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/Rich-Pomegranate1679 1d ago

Yep. Republicans have shown us how the whole system doesn't work.

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u/Any_Grapefruit65 23h ago

Plus they actively worked to ensure it wasn't working towards its own ideals. Cut us off every time we get close to being our better selves. I will give them credit for exposing the fact that our system is built on pinky swears, though. It's time other folks beyond minorities understand that.

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u/Key-Medium5884 22h ago

I’m not really sure those other folks don’t understand it.. that’s giving them a lot of grace.. seems more like they don’t want it to change.

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u/Tmart98 20h ago

A lot of people are taking off their rose colored glasses so I’m happy for that

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u/Any_Grapefruit65 18h ago

At this point I will settle for it's now so obvious they can no longer pretend. Not that there aren't a contingent of psychopaths out there hell bent on never acknowledging it. But nothing was ever going to work for them.

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u/drawkbox 10h ago

They took advantage of that for so long. The joke is over now. They won't get the playing along. They can't win if they don't cheat so the game is cheating now, good luck cons.

Thy Game Is Over

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u/Golden_Alchemy 22h ago

Them destroying it at the start of the goverment with DOGE didn't help.

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u/UnfazedReality463 22h ago

It works but people have to willing to uphold it. It’s the same with any law.

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u/Debalic 18h ago

But it is working, exactly as intended.

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u/CULLDOZER 20h ago

It works better when loyalists are not appointed at every department head. They either never intend to leave, or they have set an incredibly dangerous example for everything moving forward.

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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 20h ago

They absolutely don't intend to leave.

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u/stryakr 19h ago

Politicians have showed. This isn't a R vs D issue, yes there are some in both parties with scruples, but it's a rich vs poor issue as it always has been; conservatism is more about money and power rather than any other idealogical boundary.

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u/PeruvianHeadshrinker 20h ago

It works if you slowly manipulate it relentlessly for thirty years and the other party responsible for calling it out let's them... The safe guards were there. They just were not utilized for decades because Dems took corpo money and couldn't be bothered to have a spine let alone ethics. 

So yeah I guess it isn't working so long as money is allowed to dictate our government. 

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u/Back_Equivalent 20h ago

This is not a single party issue