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>There is a recurring pattern to the way President Trump behaves when he’s called out for doing something egregious: first he denies doing it, then he looks for
by Zaheer 6y ago
>There is a recurring pattern to the way President Trump behaves when he’s called out for doing something egregious: first he denies doing it, then he looks for ways to push it off to the side, to distract attention from it and delay efforts to investigate it (so people get bored and forget about it).
Regardless of what you think about Amazon, this sentence alone is incredible.
- MattGaiser 6y agoAmazon must be quite sure of the polls.
- jedberg 6y agoIt doesn't matter to them who wins the next election. If Trump stays in office they aren't getting contracts anyway, because of Jeff Bezos and his ownership of the WaPo.
- Supermancho 6y ago> It doesn't matter to them who wins the next election. If Trump stays in office they aren't getting contracts anyway, These statements seem at odds. If Trump is elected, then Amazon doesn't get contracts, but Amazon doesn't care if Trump is elected?
- jedberg 6y agoIn other words they don’t have to play nice and bend the knee to the current admin in case they win because it will make no difference.
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- dragonwriter 6y ago> Amazon must be quite sure of the polls. Or quite sure of the President’s preexisting animus and corruption, such that worrying about alienating the administration is pointless as that’s already immutably maxed out with maximum retaliation programmed in, and only replacement of the executive or outside (e.g., judicial) constraint on the executive can get the results they want.
- skinnymuch 6y agoThis has been repeated many, many times.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoBy major corporate press releases?
- skinnymuch 6y agoThe comment said that sentence alone is incredible. I didn’t realize it meant just for a corporate press release. It also isn’t that big of a deal when Amazon likely would not have said that if they had gotten the JEDI contract. But they are on the offensive against the administration so they aren’t even saying this out of pure knowledge. But as part of their own strategy. I don’t see it being special in any circumstance for those reasons
- amznthrwaway 6y agoWhy is such a straightforward description of Trump's behavior "incredible"? It's what he does. Repeatedly.
- pbourke 6y agoI’m curious why people are downvoting the comment. It is quite remarkable for a major corporation to call the President out so explicitly. This is a scorched-earth approach to the comparatively anodyne world of public messaging around government contracting. Perhaps it’s a bet that the government changes hands in November and this kind of post curries favor with the new administration.