How Is It Any of My Business If You Donate to the Canadian Truckers?

HINT: Rhymes with "hit snot"

First things first: I messed up yesterday. Worse than usual, even. Here’s the correction.

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Here’s my philosophy about what people do with the money they earn: I don’t care. It’s none of my business. If you want to donate to a political candidate, go ahead. If you give to charity, awesome. If you donate to bail somebody out of jail, or to help somebody stage a peaceful protest, or whatever, you have the right to do that. It doesn’t matter if I agree with your goals or not.

But then, I’m not a journo.

Aaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis

NEW: Residents in wealthy U.S. enclaves — from Beverly Hills, to suburbs of Austin, to Florida beach communities — sent millions to support trucker convoys in Canada. w/ @abtran @DDaltonBennett.

washingtonpost.comWhich U.S. communities sent money to support the Canadian trucker protests?Residents in wealthy enclaves from Beverly Hills to suburbs of Austin to Florida beach communities sent millions of dollars to support trucker convoys that occupied the Canadian capital and shut down commerce, according to a Washington Post analysis of leaked fundraising data.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Residents from Beverly Hills to Austin, Texas to Florida sent millions of dollars to support trucker convoys that occupied the Canadian capital and shutdown commerce, according to a Post analysis of leaked fundraising data.

wapo.stWhich U.S. communities sent money to support the Canadian trucker protests?Residents in wealthy enclaves from Beverly Hills to suburbs of Austin to Florida beach communities sent millions of dollars to support trucker convoys that occupied the Canadian capital and shut down commerce, according to a Washington Post analysis of leaked fundraising data.

“Leaked fundraising data.” Who leaked it? Why did they leak it? Isn’t the violation of privacy the news story here?

How is it the Washington Post’s business, or anybody else’s, what those people do with their money? And why didn’t this “leaked data” standard apply to Hunter Biden’s laptop?

These are all, of course, rhetorical questions.

Compare and contrast that with this story:

Rachel DrozeTV @RachelDrozeTV

The $100,000 cashiers check has been officially given to the clerks office to pay for @BLMLouisville activist Quintez Brown’s release. @LouCommBailFund is paying. Brown is accused of shooting at Louisville mayoral candidate @RunWithCraig.

Is WaPo going to ask those donors why they helped bail out a BLM activist who shot at a Louisville mayoral candidate in his own campaign office? Of course not. They don’t want their comrades to scold them for letting down the side. And they definitely don’t want anybody to accuse them of racism.

Journalism is about intimidating people who disagree with you politically, and helping people on your own team no matter what they do. And then journos wonder why we don’t trust them.