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Amazon has made their HQ2 decision. They’re going to go to the borough of Queens in New York and suburban Washington, D.C.

What Amazon does by splitting it all up like that is ensure that they as a company own six percent of the United States Senate. The two senators each in Washington, New York, and Virginia are now absolutely beholden to Amazon and will do their bidding.

Suburban Washington, D.C. makes sense — Jeff Bezos owns a big house there. He owns the Washington Post. And of course they want to have outside lobbying influence on the federal government.

Queens? I do not get on so many levels. I looked at a picture of the neighborhood into which they’re moving. Well, they’ll be sprucing up a blighted neighborhood because the area they’re moving into is not a particularly attractive place right now.

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But here’s the really baffling part. I truly thought that one of the reasons Amazon was getting out of here was because they wanted to get away from the insane politics of our region. They are getting away in part from the lunatic called Kshama Sawant, who calls Bezos “our enemy,” but now are running headlong into the lunatic that is also a Democratic-Socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, just elected to Congress from the Bronx and Queens.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been on a Twitter rampage against Amazon. Amazon is going to be investing billions of dollars and bringing 25,000 jobs into New York City. You would think that the bartender-turned-politician would be happy about this. But no — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hates Amazon nearly as much as Sawant. Hard to imagine anyone as hateful toward Amazon as Sawant, I know. But look at her tweet-storm.

We’ve been getting calls and outreach from Queens residents all day about this.

The community’s response? Outrage.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018)

Amazon is a billion-dollar company. The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018)

Okay, first of all, it hasn’t been disclosed how much Amazon is getting in tax breaks. This was between the Democrats who run things there, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. Do you think that they gave Amazon a great deal? Yeah, probably — to bring 25,000 jobs to town. I’m sure that Bezos and his team played this the way that a pro sports team owner would. “Hey, we’ll move our franchise to your city, but you’ve got to build us a new arena.”

Also, the only reason that the New York City Subway is crumbling is because of absolute graft and corruption. The New York City Subway is funded to the tune of $15 billion a year, more than the GDP of many nations on earth. But, when you have one-party control of all of that money — just like in Seattle — you have quite a bit of graft and corruption. So no one can say with any sense of logic that the New York City Subway is crumbling because of a lack of tax money because they get plenty of money.

Then she goes on:

When we talk about bringing jobs to the community, we need to dig deep:
– Has the company promised to hire in the existing community?
– What’s the quality of jobs + how many are promised? Are these jobs low-wage or high wage? Are there benefits? Can people collectively bargain?

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018)

This is absolutely none of her business as a U.S. Congresswoman. That is not her job. But, that’s what a socialist does. A socialist wants the government to control the means of production in the private sector.

Displacement is not community development. Investing in luxury condos is not the same thing as investing in people and families.

Shuffling working class people out of a community does not improve their quality of life.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018)

Democrats have been in power in New York City forever, ever since Giuliani was out. Bloomberg was a RINO. You’re going to tell me that they haven’t been able to create those working-class jobs? And now you’re going to lament Amazon coming in?

We need to focus on good healthcare, living wages, affordable rent. Corporations that offer none of those things should be met w/ skepticism.

It’s possible to establish economic partnerships w/ real opportunities for working families, instead of a race-to-the-bottom competition.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018)

Lastly, this isn’t just about one company or one headquarters. It’s about cost of living, corps paying their fair share, etc.

It’s not about picking a fight, either. I was elected to advocate for our community’s interests – & they‘ve requested, clearly, to voice their concerns.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018)

After reading these tweets, I think that Bezos and his team are insane to go into the mouth of the lion. They thought that Sawant was annoying, but look who they’re ditching Sawant for — her East Coast equivalent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was working passionately, feverishly, diligently to gin up as much anti-Amazon hate as she could within minutes of their announcement. I know, they wanted to own the two New York senators and be near Wall Street. I get it, it’s business. But I think they’re insane to go to the other socialist’s district.