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Sadly as the author stated, it may not matter. But even Tim Cook is giving a million to Trump’s fund. The President is going to the highest bidder, but who car
by spaceisballer 2y ago
Sadly as the author stated, it may not matter. But even Tim Cook is giving a million to Trump’s fund. The President is going to the highest bidder, but who cares because big tech will profit right?
- tekla 2y ago[flagged]
- genem 2y ago[flagged]
- tekla 2y agoHow is it whataboutism when you claim a election was bought, when the loser out raised and outspent the winner?
- brigandish 2y agoSold! To the lowest bidder…
- curt15 2y agoHarris is not in a position of power.
- brigandish 2y agoThe standard given is "The President is going to the highest bidder", Harris not being in power therefore refutes the point.
- tekla 2y agoTrump was literally a rando private citizen. Harris was VP. She was in a position of power.
- krapp 2y agoTrump was not a "rando private citizen." He was a former President, a celebrity and a billionaire. Trump was far, far more well known than Harris, and arguably more connected to political power. VP is not a powerful position. It's well known for being almost entirely pointless, unless the President dies.
- CrazyStat 2y agoTeddy Roosevelt’s opponents within the Republican party orchestrated his selection as vice president specifically to get him out of the way because they didn’t like what he was doing as governor of New York and figured that was a safe place to dump him. Then President McKinley was assassinated a few months later.
- bdangubic 2y agoTrump is rando private citizen as much Obama is rando private citizen :)
- outside1234 2y agoOnly if you don't include Elon dumping hundreds of millions into the campaign. And I am sure there is a lot more where that came from in terms of "contributions" from Russia and China in terms of disinformation.
- tekla 2y agohttps://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-campaign-finance-filings/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-camp... Irrelevant. Harris still outraised funds than Trump
- bdangubic 2y agolol @ 5-1 :)
- etc-hosts 2y agoTo me the difference there seems to be an incredible amount of large pools of money and billionaires publicly committing 100s of millions of dollar each to PACs, totally billions and billions, that clearly 100 percent exist to get Trump elected, but of course no PAC would ever think about aligning their activities with the Trump campaign because that would be against the law. But Harris did raise a billion dollars, it is true.
- snowwrestler 2y agoHarris raised $1.1B hard money and benefited from $843M declared outside spend. Trump raised $463M hard money and benefited from $975M declared outside spend. Numbers per OpenSecrets.org
- dtquad 2y ago>Kamala Harris outraised Trump 5-1 That is not true. Harris raised $1.39 billion and Trump raised $1.09 billion.
- rvz 2y agoThat ship has sailed given how Harris and other 83+ billionaires (including several other tech CEOs) raised more than $1BN for her campaign more than Trump (and she still lost).
- AlexandrB 2y ago> But even Tim Cook is giving a million to Trump’s fund. I think you mean "Tim Apple".