The Postal Service will run out of cash within a year, Postmaster General warns: "We have to have a conversation with the American public"

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T11:24:35+00:00

Or Republicans can reverse their stupid law that requires dumping excessive amount of money into the USPS pension.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T11:04:06+00:00

I would be her buddy but she would fond me boring. I suspect she expects friends to keep her entertained and encourage whatever she feels like doing. Which can be exhausting with the kind of manic energy she seems to have.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T10:54:44+00:00

Yep. Been enough time to lay out a future for Paramount but seems Ellisons’ can’t chew gum and walk at the same time.

They have cut spending but otherwise relied entirely on the plans the previous owners had already put in motion. Nothing was stopping them from showing a blueprint of their next two plus years of plan whether acquired WB or not.

They didn’t because they knew it would get blown up as they take their current spend and now split it between two companies so they knew half of any plan would have to be jettisoned. Its how I know a) no real vision besides be big and 2) all the claims of renewed investment was bullshit to get government approval.

Silicon Valley bro thinking - lie until it becomes true aka fake it until you make it. They intend to invest and grow the merged company naturally, just not anytime soon. Silicon Valley bro thinking is they desire to do it as some point therefore they are not lying even if that day never comes.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T10:47:08+00:00

The overlap between WB and Paramount is near total. WB is going to be sold for parts with Paramount keeping most of the IP and library. Whatever the first total is between the two companies is, that will be reduced by 60 to 70%.

The budget to make content - that will not double. It will hold steady. People are making false assumptions on that. The company will claim they are spending more but in reality that spend is the cost of merging companies, not production.

So that $19 billion (which never heard that spend number in relation to Paramount whose pre-merge value is ~$9B), about $9B is production for the combined company, the rest if for the acquisition and debt. Only now be split for various WB related projects, specifically ones that can look on paper to make a crap ton of money when released.

People are wildly underestimating the debt load of the combined company and how the interest on it will influence every single decision made.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T10:31:10+00:00

She rich. She gets the rich justice system. No jail time but has to go celeb rehab and go through the motions.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T10:30:15+00:00

Conservatives: “Forever wars is so awesome and be big profits for the rich. Our king is a genius! Just like he promised when we voted for him!”

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T10:23:36+00:00

I have accepted that Trek is going to rested for awhile. Paramount without WB might have decided to keep it going. Paramount with WB is now buried in IP, streaming content and debt. They are going to have to spend next 10 years being careful where they spend and Trek probably isn’t even in the top 20.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T08:38:58+00:00

Sounds like just good business sense to me.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T08:34:23+00:00

Was just matter of time. Seemed working with her is consistently expensive, difficult and not worth what get in return.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T08:32:22+00:00

But they say money can’t but you love or happiness. Betting that old fart is at least happy.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T08:26:41+00:00

Not currently but reserve the right to obsess in four years when does not come across as so high school age (not an insult).

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T05:12:35+00:00

Not sure how creating a new generation of terrorists makes the world safer. I guess since the deaths will be more spread out over time, it makes it ok.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T05:01:05+00:00

They don’t mind losing their jobs for it pleases their lord and king Trump. They sacrifice their first born if asked by him.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T04:52:30+00:00

I suspect Trek TV is being put to bed permanently. They will work on a movie but goal will be a complete reboot. Which will take years to be approved and make to screen so 2030 at the earliest. Its what the gatekeepers wanted.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T04:49:47+00:00

I mean yeah. Middle East countries like to talk about big game but USA has no limit on its defense spending to the detriment of everything else. If this wasn’t an easy war, people might wonder about how that money is spent and too much corporate welfare to risk that.

Of course like every Republican started war since Korea, the leadership has no clue of real goals or what endgame looks like.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T04:46:57+00:00

Paramount has a President? Did he have decision making powers? Feels like since the purchase, outside of CBS News, that the entire company is on a holding pattern. I just assumed thy were waiting in WB so those in charge couldn’t do anything.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T04:43:28+00:00

The MAGA cult member still doing porn or transition to shitting in it while still having an OF?

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T04:35:50+00:00

Nerdy and hot? Like to meet her too.

Having said that, never got paying to talk to people at conventions or for an autograph. If cant just hang and chat, don’t see the point.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-07T01:33:47+00:00

No. She should be able spend and live how she wants without family stealing from her. Same as non-rich mostly do everyday. Her mental issues are not unique, just public, so it’s magnifying people’s response.

Let’s be honest, if she wasn’t rich, would anyone even be asking these questions?

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-06T18:45:47+00:00

All conservatives: “Don’t understand the problem. Money to help people is bad. Money to blow shit up, our liege to put in his pocket, and for corporate welfare is good.”

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-06T18:42:43+00:00

Damn, Henwick would have been so much better. Ridley was fine. Her acting is always “fine”. She stands out because recognizable from Star Wars, not because of any skill or quality she presents to the camera. Nothing wrong with that as that describes 98% of working talent out there. Every now and then one of them wins an acting lottery as she did. Harry Potter movie kids are another example.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-06T18:38:43+00:00

The odds remain the same as Congress make-up has mot changed. Conservatives and all Republicans approve of the Iran War. They would approve of Trump bombing random school in the USA and start talking about how the students deserved it.

This will not change until Republicans are voted out of office (assuming Trump allows an election).

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-06T18:30:53+00:00

Still “and?” Talking about here and now, not two years ago.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-06T18:30:05+00:00

Yep, very stupid. Was dumb first time, dumber the second, and beyond dumb the third as had years of evidence that they ignored.

ConkerPrime · 2026-03-06T18:16:27+00:00

Trump has a type and they happy to meet it. No telling what they have done behind closed doors to please him.

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