01-01-2020, 07:00 PM
(01-01-2020, 04:44 PM)David Horn Wrote:(12-31-2019, 01:26 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(08-17-2017, 02:15 PM)David Horn Wrote: Actually, Trump has no beef with Amazon, but he hates Jeff Bezos. Bezos owns the Washington Post which tends to lean on Trump very hard. Of course, Bezos is now as wealthy as Bill Gates, or nearly so at least. Why he wants a fight with him is baffling, but then again, he's the Donald.
Does rationality have anything to do with Trump's rage tweets against anyone or anything that opposes him?
That's certainly true, but it's always a good idea to look at the first incidence of attack for clues. This started when Bezos bought the Washington Post, and isolated it entirely from commercial and political pressure. Trump went ballistic. Prior to the WP buy, he didn't seem to care about Bezos at all.
It's impossible to be objective about Donald Trump without insulting him. Be a bad person and do bad things, and the truth about the person will be almost exclusively negative.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.