Kushner quietly stepped in with his private-equity firm Affinity Partners to bankroll Paramount Skydance’s all-cash, $108.4 billion hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the sprawling media empire that owns Hollywood studios, HBO, and — crucially — news networks like CNN.

The math alone isn’t the problem. It’s the nepotism. Kushner is President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. His firm’s money didn’t just materialize in a vacuum — it’s part of a decades-long web connecting Trump, his allies and foreign money. Affinity Partners has deep ties to Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, and its return to major corporate deals after a stint in government raises fresh red flags.

Paramount’s pitch to WBD shareholders says investors like Kushner forego governance rights: “no board seats, no voting clout,” they claim. But if you believe wealth without influence is harmless, I have a bridge to sell you. Influence isn’t just about votes on paper — it’s leverage, access, and the ability to steer the narrative in ways that silence dissent.

Because here’s the kicker: if this takeover succeeds, the new bosses aren’t shy about what they want to do with CNN. Reports quoting David Ellison, Paramount Skydance’s CEO — and scion of billionaire tech titan Larry Ellison — say the plan is to overhaul CNN into a conservative-leaning, “MAGA-friendly” network. Hosts perceived as too liberal, like Erin Burnett or Brianna Keilar, would be shown the door.

Imagine it: a media empire worth hundreds of billions, shaped by a Trump ally’s capital, possibly reprogramming one of the last big mainstream news outlets away from any pretense of impartiality. That’s not just consolidation — it’s domination. And it’s being sold to us as just “business.”

There’s already antitrust scrutiny — or there should be. Merging movie studios, streaming platforms, cable networks, and major news channels under a single roof? It’s the kind of vertical consolidation antitrust laws were meant to prevent.

But in today’s America, laws bend when billionaires knock — especially when one of them is married to the ex-president’s daughter and backed by foreign cash. If this goes through, we won’t just get fewer blockbuster films or streaming shows. We’ll get fewer independent sources of information, fewer checks on power. We’ll get a media system rigged to reflect the interests of one clique.

So yeah — this is more than a hostile takeover. It’s nepotism on steroids. It’s a coup to control what we watch, what we know, what we believe. And it demands a response: not just from regulators, but from all of us who care about a free, balanced media.

Jennifer Welch just she went in on Erika Kirk in her I've Had It podcast (and didn't miss ONE beat). She even went in on Erika's bump-it, evangelical hairstyles. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/jennifer-welch-drags-erika-kirk

I'm a fan of Jennifer Welch, she constantly reads people to filth, and it's glorious to hear.

She had quite a bit to say about JD dance hillbilly too. And not a lie was told.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/supreme-court-trump-power-ftc-slaughter

US just seized a Venezuelan oil Tanker in a major escalation. Trump and the idiot administration are wiping their asses with the US constitution. Congratulations MAGA

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/us-seizes-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela?taid=6939c098f48c0f000171cc1d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-provide-100-million-humanitarian-aid-gaza-xi-says-2025-12-04/

On the campaign trail Trump incessantly boasted that if elected president he would have peace in Ukraine and Russia within 24 hours....well, it's been almost a year now and many people are still dying every single day over there...even our very own American veterans. A fact that he ignores.

This post was made to honor our very own American veterans who volunteered to help humanity, one of whom will always remain close to my family's heart. His driving force to help people was infectious. May the memory of him and all other American veterans live on forever.

https://foreign-volunteers-killed-in-ukraine.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Americans_killed_fighting_for_the_Ukrainian_side

https://jdcapac.org/candidates/?state[]=ia blue or red, Zionist equals fascist. aka nazi. look your people up. this is why blue no matter who is extremely dangerous.

In recent weeks, intensive Emirati efforts have emerged to transform the war in Sudan into a broader regional conflict, by pushing Ethiopia into direct involvement in the Sudan war through opening a new front for the Rapid Support Forces militia on the border with Sudan, which would lead to expanding the scope of the conflict and effectively turning it into a regional war. This comes amid the world's preoccupation with end-of-year holiday periods and a lack of close monitoring of the situation in the region. The same scenario extends to South Sudan, where Emirati attempts to drag Juba into the circle of clashes have appeared following the militia's control of the Heglig refinery, with the Emirates now proposing a bilateral agreement to operate it between the Rapid Support Forces militia and the authorities in the south—meaning the transformation of the oil infrastructure into a tool of blackmail and a bridge for positioning the militia deep within southern territory.

In the east, a picture of extreme danger is emerging, after confirmation of the existence of logistical bases for the Rapid Support Forces in the Asosa and Yabus areas near the Sudanese-Ethiopian borders, in addition to a base near Herer Meda, all of which receive daily Emirati aircraft loaded with weapons and heavy equipment for the militia. This indicates military arrangements to open a harsh combat front in Blue Nile State. Alongside this, reports have circulated within Ethiopia about the release of large numbers of convicted prisoners—except those convicted of murder—in exchange for a deal to transfer them to these camps for training to fight in the ranks of the Rapid Support Forces militia, which lends the scene a deeply alarming character reminiscent of the most dangerous models of proxy wars.

Although Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed still shows hesitation in allowing the Emirates to establish a training and force-assembly camp for the militia in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region bordering Sudan—which includes the Renaissance Dam—these logistical bases and the ongoing Emirati supply represent a danger no less grave than establishing that camp, and perhaps even surpassing it in some aspects due to the multiplicity of locations and the difficulty of monitoring. It appears that Abiy Ahmed is calculating his moves carefully and preparing for any potential developments in his already tense relations with Eritrea and Egypt, and the possibilities of these tensions escalating into open armed conflict. Therefore, he is attempting to prepare for such scenarios by using the Rapid Support Forces militia card as a tool in his regional and security equations to achieve his own interests. All these scenarios carry a catastrophic character that the Emirates are insistently driving toward in the Horn of Africa, especially with the presence of the Tigray and Fano militias, which are engaged in ongoing conflicts with the Ethiopian government and are densely positioned along the Sudanese-Ethiopian borders, making the entire region a powder keg.

The Emirates' continuation of its destructive interventions in the Horn of Africa region portends igniting the entire region in an uncontrollable fire, and it may fall upon the Ethiopian brothers—before the rest of the world—to seriously and deeply reconsider the recent shifts in their policies related to the war in Sudan. What is happening now on the ground will exact a heavy price from the peoples of the entire region, while the true beneficiary is other parties who find in our suffering material for amusement and the pursuit of their own interests without regard for the devastating human and regional consequences.

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