"Ambler group of people"?

Please, tell me about any corporate takeover where the buyer successfully offered "below market" price for a company it wanted to acquire? I can't think of one I'm aware of in the last half-century I've been consuming news...

You can't, as a practical matter offer at or below market and expect the company to agree to the sale... you essentially have to make an offer that is above-market.

This deal, as you imagine it, has foreign BUYERS investing in a US company - how is that NOT America First? It would not be America First if U.S. buyers were investing in a foreign company...

Oh, and foreigners buying U.S. goods/companies don't pay US tariffs, it's the other way around.

But aside from those couple mistakes, great post!

How do layoffs = less choices for customers?

Because there are fewer employed studio executives in Hollywood, how does that result in "less choice" for me, the consumer?

How?

Seriously, how will this merger going through actually harm everyone (all)?

The only people that oppose it are all the workers afraid of being laid-off - these are profit-generating private industries, not governmental make-work projects...

Sure, assuming no one purchases the IP to help reimburse creditors.

Please, describe the actual harms Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. inflicts on consumers?

DOJ blocks mergers that cause HARM for the consumer, they aren't responsible for ensuring mergers BENEFIT the consumer.

Really? Maybe go ask the Uyghurs about their treatment?

Remember how the Chinese responded to Covid-19? They imprisoned citizens in their apartments for weeks.

Go out to the rice paddy's and fish out the girls sacrificed due to China's one child policy.

And so on.

But hey, enjoy your cheap Chinese EV...

Really? $670K per Charger? Really? That's insane...

Tesla vomits up their 12-pack of chargers all over the place - they must be spending much less per charger, I doubt Tesla is dropping anything close to $8M per charging station w/12 chargers...

Horseshit.

eBay doesn't have the identifying information off a SIM card sold on their site, they literally have no way of tracking the sale/purchase by the sim information.

You've watched too many crime dramas on TV, the cops can't trace a burner phone by going through shipping invoices to local stores and cross-matching that with credit card receipts and ID the buyer from in-store CCTV footage!

Customers of Pay-as-You-Go services largely avoid providing such information.

Every issue you cite is accurate and was 100% predicted before the project went forward. Every One. But politicians claimed they weren't concerned and pressed forward, shoveling countless billions into the project despite ZERO progress year after year.

Did anyone think land in California was going to get cheaper in the future? That Californians wouldn't go NIMBY and challenge the project at every step? Did anyone really believe the initial price tag?

The federal government has carefully avoided agreeing to cover cost over-runs with this project, California can fund their own high-speed rail project...

You know EVERY state has state-issued (non-drivers license) ID cards available, typically at no cost?

The issue is that people that work in buildings that require state-issued ID to enter (Capitol) insist that requiring ID to vote for them is racist, sexist, AND xenophobic and insist that married women and minorities lack state-issued ID...

This move will absolutely DESTROY the laziest plot-device in modern crime shows on TV today!

Crime dramas can burn a good five minute of airtime 'researching' the model phone the suspect used and then canvassing the area stores and reviewing shipping records to identify who bought the burner phone used in the crime...

This will kill television!

So you're saying Seattle is kicking out large businesses and high-earners in an attempt to free up precious electric resources to power EVs?

Brilliant!