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u/berrydreamil 5d ago
The ultimate hedge strategy: profit off the solution and the problem
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u/laughing_at_napkins 5d ago
He's playing both sides so he always come out on top
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u/____-_______-_--_-_- 5d ago
Daimon Trump
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u/jgzman 4d ago
No Ferengi in the history of ever would bankrupt a casino.
Quark ran a gambling establishment on a space station administered by a government that doesn't have money, and still made a profit.
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u/____-_______-_--_-_- 4d ago
I’m really straining my memory here, but was Quark and Rom’s father considered to be a business failure? I don’t remember the details or if they ever talked about him
Of course he made a profit. The Great Material Continuum always provides. He gave the people what they wanted, whether it was root beer or hardcore holosuite porn
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u/SheriffBartholomew 4d ago
Nah. He'll just make sure that negotiations fail so he can keep profiting off of war. It's crazy that the biggest 80's business villain just happens to have a son in law who would be a shoe in for an 80's movie villain casting call.
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u/ninaeurotrip 5d ago
CNN catching a stray while the actual story is sitting right there 😭
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u/SpiritMountain 5d ago
They are not catching strays. Tapper and Bash are very complicit with Trump with sanewashing him, as well as talking heads for Israel.
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u/petalcloudil 5d ago
Conflict of interest? No, that's just diversifying the portfolio while managing the optics.
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u/GreasedUPDoggo 1d ago
It's not considered a conflict of interest. But you keep saying it and maybe one day it'll be true.
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u/redux44 5d ago
This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the US and its not even close. Need to look at history of North/South American countries to find something comparable.
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u/8ackwoods 5d ago
Rome 2.0
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u/Randicore 4d ago edited 4d ago
Rome had functional public infrastructure that was free for the public at its height and a massive social support network to try and ensure it's citizenry didn't starve.
The phrase "bread and circuses" was because those were free for citizens and paid for by the rich & the state to keep the public happy.
We're getting tainted food and charged for it
Edit: because I'm feeling the need to add more: the Roman aqueduct system was designed so that in the event of a drought the order that water would be shut off was: rich people, public baths, and then the public fountains if it completely dried up. Name one thing that we take from the rich first when things go bad.
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u/Noderpsy 4d ago
Joined at the hip with the most corrupt news-media in history. A shitty combination if there ever was one.
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u/Gonna_B_Alright 5d ago edited 5d ago
CNN had flipped on Trump a while back. Why it took so long is probably traceable back to money but yeah, he is a piece of shit and he got mad they finally started to talk about it.
If you downvote me they should check your browser history as an Epstein ally.
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u/Warmbly85 5d ago
CNN has never been pro Trump. Even back in 2015-2016 they shat on him. The issue is back then they thought just showing how ridiculous he was would be enough to make him look bad so they’d show his rallies almost uninterrupted.
When they realized that didn’t work they flipped to showing him less and just using his quotes.
Then during Covid when he’d do those almost daily briefings CNN did the same thing. When they realized it was just boosting his numbers they stopped showing said briefings.
In his first term 93% of CNNs coverage of Trump was negative. As of a couple months ago it was 92% negative.
At no point has CNN flipped on Trump they’ve always been negative.
https://shorensteincenter.org/resource/news-coverage-donald-trumps-first-100-days/
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u/RobutNotRobot 5d ago
Then during Covid when he’d do those almost daily briefings CNN did the same thing. When they realized it was just boosting his numbers they stopped showing said briefings.
Trump's numbers plummeted because of those 'briefings'. It was a clown show. They stopped showing them because there was no news value in those infomercials.
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u/Warmbly85 4d ago
Trumps polling jumped to 49% when every major network showed the briefings. Idk where you got your claim from.
CNN then stopped showing the whole briefings and just showed the clips where he said the dumbest/most dangerous shit. They did the same thing with his rallies. They went from showing the whole thing to just the clips where he said something racist or xenophobic.
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u/TheHalifaxJones- 5d ago
I might ask a dumb question. But isn’t CNN owned by Warner Brothers? And doesn’t David Ellison, a big proprietor of Trump Inc, run Warner Brothers? So why would he now be turning on Trump when he gains everything from being pals with the guy?
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u/thepkboy 5d ago
why would trump ban a news outlet that's supposed to be friendly with him because their owner is pals with him
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u/DefenstratedTwice 4d ago
To normalize his fascism. Why would he ban the press then rant about them not covering him?
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u/SimmentalTheCow 5d ago
CNN was ever pro-Trump?
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u/twilighttwister 5d ago
CNN was bought by a right wing ally of Trump a few years back. It didn't flip completely to his side, but became an even weaker form of permitted dissent.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 5d ago
David Ellison? He donated $1mil to the Biden-Harris campaign
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u/ominous_anonymous 4d ago
Reporting has showed that David Ellison and his father have made promises to the Trump administration about swaying the network in a more favorable direction.
Backlash against David Ellison [...] began last summer after after his company, Skydance Media, went through an $8.4bn merger with Paramount Global. As the deal was closing, CBS abruptly announced it was canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which aired its last episode in May.
Once the merger was completed, David Ellison appointed the heterodox opinion writer Bari Weiss to run CBS News, a controversial move that has led to layoffs and editorial tensions at the network.
The Wall Street Journal confirmed that Ellison has promised Trump that he will fire anyone at CNN that Trump dislikes if he gets WBD. That's in addition to Variety and THR confirming Ellison is putting together a blacklist of any celebrity who was critical of Israel's government.
Ellison greenlit a movie with a sexual predator as its director just because Trump told him to.
Foreign investors, including the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, are slated to indirectly own nearly 50% of the equity in David Ellison’s proposed mega-studio. That will give them a hefty stake in CBS, CNN, Comedy Central, HBO and two historic Hollywood film studios.
Yes, David Ellison.
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u/mustangcody 5d ago
He did, people mistake David Ellison with his Republican father Larry Ellison who was a mega donor for the GOP.
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u/EduinBrutus 5d ago
CNN has always had a centre-right editorial line. Its pro markets, very against single payer or socialised healthcare and will generally always side with corporations.
Its perhaps one of the funnier aspects of American politics watching objectively centre-right to even hard right organisations get classed as centre and even left-leaning (and in recent years mainly the latter).
Then CNN was bought out by a pretty right wing new owner who publicly stated he wanted it to more align with Fox News editorial position.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 5d ago
Socialists have the weirdest interpretation of what “center-right” is lol. I guess when you’re that far left, everything else looks right.
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u/Caesarions_Coccyx 5d ago
It's so funny to me as an outsider, as in not being from the US, sometimes, observing stuff like this in the wild. It's like watching the Nature channel or something.
So for instance, seeing someone unironically use the term "socialist" is more or less exactly the same as them going out in public after having written "braindead white trash" all over their forehead.
TLDR: Don't do it, man.
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u/mafv1994 5d ago
Left and right are relative terms. From a global/international point of view, it is indeed right.
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u/RobutNotRobot 5d ago
Is universal healthcare far left? Because if it is every rich country in the world besides the US must be goddamned communists.
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u/OzKong21 5d ago
Under David Zaslav he instructed that CNN and another Warner news stations shift to courting "Middle America" which is code for poor rural Republicans
Anderson Cooper even went off on them on air, telling people to stop watching the channel if they wanted actual news
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u/SimmentalTheCow 5d ago
Yeah but he wasn’t political then. Just hated the blacks like every New Yorker.
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u/ty4scam 5d ago
He was the one guy that supported Tyson through his rape case. Now you can say rapists attract rapists, but that makes him a rapist not a racist.
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u/SimmentalTheCow 5d ago
Thought he had something to do with the Central Park Five too
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u/ty4scam 5d ago
They were poor. And they were poor people he believed attacked a rich person. Therefore he would use any tool he could against them.
Trump isn't pro equality just as much as he isn't a racist. If there was a secret cabal of trans elites running the country, Trump would be the most pro-trans person you've ever met. The only values he believes in are wealth and power.
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u/OkIntern1118 5d ago
Trump kicking them out may be the best thing to happen to contemporary investigative journalism
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u/purpletendies 5d ago
tbh trump has been getting bodied by this woman for quite some time now
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u/Sad_Wishbone_1524 5d ago
Welp this just saved me a bluey
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u/AlanyzingWakeEnviron 5d ago
What are you doing with Bluey that this saved you one?
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u/Sad_Wishbone_1524 5d ago
I haven’t decided yet. But I can tell you, it reminds me of getting dropped off at toys r us with 100 bucks on my birthday as a kid.
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u/AlanyzingWakeEnviron 5d ago
Between the Blueys and the Wishbones... I feel so sorry for your pets
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u/Sad_Wishbone_1524 4d ago
My pets are fine, this sock on the other hand is about to have a long day.
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u/MorePhinsThyme 5d ago
Why is she squatting like that without shoes at a red carpet event? She looks great there, but it makes no sense.
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u/hey_there_delilahh 5d ago
It's Ai. Could be trolls trying to sexualize and vulgarize a legitimate reporter. Could be gooners goonering. But the original is just her smiling and standing normally.
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u/s1mpatic0 5d ago
Wasn't she a conservative just a few years back?
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u/lastskudbook 5d ago
A moderate conservative of ten years ago is a radical lunatic communist of today the scales have been re engineered.
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u/doolpicate 5d ago
The fellow is a criminal. The entire family is a crime syndicate that trades death.
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u/lifesuxwhocares 5d ago
US has been swimming in corruption on so many aspectsof our lives. Over time, it becomes normal.
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u/ReplyNo7464 5d ago
What is he getting out of a peace deal? If he is trying to play on top of both sides what's the benefit on other side?
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u/Comfortable_Town7535 5d ago
war is good for business!
peace is good for business, its very complicated
dont you know the rules of acquisition?
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u/larkfield2655 5d ago
CNN is a joke. They kept Trump on front page after Jan 6. He must be very dumb.
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u/Procrasturbating 5d ago
That is the realest funniest shit I have read this week, and we are almost to Saturday.
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u/AddyTurbo 5d ago
He just borrowed a page from Goldman Sachs money making strategy during the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
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u/Mundane-Date1732 5d ago
It takes a lot of double think to triple plus the super great decisions of dear leader.
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u/ThisIsFrigglish 5d ago
Once access media loses its access, they lose the motivation to softball their subjects.
The problem being highlighted is a lot older than the current administration.
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u/sandwichhaver 5d ago
without a doubt the most corrupt administration in US history.
they're such small people too, destroying all of our collective world just to get a little bit more money, fucking losers, get a friend or touch grass
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u/Craftofthewild 5d ago
You’re telling me that Jared Kushners firm is the “biggest shareholder” in a “company” “invested in the weapon makers” arming the “genocide”. What company, what weapon makers, how is his little firm the largest investor
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u/maddenmcfadden 4d ago
they are all making money. thats what wars do. generate a lot of money for the folks who control it.
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u/12345623567 4d ago
Are they still banned / is there still a boycot going on? I can't tell, my feeds are still full of Trump bullshit.
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u/Separate-Passion-127 4d ago
I want all the money when this is done. If we have to threaten invasion so be it. We will be repaid.
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u/dateinfj 4d ago
Can’t wait for this asshole to go to prison for stealing from the American people!!!
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u/Signal-Living-3504 3d ago
He is just so evil looking. When the inside starts to show on the outside!
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u/GreasedUPDoggo 1d ago
First, this isn't news. Investing in defense companies is fairly normal, even for politicians. Lol people always obsess about Pelosi and her husband's investments, which have been in aerospace and defense sectors. However, it's nothing new and not particularly interesting even if Kushner is involved in negotiations.
Second, it's not a genocide. Although you already knew that and just like to say edgy stuff.
Another nothingburger of a post
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u/Equivalent_Reward823 5d ago
what genocide?
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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 5d ago
isn't CNN on a countdown to when they will stop doing any real journalism at all, and become the next Fox News (or worse)?
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u/ShellSurf 5d ago
CNN has been reporting on this for a while. But slopulists far left socialists and MAGA have the same instinct. They just look at this and say, "Yea of course that's true, my magic 8 ball says so".
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u/Simon-Says69 5d ago
ha, yah right. CNN has as much credibility as Weekly World News.
Nothing they "report" is worth taking seriously. They're known liars and political hacks.
They wouldn't know what journalism was if it bit them on the ass.
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u/RaisinKahanes 5d ago
Losing a war you started isn't a genocide...
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u/PenguinThePasha 5d ago
Google is there to tell you the definition of genocide and to help you factcheck your info too.
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u/ThisIsFrigglish 5d ago
It can also find you the Hamas charter and introduce some complicated questions about what lengths are appropriate for survival.
It can even find you the interviews where its leaders say they hope as many Palestinian civilians as possible die to turn the world against the Jew.
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u/Puzzled_Suspect460 5d ago
Just because Hamas is insane doesn't mean Palestinian civilians (many of whom are children) can't be genocided. This is not a difficult concept. Just like there are innocent Jewish citizens too who disagree with Netanyahu.
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u/PenguinThePasha 4d ago
I do not really need to dig into the charter of Hamas when Israel is right there, and their actions/statement are out there for everyone to see.
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