Bezos is an arrogant monster who has not treated lower level workers well, who gives money to a seditionist/rapist/CONVICTED felon in the White House. He doesn’t mind the mafia style attacks of ICE because Bezos, much like trump, has no empathy, sympathy. He lives in an isolated world of sheer greed.
I think his billionaire buddies are of the same mindset as he is . ..Either by inheritance, or luck of the draw , that deplorable arrogance that they show to others is repulsive .
They are bored with life as we know it. There's nothing to work for, and they probably will continue to be that way. Unless they begin a new hobby. Like double buy groceries for families. Follow them to the car, say that it theirs. Then walk away.
Or tuck money in people's pockets... Pay a school 's lunch bill... Free food for a year.... Pass out Winter coats...
Maybe by doing things that you can watch the outcome of, a spark of feelings might come back to your souls. Just like Monsters Inc you'll feel more of a return from happiness, than from fear, anger, and just plain nastiness. Or send me a billion or so and my subscribers, followers will be glad to do it.
I don't like what is happening to US media under Trump, nor previously under GW Bush.
I guess the communist witch-hunts in the time of Sen Joe McCarthy & Hoover were pretty bad too.
I have long subbed to WaPo & NYT, and will continue for as long as they remain useful to democracy. They are degraded, not destroyed.
US citizens are soft. There have been countless authoritarian govts. I imagine they all corrupted & degraded their news media, it is one of their defining features. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have been a disaster if all their subscribers abandoned them.
I like the Meidas+ network, particularly Ben's work. But indies can never replace the big news orgs, which they are ultimately parasitical upon to varying degrees. Few indies can afford to do significant original research - they comment upon the work done by the big orgs.
Same for staff. They don't all use people trained in 1-2y journalism courses plus years working in quality MSM, but when they don't it tends to show unless they have other suitable training & experience eg law, intel, history, diplomacy etc.
Being an effective podcast activist does not mean someone is ready to replace MSM.
Not MTN, or Adam Mockler. They go out in the streets themselves if they can't spare someone else. Adam Mockler went to Ukraine. They might not have a company plane, but they are out with us Underdogs; but digging under the crust to find the truth.
Bezos paid Melania $40 million for propaganda. Donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. Killed the Harris endorsement. Shifted opinion pages to “free markets” cover. Met with Trump privately. Now gutting 300 jobs: foreign correspondents, investigative teams; while ignoring reporters begging him to intervene.
This isn’t business. It’s compliance.
Amazon needs federal contracts. Blue Origin needs launches. Bezos needs regime protection. The Washington Post is the price.
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” cost nothing when it meant nothing. Now defending democracy threatens his billions, so the paper becomes disposable.
The leverage structure operational. Oligarchs can’t resist. Individual calculation: compliance protects wealth, resistance destroys it.
The Post isn’t dying from financial pressure. It’s being dismantled as demonstration of loyalty. Journalists still appealing to Bezos’s conscience haven’t understood: his conscience is a liability he can’t afford.
Sadly, a lot of smaller businesses have gone to Amazon with their product. Try ordering a book from Goodreads - they send you to Amazon. Too bad we can't cut down/burn this Amazon and leave the real one to its inhabitants.
Agree. I've had a couple items ordered "from the source" but delivered by Amazon. I cotacted a company I really like and told them I do not support Amazon. The customer service agreed to ship from different company. I'll see on my next order from them.
I've never given one penny to him as I saw what was happening to book stores in the beginning of his amazon days. I always poke at ppl and groups that buy from amazon, many pathetic excuses are given. I remind them all we managed before he destroyed so many small businesses. I used my CAA membership to connect w Indigo books for purchases & use the library more than ever! Most merchandise shopping can still be done in person or through company websites but lazy, apathetic sheeple are still feeding the monster😖
I dumped the WaPo last year, after Jennifer Rubin and Ann Telneas left. Since then, faves like Alexandra Petri, Eugene Robinson, and Carol Loenig have left. Used to love Dana Milbank, but his brilliant political columns went to nature columns (wonderful but not the same). BYE!
I 'fired' Amazon when Bezos donated 1mil. to the inauguration. I still have and use my Kindle reader, but I no longer buy anything from them. I think that I have safeguarded the books that I had purchased over the years, but if I lose them - oh well. I'm finding almost all of the other items that I had been buying through Amazon in other smaller companies who have no political associations as far as I can learn through online searching. I've had to give up on a few things and look for alternatives - so far, I'm liking what I find. A few dollars more - maybe. But I no longer pay for 'prime' and I generally can use store curbside pickup and bypass delivery fees.
I agree but for some it remains an almost necessary place to shop. I live 75 miles from the nearest town that has many shops (I'm 15 from the closest Walmart) and on many things Amazon remains the by far least expensive way to buy that has products we need. I think many folks would love to stop using amazon but we have to understand that not all of us have reliable options we can afford.
I can relate. I also live in a rural area. I'm disabled and on a fixed income which makes it difficult to "go" shopping. For us it's either Walmart or Amazon. I try to do a Costco trip once a month, but it's 50 miles rt. I do what I can to boycott supporters of this regime, I support independent media, write to my legislators, and protest when I'm able. I believe we all can help where we can and we will take down this regime!
I have one subscription to Amazon for a certain type of drink that's not always easy to find at the store. But, as a rule, I avoid buying anything else from Amazon if I can get it delivered by some other means.
I found out I can get Brit Box and Acorn directly instead of through Amazon prime video. It’s amazing how much is tied to this freaks business. I love the wish Lists etc but finally…it will be closed in the next couple of weeks after I get my tv stations set up to get British programming. I don’t watch any US channels. And I’ve been buying the items on the wishlist elsewhere. It’s just there to share. It will be a big relief to say goodbye to it all.
Bozo(not a typo) should sell the newspaper to Trump. He gets his money. Mafia Don can print whatever he likes and will bankrupt it quickly anyway. It’s a win-win-win. Problem solved 🤣🇨🇦
I wonder how low subscriptions have to get before it is bankrupt. It seems there are fewer and fewer paid subscribers and even with his billions I don't know how much money bezos wants to lose since he'd be losing it on a paper that no one is reading so he's not able to spread his word. I think folks that like what he has to say aren't the kind to subscribe to many papers.
I have never read that and it's awesome and of course sad! We need to do all we can to annoy anyone of comfortably pretentious position!!! I wonder if that constant annoyance from constituents who want real answers to their questions is one reason so many Republicans are saying they will not run again. It must be hard for some of them to have gone from a person of status whom their constituents respected and trusted (even if that respect and trust was not really deserved) to someone they heckle and boo. Has to be a big hit to their egos.
Naive questions: Whatever happened to anti-trust. Was it revoked or trampled to death. And traditional journalism--as it dies will it be (or has it been) supplanted by highly lawyered independent news services that are immune to control by the Bezoses. Will it all fragment, the U.S. become nation-states. Will the NYTimes, the newspaper of record, survive, and how. And where were the investigative journalists while the Epstein files were accumulating. Just a start.
How curious that the richest are so cowardly, such snowflakes, that they are terrified of any possible reduction of their wealth or power. And those are the only issues that these oligarchs really care about. If the North American colonists of the 18th century were as cowardly as the contemporary oligarchs the USA would never have existed. Sadly, most of the current oligarchs are actively acting to destroy our republic.
The world is like 99% of Americans, we hate Child sex by old men, who are 45 to 50 years older than some of the girls who were raped.
The woman who was raped by these monsters years ago, I hope they filea lawsuit for all of the Pedophile men, and take Billions of dollars from these Monsters, and also File a suit against G.Maxwell who is rich herself and comes from a very Wealthy family go for Billions of Dollars from her who took these young girls to meet these old men to be mostested.
I hope all ROT in hell for the damage these monsters have done to these women.
There was a snippet shown on Jimmy Kimmel for a laugh. OMG! The plastic face and the laughably pretend bad English. She’s supposed to be so “smart” but never learned English well enough! 😂😂 Wasted money..no one gives a shit about her…no one. And Bezos could have helped people in need but chose this instead.
Excellent article! I am at a loss to explain why a once successful businessman helping employ so many would SELL HIS SOUL, literally, to the creature in the White House. I don't get it.
He didn't care that by using books as a loss leader he crushed independent bookstores, putting some out of business who had been owned by the same family for generations. We used to have 25 bookstores in Harvard Square. Now we have five. For this reason I have never bought anything from Amazon.
Same here, Karen. Was he once a good man, a decent human? Is there some inkling of that goodness buried in him that could be persuaded to realize the opportunity he has to do great things in this world?
I keep saying the same thing . 14 billionaires in this administration. When will these people have enough ? Look at DJT specifically. My God he has taken so much from the people . Every one he touches loses …
He's not a great businessman. I bet he used his underlings cruelly. If you don't listen to employees, your business fails...just like the T**** company.
Shifting to the "right" was a very poor business decision for many reasons. Those on the "right" don't generally trust the Post anyhow and get their news from elsewhere (and aren't generally readers). While with now shifting to the "right", have destroyed most of the credibility they ever had, causing droves of subscribers to leave.
In destroying the Washington Post Jeff Bezos succeeded where Nixon failed. The entire sports section was eliminated at a time of game fixing by gambling interests
Those who bend the knee are as guilty as Trump.
For they too shall be punished.
Yes, the enablers
Bezos is an arrogant monster who has not treated lower level workers well, who gives money to a seditionist/rapist/CONVICTED felon in the White House. He doesn’t mind the mafia style attacks of ICE because Bezos, much like trump, has no empathy, sympathy. He lives in an isolated world of sheer greed.
Isolated world--much like the Maga world. They talk only amongst themselves...
I think his billionaire buddies are of the same mindset as he is . ..Either by inheritance, or luck of the draw , that deplorable arrogance that they show to others is repulsive .
They are bored with life as we know it. There's nothing to work for, and they probably will continue to be that way. Unless they begin a new hobby. Like double buy groceries for families. Follow them to the car, say that it theirs. Then walk away.
Or tuck money in people's pockets... Pay a school 's lunch bill... Free food for a year.... Pass out Winter coats...
Maybe by doing things that you can watch the outcome of, a spark of feelings might come back to your souls. Just like Monsters Inc you'll feel more of a return from happiness, than from fear, anger, and just plain nastiness. Or send me a billion or so and my subscribers, followers will be glad to do it.
Exactly!
Very true!
Ditto
I don't know Bezos.
I don't like what is happening to US media under Trump, nor previously under GW Bush.
I guess the communist witch-hunts in the time of Sen Joe McCarthy & Hoover were pretty bad too.
I have long subbed to WaPo & NYT, and will continue for as long as they remain useful to democracy. They are degraded, not destroyed.
US citizens are soft. There have been countless authoritarian govts. I imagine they all corrupted & degraded their news media, it is one of their defining features. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have been a disaster if all their subscribers abandoned them.
I like the Meidas+ network, particularly Ben's work. But indies can never replace the big news orgs, which they are ultimately parasitical upon to varying degrees. Few indies can afford to do significant original research - they comment upon the work done by the big orgs.
Same for staff. They don't all use people trained in 1-2y journalism courses plus years working in quality MSM, but when they don't it tends to show unless they have other suitable training & experience eg law, intel, history, diplomacy etc.
Being an effective podcast activist does not mean someone is ready to replace MSM.
Not MTN, or Adam Mockler. They go out in the streets themselves if they can't spare someone else. Adam Mockler went to Ukraine. They might not have a company plane, but they are out with us Underdogs; but digging under the crust to find the truth.
Ww need to boycott these greedy men!
Like Trumpkopf himself, Bozo "Popeye" Bezos is a psychopath.
Bezos paid Melania $40 million for propaganda. Donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. Killed the Harris endorsement. Shifted opinion pages to “free markets” cover. Met with Trump privately. Now gutting 300 jobs: foreign correspondents, investigative teams; while ignoring reporters begging him to intervene.
This isn’t business. It’s compliance.
Amazon needs federal contracts. Blue Origin needs launches. Bezos needs regime protection. The Washington Post is the price.
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” cost nothing when it meant nothing. Now defending democracy threatens his billions, so the paper becomes disposable.
The leverage structure operational. Oligarchs can’t resist. Individual calculation: compliance protects wealth, resistance destroys it.
The Post isn’t dying from financial pressure. It’s being dismantled as demonstration of loyalty. Journalists still appealing to Bezos’s conscience haven’t understood: his conscience is a liability he can’t afford.
—Johan
Agreed! Everyone should exit Amazon
I am doing almost no business with Amazon at this point
I try to go to the product source rather than Amazon. It can be tough sometimes, but trying makes me feel like I am doing something!
I have never knowingly bought anything from Bezos/Amazon.
Sadly, some family members do still order from the greedy bastard, Mr Bezos. I continue to try to get them to stop.
Boycotting ALL Big Corps is the best way to bring them to their boney knees. Meanwhile they keep the masses off balance and fighting among themselves.
We need to organize. Maybe Ben / Meidas could lead the way with a massive boycott of the billionaire bastards.
Elbow Zupp! 🇨🇦
Sadly, a lot of smaller businesses have gone to Amazon with their product. Try ordering a book from Goodreads - they send you to Amazon. Too bad we can't cut down/burn this Amazon and leave the real one to its inhabitants.
Agree. I've had a couple items ordered "from the source" but delivered by Amazon. I cotacted a company I really like and told them I do not support Amazon. The customer service agreed to ship from different company. I'll see on my next order from them.
I've never given one penny to him as I saw what was happening to book stores in the beginning of his amazon days. I always poke at ppl and groups that buy from amazon, many pathetic excuses are given. I remind them all we managed before he destroyed so many small businesses. I used my CAA membership to connect w Indigo books for purchases & use the library more than ever! Most merchandise shopping can still be done in person or through company websites but lazy, apathetic sheeple are still feeding the monster😖
Look up resist and unsubscribe - Scott Galloway.
Same here
I dumped the WaPo last year, after Jennifer Rubin and Ann Telneas left. Since then, faves like Alexandra Petri, Eugene Robinson, and Carol Loenig have left. Used to love Dana Milbank, but his brilliant political columns went to nature columns (wonderful but not the same). BYE!
I 'fired' Amazon when Bezos donated 1mil. to the inauguration. I still have and use my Kindle reader, but I no longer buy anything from them. I think that I have safeguarded the books that I had purchased over the years, but if I lose them - oh well. I'm finding almost all of the other items that I had been buying through Amazon in other smaller companies who have no political associations as far as I can learn through online searching. I've had to give up on a few things and look for alternatives - so far, I'm liking what I find. A few dollars more - maybe. But I no longer pay for 'prime' and I generally can use store curbside pickup and bypass delivery fees.
I refuse to buy anything from Amazon because of this monster and what he stands for!😬🤢🤢🤢🤮😡
I agree but for some it remains an almost necessary place to shop. I live 75 miles from the nearest town that has many shops (I'm 15 from the closest Walmart) and on many things Amazon remains the by far least expensive way to buy that has products we need. I think many folks would love to stop using amazon but we have to understand that not all of us have reliable options we can afford.
I can relate. I also live in a rural area. I'm disabled and on a fixed income which makes it difficult to "go" shopping. For us it's either Walmart or Amazon. I try to do a Costco trip once a month, but it's 50 miles rt. I do what I can to boycott supporters of this regime, I support independent media, write to my legislators, and protest when I'm able. I believe we all can help where we can and we will take down this regime!
I have one subscription to Amazon for a certain type of drink that's not always easy to find at the store. But, as a rule, I avoid buying anything else from Amazon if I can get it delivered by some other means.
Sounds like you're doing a lot!!! Keep it up!
I found out I can get Brit Box and Acorn directly instead of through Amazon prime video. It’s amazing how much is tied to this freaks business. I love the wish Lists etc but finally…it will be closed in the next couple of weeks after I get my tv stations set up to get British programming. I don’t watch any US channels. And I’ve been buying the items on the wishlist elsewhere. It’s just there to share. It will be a big relief to say goodbye to it all.
Because the people Bezos is hurting the most are the people who have patronized him over the years and made him uber-wealthy. Such gratitude!!
Bozo(not a typo) should sell the newspaper to Trump. He gets his money. Mafia Don can print whatever he likes and will bankrupt it quickly anyway. It’s a win-win-win. Problem solved 🤣🇨🇦
Yeah, that fantastic businessman will do a really good job with that won’t he…
Haha excellent idea
I wonder how low subscriptions have to get before it is bankrupt. It seems there are fewer and fewer paid subscribers and even with his billions I don't know how much money bezos wants to lose since he'd be losing it on a paper that no one is reading so he's not able to spread his word. I think folks that like what he has to say aren't the kind to subscribe to many papers.
Pat, your comment made me remember this:
" One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that
perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.
Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read. "
-John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
I have never read that and it's awesome and of course sad! We need to do all we can to annoy anyone of comfortably pretentious position!!! I wonder if that constant annoyance from constituents who want real answers to their questions is one reason so many Republicans are saying they will not run again. It must be hard for some of them to have gone from a person of status whom their constituents respected and trusted (even if that respect and trust was not really deserved) to someone they heckle and boo. Has to be a big hit to their egos.
Naive questions: Whatever happened to anti-trust. Was it revoked or trampled to death. And traditional journalism--as it dies will it be (or has it been) supplanted by highly lawyered independent news services that are immune to control by the Bezoses. Will it all fragment, the U.S. become nation-states. Will the NYTimes, the newspaper of record, survive, and how. And where were the investigative journalists while the Epstein files were accumulating. Just a start.
...trampled to death
Don't you mean "trUmpled" to death??? (:
Perfect
Thanks for your reply, Sue!
If anyone is still shopping on Amazon, you are contributing to this.
How curious that the richest are so cowardly, such snowflakes, that they are terrified of any possible reduction of their wealth or power. And those are the only issues that these oligarchs really care about. If the North American colonists of the 18th century were as cowardly as the contemporary oligarchs the USA would never have existed. Sadly, most of the current oligarchs are actively acting to destroy our republic.
And yet he too will die like everyone else. He's such a creep. And his current wife looks like something Dr. Frankenstein put together.
LOL, sold one whole ticket at the premier in London.
Wow. Now there’s a statement to the Trumpies.
The world is like 99% of Americans, we hate Child sex by old men, who are 45 to 50 years older than some of the girls who were raped.
The woman who was raped by these monsters years ago, I hope they filea lawsuit for all of the Pedophile men, and take Billions of dollars from these Monsters, and also File a suit against G.Maxwell who is rich herself and comes from a very Wealthy family go for Billions of Dollars from her who took these young girls to meet these old men to be mostested.
I hope all ROT in hell for the damage these monsters have done to these women.
Good article somewhere said profit wasn't the point. It was really just a big giant promotional piece for brand Melania amd a bribe to Trump
Perfect progression. Hilarious!
and that figure only was arrived at through "ticket laundering", i read a substack but unfortunately dont rmmbr who...help?
There was a snippet shown on Jimmy Kimmel for a laugh. OMG! The plastic face and the laughably pretend bad English. She’s supposed to be so “smart” but never learned English well enough! 😂😂 Wasted money..no one gives a shit about her…no one. And Bezos could have helped people in need but chose this instead.
Excellent article! I am at a loss to explain why a once successful businessman helping employ so many would SELL HIS SOUL, literally, to the creature in the White House. I don't get it.
Maybe he never had a soul to begin with? 🤔
He didn't care that by using books as a loss leader he crushed independent bookstores, putting some out of business who had been owned by the same family for generations. We used to have 25 bookstores in Harvard Square. Now we have five. For this reason I have never bought anything from Amazon.
We lost the only one we had near me!😡😤💔💔💔 What happened to anti-trust laws? Guess they got trampled to death, too!
That’s a possibility, maybe he was born soulless? Just like frump!
jeff bezo's sold his soul for more money and power. Another t rump, greedy can't have enough.
Same here, Karen. Was he once a good man, a decent human? Is there some inkling of that goodness buried in him that could be persuaded to realize the opportunity he has to do great things in this world?
Me too! How much is enough?? I talking about money, obviously.
I keep saying the same thing . 14 billionaires in this administration. When will these people have enough ? Look at DJT specifically. My God he has taken so much from the people . Every one he touches loses …
He's not a great businessman. I bet he used his underlings cruelly. If you don't listen to employees, your business fails...just like the T**** company.
You did notice who he chose to marry!
Maybe he’s in the Epstein files too 🤔
Don't doubt it one bit.......just have to wait a little longer for it to be published(?).
It's all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$👑🥶
Bravo!!
Bravo Ben. Karma can't come soon enough for Jeff Bezos.
Time to be reminded of the need to boycott Amazon…
It's been easier than I thought it would be. 😊
The message I sent to the stories reporter:
Apparently Bezos is too ignorant to understand that the Washington Post’s hard shift to the “right” has plummeted sales. Tyranny has a price!
He does not care a wit
Bozo is up to his armpits in money. The money he's losing at the Post isn't even a rounding error.
Shifting to the "right" was a very poor business decision for many reasons. Those on the "right" don't generally trust the Post anyhow and get their news from elsewhere (and aren't generally readers). While with now shifting to the "right", have destroyed most of the credibility they ever had, causing droves of subscribers to leave.
Without media amplification the right could not flourish. Shame on all involved in misinformation and downright lies masquerading as “news”!
Ummm..... Ben.....
I think you spelled his name wrong!
It's Jeff Bozos! Yes... BOZOs! 🤪
I thought I vented that ;-)
Didn't hurt for Ron to repeat it!!!
Sorry... I didn't know.🤔
Excellent letter!
Bezos worth $250B is too broke to keep staff? But he can rent out Venice Italy for a wedding?
Just when I was thinking of going back to subscribing after I quit months ago due to his capitulation to Trump, now that will never happen.
The company is crap now. No competent customer service, no more fast delivery and continuous fraudulent charges for prime
You were right to cancel
Blatant pay off to Orange Asshole
In destroying the Washington Post Jeff Bezos succeeded where Nixon failed. The entire sports section was eliminated at a time of game fixing by gambling interests
Concise and to the point.
Yup. He’s complicit af. Good work!