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Jon (jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 00:06:05 JST Jon

The humor columnist has more backbone than Bezos.
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1. Opinion by Alexandra Petri The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I'm told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
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- Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 00:06:53 JST Aral Balkan
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  - Alex Fürstenau
  @jonpainterphoto @afuerstenau It’s not lack of backbone, it’s calculated malice.
  
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