They did this because there's a merger on the table. This was a bribe not a shakedown.
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So I'm hearing... that makes it even worse.
American media and popular culture will resemble North Korea.
And tankies will ironically still hate it.
The first of many. Because Neville CBS Chamberlain played themselves.
Cowards. Our media are fucking cowards.
So is every other institution.
- Upenn recently caved.
- Harvard put up a fight for a while, but ultimately bent the knee.
- Even Canada blinked, and ultimately pulled a digital services tax in order to appease Trump. Again.
I have literally never understood it from day one of Trump's descent down that ladder. From day one, people have played Trump's games by Trump's rules, then wonder why they keep losing. It's not just our colleges and media centers. It's been our businesses, our tech industry, our legal system -- both civil and criminal, and even other world leaders. For some reason, in the end, they all blink and just give Trump whatever he wants. I don't know if it's out of fear, a sense of appeasement, or whatever. But not one of them has learned yet that appeasement DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WORK. All it does is make him come back for more. Appeasing him just makes him believe that whatever he wanted in the first place is his by divine birthright.
Negotiating with this man DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WORK. He has openly admitted that he doesn't honor his side of agreements, believing that he can use even that as a negotiating tactic, on the belief that you'll return to the negotiating table if you want to receive even a part of what you were promised in the first place. He believes that conceding anything is an admission that you knew he was right about everything in the first place, or you wouldn't be negotiating at all.
You can't give this man chances. One judge already gave him ten fucking chances, and it still didn't change his behavior. Then the judge went on and proceeded to do fuck all about it, and wondered why Trump just amped up the rhetoric. Why shouldn't he? The judge blinked and proved he had a whole lot of nothing. And so has every judge who has ultimately sat on the bench with a stupid look on their face when Trump all but said "Fuck you, what are you going to do about it?". Why should Trump respect them when their answer so far has been "Nothing."?
If you're going to go on TV and denounce Trump, then go from the podium right to the negotiating table to give Trump exactly what he wants, you can't be surprised that this is the end result.
We need a list of all orgs, especially media companies, that have rolled over. I was actually watching 60 minutes more after they seemed to be fighting.
Here's the list:
- All of them.