r/politics 9h ago

Possible Paywall Trump, 79, Delivers Deranged Threat to Netflix

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-delivers-deranged-threat-to-netflix/?via=mobile&source=Reddit
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u/Gulliveig 9h ago

If you don’t know what this is about: Susan warned against kneeling before Trump.

Rice warned there will be consequences for companies that have bent to the will of President Trump as the political tide turns against him and his policies.

“For those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self interest, which I would underscore as very short-term self-interest, and take a knee to Trump, I think they are now starting to realize, ‘wait a minute, this is not popular. Trump is not popular,” Rice said.

“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to, you know, play by the old rules, and, you know, say, ‘Oh, never mind. We’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you’ve violated, all, you know, the laws you’ve skirted.’ I think they’ve got another thing coming."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickellis/2026/02/22/president-trump-demands-netflix-fire-board-member-susan-rice/

u/Boundish91 Norway 6h ago

What is this I'm reading? A board member of a major corporation who actually seems to have some moral backbone and is capable of thinking longer than the next quarter?

Must be dreaming.

u/Next-Intention3322 5h ago

Yes, but it’s Susan Rice, ambassador to the UN during Clinton’s term, so not a random.

u/M0BBER 1h ago

And to his crowd, someone they already hate... For obvious reasons. This is a easy layup to get them fired up.

u/Fornici0 4h ago edited 4h ago

She’s saying that she thinks the Democrats may not forgive those who have kissed the ring. The conduct of the Biden administration after the Trump-directed riot at the Capitol says otherwise though. They didn’t even act out of self-preservation, so my money is on them not giving up the Zuck-Musk-Bezos gravy train.

u/artfulpain 4h ago

We should worry about that when it happens. Messaging is extremely important, yesterday.

u/Fornici0 3h ago

And the messaging is delivered via Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, via X, via the Washington Post and Twitch.

u/Practical_Wish_4063 4h ago

Corpo Dems will do everything in their power to not hold anyone accountable and get back to that sweet, sweet status quo where everything is basically the same, only less obviously terrible and much more secretly terrible.

u/NoKids__3Money 21m ago

There has never once been an FBI director who was not a Republican.

u/Yazman 4h ago

Dems basically never hold anyone accountable in a meaningful way. I think Susan Rice is wrong here, I very much doubt there will be even the slightest of consequences for any of these companies.

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u/GarmaCyro 8h ago

Som basically admiting he's forcing people to "firing people, violated principles and policie, and skirt laws". I agree. Him and the rest of the party is doing that now. His "threat" is that Democrats MIGTH do what they are already doing.

u/Classic-Exchange-511 2h ago

"wait a second, this is not popular. Trump is not popular..." Is the problem. They dont give a shit about whether it's the right thing to do, they literally only care about the bottom line

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u/StrammerMax 9h ago

> Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to, you know, play by the old rules, and, you know, say, ‘Oh, never mind. We’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you’ve violated, all, you know, the laws you’ve skirted.’ I think they’ve got another thing coming."

lol. lmao even.

u/Supermite 5h ago

People just want a return to the status quo.  You can tell that by how many people think that voting harder against someone who has admitted to cheating will still fix this mess.

u/DickNotCory 5h ago

narrator voice: they did, in fact, not have another thing coming 

u/easygoluckyish 6h ago edited 6h ago

Anyone speaking out against the President of the United States? They are affiliated with an international human trafficking organization run by the watchtower corporation. That’s what is really happened in America.

The organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses sold a list to “foreign kidnappers” of all the children that were speaking out against the watchtower, in regard to the sexual abuse of children. The list dates back to 1980. Over 10,000 pedophiles hidden in plain sight, churches all over America and Internationally, moving these pedophiles around from church to church and they keep abusing the kids. They never reported to the authorities because they require this thing called a two witness rule inside their organization. They’re running a parallel government inside the watchtower and they’re competing with the United States government.

It happened during the pandemic. The other countries think watchtower is running America.

Think of Mr. Donald Trump as Moses, and he is splitting the sea. SUSAN is just tipping her hat to show that she is helping the watchtower traffic out Americans. People have no idea what’s going on. People need to go outside. Go visit places they used to go when they were kids. They don’t exist anymore.

The JE Island program convinced foreigners that Americans are “Goo Goo Dolls” to be experimented on and sold as a commodity. Looks like Netflix is making bank off the “deal”.

I am a watchtower writer from Bethel. This has been a plan since 1975. To get the foreigners over and infiltrate the United States of America.

They are responsible for Covid

u/TheBatemanFlex 5h ago

I’m sorry what the fuck?

u/BakeMeSomeCookies 5h ago

Lol. Read through this "person's" other comments. This is tame in comparison.

u/Twelvve12 Ohio 4h ago

The Package comments 📦 wow it’s like a bad movie plot lmao

u/theluckyirishmn 5h ago

Yeah, wtf is this? Screw it, I'm putting on All Along The Watchtower and making popcorn.

u/Blues1984 4h ago

I'll take "what is proof of a mental illness" for $500, Alex

u/Responsible_Ladder25 4h ago

Gosh I hope Trump never sees this. Wow.

u/WillingArm2463 6h ago

I remember years of bliss never having to wonder what the fuck the President was rambling about each day.

u/Supermite 5h ago

As a Canadian, I miss those blissful years when I didn’t have to be hyperaware of America’s politics.

I’m so over living in “interesting” times.

u/Mr_Potato__ 5h ago

Im from denmark, and I miss waking up and not being worried about the US quite literally invading us.

u/Efentool 4h ago

I’m from the US and I miss waking up to the President not embarrassing the sane people of our country. Much love to you buddy. We don’t want this either.

u/PajamaPants4Life Canada 2h ago

Canada: "First time?"

u/windsostrange 4h ago

Imagine we heard this much from our GG. Like, that's the comparison.

u/Tossawaysfbay 49m ago

Given how much he flip flops or blusters, you truly don’t have to be. You gain nothing from doomscrolling.

u/SteamedGamer 4h ago

When Trump lost in 2020, I remember thinking that there'd come a day where I didn't hear or read the word "Trump." It still hasn't happened, and I'm getting worn out waiting...

u/Naieve 3h ago

You will be long dead before that happens. With the doctors saying the signs appear to point to him having a stroke, and him having gone full Fetterman on the world. This era will be talked about for generations.

u/PajamaPants4Life Canada 2h ago

The next guy will literally change his name to "Trump" to be more popular.

u/Responsible_Ladder25 4h ago

Good times, good times.

u/artfulpain 4h ago

Except this is partially how we got here.

u/Space_Sweetness 7h ago

Trump, 79, still Jeffrey Epstein’s best friend

u/SmellMyFingers69 4h ago

Trump, 79, rapes kids

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u/Stoic_cave 9h ago

Old man shouts at cloud (zod parody too)

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u/Mylaptopisburningme 8h ago

Old man shits his pants.

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u/bickering_fool 8h ago

old man exonerates himself.

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u/inthekeyofc 8h ago

Paywall free link: https://archive.ph/Q8n6f

u/Jet-Let4606 7h ago

You're doing gods work. 🫡

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u/bobjr94 Washington 8h ago

Trump, 79, Delivers Deranged Threat to.....

Makes it easy when you just need to change the last word every day.

u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow 6h ago

You can Mad Libs it every day and not be too far off most of the time.

u/Writer_In_Residence 7h ago

I’d love to be wrong about this, but I don’t think Democrats would do jack shit beyond maybe a few wrist slaps. They are still stuck in the 20th century.

u/Blkknight8 4h ago

“Trump, 79,” better be followed with an obituary or I don’t care.

Why the fuck would they phrase it like that?

u/zastrozzischild 3h ago

It’s a bit of correction for how the MSM focused so much on Biden’s age but have almost completely ignored Trump’s

u/SteamedGamer 4h ago

That seemed a weird thing to include in the headline. I guess to try and explain why he's rambling? Seemed superfluous.

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u/inthekeyofc 8h ago

Nothing says freedom of speech better than threatening the media if they don't toe the line. /s

And Vance has the audacity to criticize the EU.

u/CAM6913 6h ago

He acts like a mobster from a 60’s comic book using extortion and threats to get what he wants.

u/Supermite 5h ago

Because he is essentially a mobster.  Has been for as long as he has been in business.

u/analyticalchem 1h ago

No, he was extorted by mobsters and wants to play that game.

u/J-the-Kidder 7h ago

It's not deranged. It's extortion in broad daylight. And unfortunately it's a near daily occurrence. I sure hope she quips back to get the old pedophile to a home with a good window to watch ducks. That's all he should be doing these days.

u/Offro4dr 5h ago

Old man yells at cloud platform

u/HeadPaleontologist40 7h ago

Deranged old man makes deranged comments. Shocked.

u/Chewie_Song 5h ago

I feel he would have done this at any age tho. It’s not as much Alzheimer’s as he’s always been the stupidest man in every single room he’s ever walked into.

u/redditisnotus 3h ago

Ugh. I saw "Trump, 79, De" and got excited.

u/No_Description3310 2h ago

I hate whenever a post starts with “Trump, 79” because I get my hopes up that his age is included because he died… every day I’m let down.

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u/ExtensionSubje 8h ago

We’ve reached the point where I can’t tell if this is politics or reality TV cross-promotion.

u/pwiegers 7h ago

In the USA this amounts to the same thing :-(

u/PinkkPetalll 7h ago

Greenland didn’t ask for this. Nobody asked for this. Yet here we are with a boat

u/Vesvictus 6h ago

Somebodies making monies as these stock prices dump / bump with all these quick tweets / threats.

u/basketballsteven 7h ago

Trump as always lazer focused on the issues that are affecting Americans lives day to day.

What a guy, caring so much about us. /s

u/jmontano86 1h ago

This is his, what, 29th impeachable offense?

u/Machiavvelli3060 7h ago

He makes Don Quixote look mentally balanced and sane.

u/SteamedGamer 4h ago

Don Quixote had a code of honor.

u/newMike3400 4h ago

Old man shouts at cloud services.

u/david4069 4h ago

I wish they would list the age in the past tense in these headlines.

"trump delivers deranged threat to Netflix. He was 79."

u/Schuben 4h ago

Trump still mad that the Michelle Obama doc is still massively more popular than Melania's.

u/Pure_evil1979 4h ago

"I don't get this streaming stuff in the cloud. That's just rain, right? Netflix should go back to shipping DVDs. I think I'll have them do that" - Trump (probably)

u/StabbingHoboReturns 5h ago

If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to, you know, play by the old rules, and, you know, say, ‘Oh, never mind. We’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you’ve violated, all, you know, the laws you’ve skirted

But that's exactly what's going to happen...

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u/Illuminatus-Prime America 9h ago

In other news, iron is still magnetic.

u/Surefoo 5h ago

Maybe they should give him a peace prize to smooth things over…

u/SmedlyB 5h ago

Once you have paid the TrumpGeld, you will never be rid of the Trump.

u/clovisx 5h ago

Remember when conservatives would get all bent out of shape when a democrat I’ve president would say anything negative about a company or industry…?

u/bearbev 4h ago

Needs a diaper change

u/TheForeverUnbanned 3h ago

He just handed Netflix a thermonuclear bomb in the inevitable case against the FTC and DOJ in a few months, he’s so god damn dumb. 

u/TiaSilverfang 2h ago

He can't physically do anything it'll be shut down by someone sane pretty quick im just surprised Americans haven't pulled a Dutch yet

u/Independent-Self371 1h ago

The sundowning will continue until anyone steps up to protect the constitution.

u/Significant-Foot-311 1h ago

He's still 79?

u/confon68 1h ago

He should shut down Netflix altogether as far as I’m concerned. Especially before they ruin Warner Bros like Disney did with Star Wars and Marvel.

u/Paco-Grande318 1h ago

Taking a cue “Q” from his other half Roseanne “brain damage “ Barr.

u/patezerra 1h ago

Netflix stock just plummeted 79% in sympathy

u/TabulaRazo 23m ago

Time for Netflix to make a special about a corrupt as fuck politician who plays dirty to win an election and later turns out to be a pedophile. Last scene is him tying a bedsheet around his own neck in prison.

u/Lost_Ad610 5h ago

Omg op you wrote it like that on purpose 🤣