Jeff Bezos is planning to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, in the latest installment of tech billionaires sucking up to the president-elect. https://newrepublic.com/post/189364/jeff-bezos-amazon-bend-knee-trump-donation - ThreadSky

newrepublic.com • 86 days ago

Jeff Bezos is planning to donate $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, in the latest installment of tech billionaires sucking up to the president-elect.

https://newrepublic.com/post/189364/jeff-bezos-amazon-bend-knee-trump-donation

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lesliead717.bsky.social•86 days ago

expected nothing less. they are all self serving

vivbernstein.bsky.social•86 days ago

Has the Washington Post reported this?

cmrlj.bsky.social•86 days ago

Every billionaire is not just a policy failure, but represents a great systemic risk of further corruption. I can't wait for the time when someone finally plucks the courage and abolishes the whole lot. Having $999,999,999 should be enough for anyone, and they would be able to do way less damage!

cmrlj.bsky.social•86 days ago

Not to mention that, once this became normal, nobody would think twice about this being unreasonable, and for the people getting close to the limit the motivation for participating in corruption would diminish dramatically.

cmrlj.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm obviously completely ignoring the difficulty of doing this, but this current situation reeks to high heaven!

esgpdx.bsky.social•86 days ago

Bezos = collaborator

nickddl.bsky.social•86 days ago

Gladly taking all of it deep from his orange overlord. Billionaire trash

laurenceineu.bsky.social•86 days ago

It is becoming clear that Trump is demanding from serious business owners a minimum contribution to his inauguration of $1m, *with* *menaces*. Of course, this gangster-style behaviour - essentially a protection racket - would be considered to be a crime in almost any other country.

zzyzxca.bsky.social•86 days ago

Americans wanted a mob boss to be their president...

tracerip78.bsky.social•86 days ago

Rich people know how the game is played. The only people that were stupid enough to believe they were playing the same game were the MAGA-CULT followers!!
Everyone else knows we don't get to play, we're the pawns 🤷🏼

stumblinandy.bsky.social•86 days ago

Same skill-set.

hobojibobo.bsky.social•86 days ago

Yeaaa but the Supreme Court gave him launch to commit whatever crimes he wants while in office. This system is a joke.

poemasatree.bsky.social•86 days ago

Steal as much as you can from Amazon and Meta. Use 1 login for all your family members. Even better, convince all your family members to delete their accounts. I haven't missed Prime, Facebook, or IG.

tnite02.bsky.social•86 days ago

I guess Bezos will be making regularTribute payments for the next few years. Appalling cowardice by so many.

sunnydays25.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is the world we live in now and it’s sickening 🤢🤮

gmckie.bsky.social•86 days ago

I heard M. Zuckerberg is doing the same. Have they no principles? This is extremely discouraging!

stingrayg.bsky.social•86 days ago

Boycott Amazon!

bcboard123.bsky.social•86 days ago

Coward

burntundertones.bsky.social•86 days ago

Pussy ass biatch.

windsorns.bsky.social•86 days ago

Bezos reminds me of Richie Rich, the comic book character, mainly because he run his life a bad comic book. Bezos proves that you can have all the money in the world and still be a putz.

draywharton.bsky.social•86 days ago

Disgusting — but rather than be disgusted, here’s my 3-point plan:

1. Buy local.
2. Support independent bookstores and grocers/markets.
3. Use your library.

Your purchases fund *someone’s* lifestyle so make it someone you can care about.

poemasatree.bsky.social•86 days ago

Totally. Buy from people who have to look you in the eye.

ka-shee-stees.bsky.social•86 days ago

DDD final boss...

frambley1.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is my shocked face.

jace54.bsky.social•86 days ago

Well Buck Fezos!

steveisser.bsky.social•86 days ago

Corporations tend to give to both parties, which is why corporate money is far less important than advertised.

It is the independently wealthy who create mischief, whether Soros or Musk. Fewer constraints on the use of their wealth.

Bezos/Zuckerman are in-between.
Rich, but ego tied to companies.

finnludoma.bsky.social•86 days ago

This is why I'm boycotting Amazon, even though it is the holiday season. I used to order most of my gifts thru Amazon. Not happening this year.

thenicabides.bsky.social•86 days ago

I don't believe I will ever order anything from Amazon ever again.

donnyb26.bsky.social•86 days ago

Wait until Bezos gives them all of our history with Amazon to feed their algorithms in search of the “enemies within”.

semisweetwilliam.bsky.social•86 days ago

Pay to play.

cephrad.bsky.social•86 days ago

time to end my relationship then

haylibop.bsky.social•86 days ago

Difficult to stop supporting below given lots of his income stream comes from digital services

ihavehadenough.bsky.social•86 days ago

Billionaires been told
You with us or agin us.

landyachty.bsky.social•86 days ago

So true. Yet also living proof that no matter how filthy rich some people become, all that money won’t buy them a spine.

marbach.bsky.social•86 days ago

We’re all shocked that we have to eat Bezos too

(we were always going to eat him, let’s be real)

lifemn.bsky.social•86 days ago

Can we all stop buying on Amazon for only one day?

cynthfox.bsky.social•86 days ago

The press is not supposed to be giving any money at all to presidential candidates, let alone millions. That is the point of the press. It is the 4th estate, its own entity. It is not the PR arm of the president.

dickcaverly.bsky.social•86 days ago

Good point, but we know these guys are just work-arounds for abridging the freedom of the press, and aren't really part of it.

victoriar123.bsky.social•86 days ago

Why would someone give money to a person who has acted like a criminal, been tried and convicted?

newrepublic.com•86 days ago

Earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg, another tech billionaire who has taken to fawning over Trump (only after the president-elect publicly threatened him with imprisonment) also donated $1 million to the inauguration committee.

Follow @newrepublic.com to find our daily political coverage like this!

esgpdx.bsky.social•86 days ago

Zuckerberg = collaborator

looselucy.bsky.social•86 days ago

Trump's running a Protection Racket on these guys. Donate to the "Inaugural" and dere won't be no trouble.

auldfleabag.bsky.social•86 days ago

What's the point in being that rich if you have to kiss Donald Trump's hairy arsehole? Have some self-respect, Jeffrey

nctwadumela.bsky.social•86 days ago

I will be binging on the 1980's vietnam series: Tour of Duty that week.

dickcaverly.bsky.social•86 days ago

Maybe he's planning to donate it in Trump fashion, and never actually give anything... never mind, he's too craven for that.

gonnerinsocal.bsky.social•86 days ago

For a man who seems obsessed with being seen as alpha this seems very feeble and weak

moviefanforever.bsky.social•86 days ago

He already did when he pulled the endorsement of Kamala Harris. He wanted Felon47 all the billionaires did. Kamala works for the people not for billionaires. America had a chance to really elect a president for the people. Instead they elected a president who will only protect billionaires

mjk4mj.bsky.social•85 days ago

Superman is an undocumented immigrant. Lex Luthor wannabe, Bezos, would deport him. https://whatculture.com/comics/10-times-superman-ruined-lex-luthor-s-life?page=9

mjk4mj.bsky.social•85 days ago

Bezos stopped his newspaper from endorsing a Black woman to help a white racist rapist. Bezos is anti-union scum, just like Trump and just like Hitler was.
Botox Bozo.

mjk4mj.bsky.social•85 days ago

I canceled Amazon yesterday. I haven't ordered much from it in years (2-day shipping hasn't been a thing for me in years). Amazon video with commercials is terrible (for me trying to find where I fell asleep during a video, I was hit with like 5 commercials, I gave up).

ellencdesq.bsky.social•86 days ago

I'm sure that cool million will never be seen again. Remember the last inauguration? All that money and very little to show for it.

scrappyaf.bsky.social•86 days ago

No balls. Somebody tell Lauren.

sail2it.bsky.social•86 days ago

Huh. Well I’m not shopping with the Waltons anymore. And now I won’t shop his store. Guess I’ll just buy local.

drgregmaguire.bsky.social•86 days ago

Because money trumps virtue, right Jeff?

hanson412.bsky.social•86 days ago

This used to be something that happened under the table. Not anymore, it's now in full view. If you want to play in this government you'd better be willing to pay.

jakkiblue.bsky.social•86 days ago

No wonder his wife left him. How many millionaires & billionaires order from Amazon? Not as many as us “little people”.

julieannewingate.bsky.social•86 days ago

How dumb !

dominiondem.bsky.social•86 days ago

Why doesn't Bezos donate to a charity and let multibillionaire Trump fund his own event! Realize that the inaugural fund is massive sludge fund to be consumed by Trump and his many side gigs. Corruption will be the key component of the Trump administration going forward!

We-ThePeople2024.com

wencen.bsky.social•86 days ago

Just another weasel faced weirdo!

phishphillet.bsky.social•86 days ago

"Hmmm, $1 million or a handy ... tough choice." - Galactic Overlord Bezos

karenmedora.bsky.social•86 days ago

Time to say good by to Amazon

zzyzxca.bsky.social•86 days ago

No. Time to say goodbye to America as we know it.

artshealinghearts.bsky.social•86 days ago

These are traitors to democracy America! If you keep giving them your money, you are helping create an Oligarchy and dictatorship! We must fight these enemies within America. The wealthiest, are the most corrupt and evil. BUT AMERICANS ARE DOING IT TO THEMSELVES WITH SELFISHNESS AND ENTITLEMENT!

langwoodj.bsky.social•86 days ago

So the profits from our purchases are going directly to glorify the convicted felon who is working to cut us out of our own system.

pcphotog.bsky.social•86 days ago

Traitors.

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