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    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.

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      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.

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        That’s possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.

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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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          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.

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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.

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      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.

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      In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.

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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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      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."

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    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

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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.

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    It seems he’s amping up his language. I think he recently said a former associate was guilty of treason.

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      Scary how that’s plausible, drowned out in the noise, and totally accepted as normal (or even cheered) by the public.

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    How dare you try to hide that shit, drumpf you cancerous toad! If Amazon has any balls, which it doesn’t and has proved so, it would not back down. I wanna know why my shit is more expensive and I wanna be able to point my fucking finger.