{"id":179260,"date":"2018-04-05T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/05\/tweet-of-the-day-191\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T23:24:00","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/05\/tweet-of-the-day-191\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You know I try not to keep up with the latest happenings of \u2018the resistance\u2019 but am I to understand now they are protecting the powerless mom &amp; pop business called *checks notes* Amazon from Trump? \ud83d\udc80<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 DarkSkintDostoyevsky (@daniecal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daniecal\/status\/981506399220924416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, pretty much.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon got where it was from a huge number of subsidies, like not having to collect sales taxes, and has shown itself to be a toxic workplace.  (And that&#8217;s not considering the tax subsidies that it gets for locating its warehouses, and the spectacle of them shaking down locan and state governments for a satellite headquarters)<\/p>\n<p>If Amazon faces off against Donald Trump, I hope that there is a way that both of them can lose, but if not, I&#8217;d have a hard time selecting who I would want to be the victor.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, also read <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/147740\/no-sympathy-amazon\">Dave Dayen&#8217;s take on this<\/a>.&nbsp; He does a good job of explaining all of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I try not to keep up with the latest happenings of \u2018the resistance\u2019 but am I to understand now they are protecting the powerless mom &amp; pop business called *checks notes* Amazon from Trump? \ud83d\udc80 \u2014 DarkSkintDostoyevsky (@daniecal) April 4, 2018 Yeah, pretty much. Amazon got where it was from a huge number &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[617,365,573,364,464,390],"class_list":["post-179260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-amazon","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-good-writing","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}