But still, you're correct that 100 million is a rounding error to him. It's equivalent to someone having $500,000 and taking a loss of $100. Or, choosing to spend $100 on something of value to society. And of course let's not forget, as you point out, that most of that loss is completely owing to his own sniveling actions.
Yes, hire Murdoch tabloid criminal Will Lewis (of the cover-up of the dead-child phone hacking scandal) to run your paper. A man so venal, he deleted hundreds of emails of evidence after being told not to by lawyers. That will make it a right wing tabloid like the NY Post. Which seems to be what Bezos wanted.
Bezos ? but what really bothers him ? Maybe he will be ostracized and lose some friends for a period of time? or that he only has himself to blame.? I see Elon is under investigation for USAID... All the villains are busy these days .. is it the money? or their behavior ?.... cannot keep up ... Happy weekend all !
There are probably some readers here who have one million dollars in, let's say, a brokerage account.(assume they also have an expensive home). There may also be a few who have, say, 1 million in 10 separate brokerage accounts (okay, that's probably pushing it, they'd likely be reading the Financial Times or something instead). Now imagine someone having one million dollars in 100 different brokerage accounts (I know I can't even visualize that). Bezos has 2,500 times THAT at his disposal. I mean, come on. MAYBE one of the world's richest people could still be relatable to other humans if he had, say, 25 times as much as a super rich person with 100 million dollars, but TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED times as much as that super rich dude? Eat the rich, it's time.
Right? I think the biggest problem is that most people, especially small town MAGAs, literally cannot compute or understand just how much money these oligarchs have, let alone the evil they're capable of. It just doesn't register with them. It's abominable, especially since so much of it is at other people's expense.
A billion is SO MUCH MORE than a million that we can't even comprehend how much it is. Bezos is nothing but a disgusting super-villain. I will never give a penny to Amazon or WaPo (quit both long ago), won't buy another Kindle, and will try to figure out how to replace my Ring doorbell. And Lauren Sanchez was much prettier before she mutilated herself.
The poor thing looks like an overblown blow-up doll, or a Disney villain. Did she really want to look like that? I'm all for tastefully done, plastic surgery by a board certified Plastic Surgeon (as a retired surgical assistant, I know that is critical to get good work) But she looks like she went to cut rate butcher, who takes Meth for payment, uses a bicycle pump, and works out of his garage.
Yeah but she's still just the fillered and botoxed arm candy in Bezos' mid-life crisis. He is truly a disgusting cretin pretending to be human............Nah, I take that back--Bezos isn't even pretending. He's a piece of slimy crud.
Not that it’s much consolation, but I am struck by how having all the wealth in the world still doesn’t transform a loser into anyone cool or “not-a-loser”.
All of them - Stinky, Elon, Bezos, Ellison, Epstein, Thiel and the rest just sink deeper into loserdom with every dollar added to their pile.
Homan, Bessant, and the rest? Utter losers, that no one in their right mind would ever want to spend time with.
I suck at reading. I misread the sentence as "sets The Post apart and, most importantly, enrages our customers" and wondered if that was a saboteur inside their social-media ops.
Caught that math error, but since I suck at math too I instantly forgave you.
What I really need to know, though, is why the hell Bezos gives a damn what trump thinks - they both have ugly wives & more money than God. So, Bezos is afraid trump can hurt him somehow? That's the funniest thing I ever heard, & makes no sense.
And it is really sad, because they could afford the best Plastic Surgeons money can buy. I bet they go to a drug-addled, republican doctor who does the work for free, just for bragging rights. (I knew of a few back in the days, I am sure it is worse in Palm Beach.
MY mantra too...follow the money. It's ALWAYS AND FOREVER been about 'the money'. I just KNOW that frump has absolutely been desperate to get HIS grubby little hands on OUR gold reserves - probably for his entire fucking, wastrel life - after blowing through his daddy's millions and failure after failure of his stupid schemes, grifts and scams. Whom he and Bezos (probably others) just 'might' be afraid of? frump's base. He created them, turned them into a monster - part of which attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6th, ready to murder OUR Lawmakers electing OUR President and even to hang HIS own VP! Now? His base is turning on HIM and, by extension - the other oligarchs who are causing even the magats' world to implode. A LOT of them are waking up to the fact that they are living in a shitshow of armed militia treating even THEM like trash along with their precious 2nd Amendment all while many ARE appalled by the epstein PROOF of what they did to children! WHEN they rebel en masse and turn on the orange one will be the terror the orange slug brought down on himself and his cronies. THAT is why the secondary 'fence' at the White House, the new 'bunker' (massive safe room and tunnels) being built underneath his supposed 'ballroom' (State dinners my ass), and why he wants his armed militia in huge enough numbers to defend him. Perhaps he'll invite a couple of the richest of those 'pals' to hide away there with him...y'think?
Doing tRump’s bidding in this case carries a ginormously positive ROI. Bezos destroys his $200 Million WaPo in exchange for government approval of some multi-billion $ monopolistic scheme. Bet on it
It's called 'two pigs in a poke', neither one of them with any integrity and both possessing wives that have been built on implants and botox. eewww. And neither one of THEM will die in darkness...the whole world will know and celebrate in the sunshine!
I had heard about ending book reviewing because it was library news. I wonder how Amazon is doing? A lot of people are boycotting, but seriously he built the business on books and book reviews are important for some readers (and authors).
You can do reviews in Substacks. Not Amazon. In fact, do not use them to buy book, or anything. I am in Germany, and as a brown skinned German and American I am particularly sensitive to the history of racism in both of my countries. I say, do not make excuses like the German people did in the 1930s and 1940s for their complicity in a fascist regime. Bezos has made himself part of this regime and that is what you will be a part of if you support him. Then it won't matter if you voted for Trump or not, because you will be supporting him in the heinous things he is doing. Financial support is after all support.
Here is what Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch says about Bezos,
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I also read about Amazon workers topping the list with Walmart and Public Schools of people who need to use SNAP benefits.
There are plenty of other people weighing in. You can imagine how the German people felt when there was a day of reckoning. Don't be on the wrong side of history and support the fascist big tech bros. Get off divest now.
Thank you, Linda! Sobering. I'd read that he was merely a 'bit' owner in those places so we weren't 'really' hurting him by not shoppig at Amazon, Walmart, etc. (not that I've ever done so - not my taste)...but my Detective neighbour is a non-stop Amazon shopper I had wanted to make suggestions to and been partly convinced that perhaps I was wrong because of his 'minute' stake (a mere 7%) according to the article I read. But of course, how could he have such power for such a minority owner - is the question. Jacob Soboroff is one terrific reporter (who works for MS Now) I've followed for some time. His on-the-street reporting from Minnesota, Gaza, Ukraine and wherever he's needed is always heart-wrenching and terrifying - he's somehow able to stay relatively anonymous but appears on air so often reporting back in, they're bound to target him. These brave reporters risk it ALL to bring us the truth they're in the midst of - out there.
Barbara, I wish Bookshop would let us review books. As a children’s book author, I’ve been told we need at least 50 reviews on A**zon for the algorithm to kick in and get people to notice our books. In 2021, my debut year, we were all reviewing each other’s books and practically begging friends for reviews (okay, okay, I _was_ begging). Now, I avoid A**zon like the plague. Also Goodreads, which is owned by A**zon.
I hardly ever read book 'reviews' unless they're by individuals I respect. I simply graze through my library and somehow accumulate 10 - 20 books (which hubby has to carry for me since my hand and back can't manage all of them) out to the car. This after engaging in a conversation with the Librarian who usually remarks about the number of books I'm borrowing and the authors. We can get deeply into an enjoyable convo about specific authors doing so while hubby's totally disengaged and wanting out of there. WHILE I'm getting my books he reads car magazines usually, or dozes. The man has read ONE single book during our long marriage - The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three. Because he loved the original film. I've tried to recommend other books I KNOW he'd enjoy but no. He might begin a few pages then stops - which is an impossibility for me. I have no idea how we ended up together, lol. Books are MY lifeline....I should've begun keeping count years ago. Probably thousands upon thousands by now. I've no idea what life would be like without books - and I would not use an E-reader - simply isn't the same: I want a BOOK in my hands. :)
Exactly! He will read the occasional local paper AND of course his Car Magazines which he pays a fortune for (he so loves his 1969 RoadRunner he searches for similar vehicles OR any mention thereof, so there's that. Otherwise it's TV (and more car 'stuff'. At least they're 'written'. ;)
I counter the "non-reading" behavior a bit by reciting passages or explaining whole books to my husband. Eventually, he may get tired of my assessments and decide to read the book for himself! Who knows? But, until then, I'll continue to "share" in my own helpful way! After all, why should I be the only one to enjoy a good book?
But he could give each one $1, they could by a copy of the WaPo and wipe their ass with it, and still have $0.25 left over for the homeless guy on the corner. Naw, give the $1 to the homeless and fuck the WaPo.
The numbers might have been wrong but the idea is absolutely correct. Bezos could pay off the national debt and feed the hungry all over the world and still have plenty left over to live on. But he’s an asshole, so . . . . .
His ex-wife said he was a cheap skinflint, who never gave anything to charity. Granted many so called 'non-profits' are just Lara trump types, using the excuse of homeless dogs, to throw parties to talk about how wonderful they are for doing so. But the legit charities like food pantries, and the non trendy work, that actually help people (with no preaching at them, or strings attached) should be supported and there are so many good causes.
“We”- if we could find politicians with some balls left- could cancel his lucrative government welfare & maybe get “Us” things like healthcare & EDUCATION so millions of us can understand doing our civic duty AND not be so stupid as to think a lying, adulterous pedophile who bankrupts casinos (FFS!!) is the right answer.
“his personal flotation device” made me spew out my tea. This is why we love you, Jeff. That kind of delicious humor and our favorite palate cleanser (it’s been a while; hint hint) are why we all read you so faithfully.
I LOVE HER! Whenever she appears hubby actually laughs out loud - as he does at the skateboard in the nuts moron too, but she (since she kind of resembles how I looked at around her age) brings a REAL chuckle. It's all in her attitude and MAJOR pissed-offness methinks.
A wise man admits to and learns from his errors. That says somerhing about JT. It also says something about those who claim never to make any mistakes.
Dante wrote of an old sin - violent wasting (kind of like Potlach). Wealthy men would burn or otherwise destroy parts of the worldly goods to show how rich they were/are. The Bezoid trashed the Post just to show The Gilded Turd that he was more important than a formerly world-class newspaper.
I strongly suspect it’s far worse: It may well be Bezos hollowing out WaPo, essentially destroying its investigative power,in exchange for some big favor from the federal government that Orange Shitler controls, that will be worth hundreds of millions or maybe several billion $ to Bezos.
If tRump leaves office without having monetized the Presidency to the tune of at least $100 Billion, he’ll consider himself a failure
Yes. I got that. Still, the idea was a great one. He could still keep everyone employed. However, letting the WaPo die, is his homage to getting billions of dollars in defense deals. That is why Lizzie is in the cold without a job in Kiev. I hope she gets a job with the Kiev Independent which is a paper I do subscribe to. I stopped subscribing to the WaPo a while ago because it sucked so much politically. I think everyone who is not right wing should ditch their subscriptions now if they still have them.
I would like to point out that this is AMAZON BOYCOTT MONTH. My recommendation is that you Boycott Amazon this month and then continue to do so afterwards as well. Get rid of prime, and do not shop at Whole Foods, or subscribe to the WaPo, and you have cut into his profits. We should be protesting his getting government contracts as well, That is where the real money is, which is why he can now afford to lay off everyone else that works for him and continue working on his big penis that he plans to ride into space on. Let him fly into space and stay there.
Sadly, boycotting Amazon Marketplace hurts the small businesses that are able to expand their reach through his platform more than it hurts Bezos. His government and corporate contracts with Amazon Web Services, along with his space contracts, are much more lucrative. AWS is almost impossible to boycott, unless you stop shopping online completely. Airlines, tech and financial companies, Netflix, and so many more rely on AWS.
Boycotting always hurts someone in addition to the company ownership, but is a necessary action to prevent even more people being hurt in the long run. In Europe is going to hurt the small businesses that do business with Amazon. In Germany that are over 47,000 small businesses selling on Amazon and that represents 170,000 jobs. My group is looking at what we can target in Europe and abroad not living in the US, that will have impact. We also are going to do divestment campaigns against companies like Palantir.
In fact, the point that Scott Galloway is making, professor of business, is that boycotting big tech will have an impact on the stock market and that will have an impact on Donald Trump. We are also boycotting airlines that are working for ICE.
Europe in general wants to get off of Big Tech. When we are in the US Amazon has been convenient to get things delivered. Too many things. Things we don't necessarily need. The only thing my family used Amazon for in Europe was Prime movies. They always charged us a fee for each movie anyway, so we decided as a family to give it up. Here we go to a store to buy things, and that helps the store economy here, as well as taking money from Amazon. There are no Whole Foods in Germany, but I avoid them in Chicago when I am there. My husband does not use Amazon anyway, and my 20-year-old daughter did not need much convincing that the sacrifice was worth it. No one I know here orders things from Amazon. We order things from a greater variety of businesses that specialize in things. We also tend to get fewer things delivered in general.
I ditched WaPo when the Bezoid spiked the Kamala Harris endorsement. We don’t have a ‘Whole Paycheck’ here. I canceled Amazon Prime in Oct 2024. Have never again bought a single thing from it. Now, if I could just get the rest of my family to ditch their Amazon addiction…
He only owns 7 %. His ex owns 4% and she gives millions to really good causes. The bulk of Amazon is traded on the open market. So you really arent hurting Bezos, but a lot of small investors will be hurting. If you do buy something, imagine you are helping Makenzie Scott who is very generous to many liberal causes.
We talked with a professional in computer science and she gave us some boycotting, divesting campaign strategies. I would rather get rid of ICE than help billionaire MaKenzie Scott, who may be generous, and can still be with all the money they have. I notice you do not point out that he has let the WaPo die and laid off a lot of journalists, and laid off around 30,000 Amazon corporate people in the past 5 months. He is closing Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores, and will lay off a lot of people. No liberal cause trumps attacking people who fund ICE. We should also be protesting the government contracts to his rocket ship.
Free DC Boycott Amazon campaign asks that one does not subscribe or unsubscribes to Amazon and does not shop at their affiliates either like Whole Foods, Zappos, Audible, Goodreads and the Washington Post. https://freedcproject.org/amazon (good reads can be replaced by StoryGraph) https://www.thestorygraph.com/
This is what I have right now. I am sure you could find more campaigns to boycott Amazon. Also, my friend who loves the stock market and big tech tells me that the stock market has doubled in the past 8 years because of Big Tech. This is the point that Scott Galloway is making hitting Big Tech hurts the stock market, which hurts Trump.
I don't have Amazon TV, I dropped FB, never used Chatgpt, or dont know what open AI is and haven't used Microsoft in years. I do buy from Amazon if I can't find things from local stores. Although that's getting harder and harder. I do buy online direct from businesses when I can. But I'm kind of out of it when it comes trends.
Thank you for that news. Amazon is my main supplier of museum art catalogs, and, while eBay has a few, no one else does and provides such good, clean copies. I can now order in peace.
Cheryl, which news? If you put them on the scale, clean copies of museum art catalogs or human lives, which is worth more to you? Should companies that make money off of supporting ICE get your money? To say that is not the main source of money is not to say that if it dried up it would not hurt Amazon. It would hurt Amazon. To give any money to a company that is complicit in killing people when you are not getting necessary things from them that you cannot get elsewhere is complicity too. I am saddened that you take what I say as being you can order from them in peace.
Yes thanks for adding some clarity to what has become a bit of a myth for those appalled by what is going on. Bezos’ wealth is fairly disconnected from Amazon and Amazon Prime at this point.
It’s understandable that any of us want to show our disgust and to not fuel his wealth, but it’s not really affected through boycotting Amazon at this point. That wealth now has a momentum of its own.
We do need to do all we can-it’s finding the best methods that is challenging.
I am glad you cancelled WaPo. Bezos wealth from Amazon has been used to buy Trump, through which Bezos is now getting billions of dollars of government military contracts. Is this a person you can support? I think that we have to make a STATEMENT about what kinds of businesses we support.
While our campaign is going to be in Europe. It should be easier to make this case in the US, where people are directly affected by the government that these Oligarchs bought. I hope that there are Americans who are willing to make a sacrifice for the principal of not supporting these dangerous big tech oligarchs.
I assume you are not in Chicago--my US city, or Minneapolis where ICE agents knocking down people's doors makes it very immediate.
In any case, my campaign is going to be in Europe and other countries, where it seems people might be a little more clear what a bad path American Big Tech is making.
Oh, I like that thought. I've been feeling guilty every time I buy something on Amazon that I can't find anywhere else. I will continue to help Makenzie Scott.
Did Makenzie Scott ask you to support Amazon? I doubt it. If asked, she might be the first to boycott. She has in her own way by divorcing Jeff and giving his blood money away as fast as she can. You insult her by pretending to support her in supporting his businesses. I guess that it is a divorce you think was loving and without acrimony. I doubt it. Support Lauren Sanchez and a wedding in Italy that cost around 50 mil, and 75 mil spent on Melania while he lays off around 50 thousand people.
I wish I had several million to fund Lizzie Johnson and the other reporters at the Post - all worth more to the world than self-glorifying Jeff Bezos. Kudos to the Lake Oswego Theater for once again exposing the thin-skinned vulnerabilities of DJT and his child-molesting buddies.
All that amazing talent cut loose in DC should join forces and start their own newspaper. Or join forces with the others who left last year. I would subscribe.
...sorry- I've hardly been able to "catch my breath" this month as our Immigration Attorney, through this Administration, advised (spelled "pressured" our 25 year-old son Tyler to "self-deport" back to where he came from - Seoul, S. Korea. So, two days before my 11 January birthday, we loaded-up his car at about 3 in the morning in order to get to Port Columbus Airport so he could get through Cusys, etc
(Son self-deport cont.) On a positive note "booktopia" (Australia) and Palmetto Publishing are selling my recent book, " Pen Light Effect " by Wil Marshall. I'd love to know what you think of it! In Aus it's selling for over $40.00. (Right now, I can barely afford to buy my own book!)
Would he even lose any money considering during that time he would be making more money on the money he has. Problems none of us will ever have to consider.
Bezos owns between 9%-9.6% of Amazon stock and seems to be continuing to sell off.
The Amazon corp. has Amazon.com PAC. Amazon.com PAC is from employee donations and corporate contributions and does make political donations.
$799,000 Total contributions from Amazon.com PAC to federal candidates, 2023-2024
$404,000 (50.56%) To Democrats
$395,000 (49.44%) To Republicans
I'll return to that website later to read more. I think they also show which federal candidates were recipients. Anyway, I don't intend to use it as I used to, but I guess I wouldn't feel too badly about an occasional purchase that I just couldn't find elsewhere...
For once in my sad sorry life, I was ahead of the curve.
I canceled my WaPo sub once they hired Will Lewis to be CEO. Lewis used to work for Murdoch in the UK and was deeply involved in the hacking scandal there. If I had wanted to read a Murdoch paper, I would read the NY Post (shrieks).
So I canceled my long-running sub. While I miss the WaPo that used to be, I don't regret ending my sub.
A lot of my favorite writers can be found over at The Contrarian.
So glad we dumped the WaPo when the spineless, gutless Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement and started to suck up to fotus back then. I hope that all the rest of his subscribers now dump it too. What a POS he is, selling out so quickly and easily all to align himself with a wanna be dictator working tirelessly to destroy our democracy and everything else great about our country.
BREAKING NEWS: I SUCK AT MATH.
Jeff Bezos could not "give every person on the planet a billion dollars each, and have $253 billion left over."
correction made. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Now you know how closely people read your words. It's a good thing.
But still, you're correct that 100 million is a rounding error to him. It's equivalent to someone having $500,000 and taking a loss of $100. Or, choosing to spend $100 on something of value to society. And of course let's not forget, as you point out, that most of that loss is completely owing to his own sniveling actions.
Yes, hire Murdoch tabloid criminal Will Lewis (of the cover-up of the dead-child phone hacking scandal) to run your paper. A man so venal, he deleted hundreds of emails of evidence after being told not to by lawyers. That will make it a right wing tabloid like the NY Post. Which seems to be what Bezos wanted.
Bezos ? but what really bothers him ? Maybe he will be ostracized and lose some friends for a period of time? or that he only has himself to blame.? I see Elon is under investigation for USAID... All the villains are busy these days .. is it the money? or their behavior ?.... cannot keep up ... Happy weekend all !
There are probably some readers here who have one million dollars in, let's say, a brokerage account.(assume they also have an expensive home). There may also be a few who have, say, 1 million in 10 separate brokerage accounts (okay, that's probably pushing it, they'd likely be reading the Financial Times or something instead). Now imagine someone having one million dollars in 100 different brokerage accounts (I know I can't even visualize that). Bezos has 2,500 times THAT at his disposal. I mean, come on. MAYBE one of the world's richest people could still be relatable to other humans if he had, say, 25 times as much as a super rich person with 100 million dollars, but TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED times as much as that super rich dude? Eat the rich, it's time.
Right? I think the biggest problem is that most people, especially small town MAGAs, literally cannot compute or understand just how much money these oligarchs have, let alone the evil they're capable of. It just doesn't register with them. It's abominable, especially since so much of it is at other people's expense.
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A billion is SO MUCH MORE than a million that we can't even comprehend how much it is. Bezos is nothing but a disgusting super-villain. I will never give a penny to Amazon or WaPo (quit both long ago), won't buy another Kindle, and will try to figure out how to replace my Ring doorbell. And Lauren Sanchez was much prettier before she mutilated herself.
The poor thing looks like an overblown blow-up doll, or a Disney villain. Did she really want to look like that? I'm all for tastefully done, plastic surgery by a board certified Plastic Surgeon (as a retired surgical assistant, I know that is critical to get good work) But she looks like she went to cut rate butcher, who takes Meth for payment, uses a bicycle pump, and works out of his garage.
Yeah but she's still just the fillered and botoxed arm candy in Bezos' mid-life crisis. He is truly a disgusting cretin pretending to be human............Nah, I take that back--Bezos isn't even pretending. He's a piece of slimy crud.
Not that it’s much consolation, but I am struck by how having all the wealth in the world still doesn’t transform a loser into anyone cool or “not-a-loser”.
All of them - Stinky, Elon, Bezos, Ellison, Epstein, Thiel and the rest just sink deeper into loserdom with every dollar added to their pile.
Homan, Bessant, and the rest? Utter losers, that no one in their right mind would ever want to spend time with.
Sad!
I said it before. I’ll say it again: Off with their heads!
I suck at reading. I misread the sentence as "sets The Post apart and, most importantly, enrages our customers" and wondered if that was a saboteur inside their social-media ops.
Caught that math error, but since I suck at math too I instantly forgave you.
What I really need to know, though, is why the hell Bezos gives a damn what trump thinks - they both have ugly wives & more money than God. So, Bezos is afraid trump can hurt him somehow? That's the funniest thing I ever heard, & makes no sense.
And it is really sad, because they could afford the best Plastic Surgeons money can buy. I bet they go to a drug-addled, republican doctor who does the work for free, just for bragging rights. (I knew of a few back in the days, I am sure it is worse in Palm Beach.
Bezos in the Epstein Files? Or just a short, ugly man who needs Money and other Oligarchs to feel important?
It's a game called money and power. It enhances vapid and shallow ways of being and relating.
It's about $$$$$ government contracts. Same as Musk. Always follow the money.
MY mantra too...follow the money. It's ALWAYS AND FOREVER been about 'the money'. I just KNOW that frump has absolutely been desperate to get HIS grubby little hands on OUR gold reserves - probably for his entire fucking, wastrel life - after blowing through his daddy's millions and failure after failure of his stupid schemes, grifts and scams. Whom he and Bezos (probably others) just 'might' be afraid of? frump's base. He created them, turned them into a monster - part of which attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6th, ready to murder OUR Lawmakers electing OUR President and even to hang HIS own VP! Now? His base is turning on HIM and, by extension - the other oligarchs who are causing even the magats' world to implode. A LOT of them are waking up to the fact that they are living in a shitshow of armed militia treating even THEM like trash along with their precious 2nd Amendment all while many ARE appalled by the epstein PROOF of what they did to children! WHEN they rebel en masse and turn on the orange one will be the terror the orange slug brought down on himself and his cronies. THAT is why the secondary 'fence' at the White House, the new 'bunker' (massive safe room and tunnels) being built underneath his supposed 'ballroom' (State dinners my ass), and why he wants his armed militia in huge enough numbers to defend him. Perhaps he'll invite a couple of the richest of those 'pals' to hide away there with him...y'think?
👆🎯He wants to replace the Ketamine kid.
Doing tRump’s bidding in this case carries a ginormously positive ROI. Bezos destroys his $200 Million WaPo in exchange for government approval of some multi-billion $ monopolistic scheme. Bet on it
1) Blue Origin bidding for NASA contracts and 2) Amazon Web Services keeping and increasing the government contracts it has for DOD and civilian uses
It's called 'two pigs in a poke', neither one of them with any integrity and both possessing wives that have been built on implants and botox. eewww. And neither one of THEM will die in darkness...the whole world will know and celebrate in the sunshine!
I had heard about ending book reviewing because it was library news. I wonder how Amazon is doing? A lot of people are boycotting, but seriously he built the business on books and book reviews are important for some readers (and authors).
You can do reviews in Substacks. Not Amazon. In fact, do not use them to buy book, or anything. I am in Germany, and as a brown skinned German and American I am particularly sensitive to the history of racism in both of my countries. I say, do not make excuses like the German people did in the 1930s and 1940s for their complicity in a fascist regime. Bezos has made himself part of this regime and that is what you will be a part of if you support him. Then it won't matter if you voted for Trump or not, because you will be supporting him in the heinous things he is doing. Financial support is after all support.
Here is what Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch says about Bezos,
https://open.substack.com/pub/meidastouch/p/response-to-my-letter-to-jeff-bezos?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Tim Mak of the Counteroffensive also says don't support Bezos. There is no link so I have copied what he says today. He is usually reporting from Ukraine, instead of supporting Bezos support him.
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I also read about Amazon workers topping the list with Walmart and Public Schools of people who need to use SNAP benefits.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2026/02/06/walmart-amazon-cps-top-employers-illinois-workers-still-need-snap-benefits-trump-work-requirements-lose-benefits?subscription=true&utm_source=Newsletter_Daily-Rundown-Non-Member&utm_medium=WBEZEmail&utm_campaign=Daily_Newsletter_Daily-Rundown_Sponsored_20260206&utm_content=2/6/2026&DE=
There are plenty of other people weighing in. You can imagine how the German people felt when there was a day of reckoning. Don't be on the wrong side of history and support the fascist big tech bros. Get off divest now.
Thank you, Linda! Sobering. I'd read that he was merely a 'bit' owner in those places so we weren't 'really' hurting him by not shoppig at Amazon, Walmart, etc. (not that I've ever done so - not my taste)...but my Detective neighbour is a non-stop Amazon shopper I had wanted to make suggestions to and been partly convinced that perhaps I was wrong because of his 'minute' stake (a mere 7%) according to the article I read. But of course, how could he have such power for such a minority owner - is the question. Jacob Soboroff is one terrific reporter (who works for MS Now) I've followed for some time. His on-the-street reporting from Minnesota, Gaza, Ukraine and wherever he's needed is always heart-wrenching and terrifying - he's somehow able to stay relatively anonymous but appears on air so often reporting back in, they're bound to target him. These brave reporters risk it ALL to bring us the truth they're in the midst of - out there.
Barbara, I wish Bookshop would let us review books. As a children’s book author, I’ve been told we need at least 50 reviews on A**zon for the algorithm to kick in and get people to notice our books. In 2021, my debut year, we were all reviewing each other’s books and practically begging friends for reviews (okay, okay, I _was_ begging). Now, I avoid A**zon like the plague. Also Goodreads, which is owned by A**zon.
I always use my local library. It's a wonderful resource.
And your local taxes pay for it.
I hardly ever read book 'reviews' unless they're by individuals I respect. I simply graze through my library and somehow accumulate 10 - 20 books (which hubby has to carry for me since my hand and back can't manage all of them) out to the car. This after engaging in a conversation with the Librarian who usually remarks about the number of books I'm borrowing and the authors. We can get deeply into an enjoyable convo about specific authors doing so while hubby's totally disengaged and wanting out of there. WHILE I'm getting my books he reads car magazines usually, or dozes. The man has read ONE single book during our long marriage - The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three. Because he loved the original film. I've tried to recommend other books I KNOW he'd enjoy but no. He might begin a few pages then stops - which is an impossibility for me. I have no idea how we ended up together, lol. Books are MY lifeline....I should've begun keeping count years ago. Probably thousands upon thousands by now. I've no idea what life would be like without books - and I would not use an E-reader - simply isn't the same: I want a BOOK in my hands. :)
Same here. My husband hardly ever reads (just the paper concerning the Chesapeake Bay), and I prefer a book in my hands over tech.
Exactly! He will read the occasional local paper AND of course his Car Magazines which he pays a fortune for (he so loves his 1969 RoadRunner he searches for similar vehicles OR any mention thereof, so there's that. Otherwise it's TV (and more car 'stuff'. At least they're 'written'. ;)
I counter the "non-reading" behavior a bit by reciting passages or explaining whole books to my husband. Eventually, he may get tired of my assessments and decide to read the book for himself! Who knows? But, until then, I'll continue to "share" in my own helpful way! After all, why should I be the only one to enjoy a good book?
But he could give each one $1, they could by a copy of the WaPo and wipe their ass with it, and still have $0.25 left over for the homeless guy on the corner. Naw, give the $1 to the homeless and fuck the WaPo.
The numbers might have been wrong but the idea is absolutely correct. Bezos could pay off the national debt and feed the hungry all over the world and still have plenty left over to live on. But he’s an asshole, so . . . . .
His ex-wife said he was a cheap skinflint, who never gave anything to charity. Granted many so called 'non-profits' are just Lara trump types, using the excuse of homeless dogs, to throw parties to talk about how wonderful they are for doing so. But the legit charities like food pantries, and the non trendy work, that actually help people (with no preaching at them, or strings attached) should be supported and there are so many good causes.
Bezos has about let's say $250 billion. The national debt is north of 39 TRILLION.
So... no.
“We”- if we could find politicians with some balls left- could cancel his lucrative government welfare & maybe get “Us” things like healthcare & EDUCATION so millions of us can understand doing our civic duty AND not be so stupid as to think a lying, adulterous pedophile who bankrupts casinos (FFS!!) is the right answer.
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^^^Ever so much this.
Off with their heads!
“his personal flotation device” made me spew out my tea. This is why we love you, Jeff. That kind of delicious humor and our favorite palate cleanser (it’s been a while; hint hint) are why we all read you so faithfully.
I love he way editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes, draws them with football shaped lips, that take up most of their head!
I love her cartoons!
me too, lol. I really needed a laugh today.....
Yes, much needed humor.
Personally, I prefer the nice lady with the extended finger. Very assertive.
I LOVE HER! Whenever she appears hubby actually laughs out loud - as he does at the skateboard in the nuts moron too, but she (since she kind of resembles how I looked at around her age) brings a REAL chuckle. It's all in her attitude and MAJOR pissed-offness methinks.
Me too. But I knew what you meant, and you’re 💯 correct 🤘🏻
You just have lower the amount by 600%, like Trump does.
You may suck at math, but you rule at truth-telling and ‘fessing up when you screw up. We could use a lot more of that. ❤️
A wise man admits to and learns from his errors. That says somerhing about JT. It also says something about those who claim never to make any mistakes.
"I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken"
:-)
Well you’re 100% accurate about democracy dying, and its cause.
WAPO
“Democracy Dies in the Darkness Inside a Bald Oligarch’s Greedy Ass”™
Dante wrote of an old sin - violent wasting (kind of like Potlach). Wealthy men would burn or otherwise destroy parts of the worldly goods to show how rich they were/are. The Bezoid trashed the Post just to show The Gilded Turd that he was more important than a formerly world-class newspaper.
I strongly suspect it’s far worse: It may well be Bezos hollowing out WaPo, essentially destroying its investigative power,in exchange for some big favor from the federal government that Orange Shitler controls, that will be worth hundreds of millions or maybe several billion $ to Bezos.
If tRump leaves office without having monetized the Presidency to the tune of at least $100 Billion, he’ll consider himself a failure
As if Bezos needs the extra money. That's why he's such an enormous POS, he has so much $ he doesn't have to be an ass kisser and yet he is.
As the French say Cela va sans dire.
'Tis true - and absolutely sickening that ANYONE could do this - or think this way, especially deferentially to the orange pig.
The Gilded Turd. Nice turn of phrase! Will steal. =:D
Donald J. tRump is the blown diaper of civilization
The "personal flotation device" was a classic, too.
Better than using a seat cushion in the event of a “water landing” (=crash into the Ocean -George Carlin)
You are welcome to it!
Yes. I got that. Still, the idea was a great one. He could still keep everyone employed. However, letting the WaPo die, is his homage to getting billions of dollars in defense deals. That is why Lizzie is in the cold without a job in Kiev. I hope she gets a job with the Kiev Independent which is a paper I do subscribe to. I stopped subscribing to the WaPo a while ago because it sucked so much politically. I think everyone who is not right wing should ditch their subscriptions now if they still have them.
I would like to point out that this is AMAZON BOYCOTT MONTH. My recommendation is that you Boycott Amazon this month and then continue to do so afterwards as well. Get rid of prime, and do not shop at Whole Foods, or subscribe to the WaPo, and you have cut into his profits. We should be protesting his getting government contracts as well, That is where the real money is, which is why he can now afford to lay off everyone else that works for him and continue working on his big penis that he plans to ride into space on. Let him fly into space and stay there.
Sadly, boycotting Amazon Marketplace hurts the small businesses that are able to expand their reach through his platform more than it hurts Bezos. His government and corporate contracts with Amazon Web Services, along with his space contracts, are much more lucrative. AWS is almost impossible to boycott, unless you stop shopping online completely. Airlines, tech and financial companies, Netflix, and so many more rely on AWS.
Boycotting always hurts someone in addition to the company ownership, but is a necessary action to prevent even more people being hurt in the long run. In Europe is going to hurt the small businesses that do business with Amazon. In Germany that are over 47,000 small businesses selling on Amazon and that represents 170,000 jobs. My group is looking at what we can target in Europe and abroad not living in the US, that will have impact. We also are going to do divestment campaigns against companies like Palantir.
In fact, the point that Scott Galloway is making, professor of business, is that boycotting big tech will have an impact on the stock market and that will have an impact on Donald Trump. We are also boycotting airlines that are working for ICE.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boycott-february-protest-ice-scott-galloway-2026-2
Europe in general wants to get off of Big Tech. When we are in the US Amazon has been convenient to get things delivered. Too many things. Things we don't necessarily need. The only thing my family used Amazon for in Europe was Prime movies. They always charged us a fee for each movie anyway, so we decided as a family to give it up. Here we go to a store to buy things, and that helps the store economy here, as well as taking money from Amazon. There are no Whole Foods in Germany, but I avoid them in Chicago when I am there. My husband does not use Amazon anyway, and my 20-year-old daughter did not need much convincing that the sacrifice was worth it. No one I know here orders things from Amazon. We order things from a greater variety of businesses that specialize in things. We also tend to get fewer things delivered in general.
I agree. My sister works for Whole Foods. Just be mindful of what you spend and who you spend it with.
I only use Amazon site to look up products I need, then when I find them, I contact the business itself and order from them.
I ditched WaPo when the Bezoid spiked the Kamala Harris endorsement. We don’t have a ‘Whole Paycheck’ here. I canceled Amazon Prime in Oct 2024. Have never again bought a single thing from it. Now, if I could just get the rest of my family to ditch their Amazon addiction…
Stephen that is great!
Me, too.
I did the same Stephen!
That’s when I canceled my subscription! And I’ve never had Amazon Prime.
He only owns 7 %. His ex owns 4% and she gives millions to really good causes. The bulk of Amazon is traded on the open market. So you really arent hurting Bezos, but a lot of small investors will be hurting. If you do buy something, imagine you are helping Makenzie Scott who is very generous to many liberal causes.
Here is what Scott Galloway says.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boycott-february-protest-ice-scott-galloway-2026-2
We talked with a professional in computer science and she gave us some boycotting, divesting campaign strategies. I would rather get rid of ICE than help billionaire MaKenzie Scott, who may be generous, and can still be with all the money they have. I notice you do not point out that he has let the WaPo die and laid off a lot of journalists, and laid off around 30,000 Amazon corporate people in the past 5 months. He is closing Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores, and will lay off a lot of people. No liberal cause trumps attacking people who fund ICE. We should also be protesting the government contracts to his rocket ship.
I get your point, but how does Amazon fund ICE?
Why would boycotting Amazon get rid of ICE? If anything, I'm sure Amazon employs a lot of immigrants in the warehouses.
They are supporting ICE with their tech services.
https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/uploads/How-Amazon-Powers-ICEs-Deportation-Machine.pdf
We are going to be pressuring them not to. Here are some more links to articles discussing boycotting Amazon.
Scott Galoway is calling for February campaign to unsubscribe and opt out. https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boycott-february-protest-ice-scott-galloway-2026-2
Free DC Boycott Amazon campaign asks that one does not subscribe or unsubscribes to Amazon and does not shop at their affiliates either like Whole Foods, Zappos, Audible, Goodreads and the Washington Post. https://freedcproject.org/amazon (good reads can be replaced by StoryGraph) https://www.thestorygraph.com/
Here is the campaign of the Ethical Consumer. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampaigns/boycott-amazon
German protest against Amazon. https://www.dw.com/en/german-activists-launch-black-friday-campaign-against-amazon/a-67540370
German workers at Amazon strike.
https://uniglobalunion.org/news/teamsters-verdi-strike/
Amazon Tower in Berlin workers dispute conditions. https://www.uni-europa.org/news/berlins-amazon-tower-inaugurated-uni-affiliate-ver-di-protests-and-demands-collective-agreement/
Make Amazon Pay demonstrations in many countries. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/amazon-workers-20-countries-set-protest-black-friday-cyber-monday-orga-rcna181840
The Labor Force is saying join with them in telling Amazon to stop working for ICE. https://thelaborforce.org/news/tell-amazon-end-your-contracts-with-ice-now/
This is what I have right now. I am sure you could find more campaigns to boycott Amazon. Also, my friend who loves the stock market and big tech tells me that the stock market has doubled in the past 8 years because of Big Tech. This is the point that Scott Galloway is making hitting Big Tech hurts the stock market, which hurts Trump.
I don't have Amazon TV, I dropped FB, never used Chatgpt, or dont know what open AI is and haven't used Microsoft in years. I do buy from Amazon if I can't find things from local stores. Although that's getting harder and harder. I do buy online direct from businesses when I can. But I'm kind of out of it when it comes trends.
Thank you for that news. Amazon is my main supplier of museum art catalogs, and, while eBay has a few, no one else does and provides such good, clean copies. I can now order in peace.
Cheryl, which news? If you put them on the scale, clean copies of museum art catalogs or human lives, which is worth more to you? Should companies that make money off of supporting ICE get your money? To say that is not the main source of money is not to say that if it dried up it would not hurt Amazon. It would hurt Amazon. To give any money to a company that is complicit in killing people when you are not getting necessary things from them that you cannot get elsewhere is complicity too. I am saddened that you take what I say as being you can order from them in peace.
Yes thanks for adding some clarity to what has become a bit of a myth for those appalled by what is going on. Bezos’ wealth is fairly disconnected from Amazon and Amazon Prime at this point.
It’s understandable that any of us want to show our disgust and to not fuel his wealth, but it’s not really affected through boycotting Amazon at this point. That wealth now has a momentum of its own.
We do need to do all we can-it’s finding the best methods that is challenging.
I did cancel WAPO in 2023 though.
I am glad you cancelled WaPo. Bezos wealth from Amazon has been used to buy Trump, through which Bezos is now getting billions of dollars of government military contracts. Is this a person you can support? I think that we have to make a STATEMENT about what kinds of businesses we support.
While our campaign is going to be in Europe. It should be easier to make this case in the US, where people are directly affected by the government that these Oligarchs bought. I hope that there are Americans who are willing to make a sacrifice for the principal of not supporting these dangerous big tech oligarchs.
I assume you are not in Chicago--my US city, or Minneapolis where ICE agents knocking down people's doors makes it very immediate.
In any case, my campaign is going to be in Europe and other countries, where it seems people might be a little more clear what a bad path American Big Tech is making.
Oh, I like that thought. I've been feeling guilty every time I buy something on Amazon that I can't find anywhere else. I will continue to help Makenzie Scott.
Did Makenzie Scott ask you to support Amazon? I doubt it. If asked, she might be the first to boycott. She has in her own way by divorcing Jeff and giving his blood money away as fast as she can. You insult her by pretending to support her in supporting his businesses. I guess that it is a divorce you think was loving and without acrimony. I doubt it. Support Lauren Sanchez and a wedding in Italy that cost around 50 mil, and 75 mil spent on Melania while he lays off around 50 thousand people.
Same! She's awesome!
Same
let him and the rest of the oligarchs/fascist nazi supporters fly into space and uh oh, what's that? a rapid, unscheduled disassembly, you say?
I'd be perfectly happy for all of them to reach Mars if they would just STAY there.
I wonder who inherits upon his demise? The plastic fantastic wife? That woman is cold as ice. will she spike his rocket ship?
Katherine Graham is rolling over in her grave. It’s so sad how Bezos is destroying what was once a great newspaper.
I wish I had several million to fund Lizzie Johnson and the other reporters at the Post - all worth more to the world than self-glorifying Jeff Bezos. Kudos to the Lake Oswego Theater for once again exposing the thin-skinned vulnerabilities of DJT and his child-molesting buddies.
All that amazing talent cut loose in DC should join forces and start their own newspaper. Or join forces with the others who left last year. I would subscribe.
...sorry- I've hardly been able to "catch my breath" this month as our Immigration Attorney, through this Administration, advised (spelled "pressured" our 25 year-old son Tyler to "self-deport" back to where he came from - Seoul, S. Korea. So, two days before my 11 January birthday, we loaded-up his car at about 3 in the morning in order to get to Port Columbus Airport so he could get through Cusys, etc
(Son self-deport cont.) On a positive note "booktopia" (Australia) and Palmetto Publishing are selling my recent book, " Pen Light Effect " by Wil Marshall. I'd love to know what you think of it! In Aus it's selling for over $40.00. (Right now, I can barely afford to buy my own book!)
. . . f o r h i s p e r s o n a l f l o t a t i o n d e v i c e . . . Oh my total loving God
Would he even lose any money considering during that time he would be making more money on the money he has. Problems none of us will ever have to consider.
Here's what I found on OpenSecrets.org:
Bezos owns between 9%-9.6% of Amazon stock and seems to be continuing to sell off.
The Amazon corp. has Amazon.com PAC. Amazon.com PAC is from employee donations and corporate contributions and does make political donations.
$799,000 Total contributions from Amazon.com PAC to federal candidates, 2023-2024
$404,000 (50.56%) To Democrats
$395,000 (49.44%) To Republicans
I'll return to that website later to read more. I think they also show which federal candidates were recipients. Anyway, I don't intend to use it as I used to, but I guess I wouldn't feel too badly about an occasional purchase that I just couldn't find elsewhere...
Bezos didn’t kill journalism. He exposed how long it’s been praying to markets instead of truth. You can keep the words and still lose the posture.
RIP WaPo, my hometown newspaper. And may the ghost of Katherine Graham haunt Jeff Bezos forever (not my original thought but definitely share it).
Can we gin up a fund to hire Lizzie?
For once in my sad sorry life, I was ahead of the curve.
I canceled my WaPo sub once they hired Will Lewis to be CEO. Lewis used to work for Murdoch in the UK and was deeply involved in the hacking scandal there. If I had wanted to read a Murdoch paper, I would read the NY Post (shrieks).
So I canceled my long-running sub. While I miss the WaPo that used to be, I don't regret ending my sub.
A lot of my favorite writers can be found over at The Contrarian.
Like a vacation…almost…not
Gosh, sticky kisses are better than reeking stinky kisses.
Mrs. B must have a strangely strong embouchure from intimate dining…
Pardon my tongue in cheeks humor.
So glad we dumped the WaPo when the spineless, gutless Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement and started to suck up to fotus back then. I hope that all the rest of his subscribers now dump it too. What a POS he is, selling out so quickly and easily all to align himself with a wanna be dictator working tirelessly to destroy our democracy and everything else great about our country.
Maybe lizzie can get a job with the midas touch network