“Bezos is not trying to save the Washington Post. He’s trying to survive Donald Trump.”
Sorry, I guess I just don't get it. Trump's a politician who won an election. His party won a majority in the house in the low-single-digit range. Yes, he's a fascist who's intent on destroying much of what's good about this country, but a year in I think we can see his limits, and that this will end.
And yet, within mere days of the election (that Trump won by 1.5 percentage points) every Techbro in the land was treating this like The Second Coming, like EVERYTHING must change IMMEDIATELY to herald the New Age of Trump. Sure, you can point to specific vulnerabilities they had, to specific policies - or protections - they wanted, but this seems like more than just that, it was so over-the-top in its speed and enthusiasm. I don't want to rationalize or sane-wash their reaction to Trump's election, which looks dizzy and crazy in retrospect.
When Zohran Mamdani wins the Presidency, will all these guys rush to D.C. to kiss his ass, or will they think, "Eh, we can wait this guy out and wear him down." I think we know the answer to that question.
Thanks. Genuinely contributes to understanding. For that billionaire, the Post is simply a business accessory, possibly useful for managing his sole customer.
"Amazon’s tax bill dropped by 87%, and Politico says it’s “largely because of the generous new depreciation breaks GOP lawmakers included in their One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Glenn Kessler is gone so we don't know how many Pinocchios to give this statement. (wink, wink)
Parker mentioned where some of our favorite journalists landed, but there are many others to search for in Substack or YouTube or...
Thanks for this, Parker. I didn’t think of it this way. I moved from Chicago to DC and the Post was just an incredible newspaper. I loved reading it. The way you framed this makes it even more sinister. What a damn shame.
I'd like to call attention to the “personal liberties and free markets” mandate for the opinion section. This line is right out of the libertarian playbook that the Koch brothers began financing in the 1970s. It was the brainchild of economist James McGill Buchanan, who sold the public choice economics theory to the oligarchs. In an astounding act of stupidity, the Nobel Committee awarded him a prize for his corrupt work that has now brought us to this point.
The headline on Heather Boushey's review of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America,” by award-winning Duke University historian Nancy MacLean for the New York Times, was prescient: "How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won."
There is so much and too much of this sordid story to put in a comment on Parker's on-target critique. But, if nothing else than to give perspective and context, here's a link to Boushey's review in 2017, shortly after MacLean's book was released.
Thank you; I'm fairly well read on the perpe-traitors who murdered our Republic but did not know of Buchanan's role in plotting the slaying and will purchase Ms. MacLean's book forthwith. Thanks again.
Dr. MacLean is just the start. If you read these in this order, you’ll marvel at how feckless our progressives have been.
“Dark Money” by Jane Mayer;
“Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right” by Anne Nelson;
“The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism” by Katherine Stewart;
“Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,” by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
Even worse, the media’s huge fail is talking about the endgame, which is a Convention of the States under Article V of the United States Constitution to roll back our Constitution to the 1850s. It will leave only two functions for government — militarized law enforcement and national defense.
What we’re seeing with ICE has nothing to do with immigration. It’s the field test for martial law.
Thank you, Parker Molloy, for this historically vital yet utterly horrifying report. It awakens me to the fact that We the People -- those of us who are yet fully human, Homo sapiens sapiens and therefore still capable of empathy -- are in terrible truth facing far worse than the ChristoNazi "Unified Reich" theocracy, the successor-realm the plutocracy is ramming down our collective throats to replace the 250-year-old Constitutional Republic the 77-million-vote majority of the anti-empathetic subspecies -- tentatively "Homo sapiens inhumanus" -- hatefully reduced to a tyranny-terrorized ruin on 5 November 2024. What we are facing -- this in addition to the ecogenocidal atrocities of the world's first deliberately Failed State -- is the relentless, bottomlessly evil effort by the most self-obsessed, morally imbecilic barony our species has yet produced, its ever-more-obvious intent to perpetuate its omnipotence by re-creating a paradoxically high-tech variant of the post-Roman Dark Age. And because the barony's destructive power is infinitely greater than our own -- because Mao Zedong's axiom that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" is the ultimate truth of this newly fiscal-Darwinist world -- there is no longer any question of who shall win this war. Meanwhile the sacking of The Washington Post, like the Christian practice of sacking and burning libraries in the previous Dark Age, tells us the victors' intent to eternally abolish all of our species' humanitarian achievements includes the eradication of knowledge itself, "ignorance is strength," the prophecies of George Orwell and H.L. Mencken fulfilled. Nevertheless, though we’re as doomed as the Cathars, the people at Wounded Knee and the defenders of Wake Island and Fortress Brest, humanitarian honor demands we fight on, never granting our sadistic foes affirmation by surrender.
“Bezos is not trying to save the Washington Post. He’s trying to survive Donald Trump.”
Sorry, I guess I just don't get it. Trump's a politician who won an election. His party won a majority in the house in the low-single-digit range. Yes, he's a fascist who's intent on destroying much of what's good about this country, but a year in I think we can see his limits, and that this will end.
And yet, within mere days of the election (that Trump won by 1.5 percentage points) every Techbro in the land was treating this like The Second Coming, like EVERYTHING must change IMMEDIATELY to herald the New Age of Trump. Sure, you can point to specific vulnerabilities they had, to specific policies - or protections - they wanted, but this seems like more than just that, it was so over-the-top in its speed and enthusiasm. I don't want to rationalize or sane-wash their reaction to Trump's election, which looks dizzy and crazy in retrospect.
When Zohran Mamdani wins the Presidency, will all these guys rush to D.C. to kiss his ass, or will they think, "Eh, we can wait this guy out and wear him down." I think we know the answer to that question.
Thanks. Genuinely contributes to understanding. For that billionaire, the Post is simply a business accessory, possibly useful for managing his sole customer.
thank you for this, bleak as it is
"Amazon’s tax bill dropped by 87%, and Politico says it’s “largely because of the generous new depreciation breaks GOP lawmakers included in their One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Glenn Kessler is gone so we don't know how many Pinocchios to give this statement. (wink, wink)
Parker mentioned where some of our favorite journalists landed, but there are many others to search for in Substack or YouTube or...
Source: NOTUS
Thanks for this, Parker. I didn’t think of it this way. I moved from Chicago to DC and the Post was just an incredible newspaper. I loved reading it. The way you framed this makes it even more sinister. What a damn shame.
I'd like to call attention to the “personal liberties and free markets” mandate for the opinion section. This line is right out of the libertarian playbook that the Koch brothers began financing in the 1970s. It was the brainchild of economist James McGill Buchanan, who sold the public choice economics theory to the oligarchs. In an astounding act of stupidity, the Nobel Committee awarded him a prize for his corrupt work that has now brought us to this point.
The headline on Heather Boushey's review of “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America,” by award-winning Duke University historian Nancy MacLean for the New York Times, was prescient: "How the Radical Right Played the Long Game and Won."
There is so much and too much of this sordid story to put in a comment on Parker's on-target critique. But, if nothing else than to give perspective and context, here's a link to Boushey's review in 2017, shortly after MacLean's book was released.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/books/review/democracy-in-chains-nancy-maclean.html
Thank you; I'm fairly well read on the perpe-traitors who murdered our Republic but did not know of Buchanan's role in plotting the slaying and will purchase Ms. MacLean's book forthwith. Thanks again.
Dr. MacLean is just the start. If you read these in this order, you’ll marvel at how feckless our progressives have been.
“Dark Money” by Jane Mayer;
“Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right” by Anne Nelson;
“The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism” by Katherine Stewart;
“Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,” by Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
Even worse, the media’s huge fail is talking about the endgame, which is a Convention of the States under Article V of the United States Constitution to roll back our Constitution to the 1850s. It will leave only two functions for government — militarized law enforcement and national defense.
What we’re seeing with ICE has nothing to do with immigration. It’s the field test for martial law.
Thank you, Parker Molloy, for this historically vital yet utterly horrifying report. It awakens me to the fact that We the People -- those of us who are yet fully human, Homo sapiens sapiens and therefore still capable of empathy -- are in terrible truth facing far worse than the ChristoNazi "Unified Reich" theocracy, the successor-realm the plutocracy is ramming down our collective throats to replace the 250-year-old Constitutional Republic the 77-million-vote majority of the anti-empathetic subspecies -- tentatively "Homo sapiens inhumanus" -- hatefully reduced to a tyranny-terrorized ruin on 5 November 2024. What we are facing -- this in addition to the ecogenocidal atrocities of the world's first deliberately Failed State -- is the relentless, bottomlessly evil effort by the most self-obsessed, morally imbecilic barony our species has yet produced, its ever-more-obvious intent to perpetuate its omnipotence by re-creating a paradoxically high-tech variant of the post-Roman Dark Age. And because the barony's destructive power is infinitely greater than our own -- because Mao Zedong's axiom that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" is the ultimate truth of this newly fiscal-Darwinist world -- there is no longer any question of who shall win this war. Meanwhile the sacking of The Washington Post, like the Christian practice of sacking and burning libraries in the previous Dark Age, tells us the victors' intent to eternally abolish all of our species' humanitarian achievements includes the eradication of knowledge itself, "ignorance is strength," the prophecies of George Orwell and H.L. Mencken fulfilled. Nevertheless, though we’re as doomed as the Cathars, the people at Wounded Knee and the defenders of Wake Island and Fortress Brest, humanitarian honor demands we fight on, never granting our sadistic foes affirmation by surrender.