How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms (and full podcast)

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-20 08:48:55 | Updated at 2025-01-20 12:03:25 3 hours ago

How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms (and full podcast)
New York Times ^ | 1/17/2025 | Ross Douthat, Marc Andreesen

Posted on 01/20/2025 12:07:17 AM PST by buwaya

We were able to meet with senior staff. So we met with very senior people in the White House, in the inner core.

We will directly regulate and control those companies. There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That’s not happening.”

This is why I took you through the long preamble earlier, because at this point, we are no longer dealing with rational people. We’re no longer dealing with people we can deal with.

And that’s the day we walked out and stood in the parking lot of the West Wing and took one look at each other, and we’re like, “Yep, we’re for Trump.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: andreesen; siliconvalley

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Endless takes on the socio-political climate in Silicon Valley, from one of the true insiders of Silicon Valley. There are dozens of admissions, lets say, of things that this side of politics suspected. Here it is out of the horses mouth. Almost just as interesting is that this is in the NYT. Taken from this NYT podcast, Ross Douthat Marc Andreesen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEGVM6y6lwM&list=PLdMrbgYfVl-t_zd7kglNy7D0LOyASEMw7&index=1 The published version is a transcript of the podcast. I hope some of you at least can open the article, but the podcast may be accessible.

Comment - Much much more. He doesn't name names in the grey ranks of policymakers he ran into, which is disappointing. Who makes these decisions? What's going on? Andreesen should testify on a dozen matters.

1 posted on 01/20/2025 12:07:17 AM PST by buwaya

To: buwaya

Really appreciate your Bio : thank you.

2 posted on 01/20/2025 12:12:22 AM PST by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)

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3 posted on 01/20/2025 12:18:36 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)

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4 posted on 01/20/2025 12:32:49 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )

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