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  • Bay Area tech CEOs who sucked up to Trump just got rocked by new tariffs

    04/03/2025 4:51:48 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 9 replies
    SF Gate ^ | April 3, 2025 | By Stephen Council
    When the upper brass of Bay Area tech flocked east to pay their respects to Donald Trump earlier this year, they surely expected some preferential treatment in return. But instead, the president just hit them where it hurts. Trump revealed sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday, including a 10% baseline tax on all imports and double or triple that much for certain countries. He dubbed the non-baseline tariffs “reciprocal” and noted that some goods would not be subject to those levies, including semiconductor chips, in a win for Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, on Thursday, the very tech executives who kissed Trump’s proverbial...
  • Calif. Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Somehow Sees Himself in 'Ragtag' Rebels From 'Star Wars'

    11/20/2024 3:53:25 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 16 replies
    SFGate ^ | NOV 20, 2024 | Stephen Council
    Someone should show Peter Thiel his bank account — and the results of the 2024 election.The PayPal billionaire and longtime California resident is back in the news this week, joining media provocateur Bari Weiss’s “Honestly” podcast for its Nov. 14 episode. About 10 minutes into the two-hour conversation, Thiel, an early supporter of Donald Trump, let fly a truly bizarre metaphor. He’d been talking about the “intellectual straightjacket” that he sees the Democratic Party forcing people into. He said there’s no room for “individual thought” on the left — not mentioning Trump’s sidelining of the critics within his party —...