Big words from that guy
Thiel told The Atlantic that he had hoped Trump’s election would force a national reckoning, that someone needed to tear things down before the country could rebuild.
Despite his disappointment that Trump did not usher in a revolution, Thiel said he still wouldn’t call himself a “Never Trumper.”
These are the only relevant points. Fuck Peter Thiel and fuck this “Aw shucks! Boy is there egg on my face!” routine.
Peter Theil hasn’t had a sudden “come to Jesus” moment. He’s just decided that Trump isn’t the right fascist for the job.
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A quieter guy with a bigger stick is what he’ll be looking for next time. Yeah, fuck this guy. If post-Reagan America has got the rich BAAAAAWing because they’re just not rich enough yet, there’s nothing left for them that will satisfy but literal royal status.
What part of royal status is missing? Wars on a whim?
I think once they have anything they want, they either need a new dick measuring tool, or else truly want to hurt others to feel better.
Billionaires are just super fucked up and need to go.
He should have listened the majority of Americans who knew exactly what to expect. That he didn’t shows that he has terrible personal judgement.
the majority of Americans who knew exactly what to expect
HARD disagree on that bit. Seems obvious in retrospect, after years of non-stop nightmare headlines, but we mostly thought it would be a joke of a Presidency. Trump was a late-night show laughingstock for a couple of decades. Think Obama knew what he was triggering? FFS, even the President didn’t know what was coming.
(If you haven’t seen the video of Obama body slamming Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it’s going down as an important turning point in American history. Seriously.)
Remember everyone being shocked and appalled that Trump ordered his press secretary to brazenly lie about his inauguration turnout being bigger than Obama’s, even given in-your-face pictorial evidence? That was how it began.
We didn’t expect the man to lead us into a million dead Americans when confronted with a century-level pandemic. Any ass could have kept his mouth shut and done better.
I cannot even begin to list the man’s crimes, but his Presidency ended in an attempted fucking coup. Anybody foresee that?
The majority of us knew it was a bad idea. Not one-tenth of one-percent of us thought it would be that fucking bad.
(Sorry OP. I get a little triggered talking about 01/06)
Actually I feel I can honestly say that with Trump I got exactly the joke of a human being that I expected. The thing that completely caught me off guard was the way the GOP behaved in response to him.
I actually did predict a bit of that!
We never talked politics at work, but the owners were evangelical Christians. Very cool about it, never brought that shit into work.
VP engaged me one day in 2015. Told him if Trump won it would be the end of the GOP.
Hated Trump, but he was genuinely puzzled and asked me why I thought that. Couldn’t articulate it at the time, but I could see they would tear themselves apart. Or, same difference, eat themselves Ouroboros style.
I think there were way more than 0.1% who knew how bad it would be.
During Trump’s inauguration, my dad was making jokes about when the “Reichstag fire” would happen (jokes because my MAGA father was looking forward to it).
Remember also that Trump was saying the 2016 election was being stolen up to the moment he won, so back then it was pretty clear he was not going to go peacefully if he lost in 2020.
His crying about “losing” 2016 because of the popular vote was garden variety narcissist shit. I’m not sure anyone predicted that he would summon a fucking mob of lunatics to the Capitol, at least not in 2016. By the end of 2020, yeah, it was damned predictable.
There was a great tweet not long before the election, “Ever broken up with a narcissist? Y’all are going to see some shit.”
He’s a billionaire. He thinks he’s defacto smarter than everyone. It’s what happens when you’re surrounded by sycophants who just want your money.
Pretend billionaire.
Being wealthy has exactly NOTHING to do with being smart after the first generation. I think that they in fact get STUPIDER and more disconnected from reality every generation.
Oh please. This dude knew exactly what he was getting into.
Seriously. And he was never going to be personally at risk from it. To him, a wild presidency is a carnival ride. To the rest of us, it’s real hardship, oppression, and death.
Peter is waiting for the more moderate Nazis to get a footing.
Shut the fuck up, Peter. Anyone who is so cursed as to be stricken by your vocal emissions is made all the worse throughout and within. The weight of your egos is crushing us all.
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Wasn’t this fucker heavily involved in Cambridge analytica, the first attempt at psy-ops and social engineering on Facebook?
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Also relevant: the Palantirs are linked to Sauron, and anyone who uses one is almost certain to get corrupted and dominated by the Dark Lord.
In the third age, yes, but they were originally made by the elves and were not subject to Sauron’s influence. Once sauron captured one for himself, he was then able to influence the others and ultimately their users.
Will this guy not just fucking die?
I’ve been seeing a lot of famous people lately in the news from his generation dying in their late 60s. There’s a chance…
The republican “leadership” learned the same thing about the tea party and evangelical crowd.
You can ride the tiger, but eventually it turns and eats you.
I mean, I’m glad he finally figured it out. That’s better than most of the MAGAts. But I don’t expect he’ll accept any accountability for his role in enabling that insanity.
Nah, he’s probably just writing off the losses and trying to look innocent now that he excepts the trump ship to sink.
