A Swisherfied Post would be better than a Bezos one, but I’m not sure how much better.
— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) December 20, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Possibly because he’s got a $600 million wedding to finance (ha!), Kara Swisher thinks Jeff Bezos might be open to the right offer for his stake in the Washington Post:
Tech podcaster Kara Swisher told Axios this week that she is attempting to round up a group of wealthy investors to put together a bid to purchase The Washington Post amid its ongoing turmoil under Jeff Bezos’ ownership.
Even though Bezos has not expressed any willingness or interest in selling the paper, Swisher believes that the ultra-rich Amazon founder will look to unload the Post due to the compounding headaches swirling around the outlet – many of which lie at the mega-billionaire’s feet.
Swisher, the host of popular podcasts Pivot and On with Kara Swisher, began her career working in the Post’s mailroom. She eventually became one of the most influential tech journalists in the industry, moving on to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She ultimately launched the Recode website, which was acquired by Vox Media in 2015. Since then, she was named editor-at-large at New York magazine and joined CNN as an on-air contributor.
Due to her deep connections in Silicon Valley and her star status at Vox Media, Swisher believes that she can drum up enough capital to convince Bezos to dump the paper. In her opinion, he’d eventually want to unload it not just because of the recent difficulties surrounding the Post but also because his financial interests conflict with owning the paper…
“The Post can do better,” she told Axios. “It’s so maddening to see what’s happening. … Why not me? Why not any of us?”
As first reported by Oliver Darcy in his Status newsletter, Swisher began floating this idea back in late October.
At the time, the Post had come under intense fire from readers and journalists alike over Bezos blocking the paper’s planned presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris. Darcy reported that the turmoil caused by Bezos’ meddling, which resulted in over 250,000 subscribers ditching the Post, prompted a number of potential suitors to position themselves to take the storied broadsheet off of the billionaire’s hands.
“An intriguing possibility landed on my radar earlier this week, when I learned that the media personality and entrepreneur Kara Swisher has told people she is interested in assembling a consortium of wealthy investors to make a bid for the newspaper, should Bezos opt to sell,” Darcy reported this fall. “Of all the possibilities, of course, this is easily the most engrossing. It’s also not difficult to see a world in which Swisher could very well recruit wealthy investors for such a play. Swisher’s idea, as I understand it, would be to merge Vox Media with The Post, given the former would fill in some of the gaps the latter could use, such as a more robust podcasting business.”…
While she has been a frequent critic of Musk’s over the past couple of years, Swisher used to be friendly with the mercurial billionaire and helped promote him as a “genius” in the tech industry. According to Swisher’s recent book, though, the relationship became strained since the pandemic and finally broke down after Musk called her an “a*****” in 2022 over a misinterpreted tweet…
I mean, OK. But I’m not all that reassured, given that it wasn’t until about five minutes ago that she finally figured out Musk is a horrible & dangerous lunatic.
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
If nothing else, this seems like a moderately successful attempt at earned media for the Kara Swisher brand. Per Axios:
… Why it matters: Swisher — who started in the Post mailroom, and became an early tech reporter at the paper (and later one of the first at The Wall Street Journal) — believes the Amazon founder will eventually want to sell, since the paper has become a managerial nightmare….
The backstory: Oliver Darcy reported this fall in his newsletter, Status, that Swisher was “interested in assembling a consortium of wealthy investors to make a bid for the paper.”– Since then, a banker who worked with Swisher in the past has been helping her think through how to move the idea forward.
– The storied paper would be run by a board of civic-minded people willing to write a big check to be part of something important. She’d be open to Bezos remaining a partial investor…
Between the lines: The paper’s great quest for an executive editor, once Ben Bradlee’s job, has ended with a whimper.
– Matt Murray, originally named to the job through the election, on Thursday announced the newly formed masthead position of standards editor — to be held by Karen Pensiero, who worked for Murray as a managing editor when he was editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal.
– The appointment was intended to signal Murray is there to stay after a high-profile external search.
Baud
I’d buy it, but I need the money for my Scrooge McDuck swimming pool.
Chief Oshkosh
Yesterday’s news(paper).
Die, fuckers, die!
Now, on to more interesting things, like the story about Handel’s Messiah on CBS Sunday Morning.
TONYG
A $600 million wedding? Wow, that’s a lot of baked Ziti and Trader Joe’s wine!
Starfish (she/her)
@Baud: You need the money to loan to your 2028 campaign that you are going to run just so you can forgive the loan and have a tax write off.
NotMax
Weekend morning get up to speed music.
Homer Newton Bartlett, Grand Polka de Concert
TONYG
But seriously, the cost of that $600 million wedding represents less three one-thousandths of one percent of Bezo’s net worth. Pocket change. If 99% of Bezo’s wealth were to be confiscated, he’d still have well over $2 billion. People like him literally live on another planet.
moonbat
That’s quite a billionaire genius move, Jeff ole boy. Losing 250,000 subscribers sucking up to a soon-to-be lame duck president. (Eyeroll emoji here) It’s almost like our tech bro overlords don’t understand a damn thing about the trust people want to place in the fourth estate.
hells littlest angel
Is there a more solid, unanswerable argument than “Why not me”?
Baud
This is why they need a tax cut.
PJ
Given that Swisher spent a couple of decades enthusiastically boosting Musk and his Silicon Valley cronies, I don’t think her judgment will be much better than Bezos’.
TS
That’s obscene in a world with so much poverty and people struggling to look after families. My brain cannot comprehend why you would even want such an event.
Nukular Biskits
Good mornin’, y’all!
Personally, I think all newspapers should be held in the public trust, not owned by corporate interests.
Having said that, I don’t see a down side here to Bezos selling the WaPo.
And, with that, I just doomed us all.
Nukular Biskits
@Baud:
I figured you’d have plenty of money since you’re not spending it on pants.
AM in NC
@TS: Because you (Bezos) are a sociopath. Other people aren’t real to you, and certainly their suffering isn’t real.
MagdaInBlack
@TS: Just another dominance display by one of the MOTU tribe.
Gin & Tonic
@Nukular Biskits: The idea of civic-minded, objective newspapers is a historical anomaly.
Nukular Biskits
@TS:
For some reason, your post made me think about how all my lifetime earnings combined would never approach a tenth of a percent of the cost of Bezos’ wedding, much less his net worth.
And, since I just so happened to have downloaded my earning history from the Social Security website to do some figurin’ on retirement, I plugged them into Excel.
Since my first job with a paycheck back in 1980, my total lifetime earnings are 0.004858195% of the cost of that wedding.
Nukular Biskits
@Gin & Tonic:
If I had to guess, most of the history of newspapers (defined loosely here) would be represented by J. Jonah Jameson’s The Daily Bugle: Anything to sell a paper, regardless of whether it’s true or not.
RevRick
”Like the ancient prophets, we are dispatched back to the good work entrusted to us.
It is the work of peace-making. It is the work of truth-telling. It is the work of justice-doing. It is good work, but it requires our resolve to stay in it, even in the face of the forces to the contrary that are sure to prevail for a season.” Walter Brueggemann
taumaturgo
Why be a pamphleteer by buying an old school MSM rag? The leap to high-tech may be here soon if TikTok comes up for sale.
MagdaInBlack
@Nukular Biskits: I too just recently downloaded my earnings history. Interesting, isn’t it? Most interesting to me was to see I earned the same in 2019 as I will this year. Explains the belt tightening in this household ( as if I weren’t already aware.)
And yet, I still managed to vote for Harris =-)
David Collier-Brown
@PJ:
I think it’s fair to say that she was a tech booster when she started out, but soured on the industry fairly early.
Her comments on Mr Musk, for example, caused him to say last year “Kara Swisher’s heart is filled with seething hate.”
I’m pretty sure from that, that she’s not a Musk booster (:-))
Almost Retired
Here is my very dubious claim to fame. I went to High School with the guy whose wife (Lauren Sanchez) left him for Jeff Bezos. Didn’t really know him…..I was a Senior, he was a Freshman. And this was not a fancy Los Angeles private school. It was a rural Iowa public school. Dude landed on his feet. He’s a multi-millionaire talent agent who married a Chilean model, so I think he’ll be fine. So there you go. I’ve sniffed around greatness (sort of), while entirely avoiding any of it rubbing off on me.
ETA: I did know his brother, who was a year behind me. He played Donald Groves – a cannibal – on Oz.
Spanky
Why bother with the Post? Just buy up the Moonie Washington Times and bring on the cream of the Post staff. I’m pretty sure such a move would result in a lot of Post subscribers switching and leaving Jeff with a husk of a paper.
Nukular Biskits
@MagdaInBlack:
BuT tHe PrIcE oF eGgS!!!!!!!!!
EDIT: In posting that number, I can’t remember if I moved the decimal point 2 places to make it a percentage and I’ve already closed out Excel. So … it’s either 0.004858195% or 0.4858195%. Either way, it’ll take me a bazillion years of wages to pay for a $600 million wedding.
CliosFanBoy
@TS:
Not to be catty (but I will) a good portion of that 600 mil is for his new bride’s plastic surgery.
Another Scott
What could possibly go wrong???
Archived WP from 2013:
One advantage of the sale to Bezos was that he was a single owner. Having a bunch of MotUs be the new owner risks one of them deciding to burn the place down if he doesn’t like an editorial, or deciding that they have to sell to Bannon or put him in as Publisher. It’s easier for a fringe person to break it even more.
But as Graham said, it’s a tough business. And (as said above in this thread) it’s an illustration that it shouldn’t be a for-profit business any more. That model doesn’t work these days, but reliable information transmission is still important to our democracy.
tl;dr – Multiplying the number of MotUs owning the paper won’t fix it – it will likely make it worse.
FWIW.
Best wishes,
Scott.
CliosFanBoy
@TONYG:
I wish they did. Preferably one that’s not habitable by humans, like Venus.
Nukular Biskits
@CliosFanBoy:
Meow! ROWR!
JanieM
@Nukular Biskits:
A visual representation of relative wealth.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Another Scott:
Little Ezra nails it (for once). The Wa(com)Post is a lever/cog for Bezos’s larger operations, thus provides, at least for now, an important influence-peddling mechanism.
It might not be at the Faux “News” level of outright propaganda, but that not necessarily what he’s after.
He won’t sell because he’s impervious to normal feedback mechanisms (10% loss in subscribers in Oct) that businesses have historically responded to.
TS
@CliosFanBoy:
I did wonder about that – I also wonder if the marriage will last, I’ve seen many $$$ weddings in the press, which don’t seem to last long past the honeymoon.
I am just horrified that individuals seem able to buy political power and then use it to take the minute % of the wealth that the rest of us have. They want it all.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Another Scott
@TONYG: TMZ says Bezos says the wedding story is a lie. Since it seems to have started in the Daily Mail (which pushed (but apparently didn’t start) the General Pavel nonsense), I’m inclined to believe him (or at least believe that the story is not accurate).
YMMV.
Best wishes,
Scott.
Nukular Biskits
@rikyrah:
Mornin’!
TBone
@RevRick: lovely
grubert
So sick of the uber rich masters controlling so much .. and us having to hope and pray they feel generous to us.
Its not at all like the civil society i was promised as a kid.. with everyone being just another citizen for the most part
Starfish (she/her)
@TONYG: His ex donated nearly $2 billion to charity last year.
ron
I am glad you included a post letting everyone know Swisher is as clueless as a nytimes reporter. Musk fluffer olympics: Isaacson gold, Swisher silver.
schrodingers_cat
Kara Swisher used to be a big techbro cheerleader. I am not so sure she would be better. So I agree with you AL.
J.
I keep hoping MacKenzie Scott will buy the Post, using someone as her front man or woman (because Bezos probably wouldn’t sell the paper to his ex).
p.a.
With all the talk of better messaging etc (all true), the “this one easy trick to…” that would really be useful is if the connection many (#notall) people make between wealth & intelligence/competence could be broken. Just ridiculous people being given (and/or buying) soapboxes. WTF happened to cynicism?
Kay
@David Collier-Brown:
I think the “fights” between media celebrities and the oligarchs they promote are phony. Trump plays that same game with the NYTimes – he pretends the NYTimes is adversarial towards him and they pretend they’re bravely bucking him. It works for both parties to the transaction – billionaires pretend to be offended and threatened and reporters pretend to be serving readers. The only losers are actual paying customers of the media product who aren’t in on the game.
250,000 is a lot of subscribers to lose though. Good job, WaPo readers!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Kay:
As mentioned earlier in the week, Bezos’s wealth means he doesn’t necessarily respond to what we’d consider a normal “market force”, ie, a 10% drop in subscribers in less than a month. Previous Wa(com)Post owners would shit their pants over that.
To Bezos, it’s sofa change. The paper is simply a loss leader, what he gets out of owning it far outweighs is “simple” value as an organ of journalism.
Omnes Omnibus
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: The loss of face in the loss of subscriptions is probably far more significant than any monetary loss. I don’t know how much that matters though.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
He had to change his plans to have a 7 figure wedding.
Kay
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
Its important that “the institutions” retain a sheen of legitimacy. They’re not going to smash and burn the media – they’re buying the legitimacy that readers offer. It has to look like they have an actual adversary to lull the public.
An oligarchy won’t LOOK that different. There won’t be tanks in the streets and battles and executions. They need the trappings of democratic government and a constitutional order- it will all just be hollowed out and fake.
So Trump.pretends to spar with Maggie Haberman and she pretends to hold him accountable and they both have fabulous careers and make a lot of money.
Kristine
@moonbat:
Our TBOs have never been known for their people skills.
And they continue to lower the bar each and every day.
As an aside, $600 million for a single private event is a damned crime.
Kathleen
@TS: I’m hearing Keith Morrison’s voice: “It was a fairy tell wedding befitting and Prince and his Princess and they were happier than they had ever been. Until they weren’t.”
PJ
@David Collier-Brown:
She only changed her tune about Musk a few years ago. While his behavior has gotten worse, and more openly nazi, over the past decade, he was always a puffed up bullshit artist of very little brain, which somehow she just couldn’t see.
Kay
Amazon is releasing tens of thousands of gallons of water to flood the streets and stop the pickets. Which is illegal. Their 44 million dollar anti worker consultancy team is breaking the law.
Baud
@Kay:
I thought the oligarchs were all scared now because of Luigi.
MagdaInBlack
@PJ: I’m listening to a 9 month old interview with her with Katie Couric. I may learn what caused the scales to fall from her eyes.
Juju
@TONYG: All that financial information makes me wonder if Bezos paid for all of that facial and body enhancing cosmetic surgery his fiancée has had. I’ve never seen any pictures of her before, but my guess is that’s not the face she was born with. Her boob implants are so large that she has the boob seams around the edges. Fifty something year old women don’t have bodies and faces like that naturally. I know the price would be pocket change for him, but probably a few houses and cars for regular people. Anyhoo I’m done with my snottiness now.
Sure Lurkalot
@JanieM: I have that wealth shown to scale visual as a favorite and I both post it and send it to people from time to time. People have no idea how much wealth even a few billion is. Thanks to a few bought and paid for justices, the purchase of our democracy is almost complete and the “almost” part is being generous.
MagdaInBlack
@Juju: The “Fredericks of Hollywood Blow-up Doll” esthetic. I get Bezos’ fiancee and Kimberly Guilfoyle mixed up when I try to picture them.
Juju
@MagdaInBlack: That’s it exactly. I meant to say I had never seen pictures of her before I looked at the article about the possible $600 million wedding. I had store brand “Barbies” that looked kind of like her when I was a child.
cmorenc
The progressive dream of acquiring / creating a counter-media to the RW Fox /X propaganda funnel, if successful, may run into Clarence Thomas’s dream of persuading a SCOTUS majority to overturn NY Times v Sullivan, which (were he to succeed) would blast open a wide highway for Trump and RW activists to attack it with crippling lawsuits.
Trump’s comment about the over-restrictiveness of current libel laws is a clear evidence that the RW would aggressvely use libel laws to try to silence and punish dissent (from same source linked above) – in similar fashion to Orban in Hungary, only using a different tool:
Renie
@Kay:
Where are you getting these updates? The other day you knew before most media reported, about NYPD going after strikers.
Kay
@Baud:
I just wish someone would enforce a law. I’m literally donating to paying private sector lawyers to enforce US law. I have to replicate “A prosecutor”. Seems redundant!
MagdaInBlack
@Juju: They are quite the show-boat couple. Meanwhile, his ex-wife just quietly gives away her money and probably thanks god she isn’t dealing with his midlife strutting.
trollhattan
Evidently Bezos is planning to give the new missus one Kevin Costner as a wedding gift.
Kay
@Renie:
TikTok. Its turned into Amazon strike HQ. The striking locals are posting like crazy.
Police dragged a driver who wouldn’t cross the picket line out of a truck. I think it was huge for the strikers. Many of them are very young. They had no concept of the ferocious pushback to a worker action – the Teamsters had to show them “Harlan County USA” ( a labor documentary) because they’ve never witnessed organized labor or learned about it. They’re quick studies :)
MagdaInBlack
@trollhattan: I dunno, Bill, gotta keep up with the Ambani’s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/12/ambani-wedding-india-anant-radhika-merchant-mumbai-guests
Citizen Alan
@TS: my personal theory is that, beyond a certain point, increased wealth does not make any appreciable difference in the rich person’s life, and so they don’t feel like their doing any better. Thus the only way they get an increased satisfaction from their wealth is if they reduce the standard of living for everyone else. They cannot appreciate being the lords of their domain unless they have literal serfs working beneath them.
MagdaInBlack
@Citizen Alan: My personal belief is that it becomes a dominance display: bigger “yachts” bigger rockets, bigger boobs. It’s no longer about the money, its about who has the biggest stuff.
Odd they so seldom have original ideas, just more of the same bigger, better, more.
hitchhiker
@RevRick:
the Mishnah
Chris T.
@MagdaInBlack: That’s basically it, yes.
Once you have some major amount of money (these days that’s probably somewhere in the 20 million to 100 million dollar range; decades ago it was just “one meeeelllyun dollars” as in Dr Evil’s original demand), the money part of it becomes irrelevant. It’s now just a matter of “is mine bigger than the other guy’s”.
(And yes, that phrasing is very deliberate…)
Miss Bianca
@Kay: Whut??! How can they do that?
Omnes Omnibus
@MagdaInBlack: After a certain point, money is just a way of keeping score. Also, is it any real surprise that people who have devoted their whole lives to accumulating money and have actively denigrated the humanities and arts have rather pedestrian taste?
MagdaInBlack
@Omnes Omnibus: Probably not, in truth.
Omnes Omnibus
@Miss Bianca: Bring in the Pinkertons, hook up the hoses, and tirn on the taps. Gilded Age, baby!
AM in NC
Jeff’s fiance has so many types of fillers in her body, I’d be scared to stand next to an open flame near her.
He is such a fucking cliche. What an absolute shrivel-dick. I’d be so ashamed if this sociopathic man child were my dad. I don’t care how much Mmoney he has.
Kay
@Miss Bianca:
Well, because no one is stopping them. It seems ineffective – they’re just walking through the water – but obviously it’s freezing and as you know once your feet are wet outdoors in cold you’re screwed.
But they take shifts. No one person is out for hours and hours. Still, the LA strikers in t-shirts have it much easier.
MagdaInBlack
@AM in NC: LOL @ shrivel-dick. TY.
Miss Bianca
@Omnes Omnibus:
@Kay:
How is it I keep forgetting that here in the Gilded Bitcoin Age, putting the uppity working poors in their place by any means necessary, legal or illegal, is not only condoned but apparently celebrated by the modern-day slave patrols.
How did Pete Townshend put it? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss…?
Another Scott
@MagdaInBlack:
+1
I’ve said before that I thought a lot of it was where one appeared on the Forbes 400 list, but I think with Melon and (to maybe a lesser extent,) Bezos and others that doesn’t matter any more.
Reuters (from December 3):
(Emphasis added.) TSLA is up about 19.4% in December, so it could be worth around $120B now… :-/
Melon controlled the board and the pay negotiation process, and how easy the goals are to meet. He’s looting the company and using the proceeds to try to destroy the federal government, among other things. Bezos has his big issues as well, but he’s not in the same league as Melon.
Grr…
It’s revealing that so many of the people trying to hold the supposed MotUs to account are women, isn’t it??
Thanks.
Best wishes,
Scott.
WTFGhost
Far better a journalist run the Post than a chickenshit oligarch with delusions of ethics.
cmorenc
@Chris T.:
A key milestone is when you’re wealthy enough to fly on your own private jet instead of 1st class commercial.
It’s interesting how some still-on-their-way-up entrepreneurs take awhile to shed some relatively frugal habits – I recall taking a redeye flight back c. 1980 from Seattle to Atlanta sitting in the coach section near the back, where there were lots of empty seats, and across the ailse on the row behind me, was a still-young Bill Gates stretched across the three seats under a blanket, snoozing with his glasses still on his head. Although I recongized who he was, I respected his privacy and did not try to engage him in conversation the times he awoke during the flight.
WTFGhost
@Citizen Alan: It takes much for me to say a take is too cynical, but, that one is.
There’s a deep, historical undercurrent in the US that tries to insist that low taxes and regulation will
promote prosperity via the ‘invisible hand’ and
LET YOU USE THE INVISIBLE HAND TO SLAP PEOPLE SILLY!!!!!
ObCrusty: said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.
I can’t tell you the source – I’ll opine that plenty of back east racism is straight from slavery, but this, meh, could be what the Republican Party decided was a good excuse to starve children, but sound like they were just protecting red blooded Americans against the nanny state, back in the 50s or something. It *does* sound a lot like Atwater’s blueprint, but chicken/egg, amirite? Will starving children help with the bigotry, or will the bigotry help with starving the children, tomato, tomahto, potato, potahto, let’s call the holiday off.
Sigh. That trick never works
Anyway: that’s why you see Scroogelike behavior. Republicans admire it. (Some of them don’t even understand that the point of moneylending was to impoverish the borrower, but, others invest in PayDay loans.)
WTFGhost
@MagdaInBlack: When you get into the “rich enough that you don’t have to work” there are a few different attitudes.
You have folks drawing from a trust fund, whose only concern is they don’t eat into the principle.
You have financial bros, for whom money is emphatically a way of keeping score.
You have a lot of workaday people who demand top dollar, but aren’t really motivated by “mo money mo money mo money”. Ah, but, they’ve been taught that they must do their jobs, as if they were motivated by a rapacious greed, or they’ll be fired, and someone else brought in.
Really, it’s crazy that any publicly traded company will face heavy pressures to cut expenses to the bone and past it, unless they’re figuratively printing money. One thing that doesn’t seem to happen though: while there’s a boatload of foreign talent to be CEO, COO, CIO, etc., there’s *never* any pressure to look for cheaper executive suite placeholders, who’ve already done more than required, for less money.
Go figure.
Kristine
How is that valuation for Tesla justified given the poor quality and decreasing sales of their product?
If it’s a bubble soon to burst, I hope it doesn’t take the rest of the market down with it.
trollhattan
@Kristine: They seem more focused on China than the US.
First half of 2024: US sales 294k (ranked #10), China sales 426k (ranked #8). None of this explains their cap value.
Another Scott
@Kristine: I don’t recall all the details, so grain of salt, but it used to be that Tesla’s profits mainly came from selling emissions credits to other auto manufacturers. And they still have a pretty good fast charging network that others seemingly haven’t figured out how to duplicate or surpass yet. So there are some decent fundamentals to the company, but yes, that doesn’t explain the sky-high PE ratio and valuation.
“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” – J.M. Keynes
Best wishes,
Scott.
Gretchen
@WTFGhost: Right? They bargain to cut a few cents off of labor costs, but they never ask if they could replace the $10 million/year CEO with a $9 million CEO who could do the job as well.
TONYG
@Juju: Yes. I don’t know: Jeff could have purchased a nineteen-year-old wife for a lot less money — but with his level of wealth any amount of money less than $100 billion means nothing to him. Maybe since Lauren Sanchez is semi-famous she counts as a Veblen Good? I cannot use my Beautiful Mind trying to figure these people out.
TONYG
@Baud: They’re probably just ramping up their “private security” expenditures. A guy like Bezos has the right combination of hubris and ignorance of history such that it would never occur to him that his mercenaries could turn against him.
prostratedragon
Dude was in Chicago thus week. Rumor is that he was looking to buy the Bears.🙄 (eye-roll)
TONYG
@TONYG: Put that gun down. DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM???
Ruckus
@JanieM:
I started to get a cramp scrolling that far to the right…….
But I’m just a retired old fart so maybe it’s just me.
I’m not taking bets.
YY_Sima Qian
Owning the WaPo is one of the ways that Bezos can ingratiate himself w/ the powers soon to be.
Gloria DryGarden
@JanieM: it’s Monday night, late, and I just finished scrolling through this representation of wealth. Up to 212 billion. And what could be done with the money. What a perspective!
the scale is boggling. I feel outraged, and yet, numb, and helpless. I’m trying to breathe.
I’ve made way less than the median income of the common people. I want to cry.
my sense of morality is outraged.