To Cozy Up to Trump, Bezos Banishes Dissent From WaPo

fair.org To Cozy Up to Trump, Bezos Banishes Dissent From WaPo

As shocking as Bezos' groveling is, it’s just the latest in a string of extraordinary favors he’s done for Trump and Elon Musk.

Bravo, Jeff Bezos!”
That was the congratulatory message Elon Musk posted on X, the platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022 and subsequently turned into a pro-Trump bullhorn. Musk’s “bravo” was in response to Bezos’ shocking announcement that he was taking his media outlet, the Washington Post, in a Trumpian direction as well.
The Post’s opinion section will now advance Bezos’ “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” Anyone not on board with this “significant shift” can take a hike, Bezos seemed to tell Post employees, in a note he also shared on X (2/26/25).
That was Wednesday morning. By evening, Bezos was dining with President Trump.

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Every single day for the past 50 years, my father has gotten up in the morning to go get the Washington Post and read it.
And while other people’s parents and siblings have slowly or quickly gone nutso watching Fox News, my father has not, and I could see he’s reading a real news source with real news in it reporting facts about things that happened. Biased, sure, selective, sure, but for all this time it’s been a paper that cares about reporting true things and describing the actual real world.
All I can say now is… fuuuuuuuuuuuck.
My father is not gonna stop reading that paper.
- I'm probably your father's age and I have cancelled my subscription.

Don’t forget to cancel prime too.
- Just did. Fuck that piece of trash bezos. He needs to be reminded who outnumbers the filth like him.

Spineless cucks

Can we can Bezos from living? kthxbai
- Hopefully his space ship blows up next time he wants to go to space.

Ban WaPo from the Fediverse
- I wouldn't suggest a blanket ban, because it may be useful in the future to link their articles to discuss how biased they have become.
  If someone links to them as a serious news source, remind them of this declaration of their opposition to truth.

The WaPo was establishment propaganda even before JeffyB bought them, so really all that's happening now is that he's saying the quiet part out loud.
- Nah, it's gone from neoliberal establishment propaganda to fascist propaganda. While both are awful, the latter is MUCH worse.
  Expect them to for example change their take on cops from "the only way to stop cops from constantly murdering black people is to throw money at cops" to "actually, cops murdering black people is always justified, so let's give the cops even more money and also all the military hardware they want! (Only) Blue Lives Matter!”

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