Andrew Sage
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He came in, was like, our board is not fascist enough, and if you're not going to make it more fascist, then get the fuck out of the way.
And the guy he had picked to run the editorial board like three years ago went, this is unacceptable, I cannot be involved in this, and left.
And now, the Washington Post publishes pieces with titles like, quote, Pam Bondi's Welcome Woke Rollback.
The Justice Department rescinds regulations encouraging racial preferences.
You know, and you can in some ways see all of the things that are coming together.
Bezos was a major supporter of the Trump administration, is a major supporter of the Trump administration, put a bunch of money into the unhinged Trump ballroom.
And when he says Justice Warren rescinds regulations encouraging racial preferences, they're talking about anti-discrimination ordinances, right?
That's what they're actually talking about.
But these people have been so cooked and have stewed so much in the ideology of countering the ideology of 2020 that they're now doing all of this reverse racism stuff where they think that if you're not allowed to discriminate, that's anti-white discrimination.
And the Washington Post has been tanking, effectively,
In the wake of a whole bunch of right-wing editorial changes, its audience has significantly declined since this.
A whole bunch of people who subscribed to the post called it in.
Their subscriber count is just absolutely pitiful now.
The reach has been contracting.
The paper is going to shit.
But that doesn't matter because the Washington Post is not a money-making outlet.
The Washington Post is a chance to shape the way that the country thinks.
And it is better that, you know, seven people in Washington, D.C.
who are all identically-minded conservatives read the Washington Post and agree with it than it is for there to be any sort of independence whatsoever from anything on the shop floor or from any of the people writing for it.