Tech leaders are turning on Trump and Musk: 'Everyone is annoyed'
Tech leaders are turning on Trump and Musk: 'Everyone is annoyed'
Even conservative executives are fed up with tariffs, DOGE, and "crypto bro schemes"
Summary
Tech leaders who once backed Trump are fed up as his second term descends into chaos.
Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch.
Appointing David Sacks as "crypto czar" only fueled suspicions of cronyism, while proposed defense budget cuts leave companies like Anduril and Palantir reeling.
Even billionaire allies like Jeff Bezos are souring as tariffs and economic uncertainty hit their bottom line. "Everyone is annoyed," says one disillusioned founder.
“When tech people got involved in the government, they thought Trump was going to take more of a surgical approach and act less like a wrecking ball."
What about his first term, insurrection and campaign and everything about and around him suggested it’d be anything other than a wrecking ball approach???
Billionaires have done a lot these past few years toward outing themselves as being just as stupid as any other random dumbass.
Yeah well I’m not saying it’s entirely luck, but luck is certainly a significant factor in becoming a billionaire.
Right place, right time, right resources at said place and time etc.
They’re not super geniuses better than anyone else, they just had a lot fall their way, and had the work ethic/psychopathic tendencies to capitalise on it.
His first term was pretty milquetoast during his term, at least in the ways that these stakeholders cared about. Yeah, he mucked with some trade relationships but largely backed down except for China, and China is a thorn in their side too. The economy basically looked similar to most presidential terms for the last 30 years (except for George W Bush, who had very subpar economic results). Yeah he did some horrible stuff and some incompetent stuff, but economically, his term was just fine (except for 2020, which derailed everyone).
The 2020 election, January 6th, and Trump's continuing behavior in the wake of that, and the PJ2025 associates that swarmed around him should have been the sign that he was too dangerous to risk. However they could have still thought that Trump's behavior was more of a show for riling up a base, and his second term would still give them a chance to have him shuffle off to a golf course while the big boys got what they wanted like usual.
This term, there just are no winners, at least domestically, and lots of losers.
Naked greed has a way of making even the orangest turd seem to sparkle like gold.
Awww. Poor rich babies are annoyed. My heart pumps purple piss for them.
FAFO assholes.
My personal thought was "Aww, poor tech-bro capitalists are learning what the actual, obscene fundamentals of their antisocial ideology have always been, and that they were in fact not high-IQ genius technocrats knowing better than anyone else how to run mankind".
But then I realised they most likely learned nothing and will claim that they, themselves, would never have been so stupid.
Cool, so now the tech bros will stand up to them in the house and file articles of…. Oh wait, they don’t actually have any power in the government and will be able to do nothing to get the orange fascist and his South African goblin out of the place where they are doing IRREPARABLE harm.
If they’ll counter Musk’s primarying political opposition and stooges, you may see congressmen grow a spine.
Not really, either way the Broligarchs own the government. We might make them buy slightly less shitty politicians, but that doesn't count for much.
we will agree with them, when they start funding opposition to all GOP,a nd stop thier donations to them. if they think they can virtue signal and double-dip by funding both sides, they arnt really ready for a change.
My slim hope is that they start funding the opposition and current legislators to oust them. Things change radically when money is on the line.Sucks i have to pray to oligarchs but I don't have any other short term optionEdit: Fuck this mentality I need to find a better path.
They're mad because he's ruining their income, we're mad because he's ruining the country; we are not the same.
Fuck them.
There is no greater joy than when two of your enemies go to war against each other.
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -Winston Churchill
Allow several hundred years, population boom and bust crashes, and then there will be one brief shining moment where we too can have our own king Author
Ok techbros and billionaires, either Luigi him or stfu. You pieces of shit tanked America.
I had to laugh when I saw some dumbass posting some FB-level political magabrained copium about how gas prices are going down thanks to dumbass donvict.
And the amount of comments underneath it, thanking donvict for doing great things for America. The amount of absolute DELUSION out there, as well as the people that proudly slap that delusion up there on....checks notes....a site for building your network for your career for employers, co-workers, and potential clients/customers to see is mind-boggling.
I bet these same set of dumbasses will be all Pikachu-faced and talking about how they are being "censored" by Big Tech if they were to find out that people take a pass on hiring/doing business with a chucklefuck jagoff posting moronic political nonsense on a site for your career...they never seem to realize that free speech cuts both ways. They are free to express what idiots they are and others are free to disassociate with them because of it.
"Oh no. I did his bidding. He was supposed to hurt other people, but not me. Now I hate that guy. Feel sorry for me."
Things need to change, only because they’re negatively impacting me. If other people are affected, that’s on them.
If other people are affected, no they're not. They just need to be tough like me.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to call in a favor for something that is affecting me.
It's like they learned nothing from the first time he was president.
They all banked the first time he was president. It's all us regular people who got boned.
But they really really didn't!
"Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch. "
Lmao if you put money into TrumpCoin you deserve all your losses. Idiots.
I want the names of the people that are VCs and startup founders that were so fucking stupid as to "invest" in something like a memecoin.
Either you were/are in on the rugpull presidency or you aren't. That coin was pure bullshit and at best, it's just a way to launder money into donvict and his broligarchs pockets. If you aren't on the inside of that scheme, you are the mark.
Fuk all them assholes
suspicions of cronyism
Are you fucking serious?
The entire article reads like:
Bush:
There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me—you can't get fooled again.
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Support a corrupt and utterly idiotic wannabe dictator.
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Make that suprised Pikachu face when the guy you support turns out to be an idiot.
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Lose money because of the idiot.
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"Annoyed"
Oh fuck off.
Well, that was a quick honeymoon, did they get thoroughly fucked at least?
They thought they paid their dues and Trump would leave them alone after some token bullshit and some "campaign donations" but Trump's senile ass is causing them issues and they're sour about it.
"Even our most soulless plutocrats are wondering if the EU replacing all its US based services might be a result of current leadership."
Not so fun when you’re the ones being pumped and dumped
All these unprincipled fucks naming their companies after things from LOTR belies their complete lack of understanding of Tolkien and his morality. He’d fucking hate them all.
Palantir is pretty spot-on. It spies on everyone, is a tool of evil, and once used you never know who's watching and influencing you.
To be fair looking into these dudes I think they know that and like it.
The leopard ate my face. What the actual hell did they expect‽
Oh woe is me! Let's clutch our pearls and feel so sorry for the incel tech lords and crypto bros that brought this maniac authoritarian regime into power because now they're annoyed by his policies. Won't someone please pray for their capital trusts, mansions, nepobabies, and yachts! How will they survive with billions in property and means to escape when the little people tire of their shit and burn it all down?
Sarcasm aside I yearn for the day all these FAFO morons get utterly put in their places. Y'all got to ride high on extorting the working class and immigrant labor while you rubbed it in our faces. Fuck all of you, your lies, your fake unearned success, and your fake patriotism. Fuck all Nazis but six. Save them for pallbearers and when they're done burying the dead feed them to the dogs.
Who knew tech bros were still stuck on OS X 10.5…I figured they would use more modern operating systems
Several Silicon Valley executives I spoke to — some of whom requested anonymity for fear of retribution — echoed this sense of disappointment
Things are fucked up when private citizens criticize the government anonymously due to "fear of retribution".
But he’s a tech bro, he’s in the “in crowd.” This so called retribution might just mean he can’t hang out at their club house anymore.
They're jangling their keys in front of the Democrats now to:
- hedge their bets in case of Trump unpopularity and a midterm loss and
- preclude any anti-corportist reform in that party after their blowout loss
I guess maybe they should not have voted for him and paid him millions?
Fuck every one of these "tech bros" in the article.
Annoyed? ANNOYED? OH POOR BABIES.
Must be nice to be "annoyed" by what is going on right now.
This whole article is "leapard at my face!" material
WTF is up with these defense companies named after LOTR items?!
You can blame Peter Thiel for that one
JRR Tolkien fought in the trenches in WW1. Its been said his inspiration for some of his depictions of mordor are from the trenches.
Assuming many of the early defense companies may have been big tolkien fans
This is my theory. I have no proof fyi
actually its mostly THIEL, hes obssesed with spying: Palintr and ANDURIL is his creation.
Why does anyone think trump and musk will make things better for them? This administration only serve themselves at the expense of what's left of the future of America.
You know that Carlin joke people like to reference that says to imagine how dumb the average person is and that half the people are dumber? Well apply that again and take the bottom half of the bottom half. Then sprinkle some of our anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-education, proud avarice and ignorance culture on top.
I Miss that man.
I wonder how many of them voted for qon assholes like donvict for the tax cuts and to combat "DEI" at least a little bit (or at least dunk on the 13 trans people in college sports nationwide or whatever the fuck) but they didn't want the monkey-flinging-shit level of batshit insanity that donvict has been doing...
You’d think the rich would be good at reading people but it seems the exact opposite is true.
Oh no, they just don't trust anyone who doesn't think like them. They count on being able to read other folks for being bastards but empathetic people are unpredictable in that they don't always choose what's beneficial. Hell sometimes they literally inconvenience themselves! Why would they do that? It makes no sense!? How can they dominate the markets if they're just....giving shit away for free?
How the tech oligarchy chose to side with Felon Drink Bleach in the first place is unacceptable.
We will not forget.
If only there had been any warning signs in advance!
Oh look the capitalists are learning again that funding a fascist only gets you so far and once they’re actually in they don’t need you anymore.
This is a fact of nature at this point.
So do something then, other than just complaining about it.
Crypto bros are just upset that Trump has brought his toxic brand to their grift.
Capital controls the government. Unless white house policy actually changes, this is a load of hopium.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It's just too bad that they "won" this shit for all of us.
probably not delivering on his promises, giving them unfettered access with AI.
They way to a clean and prosperous future is in your reach but instead we all have to adapt and overcome the ignorant old few that want to read paper and tinker on diesel tanks for a few pretty accolades.
Democracy's greatest weakness is a paranoid old man afraid of change, in great number. Peace through technological wonder instead of undermining humanity.
They thought he was going to go full deregulation like the first term, but instead he went full Nazi, but that's even disengenous, because the Nazi's had a plan, this is just oppositional fascism without reason.
Will they do something about it once their "tech" is wiped out? Their wealthy dissolved? Can they do anything about it once they're wiped out? (or will they be like the rest of us - unable to overcome the sheer weight of counter-computation we fight against now?)
Do something about it then.
@MicroWave Proč největší firmy v USA vedou naivní egocentrici, kteří si mysleli, že Trump nemyslí své výroky vážně?
Who's ready for the new Trump salad dressing? Et tu, Jeff?
The world is fucked, but we're about to get the best salad dressing ever.