US 2024 Presidential Election
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I think it's also an Always Sunny reference. Dennis in IASIP uses that phrase a few times when bigging himself up to ludicrous levels.
Meta, Amazon and tech CEOs make $1 million investments in Trump's inauguration
Tech companies are sending big bucks to President-elect Donald Trump's nonprofit inaugural committee.
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Uber and its CEO donate $1 million each to Trump's inaugural fund
Uber Technologies and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each contributed $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund. Several companies, including Meta Platforms, are making similar donations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also plans a personal $1 million contribution. These donations follow...
Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration: report
The Donald Trump-JD Vance inaugural fund is expected to raise a record-setting $150 million
www.independent.co.uk
Tim Cook's check better be signed Tim Apple tho.
L is Real 2025
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Why do you donate to the inauguration? Like that's not even a partisan question; this is a basic function of government that should require no input or funding from anyone other than the government; the public's one act of support should be whether they show up or not. Or is there a nuance I'm missing?Meta, Amazon and tech CEOs make $1 million investments in Trump's inauguration
Tech companies are sending big bucks to President-elect Donald Trump's nonprofit inaugural committee.Uber and its CEO donate $1 million each to Trump's inaugural fund
Uber Technologies and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi each contributed $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund. Several companies, including Meta Platforms, are making similar donations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also plans a personal $1 million contribution. These donations follow...m.economictimes.com
Corpo garbage lining up to curry favor. "Please don't fuck me with tariffs, daddy"Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration: report
The Donald Trump-JD Vance inaugural fund is expected to raise a record-setting $150 million
Tim Cook's check better be signed Tim Apple tho.
L is Real 2025
They're not donating to the actual official inauguration itself. That is organised by the Joint Congressional Commitee on Inaugural Ceremonies, and paid for by the state with taxpayer money.
What these corpos are donating to is Trump's inaugural fund, a nonprofit entity that funds and organizes inaugural events outside of the official inauguration. You know, all the pomp and circumstance celebrations at the Mall in DC and such.
These funds can also accept limitless donations. The intent was to allow newly inaugurated presidents big blowouts without doing so at the taxpayers expense, but in practice are also used by donors to curry favor with the incoming administration. In this case, donating 1 mil buys face time with Trump.
am hoping this isnt overlooked just cos am annoying messenger, cos is heavy and only ever more relevant for ppl wanting to know how the world geopolitically got where it's at today. A really informative podcast going over America's unacknowledged history of fucking the rest of the world over with systemic war crimes, destabilising leftist governments, enabling fascist dictator coups so long as they're willing to let international corporations drain their local resources all while generations of aggressive propaganda conditioned even the more educated, cynical/critical people into broad dismissive assumptions. Is well produced if it matters also.
^Korea^
Just sharing first of each season cos they cover different countries/moment in history the US funded horrors any reasonable one of us would condemn any other nation for doing - yet we aren't even at the stage of the government acknowledging any of it let alone admittance of wrongdoing. Reperations are relegated to a fucking high fantasy concept by now.
Iraq
Cuba
Afghanistan (All MGS references for titles here, huh)
Cambodia (the current ongoing season as of typing, up to episode 5? I think?)
State of our geopolitical world will make so much more sense afterwards, garunteed promise or you money back!
But it is bleak. Very very bleak.
^Korea^
Just sharing first of each season cos they cover different countries/moment in history the US funded horrors any reasonable one of us would condemn any other nation for doing - yet we aren't even at the stage of the government acknowledging any of it let alone admittance of wrongdoing. Reperations are relegated to a fucking high fantasy concept by now.
Iraq
Cuba
Afghanistan (All MGS references for titles here, huh)
Cambodia (the current ongoing season as of typing, up to episode 5? I think?)
State of our geopolitical world will make so much more sense afterwards, garunteed promise or you money back!
But it is bleak. Very very bleak.
Speaking of which: Washington Post's cartoonist has resigned because they wouldn't let her publish a cartoon showing various industry/media figures (including Jeff Bezos) kneeling in front of the President-Elect.
Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos
Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com