Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation

[bfh]

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President Donald Trump is being sworn in today, and we are about to
find out what happens when the government is actually as corrupt as
our most brain-rotted conspiracy theorists imagine.

“Trump Inauguration, Awash in Cash, Runs Out of Perks for Big Donors,”
The New York Times reported, somewhat inaccurately. Sure, the Trump
people ran out of VIP tickets, but that’s not what the donors were
buying. This is pure, obvious corruption — the kind that used to
trigger shame, back when we were a populace that could still
experience that emotion.

So what are these men buying?

Our tech overlords all have problems, and they want to buy the
solutions. I guess it was easier than making products people actually
like.

“First Buddy” Elon Musk spent at least a quarter of a billion dollars
electing Donald Trump. Corporations and wealthy donors have sent half
a billion more since he was elected. Amazon, Google, Uber, Microsoft,
and Meta donated $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration, as did
Apple’s Tim Cook and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. (Joe Biden’s inauguration
hardly received this kind of largesse.) “In the first term, everybody
was fighting me,” Trump said in December. “In this term, everybody
wants to be my friend.”

Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, the three wealthiest men on
Earth, are reportedly attending the inauguration; they were to be
seated with elected officials and cabinet nominees, before the
ceremony was moved indoors. (Cook is also reportedly attending.) Musk
will have office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
next to the White House, according to The New York Times.
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All that money is "pure, obvious corruption" when Republicans get it.
When the dumbasses get it, it's confirmation of approval of them and
their wonderful policies.

HawHawHaw!

[George.Anthony]

Post by bfh
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President Donald Trump is being sworn in today, and we are about to
find out what happens when the government is actually as corrupt as
our most brain-rotted conspiracy theorists imagine.
“Trump Inauguration, Awash in Cash, Runs Out of Perks for Big Donors,”
The New York Times reported, somewhat inaccurately. Sure, the Trump
people ran out of VIP tickets, but that’s not what the donors were
buying. This is pure, obvious corruption — the kind that used to
trigger shame, back when we were a populace that could still
experience that emotion.
So what are these men buying?
Our tech overlords all have problems, and they want to buy the
solutions. I guess it was easier than making products people actually
like.
“First Buddy” Elon Musk spent at least a quarter of a billion dollars
electing Donald Trump. Corporations and wealthy donors have sent half
a billion more since he was elected. Amazon, Google, Uber, Microsoft,
and Meta donated $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration, as did
Apple’s Tim Cook and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. (Joe Biden’s inauguration
hardly received this kind of largesse.) “In the first term, everybody
was fighting me,” Trump said in December. “In this term, everybody
wants to be my friend.”
Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, the three wealthiest men on
Earth, are reportedly attending the inauguration; they were to be
seated with elected officials and cabinet nominees, before the
ceremony was moved indoors. (Cook is also reportedly attending.) Musk
will have office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
next to the White House, according to The New York Times.
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https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24346317/trump-gangster-tech-regulation-corruption-grift
All that money is "pure, obvious corruption" when Republicans get it.
When the dumbasses get it, it's confirmation of approval of them and
their wonderful policies.
HawHawHaw!

Pot calling the kettle black. The leftists have nothing to say that I care
to listen to. I can go over to my neighbor’s hen house if I want to listen
to cackling. As brilliant as these clowns claim to be, they are too stupid
to realize that they are in a hole and should stop digging. Few people give
a rats ass about what they think.

On another note, I think they should show their commitment to asinineness
and refuse to pay less for gas, groceries and income taxes. Or maybe donate
their savings to the home for washed up, inconsequential democrats.