WaPo Advises People Who Want to Flee the Country

Andrew Stiles of the Washington Free Beacon documents the latest questionable journalism from a major legacy media outlet.

Journalists at the Washington Post might be hopelessly out of touch with normal Americans, but they certainly understand what their readers—mentally ill liberals with college degrees—want to know. On Thursday, the Post published an explanatory guide for Americans thinking about leaving the United States after Donald Trump’s overwhelming victory in the 2024 election, offering tips on obtaining a visa to live in Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. For some reason, the article did not include tips on how to immigrate to the many African countries where English is the primary language.

The Post examined the “political outlook” and health care systems in those five countries but not the economic outlook, which is just as well because none of those countries compare favorably to the United States. Reporters Leo Sands and Vivian Ho spoke to Jen Barnett, the owner of a company that helps Americans eager to move abroad to escape “political divides” or to find “a new home that’s safer for LGBTQ people or raising kids.” Barnett said the firm’s website traffic exploded last week after the presidential election was called for Trump. (Some context: Deranged liberals have been theatrically pledging to leave the country if a Republican wins the White House since 2004; very few of them actually follow through.)

The article comes as Post journalists continue to express frustration with owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris. Several employees quit their jobs in protest. (No one whose name you’d recognize.) Opinion columnist Karen Attiah slammed the decision as “an absolute stab in the back” and “an insult to those of us who have literally put our careers and lives on the line.” Attiah’s colleague, Jennifer Rubin, did not quit despite encouraging Los Angeles Times journalists to resign after the paper’s owner also barred them from endorsing Harris last month.