They say democracy dies in darkness.

They do. And I guess it fucking does. I guess it has died in the darkness. It's actively dying in the darkness. Yeah, it's been killed in the darkness, really. Yeah. By the people that own it, I suppose, or own the slogan. What a fucking world that we live in. You got a newspaper out there in the Washington Post. Slogan lives and dies by this idea that democracy dies in the darkness. It's billionaire owner, former richest man in the world, gets on Twitter this week and just drops a soliloquy of evil. Hey, we're doing propaganda. Yeah. Even harder. It's not like the Wapo's ever been like this object, like, no something is objectivity in this space. You know what I mean? But it's like they've been getting worse.

And it's like,

yes.

The statement he put out is just like the nail in the coffin. They already did the thing where they approved all of Trump's cabinet appointments just because he's the president so he can appoint them. Yeah. So that's interesting. Liberal media is already bending the knee like all over the place. Right. like we had was it the ABC lawsuit or they just settled even though they had like an actual claim um there's a number like there's morning joe those two going in meeting with trump and like backing down from the hostile coverage and then of course there's all these newspapers that are functionally just giving up except for groups like roiders and the AP who are actually still holding out. And I think that's probably because they're like international.

It's not just a U.S.-based thing. That's true. But like, yeah, a lot of, obviously the billionaires are falling in line because they're in support of the agenda. But like all of these news outlets just completely giving up. And Jeff Bezos is the latest example of that. Surprise, surprise. the billionaire owned news outlets are also falling in line,

which is,

I feel like billionaire-owned news outlets are also falling in line, which is, I feel like billionaire-owned news outlet is like maybe oxymoron is not the right word, but it's whatever the essence of that is. You know, that shouldn't be a thing that's allowed to happen. We should not have the richest man in the world be able to, I don't know, own telecommunications. Yeah, but for this cold open,

we're going to talk about this tweet from Jeff Bezos. Bezos basically shared a message with how

the Washington Post editorial board is going to be functioning, their op-ed section. And I want to read

some quotes from this tweet. Bezos said, quote, 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, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be

left to be published by others.

We are doing censorship at the Washington Post.

We are censoring opposing viewpoints here at the Washington Post,

and we are only putting out pieces of media that align with the narrative that we want to set

and make you believe. Yeah. And he basically justifies this position by saying that the internet

now disseminates enough views where they don't need to be responsible for like sharing the

wide range of ideological viewpoints. Yeah. Like he basically said that they don't need to be responsible for like sharing the wide range of ideological viewpoints.

Yeah.

Like he basically said that we don't need to cover the news objectively because the internet will handle that for us.

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