It's the year 2025 and numerous TechGods have made the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, while contributing millions to Trump II's looming coronation.
A WaPo political cartoonist had her submission turned down. It pictured newspaper owner Jeff Bezos on his knees offering a giant sack of money.
The supplication involves earthly things for earthly things. The TechGod message could be seen as:
I'll give you "truth"I'll give you money (lots of it)I'll give you anything for my continued advantage (taxes, regulations, federal $, etc.)
Under Trump II, the digital Caligula, anything goes. However, there is the ongoing price of admission, preferably paid in digital currency.
And the rich shall be richer, the powerful-more powerful and the connected can do whatever they like-no rules, no consequences.
Update 1-11-25: TechGod Mark Zuckerberg indicated his elimination of Facebook fact checking is due to a lack of virtue on his part.
Update 1-14-24: Add DEI reversals as homage to the great and powerful Trump II. Semafor reported:
An open-air bazaar has replaced a black market of influence-peddling. It’s unsettling to reporters who are used to having to dig around for evidence of pay-to-play, but it’s fascinating to watch everyone say the quiet part out loud.
Update 1-15-24: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend Trump II's coronation and may even sit together.
Conservative WaPo columnist Jennifer Rubin resigned in response to Jeff Bezos full throated MAGA suckup and Trump II's authoritarian predilections.