wing fuck is in charge of it. It’s still part of WB, but the cable networks of CNN, TBS, and TNT are being spun off into a separate entity
NUB will have to have a series called “Trump: why only he can save us from the blue menace” with new episodes each week. You’ll have to watch an episode each day before you can watch anything else.
Netflix Peace Prize incoming
Netflix version similar to that Queen of England series but obviously without Epstein mentioned and the main character is in every scene.
Famous Actor Dear Leader is a Fampis Actor! Maybe Dear Leader cpuld alsonstar in this new series! Perfect!
Yep, and they’ll happily do it. Then when the democrats are in power they’ll cry all day about tax increases to pay for things like health care and food stamps, cause all of a sudden they’ll be just barely getting by
To quote a wise man: “Some folks are born with a silver spoon in hand, lord don’t they help themselves. But when the tax man comes to the door, lord the house is looking like a rummage sale”
The Netflix co-founder and chairman of Netflix is a Democratic mega-donor who most recently gave out $2 million for Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign. I dunno why everyone assumes it's a Republican owned company.
Netflix co-founder drops $2 million into Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign - POLITICO https://share.google/2iqIYrxQ05UDfI18R
Because billionaires can’t be trusted.
Especially if 0.00002% of their annual profits get threatened.
This. Cancelled my 10 year Netflix subscription last month. Slowly but surely I’m nearly complete in my boycotting of oligarchs. I like living back in the 1980’s. It’s actually refreshing.
Hate to break this to you, but Larry Ellison is of the Oracle fortune, the tech that's used on.. everything, including Tiktok.
To truly avoid all the Oligarch influence you'd need to just get offline entirely, stop using any bank, don't drive any modern cars. Government's use oracle software also, so don't pay taxes and flee the country.
Meets with trump, there's a bribe involved. It's just business is a reply to that statement, sadly.
So is the Palantir CEO. They're all just Mac from Always Sunny. They play both sides so they always come out on top.
Alex Karp is not a Democratic mega donor and has donated to both political parties. That's quite different.
That's what billionaires do, They hedge their bets. They don't have any principles.
Meaning ... "I want my cut."
"Get rid of John Oliver or no deal."
I honestly think he doesn't know John Oliver exists. He's too focused on cable news to catch individual comedians taking swipes at him.
Prepare the gold plated trinkets and baubles!
Ah yes like the traditional banana republic
That Melania documentary Amazon is about to release is going to need a Netflix sequel…
This just in, Trump has been awarded the first non-annual Netflix Peace award.
Oh my god this would be hilarious if they actually did that just to show how fucking stupid it all is.
And it would actually work. They'd just have to tell Trump he's so special that no one has ever gotten the award before.
I like this option far and above allowing him control of any Netflix content. If we can placate him with sparkly placards every time he farts, just to distract him from…literally anything else, then so be it!
How does the US actually accept this blattant corruption and nepotism from their president.
The problem is most of the checks and balances in place rely on senators and congressmen and the courts doing the right thing.
This is it exactly. The checks have "just stopped checking" so he does what he wants
Checking doesn't even matter when so much of the balancing has been taken away. The US has gradually turned their executive branch into a post held by an elected autocrat. Rolling back every presidential power granted since the second world war is the only chance you have of ever regaining control of your democracy.
What difference would that make? That's no silver bullet at all. The judicial branch and supreme court are stacked with republican ideologues, who have shown they will twist themselves into knots to legally justify whatever the fuck they want. And they'll have a built in advantage in the Legislative branch due to the electoral college, gerrymandering, and population distribution in rural vs urban areas/states.
We’ve never needed SC term limits as badly as now
They are supposed to have equal powers, but all of these cowardly traitors have gleefully handed their's over to biggest con man to ever hold the presidency. The entire system of government was designed to prevent one man from having full control, and these "patriots" subverted the system.
If we ever come back from this, they have to be remembered for their shameful acts for the rest of time.
He’s not even a con man at this point. That would imply he’s trying to trick people into thinking he’s not doing the thing that he’s openly doing.
But don't you worry, the minute a democrat is back in the oval office those checks and balances will be back and stronger than ever.
I'mean, that's been like that for a good while already. I'm not even american and I still remember Mitch McConnell refusing to swear in the supreme court justice Obama had picked for nearly an entire year. However as soon as Trump was in office he immediately swore in the supreme court justice Trump picked. It quite literally can't get more brazen than that
Turns out you can overthrow the entire US government that represents over 340 million people by just corrupting 276 people (president, VP, half of Senate, House, and SCOTUS).
Because those same senators, congresspeople and courts rely on the population not accepting this bullshit.
If Americans liked freedom and rights a tenth as much as their founding myth says they do, they wouldn't keep voting for this. It wouldn't be close. It wouldn't depend on if the alternative laughed funny.
And the voters
Because the government agencies that have oversight on such matters have been gutted and their leadership and non-partisan board members replaced with Trump loyalists. Then there's Congress and the Supreme Court, both of which are along for the ride because they love the lasting damage Trump is doing to the Federal government which they want torn down and the remaining bits weaponized against anyone who doesn't stand with them.
Before loyalists to prez were appointed loyalists to party were, this is the slow rot of 50 years of concerted effort to kill the republic in all but name.
The US is going through a pretty serious cultural, economic, political upheaval right now. A large percentage of people are not okay with this, but are hoping against hope that it can be resolved by future elections or court decisions.
We hope this not because we have faith in Congress or the courts, but because the alternative is too unthinkable to consider.
The government is not playing around; they've made it clear that they will commit acts of violence, even military violence, against people who resist too loudly. They financially and legally ruin people's lives.
I think most of the US wants to avoid violence. So people are biting their tongues and hoping for a peaceful change. I really hope that can be achieved. Sometimes I wonder if not fighting back harder now is a mistake. I am extremely afraid for the future of the world if the US doesn't change course soon.
Most people are apathetic and focused on their wallets. The culture war bullshit is for the people who need a distraction and will latch onto it, or get "caught up in the fishing net", if you will. People are so disconnected even the idea of a community is foreign to them; we spend all the time on our phones and put up cameras outside our door even when there is no crime. Paranoia and disconnection are antithetical to community. And if you talk to your neighbors without talking "politics", you'll realize before you know it that they're not so different from you and generally also want good things for the world. The rich and the corporations are the root cause of all problems, they have disproportionate power that allows constituencies to be bypassed by money thus rendering folks no longer meaningfully represented in government, with nobody to "kick out" for not supporting them. That's what we need - accountability. If it doesn't start at the top, it has to start from the bottom.
MAGA morons eager to gobble up Russian disinformation. Trans people whom they've never met are a bigger threat to them in their minds than this type of corruption, tarrifs, abuse of power, fraud waste and abuse, and so on.
It was a brilliantly crafted psy-op if you let yourself appreciate its insidiousness for a second:
Disenfranchise midwestern, poor southern, and poor urban communities by systematically underfunding their education systems and, as a result, leaving them feeling further and further out step with a nation otherwise progressing both technologically and socially at an increasingly rapid pace
Exploit their growing rebellious mentality, grown as a result of subconsciously sensing their societal exile, by feeding them a candidate who’s entire public persona is one of petulance and an uncompromising drive to TAKE WHATEVER WONT BE FREELY GIVEN, evoking feelings compassion and comradery from said disenfranchised citizens who logically harbor a wish to do the same
Exploit the aimlessness and untethered nature of the people in these facets of society for whom no faction of the previous political stage seemed to reflect their cultural position, a position of being left “on the outside”, by providing them with a new uniting flag, cause, and identity. A MAGA identity
Recognize the biggest strength of a group is a united effort toward a cause, and therefore, the largest weakness of a united nation is its ability to be divided. Further the division and weaken the ability of your support base to recognize its being exploited by separating it from as many other demographics and opinions as possible
Promote in all forms of media and mass communication, a growing following of the “MAGA” movement. Make it culturally loud and constant until anyone not participating in the MAGA cultural wave now feels like an outsider amongst their MAGA peers surrounding them in their daily lives. Until they now feel out of step with their MAGA family, pressuring assimilation amongst the weaker minded, further bolstering votership
Recognize a significant portion of the current voter base is xenophobic to varying degrees, an easy foothold to further an image of kinship with the candidate. Also a convenient cornerstone from which to launch a campaign for seizing an increasing amount of power. Easiest achieved by working backwards. Vilifying the demographic most recently being at the forefront of the base voter’s attention: Hispanic central and southern Americans. Declare in the media through repetition and emotional manipulation that immigrants are an enemy that MUST AT ALL COSTS be thwarted from American society. Take increasingly drastic steps with an increasing assumption of power to “battle the immigrant threat”. Subtly, at first, but with bold increase, expand actions against immigrants to other less desirable factions.
I could go on forever about the many OTHER ways that this regime of bad actors has set out to work against the psychological vulnerabilities of the American public. And not just conservatives. But I just think it amazing to step back and take a look at the evil greedy complex brilliant plan they’ve enacted.
Because it’s a third world country with first world veneer.
more now than ever. Weaponized mass stupidity.
Or 10$ plastic decorations from Home Goods with a can of gold spray paint.
Third world country with a Gucci belt
Much like nazi Germany, the republican party representatives are 99% lockstep behind Trump. You have outliers like MTG( ... I know, right?), but anyone who could call on trump to stop has been fired by Doge, or rendered harmless by budget cuts the president enacts ... which goes against the constitution in and of itself, but here we fucking are.
If our country survives, we need to finish reconstruction and close. The. Fucking. Loopholes. Ffs.
Never had a king or been an autocracy so don't know how to recognize it and/or think they are immune to it?
The whole country is built on it. People see this and feel "maybe I'll be able to get a cut, too".
Which is nuts.
Many of them believe that they too will someday be in similar positions of power
It's not that.
It's that they think people like trump deserve to be in power no matter how corrupt they are.
They basically believe in mandate of heaven.
The final boss of the Prosperity Gospel.
Yes, or as it was called in medieval times ‘the divine right of kings’. Trump is their guy, he represents white supremacy and they are white supremacists.
It's both. The hardcore true "Trump Train" types absolutely believe in the mandate of heaven, as evidenced by all the Trump as Jesus fan art out there. Which is funny since everything else he sells comes from China so why not the source of his authority? But you also have plenty of people who think they're just a few good moves away from attaining a status similar to his and so they don't want to lock the gate ahead of themselves. "Yeah but one day I'll be big and then people like me better watch out!"
Well the political class are all giddy they can be more corrupt and voters will stomach anything as long as it’s “their guy”. Trump threw the door off its hinges, and it’s never getting fixed.
They voted for it! The minority of Americans who voted against him try and comfort themselves with tales of Musk interfering etc. but that doesn’t explain that a clear majority didn’t vote against Trump, despite knowing what sort of a man he was.
The country is fucked. There's corruption across all branches of government. The country has effectively been bought out and is being dismantled.
"I will need a cut of that deal, if you want it to go ahead". Third world America.
That's pronounced "let me get my beak wet."
Oh good, the stable genius who’s never wrong and definitely never takes bribes to make a decision…
He’s good at business! He even has his face on a book about it /s
When you're the Netflix Humanitarian of the Century you can be trusted to make those decisions.
I hope Netflix has funds for a presidential bribe ready.
Maybe they can save money and boot Obama's movie of the platform instead.
We all know that is exactly what will happen. Any upcoming projects with Obama’s production company will be cancelled for ‘undisclosed reasons’.
Lmao yeah that worked really well for HBO
I dont think a gold plated trophy with the engraving "smartest man ever" costs that much.
He'll be the first (and last) recipient of the Netflix Peace Prize
Remember when Republicans kept saying government should stay the hell out of business?
But we all know that Redumbicans just say what they’re going to do/doing. Never fails. Kamala will start a war if she is elected….she will end healthcare…they want to stop free speech…the list goes on.
This open corruption at the highest level of government is fucking insane. He isn’t saying any of this in good faith, he’s using mafia tactics to extort them. A functioning democracy would’ve put this maniac in a prison after January 6.
'Goody, a situation that has nothing to do with me I can barge in on to extort bribes'
Bribes and promises to not be woke. None of the climate change wokery, or movies alluding to the truth of our politics or situations here.
This deal will turn movies into propaganda for the party if prez gets his way here.
Can't wait to watch 'Cacablanca,' starring Donald Trump
"Tell your friends I don't want a lot. Just enough to wet my beak." (saying from maffiosi and corrupt politicians)
Ah yeah the dictator needs a hand in all private equity.
The government wanting to own the means of production & the means of cultural expression is literally textbook fascism. Trump is just a baby that wants more money, but the Heritage Foundation want a Confederate North Korea.
Honestly - Netflix should move forward with the bribe, document all the evidence, and make it all public to shame Donald
Could be a Netflix docu series! ;)
Tony Soprano was more subtle.
Translation: the last suitcase was too light
Perhaps the "Problem" is that he already promised WB to Larry Ellison, who promised to end John Oliver.
Maybe he'll force netflix to make that same promise
The fact that this behavior has become normalized and is seen as acceptable is infuriating.. Imagine the reaction if Obama pulled this exact move that Trump is doing with these media companies
The GOP would have filed articles of impeachment on week one if Harris had won and done 1% of the things Trump did on his first day.
Since when does the President of the United States get involved in such things? Jesus fucking christ people. WISE UP.
This is him reaching out for a bribe and it's fucking disgusting. Get him out of office STAT. Donald Trump is the worst and harmful President that the United States of America has ever had.
The US is now a Russian style oligarchy with corruption in plain sight and Americans are okay enough with it
Plenty are not ok with it, wtf we supposed to do?
I’m not ok with it, but what else can I do? I voted for someone else, keep talking to my circle about how evil this is. The power isn’t in the people.
Well, what’s the solution that the bulk of people would be on board with?…
Netflix could blow up Trump attempt for a bribe, say something about the mad king, sue the government, comment on Hulu’s lost customers coming over.
Translation: “how can I extort money from this to make myself richer”
Needs another bribe, lowlife
He needs a bribe
That guy is such a disgustingly greedy toad of a human
Typical corruption narrative
The administration meddling in private companies' business with the blessings of the GOP, you couldn't make this up. If a Democrat suggested something like that, you'd see Republicans foaming at the mouth over "socialism".
Great, so now Netflix will need to pay kickbacks to Trump as well.
Translation: where's my kickback?
Get ready for a very flattering Trump bio movie made by Netflix.
Is he going to demand that the U.S. government be a significant shareholder in the “deal” for it to be approved? It’s the only kind of deal he understands.
In what would does the President have any part in negotiations between 2 companies? I’m genuinely curious at this point
There may be a case of such a merger being anti-competitive in nature. As such, I assume, the FTC would be investigating (like in the case of the ARM-Nvidia merger).
But with Trump, this may mean anything.
Let's not pretend he cares at all about monopoly harms to the consumer. He wants a cut.
That's.... what the 2nd line was for. He may want a cut, he may want control over programming, or he is just messing around.
Baby needs his bribe, he needs more fake gold on his face.
The 2026 Netflix medal of peace coming your way! It carries with it a $10,000,000 stipend
I wish they’d simply stop quoting Trump. It’s all horseshit. Cue a couple weeks from now when he says Ted is a scumbag socialist Obama lover
And then sics Carr on the merger
I figure a nice netflix series about the success of Donald J Trump as president should do the trick
The deal will go through as long as Trump or someone in the Trump family personally gets something out of it.
Bitcoin donation incoming
This is known as 'wetting his beak'
Translation: Pay me a bribe, and the merger can go ahead without interference.
I’ll be involved is code for pay me
"I'll be collecting my fee"
He wants a medal I think
Netflix’s peace gold medal to be precise
He’s like a parrot. He doesn’t really know what those words mean, he just knows if he says them someone hands him a treat.
5 year old language. Good bad. Happy sad. Problem no problem. Big small
TL;DR Send a bigger check and I may change my mind.
Insider trading for the Teump family...incoming.
I see someone getting a golden DVD award for Christmas
Waiting for Netflix to announce a Streaming Peace Prize
“I’ll be involved in that too” aka grease my tiny palms.
Ah yes. Full on balls to the wall, corrupt, capitalism. But, only on Dear Dictators terms.
For a small donation, the President will approve the sale.
The small donation: tens of millions
Lets hope who ever comes in next has the balls to prosicute blatant bribery..
"I'll be involved in seeing how large a bribe they'll pay me" is more like it.
One bribe please.
Why would he be in the discussion, exactly? Dude is just telling them to give him money
Exactly this. Buy some of his crypto and there won't be any problems.
Just when you thought the situation couldn't get any worse lol
Trump gets a nice kickback and the average citizen pays double for Netflix or gets priced out.
A shakedown. Truly small government capitalism.
What an embarrassment the USA has become. In a democracy the president would have nothing to do with this, someone else in government would refer it to a monopolies commission who would assess it independently, in the US, the president is saying ‘make it benefit me personally or it doesn’t happen’ while all other branches of government look on impotently because they’re terrified of low IQ voters.
Shake down incoming. Dementia Donny only knows one thing. Give me money.
Needs to finish his ballroom.
Ted Netflix has got some ring kissing to do
The party of small government…
The Don wants his vig.
Can't wait to see what Trump's idea for the West Wing is. Maybe Sarandos can make some... contributions to the design?
Have any gifts been sent yet?
Imagine if every 4 year companies need to send gifts to the new Whitehouse residents?
The bribes keep flowing in to the Grifter President..
OMG. C'mon arteries. Do your thing. Send that clot
Netflix… and the winner of the best ever piece prize is …
Isn't this a done deal already?
Obviously this is a bribe, but the optics are "i don't know what monopolies are or that it is my job to stop them".
Seriously, I guarantee you a major problem in contemporary politics is many of the politicians legit DO NOT know their jobs. Like, some of them I doubt even know they are supposed to arrest trump with no ifs ands or buts.
I forsee in the future...
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President Donald Chump is awarded the very first Netflix Golden Oscar d'Or and Bestest Reality TV Show Presenter Ever double gold Big Mac shaped medal with a 24k Venetian box necklace.
Netflix announce that they will be making Super Rush Death Manly Man 1 and 2, and are proud to announce President Donald Chump will be returning in his role of meeting a child and directing them along a corridor just like in Home Alone, which is guaranteed to win the next Netflix Golden Oscar d'Or for bestest actor ever.
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Whoa, Netflix and Warner Bros merging? Streaming wars just got wilder.
I’m worried for John Oliver
Just drop off a suitcase of cash.
lol at the MAGA dopes that voter for this naked corruption.
He meant to say “I will be at that meeting eagerly awaiting my participation prize”….🤦♂️😎🙄
One Netflix Peace Prize coming up!
In other words “I’m thinking of a number from $200 to $500, million that is, please make the check out to my son Don Jr.”
His brain rotted followers will see nothing wrong with this at all.
Because thats more important than anything else in the country... for him...
“Big market share” = “bigly monies to me”
Grifter moves onto stage.
This guy is such a piece of shit.
Trump wants a cut.
You want that merger? Pay me!
Trumps gotta get his bribe
He wants his cut first.
The party of less government overreach, sure likes to fucking overreach.
Everyone had their hands out. Everything was for the taking.
Conservatives trying to find the angle where “small gov” and “president will weigh in” can coexist
In other words depends how much money trump gets for the deal
Aka he wants a piece of the pie
Smells like extortion
Did he have $ signs in his eyes when he said this??
Fucking guy has time for everything but his job.
Can you just do your job?
How high will the price go?
This just in, Netflix makes huge donation towards Trump….
This is how he communicates that their bribes thus far are not sufficient.
He will get his cut and forget all about it. Our government is ran like the mafia now. It’s only a problem unless he’s getting a piece of the action.
My palm needs greasing before this can be allowed.
Translation: “Netflix will need to pay me off if they want my okay on this merger.”
Expect Netflix to contribute a few hundred million to both his nonexistent library and ball room
What he means is pay the orange man or it is not going to be approved. Shake downs corruption is where our country is at these days.
He wants a cut
Someone wants money
By the sound of things, recently, they're really trying to monopolize the media.
I wonder why.
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Straight up 1984'ing the shit out of America.
Why is trump not arrested ?
Translation: how can trump make money off of this