Posted on 01/17/2025 7:12:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
When Stephen Miller met with Mark Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago late last year, the 39-year-old Trump adviser was in a position of power that would have been unimaginable a decade ago.
Back then, Mr. Miller was a mere Senate staffer railing about the evils of immigration. Now he was holding forth on U.S. policy with the billionaire chief executive of Meta, a man he had vilified for years as a globalist bent on destroying the nation.
The scale had flipped.
Mr. Miller told Mr. Zuckerberg that he had an opportunity to help reform America, but it would be on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s terms. He made clear that Mr. Trump would crack down on immigration and go to war against the diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., culture that had been embraced by Meta and much of corporate America in recent years.
Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products.
Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for an inclusivity initiative at Facebook that encouraged employees’ self-expression in the workplace, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.
Earlier this month, Mr. Zuckerberg’s political lieutenants previewed the changes to Mr. Miller in a private briefing. And on Jan. 10, Mr. Zuckerberg made them official: Meta would abolish its D.E.I. policy.
The meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 27 represented more than just another tech billionaire bending...
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You know he’s a White Nationalist Jew, don’t you?
You have to throw in a Jesuit, a Freemasonist or a Jew somewhere in there, no?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)
It’s not positive.
The dude is just attempting to protect his interests, as are all of the billionaires CEO’s sucking up.
Fun if you are supporting a particular party, not a sign of a healthy democratic republic though.
If you think that ANY of those guys, (Musk, Zuckerberg, Cook, et al) care about you beyond the cash they can extract from you, you should be committed.
“Could be....he submits to whatever power figure arises. A malleable chameleon.”
indeed ... but we’ll have to wait and see if meaningful organic changes are implemented ...
it might also be that the relatively free speech environment at twitter/X is eating zuck’s lunch and will continue to eat it if folks continue to flee a restrictive, censorious platform ... folks want to speak their minds and go to the places that allow and/or even encourage it ...
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> If you think that ANY of those guys, (Musk, Zuckerberg, Cook, et al) care about you beyond the cash they can extract from you…<
Right you are. Those guys are probably not first and foremost patriots. They are more probably businessmen first, looking at their bottom line.
That doesn’t mean they are not useful! Take what they offer, and run with it. Then jettison them when their minuses overcome their pluses.
Trump is pretty good at pressing that ejection button.
“the evils of immigration”
No. Miller rails about the evils of illegal immigration.
I am very happy to see Stephen Miller in the Trump 47 administration and in this role. He is the real deal.
Legal immigration is not a good thing either. In my opinion legal immigration needs to be curtailed or stopped altogether. The US is a post industrial society and does not need to import any more labor. If wages were exploding then some immigration may be good but wages are flat or have been falling for the last 3 decades so that is not the case.
Legal immigration is destroying wages in the USA.
“ Back then, Mr. Miller was a mere Senate staffer railing about the evils of immigration. “
No bias there…nope. < /sarc > Adding the word illegal would have corrected it.
Z is not to be trusted.
“ White Nationalist Jew”
White- by accident of birth.
Nationalist – lover of country, America first.
Jew – by accident of birth or or some by personal choice.
What’s wrong with that?
Folks who favor immigration (of any type) fall into one of two categories.
1. Some have a childlike belief that no matter how full the boat is, there is always room for many more. That’s not logical on the face of it.
2. Some look at it from a jobs point of view. We need that labor! Well, no. It’s not 1920 anymore. There are no longer any factories and mills begging for help.
I doubt that Sandberg's inclusivity included all employees in self-expression.
Say a White employee refused to bend the knee to Saint George. Or put up an All Lives Matter sticker in his cubicle, never mind a White Lives Matter sticker.
Would Sandberg have celebrated the White employee's self-expression?
Fixed it.
Zuck saw how Musk took over Twitter and fired 90% of Twitter’s employees.
That’s a good indication of the massive fluff that Zuck has on the Facebook payroll. So aligning with Trump may serve the useful purpose of firing a huge number of employees. If he killed DEI, that’s a good first step to lowering the boom.
This is just my own conjecture on what’s going on.
As for 1., the abundance of resources is bountiful enough. And 2. part of the Trump agenda is to bring manufacturing back to the USA. With immigration the most important factors are loyalty to our founding principles and a good work ethic. *Those* ought to be rigorously assessed and applied. We could also stand to deport the useful idiots who sow socio-economic discord, whose aim and outlook on life is solely through money gla$$es.
Yeah i don’t know if Trump understands how much support it will cost him if he increases h1b visas rather then get rid of them. People are wise to this scam. H1Bs are anti American it’s as simple as that. America first.
I agree. But perhaps he rolled on a lot of others as part of a plea deal.
Mr. Miller, Let’s not forget who was part of FWD.us and their agenda. You destroy this snake, not allow him to bite you and us later.
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