Posted on 01/16/2025 7:58:53 PM PST by bitt
In his final remarks to the American people on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden launched a parting shot at the tech “oligarchy” that he says is taking over the country.
Such arrogant and hypocritical remarks should be met with scorn by all those who languished under the program of social media censorship for the previous four years — a program largely forced on tech companies by the Biden White House, as an example of the very kind of merging of government and corporate power Biden now claims to oppose.
“Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” said Biden.
The president did not name names, but it isn’t difficult to surmise that he was referring to Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon executive chairman and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, among others.
Each of these tech billionaires has subtly — or in Musk’s case, not subtly whatsoever — broken with the Democratic Party and progressive governance. Bezos declined to let his newspaper endorse Kamala Harris for president; Zuckerberg recently fired the fact-checkers who had served as de facto enforcers of liberal groupthink on Facebook and Instagram; and Musk is a full-throated backer and key advisor for Trump.
And that is what has earned these figures spots on Biden’s enemies list.
Make no mistake: neither Biden nor the other elites within his party cared to castigate the leaders of this vital economic sector as threats to the Republic until they shrugged off Democratic control.
Having parted ways with Biden, these individuals are indicating that the next political era will be characterized not by tech oligarchy but by tech freedom.
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Maybe Biden’s thugs and goons will think twice about yelling at Facebook employees next time.
If there is a next time... folks are really sick of democrat bullies - time to go the wig way... (whig way)
Whatza Whig?
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That's redundant.
There, fixed it!
(How can people get this expression wrong?!)
Regards,
Joe Biden thinks...Therefore, he stinks.
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from the sound of that statement , this appears to be an attempt at a confession to me.
after all biden and co. have the $ and aristotic power to be an oligarch , as well as his buddies soros, zuck, bezos and the big dem doners
. ( An aristocracy is an oligarchy in which the few are the privileged upper class ) .. yup thats a Freudian slip confession or projection ... ...hes so prone to both i cant decide
“Could” care less?
Let me aks you this. Could it have went the other way?
You are, of course, at liberty to include or exclude a "not" in this sentence.
But be aware that doing so gives it the opposite meaning.
To wit: "He could care less" = "He does care at least a little. But he could care less."
In contrast: "He could NOT care less" = "He does not care AT ALL."
How can you not know this? Is English not your native language?
Regards,
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