Archive link: https://archive.is/bQg7q https://archive.is/bQg7q I dont think it's particularly complicated. Bezos wants to makes money, and preserve his compan

Archive link: https://archive.is/bQg7q https://archive.is/bQg7q I dont think it's particularly complicated. Bezos wants to makes money, and preserve his companies. He judges that the best way to do this is to make some signs of fealty and hope that the storm passes. Additionally it must worry all the tech bros that Musk is in Trump's innermost circle since he is both smart and a wildly loose cannon. If Trump really wanted to hurt Bezos he could, for example, decide that Amazon could not sell anything from China, could not bid on space contracts against SpaceX/Starlink with Kuiper and Blue Origin, and must offer untrammeled access to the FBI to anything on AWS. So tossing the Trumps a few million and performing a little dance is a cheap insurance policy. Everyone in the tech bro orbit is doing a similar calculus. Microsoft must be quietly thanking their stars that they never succeeded at social networks and therefore avoided the whole moderation/censorship thing, but even they have political vulnerability.