politics @lemmy.world Sunshine (she/her) @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook joins other major business leaders with $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration

www.advocate.com Apple CEO Tim Cook joins other major business leaders with $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration

The gay man is donating from personal funds, according to reports.

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Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes says Washington Post blocked her cartoon
- She resigned over it:
  
  https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
  
  That's integrity, a concept with which Tim Cook is unfamiliar.
- Democracy dies. Forget the darkness part. They’re not even playing now.
  
  I like the Mouse (Disney who owns ABC) is already in full supplicant mode. Chef's kiss.
- Who's the person holding lipstick?
So it seems everyone's rushing to bribe the new president
- I have no doubt they were told that they needed to contribute 1 million dollars or bad things would happen. It'll come out eventually.
  
  Not only will it be revealed but it will become standard operating procedure moving forward
  
  It’ll come out eventually.
  
  Probably long after it's way too late to do anything about it. Kind of like Woodward's book about donvict's first admin.
- Well, the vice president, they're not bribing Musk (that we know of).
  
  Donvict is more like the first lady.
So, donating to presidents for their inauguration is not new, what is new is these oligarchs in particular did not seem to donate to Biden in 2020. If you’re being generous you might argue that’s because of the pandemic making the 2020 inauguration less of an event, but still plenty of other people donated.

Here’s a full list of individual donors (not the corporations) who donated in 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/20210111213617/https://bideninaugural.org/brqrthk6dhdn94xx/

Conspicuously absent is Tim Cook, among others. Also, god bless archive.org cause the Biden team deleted the inauguration page.
- How many of these same companies/individuals were/are doing lots of woke-washing campaigns?
God we need a Linux phone ecosystem badly.

First they treat the workers poorly, they support Israel and now this 🤦‍♀️
- Technically, most smartphones in the world already run Linux because Android uses the Linux kernel
  
  (I know that's not really what you mean, I'm just being cheeky here)
  
  This was a years long failed promise that died completely a couple years ago.
Way to go Tim Apple. Also, that's your name for now on. Because, you know, the bribery that is somehow legal.
Remember when peanut farms were a big deal?
Torvalds does not kiss the ring.
- He would smoke Tim Cook and Donald Trump in a fight.
Sycophants.
$1 million
No more apple for me then.
- It’s time for postmarket os and graphene os.
It's ok because everyone really needs a specific colored text message bubble. Apple will be fine.
- It’s been so nice now that the EU forced them to support RCS.
Does trunp hand it over to president musk on inauguration day? What happens when he can't physically bow?
- Thiel will flag him for one of the first to be used for Yarvin's biodiesel.

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