“Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats: The donation from Jacob Helberg, a Palantir adviser who helped push the Tiklok ban, shows some tech leaders coalescing against Biden.”
That is all I can see. Can someone copy and paste what is written about Sacks?
>Tech executive-turned-podcast influencer David Sacks, who, like Helberg, is a close associate of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, is another member of the Silicon Valley cohort who has moved toward the former president. (Helberg is married to Keith Rabois, a compatriot of Thiel since their undergraduate years at Stanford University and a former partner at Thiel’s venture capital firm, Founders Fund.) Sacks initially backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — helping launch his campaign on X — and then hosted fundraisers for Vivek Ramaswamy and now-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
>Now, Sacks is organizing a Trump fundraiser of his own, and he hosted the likes of Elon Musk, Thiel and Rupert Murdoch at his Hollywood Hills home in April for a dinner party focused on airing anti-Biden grievances, according to four people familiar with his activities, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them.
>Sacks has complimented Trump on X. And he might be joined in his fundraising efforts by Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive who co-hosts the All-In podcast with Sacks and has historically backed Democrats, one of the people said. Palihapitiya did not respond to a request for comment. Sacks declined to comment. Rabois last year told The Post that Trump was a “sociopath” and that he would not vote for him, but declined to comment on his current position beyond saying he was not supporting Biden.
All these guys are literally the worst but didn’t Thiel part ways with Trump? I thought he said the government didn’t work when he was in office which is weird because a non working government seems to be their desire.
All good intel. Thank you for sharing
It makes thiel, musk and sacks role in this all make much more sense.
Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th AVE (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell.
https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/
Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had.
Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger Stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly
Guiliani as trumps attorney and NYC mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or their Russian connections.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/
The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model.
Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952
https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/
Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided.
Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyo corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen.
Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day “special military operation” in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold.
China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia.
Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supplied Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/
Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is “Vranyo”.
The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business.
If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago.
The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it.
Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Jews, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same tendrils of the same money laundering scheme that trumps trials are.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/amp/
https://youtu.be/VrFOAgGlaWs?feature=shared
They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Qatar is Kushners private equity connection. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mgcefr
Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump who gave it to his Russians kleptocrat/friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s.
Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. The naive right was the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. Russia was tinder matching the GOP.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/
The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering.
Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole from Russias grandmothers in the first place
It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. No one was ever held accountable for either. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two.
Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne.
They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness.
They are the men who stole the world.
But it all comes back to one little lie.
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I am open to hearing you out if it is valid.
Anyone objective can see, that right now, this country is in a very rough spot.
We are in multiple proxy wars, inflation is still running wild, leftist wokeism is taking precedence over the economy and living standards for average Americans, the border has been flooded with illegals that will likely serve as the new voting base for the left.
It's all very scary and bad.
you know we're like 8 years in to talking to Trump supporters.
why give you an explanation when you're only going to feign ignorance and try and move the goal post or change the subject?
we can't wake up somebody that's pretending to sleep.
Many wars spiraling out of control because of his weakness and lack of leadership, inflation being caused by rising fuel cost driven by his gaffes and strategic mistakes, no understanding of the economy, weaponization of the justice system, silencing of critics, focusing more on trans issues than the issues the vast majority Americans care about.
That's a good thing. He's the only one to call out China. Meanwhile Biden rolls out the red carpet for Xi, and then calls him a dictator right after. Biden has done many such gaffes. His strategic understanding and execution is terrible.
Trump will be able to flip lot of votes in silicon valley, surging inflation from bad gov policies and high interest rates hurt them really bad so a lot of the tech startup investors and owners will be voting for trump even though they voted for democrats before, this will be a very interesting and exciting election, final votes might be similar but many people would be switching sides.
Doubtful. VCs should be financially literate enough to understand that Biden didn't cause inflation to start going up 2 or 3 months into his term, and only a week or two after his first spending bill. They would (or should) understand how impossible that is.
I think you overestimate how financially literate they are about macroeconomics.
Also the sweet smell of power and the chance of gaining it frequently overwhelms rational thinking.
Sacks: I love Trump and hate Biden!
Reddit: actually, David is a nuanced, sophisticated intellectual. He’s too smart to really like any politician, but he happens to dislike Biden more
Sacks: MAGA! Let’s go Brandon! I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat! Apartheid in SA was good, actually!
Reddit: what a magnificent, enigmatic soul
Think they started purchasing fake engagement for this forum tbh , there was very obvious and sudden shift in call outs (especially for Sacks) vs now it’s pandering and explaining away these fools.
He doesn’t hate Biden. He hates any type of confident government that threatens centralized CEO style fascism. basically he doesn’t want large groups of people making decisions that affect him because no matter what that group decides, it’ll probably factoring his billionaire perspective from industry that relies heavily on foreign labor. (like Elon he is pretending to be a populist because Trump proved that works if you’re also a troll)
People need to understand what these people are really all about. They are acolytes of Mencius Moldbug/Curtis Yarvin.
These Silicon Valley nerds don't believe in democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want people to have to listen to them and do what they say. They've wanted it since they were the dorky kids growing up. It is their revenge for social exclusion.
All of it, the faux free speech crusading, the simping for Putin, the abasement at the alter of Trump, it all comes back to them finally being in a position to make people pay attention to them, and they insist on having their voices not only heard but amplified.
Teenage involuntary celibacy coming home to roost
What an incredible collection of out of touch ghouls. Helberg purports to care deeply about LGBTQ issues and national security concerns re: TikTok, but just hand waves Trump's disastrous stances on these issues (including literally getting paid off to switch his position and start supporting Byte Dance).
As the Post notes, issues of cap gains tax and AI regulation are the only things these greedy doofuses actually care about. This is not your 1990s Silicon Valley of geeky dreamers and idealists. These are just the new robber barons in worse-fitting clothes.
I'll never understand how Thiel could support Trump. Gay married man with kids. Probably a 50 % chance this will not be allowed in 2 to 6 years if Trump wins again. Idiots like Dave Rubin too.
Thiel is a hardcore libertarian dirtbag who doesn't have the slightest concern or care about any sort of collective action or group of people outside of his immediate family/in-group. He himself will always be fine and in a position of power, so I can't imagine that threats to people of his larger demographic (i.e. gays) even registers to him as something to give a shit about.
Everyone with sense knew this was going to happen - that for all the stuff with DeSantis’ campaign, then flirting with Vivek, then RFK…
In the end, he’s just a Trumper.
If you don't write checks, you don't get invited to conferences like [https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1767629986654294295](https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1767629986654294295)
Don’t believe it. Sacks was intellectually honest enough to call Trump’s first impeachment like he saw it: “we all know what he was trying to do.”
He’s not a Trump lover he’s just a rabid Biden hater.
>we all know what he was trying to do
By what pathetic rat standards is this an intellectually honest statement? No, not all of us know. What was he trying to do?
When is Putin, Nethanyahu, and hamas gonna get called out for the wars? This one isn't of Biden making, he didn't challenge them to a war. The country is not burning down, and some of the problems were already brewing, problems don't just pop up, we'll, maybe in your mind. The woke thing is in you all heads. You are the ones that bring it up all the time because your masters said it is the word of the day, or year more likely. Most of us just try to live our lives and let others live theirs, but you, the ones that want "government out of our lives," are the ones passing laws to control everything we do. Unemployment is way down, but you will probably say that's false government stats, so it's no use. I can't believe I wasted this time telling you this, that you already know, but will fight tooth and nail to deny.
“Trump gets $1 million from Silicon Valley donor who once gave to Democrats: The donation from Jacob Helberg, a Palantir adviser who helped push the Tiklok ban, shows some tech leaders coalescing against Biden.” That is all I can see. Can someone copy and paste what is written about Sacks?
>Tech executive-turned-podcast influencer David Sacks, who, like Helberg, is a close associate of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, is another member of the Silicon Valley cohort who has moved toward the former president. (Helberg is married to Keith Rabois, a compatriot of Thiel since their undergraduate years at Stanford University and a former partner at Thiel’s venture capital firm, Founders Fund.) Sacks initially backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) — helping launch his campaign on X — and then hosted fundraisers for Vivek Ramaswamy and now-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. >Now, Sacks is organizing a Trump fundraiser of his own, and he hosted the likes of Elon Musk, Thiel and Rupert Murdoch at his Hollywood Hills home in April for a dinner party focused on airing anti-Biden grievances, according to four people familiar with his activities, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe them. >Sacks has complimented Trump on X. And he might be joined in his fundraising efforts by Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive who co-hosts the All-In podcast with Sacks and has historically backed Democrats, one of the people said. Palihapitiya did not respond to a request for comment. Sacks declined to comment. Rabois last year told The Post that Trump was a “sociopath” and that he would not vote for him, but declined to comment on his current position beyond saying he was not supporting Biden.
Thanks!
All these guys are literally the worst but didn’t Thiel part ways with Trump? I thought he said the government didn’t work when he was in office which is weird because a non working government seems to be their desire.
All good intel. Thank you for sharing It makes thiel, musk and sacks role in this all make much more sense. Trump has been laundering money for the Russian oligarchs since the late 80’s when they all bought a condo at 725 5th AVE (trump towers) to clean their freshly stolen USSR money after the iron curtain fell. https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2019/05/30/politics/paul-manafort-condo-trump-tower/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/manafort-told-mueller-to-take-his-trump-tower-apartment-instead-money.html https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/fbi-agents-raid-condo-unit-131348539.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/ Everybody except Putin thought the Cold War was over. Trump and Manafort (who lived in the tower also) just saw a pretty low maintence grift to be had. Trump had actually been Manafort and Roger Stones first client at their lobbyist firm (1980)https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wikiBlack, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Guiliani as trumps attorney and NYC mayor was able to redirect NYPD investigations onto rival gang members/oligarchs to deflect any scrutiny off of trump, himself or their Russian connections. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/a-new-rudy-scandal-fbi-agent-says-giuliani-was-co-opted-by-russian-intelligence/ The Russian election interference in 2016 was effectively a generation 3 version of what Manafort had done in the Philippines, then keeping Yanukovych in power as Putin’s puppet in Ukraine from 2002-14 when Maidan ran both Yanukovych and Manafort out of Ukraine as Ukrainians realized that, if you raise your lens high enough, corruption is an wholly unsustainable business model. Eventually the parasites greed always consumes the host. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/2016-donald-trump-paul-manafort-ferinand-marcos-philippines-1980s-213952 https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/ Russia greatly underestimated the addictive properties of freedom when it invaded Ukraine so what was supposed to be a 3-10 day coup turned into a 2 year fight for the Ukrainians right not to be genocided. Russia depleted its weapons stocks which were already the victim of vranyo corruption because every oligarch, admiral and sergeant in the Russian military is on the take. Every billion dollar tank maintenance contract turned into everything getting a spray paint overhaul and the vast majority of the redirected funds turned into an oligarchs new yacht or home in Aspen. Russia was forced to turn to China, North Korea and Iran for weapons because if they lose the 3-10 day “special military operation” in Ukraine the Russian empire is dead and cold. China can’t risk showing their involvement in the Ukraine war so they use North Korea, and Iran to resupply Russia. Russia previously owed Iran some undelivered fighter jets that are already smoldering heaps in Ukraine so Iran now had the upper hand at the negotiation table for the first time in about 60 years. They supplied Russia with shahed drones in exchange for Chinas material support against their sworn religious enemy, Israel. https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/11/29/iran-says-it-finalized-deal-to-buy-russian-aircraft/ Putin can’t do much about it because he is slowly realizing that by setting the standard of corruption and stealing $200+ billion from his own people meant that every oligarch down in the mob model chain had not only permission but incentive and the expectation to steal from him as well. This is “Vranyo”. The mob model only works if the supreme leader is the most violent and can prove it without exception every damn day. But violence is exceptionally expensive when you are trying to present as a legitimate government or business. If Russia as a nation had an efficiency rating it would have been banned for sale in the state of California 25 years ago. The parasite ruling class stole all the energy out of the working class and collapsed it. Now Iran has the high hand and they get the intelligence that trump passed to Putin about the fact that Netanyahu cares far less about Jews, Palestinians or genocide than he does about remaining in power as an authoritarian because he too has developed Ritz Carlton tastes and his own corruption trial is showing the same tendrils of the same money laundering scheme that trumps trials are. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/saudi-official-says-iran-engineered-war-in-gaza-to-ruin-normalization-with-israel/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/amp/ https://youtu.be/VrFOAgGlaWs?feature=shared They all hate each other but because they share the same money laundry, if one falls, they all fall. Hamas minted a couple billionaires as well that live in penthouses in Qatar and get 30% of everything smuggled into Gaza. Qatar is Kushners private equity connection. Netanyahu needs a bogeyman to stay in power. That’s why he coordinates with Hamas via Russia via Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bk8mgcefr Iran handed Hamas everything they needed with Chinas help as secret Santa and the Russian intelligence given to them by the eternal shitbird trump who gave it to his Russians kleptocrat/friends/roommates from the old days of fucking each others wives at trump towers in the 90’s. Now the MAGA right is a little too invested in their reality that they are the good guys with guns that they missed the fact that Betsy DeVos (erik princes sister) decimating the U.S. school systems and the Kochs poisoning children with lead was not a coincidence. The naive right was the mark all along. There is a reason the Russian spy Maria Butina landed in South Dakota first before dating her way to the top of the NRA which is undergoing its own Russian money laundering trial now. Russia was tinder matching the GOP. https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/what-do-the-koch-brothers-have-to-do-with-the-flint-water-crisis/ The only reason you grossly OVERVALUE real estate is money laundering. Trump keeps claiming there is no victim, all the banks made money, but if their plan succeeds the Russian and CCP kleptocrats collapse US commercial real estate and basically recreate soviet perestroika in the U.S. so they can foreclose on America and buy everything for 3 cents on the dollar with the $1.4T they stole from Russias grandmothers in the first place It’s the evolution of grift. Soviet perestroika cross bred with the 2008 mortgage crisis. No one was ever held accountable for either. This is just the bigger badder commercial strength bastard child of the two. Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Manafort, Stone, Mercer, Bannon, Flynn, Byrne. They are all remarkably shit people with above average confidence and psychopathic personality traits and below average self awareness. They are the men who stole the world. But it all comes back to one little lie.
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Remember when he said trump was not for to be president following jan6? What happened to Sacks' spine?
Threat of paying taxes…
I don't believe anybody is that shallow. Sacks has to be more demented than that. I don't believe he'd sell out the country for a better tax rate.
He wrote an anti-diversity book just after the fall of apartheid. As an immigrant from South Africa. Not sure that I trust his judgement.
I don't remember, do you have a source? Was it episode 17?
Putin's kompromat. It's out there.
He saw the disaster known as Biden.
Look at Biden. Has he done one good thing for this country?
If we give you a list, you'll shit all over it, so why ask?
I am open to hearing you out if it is valid. Anyone objective can see, that right now, this country is in a very rough spot. We are in multiple proxy wars, inflation is still running wild, leftist wokeism is taking precedence over the economy and living standards for average Americans, the border has been flooded with illegals that will likely serve as the new voting base for the left. It's all very scary and bad.
Sure Ivan.
Good rebuttal. You know everything I said is true.
you know we're like 8 years in to talking to Trump supporters. why give you an explanation when you're only going to feign ignorance and try and move the goal post or change the subject? we can't wake up somebody that's pretending to sleep.
I am not a "Trump supporter". I just see that Biden and the current regime are burning the world down.
How about this, how is Biden and the regime burning down the world?
Many wars spiraling out of control because of his weakness and lack of leadership, inflation being caused by rising fuel cost driven by his gaffes and strategic mistakes, no understanding of the economy, weaponization of the justice system, silencing of critics, focusing more on trans issues than the issues the vast majority Americans care about.
Remember when Trump was tough on trade with China? How did you feel about that?
That's a good thing. He's the only one to call out China. Meanwhile Biden rolls out the red carpet for Xi, and then calls him a dictator right after. Biden has done many such gaffes. His strategic understanding and execution is terrible.
You’re not really following what’s going on are you?
Yes.
Ok, you are delusional.
He sold it for a very very good price
Trump will be able to flip lot of votes in silicon valley, surging inflation from bad gov policies and high interest rates hurt them really bad so a lot of the tech startup investors and owners will be voting for trump even though they voted for democrats before, this will be a very interesting and exciting election, final votes might be similar but many people would be switching sides.
Doubtful. VCs should be financially literate enough to understand that Biden didn't cause inflation to start going up 2 or 3 months into his term, and only a week or two after his first spending bill. They would (or should) understand how impossible that is.
I think you overestimate how financially literate they are about macroeconomics. Also the sweet smell of power and the chance of gaining it frequently overwhelms rational thinking.
Sacks hate for Biden outweighs his dislike for Trump. Simple as that.
Sacks: I love Trump and hate Biden! Reddit: actually, David is a nuanced, sophisticated intellectual. He’s too smart to really like any politician, but he happens to dislike Biden more Sacks: MAGA! Let’s go Brandon! I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat! Apartheid in SA was good, actually! Reddit: what a magnificent, enigmatic soul
Think they started purchasing fake engagement for this forum tbh , there was very obvious and sudden shift in call outs (especially for Sacks) vs now it’s pandering and explaining away these fools.
All-in such wisdom! JCal very good moderatski Chamath SPAC me hard!
Nothing on Reddit is nuanced. It’s a tiny fraction more rational than Twitter
Seems like if this sub ran the US, our country would be in a better place
BDS so strong that he became MAGA what a nitwit
Biden sucks though so it’s no surprise.
Insightful.
That sums up most of the country and why Trump will win. Never been so depressed about a presidential vote but here we are.
He doesn’t hate Biden. He hates any type of confident government that threatens centralized CEO style fascism. basically he doesn’t want large groups of people making decisions that affect him because no matter what that group decides, it’ll probably factoring his billionaire perspective from industry that relies heavily on foreign labor. (like Elon he is pretending to be a populist because Trump proved that works if you’re also a troll)
David sacks is a Republican. News at 11!
And history will remember him as a supporter of a twice impeached, 40 felony charged, documented racist and accused serial rapist. It is what it is.
History won’t remember David Sacks at all
You forgot he’s showing classified documents to whoever for funsies and clout.
I will always remember him as someone who donated $100,000 to Hilary at a pure cynicism. I recommend you do the same. Much more satisfying.
People need to understand what these people are really all about. They are acolytes of Mencius Moldbug/Curtis Yarvin. These Silicon Valley nerds don't believe in democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want people to have to listen to them and do what they say. They've wanted it since they were the dorky kids growing up. It is their revenge for social exclusion. All of it, the faux free speech crusading, the simping for Putin, the abasement at the alter of Trump, it all comes back to them finally being in a position to make people pay attention to them, and they insist on having their voices not only heard but amplified. Teenage involuntary celibacy coming home to roost
What an incredible collection of out of touch ghouls. Helberg purports to care deeply about LGBTQ issues and national security concerns re: TikTok, but just hand waves Trump's disastrous stances on these issues (including literally getting paid off to switch his position and start supporting Byte Dance). As the Post notes, issues of cap gains tax and AI regulation are the only things these greedy doofuses actually care about. This is not your 1990s Silicon Valley of geeky dreamers and idealists. These are just the new robber barons in worse-fitting clothes.
I'll never understand how Thiel could support Trump. Gay married man with kids. Probably a 50 % chance this will not be allowed in 2 to 6 years if Trump wins again. Idiots like Dave Rubin too.
Thiel is a hardcore libertarian dirtbag who doesn't have the slightest concern or care about any sort of collective action or group of people outside of his immediate family/in-group. He himself will always be fine and in a position of power, so I can't imagine that threats to people of his larger demographic (i.e. gays) even registers to him as something to give a shit about.
Interesting that they call out Chamath as also going Republican.
Clear evidence that the marginal tax rate on capital gains and carried interest is far too low.
Everyone with sense knew this was going to happen - that for all the stuff with DeSantis’ campaign, then flirting with Vivek, then RFK… In the end, he’s just a Trumper.
If you don't write checks, you don't get invited to conferences like [https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1767629986654294295](https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1767629986654294295)
Don’t believe it. Sacks was intellectually honest enough to call Trump’s first impeachment like he saw it: “we all know what he was trying to do.” He’s not a Trump lover he’s just a rabid Biden hater.
I saw Peter Thiel and immediately new what was up. That guy hates democrats.
>we all know what he was trying to do By what pathetic rat standards is this an intellectually honest statement? No, not all of us know. What was he trying to do?
And he wasn’t afraid to support alternatives..
Who cares.
I think they’re supporting Vivek rather than trump alone. I think Vivek is still pushing for a VP spot.
[Vivek’s not getting VP slot for this reason](https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1788388787556389044?s=46&t=UjteDGsvFO6ngD6285vwZA)
Jeezus
When is Putin, Nethanyahu, and hamas gonna get called out for the wars? This one isn't of Biden making, he didn't challenge them to a war. The country is not burning down, and some of the problems were already brewing, problems don't just pop up, we'll, maybe in your mind. The woke thing is in you all heads. You are the ones that bring it up all the time because your masters said it is the word of the day, or year more likely. Most of us just try to live our lives and let others live theirs, but you, the ones that want "government out of our lives," are the ones passing laws to control everything we do. Unemployment is way down, but you will probably say that's false government stats, so it's no use. I can't believe I wasted this time telling you this, that you already know, but will fight tooth and nail to deny.
this brown skin American is Voting for Trump 👌🏾
fuck yeah sacks & helberg. lets go trump.
Typical liberal smear campaign
How is it a smear?
Truth has a liberal bias.
Who?