I can’t for the life of me understand why Democrats haven’t made this ghoulish surveillance baron into a public enemy comparable to the role that Soros plays on the right. He’s legitimately a bogeyman.
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Probably because he pays them to be silent
jul 23, 2025, 5:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Thiel doesn't think women should have the right to vote. While he and Matt Danziezen have two daughters by surrogacy. SAD.
jul 23, 2025, 6:57 pm • 10 0 • view
They think he’s gonna donate to them at some point.
jul 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 0 • view
This 👆
jul 23, 2025, 5:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Because then some of the people who give them money might stop
jul 23, 2025, 4:32 pm • 1 0 • view
That is tip money
jul 24, 2025, 8:42 am • 1 0 • view
in the end they don't see it as a threat to their own day to day. many of them probably support what he's doing but won't say that out loud
jul 23, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
He's counting on 25/47 to put his puppet in the White House.
jul 23, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Because Democrats want his money.
jul 23, 2025, 7:03 pm • 1 0 • view
And the guy literally wants to siphon the blood of the youth to live forever. Qanon people: “meh whatever”
jul 23, 2025, 8:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Government by the oligarchs and for the oligarchs
jul 23, 2025, 10:03 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s easy — because Democrats, with very few exceptions, have NO CLUE how to do politics. They lack competence, imagination, intelligence, courage, discipline, and every other trait needed to control narratives, engage in effective messaging, persuade the public, or do anything other than vote.
jul 23, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Are we sure he isn't also paying them?
jul 23, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, show his interviews on repeat. Creepy as all of hell.
jul 23, 2025, 11:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Dude literally named his surveillance company after a tool Sauron used to wreak havoc in LOTR!
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 23 1 • view
jul 23, 2025, 9:51 pm • 7 0 • view
Nothing but disrespect for our actual President
jul 23, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
readsludge.com/2025/03/20/d...
jul 23, 2025, 5:46 pm • 2 0 • view
After his war with Gawker, Theil is acutely aware of the importance of public perception. On top of that, he keeps palantir politically hedged to ensure it is viable even when Dems are in power.
jul 23, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
So 'quirky'
jul 23, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Came here to say this. Since when is harvesting the blood of youngsters ... "quirky".
jul 23, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Or virtually ANYTHING the guy does or says. Making a play for all the private information the government has, mass surveillance, claiming you will not just overthrow the government but eliminate it as a possibility. And that’s just a small sample. His billionaire plan is to tax us DIRECTLY.
jul 23, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
maybe if they like him, he'll give them the $850,000
jul 23, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Because it would make the donor class they represent uncomfortable.
jul 23, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Because that horse is way out of the barn, over the hill, and into the next county by now. The shot they had to stop him was right before Citizens United.
jul 23, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Because Dems are on the take Follow. The. Money. readsludge.com/2025/02/24/d...
jul 23, 2025, 4:32 pm • 12 0 • view
because over half of them are hoping to get his money and believe what he believes
jul 23, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s a cyberpunk Corpo parody but real
jul 23, 2025, 4:43 pm • 2 0 • view
PA 01 contenders please note. Fitzpatrick is on the ghoul's list.
jul 23, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Very true but elon could have said that, trying to tap out.. You must aim for cpac and the hell foundation. Not just all the mf's feeding it..
jul 24, 2025, 12:55 am • 0 0 • view
Because the Dems also want a surveillance state.
jul 23, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Odd, my thesaurus does not have "quirky" as a synonym for "evil".
jul 23, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Beyond Soros! "Peter Thiel Is Very, Very Interested in Young People's Blood" "What’s the Deal with Peter Thiel, ‘Silicon Valley,’ and Blood Boys?" "Ambrosia: the startup harvesting the blood of the young" "Paying Thousands of Dollars for Teen Blood "Young Blood Transfusions Don’t Cure Aging"
jul 23, 2025, 5:11 pm • 28 6 • view
Peter Thiel is bad news. I'd wager he helped flip the 2016 election. #CambridgeAnalytica #Palantir
jul 23, 2025, 8:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Democrats are in bed with them too www.opensecrets.org/orgs/palanti...
jul 23, 2025, 8:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Agree 100% This is one of the puppet masters behind Trump and GOP!! + The Herirage Foundation
jul 23, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
"Quirky" is a weird way to spell "sociopathic whack job". Mother Jones is usually better than that.
jul 23, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Thiel sucks for many reasons, the creation of Vance among them, but $850,000k is chump change for a billionaire. Like his heart isn’t in it
jul 23, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
dem party doesnt want to ruin their chances of getting some of his money. that is why. dems truly suck.
jul 23, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Ugh, is *this* why the YouTube algorithm suddenly suggested a Y Combinator video with Thiel talking about why "competition is for losers"? That REALLY missed the mark with me. Also, why in the Hell is @motherjones.com using cutesy euphemisms like "quirky" for this villain?! Can you not?!
jul 23, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
That would require the party's principles to not be at the mercy of the highest bidder
jul 23, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Plus, there's no one who gives a more creepy interview if they but amplify it. They ask him if he wants humanity to survive and he needs an aid to whisper in his ear that the answer they're looking for is "yes."
jul 23, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Apparently there are regular protests at Palantir HQ, but they get even less coverage than the Tesla ones did. Billionaires are all the problems.
jul 23, 2025, 6:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Me neither, he’s a true believer of the very worst kind 🤬🤬🤬🤬
jul 23, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
There are even tons of rumors that he drinks blood from teenagers, which he constantly denies, making me believe it's more true with every denial. Literally a demon freak.
jul 23, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Start by asking about the mysterious deaths of his boyfriends and his balcony.
jul 23, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
He legit looks like a bond villian
jul 23, 2025, 8:16 pm • 2 0 • view
jul 23, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
www.opensecrets.org/orgs/palanti...
jul 23, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
If democrats knew how to play the game at all we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place
jul 23, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Money?
jul 23, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
One of a great many easy things avoided to ‘not lose moderates’ and such nonsense. The right has been alot better about leveraging new media for sure
jul 23, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
that thing where his "boyfriend" fell out of the window, ah, seems legitimately worthy of suspicion
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 pm • 9 0 • view
Holy shit.
jul 23, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
So you haven't heard about this? Yeah it goes deep. Think about the shit in his personal life we DON'T yet know about.
jul 23, 2025, 4:59 pm • 6 0 • view
I had not. Wow.
jul 23, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Cause they takigg be his money too
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Because a lot of them still hope that, if they just give him enough money and are nice enough to him, he'll become *their* bogeyman.
jul 23, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Evil vampire-like Nazi who drove his boy-toy lover to suicide wants to watch your every move so he can throw you in jail for thought crime is pretty low hanging fruit.
jul 23, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Because they hope somehow they can get his money. Because they're stupid.
jul 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 3 0 • view
why do you expect people who've repeatedly shown that principles are based on donation size to demonize the rich?
jul 23, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
‼️‼️‼️
jul 23, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Who's going to report it out there for them. Dems just don't have that media narrative control. /which is a major failing of theirs
jul 23, 2025, 4:40 pm • 3 0 • view
Very simple reason: Democrat’s decorum means not vilifying rich people.
jul 23, 2025, 4:41 pm • 1 1 • view
Even with my extremely progressive friends, I have trouble breaking thru when I tell them how terrible these guys are. They’re very focused on the war on Gaza, they don’t see that the same logics are at play with this crowd.
jul 23, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
(Not to downplay the atrocities in Gaza at all, just to point out the boomerang.)
jul 23, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Prob because they also give contracts to Palantir.
jul 23, 2025, 6:51 pm • 4 0 • view
the panopticon is fine they just want to be in charge of it, not trump
jul 23, 2025, 4:26 pm • 2 0 • view
He needs a protest like the Tesla Takedown.
jul 23, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s also not American, something that should be noted every time he’s mentioned. Shady foreign billionaire Peter Thiel.
jul 23, 2025, 5:00 pm • 3 0 • view
He’s the kind of twisted pervert I thought right wing maga hated.🤪
jul 23, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
As we’ve found lately, they have no problem with Good Perverts if they fight the Bad Perverts, and not you’ll never guess how that lines up with their politics! Over on Earth-507 there’s the same story about controversial playboy Jeff Epstein
jul 23, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
depressing answer: Thiel-backed companies are also giving tons of money to the "abundance" fraud that's captured so many centrist Democrats and much of the Dem donor class
jul 23, 2025, 4:32 pm • 8 0 • view
Because they want his and his friends money Right @kenmartin.bsky.social and @democrats.org ?
jul 23, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Because that surveillance baron owns some Democrats, too. Smart oligarchs hedge their bets.
jul 23, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
right. he's a smarter version of elon and no one ever mentions his name
jul 23, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
He pays them.
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
And every other billionaire. Turn the next election into a class warfare phenomenon.
jul 23, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
I had a notion that a candidate could do well doing reaction videos/critiques of billionaire-funded ads, but the whole party’s older than the Charleston and thinks YouTube is cable on demand.
jul 23, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they are all funded by the same billionaires and support it. End the duopoly. readsludge.com/2025/03/20/d...
jul 23, 2025, 5:16 pm • 37 9 • view
It’s simple, they want some of that money.
jul 24, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I am more than willing to call this POS out every single day. HE IS FUNDING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.. but I am just a regular person. I'll ask my DEM party chair in NC why she doesn't call him out.
jul 23, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
It's hard to narrow it down to just one specific ghoul.
jul 24, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
The problem is that the right-wing Soros hatred isn’t fueled by the fact that he’s rich, it’s fueled with bigotry and promoting “outrage” that one of “them” is supporting causes that “real Americans” should oppose.
jul 23, 2025, 4:41 pm • 6 0 • view
In retrospect it’s pretty telling that “Boy, fascism sucked, think I’ll use some of my billions to keep it from happening again” has been considered class treason my entire life.
jul 23, 2025, 5:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Because Democrats love billionaires and surveillance?
jul 23, 2025, 4:32 pm • 7 0 • view
Let's not forget that $850k is chump change for a man of Thiel's wealth.
jul 23, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
And he’s also VERY WEIRD. The average joe does not like weird, rich guys!
jul 23, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s a fucking vampire!
jul 23, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Because the Dem machine is broken and lacking original thought.
jul 23, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Thiel is an actual demon and the only reason I can imagine the Democrats aren't going after his ass hard is out of some misguided belief that they might be able to get donations from him, somehow.
jul 23, 2025, 6:58 pm • 11 0 • view
Dude, looks like Joey Chestnut, and I like Joey Chestnut
jul 23, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Dems don't want the other creepy billionaires who maaaaybe one day will give the money again, to get the wrong idea
jul 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 8 0 • view
The democratic parties purpose is to espouse billionair opinions. They view him as a potential employer.
jul 23, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
They're paid to keep quiet.
jul 23, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think they view anyone as real opposition, but rather as potential future donors.
jul 23, 2025, 4:23 pm • 51 0 • view
Current donors. readsludge.com/2025/03/20/d...
jul 23, 2025, 5:48 pm • 21 0 • view
they want his money more than they care about what he does
jul 23, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably because if/when Vance becomes President it will be more important to bring Thiel (and Thiel's connections, which exist, to EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN) into the conversation ...
jul 23, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Note to centrists: you are not gonna out vote, out spend, out organize or out lawyer this. A bit like climate catastrophe- so deeply baked in to this system, the system is now helpless to change it.
jul 23, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Seriously. I would think it would be easy to get a hobbit to bungle the works in their server room lol. #foolofaTook
jul 23, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Because the powers that be are too stupid to be combative, and think taking the high road will get them where they need to go
jul 23, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s evil
jul 23, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I've wondered about this as well? There's radio silence whenever this guy's name is spoken or comes up in reporting from Democratic party leaders? Why doesn't Corp Media say anything about this guys secret influence on our Democracy? He has a guy in position to take control of the presidency.
jul 23, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Because a lot of Democrats also work for him.
jul 23, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Also has an extremely cursed look
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Comon man. You know why? Cause they’re cowards, sycophants and situationally fellow travelers. (Eg crypto, hatred of immigrants, servile to their corporate masters). And they are so fucking bad at it.
jul 23, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
They hope he'll give them money
jul 23, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
He killed his boyfriend because he got too old, so we can tie that in to the general construct of pedocon theory too.
jul 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 15 0 • view
Cant understand why democrats want to hide in the mountains with libertarians seeking privacy, it’s over folks now adjust to it. PLTR sucks tho. Tax billionaires and churches out of existence.
jul 23, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
soros is a just proxy for anti-semitism and doesnt really have any real world impact
jul 23, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
They want his money
jul 23, 2025, 4:22 pm • 17 0 • view
We let Gawker die.
jul 23, 2025, 8:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Original Sin
jul 23, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Because they can't unsee dollar signs.
jul 23, 2025, 4:31 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s bought them, too.
jul 23, 2025, 5:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Prob trying to figure out how they can get in on that action
jul 23, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Two things: The Roy Cohn of this administration is Richard Grennell. He’s pulling a lot of strings with little to no press. Keep an eye on him, especially as a candidate for governor of California. Also, he looks like a ball sac.
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 3 0 • view
‘should humanity survive? uhh uhm well uhh ummm, it’s complicated’ why are we not immersed in counter messaging. it’s a fuckin layup
jul 23, 2025, 6:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Because the party is run by decrepit fools
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Only the Democratic Party could fail to villainize the guy who isn’t sure the human race should continue to exist
jul 23, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Because they want his money
jul 23, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view
ANOTHER Billionaire I cant WAIT to see #Unalive 🤨
jul 23, 2025, 4:34 pm • 0 0 • view
That requires work. And those geriatrics need their naps.
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Peter Thiel is our very own Gustav Krupp.
jul 23, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Thiel is a "quirky billionaire..."? Don't you mean a sociopathic Nazi?
jul 24, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
A significant threat he is
jul 23, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't believe I'd bet 850k on the Red Coats I think Blue Tsunami
jul 23, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
think a lot of them are just hoping he’ll give them some money too
jul 23, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s because they’re intimidated by his charisma.
jul 23, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re afraid of being accused of prejudice against gay fascists vampires who feast on the blood of young men. But it’s not homophobic to be against gay fascist vampires who feast on the blood of young men because they are fascist vampires first and foremost.
jul 23, 2025, 4:57 pm • 3 0 • view
"Quirky" is certainly one way to describe that creep. Not an accurate way, but one way. A New York Times sort of way even.
jul 23, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
They can try but without the pretty blatant antisemitism it's not going to get far
jul 24, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
Because they don’t want to win
jul 23, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
The reach that Thiel is getting is worrisome.
jul 23, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view