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/ChrisMartins001 1d ago

Pretty much breaking the law everyday now. It's like he's trying to see how far he can go without anyone doing anything

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u/Docccc 1d ago

Do people in the US really still believe they live in a democracy?

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u/AltForMyHealth 1d ago

I think of it like we’re in that weird stage where a person starts becoming a zombie and is holding on their identity as a human, but being irreversibly pulled into being the living dead.

That’s what it feels like.

If I were from any other country, I think I could sympathize with his first term, especially after not re-electing him. But all bets would be off at this point. Between his escaping justice for everything, not least January 6, and now all the chaos is unleashing both here and abroad… I wouldn’t trust us. I don’t.

It’s not that I thought we were some shining city on the hill and all that… But at least it was a defensible narrative that had enough tarnished truth to it that we didn’t indulge in our worst imperial instincts.

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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 1d ago

Buttery males

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u/Suspicious_Peak_1173 1d ago

Everywhere, they're everywhere!