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Feud: Biden vs. Bezos

&NewLine;<p>In one corner we have Joe Biden perhaps the most inept President in history who is getting more senile by the day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In the other corner&comma; we have Jeff Bezos&comma; on and off the richest man in the world&comma; who owns the Washington Post which pushes the far left agenda to its limits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>These guys should be best buddies&comma; they are philosophically aligned&period; And Biden could certainly use some powerful friends right now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But Biden frequently paints Amazon as the bad guy when he talks about higher taxes for rich people&period; And Biden seems to be rooting for the unionization of Amazon&comma; a battle that Bezos thinks is a bad idea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>I guess Bezos’ left-leaning ideology doesn’t extend into real life when it costs him more money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And Bezos has some issues with Biden as well&period; Bezos has been outspoken in his criticism of Biden’s handling of inflation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Here is the exchange&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Biden tweeted&comma; &&num;8220&semi;You want to bring down inflation&quest; Let&&num;8217&semi;s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Bezos responded&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss&period; Taming inflation is critical to discuss&period; Mushing them together is just misdirection&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And later from Bezos&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Remember the Administration tried their best to add another &dollar;3&period;5 TRILLION to federal spending&period; They failed&comma; but if they had succeeded&comma; inflation would be even higher than it is today&comma; and inflation today is at a 40 year high&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Then economist Larry Summers broke in&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think &commat;JeffBezos is mostly wrong in his recent attack on the &commat;JoeBiden Admin&period; It is perfectly reasonable to believe&comma; as I do and &commat;POTUS asserts&comma; that we should raise taxes to reduce demand to contain inflation and that the increases should be as progressive as possible&period;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Just a side note&period; Larry Summers is a brilliant economist most of the time&period; But did he just say that sending money to Washington reduces demand&quest;  So we reduce the ability of taxpayers to spend while enabling the out-of-control Congress which is the world&&num;8217&semi;s largest &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;demander” to spend more&quest;  Sorry Larry&comma; doesn’t make sense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And finally from Bezos&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet&comma; or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead&period; Raising corp taxes is fine to discuss&period; Taming inflation is critical to discuss&period; Mushing them together is just misdirection&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Will we see a disillusioned Jeff Bezos finally see the light and shift over to more common sense conservative principles&quest; Will he redirect the Washington Post &lpar;which is covering none of this&rpar; to cover the news instead of spewing constant mid- and dis-information&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Jeff should seriously consider registering as a Republican&period; We do accept repentant sinners on our side&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And I wonder how we might further this&comma; with a game of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Let’s you and him fight”&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;14&sol;business&sol;jeff-bezos-joe-biden-twitter-inflation&sol;index&period;html">https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com&sol;2022&sol;05&sol;14&sol;business&sol;jeff-bezos-joe-biden-twitter-inflation&sol;index&period;html<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thehill&period;com&sol;news&sol;3490618-biden-bezos-feud-escalates&sol;">Biden-Bezos feud escalates<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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