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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/microsoft-drops-law-firm-appeased-trump-hires-firm-s-fighting-trump-rcna204152
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/microsoft-drops-law-firm-appeased-trump-hires-firm-s-fighting-trump-rcna204152
Chemicalbondage
Funny thing for Microsoft to do after donating a million dollars to the trump inauguration fund.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/09/microsoft-contributes-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html
MrStealYourGiF
It appears all the actual talent is deserting the Trump appeasing firms, so it's probably a wise business move for anyone.
Alistairetheblu
"Reason for cancelling?" "Trump"
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ChiLLeCheeze
I don't like the term bending the knee. Kowtow is a lot better because it allows someone to lick boots at the same time.
ImHereToExplainTheJoke
And yet Microsoft still capitulated and donated money to his inauguration.
TofuGolem
Microsoft is doing something right? I'm definitely in the wrong timeline.
DJOldguy
Wow... microsoft just went up in my estimation.... but have they got the cajones to stick with that?
oukid
This is something that Glenn Kirschner talked about on a Brian Tyler Cohen YouTube video. What kind of law firm do you want to hire? One that caves easily, or one that fights ferociously? https://www.youtube.com/@GlennKirschner2
https://bsky.app/profile/glennkirschner.bsky.social
CaptSchmidtGaming
THIS is the actual civil war 2. this is what the USA vs Russia really looks like.
failing this battle, and trumps 3rd term will be cemented illegally by himself.
and his 4th and 5th till he dies.
oukid
This is the way. (Or one way of money.)
SuperfluousMeh
Firms that agreed to pro bono representation will wind up representing murderous cops for Donny's police state. I hope they're happy with that bargain.
Disembowleeh
What if they're wrong? Who gives a shit. If they're wrong they'll get fucked and deserve it. Isn't that how your sacred invisible hand operates?
HeraldOfTheBadger
Oligarch fiiiiiiight!!!!
SteveMND
People, politicians, and organizations are trying to appease Trump, thinking that their loyalty will be repaid in kind.
They are SO wrong.
There is not a person on this planet that Trump wouldn't throw under the bus n a heartbeat if he felt the need to. No one is safe. Not his followers, not his allies, not his party... hell, not even his family.
BlindGardener
Point of order: His enemies are pretty safe from being thrown under the bus.
Largely because they know he’s going to try to, so they’re already defending themselves preemptively, but, surprise, being prepared for an open attempt to take you down from an enemy helps make you safer from being taken down, and fully prevents you from being backstabbed by that enemy while he pretends to be a friend.
camn333
Tech firms waking up to the fact that Trump doesn't care if they gave him money or support before. He will fuck them over, just like he does to everyone else. That whole inauguration "donation" was a waste. Nvidia's $1M dinner was also a waste lol
AnotherSnarkyComment
$1M is peanuts to NVIDIA
7hatsBollocks
But is worth less than peanuts in how effective it was.
mumbleape
AnonOmis1000
I'm genuinely surprised by this
Ricobe9
I'm not. Gates have been one of those more critical of the Trump movement and how tech companies showed up at the inauguration. He did have a meeting with Trump though, to try and get focus on health and foreign aid and clearly that's not worked
idrinkcheapbeer
Columbia fucked up big time. Harvard didn't. Columbia fucked it's legacy forever.
KMSigma
Damn. It's an acquisition. Some 45-supporting law firm just lost out on bank. You fold, you lose out on good business.
flacoloco
If my attorney bent the knee to the gov that quick, what is not to stop the gov to ask for my file and them providing it?
YoWilykat
So what is Trump going to do? Sic ICE toward Microsoft and clean out anyone not 100% pure American?
coastalfoundhound
Do you know anybody 100% pure American?
YoWilykat
Native Americans, they have been in US for more than 20,000 years. The rest of us were about 500 years or less.
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
If you do, they definitely ain't white.
hotaru251
rule number 1: Trump has no loyalties to anyone but him and any perceived loyalty if you pay him is short term.
Aurzyerne
Hell has indeed frozen over. I'm actually on Microsoft's side for once.
Sunegami
Something something enemy of my enemy
Cilvaa
A stopped clock is right twice a day, etc
Fargus57
Some context (from April 11th) https://apnews.com/article/trump-law-firms-executive-order-fe8f38a61cf77c5bb6add1315f5f96f1
Sludgesoda
Oof... so immoral that freaking Microsoft doesn't want to touch you.
crateo
It's not about being immoral.. it's about business. And folding to Trump is a strong indicator of a bad business
bippityboppitybuttsex
My law firm is gobbling up the attorneys of these firms that made deals with trump... they are losing their best talent and their clients... they will be hollow shells of bankruptcy in a few months.
oukid
Hollow shells of bankruptcy? If it happens, they deserve it.
hogeyegrex
That makes me so happy to hear. Yeah, mfer, you get xx million in pro bono work, but it’s going to be from total clowns. Call it pro bozo.
lackadaisycull
God I hope so. I really want all that pro bono work they’re gonna be doing defending off the chain cops to be fucking worthless or worse.
HisRoyalMajestyKingV
Then all they'll have are the Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani types. What a terrible, terrible shame. /s
Thornaxe
That’s great and all. But it seems time and again trump et all would employ moron lawyers and get extensions etc because it would be “unfair” for inadequate/incompetent representation to cause an adverse judgement against him. So it ends up benefitting him anyway.
HisRoyalMajestyKingV
Yeah, that does kind of suck. I'm not sure it's about the moron lawyers, though. Regular people have had moron lawyers, and they basically had to suck it up.
There's just WAY too many people who run interference for Trump and make sure he gets special treatment, above and beyond whatever money he may or may not have.
ThisGuyHere
Neednoggle
Good
JiffyPopPhantom
If that's true that gives me a lot more hope
bippityboppitybuttsex
Yeah, every morning I am seeing emails from the OMP welcoming new partner-level attorneys from the firms that made a deal with Tr**p... they are also bringing their clients... (rule is if you bring a client to a firm, you can take that client from the firm).
Note, I am NOT an attorney, I work in IT... I have had lawyers reach out to me, via DM, and I have no role in the hiring process and I will not identify my law firm on this platform.
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
Totally unrelated, but if I had gotten a client for the place I used to work at, and I tried to take them with me when I left, I would be in deep shit. I guess the rules are different for laborers.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Some partners are hired because of their client portfolio, and depending on the agreement, the clients belong to the partner... if an Associate tried to take a client, they would squish them like a bug...
rubypilgrim
that was kinda what Trump was aiming for, for these companies to die. They just shot themselves first without trying to defend themselves. If anyone pays any attention to his record, it's NEVER make a deal with Trump. All of those bankruptcies? He made money on every single one. The people who lost were his lenders, creditors, employees, the locals and everyone else.
sleepinggreenidea
Nah, he was looking for them to submit to him. Having them die would work as an alternative, but he wanted them to roll over, expose their bellies, and pee into the air.
DeadWhiteMale
Corrupt law firms: Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; and Latham & Watkins LLP.
BDBottom
Also a different level of suck: Jones/Day, the MAGgot go-to law firm.
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Anyone who supports a dictator deserves to get dicked over.
Comet260
And HARD. Sans lube.
GOWood
PenisOfDeath
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req4adream99
I mean, would you trust a law firm that folded as fast as they did on an obvious 1a violation? I mean, I get that 45 and his cult dgaf about the law or constitution, and SCOTUS would almost def rule in 45s favor, but to bend the knee that quick?
Alurkerforcedtologin
If the law firm won't even fight to defend itself, why should I trust it to defend me?
PerrinAybara564
That's the argument Legal Eagle made on his YouTube video discussing this
req4adream99
Exactly.
HandoB4Javert
StellarJay77
Never comply in advance. All this does is tell the administration that they can push things even further into authoritarianism and that they can get away with more evil and cruel behaviour. They certainly won't even flinch until there is at least a modicum of pushback.
alrightalrightalrightpartyatthemoontower
I agree though I think institutions like Columbia just think they will out wait the term. Nah. Just keep pushing back is smarter. More people who do creates a tsunami effect
StellarJay77
It has to be someone who stands up first and who has access to the resources needed to back it up because anyone already vulnerable won't be pushing back unless they know they have tons of backing. An academic institution is the most likely candidate to start the charge.
alrightalrightalrightpartyatthemoontower
If anyone, Harvard has the backing. Idk if Columbia does. I’d think yes, but sometimes I am an amazed at the political climate at universities. Harvard brand is a different story I’d imagine
BlindGardener
Amusingly the law firms that *didn’t* bend the knee simply *won* in court without fanfare as it was ruled that Trump could not ban them from wherever.
req4adream99
These cases were like if 45 bought a book called “1a violations for dummies”. The fact that it’s so blatant, and law firms actually bent the knee, should scare the fuck out of people. The admin wasn’t even trying to fucking hide that they were doing.
BlindGardener
!!! That’s what Ia Cthulhu means… 1a… Ia…. (lol)
echonite
Can Microsoft drop all the bullshit things they are adding to Windows? Recall, pushing microsoft accounts, mandatory updates for workstations, dumb shit like that.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
Bad news: They won't. Good news: You can do it yourself. There is a ton of good linux distros out there.
echonite
That only covers part of the issue. Since I work IT, I still have to deal with windows daily. And windows 11 isn't going anywhere.
mithiwithi
You sound young. Microsoft has been all about adding bullshit to their OS since MS-DOS.
echonite
I've been around since dos, and yes they have added a lot of bullshit, but not the likes they have done with windows 11. It is single handedly driving more people to Linux, it actually saw a bump in market share this year as windows 10 support comes to an end.
7hatsBollocks
I agree. GUIs were not required to play quake 1 and were just bloat.