Paramount Skydance Secures $24 Billion From Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi Funds for Warner Bros. Deal: Report

Because where we are right now laws don’t matter and the rules don’t apply as long as you have enough zeroes in your account.

Laws only apply to us common folk.

Kushner made a sweet deal, duh

[You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations, and peoples.](https://youtu.be/yuBe93FMiJc?si=KfejTYc4wyVt0mPb) There are no nations, there are no peoples, there are no Russians, there are no Arabs, there are no third worlds, there is no West! There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars! Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today!

in the middle of dodging iranian missiles too, all of them.

If you have enough money everything is legal

This whole government is saying "who gon check me, boo?"

Price of eggs was temporarily higher than usual.

Look at the White House and who’s running the country

Much of the people are ambivalent and indifferent to politics in America, many of them just eat and entertain themselves.

"Legal" and "fair" are not the same.

Because we haven’t been electing people who want to break up monopolies and most recently we decided to just go ahead and hand over power to all three branches of government to people who want no regulation (or democracy) at all.

*\*palpatine voice\** i will make it legal!

Because America is for sale.

Well it's never been illegal people really don't know how the law works

Its the Hungary playbook

They have the money, it's that Larry was extremely cautious about this so he had to distribute risk among his corrupt Saudi buddies. It's perfectly normal in this timeline.

Which uhhhh couldn’t this be used in court as a reason for manipulating the price to be bought at when they didn’t even have the money?

America first , what a joke

MAGA views America as the ultra wealthy elite. The American citizens are assets/products. We are being sold, but that was always the plan.

Now you know what it's like. So many of our companies in the UK are owned by Americans. They are bought, stripped of what makes them great so the new owners can squeeze out as much profit as possible. RIP Cadburys.

Well these are studios I won’t watch anymore. So many!

Seriously. I hate this timeline.

That happens when you are a third world country, First time mate?

War is no longer fought on battlefields. It’s in corporate acquisition. But we’re way behind

That movie already got made, Jeff Bezos takes over the world and sacks the evil Washington Post Report who dared to report on the news. Such a fun family film, I think it’s called 2024

It seems it no longer belongs to “our” country.

Didn't one of them recently buy electronic arts, or something? It's kinda nuts how foreign governments are being allowed to buy into our media. This shit just endlessly gets weirder and weirder.

At this point with paramount’s absolute dogshit slate they can’t go belly up soon enough :(

Mostly likely it will go through, become a very cash strapped debt ridden company that will need to cut costs quick and deep. Expect obvious layoffs, reduced content, the incorporation of AI into news and leisure content, higher pricing and the possibility that they will sell off assets in about 2 years. Be interesting to see if Harry Potter actually makes it to season 7.

That sounds like next quarters problem

Oracle (Ellison’s daddy’s company who’s backing this) just fired 30k people via email last week. And everybody who’s ever bought WB has eventually run it into the ground and needed to sell.

Hopefully the SAG, the WGA or any of the prominent actors/writers/directors/etc. that are firmly anti-Trump/anti-Ellison (of which there’s an abundance) could take a stand against this merger to prevent Trump from having sway over the entertainment industry and work to somehow prevent it by whatever means necessary.

all because they're uspet CNN doesn't just glaze daddy Trump nonstop.

Which is hilarious bc the same people who don't give a damn about this sleazy shit love saying Mamdani being elected is a case of us forgetting 9/11. These people have no backbone or integrity.

I watched an interview with the ruler of Qatar or Dubai, something like that. The interviewer was asking about the islands and sky scrapers the ruler was having built in and around Dubai (the Burj Kalifa, the Palm Islands, The World islands). The ruler acknowledged that theywere going to run out of oil eventually and he wanted a future for his country. They had c**** labor and c**** building material, so he decided to go for tourism and wealthy people to live there. I am guessing buying into a huge media empire would also help keep revenue flowing. Especially if you could persuade people to film in a foreign country with tax incentives, c**** labor, and cheaper extras.

California destabilized the entertainment industry and started well before Trump ever got elected. From filming everything im Atlanta and Europe to now moving studios to Jersey, its all about tax incentives

I mean some rich dude in abu dhabi owns all parking spots in Chicago. And it was funny when Fox News was rallying against Muslims while one of the largest shareholders in the network was a saudi prince or something. That's capitalism for you

I am very ready to give up tv and movies. Overpaid, over saturated. Books and theater, actual art. Sorry not sorry, tv and movies are all money grabs now.