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.
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
The mean girls oligarch shunning is actually kind of hilarious
Haha keep dancing for your new master, Bezos. Fuckhead.
Just like stating COVID-19 wasn’t lethal, and was just the flu. An estimated 400,000 MAGA Cult Members, out of 1 Million US dead from the virus, believed a narcissist with the mind of child who didn’t want to embarrassed by not having a perfect, fawning, adulating audience to his magnificence. RFK Jr. literal stated recently that CVD-19 only killed “Old People.” Yeah, idiot, some of those old people were someone’s grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, friends, and some of them believed an idiot who told them to take horse dewormer, or fish aquarium chloride to cure it.
This is the same thing. These people are psychopaths.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, he was filthy rich, not in liquidity, but in assets.
But yes, he was approached with the offer to be King of The Colonies, and he refused. We can admire that.
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.
He was one of the richest Americans who ever lived. I don’t if that is still true, but it was at one time.
They thought funding Trump would get them representation. They were wrong. Trump cares about no one but himself.
Why would they care about “Representation?”
They have more wealth than 1,000 people could ever spend in 1,000 lifetimes.
He backed down to keep profits from MAGA Cult Members flowing in.
Because being that greedy is a mental illness.
he was only ever representing putin, and MSB never the billionaires in the us.
In the most literal sense we have representation, but it sure as hell doesn’t seem like it in practice… :(
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.
1/3 of us. 1/3 are in opposition. 1/3 is apathetic, thinking it doesn’t matter.
Not anymore.
Watch the Republican Town Halls of the few who still have the courage, or narcissism, to hold, and even though they’re being booed down, they still have the arrogance to try the lecture their constituents.
I think they’re trying to instigate riots so they can declare Martial Law via The Insurrection Act.
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.
How are billionaires being taxed unfairly, and without “Representation,” when they own our politicians?
I don’t know, I don’t see anyone saying that here.
Yeah, you’re full of shit.
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.
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.
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
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.
Tell that to the Vietnamese 50 years ago, who defeated a technologically superior foe.
You are in agreement with the person you responded to.
I’m aware, I was stating my agreement…
They will balk at the cost of owning/operating even a single Arleigh-Burke destroyer.
They don’t need one. They need a sniper.
its mostly asymmetrical/cyberwarefare now anyways. russia and china are both are good at this, but not militarily.
Insane that the rich hate taxes so much, that they’re willing to put literal narcissist criminal idiots in charge thinking “I can definitely control and predict this guy’s behavior and surely that will be good for my business rather than just not having a 37th yacht and paying taxes and making the world an objectively better place not only for the other 7 billion inhabitants but probably more stable for my own interests as well.”
If we weren’t all being tossed into the furnace with them, it would be something I’d never stop laughing at.
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.
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.
They truly believe in the Social Darwinist belief that no one is truly compassionate, empathetic, or altruistic. It’s just an act to gain attention, or an advantage.
They literally can’t understand it, and think it’s a stupid delusion. Their narcissism can’t comprehend that anyone would do anything without wanting something in return. And those who don’t believe that are stupid, and deserve to be exploited.
Because winners are winners, and losers and losers. It’s the natural order. EVERYONE is looking to take what’s yours, and will abuse, rob, and kill you if they can. Because that’s what they would do.
And then there’s the competition with other psychopaths in their peer group…
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.
That level of greed is mental illness. A perpetual state of fear of losing what you have.
You have more than you can ever spend, ever, and you’re in constant fear that someone will take it from you. Because that’s would you do.
In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.
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?
None of those Mega Corps are going anywhere.
They have virtually unlimited wealth. Amazon makes most of it’s money off of their server business.
Tesla, on the other hand, has always been smoke and mirrors. Good riddance. If you have their stock, sell now.
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.
Temu, taobao, alibaba all openly show 150% tariffs in their ui.
Go try checking out.Amazon might hide it but it sells all the same products so not gonna deceive many
I don’t think you understand how stupid the average person is. There is a decent chance this will all be biden inflation in their minds and not tariffs if there isn’t literally a thing that says “tariff charge” on it. Even then they will probably see that and think it’s just there to lie and hurt Trump
given how much tariffs have permeated the news and people’s bank accounts and retirement accounts I don’t think there’s much avoidance of the topic
They think this will somehow be a quick trade war that ends in everything being the same price, but suddenly produced domestically. They are still delusional. They are still riding the 2020 inflation wave they call bidenomics.
What’s hilarious is the tariffs appear in their “Haul” storefront, which is just their version of Temu. It’s pretty new like a few months old and an attempt at stealing business from those other apps.
So you’re telling me that a online shopper would stumble on Amazon Haul, never ever knowing about the many other discount e-commerce stores, and won’t quickly piece together WHY things are priced that way?
So the truth is hostile.
Meanwhile there’s a deportation bill to the tune of 80,000,000,000. These are for concentration camps and 10,000 more ICE Nazis to run them.
They are coming for you.
“When they kick down your front door, how you gonna come , with your hands on your head, or the trigger of a gun?” - Joe Strummer The Clash
Telling people how much the Trump Tax costs them is now considered “hostility”. Got it.
You aren’t supposed to make the President look bad. That is illegal.
will be illegal.
Retroactively
As is tradition
Breaking the Law by Judas Priest intensifies
“Is.”
He’s going after everyone who ever insulted, or defied him, actually, and perceived.
And most people are caving. To a deluded, emotionally crippled manchild who was handed everything his whole life.
Hostility to his ego.
Narcissistic wounds are the worst, don’t you know?
/s
You are not supposed to wake up the zombie voters. That is illegal.
Amazon never did it.
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.
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.
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
CamelCamelCamel should add it anyway
“Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?” Leavitt asked during a press briefing.
Because Biden didn’t start a trade war?
Because “inflation” isn’t a percentage number a president can just impose at will lol.
When confronted with this nonsense, I had started telling people that Biden had levers on his desk labeled inflation and gas prices. And nobody could get him to stop pulling them. Taking it to the absurd was surprisingly effective.
Spoken like a Republican that doesn’t understand inflation and price gouging vs tariffs.
Oh, they understand perfectly. They’re just psychopaths who don’t care, and lie like the rest of us breathe.
Maybe a few of them are too stupid to understand, maybe a couple
How dangerous to believe deeply resourced and corrupt individuals are entirely unaware
Exactly.
99% know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re organized, and loyal.
Dangerous.
All these Republican banshees understand is bleach their hair, botox their faces, bleat buzzwords and not so slowly turn the US into a turbo capitalistic hellscape
"See, what you don’t understand, is Biden instituted policies to fund “Social Programs” for “Those People” I don’t know, and don’t care about, and are barely “People.” Parasites.
He was fucking with my money, which I have more than I can ever spend, BUT IT’S MINE! MY PRECIOUSSSSS…"
/s
Trump has been bragging about how he would put tariffs on everything for a few years. Why is pointing out the tariffs he is bragging about an act of hostility towards him? You would think he would want his accomplishment to be pointed out.
Trump: “We’re increasing foreign prices because we want consumers to prefer buying American.”
Retailers: “These foreign goods are more expensive than American-made ones.”
Trump: “How dare you tell them that!”
Cause we’re too stupid to already know…
That’ll get the people grumbling.
Walmart should also do this.
Grocery stores too.
Thoughts on how to make this happen:
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Whenever a shopowner is already critical of Trump, call them and suggest it directly.
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Ask your local cashiers and other store clerks how come the prices rose, and whether that really is all tariffs. Again and again. And ideally so that other shoppers overhear it.
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Make angry social media posts explicitly asking the same, explicitly tagging your local store and/or the chain to which they belong, and muse about looking into their competitors.
I get that you want to aggrieve the owners but that last • tactic feeds into Reichwingers absolving Trump. Asking in person, where they have a chance to say, “yes, see this here is the tariffs amount” puts the blame where it belongs (and can also bring price-gouging into the light, because for sure some will happen).
Gouging will happen in every industry, by every corporation. The only ones that might not are locally owned, which has been dwindling since at least the 90s.
It happened with covid, it happened with bird flu, and it’s about to happen the biggest ever with tariffs as the excuse.
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Well, it’s never going to happen in the first place
«Amazon moved to distance itself from the report, saying the idea had been considered by Amazon Haul, the company’s recently launched low-cost shopping hub, but had been rejected.
“The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson."
“The team that runs our ultra-low-cost Amazon Haul store considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products. This was never approved and is not going to happen,” said Tim Doyle, Amazon spokesperson.
Lmao some poor team gets thrown under the bus
