The point isn't the likability or lack thereof of UBER, or even the finer points of UBER's timing and intent. It the association, whether intended or not, with someone and something so loathsome to many American's sensibilities. Trump breeds discord and confusion. What this "overreaction" did was to penetrate Trump's toxic cloud of chaos and to pointedly convey to UBER that there will be consequences for attempts to curry favor with Trump or to exploit the lamentable conditions he is set on creating. Trump will alternatingly attack and fawn over, threaten and bribe commercial and tech companies that he thinks he can use in some fashion. It will be a dangerous proposition to play along. There will be consequences for us all, from what we have chosen to do to ourselves in elevating such a man on such ill terms as he insisted he be known by. Consequences far beyond inconvenience. You expect us all to roll over and submit?
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