Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation

Donald Trump is being sworn in today , and we are about to find out what happens when the government is actually as corrupt as our most brain-rotted conspiracy theorists imagine.

The tech overlords all have problems, and they want to buy the solutions.

Elon Musk , Jeff Bezos , and Mark Zuckerberg , the three wealthiest men on Earth , are reportedly attending.

Marc Andreessen , a board member of Meta and major investor in X , has been recruiting Trump administration staffers and even influencing Defense Department and intelligence agency hiring.

Andreessen has asked for the breakup of Google , which is now appealing its monopoly judgment.

Being in Trump ’s good graces is a zero sum game, and the prize is that the clown car is eventually going to go right over a cliff.

Trump has offered tech a way to buy itself out of consequences.

Silicon Valley’s leaders fashion themselves as titans of industry, but what they’re really building is a golden age of grift.

There are those who will say that this is good — that the corruption is happening in the open.