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2. Techies were hoodwinked. Crying tears of regret.
Sat Jun 28, 2025, 04:59 PM
Jun 2025

Trump only wanted a hacked election and an entry into the corrupt as hell crypto market.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220378706

He has no need for tech bros any more. Just thugs.


Long time Silicon Valley investor sheds 💦💦 tears 💦💦 over bad decision. 💦💦

(Michael Moritz)
The writer is a longtime Silicon Valley investor, former board member of PayPal and an investor in SpaceX


The eruption between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has reverberated around the world. It must be mortifying for those in Silicon Valley who threw their support behind the president thinking he would shrink the federal government. With Musk’s departure, any hope of a disciplined approach to the US government and budget goes as well. Musk is right; the Trump budget is an abomination.

lavish praise of Musk (deleted)

By comparison, Trump has none of Musk’s business acumen or his attention span. Since the inauguration, he has run the government just like he operated his own business, raising mountains of debt and betraying employees, while escaping unscathed himself.

What is the result of this meeting of company builder and medieval monarch? It’s the opposite of what was promised: a US budget that has ballooned, debt levels that will only rise and crushing interest payments that make the country vulnerable to its largest creditors — Japan and China.

One word of advice for those in Silicon Valley who followed Musk’s lead and sided with Trump. Leave. Don’t delude yourself that you are working to make crypto a part of global finance, minimising artificial intelligence regulation, helping start-up companies or protecting the interests of Silicon Valley. You have no sway. You are just cannon fodder.


Smart asses been f---ed over royally. They need research and foreign visa labor.

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