Bezos strikes back lol

The RCP boys have thoughts (on May 21) about poor, beleaguered Jeff Bezos and his much discussed interview on CNBC's Squawk Box, wherein he says that "doubling" his taxes (notice he did not say "raising") won't help the "teacher in Queens" (which is not wrong, since 2 times ZERO is still zero):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsypO3iFiqA

(The Bezos segment starts around the 10 minute mark.) 

You can watch the full interview (if you have a strong stomach):

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2026/05/20/watch-cnbcs-full-interview-with-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos.html

I was so outraged, I dropped this comment:

Here's the part the RCP guys were agreeing with and I was furious over. First, what AOC said that Bezos was responding to:

AOC laid out her position earlier this month on the podcast, It’s Open with Ilana Glazer: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.”

Bezos responds when speaking to Andrew Ross Sorkin in the CNBC interview:

“Well, it’s not correct on its face. Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have ten employees, and you make a little bit of money, right? This is one outlet. And by the way, these are the most delicious burgers in the world. People love your burgers, Andrew. And so then you open a second outlet, right? And now you’re making a little bit more money, and you have 20 employees. And you open a third outlet. By the time you’ve opened 1,000 outlets, you are a billionaire, right? And by the way, this is a real-life story. It happens all the time. It’s In-N-Out Burger. It’s, you know, Raising Cane’s Chicken. At what point did that money all of a sudden become unethical? It didn’t. There was one outlet, and then there were two, and then there were three. The way you make $1 billion or $100 million or $10 million or anything is you create a service that people love. And if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with $1 billion, right?”

 Um, no, not unless you engage in predatory practices with your vendors and steal money from your workers, right?

Hate Chart

When you see it compiled like this, it really shows how extensive their resentment is

Artemis timeline

 I'm so excited about this

Dating deadends

 These "men" are exhausting. I had a couple of hot prospects on the app this week. I gave them my number, even though I'm always reluctant to do that because I don't like getting unsolicited dick pics. But they seemed genuine so I thought I'd take a chance.

One guy was very interested in getting together and then I just stopped hearing from him, which is the most common situation I get, where they just stop responding for no reason that I can discern, after they've been so eager to get my number (this has happened repeatedly and I've heard other women complain about this).

The other guy sent me several long messages and 17 pictures from the work he's doing (bizarrely he included a screenshot of his app receipt). 

Then he says he's going to bed, and then he gets mad because I didn't answer (cuz he said he was going to bed) and sent me a long rant about how he can't get any "compliance" on these apps. Hard pass.

So yet again my weekend is completely free🫤

 

Just ew

I can't even imagine why an elderly guy thinks having a picture of woman's ass taken in this sneaky way is the appropriate profile photo for a dating site (tell me you're a predatory asshole without telling me you're a predatory asshole)

Mondayest Monday

The only thing that makes this less aggravating is that I have glass coverage from my insurance company, with no deductible (and they have a direct link on the website to the local glass replacement company, so I have an appt tomorrow).

As far as I can tell, I lost $20 that I kept in the console for emergencies, a $10 gas card I got from the vaccine trial, and about $6 or $7 worth of quarters that I literally was thinking this weekend I should bring into the house. And, what probably led to them to break in: a big tray of cookies and brownies left over from the Superbowl party that I planning to take into work today. :\

 

Crumbs from the money gods

 The money gods are smiling for a change. Well, they're tossing me a little bone. I'm kind of freaking out about money right now. The back child support is ending this year, Alana's tuition needs to be paid, Cal's student loan which I offered to pay (I didn't realize it would take 3 more years) is weighing on my mind, Alana's graduation in May is gonna cost me a bundle, and this fucking shower repair. Then I got a call today from the Pfizer trial which I had contacted online, saying there is a trial in KCMO with Moderna, $450 for 6 months. Yes please! It doesn't balance out the bigger expenses, but it's moving in the right direction.