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Bezos’s Rocket Company Meets With Trump

Hours later, Bezos personally pulled an endorsement for Harris. Will anyone at WAPO investigate what was promised?

B Kean
3 min readOct 26, 2024
Courtesy of Daily Maverick

Elon Musk has been all over Trump like a fly hovering over a big pile of cow manure left out in the fields (if you have ever come upon these cow paddies, you will know that hundreds of flies feast at a time, and when you they take to flight, it is really quite noisy and startles you). This seems to be happening in corporate America now, as I wrote earlier today.

Since I published my article earlier today about “preemptive compliance,” I have learned that yesterday, just hours before Bezos decided to quash the Harris endorsement personally, his top managers from the Blue Origin rocket company met with Trump. Oh, how I would have loved to be a non-shit-eating fly on the wall at that meeting.

Having been in many such meetings with top managers when they are making behind-the-scenes agreements that will result in untold wealth for all present, I can tell you that whatever was promised was masked in a series if gestures and coughs. It would have been diced, spliced, and parsed in such a way that not even the failing Trump had any idea what was being said, but the managers privy to be present would have been feeling real peachy about their…

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B Kean
B Kean

Written by B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.

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