The Paramount merger is officially a red vs. blue issue

According to experts interviewed by Variety, the filing is unlikely to go anywhere; one law professor referred to it as “political grandstanding.” It’s not hard to see how someone would come to that conclusion. “This case is about the legal limits on politicized antitrust enforcement by a small handful of states seeking to enjoin a $110 billion merger that the United States, most American states, and competition regulators worldwide have cleared,” reads part of the 56-page filing. This comes shortly after Bird wrote an op-ed in—get this—the Daily Wire, which made the culture war and red state/blue state resentment elements explicit. “Just like California should keep its hands off America’s bacon, California needs to understand that it doesn’t get to decide what Americans can choose to watch or stream,” she wrote. It was only a matter of time before someone started pushing for a corporate monopoly to own the libs.