Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

Wow, a hugely wealthy oligarchical capitalist facilitating the rise of fascism?

How completely unpredictable, with no historical precedent whatsoever!

Who could have possibly expected this?!

Has this f*ing idiot never heard of the Streisand Effect? The fact that they broke a decades long tradition to do this makes a louder thump than their endorsement would have.

The Washington Post: "Democracy Dies in Darkness"

Bozos:

I had to settle for the Jurassic Park GIF because I couldn't find the one of Homer Simpson using his gun to turn off the lights. If anyone has that GIF, please hook me up.

90% wealth tax is needed

Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, in his own tweet on the news wrote, “The first step towards fascism is when the free press cowers in fear.”

I don't know if this is the free press cowering, or the free press being bought out by rich people. Either way, it's some bullshit.

“The most consequential election in our country, a choice between Fascism and Democracy, and you sit out? Cowards. Unethical, fearful cowards,” wrote one reader.

Haha, yep.

Oh man the first 3 words got me excited.

Also, cancel your prime subscriptions you cowards!

Sigh.

Canceled my subscription.

Bezos has tons of federal government contracts. When Trump was president last time he went after Amazon and others he disliked to get their contracts cancelled. Bezos is concerned that if Trump wins, Trump could fuck with his contracts.

That's the reason. It's fucked up and more evidence of why news media shouldn't be owned by fuckhead billionaires. Shameful day in WaPos history. Cowardice. Grovelling to placate Trump for the benefit of the paper 's owner.

Tin foil hat: I am somewhat concerned that our oligarch overlords seem to be hedging in a way that they think Trump might win.

Subscription cancelled.

This is that "liberal news media" that Republicans keep yammering on about.

The one that's owned by six corporations.

If Kamala really wanted to get back at Bezos for this, the best thing she could do is promote union membership in tech and in the press.

It has been Bezos' kryptonite for years, and while I hold zero hope that unions will grow in popularity in the US, having a president push for them might be enough to make big businesses shut up.

Well that subscription is cancelled

tax them until they learn to mind their own business

Jeff Bezos killed

Well this should be interesting.

Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

Oh, nevermind.

There should be a law for owners of media being kept at arm's length.

Free press in the USA? LOL, it becomes more and more difficult every time a US oligarch buys a news outlet.

Wish Version Lex Luthor?

for years tech bros has been framed as liberal/leftist/team blue supporter. but after years of musk shitposting bullshit and almost not even single one called him out, more and more i have a feeling that they ALL are just magas hiding in the closets, they are not allies at all.

Everyone talking about billionaires and how they endorse, support, finance, fund, hold lotteries to influence an election and everyone still thinks they exist in a democracy.

It's an oligarchy or a plutocracy

Call it whatever you want ... but it certainly isn't a democracy

NGL, I had to reread the headline because my brain got too excited.

File this under "why billionaires should not exist".

And I just killed my subscription to the post fuck them.

I certainly much hope he has to justify that decision to a jury and later a deity

In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it lost a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft because Trump used “improper pressure ... “to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.

Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by...

I saw the first three words of this post and was like, "HOLY SHIT! FINALLY!!"

Loving the 8k+ comments of people cancelling their subscription.

Putin overseeing:

Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Trump, The entire GOP.

Coward is afraid of Trump exacting retribution if he wins. Fucking megacoward.

Oh Jeffrey.... that's not how you're aupposed to run a newspaper.

Nooooooo but there's no record of him donating money to trump's campaign therefore he can't be said to be supporting truuuuuuuump Noooooooooo

The Richest People on EARTH supporting Trump is PROOF that the Middle Class will be BETTER under Trump! Jeff Bezos and Elon Dipshit are KNOWN to Treat their Workers EXTREMELY WELL!

Key pull quote from TFA:

Post chief executive Will Lewis, in an online explanation of the decision, wrote, “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election.”

“We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis wrote.

“We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility,” he wrote. “That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.”

If Idocracy is a documentary, what does that make Elysium? It seems like we are headed that way more and more.

But just think of the juicy government contracts

coward shit. candyass afraid of a pittance tax bump.

I've never agreed with journalistic organizations endorsing candidates. Report on them? Yes. Scathe them if necessary? Yes. Endorse them? No thank you.

related: https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/23/la-times-opinion-editor-quits-after-billionaire-kills-endorsement/

Can cancel your Prime memberships if you have one since it's the same oligarch fucker

Seize his assets, and if he complains beat him up until he ends up in a wheelchair.

long as he doesnt force a trump endorsement in its place, it could be an arguement for impartiality

Why are newspapers endorsing candidates?

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Oligarchs dont care who wins since for them either one is W lol

Normies in shambles to finally figure out that elections are a clown exercise to provide owners puppets legitimacy.

Didnt LA times have a similar situation haha