{"id":40987,"date":"2025-04-30T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40987"},"modified":"2025-04-30T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T19:11:56","slug":"this-weeks-neville-chamberlain-award-goes-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/this-weeks-neville-chamberlain-award-goes-to\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s Neville Chamberlain Award goes to"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
ROBERT REICH<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
APR 30, 2025<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry to intrude on you again today but I need to add this week\u2019s winner of the Neville Chamberlain Award, given to the most cowardly effort to appease a tyrant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This week\u2019s original winners were Shari Redstone and Paramount, for intruding on the editorial independence of \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in order to suck up to Trump, so he\u2019d settle his frivolous lawsuit against CBS \u2014 thereby allowing them to sell off a chunk of CBS for billions.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this week\u2019s bigger winner is Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was reported<\/a> this morning that Bezos\u2019s Amazon planned to alert consumers to how much more they\u2019ll be paying for all sorts of items because of Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This infuriated Trump, whose White House spokes-lackey promptly accused Amazon of being \u201chostile and political.\u201d Then Trump chewed out Bezos on the phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this afternoon, Bezos kissed Trump\u2019s tuchus and withdrew the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a full Chamberlain, occurring over just a few hours today \u2014 simultaneously shafting consumers who deserve to know how much Trump\u2019s tariffs are costing them; adding to Trump\u2019s lie that American consumers don\u2019t pay the tariffs; and further corrupting American business, since Amazon is being sued by the FTC for monopolizing and Bezos clearly will do anything Trump wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there a word worse than disgraceful?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ROBERT REICH APR 30, 2025 Friends, Sorry to intrude on you again today but I need to add this week\u2019s winner of the Neville Chamberlain Award, given to the most cowardly effort to appease a tyrant. (This week\u2019s original winners were Shari Redstone and Paramount, for intruding on the editorial… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40989,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40987\/revisions\/40989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}