Jimmy Wales

But I do think it's a mistake, right, if sort of I start a campaign.

I mean, maybe just in my private life when I'm retired, I'm never going to retire.

I'm just like, this is my life.

But, you know, maybe I'll pick up a cause and start campaigning for that.

But broadly, I don't think I should because it doesn't work.

And so, you know, another example that I probably am out of step with a lot of my friends, which is to say, like, when Jeff Bezos, you know, instructed the Washington Post to not endorse a presidential candidate,

I actually think that's a good idea.

I think he was right.

Although the timing was terrible, like doing it just before the election, it was interpreted as him doing a favor for Trump or whatever, or that he secretly supports Trump, which I doubt, you know, whatever.

But if they had done it at a proper time, say after the previous midterm elections or something, you know, sort of just like, okay, like we're done.

And the evidence, there's like research on this that shows that political endorsements by newspapers lowers people's trust in the journalism even

Because you suddenly are like, well, like now is the news headline.

Is that part because the paper's going to bat for their guy?

Like maybe they are.

Maybe they're not.

But I don't know.

I don't trust it anymore.

And also there's evidence that's like, OK, The Washington Post endorsed the Democrat for like 15,000 years in a row.

Right.

Except for one.