Kara Swisher

Benioff tried to clarify his remarks in a post on X saying safety is, quote, first and foremost, the responsibility of our society.

city and state leaders.

He also pointed out correctly that crime in San Francisco is down 30%.

Still, he told the Times that the city needs to refund the police, even though San Francisco never actually defunded its police force.

And it has been doing that.

I got to say, you know, Eve, I have a lot to say about this.

There was a thing I sent you from Gary Tan, who irritates me on the regular, but he said the same thing.

It's all moving in the right direction.

There's all kinds of great statistics of what's happening in San Francisco.

And for Mark to weigh in like this

And then saying we have to be nice to him because he gives a lot of money away.

Like, you give the money away and shut up, Mark.

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.