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... so attention ought to be paid to his latest column ... ...

For what may be a couple of reasons.

1) Mr Bezos allowed this OpEd column to appear, even though he was reported to have deflected overt criticism of the Trump admin from the WaPo OpEd pages?

Jeff Bezos' revamp of 'Washington Post' opinions leads editor to quit (February 2025)
www.npr.org
...The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel.

Post Opinions Editor David Shipley, whom Bezos recruited from Bloomberg Opinions in 2022, chose to resign rather than stay to oversee the paper's revamped sections.

"We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets," Bezos wrote in a memo to staffers announcing the changes. "We'll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others." ...



2) Is Mr Will wrong?


The Federalist Papers : No. 75
avalon.law.yale.edu

... However proper or safe it may be in governments where the executive magistrate is an hereditary monarch, to commit to him the entire power of making treaties, it would be utterly unsafe and improper to intrust that power to an elective magistrate of four years' duration.

It has been remarked, upon another occasion, and the remark is unquestionably just, that an hereditary monarch, though often the oppressor of his people, has personally too much stake in the government to be in any material danger of being corrupted by foreign powers.

But a man raised from the station of a private citizen to the rank of chief magistrate, possessed of a moderate or slender fortune, and looking forward to a period not very remote when he may probably be obliged to return to the station from which he was taken, might sometimes be under temptations to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand.

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents.

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States. ...

[emphasis mine]

Published by Alexander Hamilton in 1788.


#14 Is this Left Hind Turds?

Makes sense.

FWIW: drudge.com

We've been numbed by all the depravity and corruption, so schemes like this are commonplace, to be expected, or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) now. Choose your description.

The utter stupidity of you people is astounding.
Costco can sell their products at whatever price they want. Why don't they just bite the bullet like everyone else is doing? Are they the evil capitalists you liberals fear?
Tariffs correct an imbalance that hurts everyone else. Costco should be happy the playing field is being leveled.
You people are idiots.

#8 | Posted by boaz a

Can someone explain this gibberish?

Yes costco can sell their products at whatever price they want captain obvious. OF COURSE that is oversimplification as their price is set by what they pay for stuff and the cost of selling the stuff and competition and stuff

Who is biting what bullet?

Are you saying the people impacted by what will prove to be illegal taxation in the form of tariffs SHOULDN"T seek return of their illegal taxation? I don't understand your point. Probably cause your point doesn't make sense.

Who fears capitalists? I care about Costco getting reimbursed only because they will be reaping a monetary windfall on the illegal taxation that President Piggy enacted, you know MY money. You seem too stupid to understand that fact.

Tariffs hurt everyone else? or the imbalance hurts everyone else? As an aside you really are dumb.

What imbalance? You realize that we get goods for the trade imbalance, right? that that trade imbalance is actually a sign of a healthy economy, right? We get STUFF for the money we send out, you undertand that, right?

You understand that there is a massive trade deficit in our favor if you include services.

On god's green earth what field is being leveled?

the only idiot is the one who clearly can't express himself coherently

san.com

Trump authorizes 529 airstrikes in 5 months, nears Biden's 4-year total

From AI

In 2025, the United States conducted multiple airstrikes in Somalia targeting terrorist groups like ISIS-Somalia and Al-Shabaab, often in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia. These strikes occurred in various regions, including Puntland, and the frequency of strikes increased compared to previous years, with one source citing over 100 strikes in total for 2025, according to a Facebook post.
Multiple strikes in late 2025: The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced several airstrikes against ISIS-Somalia in November 2025, including on November 21, 22, and 25. An additional strike was conducted on October 27 in the Golis Mountains area.
Targeting terrorist groups: These airstrikes were conducted in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, with the stated aim of degrading ISIS-Somalia's and Al-Shabaab's ability to operate.
Increased frequency: The number of US airstrikes in Somalia significantly increased in 2025. One report mentioned 101 strikes by late November, a notable increase from previous years, according to a Facebook post.
Civilian casualties: While official reports from AFRICOM state that civilians were not harmed in many of these specific strikes, casualty figures from other sources may vary.
Other military action: In addition to airstrikes, the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) became operational in January 2025, succeeding the previous ATMIS mission

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