Summary
Tech leaders who once backed Trump are fed up as his second term descends into chaos.
Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch.
Appointing David Sacks as “crypto czar” only fueled suspicions of cronyism, while proposed defense budget cuts leave companies like Anduril and Palantir reeling.
Even billionaire allies like Jeff Bezos are souring as tariffs and economic uncertainty hit their bottom line. “Everyone is annoyed,” says one disillusioned founder.
Do something about it then.
Capital controls the government. Unless white house policy actually changes, this is a load of hopium.
The leopard ate my face. What the actual hell did they expect‽
Cool, so now the tech bros will stand up to them in the house and file articles of…. Oh wait, they don’t actually have any power in the government and will be able to do nothing to get the orange fascist and his South African goblin out of the place where they are doing IRREPARABLE harm.
If they’ll counter Musk’s primarying political opposition and stooges, you may see congressmen grow a spine.
If we even GET a free and fair election in 26.
And that’s an if bigger than the entire Milky Way galaxy
Not really, either way the Broligarchs own the government. We might make them buy slightly less shitty politicians, but that doesn’t count for much.
we will agree with them, when they start funding opposition to all GOP,a nd stop thier donations to them. if they think they can virtue signal and double-dip by funding both sides, they arnt really ready for a change.
My slim hope is that they start funding the opposition and current legislators to oust them. Things change radically when money is on the line.Sucks i have to pray to oligarchs but I don’t have any other short term optionEdit: Fuck this mentality I need to find a better path.
Awww. Poor rich babies are annoyed. My heart pumps purple piss for them.
FAFO assholes.
My personal thought was “Aww, poor tech-bro capitalists are learning what the actual, obscene fundamentals of their antisocial ideology have always been, and that they were in fact not high-IQ genius technocrats knowing better than anyone else how to run mankind”.
But then I realised they most likely learned nothing and will claim that they, themselves, would never have been so stupid.
My heart pumps purple piss for them.
I admire your commitment to the cause, but you really should get that checked out…
It’s an old saying from back in the day (70s to 80s).
Check out The Wire for reference.
Great; time for another rewatch.
Maybe this time FS won’t die.
Awesome show. Can’t remember that line though.
Bunk said it to a crime lab tech.
And just found out it was also in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, book 4, which I read wayyyy back when.
It’s the world’s smallest violin, playing ‘My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You’.
They way to a clean and prosperous future is in your reach but instead we all have to adapt and overcome the ignorant old few that want to read paper and tinker on diesel tanks for a few pretty accolades.
Democracy’s greatest weakness is a paranoid old man afraid of change, in great number. Peace through technological wonder instead of undermining humanity.
Steve Witkoff, for instance, a longtime Trump associate who was appointed as the United States special envoy to the Middle East, has been cashing in on his proximity to Trump to secure private deals, this person says. Witkoff’s son, Zach Witkoff, is the cofounder of World Liberty Financial, the crypto banking platform that launched Trump’s memecoin. Early in March, Steve Witkoff sent cryptocurrency advocates to the Middle East to promote World Liberty Financial’s latest stablecoin project, The Wall Street Journal reported. “Steve Witkoff is calling every sovereign government and saying, ‘You need to support this coin if you want to be in good standing with Trump,’” the person says. Witkoff did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
That doesn’t seem like a great office to have a holder who is soliciting bribes from foreign countries to affect national policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff
In November 2024, then President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would appoint Witkoff to be the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East…In addition to his Middle East portfolio, he also became Trump’s personal de facto envoy to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[5]
The entire article reads like:
Bush:
There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.
The spin I heard was that he started saying it and halfway through realized he was going to create a soundbite of him saying “shame on me” and instinctively knew it would be better to flub the line and “aww shucks” it than to give a soundbite of him shaming himself.
Yeah Bush had a lot of Boris Johnson energy.
Tech leaders who once backed Trump
Once, meaning, until about two months ago.
Yup, they got what they supported. May not be what they wanted, but after seeing Jack royally fuck HBO, I’m convinced rich people are just stupid and born into wealth. I have witnessed not one single rich person earn fucking shit!
I have witnessed not one single rich person earn fucking shit!
I mean there are a handful that created some kind of creative work that became wildly popular and their wealth is ultimately derived primarily from that creation that you could argue earned it. Like Notch or JK Rowling.
I agree with you, but you named the two of the shittiest people on earth.
You grossly underestimate just how shitty people can be. Which is wild given what’s going on in gestures wildly.
Yet somehow both are still pieces of shit just like the others.
I mean there is a difference between “earned their money rather than being born into it” and “has all the correct politics”.
Yeah. Can’t argue with that logic. But of all the available examples to choose from, why choose those two?
Specifically to have that conversation - there is no connection whatsoever between “earned their money” and “has views I agree with” or even “has non-harmful views.” At least Notch doesn’t do worse than occasionally tweet what he thinks.
Ok techbros and billionaires, either Luigi him or stfu. You pieces of shit tanked America.
I’ve said almost the exact thing no less than ten times in this thread, using way too many words.
🤘 Fuck yeah!
I had to laugh when I saw some dumbass posting some FB-level political magabrained copium about how gas prices are going down thanks to dumbass donvict.
And the amount of comments underneath it, thanking donvict for doing great things for America. The amount of absolute DELUSION out there, as well as the people that proudly slap that delusion up there on…checks notes…a site for building your network for your career for employers, co-workers, and potential clients/customers to see is mind-boggling.
I bet these same set of dumbasses will be all Pikachu-faced and talking about how they are being “censored” by Big Tech if they were to find out that people take a pass on hiring/doing business with a chucklefuck jagoff posting moronic political nonsense on a site for your career…they never seem to realize that free speech cuts both ways. They are free to express what idiots they are and others are free to disassociate with them because of it.
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I’ve seen shit like that too. I’m convinced they are all bots since meta just gave up on stopping them.
@MicroWave Proč největší firmy v USA vedou naivní egocentrici, kteří si mysleli, že Trump nemyslí své výroky vážně?
probably not delivering on his promises, giving them unfettered access with AI.
No, he’s delivering everything Peter thiel wanted. He is literally destroying the United(emphasis on that previous word) states.
Rich fucks don’t like us being able to survive.
I wonder how many of them voted for qon assholes like donvict for the tax cuts and to combat “DEI” at least a little bit (or at least dunk on the 13 trans people in college sports nationwide or whatever the fuck) but they didn’t want the monkey-flinging-shit level of batshit insanity that donvict has been doing…
I just want Luigi released.
Luigi should be released, because he was with me at the time when he was killing the CEO guy.
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And even if you showed me it, I wouldn’t believe it. I heard his dad was from Uganda, so he’s an illegal.
And reloaded
Don’t bother blaming trans athletes. The culture war is only a means to an end. They couldn’t give less of a fuck about sports.
So do we like Trump now or do we like tech billionaire?
People can dislike both, you know this… right?
Why do we care what they think if we dislike them then? Surely if they are greedy oligarchs this would likely be a good thing.
No.
It’s like they learned nothing from the first time he was president.
But they really really didn’t!
No, they learned plenty. Look up Peter thiel’s bullshit. They thought they could profit from dissolving our country. I’m fucking loving this personally. I hope they actually cancel social security. It will burn the entirety of the “Republican” party (using quotation marks because they are furthest thing from, like the “Democratic Republic of…”)
Let it all burn. This country voted for acceleration, so it deserves it!
They all banked the first time he was president. It’s all us regular people who got boned.
