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Oligarch Bezos Acting Invincible: WE the People Need To Boycott

LeeAnn Hall at the nonprofit National Campaign for Justice(https://bit.ly/4qtWBsB) reports that Bezos is collaborating with another oligarch Peter Theil’s software company Palantir to create an ICE surveillance data network through its AWS(Amazon Web Services) cloud server

This report comes on top of the recent layoff of 30% of WaPo(Washington Post) by Bezos as many view this as a neutering of the once prominent news organization and spending $75m on the flopped Melania documentary(Rotten Tomatoes rating 5% most recently) Bezos wants to automate Amazon to continue his layoffs going forward

So Bezos has become like Theil and Musk an oligarchic pawn for the Cheeto led Nazi Republican party The corporate greed fuels this whole Cheeto enterprise and rest assured these oligarchs will in some way try to subvert the 2026 midterms which is already underway with Musk pouring millions into Nazi Republican political campaigns thinking they will be able to buy the elections

Amazon as a company needs to feel economic pain as much as WE the People can muster WE use the service for convenience but WE need to find other ways to get products

Sher''s avatar

We actually kinda knew that.... 🤔.

Martha's avatar

When he uses phrases such as “everyone knows” or “everyone says,” he is referring to the voices inside his head. Sadly, there are still people who do not understand this.

Barbara Lindsay's avatar

Good article. My question to those who read and comment in this space and other spaces is: Have you joined a pro-democracy group such as Indivisible and participated in protests? I have and will. I can't just sit here and wait for somebody to do something, we are the somebody. If I have to help guard vulnerable polling places to ensure people can vote, I will.

I am a veteran. My oath to the Constitution does not have an expiration date, and I took that Oath to protect and defend literally.

James McConnel's avatar

$COTUS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Regime Trump Inc.. Chairman Roberts knows what he is supposed to do because he has hungered for years to gut voting rights. Folding Chair Republican congressmen have done their part performing a Conga dance of servility to Jubba Da Trump. So we see our work cut out for us: to vote in spite of the failed two party system and to reclaim our Constitution from the scratch and dent bin. Weak and power hungry persons will not steal our country from us, nor will avaricious Tech Broligarchs with their Social Credit System and 24/7 AI surveillance.

Jason Merchey's avatar

Absolutely your thesis is correct. We cannot allow him the opportunity to throw off even one or two major races. This is a "crossing the Rubicon moment" for all those Superbowl-addled Americans. Those of us who are paying close attention feel the gravity of this moment in our bones. The question is, can we convince enough others that it is a 5-alarm fire and not some kind of academic-level situation?

Liz Scheffler's avatar

This is one campaign promise on its way to being kept

M F Drummy's avatar

The American experiment in a democratically elected constitutional republic ended five years ago this month when the US Senate failed to convict Trump in his SECOND impeachment. If leading an insurrection on the US Capitol to overturn a legitimate presidential election was not enough to UNANIMOUSLY keep Trump from ever holding federal office again nothing ever would be. THE. SYSTEM. DID. NOT. WORK. The constitutional guardrails did NOT in fact hold — despite what most in the left-wing media claimed. So none of what Trump and MAGA are doing or threatening to do now should come as a surprise or shock to anyone. We’ve been waiting for this moment since February 2021.

Jason Merchey's avatar

I definitely take your point. I will say that was a stroke that put America in the hospital. But if the election is interfered with enough--sufficiently, if you will--that will be us flat-lining.

M F Drummy's avatar

Not “if” but “when”. That is the lesson that so many Americans have not learned from the 6 January 2021 attempt by Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election: There are no “ifs” with this steaming pile of human feces. The shit WILL happen or at least he will try to make it happen. It’s like after we heard from Mark Esper once Trump had left the WH in January 2021 that he wanted to “shoot them [protestors] in the leg.” We KNEW if he was elected again in 2024 that people would LITERALLY be shot in the streets and — well — now that has in fact happened. Murdered actually — at point blank range — not just “shot in the leg.” So we all need to WAKE. THE. FUCK. UP.

Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Our President now has wanted this for a long time! He said drain the swamp. That has not happened. Trump wants Save the Act passed, Republicans, that have retiring members. Elections are definitely coming up , and no one running for office including GOP wants this act all.Trump says so many things and asked others to carry out his orders. DNI Gabbard put her job in jeopardy. We must continue to apply the pressure for a pro democracy movement and nothing else. Thank you for the article. I am awaiting for the next chaotic chapter to happen, in this time we live in .

Carol Gamm's avatar

Read it and weep