As most know, Zuck was a key player in the 2020 steal. He had “pro Trump” comments leaked. He is trying too hard to suck up. Hopefully, it won’t work.
[As most know, Zuck was a key player in the 2020 steal. He had “pro Trump” comments leaked. He is trying too hard to suck up. Hopefully, it won’t work.]
Trump’s ineffectual attempts at defending himself from Obama-era commissars (now being fired en masse by Trump) while president gave them little confidence. If he can’t even protect himself, how’s he gonna protect them? Obama’s people were colluding with China and Europe to persecute Big Tech all through Trump’s first term. They were forced to divest operations and had to pay tens of billions in fines. For Big Tech, Trump’s first term was like Obama’s third term. Foreign persecution of US tech companies never ended.
Much of tech’s contribution to the Democrats was straightforward shakedown cash. Pubbies wouldn’t protect them against foreign attack, Democrats would grind them to dust. Trump’s commitment to take their side in international disputes, fire Obama’s commissars, probably got them to finally edge away from the Dems. Can’t stop paying the Gambinos without a commitment from another family.
Long interview about how tech spent so much time cowering under endless attacks from Obama’s handpicked bureaucrats through the tenures of 3 different presidents, it developed Stockholm Syndrome:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html
It really came down to Obama. His radicalism was expressed not through soothing rhetoric, but his mass firings and restocking of the bureaucracy with like-minded zealots. Biden continued Obama’s purges, which is why Trump must not only end the one-way ratchet in hiring for ideological lunacy, but throw it in reverse.
Super-duper above tippy top secret Zucky utterances get leaked ....
Zucky sez — “Find me n fire them dirty rats!”