Which of course, in addition to being JVL fallback position, Pessimism 101, it also is BS since no one has a crystal ball. Bezos may be hedging his bets, but if he sees what he did was surrender to the wrong horse after all, he will do everything he can to get back in the ruling power's graces.
Which of course, in addition to being JVL fallback position, Pessimism 101, it also is BS since no one has a crystal ball. Bezos may be hedging his bets, but if he sees what he did was surrender to the wrong horse after all, he will do everything he can to get back in the ruling power's graces.
Just remember that Bezos threatened to move out of Seattle when they tried to impose a modest headcount tax. For Bezos, it is all about the money and the power. And for most of the oligarchs, itтАЩs all about the money.
What Rupert Murdoch has done to the majority of white adults in our country is simply a refined version of what Hitler did in the 1930s to his fellow Germans. Oh, thatтАЩs right, he was an Austrian!
I would love to think that Kamala is going to win and have a Democratic majority in the Congress. That looks less and less likely. All of it!
We have to seriously think about what weтАЩre going to do to take back our country. IтАЩm not ready to talk Civil War, but we have to figure this out.
I really think that all is not lost. My niece is running for state rep in Tennessee. She said that Montgomery County had super long lines in early voting. This county has had the lowest voter engagement in the history of the state. TN has very low voter participation, much of the reason is that so many republicans run unopposed in their districts. This cycle, Democrats really kicked up their "Run for Something" campaign there for the local offices and state house. The abortion ban is a huge motivator there as well as the way that Lee and the state house have run roughshod (see the Tennessee three). I am not saying that TN will flip Blue but that there is a higher chance of making inroads and increasing the ratio and turning TN purple.
The city backed down. I think the amount of the head count tax was $250 per employee per year. Given the fact that Washington state doesnтАЩt have an income tax, this seemed very reasonable to me. I just canтАЩt understand why people like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and now even Warren Buffett, who recently said he doesnтАЩt endorse candidates, seem so hell-bent on not paying taxes. How much money does one person need anyway?
Well, if Kamala loses, even Musk might have second thoughts about staying on this planet when he realizes what his "donations" have bought, and in light of his recent Booster Recovery success. And you know a flight to Mars will not be cheap for the others (he, of course, flies for free; he owns the forking company).
No matter who wins, i will stop my WaPo subscription. I expect rigour and fidelity from news sources, not cowardice and submission. I will miss some of the journalists, but WaPo - and others - have missed the mission of the fourth estate. Clearly they no longer understand a democracy needs voices that can explicitly advocate and implicitly frame political issues. WaPo and others who will not educate and opine on political issues shamefully abdicate their responsibility!
That is how I understand the purpose of freedom of the press in the Constitution, to keep a watch on the government. If the press is not independent, it can't do its job.
But that's because he KNOWS he doesn't have to fear retribution from a Harris/Walz administration. It doesn't mean that he will even consider that he "backed the wrong horse." Americans definitely need to get over the idea that just because some guy found a way to make a lot of money, he is some kind of paragon of virtue or leader of society.
Which of course, in addition to being JVL fallback position, Pessimism 101, it also is BS since no one has a crystal ball. Bezos may be hedging his bets, but if he sees what he did was surrender to the wrong horse after all, he will do everything he can to get back in the ruling power's graces.
Just remember that Bezos threatened to move out of Seattle when they tried to impose a modest headcount tax. For Bezos, it is all about the money and the power. And for most of the oligarchs, itтАЩs all about the money.
What Rupert Murdoch has done to the majority of white adults in our country is simply a refined version of what Hitler did in the 1930s to his fellow Germans. Oh, thatтАЩs right, he was an Austrian!
I would love to think that Kamala is going to win and have a Democratic majority in the Congress. That looks less and less likely. All of it!
We have to seriously think about what weтАЩre going to do to take back our country. IтАЩm not ready to talk Civil War, but we have to figure this out.
I really think that all is not lost. My niece is running for state rep in Tennessee. She said that Montgomery County had super long lines in early voting. This county has had the lowest voter engagement in the history of the state. TN has very low voter participation, much of the reason is that so many republicans run unopposed in their districts. This cycle, Democrats really kicked up their "Run for Something" campaign there for the local offices and state house. The abortion ban is a huge motivator there as well as the way that Lee and the state house have run roughshod (see the Tennessee three). I am not saying that TN will flip Blue but that there is a higher chance of making inroads and increasing the ratio and turning TN purple.
Greg, I live overseas and do not recall, if I ever knew, what happened to Bozo's, I mean Bezos', threat?
I appreciate your punctuation correction [I'm a Grammar Girl].
The city backed down. I think the amount of the head count tax was $250 per employee per year. Given the fact that Washington state doesnтАЩt have an income tax, this seemed very reasonable to me. I just canтАЩt understand why people like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and now even Warren Buffett, who recently said he doesnтАЩt endorse candidates, seem so hell-bent on not paying taxes. How much money does one person need anyway?
Well, if Kamala loses, even Musk might have second thoughts about staying on this planet when he realizes what his "donations" have bought, and in light of his recent Booster Recovery success. And you know a flight to Mars will not be cheap for the others (he, of course, flies for free; he owns the forking company).
No matter who wins, i will stop my WaPo subscription. I expect rigour and fidelity from news sources, not cowardice and submission. I will miss some of the journalists, but WaPo - and others - have missed the mission of the fourth estate. Clearly they no longer understand a democracy needs voices that can explicitly advocate and implicitly frame political issues. WaPo and others who will not educate and opine on political issues shamefully abdicate their responsibility!
That is how I understand the purpose of freedom of the press in the Constitution, to keep a watch on the government. If the press is not independent, it can't do its job.
But that's because he KNOWS he doesn't have to fear retribution from a Harris/Walz administration. It doesn't mean that he will even consider that he "backed the wrong horse." Americans definitely need to get over the idea that just because some guy found a way to make a lot of money, he is some kind of paragon of virtue or leader of society.