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Trump’s FCC Threatens to Block Mergers and Acquisitions Over DEI [1]

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Date: 2025-03-22

This headline is a copy and paste from The Daily Beast with the story following and my thoughts last:

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission could block mergers and acquisitions between companies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told Bloomberg on Friday. “Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” Carr said, naming Paramount’s proposed merger with Skydance, Verizon’s proposed acquisition of Frontier, and T-Mobile’s proposed acquisition of USCellular. He said DEI policies go against the FCC’s responsibility to serve the public interest. “We can only under the statute move forward and approve a transaction if we find that doing so serves the public interest,” Carr said. “If there’s businesses out there that are still promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination, I really don’t see a path forward where the FCC could reach the conclusion that approving the transaction is going to be in the public interest.” President Donald Trump has signed several executive orders since taking office aimed at ending DEI initiatives at federal agencies and threatened to remove federal funding from schools and universities with DEI policies.

This has now gone well beyond mere hypocrisy. For years the repubes have railed against business regulations (laissez-faire capitalism/libertarianism) and the “bureaucrats” that enforce them. Unfortunately for most of us they have redefined those two terms to fit their goals. They can’t denigrate the people that passed the regulations because elected repubelicans, in most cases, have voted for said regulations. Now we have a group of appointed individuals working in the public sector making asinine statements like the one above. My long held convictions and conclusions reached from the statements being made by these “bureaucrats” have not changed but only been reinforced. This nation may have originally been about freedom and pursuit of happiness but time has shown us that it has always been about greed and racism. “The others” have always been welcome as long as they knew their place and stayed in it. We are now going through this same cycle of hate because the ultra-wealthy have again come into power (which they perceive may be for the last time) and are going to aggressively wield their greed and racism. Their final goal; make everyone who is not like them, GREEDY AND RACIST, an unwilling subject who has no choice but to do the work needed to maintain their comfort and joy. This is based on the absolute disregard they are showing towards the people that voted them in to power. I, at 71, have never seen such a blatant disregard for a constituency like the one the elected repubes are currently one hundred percent behind.

The Gangs of New York may have been a drama loosely based on history but it appears to be what today’s rich sociopath, or is it psychopath, wants. Keep the lesser-off fighting each other over the scraps the rich racist will throw to them.

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