Posted by hn1986 10/28/2024
Sadly Bezos won't care.
Also, what does endorsing Harris 12 days before the election buy you? I don't seriously believe anybody has been "undecided" since the campaign shifted to being Harris vs. Trump. I would wager that 99.99% of all Americans, whether they vote at all, have known whom they're voting for from day one.
So, you're not going to make any material impact on the election, and you stand to lose a lot of business. You can call it cowardice; I call it smart business.
Americans had better get used to it because if Trump gets elected, you're going to see a lot more of it. Let's not forget that some of our favorite German brands today were once affiliated with Germany's Nazi Party. History has a weird way of repeating itself.
If they want to publicly state that one candidate or another is advocating for policies that help or hinder their business, then it may be beneficial to their business to point that out. But that's not an endorsement. Businesses are well-advised to stick to policy - and stick to policy that directly affects their business.
If someone blocks an endorsement in an election where one candidate is so clearly unqualified for the presidency, there is no way to see it as anything other than a tacit approval of this filth.
Normalizing ("attempting neutrality") and kowtowing to fascism (preemptively avoiding upsetting an autocrat who may gain power) means you're supporting fascism, which makes one a fascist. Not head of the party or anything, just the minor kind who everyone looks back on and wonders why so many people just fell into line.
Economically, the current administration has exercised the most fiscal responsibility there has been over the past twenty years, setting moderate interest rates instead of profligate ZIRP. I don't know how well our economy could do after another round of helicopter money printing to juice the Potemkin stock market (causing rampant price inflation several years later) in lieu of directly addressing the national emergencies that will invariably arise.
Also, remember when political parties dropped their one term failures and chose a new candidate, rather than doubling down with nonsense narratives about stolen elections? Pettridge farm remembers.