Oh, here we fucking go. The drug-addled scumbags of Silicon Valley have read the room, and it’s all bad news for them. Now they want to come back to the fold and be our friends again. We’re all cool here, right? No need for investigations and criminal cases and antitrust actions, yeah? Come on! I thought we were buddies!
The fuck we are.
Here’s Politico trying to lay the groundwork:

NEW YORK — Big Tech is bowing to a bruising midterms that saw Democrats successfully use Silicon Valley as a foil.
Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process.
Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as “totally irresponsible” — deployed the word “progressive” eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats “absolutely” corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028.
To be fair, Politico’s language in this piece is not entirely supportive and for good reason: It’s obvious Karp is full of shit. He’s scared that Democrats will look a little too closely at his obnoxious domestic surveillance company and all the juicy government contracts that make it viable. Take that sweet, sweet government money away, and Palantir is just a bloated tech company with not enough customers to pay the bills.
I’ll bet a shiny nickel Karp is just the first wannabe Tech Overlord to “suddenly” remember what good progressives they are. Elon Musk will absolutely double and triple down on funding the party of Nazis and pedophiles. It’s where he’s most at home among his own kind.
But others? Mark Zuckerberg? Jeff Bezos? Sam Altman? They are absolutely going to come waltzing around with their checkbooks open, with every intention of buying themselves a welcome mat back into the Democratic Party.
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It will work with some Democrats (it always does). It absolutely will not work on most and, oh boy, are these billionaire fucksticks going to be surprised to receive a cold shoulder.
They shouldn’t be, though. They brought this doom upon themselves. Their arrogance. Their ignorance. Their whiny mediocre white-boy grievances. They have no one to blame for what is coming for them. After years of pretending to be good liberals and sucking up to Democrats, Silicon Valley got mad that so many people on the left were asking hard questions. Why is social media so toxic? Why are the tech companies building so many products harmful to teens? Maybe there should be some oversight of a group of billionaires whose public philosophy is “Move Fast And Break Things.”
Because when Silicon Valley breaks things, they never have to clean up the mess they make. We do. They get rich; we get cyberbullying and cabs that charge double what regular cabs cost, and they’re unsafe to boot. Elon Musk blows up rockets all over the coastline; we get stuck picking up the literal pieces. Self-driving cars keep crashing, but no one is responsible. Certainly not the companies that make them! Why, that’s not fair!
The increasing pressure on Silicon Valley to stop being reckless with our lives infuriated them. They’re the billionaire elite! Who the fuck did these little pissants think they were?! No one tells Mark Zuckerberg what he can or can’t do!1
So when Trump “won” the 2024 election and the press made believe his coalition was some kind of durable political realignment2, Silicon Valley went all in on fascism. And why not? According to former Facebook head of global affairs Nick Clegg, all of the techbros shitstains “knew” this would work out for them because they’re soooo much smarter than everyone else!
I am always struck by how eagerly smart and wealthy people expound on subjects about which they know very little—especially politics. Their commercial success seems to foster in them a view that politics is easy, if only dim-witted officeholders would listen to them. It is this hubris that makes the Valley such an exhilarating and exasperating place.
Knowing how to lie, cheat, and steal your way to the top of the Silicon Valley food chain gives you exactly fuckall insight into politics. More importantly, these billionaires and multi-MULTI-millionaires live in a bubble so hermetically sealed from the real world, they cannot possibly hope to grasp the incredibly intricate nuance of extremely complex ideas like Americans not liking fascism and corruption and overreaching government intrusion. It’s just so impossible to understand! Why don’t people like having every aspect of their lives scanned, tracked, controlled, and monetized?! It’s a goddamn mystery!
Now that it’s all coming crashing down on them, Silicon Valley is going to throw money at the problem and hope it goes away. It will not.
It’s important to understand that the public’s intense, and still rapidly growing, hatred of the tech cockbites is not a whiny liberal thing. It’s not a progressive cause célèbre. It’s not a Democratic talking point. The right loathes Silicon Valley as much as we do. They hate the surveillance cameras. They hate the data centers. They hate the broken, shitty AI being shoved down our throats. They hate billionaires getting massive tax cuts. They hate all of it just as much as we do and for mostly the same reasons.
The billionaires have managed to forge a bipartisan consensus in a deeply fractured country. Amazing. Too bad the consensus is that Silicon Valley should be razed to the ground, the earth salted, and the CEOs put in chains.
So, no, Alex Karp, you will not be fucking welcomed back by the Democratic Party. You and your cohort are toxic. You ruin everything you touch. You suck up billions of taxpayer dollars and return nothing of value. You sold democracy out because your wittle feefees were hurt. You support fascists all over the world and work directly against the country that made you rich. You’re all traitors, and we are coming for you.
The loveliest part about it is that they’ve made themselves SO toxic that Republicans will absolutely sign on to the investigations that are coming. Hell, they’re not even waiting. They’re kicking off their OWN investigations already.

Republican governors and state legislatures all over the country have been pushing back on surveillance cameras and data centers for months. Why? Because their voters are SO unbelievably fucking livid about it, elected officials had to choose between throwing billionaires under the bus and being dragged out into the street by their own base. It wasn’t even a close call for most of them. Fuck the billionaires. Democrats are quite a bit further ahead on that curve. Both parties are quite aware of how loathed these rich dipshits and their companies are. Siding with them is political suicide. Using them as a piñata, though? It’s all upside. The base will eat it up like ice cream.
Mind you, this is all before the AI bubble pops and Silicon Valley shows up, hat in hand, demanding a trillion-dollar bailout. Maybe if their product worked and actually benefitted the public, people might hold their noses. But the fucking dumbasses in Techland have been promising that their product will either kill all of humanity or put most of us out of a job.
I can’t imagine why both the left and the right want to turn Silicon Valley into a smoking crater. It’s another eternal mystery we may never solve…
Alex Karp thinking he can wipe the slate clean and everyone will pretend he wasn’t a bootlicking fascist ten seconds ago is pure delusion. The same for every tech asswipe that tries to suck up to Democrats before they rain fire and brimstone down on them (with an assist from the GOP). Collaborators don’t get a free pass. They get investigations and subpoenas. There’s no backsies from going Nazi.
See you up on the Hill, fuckos!
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