The Best Tweets About the Amazon-NYC Breakup
By Caroline Andrews February 14, 2019 2:22 pm
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Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone but New York City. This morning, instead of flowers, the city woke up to a break-up text in the form of a press release, announcing Amazon (AMZN) will pull out of its planned HQ2 development in Long Island City, Queens.
It’s the next twist in the Bachelorette-style contest that began more than a year ago when Amazon began searching for a location to build a second headquarters, with cities across the United States competing for Amazon’s business, wooing the company with whispered sweet nothings and billions of dollars in tax breaks.
The Jeff Bezos-led Amazon announced its engagement to New York (and Virginia, but we don’t judge) in November 2018, but the decision was met almost instantly with protests from local politicians and workers’ unions, which argued that the company’s move to LIC would only increase the neighborhood’s gentrification problem and that one of the world’s most successful corporations owned by the world’s richest man does not need billions of dollars in tax breaks.
Never ones to miss out on an opportunity to soapbox about politics or make light of a current event, the folks of Twitter got to work. As always, there are some real gems.
Below are 14 of the funniest reactions from the Twitter-sphere.
De Blasio Inbox: Your Amazon order of "Amazon HQ2" has been canceled.
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) February 14, 2019
Amazon execs who already bought condos in Queens pic.twitter.com/fhlPIgkpMn
— Extra Credit (@ExtraCredit) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1096089200250769408
alexa, play despacito
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 14, 2019
I'll give you this, Amazon: Telling people you're going to Queens and then bailing is one thing New Yorkers can relate to.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) February 14, 2019
I have never related more to Jeff Bezos now that he has flaked out on a promise to go to Queens
— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/samlymatters/status/1096096655156408321
https://twitter.com/PrezLife/status/1096096369050292224
Why I'm Leaving New York, by Jeff Bezos
— Jackson McHenry (@McHenryJD) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/melvillmatic/status/1096093045047640065
https://twitter.com/aparnapkin/status/1096098943782526977
Ladies, if he:
– woos you by making you plead what YOU can do for HIM
– tells you you'll only ever be a side piece and aren't you lucky at that
– never picks up a check
– treats his neighbors like shit
– bails after proposingHe's not your Valentine, he's Amazon #AmazonHQ2
— auntie ames (@auntie_ames) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/caroline_219/status/1096094238952116225
https://twitter.com/fivefifths/status/1096098016732344320
