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Fact. He has enough money that he could personally support WaPo if he truly believed in free press

Beautifully and accurately put. ( I’ll be steeling that)

That directly affects me. And a whole lot of others. But also me.

I appreciate that.

Strike everything Jeff Bezos touches 🤷🏻‍♂️

The business story is that these guys have so much money that they don’t have to care about making good business decisions, they can make horrible ones with zero material effect on their finances

Eloquent. Defining.

I may hate Walt Hussman's worldview and his regional media monopolies but it gives me a weird sense of calm to know that he has a worldview that isn't "the world is mine to do with what I will."

Yep, they are buying and BREAKING the media on purpose! It started with Thiel's proxy war on Gawker (which was also mentioned in the Epstein dump last week, fwiw!): www.forbes.com/sites/mattdr...

Oh shit. 🤣🤣

Fucking Destro. Outstanding pull. Huzzah, sir.

Fingerling potato covers it all. Incidentally, I have always called him Mr. Potato Head. However, fingerling potato is a much more apt description of what he actually looks like. Have a beautiful day. And, thank you for the laugh. It was my first laugh of the day.

He adopted the Stephen McGoebbels un-haired style.

Thank goodness there are no witnesses to my mad, cackling laughter at this one :) well played, sir

Mocking him on the basis of his looks is totally unnecessary. I care about his role in destroying democracy.

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potato, you say? so you do agree we should eat the rich

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"third child of Destro and a fingerling potato" Priceless!

At least, Destro is a bit more attractive than the fingerling.

He looks like the Simpsons version of Colonel Klink

Potatro

can’t unsee 😆😆😆😆😆

Either this photo of him is massively photoshopped or he's had even more plastic surgery done because just recently his neck looked like a retracted foreskin. And this was after all the work he had done in Paris with that ugly plastic wife of his.

We need to unite and stand up to, and fight back against, the billionaire class.

The destro thing, hopefully

Keep me updated on your book project. Thank you.

He thinks Charles Foster Kane is a good guy

And can somehow deprive them of basic servant services (house cleaning, shopping, cooking, car maintenance, etc).

When building their bunkers and trying to figure out security, advisors suggested allowing security workers to bring their families to foster loyalty but the super rich said "nah."

The Post has been losing money for a long time, especially since when he cancelled the paper's endorsement of Harris. The losses are a pittance to someone like him. Hoping his airplane mechanics think they can save him money by removing a third of the parts in the name of efficiency.

Bingo. For profit media is not altruistic, it is…for profit.

damn that's crazy democracy is dying in darkness

I can’t imagine MAGAts paying a subscription to any print news media, so it will be interesting to see whether Bezos will simply fund a propaganda rag, or turn it into a soft porn maga manga to make it profitable.

Some may be missing the point. Bezos already did the damage when most of the top journalists left shortly after the arrival of Will Lewis. Now that the WP is acknowledged as only a hollow lie machine, he's finishing what he started. Bezos has only found success by being a double-edge grifter.

I thought it was because owning the WaPo exposes his other businesses to Trump's threats of retribution.

"Delete me. Go on, I dare you. In fact, I double dog dare you." Seriously though. Life is possible, enjoyable even, after deleting this Trump funding fucknut. Stop funding MAGA nazis.

And Americans just keep clicking Buy Now. Because..."free" shipping?

I personally think he just lost interest in his “toy” and moved on to Blue origin where he needs approval from the Trump admin which plays into decimating the Post which he no longer gives two shits about

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"Freedom of the press is the freedom of two hundred rich people to spread their opinions." - Paul Sethe

We need to go back to the laws of the land. You step on my toes I break your ankle, you'll never do it again. This needs to be the way to deal with ICE. If you're American, you don't have to take that shit, and when they try it, every citizen need around needs to gang up on them. Gloves off

Eat the billionaires

If you’re using Instagram, Meta, Messenger or X, you’re supporting the pedophiles. #impeach_pedophile_trump #mask_off_ice #defund_ice Turn over all of the Epstein files. #pedophilemusk #fuckzuck #pedophiletrump #hookermelania #felontrump #rapisttrump #fmaga #idaho_GOP_pedophiles

““..privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over Government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction…And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.”(FDR)

That game of power with "plebs" like us.

tldr unprofitable

Pedophiles insurrectionists and thieves. It seems too much money can make you sick.

I wouldn’t find it difficult to leave it if it would allow me to. I rarely go on it, anymore. I come here. These are my people. Most most of them, anyway.

It’s the worst.

They won’t send me a password link so that I can change it. That’s how it started in the first place. I had forgotten my password and I wanted to change it. Instead, they kept sending me a code to my phone number. I could get in, but I can’t do anything else without a password. It’s a real Catch 22.

Ugh.😑 That was around the time that I was trying to delete my account. I spent hours trying, to no avail.

That’s terrifying. I closed mine probably 3+ years ago, but remember they said it would take a month for it to be permanently closed & the app is no longer on my phone & it’s not on my computer. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It probably is illegal in the EU -- but not the good ol' shitty ass US of A

🇺🇸......1974 VS 2026

Isn’t Bezos also associated with Epstein and mention repeatedly in the files?

WAY ahead of you. I skip the amazon links and go to local providers instead. He's got enough money, I'm not sending him any more of mine.

Very true, sadly. Good, trusted news orgs that last have had other revenue resources (ie, printing faciities for others, mags etc, related business under its umbrella, family-owner wealth investments). Most sold, closed, raided for profit. None remain.

yes, it's exactly what was done to twitter by musk, and tiktok now by tech companies Oracle, the private equity firm Silver Lake, and the investment firm MGX.

I just read the old Rolling Stone article by Hunter S. Thompson and there is something of a delirious (some think delicious) fever amongst the rich, powerful, chatty swinging d**ks.

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This is why billionaires should be like evil unicorns. They shouldn't exist at the level that they do.

everything is all about more money for the wealthy.

Newspapers, social media, broadcast stations, USPS, phones, satellites... Hmmm, almost seems like someone is trying to block information and communication.

Democracy dies in mergers and acquisitions apparently.

Yep.

Just like our 'free' press in the UK. Largely owned by media barons (Murdoch), porn merchants (Desmond), foreign investors from the Middle East. And all intent on destroying our democratic processes so they can get rich quicker!

This 💯 % This ☝️‼️‼️‼️

couldn’t have said that any better if I tried!

Abolish ICE Free all journalists and politicial prisoners #Second #Nuremburg #Incoming

Undermining the free press was the point.

It’s almost like it was planned🤔

Overly-rosy view if that was the feeling. He didn’t lose interest, he shaped WaPo to better reflect his politics. Why try to soften his very deliberate choices? It’s not became a right-wing, stripped down paper by accident. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

They don’t like we commoners flying in jets, going to exotic destinations, dining in nice restaurants. They want us to be held to their low standards of us they don’t want to share they want to eliminate us due to our poor place in life. Don’t you get it?!?!

He's owned the Post since 2013. Was doing a decent job for a long while, but the thing that changed is the new administration & its willingness to mess with people's money to get what they want.

Yet, who continues to buy from #Amazon? Who continues to use #FaceBook? Who continues to use #WhatsApp, #Instagram, #TilTok and #PayPal? We ALL DO! How do we put our money where our mouths are? To borrow from Lord Acton: wealth corrupts, and absolute (exteme wealth) corrupts absolutely.

It would be great if all the journalists there left and went to an independent news source.

Yes, either their stories are killed or they're fired. And that's my point. News people are not the people at fault. The senior execs trying to curry favor with Trump are the problem. So blaming "the media" makes no sense. It's like blaming a clerk in a federal department for Trump's behavior.

They have hermetically sealed the information environment on the Right; they are now closing off mainstream media outlets with the intention either to drive people into that info bubble (cf the WSJ being slightly critical, offering a bit of daylight) or close off criticism.

Yep. Full stop.

It’s a propaganda rag. Has to be sanitized.

yup

Yes and also to bend the knee to Trump!

Absolutely correct!

I did this a week or so ago but it's even more accurate today.

Make billionaires afraid of the masses.

Any absolutely wild stat pertaining to my own writing: I have cited Pre-Bezos WaPo as a source more than once a week in my 1st Trump Admin writing. I have yet to use WaPo as a source for this first year of the 2nd Trump Administration because they simply don't report on things that matter anymore.

You would be correct sir

It might actually not be profitable. Over the last 5 yrs. the Post lost 500,000 digital subscribers and 50% of it's print subscribers. Their print circulation is now under 100,000.

Fuck bozos that creepy fucking worm. He’s going to rue the day he chose to support authoritarianism over democracy. 😡

Sounds familiar

Or until we feed them all to hungry animals

Boycott Ginormazon

He supports a rapist pedophile president

The deep state …? We are all hostages to a military infrastructure we call the industrial military complex…? A well established international cabal…? Billionaires unite only when it’s necessary to save themselves…? The free press have allowed themselves to be characterized as fake news…?

destroy all monsters!

Yeah trying to bury and alter the truth is the billionaires attempt to rewrite history. It’s slightly more complex than Trumps if you believe it, it’s true.

Keep buying his shit and doing bussiness in his stores, apps, products, etc. American are feeding the beast that's fucking them from the top. Unreal.

Stop buying from Amazon!

everyone wins if bezos sells the post to mackenzie scott. for $1.

And to think that Amazon got its start as an online bookseller

The next step will be to change the name to "Washing Compost".

Whoa…🤯

Another nail in Americas Freedom of Speech

I suspect that having a propagandistic cheerleader for the man that can dole out federal money by the billions has a lot more economic value than reporting news, and the sports and literature desks (and about 80% of the rest of the paper) are completely extraneous to that.