r/technology • u/DontFearTheCreaper • 20h ago

Social Media Tech CEOs who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of tariffs

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariff-bezos-musk-zuckerberg-b2727147.html
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u/reddollardays 19h ago edited 14h ago

Fuck Reagan, such a sociopath.

ETA: Thanks for the awards, appreciate the sentiment - SOLIDARITY IS KEY!

Anyone else, please consider donating to the ACLU or a certain SMB character's legal defense fund. Eat the rich.

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u/NatPortmansUnderwear 19h ago

At least Reagan went through the great depression and understood how bad tariffs are, unlike genius T.

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u/GoldandBlue 19h ago

I have seen 3 Republican presidents in my lifetime. All 3 destroyed the economy. When will we learn?

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 19h ago

When will we learn?

Never, so long as their voters are delusional enough to believe the RNC is god’s chosen party on Earth.

I grew up Mormon and GTFO of that cult at 18, but I saw enough from my parents and extended family to know they’ll always vote straight-ticket Republican because they’ve bought into the Republican “family values, God, Bible” bullshit for so long that the party will always have the delusional Christian vote.

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u/makebbq_notwar 18h ago

It’s interesting talking to Republican lawmakers one on one. The utter contempt they have for Christian conservatives is just amazing. They see Evangelicals, Mormons, and others as gullible fools who can be led around like sheep.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 18h ago

They see Evangelicals, Mormons, and others as gullible fools who can be led around like sheep.

Because they are and can be, and these snakes know it based on 50 years of leading them around like sheep.

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u/purseaholic 15h ago

Because they are. Mormonism is a cult that got out of control. Of course men love it as they are in charge, but I fail to see the appeal for women.

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u/PLeuralNasticity 16h ago

And all the pedophiles are easy to honeypot, kompromise and push to the top

Predation is a MAGA leader qualification

No coincidences in the Aryan nation

Life in prison for child rape on tape

Their only alternative landscape

Unless they follow every order

Get locked up with no quarter

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u/madcoins 12h ago

Yep you tell the world “I’m prone to fascist ideologies and I’m not big into critical thinking” when you’re part of organized monotheistic religions. Don’t be surprised when you’re manipulated and used.

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u/Minute-System3441 18h ago

It’s interesting because most people I know who actually follow the OG Christian denominations, do not vote GOP.

Whereas, the American-invented prosperity-gospel hucksters - pulled it out of my --- denominations - worship at the altar of the GOP, are all staunch Republican voters. And, they have been told to dislike and disapprove the other older “socialist” denominations.

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u/bmyst70 13h ago

The funny thing is that it's patently obvious in The Bible that Jesus Christ himself was very much a liberal. Which is why the conservatives of his time literally crucified him. He challenged their power structures in ways they didn't like.

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u/DBPanterA 15h ago

Bingo.

Often say there are “Christians” and those that are “Christ-like.” Those that are Christ-like attempt to emulate what is written in the gospels. They know the social, political, and economic message on those pages. They know that Jesus Christ would make Bernie Sanders look like Chuck Grassley.

Christians, on the other hand….

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u/PaulTheMerc 17h ago

When you have a giant flashing sign that says "I believe in shit with no proof whatsoever, often contrary to proof in fact!", at that point it isn't mostly the other person's fault for taking advantage.

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u/makebbq_notwar 17h ago

I’ve heard evangelicals described this way by Newt Gingrich, Mike DeWine, and Ralph Norman over the years. Abortion was a great wedge issue to lead the sheep around with for decades. Now it’s Trans and DEI.

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u/youmestrong 15h ago

Because it’s so damn obviously true.

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u/Minute-System3441 18h ago

The shows that really made me think of the Republican mindset and MO for me were Colony and The Man in the High Castle.

The second a new power takes control, every principle they’ve ever preached - flag, Constitution, bumper stickers, performative patriotism - goes straight out the fucking window. Like it never mattered.

Republicans would be the first to pivot, aligning with whoever holds power, purely for selfish gain.

A theory? Sure. But history’s already proven it twice.

Most of the South opposed the Revolutionary War - until it was won. Then, suddenly, those same people were die-hard, flag-waving, Constitution-thumping Americans. You think they’d have backed the revolution if someone had warned them slavery would be under threat in just 85 years? Not a fucking chance.

Same script, Civil War edition: Their ancestors fought against the very nation and Constitution they claimed to revere. Had the Confederacy won, today’s faux-devotion to the U.S. would’ve evaporated overnight.

This is Republicanism in a nutshell.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 18h ago

The Man in the High Castle is a perfect representation of conservative patriotism now. The Nazis nuke DC and suddenly every American “patriot” immediately becomes a Nazi. J. Edgar Hoover being a rat-fuck Gestapo officer was perfect and hilarious.

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u/Minute-System3441 18h ago edited 17h ago

Straight up. They also just proved it once again with Russia.

Prior to the late 1980s, even mentioning Moscow would get you blacklisted as a commie sympathizer. Now? They’re trading fist bumps with oligarchs and taking Putin’s side over their own countrymen and allies. Nothing exposes their ‘principles’ as pure opportunism like watching Cold Warriors morph into Kremlin cheerleaders.

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u/korben2600 18h ago

I can just imagine their contempt if Obama had like 15 kids from 6 different women while skipping out on child support. Or was hawking overpriced made-in-china bibles with his name on the cover while paying off porn stars. You know, "family values". They wouldn't have anything if they didn't have hypocrisy and double standards.

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u/Maleficent-Way5072 17h ago

This is a very good point!

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u/Turbulent_Country359 18h ago

Same! I was born in 1980 and was a kid during the “everyone who disagrees with me is a godless commie” Benson era. The church took a hard right and never recovered. For goodness SAKES, we were taught that there were literal, actual DEMONS on the left who were “trying to lead us astray”. Of course, Kimball, Packer, and others were awful, too.

I had my name removed from that church 14 years ago.

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u/fatpat 15h ago

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” - Barry Goldwater

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u/broniesnstuff 17h ago

My reply to this would be "But don't you think that makes you vulnerable if the party's values change, but you always vote for them anyway? Who benefits from being able to dictate to you what your values are?"

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u/crashtestpilot 14h ago

good time to bring up taxing churches.

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u/1inTheAir 14h ago

I salute you for escaping the cult. I’m a fellow escapee at 18. That was 28 years ago. It’s fucking mental looking at it all from the outside.

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u/smittyphi 16h ago

I'm still LDS as are my siblings and mom. I think most of us voted for Democrats in the last election, at least at the national level. I admit it's depressing seeing many LDS friends defend Trump. Republican values do not mesh with LDS.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox 16h ago

Republican values do not mesh with LDS.

They don’t mesh with Christ’s either, and yet..

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u/AkillaTheHung 9h ago

This right here. We really need to collapse the western church in order to collapse the GOP.

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u/Cheeze_It 4h ago

Then they don't know their Bible. And when you tell them, you're outcasted. Sucks for them. Their bubble will eventually pop.