The Washington Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, is exiting as the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, steers the section in a libertarian direction.
In an email to The Post’s employees on Wednesday, Mr. Bezos said that Mr. Shipley was stepping down amid a narrowing of the opinion section’s focus to defend “personal liberties and free markets.”
“I am of America and for America, and proud to be so,” Mr. Bezos said. “Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical; it drives creativity, invention and prosperity.”
In his note, Mr. Bezos said that he asked Mr. Shipley whether he wanted to stay at The Post, and Mr. Shipley declined.
Now that the fascist won, the billionaires can go mask off safely. Huzzah huzzah.
Thanks 49.whatever% of America.
*22.7%. Of 340 million people only 156 million chose to vote, and of those only 49%ish voted for the Nazi’s.
No. Nobody who saw everything that Trump had done previously, and what he said he would do if elected again gets to hide behind an “I didn’t explicitly vote for him” excuse. Trump is going to cause untold suffering across the globe and your own country. And I don’t care if voting was hard.
While that is true, if we’re going to go into that, I’m putting those who chose to sit back and allow fascism over doing the least possible thing to prevent it in with the rest of the fascists, which would make the number much worse than 49.whatever%.
If you were prevented from voting, it’s one thing. If you said “What’s the point?” and opted to turn on your favorite sitcom over taking 30 minutes out of your day, you’re not much better than the chuds casting a vote for fascism.
21% is under 18. Closer to 30% of Americans of voting age voted for the Nazi.
For-profit media empires have been telling staff this for decades, they’ve just never felt bold enough to publicly brag about it.
49% of Americans who chose and were not denied the ability to vote.