Wonder if Bezos will ask for his money back
I’m sure there is a newer version available; probably an Amazon off-brand even.
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He gets credits on Prime streaming.
Amazon never did it.
CamelCamelCamel should add it anyway
Chickened out I see
Nah, not chickened out, they’re in cahoots. Example … 40 mil for a shitty Melania documentary is outrageous. For reference, BBC’s planet earth cost 25 million. So… yeah…
Who the actual fuck cares about Melania? I get watching a documentary on Chris Chan cause at least that’s largely a self contained train wreck, but the fuck has Melania ever done that’s even passingly notable?
By the Allfather I can’t even fathom the fucking vanity of these pissants.
Eh, it’s mostly about the bribe, I’m sure. Having people pretend to be interested in her is just a bonus.
Probably mostly the bribe, but for them to settle on a fucking documentary is just alien to me. Like it’s just asking for folks to take a find toothed comb through her shit, the concept alone makes me want to climb into a hole and further blend into the paint. But I am admittedly coming from a background that utterly encourages being unnoticed except to those you like, good way to not be shot.
Easy to produce, spend the bare minimum, “spend” the rest on “marketing” and voilà, ez 38 mil in Melania’s pockets. Nobody said anything about the documentary being thorough or factual or anything of the sort, you’re thinking of the alternate reality where truth is a thing and Gwyneth Paltrow and other cunts aren’t allowed to peddle their bullshit
A documentary about watching paint dry would have more character and fun facts than anything related to that evil old hag
I’m pretty sure that’s just an episode of How Its Made on history channel circa 2010.
Yeah more people need to be hostile to this jackoff
I would call this move by Amazon honest.
I thought the same but apparently Amazon back-tracked like the wimps they are. It would have been the right thing to do but the fact they gave up on it makes a lot more sense.
Nah, it’s pragmatic. This way Amazon can go, ‘see we didn’t raise OUR prices, the extra cost is from the tarrifs’.
If they wanted to be honest they would also mention that Bezos and Amazon donated millions (that we know of) to Trump’s campaign AND inauguration fund, and Trump is why we have the tariffs in the first place.
If you literally GIVE someone a gun, and bullets, knowing full well that they aren’t mentally stable, and they kill someone, you ARE responsible. At the very least, an accessory. In this case, co-conspirator is the more appropriate term.
But these tariff costs are going to be paid by China just like you promised, right Don ? RIGHT ???
Just like how Mexico paid for that wall the first time. Zzzzzz
The truth is usually hostile to this administration.
I mean, I thought Jeff was being charitable during the inauguration.
Bezos is to Trump as Trump is to Putin. IOW they each grovel and obey in the hopes their master will give even a slight positive acknowledgement, but it never happens.
“How dare you offer clarity about what we’ve done!”
exists in reality, logically examines reality, does rational thing
HOW DARE YOU
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According to the article they already did
I learned from this very thread that the administration has already bribed Amazon with $40 million for a documentary on Melania. Planet Earth cost around half that.
Annnnnd he did. You called it.
Pathetic boot licker bezos
What a little fucking bitch baby.
At least Jeff Bezos is very philanthropic - shows his emotional intelligence
Oops sorry he’s not at all, meaning this was an incredibly hostile comment. Sorry for exposing low EQ, pls call me after Fox Morning Show mister pres & I’ll retract like a very strong smart man
lol so many dollars and so little anything else, how can someone show their face in public being so small
Bingo!
He backed down before Trump even yelled at him, this was never going to actually happen.
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I do so wish they would. Certain they won’t.
Bezos bent knee & kissed the ring. Chances he’ll grow a spine? 1 in a few million.
They’ve already had a phone call about it and Trump is back to calling him the most amazing leader of a beautiful American company or whatever. He stepped down in 2021.
He’s still on the board, but yeah he hasn’t been at the helm for a while now.
It’s just another example of their incompetence.
They ought to be proud of labeling the tariffed products, so that customers could easier choose the domestic brands, which supposedly is the point of having the tariffs in the first place.
Attempting to hide it only shows that they realize how bad the tariffs really are.
Tariffs are advertised as helping domestic companies.
In actuality, they directly hurt foreign companies and the hope is that the unhurt domestics will then flourish.
If the tariffs collected were used to simulate domestic companies, this would actually be possibly beneficial to the economy.
However those tariffs are being pocketed by the rich (through tax cuts and money laundering through contracts and crypto).
These should not be listed as tariffs costs, they should be listed for what it is: “amount Trump’s administration decided to steal from you based on your spending habits”
Had they labelled them “Trump’s beautiful tariffs” it would have gone smoothly
Yes, keep making enemies of the billionaires that got this administration into office and spent millions of dollars to do so. I’d very much love that for you.
Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.
That’s possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.
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I don’t know, I don’t see anyone saying that here.
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I really don’t understand the aggression, I was talking about the old rich dead people propaganda concerning no taxation without representation 200 years ago, I never said anything about the fuckwads we have today.
If you think I’m saying something different, explain what you read and allow me the opportunity to clarify my intent.
Saying I’m full of shit at this point is just asinine.
didn’t washington own like the western 2/3 of Pennsylvania?
And Ohio. He was by far the wealthiest man in the Colonies during his lifetime.
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So, he could have paid other guys to fight the war and stayed home? Instead of being in the middle of the battles, and going cold and hungry in Valley Forge?
There’s a lot of bad things you can say about Washington but enough good to at least make him complicated. He chose to limit his own Presidency, the opposite of our wannabe Führer. for one.
The modern technology of satelites, phones and such werent around back then, so any general wouldn’t be an effective one if they werent on the front lines with their soldiers.
Yes, he chose to join the battle and become a General rather than sit out the war at Monticello. It’s not like he was ambitious to become the leader of the new country. He felt a sense of responsibility.
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Well, his wealth wasn’t exactly liquid, it was mostly tied up in wilderness land.
Fortunes in those days weren’t in bank accounts, or stocks, or index funds, etc. They tended to be tied up in assets like land, slaves, crops, etc., and cold hard cash/gold, stored in a box somewhere, like under the floor.
In the most literal sense we have representation, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it in practice… :(
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Literal only in the terminological sense. We elect “representatives” but they don’t actually represent us in any meaningful way.
Don’t they? Look around you.
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They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.
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he was only ever representing putin, and MSB never the billionaires in the us.
When elections are fraudulent, its the same as no representation. Besides, pretty soon they’ll be suspending elections altogether. It doesn’t get more “no representation” than that.
In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.
The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?
The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.
they have been too cheap thus far.
I’m pretty sure that Bezos had enough money to bribe moderate chunks of the army.
Personnel is one thing.
Modern warfighting is outrageously expensive. Guided munitions can cost hundreds of thousands each. Armored vehicles cost millions. Combat aircraft, tens of millions. And it continues to cost tons of money just to keep them in a bunker ready to go.
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
There is a reason they’re all too happy to keep letting you and me indirectly fund their military aspirations through taxes.
its mostly asymmetrical/cyberwarefare now anyways. russia and china are both are good at this, but not militarily.
this is part of why it’s important for everyone to pay attention to the asymmetric warfare being conducted in Ukraine. for one, it’s a genocide, don’t look away and speak for their liberation just like i hope everyone is speaking up for all colonized peoples, like Mayans, Darfurians, Congolese, Palestinians, and Uyghers. for another the skills demostrated may become necessary in the near future
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
They don’t need one. They need a sniper.
You can have all the expensive equipment you want. They don’t have the numbers. When your enemies are all around you and this military historically fucking sucks at combating insurgency, you’re going to lose.
The military would be smart to tell this dude to pound sand before they, and a bunch of people die in a new civil war that they can’t win against the most armed civilian population on the planet.
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You are in agreement with the person you responded to.
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That’s the crazy part, unless they’re “outlawed” billionaires should try and improve people’s lives since it means they would have more money to spend on the crap those billionaires are selling! It’s hard to sell stuff on Amazon if everyone is struggling to afford housing and food.
Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.
They could work to remove the destitution and desperation of working people. But if their workers weren’t in such dire straits, then they wouldn’t have so much power over them. Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance also have more time to pursue unionization and other political activities. Even if improving the lives of the people would objectively increase the wealth of the ultra-rich, it would still decrease their power. And ultimately, the only reason people ever obtain that level of wealth is because they desire power more than anything else. People who aren’t power-hungry monsters cash out and retire early long before they reach billionaire status.
Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance are unlikely to pursue unions. That’s the stuff unions are trying to achieve.
UPS just laid off 20K workers on the expectation that Amazon deliveries will be way down.
Container ships are down 60%. More than any month during the pandemic.
Trump is imploding the entire economy.
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He’s brought down Tesla (bankrupt in 2 years, MMW), and now Amazon. We shpuld start a betting pool for who-s next. META? Google? Microsoft?
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He’s trying to kill all those US companies.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? Those corporations are what helped this “voting” travesty into power.
Corporations don’t have peoples’ well being in their sights except as target practice.
Power to the people, not corporations.
That’s the thing that was always gonna happen. They were always gonna bring themselves and subsequently society down. It’s just the crit multi of Donald Trump a lot of people seemed not prepared for.
“free speech”
Never ever take fascists at their word, they’re all bullshitting you always.