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2020-12-28 Home Front: Politix

Big Tech Writes Its Ticket to the White House

[Washington Free Beacon] Silicon Valley played an integral role in propelling Joe Biden to the White House. He raked in uncounted millions from liberal tech billionaires such as Netflix's Reed Hastings, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs; their employees shelled out $5 million more.

As Biden takes office, the techies want what they paid for. Reuters reports that executives at top firms like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are gunning for jobs at the Departments of Defense, State, Justice, and Commerce and also eyeing influential posts at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond.

They want two things: lucrative federal contracts and less scrutiny than they’ve gotten over the past four years, as President Donald Trump has made their bias against conservatives front-page news. The Department of Justice's antitrust inquiry into big tech has already garnered bipartisan backing, including from a group of state attorneys general who have filed their own suit.

A Biden administration could make all of that go away. And it could ignore altogether these firms' obsequious dealings with Communist China.

That explains the rush to fill seats: It’s unlikely that the techies moving into the Biden administration will check their business relationships at the door. Each hire is another pressure point for Silicon Valley’s most powerful to exploit.

This is hardly a problem unique to Democrats—you just hear about it less when they’re in the White House. This sort of revolving door was considered outrageous in the George W. Bush administration, when Democrats and the media harped relentlessly on Dick Cheney’s ties to Halliburton and charged that he was in the pocket of Big Oil. They raised the same ruckus when Trump appointed Exxon chief Rex Tillerson as his first secretary of state.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-28 00:35|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Govt 4 Sale
Republic of Ho's

Posted by Jiggs Wittlesbach4497 2020-12-28 02:25|| 2020-12-28 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Its been an oligarchy for decades, its just that the perps don't even care about hiding it anymore.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-12-28 04:46|| 2020-12-28 04:46|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Precisely! Pres. Trump has shown us there's more than one road to Rio. The oligarchy hates him for exposing it.

Strange, not a word about election or election process cheating from Bill & Melinda, Zuck, or Bezos. Nothing from the captains of the big box stores, Intelligence Community sleuths, DoJ, FBI, or the Barons of Wall Street. Sort of like it never really happened.

Meanwhile, Beijing smiles. Strange, very strange.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-28 05:35|| 2020-12-28 05:35|| Front Page Top

#4 30 years in the making.

Thank the Bushes, Clintons, Obamas and now of course the Xiden Family.

Posted by Don Vito Stalin1676 2020-12-28 11:22|| 2020-12-28 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama...and then they tried to nominate another Bush and another Clinton? I was ready to vote for a fence post instead of either one of those.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-12-28 14:43|| 2020-12-28 14:43|| Front Page Top

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