Silicon Valley is a famously difficult environment for incumbents. Today’s unstoppable juggernaut can quickly become tomorrow’s has-been. Just ask Xerox, Intel, or Yahoo. So it says a lot that Microsoft is still on top as the world’s second-largest company by market cap, fifty years after its founding and more than thirty years after becoming the juggernaut of American software. The company has thrived through both good and bad periods for tech and under both Republican and Democrat presidencies. The company pairs technical talent with real political savvy, and that savvy has been on full display with the arrival of the second Trump administration.
Microsoft donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund. Five days before his swearing in, CEO Satya Nadella and President Brad Smith dined in person with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. OpenAI, which Microsoft owns 49% of, took the starring role at a White House ceremony announcing the new initiative Stargate, a bid to invest $500 billion into creating an AI supercomputer. And on Monday, President Trump revealed that Microsoft is in talks to purchase Chinese-owned TikTok so that it can evade a potential ban.
Microsoft, in short, is positioning itself aggressively as an ally of the Trump administration, a company that patriots can work with for the greater goal of making America great again.
This rebranding is all the more remarkable given Microsoft’s conspicuous pro-Kamala position dating well before the 2024 election.
But we should not be fooled: Microsoft’s agenda isn’t selfless, and it has not truly changed its censorious stripes. The company’s goal is to head off a well-deserved antitrust investigation and prevent scrutiny of DEI and pro-censorship values the company still clings to. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
But even as it seems nearly impossible to make a living, there are blessings that should not be disregarded. By highlighting strong sponsors who share our America First worldview, we have been able to make lifelong connections and even a bit of revenue to help us along. This is why we enjoy symbiotic relationships with companies like MyPillow, Jase Medical, and Promised Grounds. We help them with our recommendations and they reward us with money when our audience buys from them.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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JD Rucker
