Money, honey
Well, you know what they say: Life is a lot like a sh** sandwich, the more bread ya got the less sh** you have ta eat. Let’s look at a couple of folks:
MacKenzie Scott is the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. She’s worth an estimated $40,000,000,000 (mostly from the divorce) and now ranks as one of the top philanthropists in the world, having donated an estimated $26,000,000,000 since 2020. No, all those zeroes are NOT typos. She mainly likes to support DEI type charities, disaster relief, and higher education (Harvard reaped a cool $80,000,000 last fall, for instance.) Can’t say I necessarily agree with her choices, but in general they look to be okay. But…
According to a Dec. 9 blog post written by Scott, her philanthropic organization Yield Giving donated to Solidaire Network, which says it “nurtures relationships between social movements and members to create regenerative systems rooted in love and justice.”
Sounds touchy-feely, right? But Solidaire also works with :
- Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
- American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
- US Palestinian Community Network
- Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM),
Both of the first two groups are under investigation for working with Hamas to foment anti-Israel protests here in the US. Solidaire got $5,000,000 last year and $10,000,000 in 2021.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) in September also asked the FBI to investigate what he calls the “virulently antisemitic” PYM, after its leader Aisha Nizar called on supporters to disrupt the U.S. F-35 fighter jet supply chain.
Because Scott’s gifts are unrestricted—meaning the donation can be used at the discretion of the grantee—there’s no concrete evidence that Scott’s 2021 or 2025 donations went directly to SJP or AMP. Fortune
There’s also nothing preventing them from being siphoned off from one or all to help Hamas along. Me, I am thinking I would want some caveats on anything I donated to make sure it went where I wanted. But then, fifteen million is ‘way less than 1% of her wealth – guess to her it could be a rounding error.
Then we get to Darron Michael, fired associate college professor. He was let go by Austin Peay University ( Near Ft. Campbell in Clarksville, TN, not Austin TX) after Charlie Kirk was shot.
“Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,” read the headline of an article Michael shared. He did not add any additional comment on it.
The school originally said Michael was fired over “insensitive comments” made on social media.
SEN. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) deserves some of the responsibility – she is the one who pointed out his post on X to the school. The school immediately fired him – without following their own version of doing the proper steps. On appeal, he and the school have agreed on a half-million settlement, and reinstatement.
Tennessee’s WKRN News 2 obtained a copy of a settlement agreement between Michael and the university, showing the school will dish out $500,000 and reimburse “therapeutic counseling services.”Mediaite
Bet that makes him the highest paid theater coach in the state.
MacKenzie Scott – her picture is next to the dictionary entry “golddigger”. Please bear with my skepticism about her intent(s) to support extremist causes.
Glad the professor got his job back. He was stupid to insensitive sharing what he did, but proper steps should be followed.
She actually ended up with a 36 billion dollar settlement and a 4% stake in Amazon, giving up her interests (including voting rights in Amazon) in all the other marital assets accumulated during their marriage.
High value marriages end in high value settlements when one spouse fucks around on the other. Ol’ Jeff should have kept his dick in his pants.
Concur with your skepticism on intent to support extremist causes.
Gold digger? No.
She had more money than Bezos when they married. She helped him set up Amazon and provided funding and management in it’s early years. She was doing other things by 1996 when the company began to really take off but without her there would have been no Amazon.
I stand corrected.
My apologies to her.
Crap, didn’t know that!
Thx Not a Lawyer
Not that I have a dog in the race, but I would have thought that that much money, would’ve bought a better looking woman!
McKenzie is what I would refer to as “First Wife Material”. Bezos married her BEFORE Amazon was Amazon in 1993.
I’ll take her any day over that surgically hobgoblined woman he just married.
Xactly. I don’t know how much this Mckenzie woman changed over the years, but at least he got her before the money.
This new wife of his, it is wolf ugly and a definitely a gold digger.
If Bezos really really needed to upgrade, he should have played the Dennis Quaid game.
Take a look at that guy roster of girls. In my opinion he beats Leo DiCaprio. Nah never mind. Nobody can beat Dicaprio.
Well, Bezos kind of looks like a penis without a hat.
She looks like any aging actress or model that had too much work to try to hang on to whatever they once had.
Money Honey, Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters 1953 on
the Atlantic record label
“Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment,” r
First, did he actually say that?
Second, if he did say it, and the prof is repeating it, nothing wrong with that. Rather crass and rude. but unfortunately true, and nothing worth the college setting its hair on fire about. (not that I would listen to the opinions of either the prof or the college anyway)
“I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” April 2023. Probably not the best phrased thing that ever came out of his mouth, but it is sadly true.
If the FBI actually investigates and applies statutes, and the DOJ grows teeth to actually prosecute, Ms. Scott could find herself with some legal problems.
“Unrestricted” donations aren’t a defense mechanism when it comes to financing foreign terrorist organizations, including if money is funneled through an intermediary.
Just an observation.