| ▲ | breadwinner 13 hours ago |
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| ▲ | collinfunk 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| He also sued The Des Moines Register because they released a poll that he did not like [1]. It is sad that people defend this. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/politics/trump-sues-de... |
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| ▲ | tptacek 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Colbert was almost certainly on track to be cancelled anyways. The program was tremendously expensive and was losing boatloads of money. I don't know if Trump accelerated the cancellation or not, but the writing was on the wall. |
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| ▲ | xp84 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Indeed, it was just a smart move by Viacom/whatever to curry some favor with Trump by doing it now instead of waiting for another time, figuring that favor would be more valuable than the bad PR they earned. Probably a good bet since with the mergers (including the one they themselves were supposedly trying to push across the finish line) it's impractical to hold grudges for long. With only a few oligarchic firms in each industry you can't practically boycott more than maybe one at a time, and they all do shady stuff. | | |
| ▲ | allturtles 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's exactly the problem that currying favor with the President is a smart move for businesses. | | |
| ▲ | potato3732842 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Turns out Ajit Pai was actually a visionary who saw the political writing on the wall. He attempted to dismantle the agency to a point where it couldn't do anything and by not being able to do anything it couldn't be used for evil and wasn't worth corrupting. It was a long con to get the FCC to survive the 2020s. If only we had listened to him. (This is satire) |
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