This isn't about Amazon's business practices. This is about Donald Trump attacking the Washington Post, a news outlet that reports true but unflattering things about the President.
I mean, come on. There is literally no question why Trump has chosen Amazon as one of his favorite bugbears. Trump's well-known "disdain" for Jeff Bezos and WaPo is the lede, not an aside buried under the fold.
Trump is going after an entire corporation simply because a part of it has the sheer temerity to say things about him that he doesn't like.
Amazon owns no part of the Washington Post. Only Jeff Bezos does! So he's going after an entire corporation because the man who runs it also runs a paper that says mean things. SAD!
This person gets it. It's also the same type of situation that had Trump going after the NFL, because of his previously failed jaunt into professional football. He's never gotten over that failure and jumped on any opportunity to try to fuck with them.
Fact is, immediately after taking office the entire government started hawking Trump merchandise, his whore daughters crap, and has been PAYING to send him to stay at resorts he fucking owns..... so this is no surprise.
As far as I know Amazon has said nothing about Trump; Jeff Bezos founded Amazon and owns WaPo, so that's the connection. So he's going after a completely different entity because it happens to have the same owner (or founder, Amazon is public I think). But otherwise right.
Well, it's pretty easy to check that assumption. Did Trump express concerns about Amazon "well before the election", and thus before the Post was writing "true but unflattering things" about him?
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It Is A Frigging Mystery Is It Not (Score:4, Informative)
This isn't about Amazon's business practices. This is about Donald Trump attacking the Washington Post, a news outlet that reports true but unflattering things about the President.
I mean, come on. There is literally no question why Trump has chosen Amazon as one of his favorite bugbears. Trump's well-known "disdain" for Jeff Bezos and WaPo is the lede, not an aside buried under the fold.
Trump is going after an entire corporation simply because a part of it has the sheer temerity to say things about him that he doesn't like.
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Amazon owns no part of the Washington Post. Only Jeff Bezos does! So he's going after an entire corporation because the man who runs it also runs a paper that says mean things. SAD!
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This person gets it. It's also the same type of situation that had Trump going after the NFL, because of his previously failed jaunt into professional football. He's never gotten over that failure and jumped on any opportunity to try to fuck with them.
Fact is, immediately after taking office the entire government started hawking Trump merchandise, his whore daughters crap, and has been PAYING to send him to stay at resorts he fucking owns..... so this is no surprise.
and it will come at no surprise to me,
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lol.if i were a conspirtard everything would be looked at with paranoia too.
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As far as I know Amazon has said nothing about Trump; Jeff Bezos founded Amazon and owns WaPo, so that's the connection. So he's going after a completely different entity because it happens to have the same owner (or founder, Amazon is public I think). But otherwise right.
Trump Dodged Taxes (Score:0)
So when Trump does it, it's "smart business practices." When Amazon does it, it's "very unfair".
As usual, this POTUS is dripping with irony and hypocrisy, and knows the definition of neither.
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Let the market handle it (and since a few years, I include POTUS in "the market").
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Unfortunately, WaPo's record of truth telling in articles about Trump isn't all that impressive.
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia-story-falls-apart-is-skepticism-permissible-yet/
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