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Seattle's Kshama Sawant warns Jeff Bezos after passing Amazon tax: 'We are coming for you'
Washington Times ^ | 7/08/20 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 07/08/2020 6:01:44 PM PDT by Libloather

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To: Libloather
I have modified Kipling's poem, for a parody which reflects the situation the progressives have placed us in:

Paying Progressive Dane-Geld

It is always a temptation to an entitled population
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We rioted last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation,  with Orwellian dictation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“You are oppressed. White men caused this mess.
We will pay you public cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation to a youthful population,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”

We have been paying Dane-Geld to progressive ideologists and cultural Marxists  for more than 50 years. The cost has been in the trillions. The damage done to our society, moral and Constitutional norms, is incalculable.  It must be stopped, before our nation is lost. We came very close to losing the nation.
21 posted on 07/08/2020 6:11:07 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Libloather

She needs a helicopter ride.


22 posted on 07/08/2020 6:12:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: USAF1985

Everyone needs to start sending this to the white house now, and every day until things start moving


23 posted on 07/08/2020 6:13:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

BEZOS SHRUGGED


24 posted on 07/08/2020 6:13:23 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: Libloather

HAHAHAHA!

The progs still can’t get it through their malfunctioning liberal “brains” that their virtsiging will not protect them from the communist monsters.

“Pro-to-prog combat.”

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25 posted on 07/08/2020 6:13:44 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Exactly.

The Bezos operation is mostly in digital information.

It would cost less than one year’s tax to move to another location.

Maybe to Dallas, or Austin, Texas.

Maybe to Nevada, or to Utah...


26 posted on 07/08/2020 6:13:48 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Libloather
Nasty foreigner.
27 posted on 07/08/2020 6:14:15 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: Libloather

That worked really well for AOC.


28 posted on 07/08/2020 6:14:50 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Send Nikki Haley with her.

*************

I second that and will donate money toward her airfare. ;)


29 posted on 07/08/2020 6:15:42 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Libloather

Seattle will achieve shithole stays soon.


30 posted on 07/08/2020 6:16:12 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: TLI

That one got by me...

It’s “Prog-to-prog combat.”

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31 posted on 07/08/2020 6:17:26 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Bezos should fire all her fellow dot Indians


32 posted on 07/08/2020 6:19:09 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Libloather

Maybe Dr. Evil Bezos will have her killed, with sharks with lasers on their head.


33 posted on 07/08/2020 6:19:17 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: marktwain

That works if he relocates the staff who live in Washington state. There is a cost in large staff turnover.


34 posted on 07/08/2020 6:20:26 PM PDT by Bernard (If I knew then what I know now, I probably would not have believed it anyway.)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

Amazon is already moving to Bellevue in the eastside suburbs...

Sawant is batshit crazy and a hypocrite.


35 posted on 07/08/2020 6:20:41 PM PDT by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: Libloather

Nassty Socialist attacking a global elitist.

I’m torn...not really, Bezo with is WAPO and Amazon can rot.


36 posted on 07/08/2020 6:20:47 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
“If you attempt again to overturn the Amazon tax, working people will go all out in the thousands to defeat you. And we will not stop there. Because you see, we are fighting for far more than this tax, we are preparing the ground for a different kind of society.”
The Demwits are a collection of violent, rival gangs. That doesn't mean that, given the opportunity and no witnesses...

37 posted on 07/08/2020 6:20:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Libloather
She's been listening to her Minions tell her that she's brilliant, and that they will follow her anywhere.

Little yellow pill shaped people, all with the IQ of a Democrat, probably aren't the best advisors.

Apparently, this cupid stunt hasn't seen the movie... She is SO screwed. Cross-threaded, stripped, and over-torqued.

38 posted on 07/08/2020 6:20:55 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Libloather
Haven't done business with Amazon in years and don't care if they are targeted.

People keep telling me how it is our job to defend the commies who are selling us rope by reciting that lame "I did not speak up" poem. Sorry. Not working this time.

Let them go down and I will dance on their grave.

39 posted on 07/08/2020 6:21:07 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
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To: Libloather
This Socialist is showing just how sick she is. Nothing like targeting an individual who she, as an elected official, is PAID to represent.

Flip it in the other direction. Amazon already offers a charitable donation when you shop. They can offer to add a "Seattle Surcharge" to every order she or any other Socialist makes and when she refuses, call her out as the hypocrite that she is.

At some point these Socialists need to be held criminally responsible for every penny of lost taxes from businesses they chase away.

40 posted on 07/08/2020 6:21:54 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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