We'll shape him into something useful.
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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Sheryl Sandberg thrown under the bus by Zuckerberg.
What a gentleman! “She made me do it. All that icky DEI stuff!”
The Zuck is a total coward.
New York Times still cannot distinguish illegal immigration from immigration. Still dishonest.
maybe he finally had a male influence.
Well, now he may be our coward. Gotta take help where we can get it.
You know they don’t trust zuck.A tiger doesn’t change it’s stripes.
Miller days are here….
Could be....he submits to whatever power figure arises. A malleable chameleon.
I do not trust this little Machiavellian at all.
..he submits to whatever power figure arises. A malleable chameleon.
I do not trust this little Machiavellian at all.
The idea that NY Times has any idea of what is going on in Team Trump is such an absurdity,
Zuck “leaned in” when throwing Sandberg under the bus.
Zuckerberg belongs in prison or hanged for being one of the architects of the coup. I don’t care if he wants to make nice. He’s an effing traitor.
“In recent weeks, according to multiple people with direct knowledge, Mr. Miller has done little, if anything, to try to talk Mr. Trump out of his support for H-1B visas”
If true, that’s a shame. H-1B is a terrible, America Last program.
> Gotta take help where we can get it. <
Right you are. The Democrats are a little upset that Zuckerberg has (evidently) bonded with Trump.
Anything that upsets the Democrats is probably a good thing.
‘ The Democrats are a little upset that Zuckerberg has (evidently) bonded with Trump’
You really believe that?
I have always had a good feeling about Stephen Miller, hope he continues to not disappoint.
We'll shape him into something useful.
It’s tricky, and by no means obvious. Zuckerberg has seen the light. Or he has just decided to back the winning horse. Or he’s behaving like a leech, and means to eventually destroy the host.
Time will tell. But for now, his bowing to Trump is a positive thing. Just be sure to keep an eye on him, Mr. Trump.
“He [Zuck] said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.”
Daum! ... That sounds like it might be MEANINGFUL ACTION, and not just happy talk to curry favor with the latest President ...
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