Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Trump out after Amazon and the Chinese Strike Back Date:   4/2/2018 2:20:05 PM

I'm not sure why Trump (and Bernie Sanders) have taken out after Amazon, except that Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post.  I like Amazon, I am a Prime Member and I wish I had bought their stock right after the IPO.  He says they are taking advantage of the Post Ofiice, but I tend to think that they are saving the Post Office.  Does Trump realize that most people now get their bills electronically?  And most people use email for their correspondence?  Bernie doesn't like Amazon because he says it is "too big".   I say it is creating jobs for thousands of people.  We know that Trump hates the Washington Post, hates Bezos who owns the Post and Amazon.  

So as we knew would happen, China has put a tariff on certain goods from the U.S.   The farmers will be screaming about the tariff on pork.  The market is reacting to both.  

I have to say, that Trump makes me a bit nervous when he decides to make policy on the fly.  Like saying that DACA is off the table.  Like saying we're pulling out of Syria.  I also don't like to hear that he is considering going without a Chief of Staff and a Communications Director.  I really don't want to see him in an echo chamber of his own voice and those more hawkish.  There are articles making the rounds that Bolton will force Mattis out.  I think Trump needs some outside influences who don't always agree with him.  

And now we have school children kneeling during the National Anthemn.  No doubt they got the idea from the NFL.  We have out of control High Schoolers who think they are changing the world.  They don't care if they get into college, because they think they are doing national security work.  As far as I know, nothing has changed from their efforts, any more than those of us who protested Viet Nam changed anything either.