Bonum Certa Men Certa

With Help From Donald Trump, Microsoft is Plundering and Looting the American Taxpayers, Then Gloating About It

So, Microsoft celebrates making revenue from the crisis? A massive bailout from Trump? The 10-K form can be found at the SEC (and in Microsoft's very own site).

Microsoft graft
Go to the latest 10-K form and search "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" wherein they say it brought in another $2.6 billion dollars of net profit for the last year.

Summary (by Ryan): "They conspired with Trump on his illegal taking of TikTok, and they pointed to the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" (with 50 million unemployed workers [A third of the US working age population], no less. Fully a third of the US population.) on their SEC report to show how it added profits. A third of the overall working age population in the US is left without any job to go to right now and 1/5th of it may be permanent (expected to go on for years as almost 100,000 US businesses have shuttered permanently since March). Meanwhile, Microsoft gloats about ripping off the US Treasury for almost $3 billion in the first full year of the Tax Law they lobbied for. They get a lot of bad things from Trump. This tax law has done nothing to create any jobs for people. It's graft for big corporations. Meanwhile, Microsoft cut several thousand jobs and kept more of their money from funding the government during this crisis. Tax Cuts and "Jobs" Act..."

Ryan adds: "Trump's ideas for the tax code are like the one the Russian Oligarchs came up with after Communism collapsed, which led to the 1998 Sovereign Default. Microsoft is being subsidized six ways to Sunday, through illegal DoD contracts and Trump's "tax" law that lets them plunder the treasury during a crisis. Putting the Pentagon on the same "cloud" that leaked all of Capital One's customer data. You know, hey, we're sorry you'll be dealing with identity fraud for the rest of your life because of Microsoft Azure and our shitty configuration."

Recent Techrights' Posts

Slop in "AI" Clothing is Such a Miserable Failure That IBM is Allegedly Firing Entire Teams That Do Slop (the Media Didn't Report This; It Said the Opposite!)
Gaslighting, lying media that engages in deceit will not outlast this bubble
Huge Microsoft Layoffs Coming Shortly (With Financial Report)
There will be lost of slop layoffs. Be ready. It's a bubble.
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part III - "Ethics" Explained by Unethical People, Lots of Buzzwords Included
Imagine being the person (or PR agency) that wrote this with a straight face, possibly commissioned by some frequent cocaine user who runs the Office
Gemini Links 21/04/2026: Dystemia, Protocol Group Chat Gone Wrong, and More
Links for the day
Links 21/04/2026: Drunken Kash Patel Sues The Atlantic for Reporting, California Accuses Amazon of Price-Fixing
Links for the day
EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part III - Connected Families - The Cocaine User Luis Berenguer and António Campinos
not just bromance between Luis and António
FOSS Linux (fosslinux.com) Has Become a Slopfarm
Slopfarming is the last incarnation of sites that die or are dead
Gemini Links 21/04/2026: NeoVim, GeminiMDB, and Another New Gemini Client (Called Titan II)
Links for the day
Links 21/04/2026: Internet Shutdowns, Bluesky Crippled by DDoS Attack
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, April 20, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, April 20, 2026
3,400 Gemini Capsules Accessible and Known to Lupa, A Geminispace Crawler
We're about to exceed 3,400 some time soon
When and Why I Quit Writing "Classical" GNU/Linux Advocacy Articles
I'd love to write more about why GNU/Linux is great [...] We always try to cover unique issues and break stories (exclusives)
IBM Had Mass Layoffs Every Month This Year (Including at HashiCorp, Confluent, and Red Hat), 'Results' Due in 2 Days' Time
IBM's "media partners" seem to be engaging (propaganda and puff piece) ahead of the serenade to Wall Street
Dr. Andy Farnell on Privacy Failings and Shallow Media Coverage
Bad media paves the way for failed societies
Gemini Links 20/04/2026: Fahrenheit 451, Small Web Advocacy, and Offgrid Holdout
Links for the day
Debian Has a New Project Leader (DPL)
We plan to upgrade Debian some time this month
This Morning The Register MS Published SPAM With "AI" 36 Times in It. This is What The Register MS is Paid to Publish.
It's selling out to Ponzi schemers
Links 20/04/2026: Chatbots Motivate Manslaughter, GAFAM’s ‘Tobacco Moment’
Links for the day
Throwing Rocks in Houses of Glass
Lots of "virtue-signalling" against ICE
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part II - It's About Politics, Not Science
Tomorrow we'll discuss what the cocaine proponents (or apologists) deem to be "ethics"
SLAPP Censorship - Part 52 Out of 200: Phil Golding Appointed Bar Standards Board (BSB) Chief, Misogyny Must End
How many rules will they "bend" or even breach?
Links 20/04/2026: Brave Origin Nightly, Scuttling USAID Gives 'Soft Power' to China, and White House Gives Money to Russia (Through Oil Sales)
Links for the day
EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part II - "Cocaine Communication Manager" Luis Berenguer is Back Without Punishment
Latest on Luis Berenguer
Gemini Links 20/04/2026: "I Hate Computers" and "Why I de-Googled"
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 19, 2026
IRC logs for Sunday, April 19, 2026
If You're Against War, Why Would You Pay IBM Red Hat?
Red Hat's largest clients aren't geeks; they're militaries
Uplifting Mood in Manchester
Looking behind - and ahead - after a day of relaxation
SLAPP Censorship - Part 51 Out of 200: On Perjury and What It Means to Take Third-Party Funding to Attack Reporter and His Family (in Another Continent)
threats of prison sent to my wife
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part I - EPO Management Talks About "Ethics" While Cocaine Users Run the Office
Let's start with the basics
EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part I - Cocaine Abuse in Family of Campinos (President’s Office)
at the EPO's management you can do illegal drugs and still represent Europe's second-largest institution
Gemini Links 19/04/2026: Big Brother and the Telescreen, Syncing Gemini Capsule With a Makefile
Links for the day
Links 19/04/2026: Introducing “Fighting Fascism” Podcast and Kyiv Mass Shooting
Links for the day
Links 19/04/2026: Mass Layoffs at GAFAM Again (10% Laid Off), Azure Capacity Problems (Enshittification)
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 18, 2026
IRC logs for Saturday, April 18, 2026