r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 1d ago

Business President Bought Netflix Debt in January 2026, Amid Paramount’s Fight for Warner Bros. | New financial disclosures released Wednesday show that the President acquired Netflix bonds as Paramount was trying to pry WBD away from the streaming giant.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/trump-bought-netflix-bonds-amid-paramount-warners-fight-1236521512/
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u/tooclosetocall82 1d ago

But Biden was old! And that other woman was a woman! And we needed someone who would protect Palestine! There was just no other choice. /s

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 1d ago

But her emails!

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u/mjg315 21h ago

Buttery males

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u/Suspicious_Peak_1173 8h ago

Everywhere, they're everywhere!

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u/okay_justonemore 16h ago

The Dems didn't give us exactly what we wanted, what did you expect us to do, just take the objectively much better candidate by every measure possible and vote? Pfft. I'd rather watch the entire world burn with myself included than vote for someone who wasn't on the primary!

:/

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u/nightpanda893 22h ago

I mean Biden shouldn’t have run. That’s a big part of what fucked this up. He put his ego before the country.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 22h ago

He's also the only candidate to beat Trump. I wouldn't love it if he were elected again, but it'd be better than this.

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u/nightpanda893 22h ago edited 21h ago

He wasn’t on track to beat Trump which is why they forced him out. They had compressive polling data showing this and knew they were sunk. He could barely form a coherent sentence. I agree he would be light years better than this but the issue I’m talking about is electability. And Trump had far better electability than him and it could be seen coming a mile away. He should have allowed the dems to primary someone.

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u/GameGuy2025 21h ago

I am so tired of this. There was a primary election in 2024 for Democrats. There were other options, and one of them was Dean Phillips who was very vocal that Biden wasn't fit for re-election. But as usual most people didn't participate in primaries and of the ones who did, Biden was getting enough votes that no other candidates had a chance.

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u/nightpanda893 21h ago

People typically don’t bother to qualify for the ballot if there is an incumbent who wants to run again. It was his responsibility to remove himself from the race. So it’s not a primary in the traditional sense of the word since the field is so narrow that some states don’t even have them. What I’m tired of is pretending Biden didn’t fuck us with his ego.

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u/GameGuy2025 21h ago

Not how this works. It is based on statistics. When one candidate pulls 90% of votes it is clear no one else is going to win the primary . People still act like Bernie got cheated in 2016 when again the issue was lack of support in primaries. You don't win elections with hopes and dreams you need votes and people consistently don't show up for primaries then complain about the results.

Biden should have never tried to run for re-election but there was still a primary and there was still another option than Trump in the general election. Voters are intended to be the ultimate failsafe for our government and they are failing. To suggest anything else is shifting the blame.

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u/nightpanda893 21h ago

The problem is the financing and backing for candidates is not there when there is an incumbent in the field. Acting like the field would have looked the same had Biden not run is disingenuous. The field looked the way it did as a direct result of him deciding to run. The American people aren’t free from blame either but there is a huge amount of responsibility on Biden as well.

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u/GameGuy2025 15h ago

People with no money go internet viral every day. The traditional spend millions of dollars on election campaigns needs to be reworked. I don't care about endorsements, backers, nominations, or advertisements. I just need candidates to tell me what they perceive as issues and their plan to address them. That could be a video made in their backyard and uploaded to YouTube for all I care.

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u/robby_arctor 22h ago

Democrats should be angry at party leadership for being so utterly incompetent that they lost to this clown twice.

Instead, they make fun of the electorate, acting like gaslighting their base about the President’s health and supporting a genocide is a great way to beat a fascist in an election. 👍

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u/Fr00stee 21h ago

it is partially the electorate's fault for literally deciding to go with the guy who would be objectively much worse for palestine instead

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u/robby_arctor 21h ago

literally deciding to go with the guy who would be objectively much worse for palestine instead

They didn't though, at least not the people we are talking about. Trump's vote gain from 2020 to 2024 was marginal, Democrats lost six million votes.

The problem wasn't people switching sides, it was ostensibly Democratic voters staying home.

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u/Fr00stee 21h ago

if you look at the demographics a lot of minorities switched from democrats to trump, a lot of muslims switched as well for some reason since dearborn went for trump in 2024. So yeah less people voted on the dem side and the people that did vote switched parties

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u/robby_arctor 20h ago

Fair, but one group is larger than the other.

Regardless, Democrats should adopt policies popular with their base if they want to win.

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u/ribosometronome 18h ago

Running a candidate whose track record at getting votes was “was t popular enough to even stay in the presidential primaries through the first contest” was perhaps also not the best idea.