Well, that's pretty terrifying. Excerpt from a long read by NYT Mag on Musk, Thiel, and the other "Lost Boys of Silicon Valley" bankrolling Trump's campaign (to the tune of 10s of millions of $). www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/m...
Important to keep calling these guys out because they have too much money to waste on evil, but more importantly, we must remind the American people just how big a group of dweebs they actually are.
It’s always an economic or transactional argument from the Times. They aren’t willing to wrestle with whether these tech guys are at their core sympathetic to the totality of Trumpism
Theil, Musk et al want the Orange 🍊 back in, so they can have a bonfire of regulations.
“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and the imagination. We are right to be afraid.” - Grace Paley
I am a “silicon” guy (semiconductor physicist) & a by-product of silicon valley. The routine saying in the boards rooms (that I was a part of) was: “you can break any laws in order to succeed as long as you are not caught”, which meant allocation of a portion of the generated wealth to attorneys.
“Mechanical & scientific creations of modern man tend to conceal from him the nature of his own humanity and to encourage him in all sorts of Promethean ambitions and allusions.” – George Kennan, American diplomat… The above quote used as the epigraph of Bob Woodward’s new book ‘War’
Adelson, Musk, and Uihlein are about the only donors he needs. 100 million, 75 million and 50 million.
The closest thing to a silver lining here is that this will hasten the fall from favor that the Gods of Silicon Valley so richly deserve.
Okay, this is a time for Bernie Sanders to really pound on the " millionaires and billionaires" buying influence. Is he doing this? If not, why? Is Ocasio Cortez talking about this? What is Ro Khanna talking about?