"has giving your lunch money to the playground bully ever been the end of it? of course not. "
Right on...thousands have cancelled their subscriptions to the useless Washington Post. And over 32,000 comments on the piece by the editor in chief who was trying to explain why they didnt do any endorsements. It's coming to light how many OTHE…
"has giving your lunch money to the playground bully ever been the end of it? of course not. "
Right on...thousands have cancelled their subscriptions to the useless Washington Post. And over 32,000 comments on the piece by the editor in chief who was trying to explain why they didnt do any endorsements. It's coming to light how many OTHER news outlets there are to get information that isnt biased and full of BS.
There are more of us than there are of them.
Let's vote for people who support us, not billionaires.
I canceled my subscription with 9 months to run yet. I don’t care. I will not read their content. If Jennifer Rubin, Karen Tumulty, Eugene Robinson and a few others start substacks,I’m will subscribe immediately.I also canceled Amazon Prime.
Me too. I think Walmart Delivery would be a good replacement. I use Amazon almost every day but I have used Walmart too. They're pretty fast and sometimes same day. They do have a delivery plan to join like Prime Delivery where you don't pay individual delivery charges, just an annual fee. I read an article today that said canceling Prime is the way to hurt bezos most. It would have to be on a massive scale. I think it'd be worth it. Plus I have Chewy and Kroger Delivery. I'm not incapable of going out and getting my stuff myself, I'm just very lazy.
Bezos hired the Murdoch UK tabloid crook, Will Lewis, to boost subscriptions the more people that cancel, it makes a direct line to his error in hiring a Murdoch scum dude. He has stepped down as head of Amazon so he just blames that on his CEO, it doesn't send the direct message that cancelling the source does.
I'm not so sure about that. By now, Bezos makes most of his money through investments, not Amazon - Amazon didn't turn a profit for years. Boycotting Amazon, if it goes widespread, will just put a lot of low-wage employees out of work, and probably not hurt Bezos a bit.
We must keep in mind that many people such as the disabled ,and seniors have to use community services for transportation and that transportation many times only goes to the area Walmart which has monopolized their area , they have no choice! Many seniors have little or no access to computers and must rely upon those community services for access to shopping on line they are not skilled in surfing around for alternatives to Amazon without assistance every time they need different items! It’s a tough life for many as well as confusing having to use new technology( for them) that they didn’t grow up with !
I canceled my subscription minutes after seeing the news. As far as Amazon, I use it as a search engine, read reviews, and then buy what I want from the actual company.
Yes! Many times amazon shit is fake, counterfeit or just plain old, broken, expired, nasty! I too find if I want to be sure it's genuine and fresh get it directly from the maker!
Wow good for you. Need to cancel Amazon and take my business elsewhere. Will be hard but the thought of Bezos being such money hungry coward must do it. 💙💙
WaPo won't give a refund for a yearly subscription paid in full. I've tried... They just send you a nice little message: "Enjoy your subscription until March of 2025"...
Remember the Marion County Record story about police raiding the newspaper? The police tried to shut them down. The editor of this little Kansas newspaper refused to kowtow. Freedom of the Press is alive, in Kansas at least.
Donald bullies the free Press and threatens to shut down any news media that criticizes him. When the Washington Post was faced with the same threat as the little Kansas paper, Bezos flinched.
On topic, notice how the Wall Street Journal is pushing hard for Trump now. Remember that Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and other media platforms that shill for the Trump money scam. Until now, Murdoch allowed WSJ to be more neutral than his blatant pro-Putin platforms. Watch WSJ closely. It's about to look a lot more like Fox News and Russia Today TV. Another mouthpiece of Autocrat, Inc.
I canceled my WaPo subscription when Bezos hired Will Lewis to be CEO. Lewis was the former editor of the WSJ. Had I wanted to read the WSJ, I would have.
I miss WaPo and almost wish I still had my sub, so that I could cancel it all over again.
I read someplace that the sub cancellations are up to 60,000. But that seems very high.
That's because Rupert despised trump, he tolerated him because he made them money. But the son Lachlan is now running everything and he is said to be a "true believer".
What doesn’t make sense to me is why Bezos is doing this. Amazon is absolutely killing it. Why would he alienate everyone that hates tRump…the true majority of Americans? His fish wrap (WaPo) doesn’t make a fraction of the money Amazon does. By supporting tRump he risks the majority of his customers quitting Amazon, doesn’t he?
I think some individuals simply religiously worship outer space stuff. And it would seem that Bezos is one of these. I have never understood it myself but the lure is all powerful for many. It would seem he is willing to take a financial hit to protect and nurture his big rocket dream.
So, you’re telling me flying into space on a giant penis that nobody else can afford wasn’t his motivation? There is nothing billionaires enjoy more than flaunting their wealth in front of us little people.
The flying penis is a small part of his entire rocket program. As with all things aerospace, original schedules tend to be wild ass guesses. New Glenn is 4 years late and a full up test article is on the pad, to be launched in November. New Glenn is also re-usable and if it goes like Elmo’s Falcon 9s, Bezos will destroy a bunch until it hits all of it goals. To wit: Space (as in getting there) is hard. Very hard.
I’m so happy for him and his dreams ! I guess that it’s safe to assume that the other 335 ,000,000 of us have no say because we just don’t have any aspirations hopes or what am I searching for? Oh ! Yeah dreams of our own that might be just as important but a bit less expensive than a billionaires and his astronomical wealth that allows him to buy anyone and anything ! The Post probably accounts for .01 % percent of his wealth.. jeez that’s gonna really hurt but at least his dreams safe ! Only venting sorry !
Every day, Hannah…rise and shine…time to see what tremendous crud the Republicons will be force feeding their constituents today.
There is one thing consistent about their messaging, besides the fact that it is false. It gets worse, each subsequent day, more derogatory, more crass, more threatening.
They are drumming up their base, preparing them for post-election civil war.
It was a no win situation in the first place Shitmouth is still going to get even for all of Bozos criticism in the past ,he could have showed some balls ,by Endorsing Kamala and helped her beat the shit dribbling asshole ! Same consequences as not supporting her and over half the country won’t think of him as a yellow prick ! Fuck him !🤬
Thanks Susan. Love your post. I’ve been saying the same thing about there being more of us than of them! I cancelled my WAPO subscription immediately! Just read a blogger’s
post and now I will add bloggers to my Women and young people who will save our election making Kamala Harris our President!! 💙💙
I chatgpt’d “alternatives to Amazon” asking mostly about personal care items, casual clothing, etc. And free returns. They answered with the list posted here at the bottom. Zappos is on it—Bezos owned. (Damn. I like Z!)
And Walmart is on it, owned by Walton Family. I’ve lost my Billionaire Biographies file. Is Walton one of the good guys?
And don’t forget: ChatGPT is far from perfect so do your own search. Anyway. It’s a starting place.
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For alternatives to Amazon that offer a broad range of products and free returns, here are some options:
1. Target: Offers a wide variety of personal care products, over-the-counter meds, and clothing, including shoes. Target has a robust online shopping platform with frequent free shipping deals for members of their loyalty program (Target Circle) or those using their RedCard. Free returns are standard, both in-store and by mail.
2. Walmart: Another comprehensive option with a similar range of products. Walmart has a good selection of personal care items, casual clothing, and lifestyle products. Their shipping is often free for orders over a certain amount, and they also offer free returns for most items.
3. Ulta Beauty: Specializes in makeup, skincare, and personal care products. They offer free shipping for orders over a certain threshold, and their return policy allows for free returns within 60 days.
4. Nordstrom: Known for clothing, shoes, and personal care products, Nordstrom offers free returns and free shipping. They have an excellent customer service reputation and a wide selection of casual and lifestyle clothing.
5. Sephora: If makeup and skincare are a primary focus, Sephora offers free returns and a wide variety of personal care products. They also provide free shipping for orders over a certain amount or with their Beauty Insider program.
6. Costco: If you’re a member, Costco offers personal care items and over-the-counter medications at competitive prices, as well as free returns on most products. While their clothing selection is more limited, it’s a great option for household goods and essentials.
7. Zappos: Specializes in shoes and clothing, offering free returns and free shipping. They have a strong customer service focus and a wide variety of casual and lifestyle wear.
Each of these options provides some version of free returns, which could meet your needs while offering the broad product scope you’re used to with Amazon.
Marie, Walmart owners pay wages so low that they keep food pantries for their employees. Yes, their employees. They are famous for it. I won't shop with them. Just saying, a bargain isn't always a good thing.
I have refused to shop there for at least 25 years, if not longer.
Plus, they pay their 'associates' so badly that new hires in CA (at least) are given instructions on how to apply for food stamps and Medi-Cal in their new employee packets.
Yes. Let us vote for Kamala, and then let her take over these companies from Bezos and Musk, and appropriate them for our government as a matter of national security because our country is not safe if either of them have military contracts. Same with Starlink, that should be taken over too.
"has giving your lunch money to the playground bully ever been the end of it? of course not. "
Right on...thousands have cancelled their subscriptions to the useless Washington Post. And over 32,000 comments on the piece by the editor in chief who was trying to explain why they didnt do any endorsements. It's coming to light how many OTHER news outlets there are to get information that isnt biased and full of BS.
There are more of us than there are of them.
Let's vote for people who support us, not billionaires.
I canceled my subscription with 9 months to run yet. I don’t care. I will not read their content. If Jennifer Rubin, Karen Tumulty, Eugene Robinson and a few others start substacks,I’m will subscribe immediately.I also canceled Amazon Prime.
I’m thinking about closing my Amazon account as well…🤬
Me too. I think Walmart Delivery would be a good replacement. I use Amazon almost every day but I have used Walmart too. They're pretty fast and sometimes same day. They do have a delivery plan to join like Prime Delivery where you don't pay individual delivery charges, just an annual fee. I read an article today that said canceling Prime is the way to hurt bezos most. It would have to be on a massive scale. I think it'd be worth it. Plus I have Chewy and Kroger Delivery. I'm not incapable of going out and getting my stuff myself, I'm just very lazy.
Bezos hired the Murdoch UK tabloid crook, Will Lewis, to boost subscriptions the more people that cancel, it makes a direct line to his error in hiring a Murdoch scum dude. He has stepped down as head of Amazon so he just blames that on his CEO, it doesn't send the direct message that cancelling the source does.
I'm not so sure about that. By now, Bezos makes most of his money through investments, not Amazon - Amazon didn't turn a profit for years. Boycotting Amazon, if it goes widespread, will just put a lot of low-wage employees out of work, and probably not hurt Bezos a bit.
Who trusts Walmart?
We must keep in mind that many people such as the disabled ,and seniors have to use community services for transportation and that transportation many times only goes to the area Walmart which has monopolized their area , they have no choice! Many seniors have little or no access to computers and must rely upon those community services for access to shopping on line they are not skilled in surfing around for alternatives to Amazon without assistance every time they need different items! It’s a tough life for many as well as confusing having to use new technology( for them) that they didn’t grow up with !
I canceled my subscription minutes after seeing the news. As far as Amazon, I use it as a search engine, read reviews, and then buy what I want from the actual company.
Yes! Many times amazon shit is fake, counterfeit or just plain old, broken, expired, nasty! I too find if I want to be sure it's genuine and fresh get it directly from the maker!
It definitely is full of cheap Chinese knock-offs of products.
Wow good for you. Need to cancel Amazon and take my business elsewhere. Will be hard but the thought of Bezos being such money hungry coward must do it. 💙💙
See if you can get your remaining subscription pro-rated
WaPo won't give a refund for a yearly subscription paid in full. I've tried... They just send you a nice little message: "Enjoy your subscription until March of 2025"...
Tell them to enjoy a duffel bag of dicks until 2525
I got lucky - my renewal date was yesterday! Felt so good to press CANCEL. There wasn’t the option to say why.
I will gladly subscribe to a substack which features some of the best columnists from WaPo if they leave the Post.
WaPo won't let me cancel! I don't care about the money. I just want to cancel -- but I can't!
Jen Rubin has a podcast, called "Jen Rubin's Green Room." She brings on very interesting guests.
WaPo is owned by another ignoble poltroon Susan, his fear of retaliation is exactly what one would expect of a coward!
Yes. And … thank you for a new word. I’d never knew about poltroon.
Oh yes...it IS a good word!! Thanks!!
Remember the Marion County Record story about police raiding the newspaper? The police tried to shut them down. The editor of this little Kansas newspaper refused to kowtow. Freedom of the Press is alive, in Kansas at least.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/13/nx-s1-5073947/kansas-marion-county-record-newspaper-raid-police-chief-charged
https://marionrecord.com/
Donald bullies the free Press and threatens to shut down any news media that criticizes him. When the Washington Post was faced with the same threat as the little Kansas paper, Bezos flinched.
Burke, I do remember…and those assholes that raided the newspaper are now getting their just desserts.
As in jail time. Another right wing extremist, albeit with a badge, that FAFO’d. I have no idea how he thought he could get away with it.
Lies have consequences. It’s a beautiful thing.
They should have been charged in that old girls death ,the bastards!
On topic, notice how the Wall Street Journal is pushing hard for Trump now. Remember that Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal, Fox News and other media platforms that shill for the Trump money scam. Until now, Murdoch allowed WSJ to be more neutral than his blatant pro-Putin platforms. Watch WSJ closely. It's about to look a lot more like Fox News and Russia Today TV. Another mouthpiece of Autocrat, Inc.
I canceled my WaPo subscription when Bezos hired Will Lewis to be CEO. Lewis was the former editor of the WSJ. Had I wanted to read the WSJ, I would have.
I miss WaPo and almost wish I still had my sub, so that I could cancel it all over again.
I read someplace that the sub cancellations are up to 60,000. But that seems very high.
200,000, at last count.
That's because Rupert despised trump, he tolerated him because he made them money. But the son Lachlan is now running everything and he is said to be a "true believer".
TPTB influence everything we read, think or believe we know Burke!
They gave his mother a heart attack, she died a few days later.
I'm one of those thousands who've canceled their subscription. I couldn't handle the normalization of TRump by their editorial staff. Nope.
As am I. And I’ve subscribed to the Post for more than 50 years.
What doesn’t make sense to me is why Bezos is doing this. Amazon is absolutely killing it. Why would he alienate everyone that hates tRump…the true majority of Americans? His fish wrap (WaPo) doesn’t make a fraction of the money Amazon does. By supporting tRump he risks the majority of his customers quitting Amazon, doesn’t he?
I think some individuals simply religiously worship outer space stuff. And it would seem that Bezos is one of these. I have never understood it myself but the lure is all powerful for many. It would seem he is willing to take a financial hit to protect and nurture his big rocket dream.
So, you’re telling me flying into space on a giant penis that nobody else can afford wasn’t his motivation? There is nothing billionaires enjoy more than flaunting their wealth in front of us little people.
The flying penis is a small part of his entire rocket program. As with all things aerospace, original schedules tend to be wild ass guesses. New Glenn is 4 years late and a full up test article is on the pad, to be launched in November. New Glenn is also re-usable and if it goes like Elmo’s Falcon 9s, Bezos will destroy a bunch until it hits all of it goals. To wit: Space (as in getting there) is hard. Very hard.
I’m so happy for him and his dreams ! I guess that it’s safe to assume that the other 335 ,000,000 of us have no say because we just don’t have any aspirations hopes or what am I searching for? Oh ! Yeah dreams of our own that might be just as important but a bit less expensive than a billionaires and his astronomical wealth that allows him to buy anyone and anything ! The Post probably accounts for .01 % percent of his wealth.. jeez that’s gonna really hurt but at least his dreams safe ! Only venting sorry !
It’s a phallic addiction Monnina!
I'm so tired of these guys being in our faces, so to speak. It's really gross 🤢
Every day, Hannah…rise and shine…time to see what tremendous crud the Republicons will be force feeding their constituents today.
There is one thing consistent about their messaging, besides the fact that it is false. It gets worse, each subsequent day, more derogatory, more crass, more threatening.
They are drumming up their base, preparing them for post-election civil war.
Indeed Walter, it’s a real head-scratcher!
It was a no win situation in the first place Shitmouth is still going to get even for all of Bozos criticism in the past ,he could have showed some balls ,by Endorsing Kamala and helped her beat the shit dribbling asshole ! Same consequences as not supporting her and over half the country won’t think of him as a yellow prick ! Fuck him !🤬
Government contracts with trump in office, and big tax-cuts.
Thanks Susan. Love your post. I’ve been saying the same thing about there being more of us than of them! I cancelled my WAPO subscription immediately! Just read a blogger’s
post and now I will add bloggers to my Women and young people who will save our election making Kamala Harris our President!! 💙💙
👍👍
I chatgpt’d “alternatives to Amazon” asking mostly about personal care items, casual clothing, etc. And free returns. They answered with the list posted here at the bottom. Zappos is on it—Bezos owned. (Damn. I like Z!)
And Walmart is on it, owned by Walton Family. I’ve lost my Billionaire Biographies file. Is Walton one of the good guys?
And don’t forget: ChatGPT is far from perfect so do your own search. Anyway. It’s a starting place.
:::::::::
For alternatives to Amazon that offer a broad range of products and free returns, here are some options:
1. Target: Offers a wide variety of personal care products, over-the-counter meds, and clothing, including shoes. Target has a robust online shopping platform with frequent free shipping deals for members of their loyalty program (Target Circle) or those using their RedCard. Free returns are standard, both in-store and by mail.
2. Walmart: Another comprehensive option with a similar range of products. Walmart has a good selection of personal care items, casual clothing, and lifestyle products. Their shipping is often free for orders over a certain amount, and they also offer free returns for most items.
3. Ulta Beauty: Specializes in makeup, skincare, and personal care products. They offer free shipping for orders over a certain threshold, and their return policy allows for free returns within 60 days.
4. Nordstrom: Known for clothing, shoes, and personal care products, Nordstrom offers free returns and free shipping. They have an excellent customer service reputation and a wide selection of casual and lifestyle clothing.
5. Sephora: If makeup and skincare are a primary focus, Sephora offers free returns and a wide variety of personal care products. They also provide free shipping for orders over a certain amount or with their Beauty Insider program.
6. Costco: If you’re a member, Costco offers personal care items and over-the-counter medications at competitive prices, as well as free returns on most products. While their clothing selection is more limited, it’s a great option for household goods and essentials.
7. Zappos: Specializes in shoes and clothing, offering free returns and free shipping. They have a strong customer service focus and a wide variety of casual and lifestyle wear.
Each of these options provides some version of free returns, which could meet your needs while offering the broad product scope you’re used to with Amazon.
Marie, Walmart owners pay wages so low that they keep food pantries for their employees. Yes, their employees. They are famous for it. I won't shop with them. Just saying, a bargain isn't always a good thing.
Walmart is a killer of small towns.
I have refused to shop there for at least 25 years, if not longer.
Plus, they pay their 'associates' so badly that new hires in CA (at least) are given instructions on how to apply for food stamps and Medi-Cal in their new employee packets.
Thanks for doing this. I thought about Target as well. The impulsive nature of Amazon is intentionally addictive. And Costco is a great choice!
I cancelled them and the NYT and LA Times feeling that they did not have the gravitas to cover the most important election of my boomer lifetime.
Besos and Musk should lose their government contracts, and the government should appropriate their space companies.
Fkn A NASA could use a boost or two !🚀🤣🤪
Well said, Susan!
Yes. Let us vote for Kamala, and then let her take over these companies from Bezos and Musk, and appropriate them for our government as a matter of national security because our country is not safe if either of them have military contracts. Same with Starlink, that should be taken over too.