That's enough to make him the 2nd richest man in the world.

I have a friend (who's a journalist and who's cancelled her WaPo subscription) who also describes herself as having an Amazon addiction.

I think Amazon is more habit-forming than addictive (unless of course you have a shopping addiction) but I have more left leaning friends right now who are self-righteously cancelling their Washington Posts subscriptions but would likely never entertain the idea of cancelling their Prime subscriptions than I
would care to count. They'd find some justification.

Sometimes I need something hyper-fast that's not available locally, such as a specific Halloween costume by Thursday. Amazon Prime is my only option.

(I assume I was not supposed to treat that as a serious complaint). "Wink, wink!"

I can find almost anything I want to buy elsewhere and I don't care one bit about prime. I have eBay, free shipping joy and will do all i can to avoid anything Bezos.

Granted, I live in Seattle, which was an early victim of the peculiar desolation Amazon brings to a city, but I simply don't get the appeal of shopping online (unless it's necessary) versus the joy of physically going into a space and handling things like plates or hats or books or linens before deciding whether I want them.

I would rather shop in person, but like many people who do not have transportation and take the bus everywhere or have mobility issues or both, online shopping works. This situation is about just getting what is needed without supporting awful people

I still do it. I walk to the grocery store and take the bus home (even though I get PTSD at the bus stop, where I was attacked once). I don't have mobility issues, but I am getting older, and I am technically a senior now!

Seattle has made it nearly impossible to shop using transit and downtown is essentially gone, but my larger point is, how did this happen? I used to have a good bus that took me within a block of three different grocery stores. Now one of the stores is gone (ironically replaced by a light rail stop), one is Whole Foods which I now boycott because it's Amazon, and the third one I can no longer get to from downtown on one bus. A 29-minute trip on one bus turned into a 55-minute trip on two buses and Metro defends it and actually argued with me online about the time difference.

I don't understand why consumers knowingly made shopping in person more difficult. It was easy. Now it's hard. Why?

People who shop online do so because they find it convenient, and it works for them. It's really that simple.

I doubt it even occurs to the vast majority of folks that ordering something online might adversely affect the ability to shop in person in some localities. That possibility honestly never entered my own mind until I read your posts in this thread. I'm sorry to hear about what's happened in your area. I imagine the impacts are different in different places, but unless someone lives in such an affected place, they wouldn't know.

Personally, I haven't noticed the kind of differences you describe where I live, with the exception of bookstores. Amazon has had an undeniable impact there. There is no shortage of places to shop for other things, however, and grocery stores abound around here.

As for Amazon, I don't like Jeff Bezos any better than the next person, believe me. But the fact is, Amazon is very successful, because it does what it does extremely well, and as long as that continues to be the case, it will continue to make money for its owner. If I were to personally decide not to use Amazon anymore, I'm sure it wouldn't affect Bezos' bottom line one iota; but it would have definite negative impacts on me that I will not go into.

I guess I'd say I'm a bit jaded about my personal ability to affect the bottom line of any billionaire. Also, if I tried to boycott every single large corporation that has business practices I don't agree with or supports causes I don’t support, I honestly don't know what would be left. I admire people who are willing to make that effort, and I used to be one of them, but the older I get, the harder I find it to make personal sacrifices for noble reasons. (That's just where I am right now; I'm not advocating that others adopt the same approach.)

In the end, we're all just trying to survive in a tough world, and we all have to do what we're able to do and what works for us personally. Those factors are going to be different for each individual. I would never judge anyone else's choices in that respect, and I don't need anyone else's approval for my own, including the fact that using Amazon for certain things works well for me.

Things I like have been systematically taken away from me. Because other people like shopping online, my own options have been narrowed.

I also liked living in a city with a bustling downtown. Now I don't. And I hate that it's this way.

Online shopping also takes money out of the local economy. Small business owners feel it. It's pretty much impossible to sustain a small business now.

USA Today.com: Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump -- among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is...(T)hey say by 63%-33% that they support Democratic congressional candidates.

It may interest you to know that not a few DUers consider that word offensive to women.

I have been given to understand that Americans tend to find the word more offensive than people in some other English-speaking countries. However, DU is a US based website, so imo, it makes sense for American sensibilities to prevail here.

In other words, the C-word is out of place here at DU.

And wasn't on the jury either. I'd have voted for exile.

It just says "post removed." That means no other action was taken at this time.

People aren't usually banned for one infraction, unless it's something extremely egregious, which this wasn't.

There is a very small number of repeat offenders who sign up over and over under a new name, after being banned under the last one. MIRT has gotten very good at keeping track of those people and eliminating them when they make a reappearance. If you see someone getting banned after only one or 2 posts, it's usually one of those people, or someone who was an obvious troll for other reasons.

But that doesn't exclude him forbidding endorsing Harris.

... which we already knew from his failure to endorse anybody.

-- Mal

for the gipper.............

"He was not sent, did not read and did not opine on any draft.”

You don' t need to see a draft to put the kibosh on an endorsement you know is in the works.

There's a lot less intelligence to insult since the Reagan era, you know. The PTB have juggled our thoughts with input designed to titillate our attention for so many decades now that we salivate on command, even our outrage is pre-programmed with its own canned laugh-track. Reality schmeality*, PBS or Fox, take your pick. They're all in the same memo loop.

* Another term I just now coined for your entertainment and the enrichment of my brand. Not sure what it means but, these days, the pretention alone will make it memorable if not salable.

Just so there's little or no confusion, some of the preceding may have been unsuitable for some readers. please find this smilie

The editor did Bezos' bidding and took the heat for it.

it is likely that after a few months everybody in the media looking to sell their soul for a job will be talking up Will Lewis as being a highly respected figure in journalism.

I cancelled my WP subscription of 42 years when Will Lewis was hired. I miss what it used to be.

Although I am not sure where one ends and the other takes over....

And yeah, I canceled my subscription as soon as I read Lewis' first announcement

“Will I’m going broke, get out there a carefully worded kiss my ass”

phone hacking scandal.

F-ing coward. Well, like usual, its up to the little people to do the dirty work and stand up for themselves.

In honor of Bezos, I'll cut and paste this gem.

Brave Sir Robin ran away.

Bravely ran away away.

When danger reared it's ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.

Swiftly taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat.
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

He worked for Mordoch while the Brit phone-tap scandal was in full bloom.

Pure and simple. Maybe from a catamaran or a sub-orbital airplane while getting a HJ.

I really don't care about ANY OF THIS.

The short version is THE WASHINGTON POST made the decision. Now, NO...I don't believe you should tell Eugene Robinson or any of their fine reporters to get bent.

But it was an EXECUTIVE DECISION.

Remember CHRIS LICHT at CNN, who went down in flames after Trump's "Town Hall?"

Licht was a SACRIFICIAL LAMB. Warner CEO David Zaslav and his radical right billionaire boy pal John Malone were the architects for turning CNN into Fox Lite. Licht just followed orders and took the fall.

I could GIVE A FUCK about Bezos' "image." It's his paper. He needs to carry AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE WEIGHT for this.

The Washington Post is now in serious financial trouble.and has lost significant credibility.

I'd trust the Weekly World News before them. What happened to Bat-Boi anyway?

BULLSHIT!!!!

imo.

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The Washington Post’s outgoing editor-at-large and longtime columnist has made explosive claims that its owner Jeff Bezos struck a deal with Donald Trump in order to kill the newspaper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-washington-post-editor-robert-kagan-this-is-a-straight-jeff-bezos-donald-trump-quid-pro-quo/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143328986

by resigning.

I cancelled my subscription until Bezos makes a new decision or the publisher leaves, and they make a Harris endorsement.

One hypothesis I toy with to explain such a blatant cowardly move is as follows:
Perhaps Bezos ran a sim/prediction model to determine the best strategic response to the variety of outcomes that could emerge from this election, and this capitulation was the least worst choice, given a Kamala win or a Trump win. In the lead up, the non endorsement provides the editorial side the outraged impetus to continue making quality reports in the face of an embarrassing abandonment of past endorsements. If (when!) Kamala wins, the WP could eventually recover the lost trust with heir leadership through new subscribers and returning former subscribers. If Trump wins, Bezos' government interests/entanglements can survive the coming years of fascism.

take questions like why the same day his executives were meeting with Trump? I hate cowards who do not take responsibility and I hate rich cowards even more.

I will find a replacement for Kindle. There's got to be a way I can just read on my iPhone.

Lewis said. “He was not sent, did not read and did not opine on any draft.”

Did not write 'he did not call'

This was Bezos' call.

Blue Horizon was pure coincidence? 😒🙄

They need to remember there are some us left, who still have a functioning brain, and working bullshit detectors.

... then this could be true. You can't receive, read, or opine about a draft that never got written.

But you most certainly CAN opine about - and squash - the endorsement itself before there's a draft.

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I do most of the shopping for our house.
Because I'm good at it, have excellent recall, and save us a ton.
We are on SS.
Amazon is convenient. (next day delivery free {for a price})
But I will look elsewhere and only shop amazon if I can't find it elsewhere.

Join me!

That's how Bezos could afford all those brand new snazzy Prime delivery vans. We paid for those with our Prime membership that keeps going up every year.

The publisher complains of inaccurate reporting. Say what?

to the publiser.

Just cancelled my subscription to Amazon. This is no token gesture. We use Amazon for many small but repetitive purchases. It expedites the materials I need for my part time business. We used to watch Prime a lot. But when I look back to last series we were following they have ended or were cancelled so no loss there. Here's the kicker my husband works for one of the Amazon Fulfillment centers. We were supposed to get the services for free but we never did. So here goes its been good to know ya, Amazon. My letter to the editor of the Washington Post "A Republic if you can Keep It" follows tomorrow.

lewis: "Editorial department is going to endorse Harris."
bezos: "Like hell they are."

lewis's cockroach of a statement does not preclude this scene. It only says beezy never read the endorsement.

"Well, LOOK who got out of another jam!"

SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP

Shameless

A principled person has fortitude. Just reading this drivel of an explanation leads me to believe Lewis has no principle or fortitude.

he was involved in that decision.


Washington Post---- they used to be a journalistic standard, back around 1974....


Now it seems they are New-York-timesish--- except I guess the New York Times actually made an endorsement this year--- after doing everything they could editorially to destroy the party which they eventually endorsed....


At this point, my favorite newspapers are the one in Philadelphia, and the Guardian-- which isn't even an American paper.
Actually I subscribed to the Guardian once, when it was further left and I was young and full of left-wing piss

I'd fire him, personally.

The Washington Post dies in democracy.

VOTE!