{"id":41314,"date":"2024-10-28T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41314"},"modified":"2024-10-28T21:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T02:03:13","slug":"a-foundering-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/28\/a-foundering-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foundering Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Washington Post&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> owner, Amazon found Jeff Bezos, may have refused to permit it to endorse Vice President Harris for President in the upcoming election, but at least they&#8217;re not being completely muted. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2024\/10\/27\/washington-post-endorsement-fallout\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3f73367%2F671fbef9466871359d1dbecb%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F14%2F59%2F671fbef9466871359d1dbecb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overview article<\/a>\u00a0 presents it as news coverage, and I particularly appreciated Senator Sander&#8217;s (I-VT) comment:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QQOASZBJH5HPBFHRG4ABFPUGCY\" data-el=\"text\">Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) criticized Bezos in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1849885994629091638\">an X post<\/a>, saying the Amazon founder \u201cis afraid of antagonizing Trump and losing Amazon\u2019s federal contracts. Pathetic.\u201d<em> [<strong>WaPo<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QQOASZBJH5HPBFHRG4ABFPUGCY\" data-el=\"text\">If I were Senator Sanders, though, I would have enhanced it with the nearly unthinkable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QQOASZBJH5HPBFHRG4ABFPUGCY\" data-el=\"text\">Mr. Bezos, I understand that Amazon, as well as yourself, have a lot of wealth. I must remind you that the way in which we represent wealth is entirely dependent on the United States government&#8217;s trustability. If Mr Trump becomes President, do you think your wealth, your Amazon, will continue to exist? Or will all that wealth be sucked out of you and yours&#8217;, much as happened to the Jews of Nazi Germany?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QQOASZBJH5HPBFHRG4ABFPUGCY\" data-el=\"text\">Good men who recognize how the world works will recognize that VP Harris is a flawed candidate, but not nearly as flawed as Mr Trump and his greedy and degenerate associates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QQOASZBJH5HPBFHRG4ABFPUGCY\" data-el=\"text\">If trust in the United States government collapses, then our entire system of wealth representation will collapse, from dollars to computer-managed accounts. That&#8217;s what Senator Sanders should have told Mr Bezos.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"null\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QQOASZBJH5HPBFHRG4ABFPUGCY\" data-el=\"text\">The hatred spewing from Mr Trump and his associates should be a big clue as to their unsuitability for office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8217;s owner, Amazon found Jeff Bezos, may have refused to permit it to endorse Vice President Harris for President in the upcoming election, but at least they&#8217;re not being completely muted. This overview article\u00a0 presents it as news coverage, and I particularly appreciated Senator Sander&#8217;s (I-VT) comment: Meanwhile, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/28\/a-foundering-post\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41315,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41314\/revisions\/41315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}