The National Enquirer is a gossip rag. Heck yeah, they’ll care! For them, this is a golden age.
Nicolle finished with a zinger today
“Mike Flynn: target for blackmail, Jeff Bezos: not. Maybe you should hire the ‘best people’ Mr. President.”
Jeebus, can you imagine the scandal if elements of the NSA were prompted by the Administration to get those texts and pics?
Seriously. Not that there’s any current evidence of that, but this is what I’ve been arguing about with my friend ever since the Patriot Act. He’s your stereotype “I don’t care if the government wastes their time spying on me, I’m not doing anything interesting”. I have to keep explaining it’s not him he should be worried about, but blackmail of important people, political opponents, opposition groups, etc. So frustrating.
I have a dream. That Bezos owns AMI at the end of this and then legally owns all the stories Trump had them keep hidden for him. Paying for abortions and the like. Then Jeff releases them all to everyone.
Then he fires every single person at every company they own and has the buildings torn down.
A glorious dream, indeed.
So you want Bezos to act like Mitt Romney. (not that I’m saying I wouldn’t enjoy that scenario myself…)
Let’s be honest, he already does. I’d just like him to swing that power at someone deserving.
Whatever you might think of the NYC Amazon deal and its end, blaming AOC is, well, stupid.
I don’t know about blame but she’s seems somewhat vocal in support of the failure:
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez praised citizen activists for helping to thwart Amazon’s plans to build a headquarters in New York City, declaring victory after the company announced it was scrapping its plans Thursday.
“I think it’s incredible. I mean, it shows that everyday Americans still have the power to organize and fight for their communities and they can have more say in this country than the richest man in the world,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Capitol Hill, referring to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
She’s praising activism more than anything else but it easily comes off as celebrating Amazon moving out. The media doesn’t have to spin that hard to portray her as “celebrating” the change. Based on the GND, she might run into the similar paralysis Democrats often have with their message, in that they can’t control it when it’s a bigger message.
Regardless of her reaction she doesn’t own Amazon’s decision, nor does she own the media’s insistence on turning her into the socialist demon that will be the downfall of the American empire. I mean, she’s a freshman congresswoman from NY. There are 564 other members in Congress; it’s seriously weird how the beltway pundits are reacting to her.
Compare that coverage to this analyst from CNN (I’m shocked too) that frames it in a much more level headed manner:
Did you mean to write “Congress” up there, regarding the number of members?
Thanks, yeah hasty writing.
Oh yeah, the media’s obsession with her is something else. They just want another Trump, keep things spinning so they chose her as the next exciting thing they can talk about all the damn time.
NYC basically punched themselves in the dick.
Do you mean by Amazon not building their new HQ there? I wouldn’t want it anywhere near my area, personally.
Can’t they just repurpose old abandoned subway tunnels and use those?
That’s a nice way of looking at it… another way of looking at it is a bunch of Democrats screwing each other over while engaged with Trumps favorite punching bag company that he habitually blames for the destruction of whatever some Trump supporter is complaining about at the moment.
It doesn’t make anyone look good.
A bunch of hipsters seemed to be under the mistaken impression that NY was actually paying money to Amazon, rather than giving them tax breaks… So they didn’t really understand that if Amazon didn’t go to NYC, then NY still doesn’t get that money.
Only now, they also don’t get taxes which they would have gotten from the 25K highly paid employees that Amazon was guaranteed to hire in the area.