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Peter Thiel effectively trying to buy a Senate seat for Kris Kobach is worth reflecting on.
Thielâs millions helped to elect Trump. As 150,000+ people have died & the economy has fallen into a depression, his firms profit enormously.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/27/21333636/peter-thiel-kris-kobach-kansas-senate-primary v @teddyschleifer
Thielâs millions helped to elect Trump. As 150,000+ people have died & the economy has fallen into a depression, his firms profit enormously.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/27/21333636/peter-thiel-kris-kobach-kansas-senate-primary v @teddyschleifer
Kris Kobach has a rich and extreme anti-immigrant history, which put him in line to become Trumpâs âimmigration czarâ. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/politics/kris-kobach-donald-trump-immigration-czar/index.html
Peter Thiel will continue to profit off the 2016 election, which has given him the ability to place his allies across the administration, like Michael Kratsios, who was Thielâs chief of staff before becoming US CTO. Kratsios now has a top job at the DoD. https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-defense-tech/white-house-to-name-kratsios-as-pentagon-acting-tech-chief-official-idUSL2N2EK0S8
Last year we published a report w/info about the individuals close to Thiel whoâve gotten key jobs in the administration.
We also documented the $1.5 billion+ in contracts Thielâs surveillance company, Palantir, received from US gov: https://mijente.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mijente-The-War-Against-Immigrants_-Trumps-Tech-Tools-Powered-by-Palantir_.pdf
We also documented the $1.5 billion+ in contracts Thielâs surveillance company, Palantir, received from US gov: https://mijente.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Mijente-The-War-Against-Immigrants_-Trumps-Tech-Tools-Powered-by-Palantir_.pdf
Thiel & his followers present themselves as âcontrarianâ thinkers. It's a helpful position for them to take when itâs opened up the door to becoming key profiteers aligned w/Trumpâs agenda. It's also helpful stance for Silicon Valley tech cos to take as they seek huge returns.
A prominent VC firm called @foundersfund is a key enabler of this agenda.
Thiel co founded it.
One of the firmâs MOs is to privatize parts of the govt & to make venture returns in the process, often taking advantage of govt funding for tech start-ups. https://foundersfund.com/
Thiel co founded it.
One of the firmâs MOs is to privatize parts of the govt & to make venture returns in the process, often taking advantage of govt funding for tech start-ups. https://foundersfund.com/
Founders Fund invests in companies that are securing more and more military contracts.
Thru this firm, Thiel takes a very active role in playing kingmaker for Silicon Valley startups.
Thru this firm, Thiel takes a very active role in playing kingmaker for Silicon Valley startups.
As one of the large multi-stage Silicon Valley venture funds who recently secured $3 billion from investors, Founders Fund plays a KEY role in determining which companies get growth-stage investment. Many folks in tech are scared to speak out against them, given their influence.
Just recently one of their companies, Anduril, got a $200 million contract to build a virtual surveillance wall across the southern border, helping CBP to hunt & terrorize our people who seek safety. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/01/silicon-valley-tech-start-up-anduril-raises-200-million-create-software-driven-defense-company/
In February, as Anduril was lobbying for the virtual wall contract, Thiel donated another $250,000 to Trump's reelection campaign. Similarly, Palmer Luckey, Anduril's CEO, donated $250,000 to the GOP just days before his company got the massive contract. https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1283492218251046912?s=20
These contracts make the company way more valuable. They ultimately allow Peter Thiel, Palmer Luckey, & othersâto put huge profits towards installing those in power who will continue spending taxpayer money on their tech products.
The cycle doesnât stop.
These rich white men enrich themselves, put other rich white men in power, & we all suffer the consequences.
We must stop the tech to ICE pipeline. We must curb the power that this small group of people has.
These rich white men enrich themselves, put other rich white men in power, & we all suffer the consequences.
We must stop the tech to ICE pipeline. We must curb the power that this small group of people has.
