WaPo Proves It's Subservient to the Felonious Orange Shitbag

Ann Telnaes was a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post. She submitted his cartoon about billionaires paying tribute to the Felonious Orange Shitbag (FOS):

The Post killed the cartoon. She quit and explained why:

"I've worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations-and some differences-about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I've never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.

"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump. There have been multiple articles recently about these men with lucrative government contracts and an interest in eliminating regulations making their way to Mar-a-lago. The group in the cartoon included Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner."

Thiis is her Substack post, which seems to be back online. But anyway, I don't believe that Bezos directly nixed the printing of the cartoon. But I do believe that he has made his desire known that the Post should do everything it can to make nice with the FOS in the hopes that said FOS doesn't fuck with Amazon's computing contracts and with Bezos's pet rocket enterprise.

That's how it works in authoritarian states: The dictator/tyrant doesn't have to lift a finger. Corporate and media bosses comply without a smidgen of coercion out of fear of omething bad happening to them. It's like in the old days, when the beat cop stood there, tapping his nightstick into the palm of his hand. He didn't have to make a threat, but you knew what was what.

And so do the oligarchs. The million-dollar docations to FOS's inaugural fund is nothing less than unsolicited tribute. So is going down to FL to kiss the FOS's ring at Bed Bugs and Beyond.

Our option in response is to not buy that paper. Or not buy shit from Amazon. There's pretty much nothing but second-rate garbage these days on his streaming channel.