Never really took to that slogan because light does not die in darkness, its the other way round. Tyranny thrives in darkness, and dies in the light. Democracy is the damn light.
Democracy dies in silence. They do what they do in broad daylight but if no one reports it it stays silent.
Protest responsibily. Boycotts will be much safer than actual on ground people.
Remember log off amazon on the 20th
Delete twitter 1/20
Do not watch or stream the inauguration on 1/20
Trying to do this every day. Hard to pinpoint where I can make an impact. I use the do good app. Any other apps I could be using? Already not using the ones mentioned here. Plus about to cancel cable and let them know it is because of ABC capitulation.
I won’t be spending any extra money in Trump’s Tariff Economy. The purchase of big ticket items is over. We will need the money saved just to get by anyway.
Day after election I canceled my subscribe & saves on Amazon. Did not renew my Prime subscription. Spending inauguration weekend w/ college friends (graduated decades ago). Plan to stay in our PJs & drink all weekend. We will NOT be watching TV! FYI we attended Biden’s Alma mater Univ. of Delaware!
💯☝🏻IMO Too many influencers advising others to roll over and play dead. Not in those exact words but close enough. Dictators do not allow you to vote again. Dictators do not follow rules and laws. Trump has even said he looking into changing the Constitution. wake up before we FAFO
This is so true. Unless you’ve lived it, you can’t believe it. Most Americans do NOT understand. All immigrants including your great grandparents etc. do understand.
Tax BURDENS and all they support don't go away when the wealthy are able to just opt-out of paying. SOMEBODY has to pay all those taxes. Been thinking of A Tale of Two Cities & Dr. Zhivago as the chasm widens. Will history see Luciano Mangione as the #TippingPoint after the big battle?
The consumer pays the higher taxes as the cost of credit rises in direct response to the low Interest borrowing of Uncle Sam to close the revenue deficits.
Iow, prices rise with borrowing.
The less Treasury has to issue T notes, the less goods are.
But the rich don't pay their fair share.
WaPo’s boss has switched the lights off and is helping to dismantle the democracy. It makes good business sense and that is all that matters to those people.
Our democracy began weakening and withering fifty years ago, when Reagan resurrected the Old Confederacy and attached it to the New confederacy of dunces, who cannot grasp the genius of democracy.
Fear of elon is high in the tech world, especially now that he's velcro-ed himself to the incoming fascist kleptocrat who, at least for now, is treating him like elon's the VP, not Vance.
All the facades are falling: legacy media, Vichyesque collaborators, family and friends selling you out for the “price of eggs.” And all for an utter clown and convicted felon…and his toadies. It’s all so incredibly tawdry and stupid and sad. My cynicism is probably terminal at this point.
Do they see US morphing t/b Russia-like & positioning themselves t/b part of the entitled oligarch club? The concern s/b them using the industry they control to bend the ppl & make that a reality? Maybe it's time to make them poor.
Shame really. When I was trying to save someone from cult of maga I used to keep telling him to go to different sources to corroborate or disprove a story. Especially outlandish stories, ie trump himself.
Don’t stay w/just Fox,OAN, etc. Go legitimate, respected sources, WaPo, Reuters, NPR, etc. 1/2
I’ll say it again, Media is major to blame & should be ashamed of actions.
No self-respecting journalist should let slide all the lies and clearly made up crap.
Had they been more aggressively reporting facts and not legitimizing horrible people, where could we be now?
Shame, disgrace
2/2
Yet journalists are taught that the media operates on a credo straight out of a warm Christmas movie, and that every intrepid reporter gets a f*cking paper crown. There’s a huge disconnect.
As most places in the United States, at the Washington Post democracy has been dying behind a paywall for longer than I've been paying attention to it.
I don't think "they've" considered that after tRump sticks it to the Libs, his supporters will get their turn in the "barrel." Once that happens & the austerity hits them too, I'm 🤔 "The Purge" /Bolshevik/French Revolution may come to fruition. If that happens, then the "Rich" might get eaten. 🤔🤷🏾♂️
I think we are now beyond trying to “save” our democracy. The plutocrats and oligarchs are firmly in charge. Everything you are doing is just “entertainment” for the masses. It doesn’t matter.
😭😭😭 I’ve enjoyed reading this paper for a long time. WaPo always has amazing writers and opinion columnist. Too bad Beelzabub has to come and ruin this.
The irony is that freedom of the press really is something to be leveraged to hold leaders to account. Those in that position should celebrate the unique power they wield! But those days seem to be gone. It's sad and scary.
News organizations used to hire investigative journalists to dig until the truth was uncovered...now they deploy AI to spin coverage so public response to current events matches the will of the powerful...
I have no problem with shopping at Amazon. Ms McKenzie is doing amazing things with her half of the profits. HBCU’s and Baltimore were direct beneficiaries of her FIRST round of ma$$ive donations. I cut NYT and WAPO subscriptions over the summer.
Democracy is being slowly, but surely, smothered by a cesspool of snivelling cowards. They're paying protection to a convicted felon who's raking it in like a mob boss.
Bezos appeared to care most about himself and appeared to care least about the capable and ethical journalists at WAPO. WAPO was neutered in the daylight.
Democracy isn’t dying in darkness - in fact, it’s being dismantled in broad daylight. The lights are on, the warnings are clear, yet corporate media, their complicit pundits, and our corrupted leaders are pulling the plug. But daylight works both ways - it’s time to expose them and fight back.
I agree. I had an argument today over the actual number tally of the presidential election. It’s visible in plain sight available within seconds of a Google search. But even when presented with the 1.5% difference, I had made up the numbers apparently.
Well said. I remember after 2016, people saying we needed to shine a light on all of the corruption of trump because Sunshine kills evil. But it hasn't. Trump's corruption has been exposed in multiple ways and people still voted for him. This is insanity. Rule of law is meaningless now.
Mostly bc of the Media. Sugar coating Rump's actions. Power and greed r winning. We have to remember, though, Rump also allows them to hate openly and attack those they hate
The liberalism and ideals of the left in Seattle didn't last long with Bezos. He was always part of the oligarchy, but now he knows it. And hopefully the last of us know it too. His fiancée should have been the final clue.
The USA, UK, France, and most so called democracies are all “SHAM DEMOCRACIES”. They are all of the billionaires by the billionaires for the billionaires.
I kept getting emails after I'd unsubscribed, which led me to sending them an email in which I may have told them I had no interest in a news organization that was run by gutless cowards. Haven't gotten an email from them since
apparently, you missed the #christian memo. Never heard a song that explains the situation we as a country are in better than The Doomed by perfect circle. Seriously listen to the words.
I think the same thing when “Christians” quote Jesus’ statement that “…the poor you will have with you always”. (Matthew 26:11). It’s not a goal, dudes.
I cried at the end of _The Post_ the legacy of the paper that bravely printed the Pentagon papers had been ripped to shreds. And this was in 2017, back when Bezos stood up to Trump a couple of times and pissed Trump off, but Bezos knew he was untouchable. Now he's a cowardly collaborator.
Somewhere between that and now, Bezos started beefing up and worrying about how he looked, as his GF turned into a hooker-garbed Kardashian-clone and they made headlines sailing the world in an obscene yacht. Now he, too, wants to be part of the board game of world domination and the big boy's club.
Maybe this is actually who they are. Compare Bezos to his ex wife. Completely different philosophies about what to do with their vast wealth. Maybe to become a Bezos you have to start by being a complete asshole to get there.
Sometimes it certainly feels that way.
I repeatedly wrote to a WaPo journalist, addressing the mistakes he made in his articles, linking him the proof.
He never replied.
Last I checked, he stopped writing for WaPo.
Yes it is! The wealthy don't want to be left out of the dismantling of the nation, they want to get as big a piece of the pie as the others.
We are in for DARK times! We may NOT recover.
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Relentless is what he wanted to call Amazon before his superior wife intervened.
it's not because they're immoral, so much as they're amoral.
Corporations and their investors are concerned with accumulating as much power (money) as possible.
They aren't driven by principle or virtue or morality; They aren't even part of the equation.
Let us recognize .
Doesn't Fox use (or maybe used to use) the phrase "fair and balanced"?
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Protest responsibily. Boycotts will be much safer than actual on ground people.
Remember log off amazon on the 20th
Delete twitter 1/20
Do not watch or stream the inauguration on 1/20
Iow, prices rise with borrowing.
The less Treasury has to issue T notes, the less goods are.
But the rich don't pay their fair share.
Like I say he has a spaceship he wants us to buy for ISS trips.
Democracy Dies In Darkness
Watch It At WaPo
In any case, I unsubscribed.
Christian Nationalism
Theocracy
day the Washington Post DIED IN DAYLIGHT
Jeff’s made a mess of the #freePress
#BoycottAmazon
Don’t stay w/just Fox,OAN, etc. Go legitimate, respected sources, WaPo, Reuters, NPR, etc. 1/2
No self-respecting journalist should let slide all the lies and clearly made up crap.
Had they been more aggressively reporting facts and not legitimizing horrible people, where could we be now?
Shame, disgrace
2/2
I really wish that we had an edit button here.
Switching to LED . Licensed educated and devoted. Be patient order is late by 4 more years.
"Press-titute"
Spread this.
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Cheering, drinking mead, furry smelly yellow belied sapsuckers, they be.
Jeff made a mess of the #freePress #BoycottSmazon
How much money do these mofos need?!?
( I was in a rush, as usual )
Who bought it just for that purpose.
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3ldeflg4r722j
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDvfbvuJtS8&t=28s
See what happens with just a little practice?…
I pity the blind.
WaPo: Die, Democracy, die!
I repeatedly wrote to a WaPo journalist, addressing the mistakes he made in his articles, linking him the proof.
He never replied.
Last I checked, he stopped writing for WaPo.
but apparently true
We are in for DARK times! We may NOT recover.