• MEDIA: The Day Silicon Valley Rode Trump's Escalator to Nowhere

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 10 09:37:53 2024
    Kara Swisher for Jeff Bezos' blog on whether Donald Trump regrets
    dispatching Jared and Ivanka Kushner to Silicon Valley to sue for
    peace with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg: <URL:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/15/kara-swisher-burn-book-silicon-valley/>
    | The sticky part was that many of the tech leaders - including
    | Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, who had been a prominent supporter of
    | Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton - had openly
    | opposed Trump's stances during the campaign. Almost all of them
    | pushed back when Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of
    | Muslims entering the United States" and announced a plan to severely
    | limit immigration. In fact, two of the invitees - Musk and Microsoft
    | CEO Satya Nadella - were immigrants themselves. And most had
    | privately derided Trump to me as a buffoon.

    Does Casey DeSantis regret that Ron failed to convince David McIntosh's
    Club for Growth to run advertisements with the likes of Mike Emmons
    warning legacy American proles that Trump will sign bipartisan
    comprehensive immigration reform legislation passed by the likes of
    Mike Johnson's House.GOV and Mitch McConnell's Senate.GOV so long as
    the Cheap Labor Lobby authors include the magic words: "merit-based"?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Trump sided with Disney, in part, because he's a bitter liberal who
    hates DeSantis. But there's money here, too. Disney gave $10.5
    million to Trump's America First Action PAC in the 2020 election
    cycle--more than it gave to then-candidate Joe Biden during the same
    period. https://t.co/3mcbzJUF8J" - Pedro Gonzalez <URL:https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1648835935524515846>

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