I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) February 26, 2025
I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too…
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— Dave Limp (@davill) February 25, 2025
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— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) February 25, 2025
It is 2025.
Imagine returning to 2020 and telling yourself that in five years the Right will have captured Twitter, The Washington Post, the Rogansphere and much of Silicon Valley, that NBC will have dumped MSNBC, that post-Zucker CNN will have returned to “both sides-ism” and that every shrill anti-Trump voice from Don Lemon to Jim Acosta to Jennifer Rubin to Joy Reid and Mehdi Hasan would be purged.
“The Washington Post‘s Opinion Section editor David Shipley resigned after owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section prioritize two topics, personal liberties and free markets, and not publish dissenting views in those areas.
Why it matters: The changes will dramatically reshape The Post’s opinion coverage, which has focused on a broad array of issues, especially politics and policy, for decades.
“This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision,” Bezos wrote in a note …”
The flagship of Resistance liberalism in Trump 1.0, “Democracy dies in the darkness,” has been captured and will now be transformed into promoting personal liberties and free markets.
Note: Are we allowed back on Amazon, Jeff?
Will the possibility of buying certain T-shirts, certain flags and in general certain gadgets on Amazon return? Hopefully
Market and freedom sounds like libertarian duplicity to me
My thoughts exactly. Im very skeptical that Bezos went from Stalinist to Libertarian overnight.
They were terrified by the ideological kids. Now it seems they don’t frighten them that much anymore? Or they really figured out that their own pocketbooks were affected by letting marijuana addicted youth bully them around out of pure pot deranged nihilism. Yep, I think that is the key to understanding the psychology of the left, pot derangement. They hate the police and want open borders, they want “Universal Basic Income” i.e. money for nothing. Or if not that at least to sit at home for Netflix and Chill with an occasional check in on an app and answer an email and still get their full paycheck? “Work from Home”…what a joke, a society that operates like that with fake work will have a fake currency as worthless as the old Warsaw Pact. Infantilization brought about through weed differentiates these overgrown children from the “wise beyond their years” boys coming back from the front in 1945 to fuel one of the greatest economic booms in world history.