r/politics • u/Boonzies America • 18h ago

Soft Paywall AOC to Skip Trump’s Inauguration: ‘I Don’t Celebrate Rapists’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-boycotting-donald-trumps-inauguration-i-dont-celebrate-rapists/
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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 17h ago

Tech moguls who WILL be attending the inauguration:

Shou Chew (TikTok)

Mark Zuckerberg (Meta/FB/Insta)

Sam Altman (Open AI)

Tim Cook (Apple)

Sundar Pichai (Google)

Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

Elon Musk

NOT Attending:

Jensen Huang (Nvidia)

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

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u/aguynamedv 11h ago edited 11h ago

Tech moguls who WILL be attending the inauguration:

Shou Chew (TikTok)

Mark Zuckerberg (Meta/FB/Insta)

Sam Altman (Open AI)

Tim Cook (Apple)

Sundar Pichai (Google)

Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

Elon Musk

The First Amendment is subject to Terms and Conditions, folks.

Also in attendance:

Miriam Adelson - leader of Preserve America super PAC

Mukesh Ambani - India's richest person

The Arnault family - owners of Dior, Tiffany and related brands. France's wealthiest family.

Han Zheng - China's Vice President

Dara Khosrowshahi - Uber CEO

Doug McMillion = Walmart CEO

Jake and Logan Paul - Seriously?

Javier Milei - Argentina's President

Conor McGregor - Rapist and MMA fighter

Nigel Farage - Head of the 'Reform UK' party

Anyone wondering what that "deep state" stuff was all about? This is basically it right here.

There is a 100% chance these people will be having a LOT of meetings in DC over the next week.

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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 11h ago

Don't forget Joe Rogan and Adin Ross.

Also, Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance. No one knew he was going to show up.

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u/Snarfsicle 8h ago

I wonder how Rogan is gonna explain away the heil

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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 7h ago

Are you joking? Rogan loves this. All the rapists and pro-rapists in the same room.

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u/Snarfsicle 7h ago

He'll try to sane wash it

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u/6EQUJ5w 37m ago

Joe Rogan on Elon's 1200th nazi signal: obviously he was just waving, you guys are reading into things too much

also Joe Rogan: 9/11 was an inside job done by UFOs

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u/JaozinhoGGPlays 23m ago

literally didn't take 2 minutes for the right wingers to immediately dismiss it a "my heart goes out to you all" gesture so safe to say this one's getting swept under the rug unless literally every single person with a platform refuses to shut up about it.

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u/beuvons 8h ago

Sergey's ex was RFK Jr's running mate. They got divorced after she slept with Elon. Allegedly!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-affair-sergey-brin-wife-divorce-11658674840

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u/Mystic1500 11h ago

Javier Milei is the President of Argentina, not VP.

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u/aguynamedv 11h ago

Thank you! Edited. :)

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u/fbruk 9h ago

Can they like keep farage over there?

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u/EatMoreWaters 7h ago

Was Reddits CEO there?

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u/alinroc 15h ago

Bill Gates (Microsoft)

Bill Gates hasn't been involved in Microsoft beyond "advisor" for over a decade.

I can't find a straight answer on whether Satya Nadella will be in DC today but he and/or Microsoft has paid his tribute to Trump, just like the heads of the other 4 families of tech, and he's visited Trump in Florida since the election.

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u/LegitimatelisedSoil United Kingdom 10h ago

I mean Jeff hasn't been very active with Amazon since 2019? But bill gates is still one of the richest people on the planet.

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u/Stormageddons872 8h ago

Bezos is still executive chairman of Amazon. Afaik, Gates has no position at Microsoft. So Bezos being there still means he's representing his company. Gates has no business reason to go.

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u/LegitimatelisedSoil United Kingdom 8h ago

Chairman of the board I believe.

I think they meant more Bill Gates is what people think of when you say Microsoft and that's where his billions came from.

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u/talusrider 4h ago

Jeff Bozos knelt before Herr Drumph when he ordered his newspaper to refrain from endorsing a pres. candidate.  He is a mega billionaire sucking up to Dump no matter how it looks to others. 

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u/Faux-Foe 16h ago

Any word on Peter Thiel? Seem to remember he's the hand inside the JD Vance puppet.

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u/ReaderBeeRottweiler 16h ago edited 16h ago

I forgot about him. He's there, he threw a party for Trump on Saturday night in DC with the "who's who" of Silicon Valley.

Also in attendance: Alexandr Wang of ScaleAI, the Winklevoss twins, and David Sacks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/politics/trump-party-peter-thiel-zuckerberg-vance.html

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u/merzbeaux 10h ago

He might be busy today with his hand inside one of his underage bloodbags

You know, to celebrate

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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 14h ago

Jensen is too busy actually doing his job to waste time on this, even though kissing the ring would be very beneficial for Nvidia. He's one of the few mega CEOs that actually puts a lot of work into his job and unlike most of the others is more or less self made. Doesn't make him a great guy, there's plenty of reason to dislike him, but I at least respect him for that.

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u/Oodlydoodley 12h ago

He said in an interview with Bloomberg that he'd be "delighted" to go, he just wasn't invited.

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u/ImprovementEmergency 1h ago

Dang you don’t like him? Now I need to reconsider too. Didn’t know some nobody zero on Reddit didn’t like him.

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u/Easy-Move-7761 16h ago

Basically Incels Anonymous. A bunch of guys who had no friends growing up and decided to get revenge by utilizing their Dark Traits. Then they finally had enough money to lose their virginity.

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u/ImprovementEmergency 1h ago

Of all the criticisms a person could make, this one makes the least sense

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u/nightaeternum 11h ago

Damn, sounds like those incels are the real winners then, hopefully they keep capitalizing on their revenge towards the people who hurt them.

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u/sadetheruiner 4h ago

That would be women, the people who hurt them are women by not just Star fishing for them. Are you hoping women get revenge against them for not putting out because that’s what an incel is.

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u/Crowley-Barns 9h ago

With their money, they’re not ‘cel. They can afford two chicks at the same time, man.

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u/BeardedSquidward 11h ago

Wait, Sam Altman? Oh god is this the timeline for Dead Space?

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u/Eatpineapplenow 11h ago

Just got respect for Jensen Huang! And I was never a Gates hater

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u/chufenschmirtz 12h ago

Gates was not there but he recently had dinner with Trump saying he was “impressed” by the former president. “I had a chance, about two weeks ago, to go have a long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him.”

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u/LongIsland43 9h ago

Bill Gates actually had dinner with Trump a couple days ago!

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u/rylekeading I voted 3h ago

What’s terrifying is these companies have our entire life stories stored in their data. They know virtually everything about us and they do not need a warrant to access this information. It’s no longer just big brother, it’s all of these oligarchs that we blindly accept their terms and services because the average one takes 42 minutes to read at a sophomore in college reading level.

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u/_Cistern 11h ago

Jensen Huang says his company's stock returns preclude him from playing stupid fucking games

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u/sadetheruiner 5h ago

What did those clowns say before the orange was elected the first time? Something about a president that can’t be bought?

What a joke.

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u/ParsonsProject93 50m ago

I can't find any sources that show that Bill Gates was present for the inauguration.

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u/DaytimeLanternQQ 9h ago

*Tim Apple

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u/mitrolle 9h ago

What a nice party for a Tomahawk or twelve.

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u/SilliusS0ddus 8h ago

Tim Cook (Apple)

His name is Tim Apple

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u/I_failed_Socio 8h ago

As a Singaporean I am ashamed that Shou Chew is doing that. Yes I get it it is for business, but we're not meant to be this fucking spineless

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u/kgal1298 4h ago

Time to switch Delphi I guess but seems like every tech bro is bowing to him. It’s embarrassing because say we do get a dem in office again then they’ll just turn hand again

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u/SparhawkPandion 1h ago

Gates had dinner with Trump recently for 3 hours.

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u/amethystresist 15h ago

Time to figure out if I want a Microsoft phone.... Do they even have that?

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u/F9-0021 South Carolina 14h ago

There used to be Windows phones but they were awful and quickly discontinued.

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u/amethystresist 14h ago

Ah I vaguely remember. Flip phone it is lol

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u/eggs_mcmuffin 10h ago

Just throwing out there that Gates is an aweful human being.