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Sandbox – 30mar18

30 March 2018

[The Union is on an anti-gun binge, led by editor Don Rogers' editorial (here). More needs to be said about the hoaky poll they are conducting. Let's see if they publish a mea culpa on how easy it has been to subvert the poll's count as reported by our commenters. gjr]

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231 responses to “Sandbox – 30mar18”

Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

1) @ 2:26 pm
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1026752900808265/?type=3&theater
2) jon- Syria
Your sarcasm is appreciated now and then. I remember that day we admitted defeat in Syria. I was watching UN Ambassador Samatha Powers live saying to her Russian counterpart,“Shame on you, shame on you.” My mouth dropped and I said within myself, “OMG. We just declared defeat against Assad” and his government forces. Those Russians take no prisoners and make quick work of resistance, no matter how many civilians are on the ground.
I recall when Moscow was having their movie theater bombings. Blow up theaters packed with folks, body parts everywhere, blood all over the high ceilings. So, the Russians caught one of the bombers. From a town in Georgia, I believe. Putin sent convoys of tanks to the hills above the bomber’s village/town and opened fire for two days straight. Destroyed the town, shelled the crap out of homes and shops alike. Sent a message. You bomb our packed theathers, your family, friends, neighbors, and township will pay the price. That’s who the Russians are. BTW, what ever happened to the Moscow bombing fad?
Trump is just returning to his beliefs. Get the hell out of those shithole countries like Syria and Honduras. Sure, we have to leave some troops to war against ISIS in East Syria and we need to stay close in Iraq as Iran is turning Iraq into another proxy state.
I cannot believe the prior administration’s plan. We would take over Syria and turn the country into our best buddies and they would turn anti-Iran and join us against Iran. WTF? Syria had been nothing but a poxie state of Iran for decades, a funnel through Assad to Hezbollah and Lebanon among other dirty deeds. Anyway, bring as many troops home as we can……we will never leave Afghanistan, IMHO.
Russian fighters. Shame on you, shame on you! What Sputnik doesn’t tell you is the Russian jets bombed the people and homes left above ground, aka, civilians. “War is Hell.” —-George Custer
https://sputniknews.com/military/201804031063155254-syria-army-hospitals-tunnels/

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jon smith

03 April 2018

GR 7:53- Nothing un PC about talking about a “gal.” Not any more than wearing saddle shoes or driving a really bitching car or seeing a fuddy duddy in the mirror. It’s just so embarrassingly 1950’s that we are simply doing the man a service by tapping the old hipster on the shoulder and waking him to the new dawn.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

So that is what the Amazon stink is over? They are screwing the US Postal Service, eh? Yep, that be Trump. Sees a place where we are getting screwed, and he jumps at the unspeakable injustice. It ain’t fair! That be Trump. Free trade, but fair trade. Same with Amazon screwing their competition….the dreaded Post Office. Wonder who agreed to that contract where the PO loses money on every Amazon envelop they deliver.
And yes, it will cost us more. Hope Trump doesn’t mess with that cheap Chinese junk I like. We all must sacrifice
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28969/trump-has-tweeted-about-amazon-four-times-last-joseph-curl
Scenes. I strongly believe that just a tweet or two from OurPreaident about doing some monopoly bustin’ would get them coming around…with soiled trousers and thongs

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Todd Juvinall

03 April 2018

Jon/linda, it appears you are the one out od touch. Gal is a current word as anyone with a brain can see. I was ten in 1960 anyway but you were what 25? I think you need to look at what you have become and ask GOD for forgiveness for being a bore.

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jon smith

03 April 2018

“We are in Syria to defeat ISIS. That is our mission,” McGurk, the U.S. special envoy for the global coalition against the jihadist terrorists, said during an event. “Our mission isn’t close to over yet, and we are going to complete our mission.”
“We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS,” Trump said during the event in Ohio. “We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon.”
Gotta love old man Trump and his finely tuned ability to communicate with his own staff. I sense McGurk will be going home to his gal soon. Might bum a ride with Pruitt.

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Tit for tat. Today the sicko raised tariffs to 50 billion against China. Doesn’t he have a clue where this is going? I didn’t think so, and apparently neither do his closest advisors. Off the rails.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

We are fighting ISIS and kicking their butts, along with Iran, Russia, the Kurds, the Iraqi Army, the Syrian Army.p, some British snipers and Aussies. Got em on the run without a place to call home or electricity, lol. They will re-emerge under a different name in some other shithole country.
Syria won, our “moderate freedom fighters” lost. But, the sparsely populated eastern Syria is where we are because that is where the Islamic State goat humpers are….down by the river living in their vans….until we find them and kill them, hopefully along with Westerners that joined the beheading fanatics and now want to come home. Sucks to be them.
Gotta seperate losing in Syria with the on going decimation of IS.

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Walt

03 April 2018

There is a curtain “jon” that said something about shrinking gun sales… OH REALLY????
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/03/background-checks-for-gun-sales-shatter-march-record/
Thanks Pigglet..

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Thanks Bill. Would you please advise special envoy McGurk of your findings? Might save his job.

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Scenes

03 April 2018

BillT: ”
So that is what the Amazon stink is over? They are screwing the US Postal Service, eh?”
I guess so. I thought I’d look around a bit instead of forming an opinion from whole cloth.
A not bad way to go is to look up news articles prior to this last week. Any modern article was written by someone whose pussy got grabbed and it’ll reflect it.
http://fortune.com/2017/07/16/amazon-postal-service-subsidy/
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2017/8/1/amazons-sweetheart-deal-with-the-usps
https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/25/a-peek-at-amazons-contract-with-the-postal-service/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-morris/yes-to-amazon-no-to-the-p_b_4325341.html
It would be nice to find a copy of the contract.
Two quick guesses:
1) Every major news outlet will tell us how TRUMP IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND THE USPS TOOK AMAZON TO THE CLEANERS or something.
2) Amazon has a fleshed-out roadmap for going to their own delivery service, perhaps by buying an existing carrier.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

Figure there are under 900 active IS along the river left, looking for places to hide and regroup. We can send some troops home. Keep the advisors, trainers, and superior air power. Sure, need bootsto chase the bush rats and camel jockeys down and the snipers have some fun with the stragglers on their prayer rugs. Can’t believe Allah and womankind created some many turds.

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Scenes-
100% off base. Like most things Trump, it is personal. He hates Bezos, just like he hates Obama and will do anything to pinch them – even if America has to suffer for it.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

Imagine the outcry if the troops strafe the Honduran invaders. They look like a bunch of men of military fighting age. The sound of popping heads would be deafening.

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Todd Juvinall

03 April 2018

Trump is doing great. Jon/linda is just jealous.

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Scenes

03 April 2018

re: JonSmith@4:29PM
OK, thanks for completely clarifying that for me. Mind reading is a terrible thing to waste.
I was spending a couple of minutes looking up anti-Koch Bros. statements from Saint Obama. Pretty serious stuff for a non-pussy grabber.
Thank goodness the Left came around to reflexively defending mega-corporations, it’s been an enjoyable ride.
back to serious matters:
BillT-The Hondurans are an interesting matter. You absolutely can not let them into the country, or else the 1500 will become 15,000 and then 150,000. I would hope that the Prez has sent down some bag men to pay off a few Mexican cops to turn back the horde, it wouldn’t take much and you get to avoid drama.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

Bezos
Isn’t Jeff Bezos the dude who bought the Wa Compost for 250 mil as his plaything? I remember the pressroom stick when Bezos refused to pass out Trump Tax bonuses like other companies. Boy, the writers and editors were whining and all disgruntled. Not only did Bezos not pass out the grennies, he fired a bunch of copy editors. I don’t think he really cares if The Compost loses money, he just can’t handle those not up to the standard. He is like Trump, doesn’t suffer horse pucky. Clash of the Titans.

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Oh how you Republicans love to talk about free trade, free enterprise, and entrepreneurship except when it doesn’t mesh with your personal agenda. First his incredibly backwards tariffs and now Trump wants to “regulate” Apple, Google, Facebook, and YouTube, and has brought in Thiel to show him how to do it. If Trump were a Democrat you’d be having fits, but oh no, I can hear Todd now blaming fake news or something. Walt – 25% tariff on Chinese optics including gun scopes.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

Speaking of the WaPo,……
Scenes, check these figures out. Not up to date (12/2015), but trend is undeniable.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/03/weve-had-a-massive-decline-in-gun-violence-in-the-united-states-heres-why/?utm_term=.3319f77d9c5e

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Scenes

03 April 2018

re: BillT@5:05PM
One likely reason I’ve seen left out for explaining a decline in homicides is improved emergency medicine. It’s interesting to think how you could correct the numbers to reflect that.
Speaking of gunz, fresh from The Union:
Yes (93%, 27,645 Votes) in The Poll. Somebody bumped it to over 93%.
I think that the long term goal should be to get the ‘yes’ vote higher than the population of the county. I think it’s doable with some work. Reading the inevitable editorial citing the number will be totally worth it.

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Walt

03 April 2018

No, Mzzz “jon”,, good shooters don’t by cheap Chinese optics.
Don’t worry, Ca will mandate that they be used on any gun in Ca.
Can’t have a weapon that actually hits the intended target.
So no issues with BIG Corp. knowing everything about you, and selling your info to anyone? USPS loses money on every delivery… I guess you believe they will make it up in volume..Right?
Funny,, Paul didn’t take issue with Gov. knowing his every wort and cognitive abilities. ( but said he would remove his info from the voter rolls.He didn’t want Trump knowing who he voted for.. Twisted set of priorities.)

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Scenes

03 April 2018

re: BillT@5:05PM
btw, before I forget, one of the strongest correlations I’ve seen on homicide, violent crime rate, etc. is incarceration rate. Causalities are so hard to show, but it’s an interesting idea. The basic idea is that if you nab the right folks, more people in jail = less crime.

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

There is a strong correlation with the more the number of guns are out there, the less the major crime and murder rates. But, pay that no never mind. They don’t want solutions, they want da fire sticks and pistoles. Like Wounded Knee, give us your guns and we will take you to the happy hunting grounds…..a safe place.

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Walt

03 April 2018

Hear about the shooter today? Shot up the YouTube office.
Just work place violence, and a pissed EX. What? NO AR?
And a chick no less. Will MZZZZ.”jon” call for ending women possessing guns? Especially during “shark week”? ( OH yes… the woman has a hair trigger around “that time”.) Shall we send the sheriff your way every 28 days? Clean out the knife drawer, or anything else that could harm someone? It’s the law ya’ know.
Or are you “exempt” for some Proggy reason?

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Scenes- It would be interesting to correlate medical care with gunshot survival . . . but our intrepid Republicans have cut any funding for that type of research. Better to not know I guess.
Walt-Most scopes come from Asia (I can’t afford Swarovski). Even Leupold gold rings which are touted as made in Beaverton, are assembled from imported Chinese glass.

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Walt- USPS makes money on it’s parcel deliveries and the postmaster general is scratching her head over Trump claims. They eat it on first class service and even more so on retiree benefits.

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Walt

03 April 2018

Japan makes great optics. They always have. Then come the Germans.
The scope on my weapon cost 2/3s the price I paid for the rifle.
You get what you pay for.
Now why is that? What drove our own optics makers to fold? Getting under cut by China and the like? Excess rules and regs? massive taxation? Like everything else not made in the U.S.A. anymore.
I do believe that falls under Liberalism 101.
Yet you slam Trump for trying to bring those jobs and items back.
Reduce reg, taxes, is a big step in the right direction.
Yet you don’t see it that way.

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Scenes

03 April 2018

Walt, speaking of optics. I’ve always wondered when the MSM will get wind of Tracking Point hardware and call for it’s banishment.
https://www.tracking-point.com
Things like that are bound to get a lot cheaper over time.
The simple truth of the matter (are there simple truths?) is that the amount of ability that individuals possess goes up through the years. New things like drones can be weaponized, people have more money for mayhem-producing items, the amount of lab needed to make chemical or biological weapons will go down over time. Especially in an era when we are headed for diverse and not particularly well-behaved populations (think the opposite of the Swiss or Japanese), one side effect will be a more heavy handed government in terms of both surveillance and enforcement.

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Walt

03 April 2018

From a year ago,
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/for-every-amazon-package-it-delivers-the-postal-service-loses-146
“Amazon is happy because it has a deal that takes advantage of a loophole in the law that gives it a taxpayer-subsidized deal none of its competitors could get or match.”
If USPS is making money off those special deliveries, how come anyone shipping anything can’t get the same deal? It’s all about that dollar,, is it not?
The stuff I just sent to my kids through USPS cost me plenty..WHY???(and no weekend delivery)
Where is my 1.50 rate? I’m a taxpayer!

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Japan outsources most of their optics.

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Walt

03 April 2018

OH Scenes!! How I wish I could afford that system!
Then there is the poor man’s version.
https://www.burrisoptics.com/scopes/eliminator-iii-laserscope-series/eliminator-iii-laserscope-3-12x44mm
Would make my scary looking gun even MORE scarier.

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jon smith

03 April 2018

Walt 6:13-
“Where is my 1.50 rate? I’m a taxpayer!”
So what? The USPS isn’t funded by taxes.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/02/donald-trump/trump-usps-postal-service-amazon-losing-fortune/

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Walt

03 April 2018

Really? Then who has been keeping it afloat all these years?
USPS has been hemorrhaging money for decades.
Get with the real facts.
I love it when I give you enough rope to hang yourself.
http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/
“American taxpayers give an $18 billion gift to the post office every year”
And you just said “So what? The USPS isn’t funded by taxes.”
Really??
“The United States Postal Service’s financial troubles have been well publicized in recent years. The worst of it came in 2012, when the USPS lost a whopping $15.9 billion dollars, followed by $4.8 billion and $5.3 billion in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
So it’s money from the FED Unicorn ranch that keeps USPS in business? Just money fresh off the presses?

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Walt

03 April 2018

Bad news Lefties….
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/03/mueller-claims-trump-is-not-criminal-target-in-his-investigation-report-says.html

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Bill Tozer

03 April 2018

Velvet Elvis sez: “Return to sender, address unknown, no such number and no such zone. Oh Momma baby.”
Yep, every time the Pony Express or Amtrak or Freddie Mac and Sally Mae hit bottom, they all go running to Congress. Every time. That must be where the Fed Unicorn Ranch is. And all this time I thought it was out near Winnemucca, just past the Bunnytail Ranch.

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George Rebane

03 April 2018

Ah yes, the “new dawn”. Can anyone tell us what we should celebrate about the new dawn? And please don’t cite any of the tech advances, because studying for your ability to contribute to these benefits still requires years of hard work, just like it used to and of the same kind that it used to, knowing that today we have ever fewer of the new dawners qualified to undertake such challenges. They instinctively lean toward big government, because from thence come all the blessings for which their ability to fog mirrors qualifies them.

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Todd Juvinall

03 April 2018

jon smith | 03 April 2018 at 06:35 PM
The USPS is always made whole by the taxpayers.

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Scenes

03 April 2018

Walt…
The counter argument on the USPS losing money will be that the package business “can’t lose money because they aren’t allowed to lose money”, although there’s no numbers forthcoming. It’s just handwaving (and a tautology).
Aside from the obvious tax and legal advantages given gratis to the Post Office, I guess that the basic idea is that the PO might lose even more money without the Amazon contract. That’s the best case scenario. Medium case is that the PO left money on the table. Worst is that they are losing their ass.
Like I said, I’ll bet that Amazon is looking into cutting loose the USPS. The shipments are bound to be forward based somehow (ie. the PO just supplies the proverbial ‘last mile’), so what is needed to replace them is less than meets the eye.
Personally, I rather enjoy seeing Bezos’ pussy get grabbed, although the phenomenon seems to have expanded to some of our local writers. C’est la vie.

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Walt

03 April 2018

Amazon Prime fly’s their own cargo Yup, their own fleet of 747s.
The p.o. made a deal with the corp. devil
Final dist. is the most expensive end. So they suckered the PO.
“Your already going that way every day, We will just back up the semi trailer up to your back door.”
yet when I walked in a small box to send, it cost me 8.65.
Should I throw it in with the Amazon load next time?

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Walt

03 April 2018

Someone took their You tube WAY too far.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Suspect-in-You-Tube-Shooting-Posted-Rants-About-the-Company-Online–478711713.html

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Walt

03 April 2018

Scott.. It’s been nice knowing ya’.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/940766/yellowstone-volcano-eruption-news-life-or-death-supervolcano-emergency

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Gregory

04 April 2018

What the post orifice has under the law is the exclusive right to open your mailbox and place into it something to be delivered.

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Walt

04 April 2018

Morn’n Paul,,,
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_apr04
51%!! Now how did that happen??

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ArchieBunker

04 April 2018

When is Bezos going to just buy the Postal Service and start running it like a business?

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Walt

04 April 2018

Another twisted off Lefty.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/04/youtube-shooter-anti-meat-videos/
Like I said before, trying to take guns from the wrong political demographic. Get the DEM. voter registration and start the confiscation.

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scenes

04 April 2018

re: ArchieBunker “When is Bezos going to just buy the Postal Service and start running it like a business?”
I wonder what it’s worth as a business. 500k employees, $6B in losses every year, no growth.
re: Walt “Like I said before, trying to take guns from the wrong political demographic.”
Wanna make me a bet how long it takes to blame the NRA for the crazy shooter lady?
re: Gregory “…exclusive right to open your mailbox…”
I knew that had that, but never knew the history of the rules and court decisions. It’s all pretty disingenuous given that other countries are fine with common mailbox usage. I suppose there’s nothing keeping people from putting up two boxes.

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ArchieBunker

04 April 2018

Scenes, USPS is like Ma Bell in that they were required by law to maintain their legacy copper lines even if it meant losing competitive advantage with Comcast, Verizon, etc.
USPS has legacy mailboxes that are inefficient to service with junk mail. Amazon is already coming out with the locker idea, maybe their version of PO boxes.
Amazon would have to fire thousand of people but they could modernize it to become like Fedex or UPS.
Welcome to Pa Bezos.

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jon smith

04 April 2018

Why do you conservatives hate Amazon but love Wal-Mart?

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ArchieBunker

04 April 2018

Amazon usage requires you to be able use an electronic device and have a bank account.

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Bill Tozer

04 April 2018

Hmmm. Somebody has been reading my posts, but I suspected that, duh.
“ He [Bevos] is like Trump, doesn’t suffer horse pucky. Clash of the Titans.”
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 03 April 2018 at 04:56 PM
Clash of the Titans?
Trump vs. Bezos Is a Clash of the Titans
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55135-trump-vs-bezos-is-a-clash-of-the-titans

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jon smith

04 April 2018

Titans? Trump is no Titan.
Trump was fed from a silver spoon the moment he was birthed. Bezos is a self made billionaire who could own Trump a million times over. Bezos has donated tens of millions to charity while Trump is always figuring a way to look charitable rather than be charitable. When Trump avoids paying taxes he calls himself smart, but when Amazon avoids paying taxes he calls them greedy.

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