Not that I’m supporting Tucker Carlson, but it does look like the US is yet again simply doing Israel’s, and Netayahu’s, bidding. For over 30 years Netanyahu has been claiming that Iran is months or even weeks away from having nuclear weapons. Looks like he’s finally got a US president who agrees with him and who is willing to go to war on Israel’s behalf without any evidence that Iran does have nuclear weapons.
North Korea, on the other hand, is free to continue building up its nuclear missile arsenal while also assisting Russia in its war against Ukraine. No US threats being made there as you can’t bully someone who actually has nukes.
Why has no-one ever asked him ; " Sir , what was it that you said to Jeff while you were leering and pointing at the scantily clad young women in that video that made him double up in laughter." ?
Netflix have unexpectedly pulled out of the WBD deal leaving a free path for the Ellisons. Lots of discussions on the various media threads about the implications for media but this is a politics story and not just because of the fate of CNN. It is impossible to ignore that the government and Trump specifically put a finger on the scale and made Netflix believe they had not other option
This is the soon to be new owner of WBD, including CNN, as a guest of honor at the State of the Union
From what I’ve read when the bids were being made, I don’t think a lot of shareholders or at least analysts writing about it were all that keen on Netflix paying for the bits of WBD they bid for.
So when Ellison went back this week with a higher bid it was always possible Netflix wouldn’t go further. Also, I think they may have said at the time of their last offer that it wouldn’t be raised. I think Netflix get a $2.8bn dollar payment for their deal not going ahead.
(This isn’t to say that your comment about the politics is incorrect)
Yeah Netflix stock took a bit of a hit recently on concerns of them getting into a bidding war that Serandos was publicly stating he had no interest in engaging in, and he is using that as his public reason for stepping back now.
That all may be technically true, but you cannot look past the role of the administration in clearing the lane to allow for passage of a deal of this type, size, and with the source of funding (supposedly the largest leveraged buy out in history) that ordinarily would be very difficult to see how it gets approved. Netflix always had a much stronger case against the anti-trust concerns, and that was part of their confidence in not having to go higher - their belief that a level playing field of the regulatory environment would see Skydance/Paramount not get approval to go ahead leaving them as the only viable buyer
This linked to October NY Times investigation that Trump officials discussed a fake “national emergency” to force new election rules on states.. A DHS official said it could allow Trump to “go around Congress” and take over elections.*
Sounds like any one of those (probably more than a hundred) autocratic governments that the US used the flimsy excuse of “democracy and the people” to attempt to overthrow (not all successful or well known) the current “regime”.
Sounds like the US needs a dose of its own medicine.
Oh wait…the companies/billionaire class already own the government and have subjugated the people.
So its seems the argument is was China, acting through Chavez (although dead), and all will be revealed by Maduro. Unfortunately they have blamed Ukraine in the past and havent figured out a way to insert them into the story
Anyway, Trump keeps yapping about “maybe regime change in Iran”, but hasn’t an army to invade (V.P. Vance also said that there was no chance in hell that the war would be protracted, which means Iran has even less reason to concede and just ride it out instead) and Iran has decided to ride out the limited war because they of course, understand that the US has no army to invade with. So it is likely going to be a stupid meaningless Lawn Mowing operation that in the end, solves very little and does not give Iranians any sort of political freedom but keeps the Ayatollah regime alive to retaliate against domestic opposition. Which they will post-war.
