Posted on 08/30/2024 8:20:06 AM PDT by Angelino97
A shocking partisan switch is underway in the stratosphere of the tech titans: The industry known for its wokeness is betting big bucks on a Republican.
Last week former President Donald Trump gave a thumbs up to the notion of teaming up with billionaire innovator Elon Musk if he wins in November. Hours later, Musk posted a message on X: “I am willing to serve.”...
Whether or not Musk actually joins a Trump administration—Trump himself said Sunday that the mogul is likely too busy to do so but could “consult”—his bold steps to back the Republican signal a turnaround. Musk voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. Yet last month he launched a pro-Trump super PAC, which he and several other tech moguls are funding—even though Trump would likely remove federal subsidies for electric vehicles, a major Musk industry, if he wins a second term.
Investor and “Shark Tank” star Mark Cuban called the phenomenon of tech bosses boosting Trump “insane.” Not really: While Democrats strove mightily last week to push “freedom” as the theme of their convention, tech leaders are betting that freedom of speech, freedom to innovate and freedom from crushing government regulations and confiscatory taxes are more likely in a Trump reign than in a Kamala Harris administration.
Among those Silicon Valley heavyweights is Nicole Shanahan, who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate. “I would say that I trust the future of this country more under the leadership of Trump … than I do of the Harrises,” Shanahan said last week as Kennedy weighed his decision to back Trump in the race.
Harris’s economic plans, Shanahan warned—”particularly her flawed ideas about price caps on food”—echo “the very policies that caused the famine my family suffered through in Mao’s Communist China.”
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclesmagazine.org ...
Mark Cuban, another worthless POS. I would enjoy watching him get curb stomped.
Well, that's good news.
Musk watching sure is Fun!
Hopefully they support Trump because of his pro-business platform and not because they want Trump to keep importing H1b scammers from India to work in big tech .
I have to agree with you. I would pay good money to see Mark Cuban get a heaping helping of boot salad.
Hmmm... Tech giants waking up to the threat of green fascism to them.. a wonderful thing.
Probably not fans of the unrealized capitals gains scam
I know that Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison os for Trump.
AGREED
Totally agree. Can’t stand the sight of him.
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