The smart politicians started distancing themselves from Harris weeks ago -- leaving the Diddy/Epstein party attendees and Mark Cuban as her biggest defenders. It's pretty rich for them to roll out Bill Clinton to tell us what a terrible person Trump is because of some seriously suspicious rumors of an Epstein connection.
By the Washington Post not taking a position, Bezos is just hedging to defend his Amazon empire which depends on cheap goods from China for much of its business. He wants to ensure he has some leverage with Trump to parry off new tariffs that could sink his empire.
I suspect some of the recent media - well I can't really call them boycotts- refusals maybe- might just be hitting their bottom line somewhere. There's been some really interesting failures of various 'woke' media (especially movies and video games). These projects were all big, hundreds of million dollars spent to create them. A couple might even be Amazon shows. The people who pay for the games and the tickets are sitting on their wallets right now and barely anything that has come out this year has sold.
It would be one thing if it were just one major flop, but there has been string of them this year and Bezos is probably considering course correction because even he can only afford to lose so much. When people aren't watching his streaming shows and are not buying media from his platform, it's gonna hurt the bottom line.
Absolutely it’s not. Borrowing from Michael Corleone’s line; “It’s not personal, it’s strictly business” Bezos is hedging his bets. He’d rather face the wrath and resignations of his belligerent Post staff than face more substantial financial losses and hits to the paper’s credibility and his own reputation in the eyes of the public at large. He may experience additional losses with subscription cancellations, but who in their right mind would risk billions of Amazon profits by prioritizing a money losing endeavor that has become merely a tax write-off?
Bezos wants to remain in the good graces of conservatives whom I’ll bet he’s donated many millions to, like most of his wealthy friends who donate to both parties. I’m guessing he’ll be looking to unload the Post soon (at a loss) and wipe his hands of it.
Maybe, Sonny was killed while Michael was still in Italy and Vito was recovering. Regardless, your point is well made that Bezos knows the long game here and could care less about a bunch of marginally-talented, entitled, left-wing journalists (who he'll be laying off XX% of them soon anyway).
I don’t naturally gravitate to the Bezos defender camp, but here I think his interest is much larger than preserving his retail kingdom. The cloud part of Amazon eclipses the retail business anyway.
I think he sees the first wave of the giant political sea change hitting the beach. Everyone has access to the internet both as a consumer, and as a creator if they want. The main stream media is dying and no one controls the narrative. This is why the neocons have created all the little euphemistically named groups that operate to attempt to control the narrative and kill freedom of speech. But it’s not working. It can’t work without literally killing the internet. Information wants to be free.
Bezos is a smart and creative guy. I wonder if he will make structural changes at the WaPo that re-engineer how people consume journalism similar to how he changed retail twenty-five years ago. I have some ideas about what I’d like from journalism 2.0, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see if and what comes of it.
So I believed but there is now a denial that Bezos weighed in. The Publisher apparently made the decision. Still it seems significant because the WaPo is the paper of the blob. All the apparatchiks must feel a bit confused not getting the marching orders they expected.
Maybe, but the China tariffs don’t appear to have made a dent. The oligarchs just transship their merch or use other loopholes regarding the country of origin.
My favorite is Al and Jesse 15 years ago praising Trump for all the work he did for black people and now Al worried that Trump is suddenly going to come after him... These people just run around pretending nothing was ever recorded.
Bush was the first president that made me realize the President is literally a nobody that does almost nothing. Reagan started the thoughts back when he was losing his mind and every now and then the camera caught someone telling him what to do and say, but Bush sealed it for me.
Obama is slightly different. Obama at least seems smart enough that he is now one of the masters behind the curtain. I think this was Hillary's issue all along too. She knew the game and didn't know how to be naive enough in campaigning to sell her brand of whatever.
And to think I used to laugh and call W the shrub, comparing his intellect to that of a plant! Kamala is much more dangerous and far less intelligent. Based on what W managed to do, imagine what she'd be capable of with the entire media apparatus behind her!
I think she has NO sense of humor. Laughs too hard at her own rambling stories. She might be leading in the polls if she told one self-deprecatory joke at a town hall.
GWB was a prolific reader and intellect with a speech impediment, and the same Democrats who claimed to love the downtrodden and disadvantaged and to embody tolerance and kindness couldn't get enough of citing that speech impediment as proof of a room-temperature IQ.
I particularly remember the 2004 campaign against smug "intellectual" John Kerry, wherein both candidates' Yale transcripts were released and Bush had considerably better grades. Left-wing media produced large essays insisting that Kerry's courses must have been harder. Sure...
"I GOT NOTHING!!!" isn't the kind of position WAPO and the LA Times are going to have an easy time endorsing. The WAPO non-endorsement is a massive brand re-alignment and challenge to the NYT. In 2025 the major press debate will be which paper returns their Russiagate Pulitzers first. My bet is that the WAPO in 2025 rebrands more fully by stripping their "Ministry of Truth" - "democracy dies in darkness TM" (ahem, cough, cough) from their banner.
No American, no thinking person anywhere, expects an American presidential candidate to ask for and expect voter support because the other candidate is Hitler. That's what a billion bucks buys from the best minds the Dems can find in 2024? Hillary spent the same amount in 2016 fumbling through 26 messages before settling for "I'm with her." Biden only "won" in 2020 by saying nothing while the alphabet agencies and the media made sure voters got a steady diet of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, will return and remain throughout Trump's term because Trump's going to kill the military's demands for endless war. Can't wait.
My theory is that they want the public to think they're too scared of Trump to take a position against him. This news will leak from anonymous sources within the next week.
I'm hoping Trump's administration will broker a peace between Russia and Ukraine, or at least stop transferring billions into Zelensky's slush fund.
It's refreshing to have that nightmare recede into the background while media ghouls run around like the proverbial headless chickens trying to cope with a looming MAGA/MAHA victory. The NY Post has looked to their bottom line and decided to endorse Trump. A shrewd move, I think, though not enough to redeem the lickspittle news media.
It makes no sense to jump ship with the election this close. Something is very amiss here. I think they know something we don't about what is planned post election. Perhaps they were asked to give a bipartisan impression prior so they could be trusted truth tellers after the plan is activated. Perhaps it is knock off Trump, jail Trump, whatever it takes to get Kami in office.
Remember, they drove Biden from the race based on internal polling when the PUBLIC polling was still 'very close'. This means that public polls don't reflect political reality. (Which means they exist for another reason, but that's neither here nor there)
"Perhaps they were asked to give a bipartisan impression prior so they could be trusted truth tellers after the plan is activated."
At some point, media outlets have to stop lying if they want to retain any credibility. Now is as good a time as any and better than most.
I have no idea how 'close' the race is because polls are nothing more than political strategy and propaganda.
No, media outlets don't have to stop lying. They do what they are told. They are all owned by BlackRock and Vanguard, and both are heavily invested in the NWO, which means Kami.
This.. This right here. There is too much at stake for the global masters to allow another Trump presidency. This is why it doesn't matter anymore who votes. The results are already in, and the vote counts are known.
Also....Matt should know: The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times had DISTINCTLY different reasons for not endorsing this election. The LATmes isn't endorsing because of strong principles against apartheid which the owner witnessed first hand in South Africa. He and his daughter are Pro-Palestinian.
"Global Masters." Like the richest asshole in the world jumping up and down like a 5-year-old on stage at Trump rallies? Don't get any more global mastery than that.
I love the shout out to BR & V, because I want to know how much real estate is being bought up by these entities. And Kammy says she will give $25,000 to everybody to buy their first home. Hmmm.
I think we can sort of suss it out by their actions -- Kamala has basically ignored the left and started making pitches for Cheney Republicans while calling Trump Literally Hitler.
Trump looks like he's having fun again in a way that he wasn't a few weeks ago.
In my dream world, Taibbi & Shellenberger get tasked to hire a team to suss out the censorship complex -- then they get to show everybody the damning emails from a huge podium in DC.
I hope you are right about news outlets stopping the lying, because only then will their viewers accept the truth. But I will never support the MSM again. For me it is too late.
I still don't buy it. I still think they are going to continue the installation of Kami and go straight after everybody and anybody that criticized them. This now includes Bezos.
Bezos has something that Musk has however. Both are FULLY aware of the current Magnetic Pole excursion as both are building bunkers in the Rockies (one of the few safe places right now) to ride out the coming storm. That might be the only oddity that I can see in this decision. Why would he care?!?!!
What happens if Trump wins and is killed before he's sworn in? I forget those rules.
It is so tragic that in our country today we can wonder aloud about a presidential candidate or president-elect being assassinated as part of casual discussion. It is vile. She's the Democratic Party and She approves this ad.
Reportedly they did not even screen the film The Manchurian Candidate for years after the JFK assassination. Now? The Dems can only dream.
I watched Tucker Carlton’s interview with Paul Manafort, the latter whom made a good, simple point that, for swing state senators to be scurrying with open arms into the man bosom of Trump and embrace his positions, the internal polling must show that the Titanic has struck the iceberg.
Interesting. Had not heard he said that. Since the deep state has been using the DOJ, FBI and judges against the Dem's political opposition, it is not a jump to add the Pentagon.
Certainly could be Ian. Bezos paid for the brand, but a wolf still smells like one after putting on sheep's clothing. The only reason WaPo is functioning is deep pockets and a retainer with the deep state. His Amazon was probably the brain child of the fed's puppeteers and bankrolled by the feds. It certainly supports the NWO of owning nothing and renting your possessions from a government source. Same with EBay and PayPal. All seeded with fed $$ and $$ for national roll out.
Jimmy was Trump before Trump. A guy that got elected by accident, and spoke too many truths for the real power to cover-up. I never bought the Jimmy was a moron who ruined shit line. Jimmy was made to fail because he said too many things that were real, and our masters don't want us knowing what is real.
My recollection of Carter was my recoiling from all his bad moves. I remember sitting in my living room while he was on TV in his sweater tell Americans we needed to buckle our belts. How about gas lines, how about his recognizing the PRC in 1979 and revoking the 1955 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, interest rates at 18%, not getting our captured people out from Iran. The man acted like a dingbat.
Jimmy Carter was the last great ex-president. Even if I don't agree with his pronouncements, he was sincere and did good works. If he became a megamillionaire, he has kept it well hidden. Unlike every other past president we are paying security for.
He would have made a fine pastor, not a president. The last great president we had was Coolidge. He forced Congress to recognize the Constitution and Federalism.
This is what we are meant to see yes. The issue I have is.. Reagan. Reagan was Anointed to be the puppet president after, and did the biddings of the masters perfectly. Jimmy didn't and they destroyed him. If Trump wins in a couple of weeks it is ONLY because they intend to implode the system and wrap it around his neck.
Reagan won against Carter because people had had enough of his bad policies and micri-managment. Exactly what are the things Jimmy did not do? If you think the puppet masters select the presidents, why was Jimmy elected?
I agree that the PMs can pretty much do whatever they want with this country. They have been keeping it afloat for many years and using it all over the war to their advantage.
I was a teen, what i remember is the gas pricers, inflation, and the failed rescue mission. Lots of good people, but i can't think of any after Carter who were presidents.
I was in graduate school in 1978-1980, and spent my late evenings (beginning in November 1979) watching a news program Nightline (originally America Held Hostage). Between my roommates and myself, we had three Iranian friends that were incommunicado after the regime change, adding to our concern. Luckily, the Iranian students we knew got out of their home country safely. And the Iranians were able to spit in Carter's eye one last time, releasing the hostages after Reagan's inauguration January 20, 1981.
In fairness, the inflation and other economic problems came from Nixon, wage and price controls, horrible monetary policy ("we're all Keynesians now"). Carter made a lot of mistakes, but I support the idea that he was a departure from the norm, much more his own man than others before or since. Definitely underrated. Reagan on the other hand was a truly great president, in the sense of having a clear vision of his own about certain things and having the leadership ability to implement that vision, but also with some horrific mistakes. Mainly letting neocons run foreign policy on countries no one paid attention to, like Nicaragua, while his attention was focused on the Soviets.
1. They're afraid Trump will retaliate against them. Unlikely because after eight years of TDS, Trump already hates them as much as he could, and they know that.
2. They don't think their endorsements matter. Unlikely because they have giant egos.
3. They don't want to attach themselves to a Harris ticket that wins, then performs horribly in office. Unlikely because A) They believe in Democrats' ideology B) If Harris does crash/burn that badly, nobody will particularly blame media companies who endorsed her C) They can always use the "but the alternative was Trump so we had no choice" excuse, which will play with their constituents.
If those aren't the reasons for non-endorsements, we really only have one left: They think Trump has this in the bag, and they would rather start the holier-than-thou process of condemning current Democrat figureheads for "failing us" than attach themselves to a lost cause. THAT makes TONS of sense; left-wing party organs are forever condemning and discarding failed figureheads, largely to protect the ideology itself from blame. Since the ideology is terrible, they get a lot of practice.
But wow, what a thing for these people to decide at this juncture that the election is hopeless for them.
Asterisk - it is also suggested that the non-endorsements are a "safe" way to persuade their most difficult/extreme employees to resign. Maybe, but that's only a side-benefit to the above.
The usual "reason" for the non-endorsement is to claim neutrality, so that they can claim to represent Trump and the Trump voters, without knowing or caring anything about them. It is a step to INCREASE their level of dishonesty, and to enable them to be even more anti-trump.
I read they have a new October surprise slated to come out this weekend that makes the Trump is Hitler look like they called him a puppy. I can't comprehend how Mark Cuban is all of the sudden a trusted someone....
Christopher Hitchens' book about Clinton certainly implies "serious depravity", as someone else put it. The Guardian here has been posting stories about a woman being groped by Trump at one of Epstein's residencies, which smacks of desperation to me, though I haven't read the stories, and won't forget the Guardian's shameless lies about Manafort visiting Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy. But the vile Graun and their accomplices need to be careful, lest they open a can of worms where REAL monsters be.
The only reason I subscribe to the WP is because my .gov email addresses give me a free subscription. I will hit mandatory retirement age for my State Guard position in under 3 years but I am one of those people who will never be able to afford to retire from my primary job.
Bezos, along with the LA times, is doing one thing: attempting to reverse the course of a failing media brand. Losing money, even for billionaires, sucks. And alienating half or more of a country is no way to revive a business model.
10/25/24: Bezos has been on my radar for the past four months, ground zero being this month of October 2024 --- the "white-hot" date being 10/11/24, 14 days ago. Apparently, he's won the vicious, bone-jarring power struggle. My Q is, now that he's realized what a fool he was to blow $250M buying WaPo (plus God only knows what's been spent since then), --- when does he pull the plug? He could sell it to Rachel Madcow for $19.99.
I live in an irritatingly precious and liberal little berg. It never ceases to amaze me how oblivious they are to the fact that their undeservedly smug attitude that if the peasants were only more educated, they would think exactly the same way they do, is not only not true, it's offensive.
That’s an astute comment. I live in one of the most progressive neighborhoods of the NYC. My neighbors, when they realize that I dare to think independently and , oh horror, differently, first they are astonished, and then they talk politics to me in a condescending way and also slowly and loudly, like to a toddler or a deaf person. As if I didn’t live under socialism and don’t have a graduate degree LOL. I find it hilarious and offensive at the same time.
I have a funny story. Happened today. I got a call from my local Democratic party reminding me to vote. When I told the woman on the other line: "Oh I will, but you may not like it, because I am voting for Trump." Her response was: "Well, I'm sorry to hear that but in this country we have the right to vote for whomever we choose....as long as we still live in a democracy." These people really believe that if Trump wins, our democracy is over.
Ha ha!!! They totally do!! The other day my co-worker told me (after I was trying to explain why "someone" might vote for Trump) "but if Trump gets in he'll ruin EVERYTHING!" I mean- there is NO hope for these people!!
Ask these crypto fascists how they feel about direct democracy. "People are too stupid to vote directly on the issues!" But democracy will die unless we all vote for who they tell us to!
I get some similar coddling by some of the old hippies in my town (four way stop and some horses). I try not to engage because I like most of these people and we are active as a community, but sometimes its hard. Like right now I am moving camp. A trailer and a portable building. We looked into buying, but we couldn't get approved for enough money to actually purchase something. I mentioned this to someone and they were all like, "But KAMALA when she gets in will give you 25 grand to get started." That really irritated me. The cost of an effing shack in the woods here is almost half a million. That 25 grand is just a giveaway to bankers and will fuel housing/credit crisis 2.0 when it fails. I wish I was better at explaining it to them but I also see the arm's length my buddy who dishes it our raw gets from some of them.
Yes, And recall that 25k was for first time homebuyers, those “young families”. Even if you tried you’d never qualify for that freebee. It’s all such a joke.
They feel superior and see us as dimwitted children who just don’t get it. Because they can never prove their point in an open dialogue, we mist agree with them, otherwise in that basket of deplorable we do.
I notice the same thing. They can speak only from their indoctrination and get angry with me because I debate them. They then refuse to hear the supporting data I offer. Somewhere in there they start the condescending voice routine. They always end by denying the existence of any truth or reality. I guess that is how it works in their world.
On display big time during the pandemic. They recoiled from even the mildest question such as, at one point, Why should college students be mandated to take a vaccine that is not even offered for their age group in some European countries? Or why is Governor Newsom taking his child to an open private school while claiming it is too dangerous to have in-person classes at public schools?
It has something to do with the air in Manhattan. My older sister, who moved to NYC from our upstate home some 50 years ago, actually sobs that I do not think like she does. She lectures me on politics and expresses real distress that I don’t believe what I hear on CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, and Colbert. Since downstate NY dictates where NY’s electoral votes go, I assure her that whomever I vote for doesn’t really matter. Still she persists in lamenting my lack of morals and my middle class attitudes.
If it is in the air here, I manage not to inhale. My brain resists the poison. But then it was trained under Soviet indoctrination. That’s a good school to keep a cool head and critical thinking skills. I think in general some people are more susceptible to propaganda than others. Sadly, the last four years, first COVID and later democratic agitprop on social justice, race and gender changes, have demonstrated that half of the country can be easily manipulated into submission. More than submission. They accept even the most awkward and implausible postulates with religious fervor. 6’social distance rule? White guilt? Gender identity? I believe we are witnessing fast demoralization and increase in stupidly. The goal is to resist.
This is a perfect illustration of the modern left: You can be with them 99% of the time, but if you step out of line for that 1%, they toss you out and call you names.
Of course, the WaPo was expected to endorse Harris. But that is no proof whatsoever that the Washington Post was "left." Your mistake, which is all too common, is to define the Democrats (let alone squillionaires like Bezos, Gates, etc) as "leftists." The Washington Post, under Bezos and before, has served as a loyal propaganda organ for US wars, coups, sanctions, all over the world. Think for a minute: how is it that Robert Kagan, a warmonger of the first order, was on the WaPo payroll until today? Did the Washington Post call for Jamie Dimon and other banksters to be removed from their posts, tried and imprisoned for massive frauds committed during the GFC? No, of course not, because the Washington Post, like the NY Times, serves the interest of big capital. Don't mistake idiocies in the culture wars for actual left-wing politics. In the inimitable words of George Galloway, we're looking at two cheeks of the same arse. For a leftist perspective, go read Caitlin Johnstone, for example. Follow the great Michael Hudson. The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, PBS, NY Times, etc, have zero, zilch, nada to do with "left," unless you've warped the definition of leftwing out of all recognition.
But much of the true left has thrown their lot in with the neocons and the establishment blob. I suspect that this is because one much first seize the levers of power before one can enact one’s program. If Harris were to win, there would be monumental power struggles over who gets to control the government. Because it ain’t going be her. But I do think she’s sympathetic to the lefty faction. Walz is a straight up Chinese style communist.
The righties are not interested in what constitutes the left. They’re interested in keeping their perceptions simple which means liberals have to be the left. No nuance required. No deeper understanding of politics required. No dialogue required. It’s intellectual laziness.
Yeah, I guess I'm one of those people who thinks words have meanings, and need to have meanings if we're to be able to hold any sort of rational discussion. When someone like The Vigilant Fox, who posts a lot of good material, refers to the LA Times as "Far Left," (in a tweet yesterday or the day before) WTF are we supposed to think? Sorry, but that's just a stupid way to refer to a mainstream, corporate newspaper. It's sloppy, and makes political discussion more difficult, because terms have lost any connection to historical meaning. Identity politics, "wokeness," etc, are so divorced from class-based politics - in most cases, actually opposed to class-based politics - that it's just wrong to conflate the two. Liberals aren't leftists. Democrats aren't leftists. And the Washington Post sure as hell isn't a left-wing newspaper. Or would you be ok with libertarians being called fascists? That's an equally sloppy, foolish way to discuss politics.
These pathetic newspaper employees acting like spoiled children who just got put in time out is rich. Their gnashing of teeth and threats of resigning demonstrates how fragile their egos are. They forgot they are employees in a for profit business and business has not been good. Their ideological writing is not in line with where media is going. We're tired of their crap.
The layoffs at LA Times a few months ago sounds a lot like the whining at the Post today. Most of us normies just don't give a damn about their whining.
The value of an individual narrative-pushing reporter (presstitute) is roughly zero because there are plenty of people who want to be on TV sucking off powerful people.
I feel most journalists have integrity when they start out, and then someone offers them the TV position and then... next thing you know they are George Stephalumpagus whoring themselves out for the dollars.
She will probably start a substack and demand they start censoring misinformation and hate speech. Taylor Lorenz is already here along with Dan rather, the bulwark, etc. Turds in a punch bowl.
And when you click on the profiles of their commenters, a great many appear to be fake! Empty profiles with no activity etc. Van Jones recent entry into substack, for example, was met with thousands of likes and comments and hundreds of restacks. Comments were restricted to paid subscribers. Paid subscribers! It’s so completely, utterly unrealistic. They really think we’re idiots!
You'll love this X-thread of Wapo columnists and their Ministry of Truth readers shrieking that Trump is behind the owner's decision - couldn't possibly be that nobody in their right mind is going to endorse a candidate "because Hitler TM". The owner is protecting the brand, nothing more. Read Marc Elias, Rubin et al railing. Fantastic!
The Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times". I'm 75 and I've lived through LOTS of interesting times - Cuban missile crisis, JFK assassination, manned moon landings, Vietnam, the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Berlin wall. Lately I've been living through Trump's unexpected win in 2016 and his narrow 'loss' in 2020 and the 4-year campaign to keep Trump out of office in 2024. Up until these last few years I've always thought that whatever our faults as a nation, we all pretty much believed in the same things - free speech, innocent until proven guilty, the right to bear arms, American exceptionalism. Now I believe the democratic party has sold it's soul to the devil and will do anything - ANYTHING - to keep Trump out of office and the American people enslaved to the woke cabal running the country. "Interesting times" ... indeed!
its ironic that the dems will do "whatever appears necessary" im order to stop "fascism" when one on fascism's ide tifyimg characteristics is a system run be people that will do "whatever appears necessary."
As radio great Rush Limbaugh said... "if you want to know what the Democratic party is doing, just look at what they are accusing the Republican party of"
Besides currying favor with the incoming administration, it's a great way to flush out the most militant ideologues who have helped drive paid subscription levels to new lows.
You don’t have to pay an expensive severance package to any overpriced loser who quits because his pwecious widdle feewings got hurt. You want to hold that door wide open so he can flounce through it before he has a chance to change into dry panties and reconsider.
Newspaper staffers are upset over something the boss did? Line 'em up, hand them a pink slip, and wish them luck. Given the downfall of jobs in journalism over the past few years it would take about three days to rebuild a staff from the mob of people who will be gathering at the door waving their resumes. Kids, it's a hard truth but The Boss is The Boss. If he/she does something you don't like you can either endure it or resign. Either way, shut up about it.
More like the bosses are pissed at what the writers are doing.
Just ask the media group that bought the site that tried to paint that 10 year old Chiefs fan (of native descent) as racist scum for painting his face black and red and doubled down when called on it. They are now on the line for millions as the judge has just cleared the suit for trial. There is a very interesting woman named Alyssa Mercante who uses her position as an editor for a gaming site to attack gamers and gamer commentators even devolving into a proposed fist fight she declined because she would have faced a woman with martial arts experience and not some dude bro she could whine about. I bet her editors are worried about what she will attract next, LOL.
Alas, “the boss” is also Bruce Springsteen who is stumping for Kamala. Disheartening, but I guess living on a lush horse farm and singing about the working class kind of fits the profile of modern Dems.
What a dumpster fire ivy league schools have become. In fact, 'ivy league' the term needs to be stripped from them. There's nothing elite about these racist, plagiarism ridden cesspools.
I live in the People's Republic in Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School of Government is kind of a dumping ground for failed or expired Democrats (and a few Repubs too.) I expect their ranks to swell after this election.
Someone needs to do a deep dive on Victoria Nuland. That chick always seems to pop up. Was in charge of Soviet Union affairs under Clinton, National Security Director with Cheney’s ear during the WMD lie, agitated for NATO involvement in Afghanistan, was deep in Ukraine during the Maidan Uprising, and came back to work under Biden after leaving during the Trump administration. If anyone was the poster child for the deep state, it’s Nuland.
I’ve hear it said she’s been the architect of this Ukraine madness from the get go. Somebody should do some digging. Even if it’s true, I have no idea what was her motivation.
Career shit, be an important diplomat by bringing democracy to Ukraine. These people are ghouls, have zero issue with mass incarceration of State Dept power worshippers.
What is there to deep dive into? It’s all in the open. Dull grey bureaucrat, ideologically driven, not too smart, climbed to the top by virtue of belonging to the right club and endurance, did enormous damage cause she went above her competence level, and got fired. It’s as old a story as it gets
I only just recently realized that "canceled" was the more common spelling as well too. Been adjusting to getting used to using just one L.
IMO, these newspapers see the writing on the wall and it has nothing to do with which candidate they'd prefer to win. The owners are acting in self-defense mode.
I think it looks better. I sometimes use UK English spellings b/c they just *feel* good (also spent a lot of time in India so there's that). I usually pronounce schedule as "shedule." So go figure. Guess I'm "language-fluid" and I take that creative licence. ;-) Hahahah!
I was at dinner with friends the other night and one lady was proclaiming that she and her husband are getting their passports ready in case Trump wins. Please. They are over 60, they have no money (making emigration to another country difficult) and they have a grandchild right here. As they say on “Burn Notice,” You aren’t going anywhere.
What kind of "red lines" should a "democracy" not cross? Weaponizing the legal system against a political opponent? Engage in mass media censorship? Use feds to suppress evidence, frame up a plot to kidnap the governor of a key swing state, stage a false flag insurrection and show trial, and so on? Inflame hysterical rhetoric to insane levels that lead to violence and assassination attempts? Using government agencies like the CIA, IRS, FBI to attack journalists who shed light on these abuses? Avoiding primary elections and appointing nominees for president? Blocking third parties from ballot access?
Seriously, when has the Washington Post ever held Democrats to account for these and other blatant attacks on democracy?
I’m bracing for absolute madness. It seems likely now that they all (a) know Harris has no chance to win or (b) have reached actual limits to their tolerance of Democratic Party corruption, limits heretofore only known in theory rather than practice, or (c) both. I would have expected more of a repeat of the 2020 cheating they called “insulating democracy” or whatever euphemism. It’s scary. Is it possible that the major players see the writing on the wall and are prepared to accept (even embrace?) Dem party defeat? Or are they building to something much worse that could lead to constitutional crisis and even civil war?
I am surrounded mostly by "Progressive Democrats" and people who hold even more extreme beliefs. I can affirm with certainty that they have been getting more and more fearful and angry. They supported without any skepticism or criticism all of the legal investigations and trials that have featured Trump as the accused. They sincerely belief that he is an Evil Man, and that he will destroy Our Democracy. They are desperate now that Trump is inching ahead of Harris in the polls. When people are in this state of mind, thinking that is they who are saving the country, there is reason to be concerned about what they will do before and after the election.
Could the Post finally realize that its anti Trump histrionics have done nothing but help Trump and that the best thing it can do to help Harris is to keep its mouth shut .
The smart politicians started distancing themselves from Harris weeks ago -- leaving the Diddy/Epstein party attendees and Mark Cuban as her biggest defenders. It's pretty rich for them to roll out Bill Clinton to tell us what a terrible person Trump is because of some seriously suspicious rumors of an Epstein connection.
By the Washington Post not taking a position, Bezos is just hedging to defend his Amazon empire which depends on cheap goods from China for much of its business. He wants to ensure he has some leverage with Trump to parry off new tariffs that could sink his empire.
I suspect some of the recent media - well I can't really call them boycotts- refusals maybe- might just be hitting their bottom line somewhere. There's been some really interesting failures of various 'woke' media (especially movies and video games). These projects were all big, hundreds of million dollars spent to create them. A couple might even be Amazon shows. The people who pay for the games and the tickets are sitting on their wallets right now and barely anything that has come out this year has sold.
It would be one thing if it were just one major flop, but there has been string of them this year and Bezos is probably considering course correction because even he can only afford to lose so much. When people aren't watching his streaming shows and are not buying media from his platform, it's gonna hurt the bottom line.
Yep. I wish I could believe this was a decision based on wanting to bring back journalistic integrity, but it’s not.
Great point, it is merely self preservation. Rats jumping the ship and swimming towards the other ship . Let’s hope many drown.
Absolutely it’s not. Borrowing from Michael Corleone’s line; “It’s not personal, it’s strictly business” Bezos is hedging his bets. He’d rather face the wrath and resignations of his belligerent Post staff than face more substantial financial losses and hits to the paper’s credibility and his own reputation in the eyes of the public at large. He may experience additional losses with subscription cancellations, but who in their right mind would risk billions of Amazon profits by prioritizing a money losing endeavor that has become merely a tax write-off?
Bezos wants to remain in the good graces of conservatives whom I’ll bet he’s donated many millions to, like most of his wealthy friends who donate to both parties. I’m guessing he’ll be looking to unload the Post soon (at a loss) and wipe his hands of it.
I think that was Hyman Roth talking to Michael Corleone, "This is the business we've chosen."
He did and I think Michael said the same thing to Sonny also.
Maybe, Sonny was killed while Michael was still in Italy and Vito was recovering. Regardless, your point is well made that Bezos knows the long game here and could care less about a bunch of marginally-talented, entitled, left-wing journalists (who he'll be laying off XX% of them soon anyway).
Bingo!
Republicans buy sneakers too.
Michael Jordan
Democrats steal sneakers
Especially in North Carolina!
That is just part of it. All of these big tech companies are major military contractors too, but they like to keep that part out of sight. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/tech/pentagon-cloud-contract-big-tech/index.html
I don’t naturally gravitate to the Bezos defender camp, but here I think his interest is much larger than preserving his retail kingdom. The cloud part of Amazon eclipses the retail business anyway.
I think he sees the first wave of the giant political sea change hitting the beach. Everyone has access to the internet both as a consumer, and as a creator if they want. The main stream media is dying and no one controls the narrative. This is why the neocons have created all the little euphemistically named groups that operate to attempt to control the narrative and kill freedom of speech. But it’s not working. It can’t work without literally killing the internet. Information wants to be free.
Bezos is a smart and creative guy. I wonder if he will make structural changes at the WaPo that re-engineer how people consume journalism similar to how he changed retail twenty-five years ago. I have some ideas about what I’d like from journalism 2.0, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see if and what comes of it.
And the juicy cloud services. AI is not to replace a India call centre, but for real time scanning digital data. What gov't loves!!!
Billionaire Solidarity- if the Democrats successfully attack Musk (doubtful), then he’s next or his business.
Yes. How many tomes have we heard Finance hates chaos
So I believed but there is now a denial that Bezos weighed in. The Publisher apparently made the decision. Still it seems significant because the WaPo is the paper of the blob. All the apparatchiks must feel a bit confused not getting the marching orders they expected.
Maybe, but the China tariffs don’t appear to have made a dent. The oligarchs just transship their merch or use other loopholes regarding the country of origin.
Don't forget Obama trying to shame black men into voting for Headboard.
"She went to college with you. She knows you."
WTF she is 60 and you're talking to a room of 30-year-olds.
Obama has morphed into the kind of race baiter Reverand Al has been. Gotta throw 'em the red meat!
My favorite is Al and Jesse 15 years ago praising Trump for all the work he did for black people and now Al worried that Trump is suddenly going to come after him... These people just run around pretending nothing was ever recorded.
The Sharpetons of the world are lunatics.
It doesn’t matter what was recorded. Their base is committed
But if he'd had son, it could have been Treyvon.
Bush was a terrible president. Obama knew better and was just as bad. Fuck that guy.
Bush was the first president that made me realize the President is literally a nobody that does almost nothing. Reagan started the thoughts back when he was losing his mind and every now and then the camera caught someone telling him what to do and say, but Bush sealed it for me.
Obama is slightly different. Obama at least seems smart enough that he is now one of the masters behind the curtain. I think this was Hillary's issue all along too. She knew the game and didn't know how to be naive enough in campaigning to sell her brand of whatever.
The gay basher
Morphed???
Or a lot more people have finally noticed it?
And one of Kammy's recent interviews was on Sharpton's MSNBC show.
I think they prefer white meat
he is beyond pathetic!!
Al is actually funny. Barack is the the subject in “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”.
Yes, he's really gotten sucked into that Martha's Vineyard crowd - they're clueless about us peasants...
Yet almost every celebrity covets an invite to one of his cool mansions.
And to think I used to laugh and call W the shrub, comparing his intellect to that of a plant! Kamala is much more dangerous and far less intelligent. Based on what W managed to do, imagine what she'd be capable of with the entire media apparatus behind her!
As a bonus, the same people behind Shrub are now behind Plant!
Just knowing that Victoria Nuland would not be connected to power for 4 yrs wais all I needed to jump ship!
I hear she and Hillary are both busy imparting wisdom at Columbia these days.
More like Shrub & Shroom. She carries on like an organism that hasn't seen any light and is subject to hallucinations.
It's possible it was her cocaine at the White House.
Good one H. D.!
Kamala actually makes me wish for Sarah Palin. Yes, I said it. Sarah Palin has a higher intellect than Kamala Harris.
Palin definitely has a better sense of humor.
I think she has NO sense of humor. Laughs too hard at her own rambling stories. She might be leading in the polls if she told one self-deprecatory joke at a town hall.
Turd — The liberal media actually extolled Palin’s performance as Governor of Alaska: slapping the oil companies silly, kicking ass and taking names.
Until it became necessary to destroy her, of course …
I've always liked Palin.
Her "How's that hopey-changey thing workin' out for ya?" should have become the modern left's version of "Nothing to lose but their chains".
Of course I mean the actual leftist "left" not the fantasy object of Merkin rightists.
Your "actual leftist 'left'" are all in nursing homes masturbating to back issues of "The Daily Worker."
Harris is definitely the Democratic version of Palin or Quayle.
Dan Quayle is a friggin Theoretical Physicist in relation to Kamala.
She makes Palin and Quayle look like Rocket Scientists…..
At least Palin was a real and genuine person! And her “lipstick on a pig” speech at the RNC was quite good!
I loved Sarah Palin.
She actually served as governor & seemed like a good person.
GWB was a prolific reader and intellect with a speech impediment, and the same Democrats who claimed to love the downtrodden and disadvantaged and to embody tolerance and kindness couldn't get enough of citing that speech impediment as proof of a room-temperature IQ.
https://www.denverpost.com/2008/12/31/george-bush-reads-books-who-knew/
I particularly remember the 2004 campaign against smug "intellectual" John Kerry, wherein both candidates' Yale transcripts were released and Bush had considerably better grades. Left-wing media produced large essays insisting that Kerry's courses must have been harder. Sure...
Thanks for that link!
Just a numbers rhing.
I understand she was held back a couple years.
Right, and reminding us of the people we went to school with is some kind of PLUS...?!?
Yea, she didn't even go to school with me and I'm 56.
That’s Mrs. Fence post to you, sir!
That was terrible…but the room was empty so hopefully they are ignoring him.
Headboard!!
Trump
Your guy your guy
A guy that changes his opin as fast as a chameleon changes color.
"I GOT NOTHING!!!" isn't the kind of position WAPO and the LA Times are going to have an easy time endorsing. The WAPO non-endorsement is a massive brand re-alignment and challenge to the NYT. In 2025 the major press debate will be which paper returns their Russiagate Pulitzers first. My bet is that the WAPO in 2025 rebrands more fully by stripping their "Ministry of Truth" - "democracy dies in darkness TM" (ahem, cough, cough) from their banner.
No American, no thinking person anywhere, expects an American presidential candidate to ask for and expect voter support because the other candidate is Hitler. That's what a billion bucks buys from the best minds the Dems can find in 2024? Hillary spent the same amount in 2016 fumbling through 26 messages before settling for "I'm with her." Biden only "won" in 2020 by saying nothing while the alphabet agencies and the media made sure voters got a steady diet of RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA.
RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, will return and remain throughout Trump's term because Trump's going to kill the military's demands for endless war. Can't wait.
My theory is that they want the public to think they're too scared of Trump to take a position against him. This news will leak from anonymous sources within the next week.
At this point I think that will make people love Trump more
Agreed!
Who's the "they"? WAPO rebels are already making this claim on X.
"They" are Soon-Shiong and Bezos, the owners who directed their papers not to publish editorials supporting a presidential candidate.
I'm hoping Trump's administration will broker a peace between Russia and Ukraine, or at least stop transferring billions into Zelensky's slush fund.
It's refreshing to have that nightmare recede into the background while media ghouls run around like the proverbial headless chickens trying to cope with a looming MAGA/MAHA victory. The NY Post has looked to their bottom line and decided to endorse Trump. A shrewd move, I think, though not enough to redeem the lickspittle news media.
But 51 intelligence bureaucrats signed a letter! A letter means we are serious lol
It makes no sense to jump ship with the election this close. Something is very amiss here. I think they know something we don't about what is planned post election. Perhaps they were asked to give a bipartisan impression prior so they could be trusted truth tellers after the plan is activated. Perhaps it is knock off Trump, jail Trump, whatever it takes to get Kami in office.
The election is not close.
Remember, they drove Biden from the race based on internal polling when the PUBLIC polling was still 'very close'. This means that public polls don't reflect political reality. (Which means they exist for another reason, but that's neither here nor there)
"Perhaps they were asked to give a bipartisan impression prior so they could be trusted truth tellers after the plan is activated."
At some point, media outlets have to stop lying if they want to retain any credibility. Now is as good a time as any and better than most.
'retain any credibility'
Hard to retain what you've completely pissed away.
Maybe re-build it, then?
Earn it back, absolutely.
Screw the polls. Go vote.
I just think it is very interesting that these media people know what scorned Kammy will unleash if elected ---- and they are doing it anyway.
I was talking days, like in time.
I have no idea how 'close' the race is because polls are nothing more than political strategy and propaganda.
No, media outlets don't have to stop lying. They do what they are told. They are all owned by BlackRock and Vanguard, and both are heavily invested in the NWO, which means Kami.
This.. This right here. There is too much at stake for the global masters to allow another Trump presidency. This is why it doesn't matter anymore who votes. The results are already in, and the vote counts are known.
Harris: CENSORSHIP, GENOCIDE...Disadvantage: in bed with the war mongers.
Trump: NO CENSORSHIP, KEEP FIRST AMENDMENT, GENOCIDE.....But Trump has a great advantage: Kennedy and Gabbard.
Also....Matt should know: The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times had DISTINCTLY different reasons for not endorsing this election. The LATmes isn't endorsing because of strong principles against apartheid which the owner witnessed first hand in South Africa. He and his daughter are Pro-Palestinian.
"Global Masters." Like the richest asshole in the world jumping up and down like a 5-year-old on stage at Trump rallies? Don't get any more global mastery than that.
You prove your cluelessness. Musk, Bezos, Soros, Gates? All made.. .they are not the masters. They are the illusion.
My thoughts, too.
I expect that you are correct
But I pray that you are wrong. Please do not give up.
Once again I say -- DAMN YOU, ENGLISH LANGUAGE!
I love the shout out to BR & V, because I want to know how much real estate is being bought up by these entities. And Kammy says she will give $25,000 to everybody to buy their first home. Hmmm.
Funny you mentioned that because just a few minutes ago I said to my husband that Trump looked in great spirits today!
Wouldn’t we all love to know what those internal polls are telling each campaign
I think we can sort of suss it out by their actions -- Kamala has basically ignored the left and started making pitches for Cheney Republicans while calling Trump Literally Hitler.
Trump looks like he's having fun again in a way that he wasn't a few weeks ago.
Trump has the most interesting group around him ---- RFKJr, Tulsi, Musk, plus, many others. Free thinkers who are going to be allowed access.
Kammy has the Cheney family? I would rather gnaw my arm off than be trapped by those people.
So that's your choice America.
In my dream world, Taibbi & Shellenberger get tasked to hire a team to suss out the censorship complex -- then they get to show everybody the damning emails from a huge podium in DC.
RINOs gonna RINO
I hope you are right about news outlets stopping the lying, because only then will their viewers accept the truth. But I will never support the MSM again. For me it is too late.
From a personal standpoint it will really screw with my job security -- but I'm still rooting for it.
I still don't buy it. I still think they are going to continue the installation of Kami and go straight after everybody and anybody that criticized them. This now includes Bezos.
Bezos has something that Musk has however. Both are FULLY aware of the current Magnetic Pole excursion as both are building bunkers in the Rockies (one of the few safe places right now) to ride out the coming storm. That might be the only oddity that I can see in this decision. Why would he care?!?!!
What happens if Trump wins and is killed before he's sworn in? I forget those rules.
It is so tragic that in our country today we can wonder aloud about a presidential candidate or president-elect being assassinated as part of casual discussion. It is vile. She's the Democratic Party and She approves this ad.
Reportedly they did not even screen the film The Manchurian Candidate for years after the JFK assassination. Now? The Dems can only dream.
Tell you what, JD is ten zillion times better than any alternative on the horizon
I watched Tucker Carlton’s interview with Paul Manafort, the latter whom made a good, simple point that, for swing state senators to be scurrying with open arms into the man bosom of Trump and embrace his positions, the internal polling must show that the Titanic has struck the iceberg.
Internal polls are more accurate because they are more expensive to conduct. Unless you are Romney who had terrible internal polling in 2012.
Kennedy keeps warning about the Dems instructing the Pentagon to use lethal force against civilians
Interesting. Had not heard he said that. Since the deep state has been using the DOJ, FBI and judges against the Dem's political opposition, it is not a jump to add the Pentagon.
Agreed. WaPo and LAT have an ulterior motive here.
Sad5you may be right
Certainly could be Ian. Bezos paid for the brand, but a wolf still smells like one after putting on sheep's clothing. The only reason WaPo is functioning is deep pockets and a retainer with the deep state. His Amazon was probably the brain child of the fed's puppeteers and bankrolled by the feds. It certainly supports the NWO of owning nothing and renting your possessions from a government source. Same with EBay and PayPal. All seeded with fed $$ and $$ for national roll out.
Speaking of rolling out former presidents, did anyone see what they did to Jimmy Carter?
Reminded me of Captain Pike in the old Star Trek series who communicated yes and no by red and green lights.
Shameful.
"IF JIMMY CARTER CAN GET OUT AND VOTE EARLY, SO CAN YOU!"
I bet that line sounded good on paper, but.......
The only genuinely good person who served as potus in my voting lifetime.
Jimmy was Trump before Trump. A guy that got elected by accident, and spoke too many truths for the real power to cover-up. I never bought the Jimmy was a moron who ruined shit line. Jimmy was made to fail because he said too many things that were real, and our masters don't want us knowing what is real.
A degree in nuclear engineering from the Naval Academy.
If I remember he was on a submarine.
And a yellow one at that.
My recollection of Carter was my recoiling from all his bad moves. I remember sitting in my living room while he was on TV in his sweater tell Americans we needed to buckle our belts. How about gas lines, how about his recognizing the PRC in 1979 and revoking the 1955 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, interest rates at 18%, not getting our captured people out from Iran. The man acted like a dingbat.
giving away the Panama Canal!
Yes, that was his treaty. Such a long time ago. Hard to remember everything that went wrong under his 'care'.
Jimmy Carter was the last great ex-president. Even if I don't agree with his pronouncements, he was sincere and did good works. If he became a megamillionaire, he has kept it well hidden. Unlike every other past president we are paying security for.
He would have made a fine pastor, not a president. The last great president we had was Coolidge. He forced Congress to recognize the Constitution and Federalism.
Agreed.
Carter was a horrible president.
I used to think he was the worst, but then there was Barack, & now Biden. . .
This is what we are meant to see yes. The issue I have is.. Reagan. Reagan was Anointed to be the puppet president after, and did the biddings of the masters perfectly. Jimmy didn't and they destroyed him. If Trump wins in a couple of weeks it is ONLY because they intend to implode the system and wrap it around his neck.
Reagan won against Carter because people had had enough of his bad policies and micri-managment. Exactly what are the things Jimmy did not do? If you think the puppet masters select the presidents, why was Jimmy elected?
I agree that the PMs can pretty much do whatever they want with this country. They have been keeping it afloat for many years and using it all over the war to their advantage.
Good person, bad president. Lots of “ good persons” in the world
I was a teen, what i remember is the gas pricers, inflation, and the failed rescue mission. Lots of good people, but i can't think of any after Carter who were presidents.
I was in graduate school in 1978-1980, and spent my late evenings (beginning in November 1979) watching a news program Nightline (originally America Held Hostage). Between my roommates and myself, we had three Iranian friends that were incommunicado after the regime change, adding to our concern. Luckily, the Iranian students we knew got out of their home country safely. And the Iranians were able to spit in Carter's eye one last time, releasing the hostages after Reagan's inauguration January 20, 1981.
In fairness, the inflation and other economic problems came from Nixon, wage and price controls, horrible monetary policy ("we're all Keynesians now"). Carter made a lot of mistakes, but I support the idea that he was a departure from the norm, much more his own man than others before or since. Definitely underrated. Reagan on the other hand was a truly great president, in the sense of having a clear vision of his own about certain things and having the leadership ability to implement that vision, but also with some horrific mistakes. Mainly letting neocons run foreign policy on countries no one paid attention to, like Nicaragua, while his attention was focused on the Soviets.
So Ronnie was not a nice or good person?
A truly evil bastard.
Disagree, Reagan was all that
Great comment. I wish the Dems had your wit!
nail on the head!!
Unlikely reasons for the non-endorsements:
1. They're afraid Trump will retaliate against them. Unlikely because after eight years of TDS, Trump already hates them as much as he could, and they know that.
2. They don't think their endorsements matter. Unlikely because they have giant egos.
3. They don't want to attach themselves to a Harris ticket that wins, then performs horribly in office. Unlikely because A) They believe in Democrats' ideology B) If Harris does crash/burn that badly, nobody will particularly blame media companies who endorsed her C) They can always use the "but the alternative was Trump so we had no choice" excuse, which will play with their constituents.
If those aren't the reasons for non-endorsements, we really only have one left: They think Trump has this in the bag, and they would rather start the holier-than-thou process of condemning current Democrat figureheads for "failing us" than attach themselves to a lost cause. THAT makes TONS of sense; left-wing party organs are forever condemning and discarding failed figureheads, largely to protect the ideology itself from blame. Since the ideology is terrible, they get a lot of practice.
But wow, what a thing for these people to decide at this juncture that the election is hopeless for them.
Asterisk - it is also suggested that the non-endorsements are a "safe" way to persuade their most difficult/extreme employees to resign. Maybe, but that's only a side-benefit to the above.
The usual "reason" for the non-endorsement is to claim neutrality, so that they can claim to represent Trump and the Trump voters, without knowing or caring anything about them. It is a step to INCREASE their level of dishonesty, and to enable them to be even more anti-trump.
I read they have a new October surprise slated to come out this weekend that makes the Trump is Hitler look like they called him a puppy. I can't comprehend how Mark Cuban is all of the sudden a trusted someone....
Cuban. What a gas bag. Can someone ask Kammy what is an "unrealized gain?"
10/25/24: If Mark Cuban is their fire wall, so to speak, see if the British bookies will pay off the election bets on this coming Monday, 10/28/24.
Considering he sexually exploited a 22 year old intern as president it’s clear he was scum Epstein or not
Christopher Hitchens' book about Clinton certainly implies "serious depravity", as someone else put it. The Guardian here has been posting stories about a woman being groped by Trump at one of Epstein's residencies, which smacks of desperation to me, though I haven't read the stories, and won't forget the Guardian's shameless lies about Manafort visiting Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy. But the vile Graun and their accomplices need to be careful, lest they open a can of worms where REAL monsters be.
Just vote for trump and STFU. OK
People
Planet
Peace
This, lol
The only reason I subscribe to the WP is because my .gov email addresses give me a free subscription. I will hit mandatory retirement age for my State Guard position in under 3 years but I am one of those people who will never be able to afford to retire from my primary job.
Bezos, along with the LA times, is doing one thing: attempting to reverse the course of a failing media brand. Losing money, even for billionaires, sucks. And alienating half or more of a country is no way to revive a business model.
He wants to keep his AWS contracts with the government. That’s a hell of a lot more money for baldy than WAPO spins off (I mean loses).
No more Microsoft or AWS. There are many players in this space unlike 2011
This non-endorsement has to be a Bezos decree, right? It makes no sense otherwise.
10/25/24: Bezos has been on my radar for the past four months, ground zero being this month of October 2024 --- the "white-hot" date being 10/11/24, 14 days ago. Apparently, he's won the vicious, bone-jarring power struggle. My Q is, now that he's realized what a fool he was to blow $250M buying WaPo (plus God only knows what's been spent since then), --- when does he pull the plug? He could sell it to Rachel Madcow for $19.99.
Bingo
Recall how they all turned and shot ol Joe after his debate with Trump.
Cheered mightily with joy for Kamaltoe when Joe shivved Barry and shut out Michelle?
Time to cut bait and cheer on the new king of all media. DTJ!!!
But we have to wait to see if he lives that long. Wink wink.
Why does that sound like the plot of an 80's dystopian movie like 'Running Man'?
Perhaps we need to bring back 'Death Race 2000' featuring Kamala as Matilda the Hun and Trump as Frankenstein?
10/29/24: November 3rd, 2024 might turn out to be just that wink wink.
It isn’t about making money. Having a paper is about using it to buy influence and to stay informed about permanent Washington.
The primal caterwauling chorus really drives home that the Left genuinely believes the media should serve left-wing political causes and ambitions.
I live in an irritatingly precious and liberal little berg. It never ceases to amaze me how oblivious they are to the fact that their undeservedly smug attitude that if the peasants were only more educated, they would think exactly the same way they do, is not only not true, it's offensive.
That’s an astute comment. I live in one of the most progressive neighborhoods of the NYC. My neighbors, when they realize that I dare to think independently and , oh horror, differently, first they are astonished, and then they talk politics to me in a condescending way and also slowly and loudly, like to a toddler or a deaf person. As if I didn’t live under socialism and don’t have a graduate degree LOL. I find it hilarious and offensive at the same time.
I have a funny story. Happened today. I got a call from my local Democratic party reminding me to vote. When I told the woman on the other line: "Oh I will, but you may not like it, because I am voting for Trump." Her response was: "Well, I'm sorry to hear that but in this country we have the right to vote for whomever we choose....as long as we still live in a democracy." These people really believe that if Trump wins, our democracy is over.
Ha ha!!! They totally do!! The other day my co-worker told me (after I was trying to explain why "someone" might vote for Trump) "but if Trump gets in he'll ruin EVERYTHING!" I mean- there is NO hope for these people!!
Ask these crypto fascists how they feel about direct democracy. "People are too stupid to vote directly on the issues!" But democracy will die unless we all vote for who they tell us to!
Brainwashed. I am afraid the damage is Irreversible.
I get some similar coddling by some of the old hippies in my town (four way stop and some horses). I try not to engage because I like most of these people and we are active as a community, but sometimes its hard. Like right now I am moving camp. A trailer and a portable building. We looked into buying, but we couldn't get approved for enough money to actually purchase something. I mentioned this to someone and they were all like, "But KAMALA when she gets in will give you 25 grand to get started." That really irritated me. The cost of an effing shack in the woods here is almost half a million. That 25 grand is just a giveaway to bankers and will fuel housing/credit crisis 2.0 when it fails. I wish I was better at explaining it to them but I also see the arm's length my buddy who dishes it our raw gets from some of them.
Yes, And recall that 25k was for first time homebuyers, those “young families”. Even if you tried you’d never qualify for that freebee. It’s all such a joke.
My (former?) friends speak to me in that same slow condescending voice. Where do they learn this stuff? Do they go to classes for it?
They feel superior and see us as dimwitted children who just don’t get it. Because they can never prove their point in an open dialogue, we mist agree with them, otherwise in that basket of deplorable we do.
I notice the same thing. They can speak only from their indoctrination and get angry with me because I debate them. They then refuse to hear the supporting data I offer. Somewhere in there they start the condescending voice routine. They always end by denying the existence of any truth or reality. I guess that is how it works in their world.
On display big time during the pandemic. They recoiled from even the mildest question such as, at one point, Why should college students be mandated to take a vaccine that is not even offered for their age group in some European countries? Or why is Governor Newsom taking his child to an open private school while claiming it is too dangerous to have in-person classes at public schools?
I am reminded of Ariel Fodor (I think that’s her name) lecturing those White Women for Kamala on that phone call.
It has something to do with the air in Manhattan. My older sister, who moved to NYC from our upstate home some 50 years ago, actually sobs that I do not think like she does. She lectures me on politics and expresses real distress that I don’t believe what I hear on CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, and Colbert. Since downstate NY dictates where NY’s electoral votes go, I assure her that whomever I vote for doesn’t really matter. Still she persists in lamenting my lack of morals and my middle class attitudes.
If it is in the air here, I manage not to inhale. My brain resists the poison. But then it was trained under Soviet indoctrination. That’s a good school to keep a cool head and critical thinking skills. I think in general some people are more susceptible to propaganda than others. Sadly, the last four years, first COVID and later democratic agitprop on social justice, race and gender changes, have demonstrated that half of the country can be easily manipulated into submission. More than submission. They accept even the most awkward and implausible postulates with religious fervor. 6’social distance rule? White guilt? Gender identity? I believe we are witnessing fast demoralization and increase in stupidly. The goal is to resist.
The real divide in the country: the smug against the peasants.
This is a perfect illustration of the modern left: You can be with them 99% of the time, but if you step out of line for that 1%, they toss you out and call you names.
And yet they constantly accuse Trump supporters of being in a "cult."
YOU ARE IN A CULT, BRAD!
Also, remember to Vote Blue No Matter Who!
lol!
The media IS the left.
If you think the Washington Post is “left”, your political compass is broken beyond repair.
Who is complaining about their non-endorsement, and who were they expected to endorse?
These answers tell you everything you need to know.
Of course, the WaPo was expected to endorse Harris. But that is no proof whatsoever that the Washington Post was "left." Your mistake, which is all too common, is to define the Democrats (let alone squillionaires like Bezos, Gates, etc) as "leftists." The Washington Post, under Bezos and before, has served as a loyal propaganda organ for US wars, coups, sanctions, all over the world. Think for a minute: how is it that Robert Kagan, a warmonger of the first order, was on the WaPo payroll until today? Did the Washington Post call for Jamie Dimon and other banksters to be removed from their posts, tried and imprisoned for massive frauds committed during the GFC? No, of course not, because the Washington Post, like the NY Times, serves the interest of big capital. Don't mistake idiocies in the culture wars for actual left-wing politics. In the inimitable words of George Galloway, we're looking at two cheeks of the same arse. For a leftist perspective, go read Caitlin Johnstone, for example. Follow the great Michael Hudson. The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, PBS, NY Times, etc, have zero, zilch, nada to do with "left," unless you've warped the definition of leftwing out of all recognition.
But much of the true left has thrown their lot in with the neocons and the establishment blob. I suspect that this is because one much first seize the levers of power before one can enact one’s program. If Harris were to win, there would be monumental power struggles over who gets to control the government. Because it ain’t going be her. But I do think she’s sympathetic to the lefty faction. Walz is a straight up Chinese style communist.
The righties are not interested in what constitutes the left. They’re interested in keeping their perceptions simple which means liberals have to be the left. No nuance required. No deeper understanding of politics required. No dialogue required. It’s intellectual laziness.
Oh, you're one of those people who think you get to define the left. You could have just said so.
Yeah, I guess I'm one of those people who thinks words have meanings, and need to have meanings if we're to be able to hold any sort of rational discussion. When someone like The Vigilant Fox, who posts a lot of good material, refers to the LA Times as "Far Left," (in a tweet yesterday or the day before) WTF are we supposed to think? Sorry, but that's just a stupid way to refer to a mainstream, corporate newspaper. It's sloppy, and makes political discussion more difficult, because terms have lost any connection to historical meaning. Identity politics, "wokeness," etc, are so divorced from class-based politics - in most cases, actually opposed to class-based politics - that it's just wrong to conflate the two. Liberals aren't leftists. Democrats aren't leftists. And the Washington Post sure as hell isn't a left-wing newspaper. Or would you be ok with libertarians being called fascists? That's an equally sloppy, foolish way to discuss politics.
https://x.com/StephenKing/status/1849923518026101237
After 5 years, I have canceled my subscription to the Washington Post.
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https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1849914582141370643
Just canceled the newspaper that told us "Democracy Dies In Darkness"
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https://x.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1849904378083496266
Wanna post your Post subscription cancellations?
(Cliche warning) I'll start:
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Shall we go on?
Who the hell actually cares about those three.? Except maybe the business side of the WaPo.
They're quite famously the most fanatical anti-Trumpers on Twitter.
I've yet to see a Trump supporter upset the Post didn't endorse him -- because literally nobody expected them to.
What happened to Steven King? I don’t want to believe he has, um skeletons in his closet but his derangement is pedo level
It’s merely a reflection of the imprecision of the terms we have available
Trump is not 1%, he is 100% of what they think about. Differing with them on that one point annihilates them. It is anti-Democrat genocide!
...and devour their young.
Left wing women kill their prey after mating
What “left” are you referencing? The Dems? They have no clue what left is. No self-respecting leftist would vote for either corporate owned puppet.
They're not really left. They are The Establishment. Much more British Empire Elitists than Leninist.
You don't want democracy to die in darkness, do you?
No, but I want (D)emocracy to die in the bright spotlights of the public square.
You don't want fairies to die! Clap m*therf@cker, clap!
These pathetic newspaper employees acting like spoiled children who just got put in time out is rich. Their gnashing of teeth and threats of resigning demonstrates how fragile their egos are. They forgot they are employees in a for profit business and business has not been good. Their ideological writing is not in line with where media is going. We're tired of their crap.
The layoffs at LA Times a few months ago sounds a lot like the whining at the Post today. Most of us normies just don't give a damn about their whining.
The value of an individual narrative-pushing reporter (presstitute) is roughly zero because there are plenty of people who want to be on TV sucking off powerful people.
I feel most journalists have integrity when they start out, and then someone offers them the TV position and then... next thing you know they are George Stephalumpagus whoring themselves out for the dollars.
Did Jorge start as a journalist? I figured he was the stewardess on Epstein's lolita express serving drinks and Hillary's fluffer.
"sucking off powerful people."
Why does that sound so familiar?
I did mention Bill Clinton earlier.......
Kamala on Brown's willie.
Less than zero
Let’s go Brandon!
Non essential jobs
they are fucking choldren living in a bubble fantasy of their own creation
Washington Post Editor-at-Large Robert Kagan has RESIGNED after owner Jeff Bezos BARRED the endorsement of Kamala Harris
That's one way to turn over the staff. Hoping others follow him out the door.
Some call Trump the Enema of the State. Voters will insert him into institutions, where he'll clean out all the shit. LAT & WaPo included.
I think this is the main reason. Clean house by inducing resignations
Idc how it happened. He and Tory and that witch in Canada basically bankrupted two countries for a Slavic civil war.
+1
Hopefully the NeoCons are out of newspapers to infest.
Smoke has to be coming out of Jen Rubin's ears right now...
She will probably start a substack and demand they start censoring misinformation and hate speech. Taylor Lorenz is already here along with Dan rather, the bulwark, etc. Turds in a punch bowl.
Taylor 'Poppins' Lorenz ugh. 🤢
And when you click on the profiles of their commenters, a great many appear to be fake! Empty profiles with no activity etc. Van Jones recent entry into substack, for example, was met with thousands of likes and comments and hundreds of restacks. Comments were restricted to paid subscribers. Paid subscribers! It’s so completely, utterly unrealistic. They really think we’re idiots!
She praised writers from the Times for resigning in protest, so I'm just awaiting her brave resignation
You'll love this X-thread of Wapo columnists and their Ministry of Truth readers shrieking that Trump is behind the owner's decision - couldn't possibly be that nobody in their right mind is going to endorse a candidate "because Hitler TM". The owner is protecting the brand, nothing more. Read Marc Elias, Rubin et al railing. Fantastic!
https://x.com/ParkerThayer/status/1849851358586995199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849851358586995199%7Ctwgr%5E9b35905c235af62d668a71354388e111b6b93a26%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F679906%2F
Great link! Thanks!
Ears?
The Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times". I'm 75 and I've lived through LOTS of interesting times - Cuban missile crisis, JFK assassination, manned moon landings, Vietnam, the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Berlin wall. Lately I've been living through Trump's unexpected win in 2016 and his narrow 'loss' in 2020 and the 4-year campaign to keep Trump out of office in 2024. Up until these last few years I've always thought that whatever our faults as a nation, we all pretty much believed in the same things - free speech, innocent until proven guilty, the right to bear arms, American exceptionalism. Now I believe the democratic party has sold it's soul to the devil and will do anything - ANYTHING - to keep Trump out of office and the American people enslaved to the woke cabal running the country. "Interesting times" ... indeed!
Frank, You need to be a billboard for America!! Someone get this man a soapbox to speak from!
Well said! The Dems have collapsed into a creepy authoritarian mass movement, and the captured people are unable to see that any such movement exists.
Spot on, Frank. "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
Frank- you are 100% correct! It's tragic!!
its ironic that the dems will do "whatever appears necessary" im order to stop "fascism" when one on fascism's ide tifyimg characteristics is a system run be people that will do "whatever appears necessary."
As radio great Rush Limbaugh said... "if you want to know what the Democratic party is doing, just look at what they are accusing the Republican party of"
Eisenhower warned us
Besides currying favor with the incoming administration, it's a great way to flush out the most militant ideologues who have helped drive paid subscription levels to new lows.
You don’t have to pay an expensive severance package to any overpriced loser who quits because his pwecious widdle feewings got hurt. You want to hold that door wide open so he can flounce through it before he has a chance to change into dry panties and reconsider.
It wouldn't surprise me. They are flushing wokies out of a bunch of media right now, seems no one will buy their shit....
The last 3.5 years have been a financial struggle for newspapers because of Trump being away from the White House
Great point!
Newspaper staffers are upset over something the boss did? Line 'em up, hand them a pink slip, and wish them luck. Given the downfall of jobs in journalism over the past few years it would take about three days to rebuild a staff from the mob of people who will be gathering at the door waving their resumes. Kids, it's a hard truth but The Boss is The Boss. If he/she does something you don't like you can either endure it or resign. Either way, shut up about it.
More like the bosses are pissed at what the writers are doing.
Just ask the media group that bought the site that tried to paint that 10 year old Chiefs fan (of native descent) as racist scum for painting his face black and red and doubled down when called on it. They are now on the line for millions as the judge has just cleared the suit for trial. There is a very interesting woman named Alyssa Mercante who uses her position as an editor for a gaming site to attack gamers and gamer commentators even devolving into a proposed fist fight she declined because she would have faced a woman with martial arts experience and not some dude bro she could whine about. I bet her editors are worried about what she will attract next, LOL.
Alas, “the boss” is also Bruce Springsteen who is stumping for Kamala. Disheartening, but I guess living on a lush horse farm and singing about the working class kind of fits the profile of modern Dems.
More applicants than openings
Robert Kagan has just resigned
So he'll go teach at Columbia with his wife and Hillary. Or start a substack or something.
He won't start a Substack.
On Substack you have to get by on merit.
I'm sure there's a cult of neocons out there somewhere. On second thought, maybe he'll move to The Atlantic.
And he certainly can't get a job on the Board of what used to be Twitter. Must stink to be him.
What a dumpster fire ivy league schools have become. In fact, 'ivy league' the term needs to be stripped from them. There's nothing elite about these racist, plagiarism ridden cesspools.
I live in the People's Republic in Massachusetts. Harvard Kennedy School of Government is kind of a dumping ground for failed or expired Democrats (and a few Repubs too.) I expect their ranks to swell after this election.
Ivy Leave.
I call them Madrasas.
Hey, don't use that language with the 'stack! 😆
Someone needs to do a deep dive on Victoria Nuland. That chick always seems to pop up. Was in charge of Soviet Union affairs under Clinton, National Security Director with Cheney’s ear during the WMD lie, agitated for NATO involvement in Afghanistan, was deep in Ukraine during the Maidan Uprising, and came back to work under Biden after leaving during the Trump administration. If anyone was the poster child for the deep state, it’s Nuland.
I’ve hear it said she’s been the architect of this Ukraine madness from the get go. Somebody should do some digging. Even if it’s true, I have no idea what was her motivation.
Money and power, baby
Career shit, be an important diplomat by bringing democracy to Ukraine. These people are ghouls, have zero issue with mass incarceration of State Dept power worshippers.
You'll find useful features on Nuland at Glenn Greenwald's System Update https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rumble+greenwald+nuland
MintPress has done a ton of reporting on her over the years, too: https://www.mintpressnews.com/?s=Victoria+nuland
That’s exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
Here's an update. She's been appointed to NED. https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1851117486101483556
What is there to deep dive into? It’s all in the open. Dull grey bureaucrat, ideologically driven, not too smart, climbed to the top by virtue of belonging to the right club and endurance, did enormous damage cause she went above her competence level, and got fired. It’s as old a story as it gets
I would add spread ruin to poor people in the name of building democracy
Tucker’s interview with Jeffrey Sachs is a must-watch.
I only just recently realized that "canceled" was the more common spelling as well too. Been adjusting to getting used to using just one L.
IMO, these newspapers see the writing on the wall and it has nothing to do with which candidate they'd prefer to win. The owners are acting in self-defense mode.
I'm accustomed to using the double l also. Must be an age thing.
I think it looks better. I sometimes use UK English spellings b/c they just *feel* good (also spent a lot of time in India so there's that). I usually pronounce schedule as "shedule." So go figure. Guess I'm "language-fluid" and I take that creative licence. ;-) Hahahah!
I like the English spellings better. Cancelled seems right. I think we spelt it that way back in my schooldays.
What’s wrong with the double l
Nothing. Brits also say ‘preventative’ rather than ‘preventive.’
I do, too. I’m not Brit but I am southern.
You're likely right. Has nothing to do with ethics. Just CYA and following the profit margin.
100%!!
Maybe it's just the beginning of the mob turning
The LAT and WP both refusing to endorse is a major story to me though, if truth be told.
Wait, what’s wrong with “ cancelled “?
Always spelled it like that.
I like it, but I'm an oldster!!
Think all those Hollywood types will really leave the US if Trump wins? Or are they lining up now to kiss his ring?
Springsteen comes to mind.
They didn’t in 2016. It would be really nice if they left.
I was at dinner with friends the other night and one lady was proclaiming that she and her husband are getting their passports ready in case Trump wins. Please. They are over 60, they have no money (making emigration to another country difficult) and they have a grandchild right here. As they say on “Burn Notice,” You aren’t going anywhere.
We can only hope they go to their private islands and leave our culture alone.
British vs American
What kind of "red lines" should a "democracy" not cross? Weaponizing the legal system against a political opponent? Engage in mass media censorship? Use feds to suppress evidence, frame up a plot to kidnap the governor of a key swing state, stage a false flag insurrection and show trial, and so on? Inflame hysterical rhetoric to insane levels that lead to violence and assassination attempts? Using government agencies like the CIA, IRS, FBI to attack journalists who shed light on these abuses? Avoiding primary elections and appointing nominees for president? Blocking third parties from ballot access?
Seriously, when has the Washington Post ever held Democrats to account for these and other blatant attacks on democracy?
excellent comment
I’m bracing for absolute madness. It seems likely now that they all (a) know Harris has no chance to win or (b) have reached actual limits to their tolerance of Democratic Party corruption, limits heretofore only known in theory rather than practice, or (c) both. I would have expected more of a repeat of the 2020 cheating they called “insulating democracy” or whatever euphemism. It’s scary. Is it possible that the major players see the writing on the wall and are prepared to accept (even embrace?) Dem party defeat? Or are they building to something much worse that could lead to constitutional crisis and even civil war?
<snort> I can see it now. "Revenge of the Baristas".
LOL
I am surrounded mostly by "Progressive Democrats" and people who hold even more extreme beliefs. I can affirm with certainty that they have been getting more and more fearful and angry. They supported without any skepticism or criticism all of the legal investigations and trials that have featured Trump as the accused. They sincerely belief that he is an Evil Man, and that he will destroy Our Democracy. They are desperate now that Trump is inching ahead of Harris in the polls. When people are in this state of mind, thinking that is they who are saving the country, there is reason to be concerned about what they will do before and after the election.
When did USA become a democracy?
They can’t repeat 2020 because no one will believe Kamala received 81 million clean votes
Could the Post finally realize that its anti Trump histrionics have done nothing but help Trump and that the best thing it can do to help Harris is to keep its mouth shut .
There's no helping Harris
Well, maybe there is. Surprise and hope worked for a while, but I'm not sure if anyone's found the secret for what comes now those have worn off.
Hey --- Michelle is her witness Saturday night. That will no doubt clinch the deal for Kammy.
Nah, they're reading the tea leaves.
Buckle up!