| > Disliking Trump isn't license to spin supposition as factual reality. Evaluating situations in a vacuum and sticking just to confirmed facts isn’t a hallmark of being considered and knowledgeable. One must also consider patterns of behavior and Trump pressuring Amazon to change a policy of both consistent with all of this. Facts in order of events: * fact: News report that Amazon is going to show tariff impact on their Haul product * fact: press secretary blasts Amazon in the news indicating she’s repeating a conversation she just had with Trump * fact: Trump had a phone call with Bezos * fact: Amazon puts out a clarifying statement they won’t be doing it. * contradicting fact: Amazon claims they were never actually going to do it * pattern: quid pro quo is how Trump operates. see the Ukraine call that got him an impeachment in the first term trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden in exchange for weapons * pattern: businesses and politicians being yes-men to Trump. So facts + pattern = reasonable hypothesis of what happened. If you have contravening facts I’d love to hear them but you can’t just stick your fingers in your ear and pretend you have to have a confirmed fact before building a hypothesis of the likelihood of what happened. It’s like trying to pretend Putin isn’t the one murdering dissident journalists or opposing politicians or trumping up fake charges. |