Kara Swisher
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I'm sorry.
If you want to be charitable, like Mackenzie Bezos, keep your mouth shut about it.
You don't need to be thanked and you don't get a pass over saying something like this to bring in the national government.
Guard to San Francisco, he never is there.
And I know a little bit about what happened in here.
He was in downtown San Francisco for two seconds, was in a bad part of it, saw some homeless, and then compared it to Washington.
He was in a very nice part of Washington and was like, see what happens when the National Guard comes in?
But what he doesn't know is Washington was like that before he got there, and he was in a bad part of San Francisco.
There's no question San Francisco had a real downturn, but it is on the upturn from the work for people like London Breed and now Daniel Lurie, who's the mayor.
They're trying really hard.
And for San Francisco's biggest booster to do a heel turn like this because he wants to be part of the Trump
crime family.
I just, and by the way, all of those tech bros who are with Trump make fun of him relentlessly, which is, he should know this.
And I know he needs to make money and he wants to get in on the gimmies and he wants to be at those dinners.
But Mark, this is, I couldn't,
It's not really shocking, but it's also gross, is what it is.
I don't know what else to say.
You may have a different opinion, but I don't think this person who's been one of San Francisco's biggest borders, this should be the thing he said.
And the last thing, from what I understand, is he did a more problematic interview with another group, and he also tagged Mike Moritz, the San Francisco Standard, which I think is doing a great job in San Francisco reporting.
um and and mike moritz is another venture capitalist who owns who has created that publication which is as i said an excellent publication but um you know i think that he had a difficult interview with them and then he turned to the new york times and even as apparently his pr person was like jaw dropping that he did this i i like mark i i i was i was i wasn't surprised by it but it's really