In his transition, Biden has reportedly stacked positions with special interests from Big Tech. Most recently, the former vice president announced that former Obama official Susan Rice would become head of his Domestic Policy Council. Rice currently sits on the board of Netflix. JOHN BINDER
The rule of Google: Joe Biden lards up his administration with Big Tech execs
They don't call him 'quid pro Joe' for nothing.
Joe Biden is larding up his apparently coming administration with a revolving door of Big Tech executives.
According to Business Insider:
President-elect Joe Biden is relying on Big Tech to help oversee his transition to the White House.
On Tuesday, he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris released a list of names for their "Agency Review Teams." These teams will go into each government agency and plan a smooth handover of power from President Donald Trump's administration to the Biden administration.
As reported by Protocol and Ars Technica, the list includes several big players from the world of tech, including from Amazon, Uber, LinkedIn, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.
The report says nobody from Google is there, but, wait, there's this:
The list contains no names from Google, but it does have an employee of Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company.
The list also contains employees of big Silicon Valley-linked philanthropy organizations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and Schmidt Futures.
The names on the list are not all guaranteed jobs inside the Biden administration once the transition is complete — although it is likely that at least some of them will stay on.
And there's also this, from someone on the left, who works at this plutocrat-hostile think tank:
Biden transition is quietly putting Google and Facebook employees into its transition landing teams. pic.twitter.com/UI2QZKTcz6
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) December 11, 2020
And don't think the quid pro Joe isn't real. The quid pro quo being seen is little more than Joe Biden rewarding his Big Tech campaign donors, whose in-kind donation to Democrats in censoring the news, particularly the news about Hunter Biden's crime- and corruption-filled laptop. Big Tech helped Joe, censoring news, manipulating search engine results, and now Joe is helping them, or at least selling out the government posts so that these officials can get in and run rampant.
Vanity Fair, which is a leftist rag, is up front and open about it:
Facebook is reportedly attempting to curry favor with Joe Biden and his incoming administration by planning a series of campaigns promoting top-line items on the president-elect’s agenda. The so-called “charm offensive,” according to the Financial Times, involves encouraging users to take the anticipated coronavirus vaccine and share content about the Paris Climate Agreement, which President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from and Biden has pledged to rejoin as one of his first acts as president—part of the massive commitments to address climate change that he campaigned on.
The move is a pivot away from Facebook’s generally hands-off approach to combating misinformation across its platform, which has made the website a kind of free-for-all for its billions of users.
That's right, Facebook is promising to do the Biden administration's bidding. Facebook also is facing a huge anti-trust suit to break it up, much as was done with the oil trusts at the turn of the 20th century and the telecom trusts in the 1970s and 1980s. Think that bit of helpfulness to Biden might just do the trick? (One thing is for sure here: It shows that President Trump could never be bought. Biden is another story and sure enough, he comes cheap.)
Tucker Carlson has a video, dating from September, about just how cozy Big Tech and their Democrats are, one hand washing the other, Big Tech doing its part to elect Democrats and Democrats protecting Big Tech. Big Tech comes into the Biden government, and when Democrats are out of power, Democrats go on to take jobs at Big Tech.
The revolving door revolves and revolves...
The implications, well beyond the selling of government to the people with the most money and censorship power, is hardly the half of it. These people specialize, in spying on Americans whether they know it or not. Carlson has a video of how Facebook does just that. Put them in the berths of Big Government, via Biden, and all of a sudden, it's all about the Lives of Others, spying on small people for small things, knowing everything they do, neighbor no longer trusting neighbor, and ballots no longer secret, which is socialism in its actual form.
It's disturbing as can be that with Biden a weak puppet, it's not just the Obamatons and Wall Street taking over, it's Big Tech. Big Tech knows it's in for a cushy ride with Joe Biden at the helm. For the rest of us, it's dangerous times.
Forbes: Big Tech’s Elite ‘Most Notable Billionaire Winners’ of 2020 Election
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11 Dec 2020
Big Tech executives will be the “most notable billionaire winners” of the presidential election if former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) are sworn in as president and vice president in January 2021, according to Forbes.
If Biden takes office, four billionaires will have come out on top as a result of their quest to unseat President Donald Trump, according to Forbes. Three of those billionaires are from Silicon Valley, California’s tech industry where a handful of multinational corporations have monopolized power.
Forbes notes:
Dustin Moskovitz: Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate, the Facebook and Asana cofounder spent big to fight Trump. He gave more than $800,000 to Biden and made a $20 million-plus donation to Future Forward, a super-PAC that shelled out $100 million to fund a last-minute TV ad blitz attacking Trump. “It’s raining in San Francisco, which is actually just perfect,” Moskovitz tweeted the day after Biden was named the victor. “5 star weekend.”
Reid Hoffman: The LinkedIn cofounder was one of Biden’s top fundraisers, helping the former vice president haul in record sums for his campaign. Hoffman himself gave more than $12 million this cycle, including at least $500,000 to Biden and $1.5 million to Unite The Country, a pro-Biden super-PAC. He told Axios in the days before the election that he would put $1 million into a digital ad campaign urging voters to be patient as votes are counted. Ahead of the 2016 election, Hoffman trolled Trump with his own Cards Against Humanity-style game called “Trumped Up Cards.”
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Reed Hastings & Patty Quillin: The Netflix cofounder and co-CEO and his wife, Patty Quillin, reportedly co-hosted a fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg in December 2019 but ended up giving at least $1.4 million to Biden. Quillin was also one of the biggest political donors to California propositions this year. She put $2 million into opposing Proposition 20, which would have made it more difficult for convicted felons to qualify for early parole. It was struck down by voters. She put a quarter-million dollars into supporting Proposition 17, giving parolees in the state the right to vote, which won.
The other billionaire set to win big if Biden is sworn into office is former hedge fund executive Jim Simons who is worth more than $23 billion and who spent more than $20 million to defeat Trump.
Biden’s choice to make Harris his running mate elated not only Wall Street, but also Silicon Valley as she represents their interests in the United States Senate and has close family connections to tech executives. Harris’ brother-in-law is the chief legal officer for Uber, the ride-sharing corporation that has become a billion-dollar business by shifting most of the risk to its drivers.
In his transition, Biden has reportedly stacked positions with special interests from Big Tech. Most recently, the former vice president announced that former Obama official Susan Rice would become head of his Domestic Policy Council. Rice currently sits on the board of Netflix.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Further, the dubious choice of Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee was made solely to placate and reassure Wall Street and the wealthy, as she was viewed by them as being very deferential to the mega-rich class based on her days in California.
Biden’s Billionaires
By Steve McCann
Many years ago, while participating in a voter registration drive, I came upon a grizzled and disheveled old man sitting in the overgrown and weed-infested yard of his paint-starved house calming smoking his pipe. Despite his gruff demeanor, Ully (Ulysses) was very pleasant and loquacious as we talked for over an hour on topics ranging from the weather to the innate foibles of mankind. It turned out that he had to leave school after the fourth grade in order to work in the fields to help support his family and had toiled in a variety of menial and labor-intensive jobs ever since. Yet, he had a deep and thorough insight into human nature. Among his comments about the rich and ostensibly well-educated was: “All the money in the world cain’t buy a fool a lick of common sense.”
I was reminded of that observation after reading an article describing the 131 billionaires who are pouring millions into the coffers of the Democrat party and Joe Biden’s campaign in their mindless obsession to defeat President Trump in November. Among the prominent names are Jeff Skoll, a founder of eBay who has contributed $4.5 million; Laurene Powell Jobs of Apple and owner of The Atlantic magazine has donated $1.2 million, and Josh Bekenstein, Chairman of Bain Capital (co-founded by Mitt Romney), $5 million.
Far more Wall Street financers have also jumped on the Biden/Democrat party bandwagon than are supporting Donald Trump, whose policies have overwhelmingly revived the economy after the stagnation of the Obama-Biden years. The tech billionaires, not content to simply cough up untold millions in direct political contributions, are also funding massive voter drives, promoting mail-in balloting, creating divisive partisan news sites, aiding and designing the Democrat party’s digital campaigns and unabashedly censoring the social media accounts of the Trump campaign and innumerable conservatives.
The political party they are gleefully underwriting in order to oust Trump is no longer the party of the middle and working class (which is now one and the same) but a two-tier assemblage in which the prey is sleeping with the predator. The witless wealthy and socially aware are in bed with the avowed socialists and militant Marxists. What is holding this marriage of convenience together is a mutual hatred of Donald Trump and the undoable promises made by Joe Biden and the Democrat party hierarchy.
In a 2019 meeting with 100 super-wealthy potential donors, Biden assured the gathering that he would not demonize the rich and would only increase their taxes slightly while ensuring that their standard of living would not be affected by any of his policies. He also stated: “I’m not Bernie Sanders. I don’t think 500 Billionaires are the reason why we are in trouble”. Further, he unabashedly emphasized that the wealthy are not the reason for income inequality and “If I win this nomination. I won’t let you down. I promise you.”
Further, the dubious choice of Kamala Harris as the vice presidential nominee was made solely to placate and reassure Wall Street and the wealthy, as she was viewed by them as being very deferential to the mega-rich class based on her days in California.
When the time came to deal with the Marxist/socialist wing of the Democrat party’s anti-Trump coalition, policy commitments, many diametrically opposite of what was promised the wealthy donors, were also guaranteed with a non-verbal pledge of we won’t let you down.
The first step was a de facto party platform. The 110-page Biden-Sanders Manifesto which includes, among other commitments, a massive job killing $2+ trillion climate agenda to phase out fossil fuel usage within 15 years, the elimination of cash bail, redirecting (i.e. cutting) funding for the police, dismantling all border protections, legalizing virtually all illegal immigrants and massively raising corporate and individual tax rates on the wealthy. This manifesto is a socialist screed that would destroy the middle class and permanently neuter the economy and nation.
An effusive Bernie Sanders proclaimed to the world that Biden and the Democrats have embraced his socialist agenda and that Biden would be the most progressive president since FDR. Sanders exposed not only the behind the scenes reality of today’s Democrat party but Biden’s figurehead role.
Further confirmation of the radicalization of the Party came about unexpectedly as the militant Marxist faction of the Sanders coalition forced the issue. Impatient and unwilling to wait until after the 3rd of November, Antifa and Black Lives Matter used the death of George Floyd as a pretext to take to the streets and begin their long-hoped for revolution. They claimed that rioting, looting, committing arson and attacking law enforcement was a necessity as this was a systemically racist country. Yet, they openly demanded immediate changes rooted in their radical Marxist ideology of class warfare not so-called systemic racism. As two of their preferred chants and graffiti slogans “eat the rich” and “abolish capitalism now” confirms.
Biden, the Democrat party hierarchy as well as virtually all Democrat elected officials refused to address the violence and those responsible. Thus, they tacitly approved of the lawlessness and by doing so flashed a green light to continue the riots. When forced to acknowledge the reality on the streets of the nation’s cities, they instead blamed Trump, the police, white supremacists and even the Russians. Due to their spinelessness, the armies of anarchy and revolution Biden and the Democrats unleashed will never be defeated or mollified by them.
Considering the vast dichotomy in the litany of promises made and actions taken, it is inevitable that either the moneyed elite or the mob of passionate true believers will be betrayed. There is no middle ground. Who will prevail?
Will it be the elites whose only weapon is money and fleeting political influence or the passionate mob whose weapons are unconstrained violence and intimidation? Will it be those who believe a revolution could never happen here or those who are currently inciting revolution with the implicit blessing of a major political party? Will it be those who believe that Biden and the Democrats, if elected, will be able to forcefully deal with the insurgents or the insurgents who now know that riots and extortion causes Democrat politicians to cower in the corner?
Beginning with the French Revolution and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, history has recorded that passionate mobs always prevail when dealing with a feckless ruling class or party. And the first casualties have inevitably been the wealthy elites.
I can envision sitting with my old friend, Ully, and asking him if he thought the wealthy elites, indiscriminately tossing money at the Democrats for the sole purpose of defeating President Trump, understood the pitfalls involved. He would lean back, slowly exhale a puff of smoke from his well-worn pipe and with uncontrollable anger in his eyes would say: “Nope. Those damn fools ain’t got a lick of common sense.”
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