Thread by @LibertyBlitz

"Case in point: the luggage brand Samsonite, which has to pay for sponsored ads in order to be the top result when you search 'Samsonite' on Amazon."

Read that again and again until you understand.

Amazon is out of control and using mafia tactics.

"They're just private companies" my ass.

"Mattis was about to fly to the West Coast, where he would personally swear Bezos in at Amazon’s headquarters before moving on to meetings with executives from Google and Apple."

Pentagon employee warns about the cozy relationship between the DOD/Amazon/Google and then gets removed from her position as a result. This is what happens to real whistleblowers.

"Sally Donnelly — a former outside strategist for Amazon who had become one of Mattis’ top aides — helped give Amazon officials access to Mattis in intimate settings, an opportunity that most defense contractors don’t enjoy."

Everything is corrupt by the way. Everything.

Eric Schmidt, while Executive Chairman of Alphabet (Google, YouTube, etc).

But, but muh private companies.

"A little more than a year after Schmidt’s visit, Google won a $17 million subcontract in a project called Maven to help the military use image recognition software to identify drone targets."

"Mattis granted him (Eric Schmidt) and the board permission to travel anywhere they wanted and to talk to anyone at the DOD on all but the most secret programs."

Who's actually in charge at the Pentagon right now, Department of Defense employees or tech oligarchs?

"The DOD became unusually deferential to Schmidt. He preferred to travel on his personal jet, and he would ferry fellow board members with him."

Remember, all of this is happening at the same time Google and Amazon are trying to sell their products to the Pentagon.

Google's Eric Schmidt responds when questioned by Pentagon whistleblower.

Mass media didn't care much for this whistleblower though.

"Responded by threatening to go over her head to Mattis, according to her grievance. She was told to stand down and never again speak to Schmidt"

Sally Donnelly is the consummate swamp profiteer. She flowed seamlessly through the tech giant (Amazon), journalism (Time Magazine) and military-industrial-complex (Pentagon) revolving doors.

She should get a Nobel Prize in cronyism.

"Donnelly was a master at quietly cultivating a network, one that straddled the permeable line between government and industry. Carter rented an office at the firm before he became Obama’s defense secretary."

Yes, the U.S. is a Banana Republic.

Bezos' pitch to Mattis.
Hey come work with us, we already got the CIA!

Here's another. Meet Deap Ubhi:

"Around the same time that he started working on JEDI, Ubhi began talking with AWS about rejoining the company."

There's more. Of course, there's more:

"Ubhi worsened the impression by making ill-advised public statements while still employed by the DOD. In a tweet, he described himself as “once an Amazonian, always an Amazonian.”

Sally Donnelly again:

"She left government again last year. A going-away party was thrown for her at the Pentagon. Jared Kushner and former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn attended. Cohn is the chairman of the advisory board of a new firm that she opened, Pallas Advisors"

"Chris Lynch, who has left the DOD and founded a company, Rebellion Defense, that is seeking defense contracts relating to artificial intelligence. (Rebellion’s board members include Eric Schmidt.)"

It's so incestuous and gross it's almost unfathomable. D.C. really is a sewer.