Since his arrival at the struggling newspaper, Washington Post publisher and CEO Will Lewis has fought to reverse the plunge in revenue and readership to save this great American newspaper. His greatest challenge has been the staff itself, which seems willing to embrace bankruptcy rather than give up its bias. This week, Lewis sent another warning to his intransigent staff: get on board or get out.
I have written about Lewis’s fight to save the Post from itself over the years. Many writers and editors seemed to believe that owner Jeff Bezos would run the newspaper as a type of vanity project, bankrolling the operation as readers leave en masse.
They were wrong. Bezos seems to believe that the Post should write for people other than themselves and even make a profit.
Lewis, a former British media executive, reportedly got into a “heated exchange” with a staffer. Lewis explained that, while reporters were protesting measures to expand readership, the very survival of the paper was now at stake:
“We are going to turn this thing around, but let’s not sugarcoat it. It needs turning around. We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
The response was fury from the staff, which called for Lewis and other new editors to be scrapped.
Some staffers could not get past the gender and race of those who would oversee them. One staffer complained, “We now have four White men running three newsrooms.” The Post has been buying out staff to avoid mass layoffs, but reporters are up in arms over the effort to turn the newspaper around.
Bezos wants the Post to be a viable newspaper again and some of us who once wrote for the Post applauded his efforts. However, writers who have contributed to the free fall of the Post were apoplectic.
Amanda Katz, who resigned from the Post’s opinion team at the end of 2024, offered a vivid example of the culture that Bezos is trying to change at the Post. Katz said the change was “an absolute abandonment of the principles of accountability of the powerful, justice, democracy, human rights, and accurate information that previously animated the section in favor of a white male billionaire’s self-interested agenda.”
The most telling condemnation came from Post columnist Philip Bump, who wrote “what the actual f**k.” Not surprisingly, Bump wrote the condemnation on Bluesky, a site that promises a type of safe space for liberals who do not want to be triggered by opposing views.
Bump previously had a meltdown in an interview when confronted about past false claims. After I wrote a column about the litany of such false claims, the Post surprised many of us by issuing a statement that it stood by all of Bump’s reporting, including false columns on the Lafayette Park protests, Hunter Biden’s laptop, and other stories. That was long after other media debunked the claims, but the Post stood by the false reporting.
We have previously discussed the sharp change in culture at the Post, which became an outlet that pushed anti-free speech views and embraced advocacy journalism. The result was that many moderates and conservatives stopped reading the newspaper.
Lewis is still laboring to return the Post to objective journalism. He is even using the language of the left in encouraging them to “reinvent” or “reimagine” the Post. He discussed the Post’s “reinvention journey” it has taken in recent months, including its “reimagining” of its opinion pages that “champion American values” among other company initiatives.
“The moment demands that we continue to rethink all aspects of our organization and business to maximize our impact. If we want to reconnect with our audience and continue to defend democracy, more changes at The Post will be necessary. And to succeed, we need to be united as a team with a strong belief and passion in where we are heading.
I understand and respect, however, that our chosen path is not for everyone,. That’s exactly why we introduced the voluntary separation program. As we continue in this new direction, I want to ask those who do not feel aligned with the company’s plan to reflect on that. The VSP is designed to support you in making this decision, give you the ability to weigh your options thoughtfully and with less concern about financial consequences. And if you think that it’s time to move on to a new chapter, the VSP helps you take that next step with more security.”
In other words, please leave now.
In some ways, Bezos and Lewis have faced the same challenge as executives at other companies, from Facebook to X, in changing a culture. You cannot do it with a staff created for an entirely different purpose. The Post has spent years advancing advocacy journalism over objectivity, promulgating false claims, and feeding the echo chamber on the left.
One of the reasons that X was able to make such a rapid turnaround is that Musk got rid of much of the staff. Facebook has also been pushing for massive staff reductions and changes. The problem at the Post is not the ship, it is the crew.
Many of us are rooting for Lewis in seeking to right this ship. We need the Washington Post back as a leading newspaper committed to traditional journalism.
Jonathan: Karl Marx famously said “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce”. We are witnessing a bit of both in the DJT regime. DJT wants to rule like a King–defying court orders, trying to abolish the Constitution, engaging in the wholesale elimination of government agencies and attacking the press and his political opponents–what he calls the “enemy within”. And all the while using his position to extort and take in billions for his own personal financial benefit. And, like the Kings and dictators of old, he distracts the masses by rounding up peaceful immigrants and putting them in concentration camps–falsely claiming they are all “rapists and murderers”. Julius Caesar would be proud!
No empire dies all at once. That was true of the Roman empire. Today we see the gradual demise of the American empire, reflected in how DJT is trying to rule. Despite all his bravado DJT is unable to control everything. He promised to end the Russia/Ukraine war in “24 hours”. Putin has ignored DJT demands and continues it’s relentless attacks on Ukraine.
DJT’s tariff wars are another example. He insanely believes countries will bow to his demands. “Ninety deals in ninety days” is proving to be another delusion. Our major trading partners are ignoring and laughing at DJT’s threats. They are moving away from the US and making their own alliances.–both military and economic. The DJT regime is becoming more and more isolated. Here is an example that proves the point.
Take Brazil. On Wednesday DJT sent a letter to Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil, threatening a 50% tariff –falsely claiming the US is running a trade deficit with that country. In fact, the US has had a trade SURPLUS of more than $410 billion with Brazil over the past 15 years. In defiance Lula da Silva told his aides to send back DJT’s letter when it is received–essentially telling DJT to pound sand!
But there was something else in DJT’s letter that shows his real intent. He is trying to use tariffs as a political weapon. DJT demanded that Lula da Silva stop the prosecution of Jair Bolsanaro. For those who don’t recall Bolsanaro was the President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022. He was accused of massive corruption and lost to Lula da Silva. After his loss he flew to Mar-a-Lago to consult with DJT who told him to stage a coup. Sound familiar? Bolsanaro returned to Brazil, organized his supporters and attacked the capitol in Brazilia. The violent coup failed and Bolsanaro is now on trial for his crimes. DJT is claiming the trial of Bolsanro is a “witch hunt” and his political ally should be released. Lula da Silva has said Brazil is a sovereign country, will not be intimidated by DJT’s threats to use tariffs to influence domestic legal proceedings and has threatened reciprocal tariffs on the US.
Now in decades gone by US Presidents either invaded or staged military coups to overthrow governments in Central and South America that refused to bow to the will of the US empire. We saw that in Chile in 1973 when Nixon and Kissinger backed the military coup by Gen. Pinochet that violently overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
My have times changed. DJT’s letter to Lula da Silva is an empty threat. He has no power to enforce his demands. Another example of the waning influence of the US empire!
Dennis – a word of advice: drop the “King” business. It just makes you look like a clueless propagandist.
“It just makes you look like a clueless propagandist.”
“…looks like…” ROFLMAO. That is a prime example of appearance accurately mirroring reality.
Take your meds
Karl Marx was a deeply psychotic, sickly invalid, and sodden drunk whose death was mourned by a whopping thirteen ignominious losers who advocated for all of life’s failed parasites to covet, bear false witness, and steal other people’s money.
Great plan, Karl.
@Dennis: That’s quite a collage; history, fiction, and drama all packed into one. Let us know when you can cite the source where Trump told Bolsonaro to stage a coup. Otherwise, it’s just another good story.
Whether by design or default, the Washington Post served Bezos’ interests. During the pandemic, it pushed for lockdowns that crushed small businesses, leaving Amazon nearly alone to meet demand. Bezos made so much money off that windfall, he could’ve burned the Post to the ground and still come out ahead. Owning it was never a loss; it was leverage.
Or the wash post pushed xiden’s policies because they are loony left advocates and not seekers of truth
Correlation, for certain. Design? I’m skeptical. Frankly, I think that the way many brick-and-mortar merchants operated, Amazon would have substantially accomplished this anyway, albeit possibly not quite as quickly or completely. A case could be made that government interference in personal transportation has also increased the cost and convenience of driving to storefronts vs. shopping on-line, and I doubt that any suggestion that those policies were deliberately advocated by Bezos or any other on-line vendor with that outcome in mind could be taken seriously. Amazon has also overtaken nearly all of its on-line competitors, it did that entirely on its own. I have some issues with the way Amazon does business. In fact, several months ago, a bad experience with them caused me to try to take all of my business to eBay and others, but I had even worse issues with those vendors. For me, the advantages of dealing with Amazon significantly outweighs the disadvantages.
I believe many businesses would have survived and evolved, but Amazon would have grown nonetheless. It would have also given other similar businesses time to create new models. It’s much harder to start a small retail business now.
“It’s much harder to start a small retail business now.”
Agreed. I mistakenly thought you were primarily referring to the large, nationwide retailer chains that originally anchored most malls: e.g., Macys. Those chains already had the seeds of their ultimate demise sown and well sprouted before the COVID debacle.
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THE SUPERBAD BOASBERGS
THE CONTINUING BOASBERG “DEEP DEEP STATE” SAGA
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
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“JUDGE SLAPS WRIST OF FORMER FBI ATTORNEY KEVIN CLINSEMITH WITH PROBATION FOR ALTERING CIA EMAIL TO SPY ON CARTER PAGE
Published 11:16 AM PDT, January 29, 2021”
–News Direct–
Federal Judge James E. Boasberg, who also presides over the secret Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC), sentenced former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith to probation instead of prison as he had requested at his sentencing hearing this morning.
– AP
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“James Boasberg’s daughter works for nonprofit whose founder said judge ‘rightly’ blocked deportations of alleged Venezuelan gangbangers — and opposes Laken Riley Act”
By Victor Nava
“The daughter of DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is employed by a nonprofit that received millions in government funding, opposes the Laken Riley Act — and whose founder argued that the jurist “rightly” blocked President Trump from swiftly deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.”
– NY Post, Published March 29, 2025, 12:59 a.m. ET
“We now have four White men running three newsrooms.” So, the racist, sexist can count.
Democrats want Mexicans, Haitians, et al. to immigrate without interference from ICE
because democrats want
democrat VOTERS.
It’s just body count on the census for increased representatives. No one cares if it’s legal or illegal. You missed the case on citizenship question? Maybe count illegals as 3/4 ?
Census corruption first, then vote corruption.
“You missed the case on citizenship question?” There is no question on birthright citizenship. In 1866, the author of the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause wrote,
“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners or aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States but will include every other class of persons.”
BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
“THIS WILL NOT INCLUDE FOREIGNERS AND ALIENS”
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1866 – SENATOR JACOB M. HOWARD (MI) – AUTHOR OF THE CITIZENSHIP CLAUSE
Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that all “persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.[1]
– P.A. Madison, Former Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies, 2005
https://www.14thamendment.us/articles/anchor_babies_unconstitutionality.html
Remember people, Dennis McInliar is not a person but a bot. The McInliar bot is programmed to print “Jonathan” followed by the day’s DNC lies. It never reads or responds to your responses.
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Great observation, omfk
Another Joe Biden illegal immigrant commits murder in America:
https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-news/15-year-old-illegal-migrant-arrested-for-long-island-murder-cops/
Res Ipsa Loquitur…the thing itself speaks. Or, as famous law professor Page Keeton once said: “Well, if it speaks for itself, why doesn’t it do so in English?”
This raises he Question of: How should Jonathan publish the translations of his genuine literary works?:
The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage
Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution
Hence the answer is found in the following calculations:
3 percent, 60 percent: the singularity of English in the world of translations making sense of some crude numbers
By: Andras Kisery ~ Dec 05, 2024
https://translationpatterns.substack.com/p/3-percent-60-percent-the-singularity
Which second language gets you access to the most books?
https://www.librarything.com/topic/167686
This seems OT but it is NOT.
Milei has turned argentia arround. He has confounded keynesians and neo keynesians arround the world.
He has prove AGAIN that Classical Liberal economics works.
A century ago argentia was one of the most prosperous countries in the world.
Since WWII it has been an economic basket case.
But employment is up, poverty is down. inflation is down, growth is up. and Argentina is actually running a surplus.
REAL economics – classical liberal economics,
The Economics of Coase and Friedman, and Hayek and Mises, and Smith has worked its magic in argentina.
He has shown up the commies. His very existence is a threat to the globalists. They will not be happy. He needs to make sure his security detail is beefed up and highly skilled.
They raised taxes while cutting spending. Not exactly what most libertarians believe. The initial bursts of success are taken as proof that it works, but its never been shown to be successful long term. That’s the problem.
Can you provide cites ?
This is NOT an initial burst of success – Milei took office two years ago. On implimenting his policies INITIALY – poverty and unemployment went up. Growth went down. Argentina had a SHORT recession,
But that appears to be over – the decline in inflation appears permanant – or atleast until the next left wing nut starts printing money.
The growth is permanent – or atleast until some left wing nut brings back the growth killing policies that Milei dropped.
The FACT is that what Milei is doing IS sustainable, and HAS worked in the past everywhere it has been tried.
It Worked for Thatcher in England restoring England back to its stature as a superpower and near the top of the first world when the UK was falling into complete irrelevance and dropping out of the first world.
It worked for those countries of the Eastern Block that adopted these polices After the collapse of the berlin wall.
Before that it worked in Germany after WWII.
There is an excellent book and PBS special called
“:The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy”
Though one has to be careful about terms.
The book and series various frame the battle as between Austrian and Keynesian Economics,
and between pro and anti-globalists. The problem being that the free trade globalism of the last half of the 20th century that produced the global boom that elevated third world countries like India and China as never before, has been coopted by the Davos one world govenrment globalists. Who have actually failed at everything they touched.
Regardless if you read and watch paying attention to ideas rather than 21st century labels such as globalism
What you will see is dozens of examples of Exactly what Milei is currently doing in Argentina succeeding in country after country across the globe.
Free market economics has “never been shown to be successful long term.”
That statement is either wishful thinking or total ignorance of the history of economics.
FM economics has a *200* year track record of smashing success, starting in mid-18th century England.
Argentina “raised taxes . . .”
Where did you get that garbage?
Argentina has in fact *cut* taxes on exports and income, and dramatically reduced its tariff rates (which also are a tax).
Ah, yes, the anonymous genius returns, always ready to declare that if something succeeds, it’s short-term fluff, and if it fails, it’s proof it never worked. That way, you never have to risk being wrong. You circle back with the same canned line, wearing the safety blanket of anonymity to protect your record of being useless but loud.
I already watched this video earlier this morning. Personally, I thought it was a great video even though I took issued with the video interchanging the terms anarcho-capitalism (an-cap) and minarchism. Here’s what I wrote in response to luquijeffrey9107’s post.
“The only problem I have with the video is their mischaracterization of what an anarcho-capitalist (an-cap) and minarchist are. Those two terms aren’t interchangeable. After all, an-caps believe that governments are evil and should be abolished. Minarchists, on the other hand, think that some level of government is a necessary evil and should be maintained.”
I would agree, and I would go further – all the fight over labels is a typical left wing nut distraction.
We can debate in theory the difference between AnCap and Minarchy – What Milei has done is NEITHER.
Argentina’s government has been RADICALLY reduced, but not nearly to the point of minarchism much less Anarcho capitalism.
A better comparison would be to What Thatcher did in England – large scale cuts to a super bloated and failing socialist system resulting in short term paid and long term benefits for everyone.
Reagan did something more tepid in the US slightly after Thatcher, The results were dramatic – but not nearly as big a change in direction as Thatcher or Milei.
Trump did something similar in his first term and is going further in his second, but is still falling short of what Milei and Thatcher did.
We can expect the changes by Trump to be successful – just as those of his first term were, and as reagans were 40 years ago. But NOT as successful as Milei or Thatcher.
Labels like Ancap and Minarchist or Globalist and antiglobalist do not matter.
What does matter is that moves to LESS government pretty much ALWAYS result short term pain and long term gains proportionate to the extent govenrment is cut.
Small cuts – small imporovements – Reagan and Trump
Large cuts – large improvements – Thatcher and as we are seeing Milei.
The part that is “not sustainable” is that left wing nuts ALWAYS return and ALWAYS attempt to restore the economically and socially destructive policies they had before
“What does matter is that moves to LESS government pretty much ALWAYS result short term pain and long term gains proportionate to the extent govenrment is cut. ”
Correct. As much as I favor reduction of government to an absolute minimum on philosophical principle, there is clearly a point of diminishing economic returns in practice.
Trump’s Tariffs Deliver: U.S. Posts $27 Billion Budget Surplus
Sarah Arnold | July 11, 2025 8:45 PM
EAT IT ANON!!!!
“Trump’s Tariffs Deliver”
I think what you mean is “expropriate.” Wealth. From *Americans*.
Why do tariff hawks always evade the question: Paid for by whom?
All taxes are paid for by consumption ALWAYS
Direct taxes on consumption are more efficient and less economically destructive than taxes on wealth and income.
But ultimately all taxes are paid for by consumption.
The ultimate goal is to reduce the tax burden on people – as Government is the least efficient means to provide anything that can also be provided by the free market.
You take simplistic to new heights. The current budget surplus is from actual countries other than the US! Pain of tariffs come later and it’s never lasted long enough or high enough to see if the Libertarians are correct in their doom and glooming. Working from a trade deficit positions may show tariffs to be useful – likely short run and on goods that decrease China’s hold.
“The current budget surplus is from actual countries other than the US!”
You don’t understand the first thing about who pays for tariffs.
Here he goes again.
“Why do tariff hawks always evade the question: Paid for by whom?”
Sam, why do you always avoid the answer and then repeat the same statement later? John uses different words than my many prior responses that got no reply. “Why do you keep dodging the answer, only to repackage the same question later? John phrases it differently, but the principle remains: “All taxes are paid for by consumption ALWAYS.”
So let’s not pretend the “whom” is some mystery. If you think someone else bears the cost, say so, and explain how.
Tell us why the “whom” is different.
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“Federal judge issues temporary restraining order curtailing Trump’s immigration enforcement in California”
“Biden-appointed judge requires ICE to document reasoning for stops and prohibits using race or language as sole factors”
– Fox News
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Article 2, Section 1
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
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No federal judge retains any constitutional basis or power to claim, exercise, or nullify the executive power exercised by the president.
No executive power is vested in the legislative branch or the judicial branch.
No legislation or judicial decision that usurps and exercises executive power is constitutional.
Judges swear an oath to support the Constitution, which provides executive power exclusively to a president.
Congress has the authority to impeach and convict the president for “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass promised that illegal aliens would receive cash payments as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have continued conducting raids and enforcing the nation’s immigration laws.”
– Breitbart
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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has committed federal crimes, including complicity, aiding and abetting, obstructing justice, interfering with a federal investigation et al.
In other news, Judge Yabazaba canceled DJT McDonald’s order.
Previously, Judge Yabazaba issued an injunction against DJT declaring shape of Pentagon unconstitutional.
To be clear: this is Judge Mgembe Hussein Yabazaba of Northern District, not Judge Ubuntu Linux Yabazaba of Southern District. Both are senior judges.
These judges who seem to think they can usurp Executive power seem to be emulating their judicial colleagues in banana republics, countries from where many of these illegal aliens have migrated.
The Trump Treasury Dept just announced that federal spending for the first six months of the administration is $142 billion more than the first six months of 2024.
https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/files/reports-statements/mts/mts0625.pdf
But I was told spending was being cut ?????
Yeah, you’ve been told a lot of things lately….
This is clearly Biden’s fault.
He should have spent more money in 2024.
What??!?!?!
Are you telling me that Donald Trump lies?!?!?!
America will be Trump’s 7th bankruptcy
No problem.
We are collecting BILLIONS of dollars every day from tariffs that China is paying
RAN A SURPLUS LAST MONTH! FIRST IN YEARS!! BOZO ANON!!
And your 19TH
Quit replying to yourself BOZO!
let him. It reminds us how broken he is as a human being
Trump’s Tariffs Deliver: U.S. Posts $27 Billion Budget Surplus
Sarah Arnold
Sarah Arnold | July 11, 2025 8:45 PM
EAT IT ANON!!!
Hmmmmm!!!!
Let’s think about this.
A surplus results from tariffs, which are taxes paid by American consumers.
So Trump is INCREASING taxes on everyday Americans, while cutting taxes for billionaires.
And you are delighted by this state of affairs.
Unless you are w billionaire, then you are paying HIGHER taxes.
The everyday Americans who live a reality based existence, rather than belonging to a cult, prefer to pay less taxes, while increasing taxes on billionaires.
All axes are ultimately paid on consumption.
Tarrifs are among the most efficient of taxes.
Taxes on Billionaires are taxes on economic growth – do you really want less of that ?
Yes, more. We prefer the old ways with basket weaving.
You are an idiot, and a liar. Tariffs do not force anyone to buy anything at an increased price. Consumers have the power to buy what they want. Don’t like the price? Buy an alternative.
Dumbass.
“Buy an alternative.”
To steel and aluminum (and all the products manufactured with them), coffee, bananas, and a host of other products?
If a consumer does not buy an imported product on which a tariff has been levied on the exporting country, the consumer does not pay the tariff and is not “taxed”. If an exporting country can’t sell their product because of the tariff on imports, they likely will choose to reduce the price of the product or exit the market for that product. The key issue is to insure that products essential to the American way of life, like pharmaceuticals, are not caught up in the tariff issue. There was once a time that most, if not all, pharmaceuticals essential for Americans were physically manufactured in New Jersey, once the national location of most drug manufacturers until it was more profitable to relocate overseas because of federal and state capital gains taxes, local taxes, and employee costs. With AI and automation there is no reason that most, if not all, of our essential medications can be physically manufactured profitably in the US once again without reliance on foreign supply chains.
“The key issue is to insure that products essential to the American way of life, like pharmaceuticals, are not caught up in the tariff issue.”
Since the economy is an integrated whole, that is impossible.
Aluminum, for example, which is suffering from confiscatory, tariff-laden prices, is crucial to the production of pharmaceutical drugs and devices.
“The key issue is to insure that products essential to the American way of life, like pharmaceuticals, are not caught up in the tariff issue.”
It is an issue that requires a separate debate, but I would contend that there are currently a great many over-marketed, over-prescribed pharmaceutical drugs that are far from “essential”…
The 1st 6 months (up to July 3) was Biden’s budget, not Trump’s
That is all essentially inflation – the US has a 6.75T budget.
Amazing John Say. Where’s it all going?
Yeah, but you’re still seeing fiscal commitments from the Biden administration, so that doesn’t mean a lot. They were able to deliberately shovel a lot out the door, despite efforts to rein it in.
OT, some other headlines from the Bee:
– Iranian crowd chants ‘Death to America’ in hopes of getting into Harvard
– Pam Bondi confirms Ark of the Covenant sitting on her desk waiting to be reviewed
– Gavin Newsom declares California a sanctuary state for child slavery
– James Gunn releases film about the importance of accepting morally upstanding, white immigrants who speak perfect English
– Serial killer out of job as local Planned Parenthood closes
– Furious Newsom says he won’t stand silently by while Trump fixes California
– Progress: AI now only racist against Italians
– Former White House doctor denies ever knowing a ‘Joe Biden’
– Disaster: liberal goes back in time to kill Hitler but now has nobody to compare people he disagrees with to
– After TSA policy change, production finally resumes at Crazy Mohammed’s Shoe Bomb Factory
– Pam Bondi clarifies she was going to release the Epstein files but then some pedophiles asked her not to
– Paul leaves elf on the shelf to monitor Corinthian church
– Wife heads to Targe to get some things for next year’s rummage sale
– Nation’s wealthy, privileged gather to lecture nation on evils of wealth, privilege
– Powerful: LeBron James pulls over to lecture homeless man on his white privilege
– Bibles pulled from shelf for outdated idea that all humans are of one race and made in the image of God
– Man identifying as a 6-year-old crushes game-winning homer in Tee-Ball championship
– Motorcyclists identifying as bicyclist sets cycling world record
And finally, here are a few very plausible explanations for what happened to the Epstein list on Pam Bondi’s desk:
– Bondi threw it away because she saw the list included every single person in Hollywood and DC and realized there must be some mistake
– Bondi meant she had Epstein’s Spotify list
– Her dog ate it and she was going to try to piece it back together but then some Haitians ate her dog
– She meant she had the list of clients for Marvin Epstein, a dentist from Brooklyn
– She was carrying it when she accidentally bumped into a super cute guy who it turns out is a young Santa Claus and somehow the list got switched in a romantic “Christmas List Swap”
– The Epstein list is just a metaphor for the trauma in each person’s past
– She is going to release it, but she’s going to have some influencers shoot the pedophiles’ names out of T-shirt cannons and the cannons are on backorder
“– Pam Bondi confirms Ark of the Covenant sitting on her desk waiting to be reviewed”
On can hope she is well-grounded when she attempts to examine it…
referred to electron movement in case that wasn’t apparent…
Jonathan: When one of the richest men on the planet owns a newspaper you can expect bad things to happen in terms of editorial independence and how the news is covered.
The mass cancellations of WP subs started last October when Jeff Bezos refused to endorse Kamala Harris. And it caused a rebellion in the newsroom. Then when Bezos gave $1 million to the DJT inauguration the hand writing was on the wall. The owner of the WP was going to submit to the agenda of the DJT regime. Why? Because Bezos knew or was told his billions in Amazon and Blue Horizon contracts with the government might be in jeopardy if he didn’t go along. So Bezos caved.
To show his bona fides with the DJT agenda in January Bezos rejected a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the Pulitzer Prize winning staffer, depicting her boss and other tech and media giants groveling before DJT. Tenaes quit in protest and that sent shockwaves through the WP newsroom and caused another wave of sub cancellations. In DJT’s first term the motto of the WP was “Democracy dies in the Darkness”. Bezos has now made the paper’s motto to “personal liberties and free markets”. Bezos is a “libertarian”– like Elon Musk who uses his personal media platform to push his own fascist agenda.
DJT, like all wannabe dictators, wants a compliant press where there is no criticism of the regime. He has gone after the media in every way conceivable–from banning reporters at press conferences who ask tough Qs to suing newspapers and media companies whose coverage he doesn’t like. In some cases DJT’ extortion racket has work. In others it has failed. Bezos was smart enough to know what was coming if he didn’t bow to the demands of the dear leader. So he willingly caved in advance.
The Q is whether Bezos can make the WP relevant to consumers of the news? The path Bezos has chosen probably makes the answer “No”. Bezos has made the WP irrelevant because he refuses to provide any serious criticism of the regime that is taking us farther and farther down the road to a fascist dictatorship. That’s why readership of the WP continues to decline because serious news junkies have moved to alternative and independent news sources and opinion–whether it’s left or right. And that’s why I recently cancelled my WP sub. When you put profits ahead of the truth only bad things happen!
“farther and farther down the road to a fascist dictatorship”
Dude, what color is the sky on your planet? Cuz it sure ain’t blue.
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Dennis
The problem with WaPo has nothing to do with who owns it.
Bezos is trying to FIX the problem
To the extent he created it – that would be because for too long he subsidized Left Wing nuts shilling complete garbage.
Regardless, the media is NOT independent of the marketplace.
Neither the MSM nor WaPo, nor NYT nor any other outlets are entitled to write whatever nonsense they wish paid for by others.
You say Bezos is a problem for the independance of the press – what he is just supposed to bleed hundreds of millions a year so that left wing nuts can destroy what was one of the best newspapers in the country for almost a century ?
Nothing precludes the reporters at WaPo from starting their own outlets – Megan Kelly has done that successfully, as has Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson and myriads of others – some even on the left.
The regulating force on the media is NOT billionairs like Bezos – who frankly gave the reporters at WaPo far far to much time to fix their problems.
Musk did things correctly at Twitter – and just fired them all.
WaPo is losing money and has been for a long time.
Pretty much ALL the left wing media has been losing money for a long time.
Why ? The audience for your drivel is a tiny niche.
“The mass cancellations of WP subs started last October when Jeff Bezos refused to endorse Kamala Harris.”
ROFL
Turley has written about the efforts of Bezos and Lewis to try to stem the flow of red ink at WaPo YEARS before that.
WaPo’s problems are NOT new. In FACT WaPo and the rest of the MSM got a repreive fromt he first Trump presidency.
With Trump in the WH people WANTED to hear more news from outlets that challenged him.
And had they not been caught in a long long laundry list of lies that might have atleast temporarily saved them.
But the Biden years were a disaster for the left media – people do not want to listen to fawning media shilling for left wing nuts.
But worse still AGAIN in the end the MSM got caught in a whole laundry list of lies.
The problem that the MSM – not just WaPo have is they have burnded their credibilty to the ground.
Editorial independence does NOT mean you get paid beaux Cou Bucks to lie to people constantly.
Did the failure to endorse Harris hurt – possibly – because that undermined the support of the few left wing nuts still subscribing.
Regardless, WaPo either needs a benefactor to replace Bezo’s who does not care about losing hundreds of millions a year,
Or it needs to deliver a paper that people wish to actually read.
It can either figure out how to do what it massively succeeded at for decades but has entirely lost in the past decade – appealing to ordinary people.
Or it can scale down to the size that its left wing nut base is capable of supporting.
The laws of supply and demand are immutable.
There is a far greater supply of left wing nut garbage than there is demand.
The left is not going away – ever. But throughout the country – not just the media, the various forces propping up the left in the market are being undercut as the market returns to the norms of freedom. And that is producing carnage on the left.
Again – absent force to prop it up, there just is not that much demand for left wing nut claptrap.
The MSM can either return to the values of the majority of people,
or most left wing outlets will fail.
The laws of supply and demand are immutable.
” And it caused a rebellion in the newsroom.”
The newsroom is NOT the buyer or the news. Their job is to deliver what readers want. Not what reporters want, not what Bezos wants.
“Then when Bezos gave $1 million to the DJT inauguration the hand writing was on the wall.”
The hand writing was on the Wall when Bezos bought WaPo in 2013. WaPo was for sale – because it had peaked and was already slowly declining.
“The owner of the WP was going to submit to the agenda of the DJT regime. ”
No WaPo is going to submit to the wishes of the market.
No president has had much influence over the media – no matter how they have tried.
“Why? Because Bezos knew or was told his billions in Amazon and Blue Horizon contracts with the government might be in jeopardy if he didn’t go along.”
Just get rid of NASA. It is way past time. For those satelites that are a military or government necescity government con contract with whoever can deliver at the lowest cost.
I really do not see Government altering its relationship with Amazon.
Except that Trump should sell the Post office to Bezos.
“DJT, … wants a compliant press where there is no criticism of the regime.”
He may want that – but presidents do not get that.
Nixon did not get that.
Trump did not get that in his first term.
The left press thrived UNTIL readers caught on they were lying.
Biden got a mostly coluntarily complying press,
and the press that did NOT comply thrived – that is how america works.
That is how a free press works.
We want a press that speaks truth to power.
But there are TWO parts to that – and the FIRST is Truth.
The market will eventually fail a press that lies all the time.
And that is what we are seeing.
The little boy who cried wolf replayed as a farce in our media today.
” He has gone after the media in every way conceivable–from banning reporters at press conferences who ask tough Qs to suing newspapers and media companies whose coverage he doesn’t like. In some cases DJT’ extortion racket has work.”
No Trump has not goine after the press in every conceivable way – The Trump administration is not censoring the press.
Trump is absolutely insulting press he does not like.
That is working – because the public does not like them either.
A president can not take on the press unless the press has already damaged its credibility.
“The Q is whether Bezos can make the WP relevant to consumers of the news?”
Bravo – You got that right.
What you miss is that WaPo today and for a decade has become increasingly irrelevant to consumers of the news.
And YOU do not grasps why.
The laws of supply and demand – there is a significant oversupply of left wing claptrap.
WaPo is not the only left wing nut outlet on the ropes.
So called right wing media is doing fine – the new media – both right and left is doing gine.
It is purely the left wing MSM that has burned its credibility to the ground and consumers no longer trust that is in trouble.
“When you put profits ahead of the truth only bad things happen!”
There is no such thing as putting profits ahead of Truth.
And that is why WaPo and the rest of the MSM are failing.
As I noted before people want the press to speak TRUTH to power.
But it MUST be the TRUTH.
Confronting power ideologically has no legs if you are not speaking truth.
Dennis – even a stopped clock is right twice a day – you can not even manage that.
Rassmussen has Trump at 48 – down a tiny bit but still well inside the stable range he has had since the inauguration.
Trump is not dropping in the polls
Cygnal has democrats +1 in the generic ballot. Emmerson tie, Rassmussen +1
That is WAY down from 2018 and 2020.
It is increasing looking possible that Trump may pull off something historic and hold the congress at midterms – that has not happened in a long time.
The fighting has not ended in the mideast or Ukraine but peace is likely
Even the Palestinians seem to be growing tired of this nonsense and some top leaders are ready to recognize israal.
The Tarrifs have not ended the world – inflation is coming down, the economy is improving albeit slowly.
Basically we can take most any prediction YOU have made regarding Trump failure and be sure the actual result has been success
WaPo was in trouble – along with the rest of the left wing nut media long before they did not endorse harris.
Turley has weittenb about it and YOU have commented on those articles.
You do not get to rewrite history.
Please name ANYTHING you have been right about ?
Dennis.. as usual. your made up facts & timelines are amusing…. the EXODUS from WAPO started long before Bezos refused to endorse Kamala… etc… etc.. and your off base reasons for the irrelevance of WAPO.. which in fact was due to EXACTLY what Prof. Turley accurately outlined, the hoarding of disproven Fake News Falsehoods…but.. we understand you must come up with something to meet your daily quota of trolling.. even if it’s carrying ridiculousness to new levels.
Nope, sorry. There isn’t anything they can do to reclaim their credibility. They were the ones that were stupid enough to become a modern day Pravda that literally just makes sh** up, and they continue to do it on the regular. Good riddance. This will take generations to fix – any potential replacements for their ‘journalists’ would simply be replaced by similar idiots educated in a similar fashion. We are going to have to address the root problem first, and we had better do it. These newspapers will be a casualty of that process, unfortunately.
It was preternaturally stupid for traditional media outlets, in the era of blogs, to hire the bloggers and let them entrench their culture to try to ‘compete’. They made their bed. That Bezos (*cough*Silicon Valley billionaire*cough*) is the one at the helm should probably speak for itself. Get over it and move on, those glory days are gone, and they ain’t coming back.
Pretty obvious that Trump — who since the 1970s at least 25 women have publicly accused Donald Trump of rape, kissing and groping without consent, cheated on all his wives, said he’d date Ivanka if she weren’t his daughter, had sex with a hardcore porn actress, had Ivana accuse him of rape in her initial divorce complaint, entertained underage girls on harbor parties in the Hudson — would in no way have sex with an underage girl.
What does that have to do with THE WASHINGTON POST? DUMB ANON!!
Don’t respond to the TDS-addled trolls.
Careful there, unless you want to make a forced donation to the Trump presidential library.
What’s that got to do with this story? TDS much?
Typical left wing muddled claims with an absence of any evidence.
EJC was a total Fizzle – you MAY have convinced a NYC jury – but you lost the entire country – no one who does not want to beleive Trump is a perve because they do not like his policies beleives Carrol who has accused every man she has ever known of rape.
Absolutely Trump has cheated on his wives – as did Bill Clinton. Aparently so did Obama and possibly with a man.
There are more credible allegations that Biden raped someone than Trump.
There are more credible allegations that he actually perved his kids.
I am not aware of anyone claiming Trump sniffed childrens hair.
And it was common practive for the Secret Service to keep their wives and children away from Biden who was a well known groper.
If you are going to make this a contest over sexual misconduct – Democrats lose.
Besides – I thought you advocated for people persuing their own personal sexuality – whatever that may be.
There are good parents who have produced bad children.
There are bad parents who have produced incredible children.
But most of the time “the apple does not fall very far from the tree”
Beau Biden died with a stelar reputation before he had much of a chance to damage it.
But the rest of the Biden family is a national embarassement.
They are pretty much all pervs and drug adicts with silver spoons living off of influence pedalling.
Donald Trump was born with a silver spoon – which he upgraded on his own to platinum.
He is not a self made millionaire – but he is a self made billionaire.
All of his children have been successful on their own. And whatever their impercfections – they have not risen to the moral depravity of the Bidens.
” the moral depravity of the Bidens.”
You forgot to mention Joe Biden showering with his adolescent daughter and ogling her, if not worse…
How many women would embellish with an exponent and accuse you and every other man of something very similar?
Women may accuse with impunity—but not Crystal Mangum.
“had sex with a hardcore porn actress”
You jealous, you soiboi low-T sitzpinkler?
Guess what? Trying to out-“progressive” all the other soiboi crybabies of the left with your lame virtue signalling won’t get you laid. There’s a reason why leftist women are blue-haired fatties ugly enough to scare a train into taking a dirt road.
Good lord, how much “education” does it take to make you STOOOOOPID enough to be a “progressive”? What the hell is “progressive” about bitterly clinging to outdated 19th century economics? Oh, you believe in “science”, do you? How about the economic experiments of North Korea vs South Korea? Or Argentina vs Venezuela?
Why do you left-wing idiots ALWAYS need excuses for your litany of economic failures? If left-wing economics is so “smart” why is Venezuela an economic basket case? And while you’re trying to wrap both of your benighted brain cells around that, why don’t you explain the pros and cons of the latest 5-year-plan from the Soviet Union?
Oh wait? You CAN’T? Because it imploded and disappeared in a puff of “progressive” fanstasy smoke because it was so fundamentally broken, like damn near everything Marxist?
JHMFC, how many times did you have to be dropped on your head at birth to not fall down laughing over Marxist “theory” anyway? “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!” would get you laughed out of a first-grade class – “You’re all gonna get Ds because that’s all you need to pass, but we expect you to work as hard as you can!” What the hell? How foooking brain-dead do you have to be for your FEELZ to even begin believing that’ll work?!?!
And ever wonder why Marxists abandoned economic class and went down the Critical Race Theory and Didn’t Earn It cesspools of hatred and victimhood? Because CAPITALISM KICKED THEIR ASSES AND THEY COULDN’T CONVINCE PEOPLE THEY WERE VICTIMS IN NEED OF A “REVOLUTION” FOR ECONOMIC REASONS. Which is why leftists nowadays are divisive hating-whitey race-baiting hate-mongers.
You don’t even have the brains to wonder why you need censorship to “combat misinformation”, do you?
You’re just gonna stick your fingers in your ears, go “LA LA LALA I’M A PROGRESSIVE! I CARE! THAT MAKES ME BETTER THAN YOU!!!”
But like all “progressives”, the reality is your head is so far up your rectum you have to open your mouth to see where you’re going.
Employees get spoiled when money is not an issue. I experienced this first hand when I worked as an engineer for Bell Labs in the early 1980s. Bell Labs had guaranteed funding year in and year out because AT&T effectively had a monopoly on both local and long-distance phone service, and the rate-paying public was vast. In 1984 that monopoly was broken up by Uncle Sam, and so was Bell Labs. Half of Bell Labs went with AT&T and the other half with the seven “baby bells” as a consortium. Whatever half you were in, there was now a need to produce value to outsiders in order to fund continued R&D activities.
People who grew up with the pre-1984 version of Bell Labs had a difficult time transitioning to not having a guaranteed funding stream regardless of the marketplace. They had worked so long in a cushy environment that they were unprepared for the “real world” where money is made based on actual value to outside customers. It seems to me the same cultural shift may be taking place at WaPo and this might explain the resistance. On top of that, you have ideology which, thankfully, at least was not a factor at Bell Labs. But that, I imagine, only makes it harder for employees to change their ways.
An engineer is gifted with an understanding of physics. It’s valuable. Providence smiled on you.
“Employees get spoiled when money is not an issue. I experienced this first hand when I worked as an engineer for Bell Labs in the early 1980s.”
Kind of ironic. From 1986-1989 I worked for a company in NJ that designed and manufactured data matrix switches for the Baby Bells. Except that their product was largely vaporware, designed to pull in large sums from venture capitalists and speculators seeking to capitalize on the effects of the Bell breakup. They created a great many positions not out of functional need, but from the desire to craft an attractive image for those investors. As a result, many, if not most, employees were figureheads with largely make-work duties. While most of them were not consciously aware of the underlying situation, the results of not being evaluated by a set of reasonable, rational performance standards quickly become obvious, as you note. I only became aware of what was going on because I ran their IBM MAPICS system, which was one of 3 different, extensively overlapping, business systems they had in place, so that they could select the most favorable results from each system to present to investors. At one point, the COO (who actually ran Accounting, since the CFO was a clown whose merits were confined to looking great in a business suit) sent a memo to all administrative employees, stating (summary) “It is perfectly legitimate for XXXXXXXXX to have two completely different sets of financial records, ledgers, and reports, one for investors, and a second for “internal measuerment”, but any employee mentioning that fact to anyone outside of the company will be summarily dismissed, and be given extremely negative references.”
I no company I have ever worked for would this level of behavior be tolerated. Best case scenario is a performance improvement plan or summarily fired. These people are the perfect example of someone who feels entitled due to being superior to us poor drudges – no different than the 1,200 just laid off, they and their compatriots still there believe they are entitled to the positions they hold.
Reading Philip Bump is as illuminating as taking a dump
Pure poetry
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How anyone can read his screed is beyond me, but then, I suppose, when you live in a cesspool…