A year ago Reid Hoffman attended (as apparently he does every year) the annual Allen & Co. “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho, in which he debated fellow tech executive Peter Thiel over how the LinkedIn co-founder’s funding of “lawfare” had turned former President (and president-to-be) Donald Trump into a “martyr.” According to a report by Puck News at the time, Hoffman responded to Thiel, “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”
Lacking the shame, conscience and capacity for embarrassment that a reputable member of elitism might carry, Hoffman has returned to the scene of the slime this week. Business Insider had photos of the majority of arrivals from among the executive ranks of corporate mediocrity, including NLPC Dim Stars Mary Barra, Robert Iger, and Brian Roberts. Private and corporate jets have gotten quite a workout, as has the airspace over the central Gem State resort area.
Also attending is Microsoft Chairman/CEO Satya Nadella, not to be confused with Nutella, whose parent company is going to buy the parent company of Fruit Loops. Nadella and his fellow corporate board of directors have repeatedly given NLPC the silent treatment in non-response to our requests to boot the unfit Hoffman from their ranks. The reasons for our demands are numerous:
It remains to be seen what malicious musings by Hoffman will be leaked from the (LOL) “off-the-record” event, but he did already give an interview to CNBC while (likely) bypassing the posh lodge’s hiking trails:
The network’s softballer lobbed a political question about Elon Musk‘s planned new political party and asked what Hoffman thought, to which he replied, “I’m very sympathetic to the core cause, which is, don’t try to add so much to the deficit that you’ll add $2.4 trillion to the deficit by, I think it’s 2034…don’t do that.” Clearly Hoffman was referring to claims made about the consequences of the “Big Beautiful Bill” signed by President Trump and pushed through by Congressional Republicans.
Hoffman must have had a recent epiphany that government deficits are bad. Under President Joe Biden, who Microsoft’s board man aggressively supported, estimates show the federal debt grew by $8.4 trillion (probably more) and that uncapped tax credits in Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act would cost U.S. taxpayers $1.2 trillion. Hoffman remained remarkably mute about the amount of spending in Washington from 2021 to 2024. He’s only a loudmouth when he thinks he’s protected by confidentiality, and is triggered by the name “Trump.”
