• Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation

    From bfh@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 20 17:58:47 2025
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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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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!

    --
    bill
    Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.

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  • From George.Anthony@21:1/5 to bfh on Tue Jan 21 00:51:44 2025
    bfh <[email protected]> wrote:

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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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

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    Biden has no idea what he is doing but he’s really, really good at it.

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