"Jackson cautions against a system of prosecution where “the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.”"
The biggest problem is that the Post-Watergate DOJ "independence" is just a tradition that presidents since then have respected.
It's not compulsory. It's not a law. I looked it up, and was distressed to find that out.
I always thought that that memo that you "can't indict a sitting president" was flimsy since it was just a memo.
Turns out that what Todd Blanche is doing is not illegal; he's just written his own memo to overturn the reforms and traditions put in place after the Nixon catastrophe.
Which is why, once again, Dems must legislate to make those reforms mandatory so that future presidents are compelled to comply with them. "Traditions" don't mean squat to MAGA soldiers.
It's not true that "what Todd Blanche is doing is not illegal." I understand why you think that "DOJ 'independence' is just a tradition . . . It's not compulsory. It's not a law." SCOTUS justices very often do a very poor job of helping us to see our Constitution in its true light. In this regard, the writing of the current SCOTUS majority is some of the worst I've ever seen.
The truth is obvious, but it often is just ignored by SCOTUS justices--and worse, justices and other judges use misdirection to direct our attention away from the relevant language of the law. The truth is that DOJ independence--like judicial independence--is the law. It is in the paramount part of the supreme law of the land. This is the primary issue addressed by Chief Justice John Marshall writing for SCOTUS in Marbury v. Madison in 1803 (echoing Alexander Hamilton on Federalist No. 78 in 1788).
The most important words in any law in the U.S. are in our Constitution. They establish the most important meaning of the rule of law (they changed the meaning of the rule of law). The Constitution's first words emphasize that "the People of the United States" acted as the supreme legislative body for the U.S. to "ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
As Article VI emphasizes, the People established "the supreme Law of the Land" with our Constitution as the paramount part of the supreme law of the land. All legislators "and all executive and judicial Officers" (including every attorney admitted as an officer of any court) "both of the United States and of [all the] States" are "bound" to "support this Constitution," (not any person or political party). That is what "independence" means as defined by the People in our Constitution (i.e., the law). Supporting the Constitution means, in part, that all "Laws of the United States [ ] shall be made in Pursuance thereof" and all "Judges in every State shall be bound thereby."
In Article I, the People vested in Congress the power (and assigned the duty) to "make all Laws" that turn out to "be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" absolutely "all [the] Powers vested by this Constitution in [Congress or] the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." To fulfill the duty to support our Constitution, Congress enacted law (5 U.S.C. 3331) that requires every federal employee except the President to expressly and publicly acknowledge their first, foremost and constant duty is to "bear true faith and allegiance to" our Constitution, including by "support[ing] and defend[ing] the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" (including even the president). That is what "independence" means as defined by Congress (in federal law "in pursuance" of and "to support" our Constitution).
A surprising number of opinions authored or joined in by SCOTUS justices do at least acknowledge that the People are sovereign in the U.S. But few justices try to help us see what that means. James Madison said it well in his Report of 1800 (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0202).
"In the United States," only "[t]he people, not the government, possess" actual "sovereignty." We must consider these issues with "a reverence for our constitution, in the true character in which it issued from the sovereign authority of the people." "The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind; and at no time perhaps more necessary than at the present."
Those words were written when Americans (and states) were opposing the unconstitutional usurpation of power by a combination of Congress and federal executive and judicial officers--just like today.
How exactly is Jeff Bezos destroying AMERICA? He is destroying AMERICA by defending freedom?
Only a leftist could say something so stupid.
BEZOS is spot on. There are an infinite number of sites and blogs (LIKE THIS ONE) that HATE America. Like Joyce. His paper will focus on America and defending speech and personal freedom.
THere is nothing a leftist HATES more than freedom.
James, the comment is far from stupid. You trying to defend Bezos by claiming he is "defending freedom" (by defending Trump and Trump's supporters) even helps prove the point. Alexander Hamilton even addressed this very issue in the very first of The Federalist Papers.
Hamilton obviously didn't hate America. He was one of the primary leaders responsible for the creation of the new nation of the United States of America in 1788. Hamilton worked long and hard to help lead Americans to write and ratify our Constitution. In Federalist No. 1 Hamilton highlighted the tremendous danger that Trump and his supporters pose to the U.S. today:
"a dangerous ambition [even] more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants."
I add my gratitude to yours, Marguerite. Jack Jordan has it right. Bezos is not talking about "freedom" for each American, in the way Hamilton and the other founders used the term.
Dear James, what makes you say that a “leftist hates freedom?” That simply isn’t true in these fraught times when a President offers daily calls for retribution, tariffs and decreased support for an ally like S. Korea. It is not true when ICE kills Alex Petti or Renee Nicole Good. It is not true when people are prosecuted for retribution when a President orchestrated an assault on the U.S. Capitol with threats to his Vice President and elected Congressional leaders.
Let’s even consider going to your use of the word/label “leftist.” Who are these people? They are U.S. citizens who want freedom to speak truth to power. They are people who believe in equality and justice for all. They are people who work every day and want civil rights, voting rights, and do oppose voter suppression.
That may be true, but there are apparently LOADS of people who are desperately clinging to what fox broadcasts and what the administration says. Such people will need to recover the basics of thinking clearly, along with a basic positive outlook toward other people - for many that will not be an option, so tightly sealed are
their minds, and a closed mind like that will never have the hope of sensing and joys of life.
Regretfully, I think you are right. Could it be the dumbing down of our educational system some have spoken and written about over the years?
Whatever the reasons “critical thinking and raising questions rather that taking the output of Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson is always easier than putting time in to examining ideas.
We have a long road ahead whatever the outcome is on November 3, 2026.
Hes defending right to present false information. Blanche is lying. Bezos omis is violating duty or journalist. If you like reading lies, and want to call it truth its a free country.
James, Leftists love freedom, but they believe that some accommodations are necessary when their freedom impinges on someone else's. Rightists love freedom too, but they don't seem to give a shit if their freedom has a negative impact on others'.
I don’t think this is what wealth does to you, per se,although the single-minded pursuit of extreme, obscene wealth, like most of the current, trump-supporting billionaires and wannabes is a sickness. Wealth can insulate someone from reality and wealth amplifies beliefs and tendencies that were part of someone’s make up all along. Just look at Bezos former wife MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates and compare their thoughtful philanthropy, personal life to the others supporting a disgusting corrupt fascist, prancing in the limelight with extreme plastic surgery and mask-like, dermatologically enhanced faces.
I agree. Wealth affects people differently. The trumpist billionaires have been corrupted by their wealth. It’s as if they’re in a race to see who can hoard the most. In the process, they’ve become blind to the fact that they are willing to destroy other people, as well as the planet to achieve their goals.
Philanthropists like Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are examples of responsible stewardship of wealth. I admire them greatly. It’s too bad we don’t hear much about like-minded philanthropists here in the U.S.
What I believe (Who cares, right?) is that in the end those wealthy billionaires will experience the decline of civilization just as much as we poor mediocre citizens trying to live a good life. Their problem is they simply wallow in the obscene wealth oblivious to the long term consequences.
James A, Using the word "communist" as you do is a logical fallacy, a faulty generalization. If you mean "Communist" that means a member of the Communist Party USA. As of 2026, the CPUSA had 11,000 That hardly constitutes a Red Scare.
If you mean a person opposed to private ownership of a large institution like the US Post Office, or a member of a labor union, or an advocate for universal health care, or a proponent of equal rights for women, or a defender of the rights of LGBTQ community members, or one opposed to war or to a unitary executive ... Such persons span the spectrum of Americans - Democrats, Republicans, Independents, unbelievers, the unaffiliated people, of all religious denominations ....... And people who agree on one issue don't always agree with each other about other issues.
Exactly what I did; unfortunately I’d paid for a year in December, and what a surprise, no refunds. So when I read yesterday’s editorial I was hoping that it would be discussed on Substack, and was delighted to see Joyce’s this morning!
The Washington Post has completely lost its way. It's embarrassing. But also, Welker didn't ask even one question of Blanche about the Epstein Files. Not one. As Katie Phang pointed out. These people are exhausting. We need more Jon Ossoff energy and less Hakeem Jeffries energy in the midterms and beyond. And we need to support independent media, because MSM is only interested in covering Democrats in disarray and parroting everything Trump says.
Nor am I giving up. The Washington Post used to be dedicated to reporting the facts. No news outlet is perfect, because human beings are not perfect, but I subscribed to The Post back when I felt I could rely on generally honest, unbiased reporting of the news. That is no longer the case.
A problem is that Bezos got rich too quickly; he hadn't developed a code of ethics that can be recognized, and it allowed him to believe that he is superior to everyone else. He took over the "Post" because he imagined himself a great newspaperman who could manipulate the world for himself. Well, Bezos is a child-man with few ideas beyond those that got him started while in college. He uses his paper and platforms to do harm while trying to project himself as that amazing guy who gave everyone Facebook and dumped reporters "who weren't worth reading." Beyond giving people a place to connect and share, what is Facebook? That would be enough for most people, but his operation has gotten into all sorts of places it should not and has done quite a lot of harm to users, and what is best in his mind, he doesn't care or take responsibility, well, unless people fawn on him and tell him how much they just LOOOOVE it.
Carolyn, you are right, I did confuse them, but it seems I confuse them a lot. They are in my mind so similar in manner, attitude, and desperate need for power and money. They both did get too rich too young and both think they are better than everyone around them and beyond. They are enormously arrogant. Neither has a positive code of ethics. In my mind, they could almost be twins. Their corporations are both in some way or other, sleezy when they could be a positive good for this nation and beyond too, but are not. Yep, they really do hang in my head together.
After many years, I cancelled my subscription because they refused to endorse. Bezos showed us exactly who he is and what he wants that paper to be. It made me sad then, makes me sad still.
Bezos is a nauseating asswipe who has sold his brain to the slimy orange turd for money and power. But now he has NO power, because he’s exposed his cowardice and stupidity for all of us to see and despise him for it.
Bezos says Trump is more disciplined? He is referring the sicko who started a war, which should absolutely be the very last alternative to any dispute between nations, and now nearly six months into this mad adventure has yet to provide any coherent reason for the war. Yes, he has at times given various justifications but that just shows it was not based on a carefully thought out rational plan and now seems to be on the verge of become of those forever wars he so criticized as a candidate. Personally, I do think there was one rational reason and that was to distract from the information in the Epstein files, which might too much to swallow for even his most rabid supporters.
From a files distraction to complete mayhem is correct. But, the war has had an unexpected bonus for them - acceleration of all their foundational takeover plans.
Bezos has gone to the dark side for money, influence and even more riches. Sucking up to a fool and moron is even beneath Bezos. There is no better time to boycott the Washington Post than NOW!
I kept my WaPo sub until Bezus spiked the Ann Telnaes cartoon of him bending before t-Rump's red tie folding down the steps before him. When Ann's Stack hit right afterward, that was it. I cancelled and subscribed to her.
Joyce, you live in Alabama. Here in the South we say "preach it, sister!" You are a shining light. I hope you don't mind me sharing something I was just inspired to write and post on my Facebook Page. Everywhere I look., the world is on fire. I only have a glass of water, what can that matter, who can I save? I put on the armor of God [Ephesians 6: 10-17] and I see through the flames and smoke, other fighters for the light. I remember Adam Kinzinger saying that when a soldier is lost behind enemy lines what keeps you going is knowing someone is coming for you, you will not be left behind. I hear and join the chant – the 1% have their money, power and cruelty. But to them we say, we are the 99, we will fight with all we have, together side by side, we are coming to rescue all, no one will be left behind!
Wow! When the Attorney General of the US is a toady for the president, bad things happen to good people. Everyone who listened to Blanche's hearing and subsequent discussions of his let's say, questionable behavior knows that he is unqualified to hold the position of AG. He can't unwrap himself from his Baby Donnie and has no desire to. He wants to drag a lot of people into the morass of Blanche's and Trump's making to prove power over people Trump and/or Blanche don't like or who scare them, and a lot of folks do. That is not honoring our Constitution and Blanche, a supposed lawyer knows it, but seems not to care. Our courts and everyone who is not already under Trump's spell needs to stand up and fight this disgusting duo for the sake of this nation and our people.
It’s all about the Benjamins. Maybe Bezos and Blanche were once decent people, but they’re not now.
If this is what wealth does to you, I’d rather be poor. At least I’d have my dignity.
They are sabotaging America. But rich. So they dont care. Destroying America.
"Jackson cautions against a system of prosecution where “the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political views, or being personally obnoxious to or in the way of the prosecutor himself.”"
The biggest problem is that the Post-Watergate DOJ "independence" is just a tradition that presidents since then have respected.
It's not compulsory. It's not a law. I looked it up, and was distressed to find that out.
I always thought that that memo that you "can't indict a sitting president" was flimsy since it was just a memo.
Turns out that what Todd Blanche is doing is not illegal; he's just written his own memo to overturn the reforms and traditions put in place after the Nixon catastrophe.
Which is why, once again, Dems must legislate to make those reforms mandatory so that future presidents are compelled to comply with them. "Traditions" don't mean squat to MAGA soldiers.
It's not true that "what Todd Blanche is doing is not illegal." I understand why you think that "DOJ 'independence' is just a tradition . . . It's not compulsory. It's not a law." SCOTUS justices very often do a very poor job of helping us to see our Constitution in its true light. In this regard, the writing of the current SCOTUS majority is some of the worst I've ever seen.
The truth is obvious, but it often is just ignored by SCOTUS justices--and worse, justices and other judges use misdirection to direct our attention away from the relevant language of the law. The truth is that DOJ independence--like judicial independence--is the law. It is in the paramount part of the supreme law of the land. This is the primary issue addressed by Chief Justice John Marshall writing for SCOTUS in Marbury v. Madison in 1803 (echoing Alexander Hamilton on Federalist No. 78 in 1788).
The most important words in any law in the U.S. are in our Constitution. They establish the most important meaning of the rule of law (they changed the meaning of the rule of law). The Constitution's first words emphasize that "the People of the United States" acted as the supreme legislative body for the U.S. to "ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
As Article VI emphasizes, the People established "the supreme Law of the Land" with our Constitution as the paramount part of the supreme law of the land. All legislators "and all executive and judicial Officers" (including every attorney admitted as an officer of any court) "both of the United States and of [all the] States" are "bound" to "support this Constitution," (not any person or political party). That is what "independence" means as defined by the People in our Constitution (i.e., the law). Supporting the Constitution means, in part, that all "Laws of the United States [ ] shall be made in Pursuance thereof" and all "Judges in every State shall be bound thereby."
In Article I, the People vested in Congress the power (and assigned the duty) to "make all Laws" that turn out to "be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" absolutely "all [the] Powers vested by this Constitution in [Congress or] the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof." To fulfill the duty to support our Constitution, Congress enacted law (5 U.S.C. 3331) that requires every federal employee except the President to expressly and publicly acknowledge their first, foremost and constant duty is to "bear true faith and allegiance to" our Constitution, including by "support[ing] and defend[ing] the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" (including even the president). That is what "independence" means as defined by Congress (in federal law "in pursuance" of and "to support" our Constitution).
A surprising number of opinions authored or joined in by SCOTUS justices do at least acknowledge that the People are sovereign in the U.S. But few justices try to help us see what that means. James Madison said it well in his Report of 1800 (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0202).
"In the United States," only "[t]he people, not the government, possess" actual "sovereignty." We must consider these issues with "a reverence for our constitution, in the true character in which it issued from the sovereign authority of the people." "The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind; and at no time perhaps more necessary than at the present."
Those words were written when Americans (and states) were opposing the unconstitutional usurpation of power by a combination of Congress and federal executive and judicial officers--just like today.
WHAT A STUPID COMMENT.
How exactly is Jeff Bezos destroying AMERICA? He is destroying AMERICA by defending freedom?
Only a leftist could say something so stupid.
BEZOS is spot on. There are an infinite number of sites and blogs (LIKE THIS ONE) that HATE America. Like Joyce. His paper will focus on America and defending speech and personal freedom.
THere is nothing a leftist HATES more than freedom.
James, the comment is far from stupid. You trying to defend Bezos by claiming he is "defending freedom" (by defending Trump and Trump's supporters) even helps prove the point. Alexander Hamilton even addressed this very issue in the very first of The Federalist Papers.
Hamilton obviously didn't hate America. He was one of the primary leaders responsible for the creation of the new nation of the United States of America in 1788. Hamilton worked long and hard to help lead Americans to write and ratify our Constitution. In Federalist No. 1 Hamilton highlighted the tremendous danger that Trump and his supporters pose to the U.S. today:
"a dangerous ambition [even] more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants."
Jack Jordan, your contribution is logical, well supported, and courteous. Thank you.
And James A’s responses are just gross generalities and childish insults. Any viewer can mindlessly repeat them from “Faux News”.
I add my gratitude to yours, Marguerite. Jack Jordan has it right. Bezos is not talking about "freedom" for each American, in the way Hamilton and the other founders used the term.
Dear James, what makes you say that a “leftist hates freedom?” That simply isn’t true in these fraught times when a President offers daily calls for retribution, tariffs and decreased support for an ally like S. Korea. It is not true when ICE kills Alex Petti or Renee Nicole Good. It is not true when people are prosecuted for retribution when a President orchestrated an assault on the U.S. Capitol with threats to his Vice President and elected Congressional leaders.
Let’s even consider going to your use of the word/label “leftist.” Who are these people? They are U.S. citizens who want freedom to speak truth to power. They are people who believe in equality and justice for all. They are people who work every day and want civil rights, voting rights, and do oppose voter suppression.
He’s just a TROLL …
Agreed but “He” may not be human but a bot.
That may be true, but there are apparently LOADS of people who are desperately clinging to what fox broadcasts and what the administration says. Such people will need to recover the basics of thinking clearly, along with a basic positive outlook toward other people - for many that will not be an option, so tightly sealed are
their minds, and a closed mind like that will never have the hope of sensing and joys of life.
Regretfully, I think you are right. Could it be the dumbing down of our educational system some have spoken and written about over the years?
Whatever the reasons “critical thinking and raising questions rather that taking the output of Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson is always easier than putting time in to examining ideas.
We have a long road ahead whatever the outcome is on November 3, 2026.
Bezos can have an opinion, but he’s not a legal expert. Joyce is.
Amen!
James ! Good to see yu back...thought something happened to you...like your bot battery ran out...
Hes defending right to present false information. Blanche is lying. Bezos omis is violating duty or journalist. If you like reading lies, and want to call it truth its a free country.
We leftists just feel sorry for you, carrying all that hatred around. Pathetic. Maybe someday you will realize you are being conned.
How can truth get so submerged.
James, Leftists love freedom, but they believe that some accommodations are necessary when their freedom impinges on someone else's. Rightists love freedom too, but they don't seem to give a shit if their freedom has a negative impact on others'.
Jostling for space in the Fourth Reich’s Hall of Fame.
Or maybe for first round pick in the city under the West Wing.
Or for a place in the catering cart- “pick me, Sir!”
No chairs? Sit on me … sir!
The one with a reinforced door and twelve television sets.
Bezos was always a cutthroat, bloodthirsty captain of industry
I agree. I live from SS check to SS check. It’s a struggle but I’m okay. Greed, on the other hand, is devouring.
I don’t think this is what wealth does to you, per se,although the single-minded pursuit of extreme, obscene wealth, like most of the current, trump-supporting billionaires and wannabes is a sickness. Wealth can insulate someone from reality and wealth amplifies beliefs and tendencies that were part of someone’s make up all along. Just look at Bezos former wife MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates and compare their thoughtful philanthropy, personal life to the others supporting a disgusting corrupt fascist, prancing in the limelight with extreme plastic surgery and mask-like, dermatologically enhanced faces.
I agree. Wealth affects people differently. The trumpist billionaires have been corrupted by their wealth. It’s as if they’re in a race to see who can hoard the most. In the process, they’ve become blind to the fact that they are willing to destroy other people, as well as the planet to achieve their goals.
Philanthropists like Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are examples of responsible stewardship of wealth. I admire them greatly. It’s too bad we don’t hear much about like-minded philanthropists here in the U.S.
What I believe (Who cares, right?) is that in the end those wealthy billionaires will experience the decline of civilization just as much as we poor mediocre citizens trying to live a good life. Their problem is they simply wallow in the obscene wealth oblivious to the long term consequences.
It doen't have to be mutually exclusive.
It shouldn’t, but too often it is.
I agree on all counts, Talia. Well said.
Blanche was given his position description when he was hired. Instead of protecting The People, he's spending all his time with Trump.
What a dumb answer. BEZOS is already a billionaire.
BEZOS was explicit in his reasoning. "I am of American and for America"
Of course you and your communist friends hate anyone and anything that supports AMERICA.
James A, Using the word "communist" as you do is a logical fallacy, a faulty generalization. If you mean "Communist" that means a member of the Communist Party USA. As of 2026, the CPUSA had 11,000 That hardly constitutes a Red Scare.
If you mean a person opposed to private ownership of a large institution like the US Post Office, or a member of a labor union, or an advocate for universal health care, or a proponent of equal rights for women, or a defender of the rights of LGBTQ community members, or one opposed to war or to a unitary executive ... Such persons span the spectrum of Americans - Democrats, Republicans, Independents, unbelievers, the unaffiliated people, of all religious denominations ....... And people who agree on one issue don't always agree with each other about other issues.
In sum, James A, please define your terms.
I am of bot and for bot but not forgot
for James
He means the “America” where a wannabe authoritarian has tweaked the system to favor billionaires like him.
Sarcasm?
no, bot
He/ it is a troll. He/ its intent is to post comments meant to emotionally upset, disturb, anyone who reads them.
Don’t reply to anything he/ it posts.
Doing so only encourages he/ it to post more and more.
Better yet don’t read anything he/ it posts!
YOU DON"T GET TO CENSOR ME.
You in the HELL ARE YOU to tell other people what to think and DO?
Too bad if the truth UPSETS you. But like a good leftist you command others not read my posts.
It just shows what a snowflake and a baby your are.
EVERY WORD I WROTE was TRUE.
Don't cry.
BTW - I'm NOT A TROLL I'm a paying customer and I'll weigh in when I want to.
That you can stand competing IDEAS SAY EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU not me.
I dropped my WaPo subscription when Bezos decimated the staff and bowed down to Trump . Washington is no longer a swamp, it's a cesspit.
Exactly what I did; unfortunately I’d paid for a year in December, and what a surprise, no refunds. So when I read yesterday’s editorial I was hoping that it would be discussed on Substack, and was delighted to see Joyce’s this morning!
Same.
I didn't drop my WaPo subscription entirely but downgraded to online only when they drove out so many good journalists and columnists.
Same.
The Washington Post has completely lost its way. It's embarrassing. But also, Welker didn't ask even one question of Blanche about the Epstein Files. Not one. As Katie Phang pointed out. These people are exhausting. We need more Jon Ossoff energy and less Hakeem Jeffries energy in the midterms and beyond. And we need to support independent media, because MSM is only interested in covering Democrats in disarray and parroting everything Trump says.
Thanks, Joyce, for all you do. Not Giving Up.
Nor am I giving up. The Washington Post used to be dedicated to reporting the facts. No news outlet is perfect, because human beings are not perfect, but I subscribed to The Post back when I felt I could rely on generally honest, unbiased reporting of the news. That is no longer the case.
Bezos' paper says it all. I won't even use it for my worm bin.
Worms deserve better!
BUT, some very good writers are still working for "his" paper.
Just confirms that I made the right decision in ending my subscription to the Washington Post when Bezos took over.
Me, too.
Me, three. Good riddance, I don’t miss it. It’s not the newspaper it used to be, in the Watergate era.
A problem is that Bezos got rich too quickly; he hadn't developed a code of ethics that can be recognized, and it allowed him to believe that he is superior to everyone else. He took over the "Post" because he imagined himself a great newspaperman who could manipulate the world for himself. Well, Bezos is a child-man with few ideas beyond those that got him started while in college. He uses his paper and platforms to do harm while trying to project himself as that amazing guy who gave everyone Facebook and dumped reporters "who weren't worth reading." Beyond giving people a place to connect and share, what is Facebook? That would be enough for most people, but his operation has gotten into all sorts of places it should not and has done quite a lot of harm to users, and what is best in his mind, he doesn't care or take responsibility, well, unless people fawn on him and tell him how much they just LOOOOVE it.
All I have to do is look at his wife and I know where his head is at, everything is a show just like his boss Trump.
Perhaps he never had a code of ethics. Bezos just wanted lots of money and he doesn't care how many bodies he walks over to get it
Amazon
Seems you've confused Bezos with Zuckerberg who left college to found Facebook. Bezos' path to Amazon was quite different.
Carolyn, you are right, I did confuse them, but it seems I confuse them a lot. They are in my mind so similar in manner, attitude, and desperate need for power and money. They both did get too rich too young and both think they are better than everyone around them and beyond. They are enormously arrogant. Neither has a positive code of ethics. In my mind, they could almost be twins. Their corporations are both in some way or other, sleezy when they could be a positive good for this nation and beyond too, but are not. Yep, they really do hang in my head together.
Ruth: Easy to confuse them. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg--three heads of the same monster.
Ruth Bezos didn’t give everyone “facecrook”, it was Mark Zuckerberg.
Oops sorry I see Carolyn already offered the correction….
Was about to say the exact same thing.
Bill and Kate:
Totally agree. She does like to "show" her assets!
Exactly, Susan. 💯
Jeff Bezos, you’re sure as hell no Katharine Graham.
After many years, I cancelled my subscription because they refused to endorse. Bezos showed us exactly who he is and what he wants that paper to be. It made me sad then, makes me sad still.
Bezos is a nauseating asswipe who has sold his brain to the slimy orange turd for money and power. But now he has NO power, because he’s exposed his cowardice and stupidity for all of us to see and despise him for it.
Thank you so much for this clear and extremely well-informed explanation of what is at stake here.
Bezos says Trump is more disciplined? He is referring the sicko who started a war, which should absolutely be the very last alternative to any dispute between nations, and now nearly six months into this mad adventure has yet to provide any coherent reason for the war. Yes, he has at times given various justifications but that just shows it was not based on a carefully thought out rational plan and now seems to be on the verge of become of those forever wars he so criticized as a candidate. Personally, I do think there was one rational reason and that was to distract from the information in the Epstein files, which might too much to swallow for even his most rabid supporters.
Trump and Netanyahu are each trying to avoid emprisonment.
Bingo
Operation Epstein Distraction, as a British journalist called it on day one.
From a files distraction to complete mayhem is correct. But, the war has had an unexpected bonus for them - acceleration of all their foundational takeover plans.
Bezos has gone to the dark side for money, influence and even more riches. Sucking up to a fool and moron is even beneath Bezos. There is no better time to boycott the Washington Post than NOW!
AND Amazon! I did, 3 years or so ago. Easy to live without it.
I got rid of my membership in April 2023 after 15 years. Don't miss it at all.
I kept my WaPo sub until Bezus spiked the Ann Telnaes cartoon of him bending before t-Rump's red tie folding down the steps before him. When Ann's Stack hit right afterward, that was it. I cancelled and subscribed to her.
Yes, and her cartoons have never been better. The goes for the fat man's jugular, and Hegseth's frantic man-proving..and all the rest.
She is always on the mark and I tell her so. And can she DRAW!
"[F]rantic man-proving" You hit the target w/ that phrase.
Bezos has shown who and what he bows to. 'Gonna have to serve somebody.' We certainly know. The man is all in on the fascist dictator project.
It seems so. I wouldn’t have thought that 5 years ago.
Bezos, Stormy Daniels and Blanched. Pale like a ghost. Same motives. Same ethics. Supported by Republican party. Now ensconced in purgatory.
Joyce, you live in Alabama. Here in the South we say "preach it, sister!" You are a shining light. I hope you don't mind me sharing something I was just inspired to write and post on my Facebook Page. Everywhere I look., the world is on fire. I only have a glass of water, what can that matter, who can I save? I put on the armor of God [Ephesians 6: 10-17] and I see through the flames and smoke, other fighters for the light. I remember Adam Kinzinger saying that when a soldier is lost behind enemy lines what keeps you going is knowing someone is coming for you, you will not be left behind. I hear and join the chant – the 1% have their money, power and cruelty. But to them we say, we are the 99, we will fight with all we have, together side by side, we are coming to rescue all, no one will be left behind!
Wow! When the Attorney General of the US is a toady for the president, bad things happen to good people. Everyone who listened to Blanche's hearing and subsequent discussions of his let's say, questionable behavior knows that he is unqualified to hold the position of AG. He can't unwrap himself from his Baby Donnie and has no desire to. He wants to drag a lot of people into the morass of Blanche's and Trump's making to prove power over people Trump and/or Blanche don't like or who scare them, and a lot of folks do. That is not honoring our Constitution and Blanche, a supposed lawyer knows it, but seems not to care. Our courts and everyone who is not already under Trump's spell needs to stand up and fight this disgusting duo for the sake of this nation and our people.
And friends ask me why I no longer subscribe to The Washington Post.
I had been a subscriber for more than 10 years before a dozen years before Bezos took it over.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
No it dies in plain sight.