• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        With Trump in place he doesn’t have to do any of that, or at least do so much less. With Vance, he at least has to put his neck out more.

        • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Thiel is the entire reason Vance is vice president. This has been the plan the entire time.

          He doesn’t really care who is the face sitting in the seat, he’s the one controlling things. He’s also already paying some Democrats if for some reason we’re even allowed to vote in the midterms or next presidential elections. That’s literally his backup plan.

          • SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            So this wasn’t a wild conspiracy theory my Portland friends told me when they said the big money men trying to undermine Mamdani were fronting for Thiel? That’s wild!

            … still hasn’t reached even the outskirts of the mainstream, but man, that would be juicy. …

            • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Idk who all he’s funded (recently). I think a lot of establishment Democrats have donors other than Thiel that wouldn’t want Mamdani to cut into their business.

              I just know Ro Kahnna invested in Palantir right before they got that giant Army contract, he received donations directly from Theil at least as of a few years ago (so did Newsom). Kahnna is also very close with David Sacks (who also funded JD Vance).

              David Sacks, who was a key figure in developing Paypal, served as its COO and later founded the social networking service Yammer. Sacks previously chipped in $1 million of his personal fortune to a pro-Vance super PAC, according to FEC records.

              There is this ridiculous Facebook comment from 2016 where Kahnna is fangirling hard for Thiel and centrism in general.

              The way establishment Dems are treating Mamdani infuriates me, and I think that shit is going to be the death of the democratic party.

              But also, I live in Louisiana and realistically I’m not even necessarily opposed to centrist Dems. I have experienced “both sides.” I had no idea how privileged I was to make it through 2016-2020 with the governor I had back then. At this point, I would give just about anything to have a centrist Democrat running the state again compared to the right-wing chucklefuck that is destroying everything at lightning speed. Still, let me be the first to say about this post kissing Peter Thiel’s ass (and the comments somehow already talking like LLM bots back in 2016): 🤮

    • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Also, when people hear Vance say stuff like the Constitution does not allow a judge to override executive authority, they tend to think he just doesn’t know about checks and balances.

      He made it from West Virginia to Yale law school. He knows.

      He also knows everyone is entitled to due process.

      Still, we’ll be hearing a lot of things like that once he’s president.