On Friday, the Washington Postās publisher, Will Lewis, announced that the paper would no longer make endorsements for presidentāafter its journalists had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision was made by Jeff Bezos, the paperās owner.
Over a period of several weeks, a Post staffer told me, two Post board members, Charles Lane and Stephen W. Stromberg, had worked on drafts of a Harris endorsement. (Neither was contacted for this article.) āNormally weād have had a meeting, review a draft, make suggestions, do editing,ā the staffer told me. Editorial writers started to feel angsty a few weeks ago, per the staffer; the process stalled. Around a week ago, editorial page editor David Shipley told the editorial board that the endorsement was on track, adding that āthis is obviously something our owner has an interest in.ā
āWe thought we were dickering over languageānot over whether there would be an endorsement,ā the Post staffer said. So journalists at the Post, in both the news and opinion departments, were stunned Friday after Shipley told the editorial board at a meeting that it would not take a position after all. This represents the first time the Post has sat out a presidential endorsement since 1988.
Itās here people. The oligarchs are taking over the US. Itās not just Trump, itās the whole clique. To them Putin isnāt just daddy, Russia is a rolemodel. A society run by oligarchs held together by one strongman. And the peopleā¦ whahaha.
Which is insane considering how often those billionaires fall out of windows. What a country to emulate if youāre adequately afraid of heights.
This guy famously sent himself to lower earth orbit to intellectually jerk off in front of the planet.