The Frankish Reich Posted August 20 Posted August 20 So who is JD Vance's sensei and leading benefactor? A little background: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html Mr. Thiel thought he could figure out how to find terrorists by using some of the paradigms developed at PayPal, which he helped found, to uncover patterns of fraud. “I was just always super annoyed when, every time you go to the airport, you had to take off a shoe or you had to go through all this security theater, which was both somewhat taxing but probably had very little to do with actual security,” Mr. Thiel said. They brought in some software engineers. “It was two and a half years after 9/11, and you’re starting a software company with people who know nothing about the C.I.A. or any of these organizations,” Mr. Thiel recalled. It was all very cloak-and-dagger, in an Inspector Clouseau way. They decided to seek out John Poindexter, a retired rear admiral who was dubbed the godfather of modern surveillance; Admiral Poindexter had been forced to resign as President Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser after the Iran-Contra scandal broke. After 9/11, he worked at the Pentagon on a surveillance program called Total Information Awareness. *** In 2011, the hacker group Anonymous showed that Palantir employees were involved in a proposed misinformation campaign to discredit WikiLeaks and smear some of its supporters, including the journalist Glenn Greenwald. (Mr. Karp apologized to Mr. Greenwald.) Then, at least one Palantir employee helped Cambridge Analytica collect the Facebook data that the Trump campaign used ahead of the 2016 election. Total Information Awareness with Bush 43 and Rumsfeld's favorite theorist, John Poindexter. Smearing Julian Assange/WikiLeaks and taking Latter-Day Trumpie Glenn Greenwald along for the ride. Taking the Surveillance Society up a notch or ten. And then propping up JD Vance by buying him a Senate seat in Ohio, where he was ripe for the Trump picking ... so Peter Thiel himself, gay man of many wacko libertarian opinions and hence no future himself in the Republican Party can be just one heartbeat away from a surrogate presidency. There's your Deep State, you damn fools, or at least the closest personification of it you'll ever find. 1 1 1 2
Roundybout Posted August 20 Posted August 20 Trump and his MAGA balllickers don’t actually want to get rid of the so-called “Deep State,” they want to be the ones in charge. That’s basically it. 1 1 1
The Frankish Reich Posted August 20 Author Posted August 20 16 minutes ago, Roundybout said: Trump and his MAGA balllickers don’t actually want to get rid of the so-called “Deep State,” they want to be the ones in charge. That’s basically it. I just find it astonishing that people are so gullible as to believe that Trump is the adversary of the Deep State, or somehow the friend of those who would reveal all of this information about the powers who rule the world. Friends with Jeffrey Epstein, groveler at the feet of Peter Thiel and his money, schmoozer of anyone with wealth and power. Yeah, he's gonna take them on. 1 1 1
Tommy Callahan Posted August 20 Posted August 20 (edited) Meh. K Harris just got one billion for the month. Nyt is doing what it always does. Tell stories devoid of a named source. Edited August 20 by Tommy Callahan 1 1
L Ron Burgundy Posted August 20 Posted August 20 3 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said: So who is JD Vance's sensei and leading benefactor? A little background: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/style/alex-karp-palantir.html Mr. Thiel thought he could figure out how to find terrorists by using some of the paradigms developed at PayPal, which he helped found, to uncover patterns of fraud. “I was just always super annoyed when, every time you go to the airport, you had to take off a shoe or you had to go through all this security theater, which was both somewhat taxing but probably had very little to do with actual security,” Mr. Thiel said. They brought in some software engineers. “It was two and a half years after 9/11, and you’re starting a software company with people who know nothing about the C.I.A. or any of these organizations,” Mr. Thiel recalled. It was all very cloak-and-dagger, in an Inspector Clouseau way. They decided to seek out John Poindexter, a retired rear admiral who was dubbed the godfather of modern surveillance; Admiral Poindexter had been forced to resign as President Ronald Reagan’s national security adviser after the Iran-Contra scandal broke. After 9/11, he worked at the Pentagon on a surveillance program called Total Information Awareness. *** In 2011, the hacker group Anonymous showed that Palantir employees were involved in a proposed misinformation campaign to discredit WikiLeaks and smear some of its supporters, including the journalist Glenn Greenwald. (Mr. Karp apologized to Mr. Greenwald.) Then, at least one Palantir employee helped Cambridge Analytica collect the Facebook data that the Trump campaign used ahead of the 2016 election. Total Information Awareness with Bush 43 and Rumsfeld's favorite theorist, John Poindexter. Smearing Julian Assange/WikiLeaks and taking Latter-Day Trumpie Glenn Greenwald along for the ride. Taking the Surveillance Society up a notch or ten. And then propping up JD Vance by buying him a Senate seat in Ohio, where he was ripe for the Trump picking ... so Peter Thiel himself, gay man of many wacko libertarian opinions and hence no future himself in the Republican Party can be just one heartbeat away from a surrogate presidency. There's your Deep State, you damn fools, or at least the closest personification of it you'll ever find. JD Trans is bought and paid for. He barely bothers denying it. Trump is even worse with this pandering to big oil. They'll do anything for money and it blatantly shows in their policies.
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