JD Vance says Big Tech has "too much power"

Translation: he thinks they're not fascist enough.

HOW THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE GOT ELECTED

Blink twice if you're locked in a tech billionaire's basement right now

Funny thing for a guy who just got bankrolled into the vice presidency by big tech to say.

Also, shut the fuck up, no one cares what a vice president thinks.

Peter Thiel's mole says that? Maybe Peter Thiel is hoping to take over Google for cheap or something

Help the poor! (by cutting taxes for the rich)

Fix social media! (by forcing them to allow hate speech)

Stop the war! (by forcing Ukraine to surrender)

Fight inflation! (by imposing tariffs on everything)

JD is starting to realize that there is a second group chat

They sure don't understand irony, do they?

Did he ask step-daddy Musk before making that statement?

Oh hey, he's saying the thing the Democrats should have campaigned on.

I read this as him attempting to stand up to Elon and regain some of the political relevance he had before he joined the Trump ticket. Of course, it's not gonna work. He's gonna get curb-stomped (potentially literally, at this point), and by 2028, the Democrats will be campaigning with him.

"... too much more power than me"

Vance: But Peter, won't everyone realize that you just bought the vice presidency by supporting me?

Thiel: Just tell them "tech people bad" or some shit, they'll be none the wiser.

Don't let President Musk hear you say that.

Good cop bad cop?

Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that “we believe fundamentally that big tech does have too much power,” despite the prominent positioning of tech CEOs at President Trump’s inauguration last week.

Oh - but not those Big Tech guys, they're cool.

Something we actually agree on.

First true thing couch fucker has said considering Big Tech basically owns the Trump admin.

Except he’s Peter thiels human toy?

Nazi double speak.

The US night of the long knives has come

Wasn’t he hand selected by Peter Thiel?

I agree, but I also think the same about him (and he basically has no power until Trump chokes on a filet-o-fish).

Nobody bought the $JD coin 😢😭

We got what we want, now we vilify them.

Where have we seen this before? Oh right. Fascism.

They are literally pulling a Hitler/Putin. What the actual fuck. Have people in the party say things that that your opponents agree with just to give the illusion that the ruler is fair and has a wide variety of view points to consider.

This administration needs to be over last Monday.

A broken clock is right twice a day.

Don't worry JD, this will sort itself out thanks to Zuckerberg and Musk driving people to alternative platforms.

He's just jealous of Musk. He wants to be Trump's buddy more than anything.

These authoritarian populist tactics, after those people who voted for them (or will be able to vote) will say like "and you said that this person is bad!"

They use the same tactic in Russia regularly. When politicians destroyed life of millions of people, after some time one poitician in Duma will say the right thing or propose a law for popular social issue, like "we're against domestic violence" (domestic violence is common in this shithole), or on "elections" they will offer sausage or money for a vote to population.

I don't know what they are trying to achieve by that, but maybe that people will restore trust in them, and will continue to believe that "BS-democracy". And after that these politicians who support dictatorship will continue to launder resources from the country. But in Russia they do that because they need people to participate in pseudo-elections, that will legitimize their fascist regime.

Who would ever give a shit what these clowns think? How is this news?

Oh right we're violently controlled by these wackos...

That interview was interesting

She kept trying to get him to fall into traps or get angry but he was calm and respectful the entire time. This man is someone who can talk.

But his entire political career was purchased by big tech! Is he a malfunctioning robot or something?

In other words, he’s suggesting his pockets need a little more lining.

Wait until Big Tech buys those nuclear reactors.

wow, really?!

Can't be

I say that the executive branch has not been given the power to create laws or judge whether or not they are legal... but that seems to be what his administration has unilaterally decided is true now.

The laws are on the books. They should be implemented in good faith by the executive branch. This is not being done.

Especially couchdb. Couchdb needs to get back in the kitchen where she belongs.

"the big tech that we do not directly control has too much power". FFY

Leopards are actively eating my face but it’s probably fine. In fact, I’ll give the leopards several billion dollars and then they’ll like me. God, I’m lonely. But the leopards are always there.

Big tech.... Besides Google, Amazon, Facebook (meta group), twitter and Tesla.

Good thing those guys are all small fish. Lol /s

I agree with the statement Vance said about big tech having too much power, but when you look at who the president is cozying up to it sure doesn't look like he's going to be big on pulling power away from his new buddies.

We shall see though. Trump is a notorious loose cannon. He could random turn on them at any point.

Good news! Something called DeepSeek apparently just dunked on your big tech by cutting the Nasdaq 3% and talking smack about your mothers.

President Musk isn't going to like hearing that from you. Get back in your hole!

For those not interested in a 20-min interview of JD Vance... tldw summary?

Reading the article, it sounds to me like he is saying "More to the left guys, I want to see Don's anus rimmed squeaky clean!"

Who?

They buy one election, and suddenly they have "too much power"...

Politicians of today are spoiled rotten

Oh my god he admit it.

He wears too much eye makeup. My sister wears too much. People think she’s a whore. I think JD Vance is a whore.

Media CEOs.

And your just now figuring this out. 🤨

I could never interview this douche without the first question being "And how long have you worked here?"

Cool. Distribute it across the economy then.

This is either a gaslighting thing or a "clock is correct 2x/daily" thing. It's not sincere in respect to them doing anything about it, for sure.

now that we’ve gained power, it’s time to lock the door behind us

big tech just hasn't shown its ultimate rizz yet -- as compared to its siblings big guns, big pharma, and big crypto.

I'll drink to that

However I feel like the actions to stop that will be so much worse

“…and that’s what my tech boss told me to say.”

You don't fucking say?