Et tu Bezos?
Did the bald, little shit just kill the 1st Amendment?
According to the Washington Post Guild, voice of WAPO's 1,000 workers, The role of an editorial board is to do just this: to share opinions on the news impacting our society and culture and endorse candidates to help guide readers.
Just 11 days before an election that could spell the end of America, Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos blocked his editorial board from publishing their endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, costing the Post some 200,000 subscribers.
All told, it's a win-win for the forces of darkness and a lose-lose for the 1st Amendment, speaking truth to power and democracy, itself.
There's a reason that those who fought against a petty tyrant to establish self-determination in the New World put the 1st Amendment first.
To avoid impeachment, Richard Tricky Dick Nixon resigned the presidency in 1974 after his Watergate shenanigans were exposed by legendary investigative (WAPO) reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Realizing the importance of their role protecting democracy, the Washington Post's first presidential endorsement was for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and that tradition continued for decades.
In 1994, Jeff Bezos started selling books out of his garage on the nascent world wide web. Now, that garage is dwarfed by the one on Bezos's 417-foot yacht, Koru, so don't expect to see Jeff returning to his roots any time soon.
He is, however, returning WAPO to its roots, ending presidential endorsements after owning that newspaper since 2013.
Within hours of his shredding of the Post's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, leaders of Bezos's Blue Origin company met with Donnie Trump, but I can't endorse any theories about the timing of those events.
As the Fourth Estate, journalism’s role in our democracy is keeping check on what is now our failed system of checks and balances. The framers of the Constitution could not have envisioned a duplicitous little penis sucker like Mike Johnson or blatant hypocrite like Mitch McConnell, who mandated a complete abdication of the Senate's constitutional responsibilities in the Trump impeachments.
With nothing but foxes in the hen house, who is left to guard the livestock? The press, that's who.
Whether Bezos was incentivized for not endorsing Harris or was in fear of retribution from what may soon be the Grim Reaper in Chief is a difference without a distinction. He folded and joined the ranks of our corrupt SCOTUS, granting invincibility to a petty tyrant.
With combined annual revenues of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, Amazon and Whole Foods provide Jeff Bezos with all the cash flow he needs. The Washington Post, like Blue Origin is more of a hobby for him.
200,000 unsubscribers is more of a problem for WAPO employees and for the newspaper itself. Any way you slice it, it was a bad day for freedom.
Investigative reporting, like that of Woodward & Bernstein is the heart and soul of journalism and the light shone on our leaders to monitor their corruption. (Notice I didn't say, keep them honest). That light, presumably, is why Bezos changed WAPO's motto in 2017 to Democracy Dies in Darkness.
Almost makes you wonder why he decided, at this critical moment in history, to flip the light switch.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.