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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPreet Bharara to Jeff Bezos: "Buy Twitter with change in your pocket and shut Trump's account"
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/preet-bharara-makes-tempting-offer-jeff-bezos-buy-twitter-change-pocket-shut-trumps-account/
Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara made what must have been a tempting suggestion to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Buy Twitter and shut down President Donald Trumps account.
Amazon lost $53 billion in market capital recently after Axios reported that the president wanted to go after the company. Trump has had a long-running beef with Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.
In a tweet on Monday, Bharara offered a suggestion that could mitigate Bezos problems and possibly improve the level of discourse in the U.S.
Preet Bharara
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Verified account
@PreetBharara
What if Jeff Bezos bought Twitter with the change in his pocket and shut Trump's account?
8:48 PM - 2 Apr 2018
Link to tweet
MineralMan
(146,350 posts)Do, it Bezos! Just do it!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,134 posts)Sinclair is buying our media, etc.
Jesus christ people, you are running out of time, you are in such worse shape than you realize.
The "you" being the 75% out there not paying any attention.
politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)lies and half-truths have caused him to lose $53 billion in market capital.
Carey1
(11 posts)He should hire Michael Avanetti. Make Trump squirm like a trapped rat
dameatball
(7,405 posts)True Blue American
(17,995 posts)FakeNoose
(32,884 posts)Love the idea! Good one, Preet.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Somebody needs to shut that bastard up.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Limit his access and where will he go? A victim, only in his own mind...a martyr, only to those who worship him!
What's really the worse that could happen, he'd give himself a stroke? He'd have to go on InfoWars or Hannity, in order to get his daily BS message out to the drones that live by his word...and that would mean the rest of America and the world wouldn't have to listen to his daily rantings, ravings, and bold faced lies!!!
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)to shutting asshat up. Consequences we do not want to pay.
Just let him continue sticking his foot in his mouth.
FSogol
(45,582 posts)Response to FSogol (Reply #15)
Rainbow Droid This message was self-deleted by its author.
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)Im just suggesting to maintain some dignity while we let his ship sink.
FSogol
(45,582 posts)PS. Trumpy is the poutraged one.
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)with respect to Chumps tantrums makes sense. Sorry for the misunderstanding. My username, while a reflection of some of my past attitudes, is a legacy name. In my age I've found that unabated outrage and unchecked radicalism generally produces less than desirable results long-term.
FSogol
(45,582 posts)GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)old Doc and Bonnie sittin' in rocking chairs next to a dusty trailer near Moab spinning tales about that nefarious bastard who got them in so much trouble with all that monkeywrenchin' when they were just young whippersnappers.
I'd like to think Hayduke would have grown older and wiser and understood more about the balance between the immediacy of his needs to protect and the equilibrium required to protect for the long-term. In this sense I always felt Ed to be a little myopic in accomplishing his goals but, fuck, he sure wrote great books!
I think Leopold penned the message properly.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)by the free market would a very good lesson for trump humpers. It sure humbled that twit ingraham who had to apologize to keep her job.
sprinkleeninow
(20,268 posts)jmowreader
(50,589 posts)If any of us would have said the things Hurricane Orange does, TOS would have dropped on us like an anvil.
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)just wait. It'll come. We shouldn't expedite his demise by poking bears and giving them excuses to legitimize their future complaint when Chump goes tits-up.
Dont give his base anyone to point fingers at other than themselves when he folds.
Sure, they'll blame when Donnie goes down, just make sure that when they do, their argument is indefensible bullshit.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Irony thy name is Twittler.
Damn thats something I'd love to see, can you imagine the meltdown?, there would be apoplexy from on high
Always wanted to use that word in a sentence.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)shouldn't be using Twitter for any official statement. We don't know what he actually writes, or one of his staff.
Do it Bezos, just to stop any President ever from using this stupidity. He has something to say, I'm sure a media figure will show up with a video camera.
Twitter is below the office of the President. I never understood why the news treated it as anything official.
llmart
(15,566 posts)I'm sick of Twitter being some sort of news outlet. I'm even sick of it being used so much on DU.
BigmanPigman
(51,651 posts)with you. No President should be using Twitter for any reason.
Cosmocat
(14,584 posts)The Rs would have put an end to this shit within 24 hours of his taking office ...
bdamomma
(63,960 posts)a mockery out of the office, twitter BS, he can't communicate in complete sentences, he wants that friggin wall, can't we build it around him??? Hate the POS.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)Show tRump a taste of the capitalism he claims to love.
Of course, we know that what tRump really loves is fascism: alignment of corporations with totalitarian state objectives.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)in spite of his cyber bullying and spreading false information. It's the price of freedom.
onecent
(6,096 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)and that way whenever people scream about "the free hand of the market" we will point to the fact that Bezos had as much right to BUY an outlet as the Sinclairs have to buy theirs.
meow2u3
(24,776 posts)This comes straight from the "revenge is a dish best served cold" department.
denvine
(802 posts)Not a big fan of Amazon but might as well put his billions $$$ to good use!
RainCaster
(10,952 posts)If the news refused to publish any of the Cheeto Tweeter's ramblings, and expected him to communicate like every other president has...
Do you think the Dumbass In Chief would grow up?
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan touted those accomplishments in an email to staff obtained by Axios. Ryan made a similar announcement at the end of 2016, pledging to hire scores of journalists and double down on technology. In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Post for $250 million.
Ryan said the profits will help the paper expand its Washington, D.C., headquarters, grow its editorial team to more than 800, and continue to invest in technology.
The partnership between news and technology is powering our growth, Ryan told employees, calling the papers newsroom a laboratory for innovation, capitalizing on the latest advances in storytelling tools.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/washington-post-profitable-growing-two-years-jeff-bezos-ownership/
farmbo
(3,122 posts)... millions of US users (myself included) would return to the Twitter platform.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Properly designed Bots would pass the Turing test on Twitter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
Renew Deal
(81,897 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Something tells me Trump's attention to Bezos would evaporate very quickly.
CrispyQ
(36,557 posts)A real billionaire, with a real business, who's not a puppet in debt up to his eyeballs to the Russians.
Yes..Yes..Yes.
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)market cap today is $21.5B
Generally, he would need to offer significantly over current stock price and acquire 51% of the stock to take over the company...
Let's say $14to $15B (evaluation at $28B to $30B).
Bezos net worth is only like $70B or so (maybe less now with Trump hammering Amazon).
Personally, if I were him, I would be finally SEC complaints against Trump and accuse him of trying to drive down the price of Amazon stock by publishing false information (tweets are publishing, and the charge of cheating the USPS is demonstrably false). I would seek $10B in compensatory damages from the Trump organization.
mobeau69
(11,167 posts)in the market using inside information about what the asshole is going to do or tweet next. Hopefully the SEC is watching them.
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)Amazon in the last weeks or months. Possibly the Kushners and Mercers and Murdoch and others in our own oligarchy.
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)$21 billion might not be "pocket change" for him, but he could still afford it. He should also file the SEC complaints and sue the Trump organization while he is at it, though. He should go after Comrade Spanky every way he can.
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)well, perhaps he should plunk down the money to silence Twitler.
Would the far right start a new "twitter" like app in answer? Would that even work ( attract the media and enough users and russian bots... I say "Da" on the bots ).
But still, file the SEC charges!
logosoco
(3,208 posts)I think the more trump tweets, the more about him (and how stupid and selfish he is) is revealed. I think all of his tweets need to be part of the official record,so that future people will know what to watch out for in a leader!
Cosmocat
(14,584 posts)Take the megaphone out of his hand ...
iluvtennis
(19,905 posts)Gothmog
(145,839 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,791 posts)They'll never allow it. They'd lose half their content.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)A free speech thing.
And I'm not sure Twitter actually makes money. It might.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Twitter could ban Herr Fuckstick or anyone else it wanted to at any time and there isn't a whole hell of a lot the government could do about it.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)The First Amendment only applies to government.
importDavid
(219 posts)...just to disband it.
That would be amazing.
Cha
(298,018 posts)Machine? Brilliant!
Thank you, Preet!
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)What if honest Americans went after the FOX propaganda channel?
bdamomma
(63,960 posts)or "checkmate".
7962
(11,841 posts)sandensea
(21,713 posts)The more Cheeto tweets, the more people see what a twit he really is.