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@#8 ... "The Late Night Show with Colbert is costing CBS $40 million a season. Why should Paramount keep it going?" ...

Because to keep it going would have prevented the Trump approval of Paramount's merger.

As highlighted in a recent video Pres Trump posted ...

Trump posts AI video depicting him throwing Colbert in a dumpster and dancing
www.wivb.com

... President Trump late Friday shared an AI-generated video depicting him throwing former late night host Stephen Colbert into a dumpster and subsequently dancing " the latest instance of the president using artificial intelligence to mock his enemies.

The video, posted to Truth Social, shows Colbert onstage for the taping of the last episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" before Trump walks up behind him, grabs him by his shoulders and tosses him into a dumpster. Trump closes the lid to the dumpster and starts dancing to the Village People's "YMCA."

The official White House account on the social platform X also shared the video, with the caption, "Bye-bye." ...


Pres Trump wanted Mr Colbert gone, and the new MAGA owners of CBS were only too willing to comply.


Related:

It's 3 times harder for blue states to get disaster funding under Trump

FTA:

The president has approved just 23 percent of blue state requests for disaster aid, compared to 89 percent for red states.

President Donald Trump has taken twice as long when considering disaster requests from Democratic-led states compared to Republican states. | Alex Brandon/AP

President Donald Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

He approved just 23 percent of disaster funding requests from states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators since returning to office 14 months ago. For states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators, it's the opposite " Trump has approved 89 percent of their requests.

The "Billionaire Bunker" Paradox

The ultra-wealthy are investing hundreds of millions into fortified compounds, yet these projects often face logical dead ends:

Worthless Wealth: A major concern for elites is maintaining control over security forces once currency loses its value. Without a functioning economy, there is little incentive for guards to remain loyal rather than simply taking over the resources themselves.

Extreme Features: Some luxury shelters include bizarre defensive measures like flammable moats that turn into rings of fire or water cannons designed to take down helicopters.

High-End Isolation: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $270 million compound in Hawaii featuring a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with its own food and energy supplies.

Psychological Strain: To prevent insanity, luxury bunkers use tricks like night-scene paintings visible under black lights to simulate the outside world and windows that aren't actually windows.

Common Design and Social Flaws

Beyond the luxury tier, doomsday prepping often overlooks practical and ethical realities:

Basic Survival Gaps: Many amateur designs fail due to inadequate air filtration, insufficient waste management, or lack of secondary exits.

Social Isolation: Critics argue that focusing on individual survival via bunkers ignores the fact that human survival historically depends on peaceful cooperation and stable climates rather than isolated concrete boxes.

Market Growth: Despite the absurdity, the "panic industry" is booming, with the fallout shelter market expected to exceed $175 million by 2030.

Eight Democrats Help GOP Pass Anti-Transgender Law

'Tis wrong on every level.

Which is exactly why Trump and company utilized this as a potent message in 2024...


click graphic above for actual She's for They/Them ad

Gosh.

Not a single thing about Hamas, Israel, Jews, or anything else.

"judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency mandated that millions of immigrants must be locked" www.politico.com

The White House is blaming liberal judges but the truth is of the 10K+ cases were handled by nearly 500 different judges, many of those who were appointed by Trump and other republican presidents.

What the heck does Benjamin Netanyahu care about the hardworking American taxpayer who suffers without universal healthcare while Israelis enjoy world class medical treatment without onerous paperwork, awful outcomes, or bankruptcy from astronomically-high bills?

The price of irrational Muslim hatred is way too high for Americans.

Soon the US will be $100 billion in the hole:

Cost of Iran War for Israel's Behalf to the American Taxpayer

In 2024, the Democrats already paid the price of ignoring the antiwar bloc of the American left.

Bibi called them "the useful idiots of Iran."

On Monday 4 Nov 2024, the Palestinian death count in Gaza at the hands of the IDF was least 43,374 human beings, mostly women and children; another 102,261 were wounded or maimed.

In response, on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024 (US election day), roughly 5.7 million progressive voters did not cast a ballot out of disgust and stayed home. Those same Samaritans voted in peacetime for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Tuesday 3 Nov 2020.

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