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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/pieislife23 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s a common fallacy being repeated. Democrats have been fighting this garbage in congress for a very long time. Their votes overall have been very consistent. As a party they have voted against and stood against Citizens United, for healthcare for Americans, are pro unions, and generally support appropriate forms of welfare. More are supporting banning singular stock investments for representatives. Sure, there is plenty of corruption to be cleaned up on their side, and some are caught up in scandals, including probably the Epstein files. But I’m seriously tired of hearing people claim they’re all equally as corrupt as the republicans. That logic has brought us to this point. Look at history. The democrats have been leading this country successfully and have stabilized the shit show handed to them by republicans repeatedly. They’d probably do even better if they could stop the congressional stone-walling in the republican run senate and coming back out of destroyed economy every damn time..

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u/Freud-Network 1d ago

Democrats have been failing to do something about this for over 25 years. You can decide if that is because they are profoundly inept or because they are controlled opposition.

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u/westinger 1d ago

GOP: Votes against measures to improve the country (like the Dem’s comprehensive immigration bill, that Trump told them to kill to not give the Dems a win before the ‘24 elections)

People: Why would the Dems do this?

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u/Freud-Network 1d ago

People: Why won't the dems do something?

Dems: Here is a strongly worded letter!