Of all the Amazon criticism that can be made, this ain't one
Here, I can spell this one out so you can at least see the argument. Do not worry about whether these bullet points are true or false, just roll with it: - the USPS is bad for business because it's subsidized by the taxpayer. - Amazon is bad for business because it undercuts brick and mortar establishments across the American heartland. - The USPS delivers exclusively for Amazon on Sundays using government employees and government equipment, facilities and supplies. - Amazon is bad for shippers because they use monopolistic power to force lower rates. Therefore, Amazon is screwing small businesses and the American taxpayer. The truth, of course, is much more nuanced and those nuances add up to... well. Here watch. - The USPS is the only government agency required to be cashflow neutral. They aren't allowed to lose money. They're also the only business that isn't allowed to shutter non-performing assets. Bumblesquid Maine may only get a dozen letters a week, but Bumblesquid Maine is where True Americans live and should we close the Bumblesquid post office we're letting the American Dream die so the Bumblesquid post office will stay open come hell or high water and the USPS has a monopoly on mail delivery how can they be losing money!!?!?!!???? - The Republican congress made it clear that they weren't interested in subsidizing the USPS when the postmaster general said they were gonna go broke if they didn't raise rates (for which they need congressional approval) or stop delivering on some days (for which they need congressional approval). But since they've got a massive infrastructure unlike anyone else in the market, and since they're sorting on Sundays anyway, why not deliver for Amazon? Especially as the test programs were successful AF. - Amazon is Amazon because the government has never shown any interest in protecting small business. The USPS is the USPS because the government has never shown any interest in letting them compete on an even playing field with private enterprise. So now you have a small-business-killing Internet retailer leveraging a government monopoly's poverty to crush local businesses. The funny thing is that usually, the idiot Republicans whinge about how unfair the USPS is to free enterprise because it's a government-owned monopoly (while refusing to acknowledge that Fedex will happily deliver a letter for $11). But since this is an opportunity to take a swing at Jeff Bezos while simultaneously sticking his dick in apple pie, he went for it. And, if you squint a certain way, there's even a little bit of logic to it.
I don’t think you need to squint that much. I’m no Trump fan, but even a stopped clock....
Well, but check it. Amazon: - is leveraging free trade, to bring lower prices to Americans through a competitive global marketplace - is exercising innovation through technological revolution of the marketplace - is stretching the dollar of the average American consumer through lower prices Meanwhile, the USPS: - is lowering government overhead and providing value to the taxpayer through public/private partnerships - is reducing waste via leverage of existing infrastructure assets - is providing jobs for working class Americans Those are all true-blue Republican talking points. You can shoot Amazon in the kneecaps by being protectionist on trade; that's squarely in Trump's wheelhouse (and very not Republican). But you can't shoot Amazon in the kneecaps for using the postal service because that's keeping an organization weighed down by bureaucracy and inefficiencies afloat despite the idiocies of those bleeding-heart liberals. So you need to gloss right over the big contradictions in order to make it work. You need to be simultaneously protectionist and globalist. You need to be for private competition while simultaneously against private competition. So you need to squint.
I love the fucking postal service. You'll take a thing to Barrow Alaska for less than the price of a coffee? Fuck yeah. And their package rates are always cheaper or competitive enough to just go there for convenience. There's a long line? Yeah. There are lines at places people go. I've waited five deep at the grocery store. That's not a failure of the free market
He's not insane. He's a spoiled bitch of a trust fund kid that has never had to struggle for anything while at the same time constantly surrounded by sycophants telling him he's amazing and wonderful. He never developed empathy, compassion or the ability to look at an issue outside of his bubble. That and all his people are the looter class trying to cut the country up into bits and pieces to sell off to the highest bidder because business over country. And fuck you, he got his and if you work hard you can inherit hundreds of millions to lose running casinos like he did. I hope the D's don't fuck up the building wave and rofl-stomp this shitstain in November enough to take back the House and Senate.