Another Silicon Valley guy who protested the first Trump administration is now aligned with him. The pattern has been extraordinary.
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There are things that are very hard for me to understand. He could simply pay the tax and he would be left with about $260 Billion in wealth. More than any single human could every possibly spend across any number of lifespans.
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"Ms. Gilbert-Soto, 32, describes herself on Instagram as a 'holistic health coach' and a 'clean meat enthusiast.' She, like Mr. Brin, regularly attends Burning Man, and she appeared on a season of 'Vanderpump Rules.'” Love to encounter new California Nightmare People. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
That photo of her hand on the back of his head! NYT on Sergei Brin and his newly powerful girlfriend, "a Trump-loving gut-health influencer" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
Sergey Brin on proposed one time 5% tax on CA billionaires gave this grotesque false analogy: “I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.”
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This guy can pick em. His ex was RFK's vax-phobic running mate. Now he's with a "Trump-loving gut-health influencer."
Google is full MAGA.
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None of these trillionaire toadies can figure out that any one of them could be the most famous, popular, and powerful person on the planet by taking 1% of their wealth and converting it into libraries, museums, and universities.
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"Mr. Brin, 52, long showed little interest in politics... But now, like so many other leaders in the traditionally liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right."
Silicon Valley billionaires have abandoned their liberal loyalties and flocked to the Bozo Fascist to protect their wealth and influence. Sergey Brin personifies this pathetic, short-sighted capitulation. History will note this kind of selfish cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
Brin, a Google co-founder and one of the world’s richest people, is a longtime friend of Newsom, the California governor. Both men attended each other’s weddings. But now Brin pulled Newsom aside to a different part of the property for a serious talk. Brin told Newsom that he could
Sergey Brin has gone full MAGA because of California's proposed one-time, 5% tax on billionaires.
If I could give up 5% of my net worth in exchange for (say) Trump losing power, I'd do that cheerfully. And I'd feel that! But Brin would feel nothing from losing his 5%.
LOL remember "don't be evil"?
But this is not surprising in the least to anyone who understands how capitalism works.
See: IG Farben or Mercedes-Benz+ Nazis for reference.
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Sergey Brin’s rightward shift is deeply disappointing. Is he so greedy that he begrudges a 1X wealth tax he wouldn’t even feel? And if he’s so smart & serious, how is he okay with immigrant attacks and how Americans are suffering under Trump policies?
🎁 article
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Gift link.
"...like so many other leaders in the traditionally liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right.
With his outspokenly conservative girlfriend by his side, he has joined the ranks of tech executives courting Mr. Trump in his second term."
NOT good.
"But now, like so many other leaders in the traditionally liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right."
Billionaires go to where the political power is, knowing their money can outlast any political mood swing. Money is concrete power.
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Plutocracy update: “But now, like so many other leaders in the traditionally liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right. With his outspokenly conservative girlfriend by his side, he has joined the ranks of tech executives courting Mr. Trump in his second term.” Via NYT
Oh jesus fucking christ. Just *leave*, you don't need to throw a fit with the giant toddler. MAGA girlfriend. 🙄 FFS.
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After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised President Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax
What an asshat. How seriously douchey do you have to be to fight the billionaire tax this hard just to impress your "health infleuncer" girlfriend that is 20 years younger than you www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
If there was one thing the Soviet Union was known for, it's allowing private sector billionaires to exist and then taxing them 5% of their wealth. I hear moderately progressive taxation was the key tenet of Marxism-Leninism.
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Sergey Brin told the NYT he opposes a tax on billionaires because his family fled socialism to come to the United States. Taxes =/= socialism but also yes to democratic socialism. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
Sure, billionaires are sociopolitical loose nukes, but also, imagine what they could accomplish if they organized this kind of donation and lobbying firepower around something like arts funding or child care. Anything other than “I don’t wanna pay more tax.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax. Via NYT Politics:
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Sergey has a MAGA girlfriend. We have lost him to the dark side. So much at stake. He just spent $57 million to combat Cali's billionaire tax.
In the end, the oligarchy will lose the Class War - left to sweat & shiver in their underground bunkers!
Still, it's pretty sad news.
🤣 Pathetic people. The oligarch class representing the worst of the USA. Gifted
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Although it may seem like just another rock in the whitewater, we should take the opportunity to learn from this story:
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And, deeply learn, anthropologically learn
at this point it seems quite apparent that being very smart in one field can give you the false sense of confidence to make you an absolute mark in the rest of your life www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
the headline here should be
@governor.ca.gov sucks billionaire dick while fucking californians in amazing feat of acrobatics - FUCK YOU GAV
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Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a ‘MAGA Girlfriend’ by His Side
After once backing liberal causes, the Google co-founder has praised President Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a CA billionaire tax
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Raise your hand, anyone who is surprised. And come on, these guys were never 'liberal' -- they were 'libertarian' which (as Peter Thiel shows) slides very easily to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
Once a weirdo, always a weirdo. Also “gut-health influencer”?!
#california #2026election @teddyschleifer.bsky.social @kateconger.com
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Agreed, but it needs to happen on a national level. Otherwise the billionaires who don't want to pay move to another state. That's exactly what Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google, did last December when he moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.
No paywall.
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@adambecker.bsky.social is there any explanation for this mass psychosis that is affecting even the Silicon Valley titans I used to admire? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
UNFCKING BELIVABLE‼️
Sergey Brin, 3rd richest male in the world (~$$250BILLION) spending $$MILLIONS to not pay 5% billionaire tax even though he already moved to Tahoe, NV to escape paying his fair share!!
👉 He spent $63 million already to save greedy billionaires
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Brin has a terrible taste in women. He cheated on his first wife. Then trust Nicole Shanahan onto the world with billions of his money only for her to support JFK Jr. And now he has a MAGA gf in his ear, Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, a “gut-health influencer” and Burning Man devotee.
Crazy idea but what if having a really really good idea for an algorithm when you’re in your twenties didn’t guarantee you massive political influence thirty years later?
Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, With a ‘MAGA Girlfriend’ by His Side
The Google co-founder has praised Trump, donated to Republicans and spent $57 million to try to block a California billionaire tax. 🎁
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The rich are just like you and me – only much more cruel, stingy,and graceless.
“Like so many other leaders in the liberal bastion of Silicon Valley, Mr. Brin has shifted to the right.
“With his outspokenly conservative girlfriend, he has joined the ranks of tech executives courting Mr. Trump.”
Overly dramatic Google-Boss ad Milliardärssteuer: "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don’t want California to end up in the same place.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
So, Linux.
It’s truly awful. How much will have to be undone if we can retake the country from all these corrupt, rich enablers tearing down the democracy. The plutocrats. fascists. racists.
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Always disappointing when someone builds their fortune on progressive rhetoric and then reveals their complete lack of principles when a tiny sliver of that fortune is threatened in any way. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…
So, Elon, Bezos, Ellison, Thiel, & Zuck are all full-on loud-and-proud MAGA villains. But isn't Google's zillionaire, Sergei Brin, still kinda living by the credo "Don't be evil"?
Not even close:
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“Mr. Brin is particularly rattled by the proposal for a one-time, 5 percent tax on California billionaires…To escape the tax, he moved before a Dec. 31 deadline to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe…he has spent $57 million to try to undercut the measure”
Vote for the #BillionaireTax in #California! It is amazing that #Billionaires are spending tens of millions of dollars to stop the tax when they could use those funds to help others.
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@forbes.com 800 Billion EM ; www.forbes.com/real-time-bi... 2 The Rit3 ; www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u... ; www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyCN... ; As of April 2026, the collective wealth of the top 10 richest individuals in the world is approximately $2.5 trillion, with Elon Musk leading the group CNBC
Sergey... dude... remember when you were a kid in the old Soviet Union, a neighbor would get a hot girlfriend, then a few months later, he'd disappear?
Your chick's name might as well be "Honey... Honey Trap."
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u... SERGEY YOUR "GIRLFRIEND" IS IN IT FOR THE MONEY THAT IS THE ONLY REASON MAGAT WOMEN PUT UP WITH YOU IDIOT TECHBROS!!!!!!!
these men who have all the money in the world want MORE
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En noticias de cleptocracias libertarias, Sergey Brin ha gastado al menos USD 57 millones en contra de un impuesto a los mega ricos, sin contar la plata que le pasa directamente por mano a Trump.
Mr. Sergey Brin, a #Google co-founder and one of the world’s richest people, is a longtime friend of Mr. Newsom, the California Gov. Both men attended each other’s weddings, chart @nytimes.com
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"Late last year, he started to organize California billionaires who were fuming in group chats on Signal and WhatsApp about the potential tax on their wealth."
#Google Founder moves to the right, with a #MAGA Girlfriend...
"Mr. Brin told Mr. Newsom that he could not stand the state’s proposed #billionairetax. They were joined by Mr. Brin’s girlfriend, Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto, a Trump-loving gut-health influencer."
#techbro
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Billionaires -- who needs them?
Brin spending, now, $66M to try and prevent a 5% wealth tax is the ultimate illustration of why a wealth tax is necessary
MAGA really doesn't understand irony
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"He donated to a campaign to defend same-sex marriage in California in 2008 and backed President Barack Obama’s re-election bid in 2012."
So he didn't back him in 2008 when we were facing economic collapse then....?
A tale as old as time, she gets a billionaire and he gets a younger woman who has promised him that he will never die.
British readers should prepare themselves for a Steve Hilton jump scare in this story. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...
