Watch CBS News for a week. Note the advertisers. Write letters to these advertisers telling them you and your family and friends will not buy their products as long as they continue to support STATE NEWS.
Do what we used to do back in the day: Find one of those capitalist enablers and inform them that you are not only boycotting them, you have donated to their competitors.
I'm a CBS nightly news watcher since Walter Cronkite. Network news was never my main news source but I watch a bit out of curiosity what they think is important. Lately it's been great at repeating talking points of the regime and promoting right wingers like Charlie Kirk's widow. I'm through.
I'm disappointed, but hardly surprised, by the ease and rapidity with which corporate America knuckled under. It's exactly what businesses in Germany did in 1933, and was as predictable as the sunrise and sunset.
Has anyone listened to Rachel Maddow’s Ultra series? It’s like we’re reliving those bad decades and have forgotten that democracy is what makes the good life in America a possibility.
At the very least, those 8 senators should have held out until the Supreme Court had to weigh in on whether if was legal for Trump's administration to withhold food assistance and SNAP during the shutdown. There was a two-day deadline. This way, The Supreme Court got off easy by calling the issue moot.
And yet the economy is all most people in this country care about, as those who switched and voted for trump did so despite his obvious hideousy and cruelty. The senator in Nevada caved because the shutdown was helping to destroy the economy of Las Vegas, of which that is all Nevada has going for it, and thus the economy of her state would be wrecked. The senator from New Hampshire caved because so many people were dependent on food stamps.
What should someone who is going to primary them do for these states instead?
Who can blame a large majority of our population for their greater concern for their kitchen-table economy and budgets? Wages haven't kept up with inflation, which has been exacerbated by the tariffs. The home economy is being bludgeoned by prices of all goods and services that keep increasing. People who were already having to hustle to make ends meet are having a harder time yet. It is, as was said, the economy, stupid.
I’m well aware of the difficult conditions people are living with, as I live it every day. Some people I know are living in trailers behind their parents’s house because rent is so I unaffordable, and my daughters tell me of friends who are living in their vehicles, or on the verge of doing so.
We are barely getting by, as senior citizens.
But we would never consider voting for trump to make our lives better, just because that’s what he promised. That’s like saying, I want for myself, but I’m not concerned for the welfare of others
I agree, Mary. And we want to believe the best about others, but MAGA is a different breed. They put themselves first, last and always. They will never sacrifice to make things better. They will never put themselves on the line.
I agree it is the economy. I also think the that US economy supporting basic needs has been sidelined, it has been for ages.
Our tax system exacerbates the problem, our lack of protecting workers, families and housing piles on. And the profits the 3 largest grocery stores in the nation make is the final nail for this country’s economic crisis.
Look at that list, the people who control those things are the ones that are ruining peoples lives. Millionaires steps away from becoming billionaires are killing Americans. Democrats, Independents and Republicans are at fault … just check the list for how many millionaires and billionaires in
Congress.
No easy fix, when the fix means your income will be taxed. Or even the large donors to your campaigns will be taxed.
Thank you for your hope honesty courage and compassion reporting truth to power with clear evidence to support truth. We are in this together. Happy Holidays. No Kings. Peace. Christopher and family.
I have stopped shopping at Target, don’t eat Nabisco products ( their parent company contributed to the ballroom, am looking into alternatives for my Comcast account ( they too contributed to the ballroom), and have cut back 90% on Amazon. Every little bit helps, as shown by the fact that Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air.
Emily, I won't shop at Target, was never on Facebook, won't watch CBS other than Colbert, avoid Amazon, and am also looking for a Comcast alternative - love Jimmy and Colbert.
I really struggle with this. I guess this makes me a hypocrite, but I occasionally go to Target, shop a lot on Amazon, and I love my Starlink Mini when we go camping. I also watched Andor on Disney Plus and just bought an Apple iPad. It's really hard to function without hitting a tripwire.
I know everyone doing their little part can make a difference and send a message but it quickly becomes exhausting and no offense but feels like virtue signaling. Voting, showing up to protests, and donating to candidates I guess is my penance. Oh, and I also spend a lot of money at Costco.
and Costco does not depend on SNAP payments to their employees to keep them from starving and thus keep them coming to work. Walmart employees are a significant number of SNAP recipients because they are paid so badly.
Emily, I forgot to mention Costco. I've been a huge fan for over 20 years, but when I heard about their support for DEI, that made it much more attractive. I've seen the same employees there over the years, and that speaks to their treatment of employees.
You're correct, we must, to the best of our ability, let the sellouts know that we're aware of them, and not supporting their behavior.
I think Costco is in it for the long haul with the their tariff rebate lawsuit and also they know their customers and caring for their employees is part of shopping at Costco.
They would really reel me in if they could import the Montreal beef sandwich I had at the Medicine Hat, Alberta Costco Food Court last summer. And who knew there is a Costco in Medicine Hat?
It is indeed exhausting. We’ve allowed monopolists to effectively make themselves the only game in town. I very unhappily picked up a few vegan items at Walmart for visiting vegan relatives before I realized there IS a less bad alternative in town. Only one, but there is at least that. I’m going to virtue signal here that I have not ordered anything from Amazon for more than a year. If I were younger and still had five kids at home, i think it would be impossible not to shop with Amazon. AND many companies not directly affiliated with Amazon use Amazon’s shipping—you can’t avoid that. SO no judgment here. You do what you can. But hurray for Costco—so far!
I agree 100%. It’s difficult to cut these companies off precisely because they’re Monopolies and we have no alternative. They get our business or we do without. Not much left of the “Free Market System”. I see a few comments mentioning “Virtue signaling”. Another positive term the right wing has turned on its head. Remember when having Virtue was a good thing?
I know what that is like. Around here finding items I need right now, for my home, is impossible. So many stores have become on line stores , carry items on line through Amazon and no longer carry items locally. What is worse is when you go directly to the store website— and product, it takes you back to Amazon for ordering and delivery. A vicious cycle.
Trying is what I can do, but that battle is often not won.
The collusion among some Senate Republicans to each be able to say they voted against confirmation, yet allow all to be confirmed. McConnell, Collins and Murkowski clearly played that game, deciding which two would vote no, and which one would vote yes.
Absolutely. The lack of consequences for these no votes makes it clear that they were party approved.
Also, the Big Beautiful Bull was a Republican wish list. Trump only put his weight behind it for the attention. If Tillis hadn't thrown a wrench into the machinery Paul, Murkowski, and Collins could have all safely voted no. I suspect that Paul was a hard no vote regardless. But, Collins would definitely have voted yes if Murkowski hadn't taken the bullet. Tillis was forced out because of his vote. There's no way Collin escaped pushback if her vote hadn't been approved.
Not that I am looking to excuse their behavior, but I wonder, after he's gone gone gone and the air has cleared, what horror stories we will hear about the threats made to their families. I think they were substantial, and not just by crackpots on the web.
But the same crowd are threatening some Dem (think Kelly) and they stick it out bravely and don't quit, that is the difference between cowards and heroes.
I’m of a certain age too and I am fully expecting, given my comments and my showing up at all kinds of protests, that one of them is going to come for me sometime. So I always say bring it on. And I admire the woman Patricia who confronted the ICE agents. She told her story of the comment to one of the sub stack columnists who took her video and put it online. Now that’s different, she made a decision to do that herself, and we don’t know about her family. Your concerns are very legitimate.
And I just read a quote in regard to a brave strong dog who rescued his owner from a fire and who was disfigured in it. The poster asked “what do you see when you look at this face?” One comment said this: “I see proof that loyalty is stronger than fear, that courage isn’t about being unafraid—it’s about acting in spite of fear.”
I don’t mean to apply you’re wrong but I was trying to say that but didn’t say it very well. But I think the comment is something we should all keep in the front of our minds when times get tough.
I never said I was a hero and I’m very possibly a coward. So you’re probably right. But in my mind I’d like to think I would do the right thing which is make it public and call them out. But it is easy to make all kinds of statements here on our comment sections isn’t it?
Personally, I no longer care for my own safety, being of a certain age… But I do consider how it might reflect on at least one of my children. She and her husband both work for DoE and when I have visited their facility, the security and scrutiny was over the top, to say the least. I don't want to put her job in jeopardy since she is doing important work.
I really wish Matt Gaetz would have hung in there. That would have been an interesting vote and if confirmed much more of an entertaining clown show than Bondi. They are all a insult to decency, competence, and a democratic government, but at least we should get some entertainment value.
Hi David. I was just trying to emphasize that time it's not in our favor. The speed this regime is using to destroy everything that's good in this country produces dizziness, as if they had everything planned and hit the ground running on day one and boy, they are still running . I appreciate your comment and the "We". 👍
As a sailor I can tell you that when the tide recedes it can leave behind good things. Best mussels I ever ate came from a granite island in Maine when the tide left some wonderful clean mussels easily picked of the clean granite rock. My husband took off his shirt (we hadn't expected to find dinner on the rock!), piled in a bunch of them, went back to the boat and had mussels in wine sauce (my late husband was a fantastic cook) -best mussels ever!
Tech sector billionaires benefited more than anyone else from the economic freedom and the rule of law in America and they caved without a whimper. It seems they have been complicit all along.
Let us not forget John Roberts, who has capped his lifelong crusade against democracy by anointing the worst man in American history as an untouchable dictator.
Jennifer, I've loved your writing ever since I read "The Right Turn" in the Post but this column takes the cake. When you put it together, the craven spinelessness from important people and institutions is beyond deplorable. Please keep up your remarkable work because you represent the values that our country must regain.
I can’t argue with a single person or company inducted into this Hall of Shame. Well done. Thank you, Jen, for leaving the WaPo to join with Norm to bring clarity and truth to the events of our time.
Watch CBS News for a week. Note the advertisers. Write letters to these advertisers telling them you and your family and friends will not buy their products as long as they continue to support STATE NEWS.
Or…just boycott CBS and all legacy news!
Or...you just can do both Kathleen 😜
Agreed!!
That is what I did when they settled tRump's bogus lawsuit.
Do what we used to do back in the day: Find one of those capitalist enablers and inform them that you are not only boycotting them, you have donated to their competitors.
I'm a CBS nightly news watcher since Walter Cronkite. Network news was never my main news source but I watch a bit out of curiosity what they think is important. Lately it's been great at repeating talking points of the regime and promoting right wingers like Charlie Kirk's widow. I'm through.
How about YOU watch CBS for a week and post a list here for us to boycott ;-)
You watch and give us a list.
I'm disappointed, but hardly surprised, by the ease and rapidity with which corporate America knuckled under. It's exactly what businesses in Germany did in 1933, and was as predictable as the sunrise and sunset.
When subsidies and tax breaks are threatened, there is little that will stem greed more than capitulating to tyrants.
Has anyone listened to Rachel Maddow’s Ultra series? It’s like we’re reliving those bad decades and have forgotten that democracy is what makes the good life in America a possibility.
The democrats need to embrace new young leadership and primary out those Senators mentioned here. Until we do, it’ll be the same old crap.
At the very least, those 8 senators should have held out until the Supreme Court had to weigh in on whether if was legal for Trump's administration to withhold food assistance and SNAP during the shutdown. There was a two-day deadline. This way, The Supreme Court got off easy by calling the issue moot.
The extreme court is so corrupt! A few strong women are the exception.
Fetterman had a stroke and became a rethuglican. He needs to go. The rest of them need to be primaried.
And yet the economy is all most people in this country care about, as those who switched and voted for trump did so despite his obvious hideousy and cruelty. The senator in Nevada caved because the shutdown was helping to destroy the economy of Las Vegas, of which that is all Nevada has going for it, and thus the economy of her state would be wrecked. The senator from New Hampshire caved because so many people were dependent on food stamps.
What should someone who is going to primary them do for these states instead?
Who can blame a large majority of our population for their greater concern for their kitchen-table economy and budgets? Wages haven't kept up with inflation, which has been exacerbated by the tariffs. The home economy is being bludgeoned by prices of all goods and services that keep increasing. People who were already having to hustle to make ends meet are having a harder time yet. It is, as was said, the economy, stupid.
I’m well aware of the difficult conditions people are living with, as I live it every day. Some people I know are living in trailers behind their parents’s house because rent is so I unaffordable, and my daughters tell me of friends who are living in their vehicles, or on the verge of doing so.
We are barely getting by, as senior citizens.
But we would never consider voting for trump to make our lives better, just because that’s what he promised. That’s like saying, I want for myself, but I’m not concerned for the welfare of others
Hear! Hear!
I agree, Mary. And we want to believe the best about others, but MAGA is a different breed. They put themselves first, last and always. They will never sacrifice to make things better. They will never put themselves on the line.
I agree it is the economy. I also think the that US economy supporting basic needs has been sidelined, it has been for ages.
Our tax system exacerbates the problem, our lack of protecting workers, families and housing piles on. And the profits the 3 largest grocery stores in the nation make is the final nail for this country’s economic crisis.
Look at that list, the people who control those things are the ones that are ruining peoples lives. Millionaires steps away from becoming billionaires are killing Americans. Democrats, Independents and Republicans are at fault … just check the list for how many millionaires and billionaires in
Congress.
No easy fix, when the fix means your income will be taxed. Or even the large donors to your campaigns will be taxed.
Jennifer,
Thank you for your hope honesty courage and compassion reporting truth to power with clear evidence to support truth. We are in this together. Happy Holidays. No Kings. Peace. Christopher and family.
I have stopped shopping at Target, don’t eat Nabisco products ( their parent company contributed to the ballroom, am looking into alternatives for my Comcast account ( they too contributed to the ballroom), and have cut back 90% on Amazon. Every little bit helps, as shown by the fact that Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air.
Emily, I won't shop at Target, was never on Facebook, won't watch CBS other than Colbert, avoid Amazon, and am also looking for a Comcast alternative - love Jimmy and Colbert.
I really struggle with this. I guess this makes me a hypocrite, but I occasionally go to Target, shop a lot on Amazon, and I love my Starlink Mini when we go camping. I also watched Andor on Disney Plus and just bought an Apple iPad. It's really hard to function without hitting a tripwire.
I know everyone doing their little part can make a difference and send a message but it quickly becomes exhausting and no offense but feels like virtue signaling. Voting, showing up to protests, and donating to candidates I guess is my penance. Oh, and I also spend a lot of money at Costco.
I'm writing back to you on an Apple. We can't cut out completely, but we can chip away at the monoliths.
Yay, Costco--please don't be the next sellout!
and Costco does not depend on SNAP payments to their employees to keep them from starving and thus keep them coming to work. Walmart employees are a significant number of SNAP recipients because they are paid so badly.
Emily, I forgot to mention Costco. I've been a huge fan for over 20 years, but when I heard about their support for DEI, that made it much more attractive. I've seen the same employees there over the years, and that speaks to their treatment of employees.
You're correct, we must, to the best of our ability, let the sellouts know that we're aware of them, and not supporting their behavior.
I think Costco is in it for the long haul with the their tariff rebate lawsuit and also they know their customers and caring for their employees is part of shopping at Costco.
They would really reel me in if they could import the Montreal beef sandwich I had at the Medicine Hat, Alberta Costco Food Court last summer. And who knew there is a Costco in Medicine Hat?
It is indeed exhausting. We’ve allowed monopolists to effectively make themselves the only game in town. I very unhappily picked up a few vegan items at Walmart for visiting vegan relatives before I realized there IS a less bad alternative in town. Only one, but there is at least that. I’m going to virtue signal here that I have not ordered anything from Amazon for more than a year. If I were younger and still had five kids at home, i think it would be impossible not to shop with Amazon. AND many companies not directly affiliated with Amazon use Amazon’s shipping—you can’t avoid that. SO no judgment here. You do what you can. But hurray for Costco—so far!
I agree 100%. It’s difficult to cut these companies off precisely because they’re Monopolies and we have no alternative. They get our business or we do without. Not much left of the “Free Market System”. I see a few comments mentioning “Virtue signaling”. Another positive term the right wing has turned on its head. Remember when having Virtue was a good thing?
I know what that is like. Around here finding items I need right now, for my home, is impossible. So many stores have become on line stores , carry items on line through Amazon and no longer carry items locally. What is worse is when you go directly to the store website— and product, it takes you back to Amazon for ordering and delivery. A vicious cycle.
Trying is what I can do, but that battle is often not won.
The collusion among some Senate Republicans to each be able to say they voted against confirmation, yet allow all to be confirmed. McConnell, Collins and Murkowski clearly played that game, deciding which two would vote no, and which one would vote yes.
Absolutely. The lack of consequences for these no votes makes it clear that they were party approved.
Also, the Big Beautiful Bull was a Republican wish list. Trump only put his weight behind it for the attention. If Tillis hadn't thrown a wrench into the machinery Paul, Murkowski, and Collins could have all safely voted no. I suspect that Paul was a hard no vote regardless. But, Collins would definitely have voted yes if Murkowski hadn't taken the bullet. Tillis was forced out because of his vote. There's no way Collin escaped pushback if her vote hadn't been approved.
Not that I am looking to excuse their behavior, but I wonder, after he's gone gone gone and the air has cleared, what horror stories we will hear about the threats made to their families. I think they were substantial, and not just by crackpots on the web.
But the same crowd are threatening some Dem (think Kelly) and they stick it out bravely and don't quit, that is the difference between cowards and heroes.
I’m of a certain age too and I am fully expecting, given my comments and my showing up at all kinds of protests, that one of them is going to come for me sometime. So I always say bring it on. And I admire the woman Patricia who confronted the ICE agents. She told her story of the comment to one of the sub stack columnists who took her video and put it online. Now that’s different, she made a decision to do that herself, and we don’t know about her family. Your concerns are very legitimate.
And I just read a quote in regard to a brave strong dog who rescued his owner from a fire and who was disfigured in it. The poster asked “what do you see when you look at this face?” One comment said this: “I see proof that loyalty is stronger than fear, that courage isn’t about being unafraid—it’s about acting in spite of fear.”
I don’t mean to apply you’re wrong but I was trying to say that but didn’t say it very well. But I think the comment is something we should all keep in the front of our minds when times get tough.
Clearly it's a personal decision and I don't think anyone is in a position to suggest what another should do.
Yes, nobody knows how they will act in the moment no matter what other people tell them they should do.
If your family was being targeted you might have a different reaction
I never said I was a hero and I’m very possibly a coward. So you’re probably right. But in my mind I’d like to think I would do the right thing which is make it public and call them out. But it is easy to make all kinds of statements here on our comment sections isn’t it?
Personally, I no longer care for my own safety, being of a certain age… But I do consider how it might reflect on at least one of my children. She and her husband both work for DoE and when I have visited their facility, the security and scrutiny was over the top, to say the least. I don't want to put her job in jeopardy since she is doing important work.
I really wish Matt Gaetz would have hung in there. That would have been an interesting vote and if confirmed much more of an entertaining clown show than Bondi. They are all a insult to decency, competence, and a democratic government, but at least we should get some entertainment value.
Yes. Pretty bad, all of them. May their names be buried in oblivion.
…buried in oblivion after excoriated in historical documentation.
Not before paying a price for their behavior, collaboration, cowardice and unethical enrichment.
We'll be lucky if the actual criminals get their due
I believe you'll soon get your wish. The tide is already shifting.
By the time the tide finishes shifting, would it be anything left to salvage?
Yes, Ricardo. “We” will be worth salvaging, and “we” will rebuild it.
Hi David. I was just trying to emphasize that time it's not in our favor. The speed this regime is using to destroy everything that's good in this country produces dizziness, as if they had everything planned and hit the ground running on day one and boy, they are still running . I appreciate your comment and the "We". 👍
My comment was addressed to myself as much as it was to you , Ricardo.
All good! Thanks for your reply.
As a sailor I can tell you that when the tide recedes it can leave behind good things. Best mussels I ever ate came from a granite island in Maine when the tide left some wonderful clean mussels easily picked of the clean granite rock. My husband took off his shirt (we hadn't expected to find dinner on the rock!), piled in a bunch of them, went back to the boat and had mussels in wine sauce (my late husband was a fantastic cook) -best mussels ever!
Tech sector billionaires benefited more than anyone else from the economic freedom and the rule of law in America and they caved without a whimper. It seems they have been complicit all along.
Crypto, baby, crypto…
Thank you for putting these offenders front and center
Let us not forget John Roberts, who has capped his lifelong crusade against democracy by anointing the worst man in American history as an untouchable dictator.
Jennifer, I've loved your writing ever since I read "The Right Turn" in the Post but this column takes the cake. When you put it together, the craven spinelessness from important people and institutions is beyond deplorable. Please keep up your remarkable work because you represent the values that our country must regain.
Love me some Jen!!
These are great Annals of Perfidy, Jen! Thanks for compiling them!
Luckily Jen kept the list short. I don't think I could have my sanity in one piece had she added one more name.
Maybe tomorrow I can take another bunch.....maybe. 🤔
1955 and 1959: The Mouse That Roared (book and film)
2025: The Mice That Squeaked
Billionaires like to say that they are billionaires because they took big risks. Sucking up to this administration proves that they are self-deluded.
I can’t argue with a single person or company inducted into this Hall of Shame. Well done. Thank you, Jen, for leaving the WaPo to join with Norm to bring clarity and truth to the events of our time.
It’s the 2025 Hall of Shame. Do they have the ability to regret bowing to Trump?
As they keep doing so, confidence is not high.
shame is not available in that market.