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Bezos doesn't need your money; he WANTS favor from the Regime. Blue Origin needs contracts, Amazon still wants to bring in Chinese crap.

The non-endorsement emphasized it even more.

An endorsement had been drafted. That was nixed by Bezos. Then after the non-endorsement was announced, Bezos' people at his Blue Origin rocket company met with Trump staff. Wanna guess how likely it is that they discussed government launch contracts? This after it was widely rumored that Amazon's AWS web services division lost a large gov contract because Trump pulled the plug on it over WaPo reporting. This is pure cowardice on the part of Bezos and another display of Trump's authoritarian fascism.

After the election is over and everyone has settled down, Jeff Bezos will still be an asshole.
I won't forget this, will you? Will anybody?

As long as Bezos owns the paper, I won't consider resubscribing. Until he publicly acknowledges this mistake and takes his thumb off the scales and allows editorial freedom, he has no chance of seeing any of my money. I doubt even then, he has shown that his personal wants are more important to him than journalism, he muzzled the editors once, he'll do it again.

He should really just back out of ownership, or at least walk away from any attempt to manage it.

They have all the money and power in the world and they are cowering in fear of the 78 year old monster THEY created.

fucking assholes

Work in the fields or die.

The story I posted last week, mentioned that 20,000 was a lot and this is 10X, so WaPo must be in serious panic mode.

And entered my displeasure at Bezos's decision.

Lots of subscription cancellations in the Comment Section.

None really fit so I selected 'other'. I wanted something much stronger.

Explaining why.

so I'll cancel my prime account with amazon.

Hit him where it hurts, hard.

at least until next year, possibly longer.

I think that those who stopped their subscriptions (rumored to be 200K) should renew next week. Their message was heard loud and clear but we need the Washington Post needs to continue it's great work in protecting our Democracy. There are very few newspapers that have the ability to hold those in power accountable.

That in no way excuses Jeff Bezos for his cowardly actions.

After this mass cancellation of subscriptions - mostly Democrats I would guess - they'll probably lay off many more.

Will Jeff Bezos accept any blame? Of course not. His Christmas bonus and other benefits will be secure, while others suffer for his asshole-ness.

For these billionaire tech bros.
Looks like they have failed.