Ordinarily the opinions of one tech billionaire would, perhaps, not matter much to the life of an ordinary American. However, in this era of 2024 election and the Technocracy influence, maybe this interview discussion carries a different set of values.
Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, an AI enhanced data processing system that streamlines the organization of technological surveillance methods, gives his views on a variety of current political aspects.
I find the interview as little interesting from a few perspectives. First, while generally supporting President Trump, Peter Thiel says he is choosing to stay out of the political influence game in the 2024 general election. Considering the scale of Thiels prior advocacy and specific action he undertook to put JD Vance into office and then into the VP nominee position for Trump – this decision to now ‘step back’ from 2024 seems a big disingenuous.
Second, and directly related to the first point, Thiel -through Palantir contracts- is now directly enmeshed in the Intelligence Community effort to capture and organize surveillance metadata of Americans. Perhaps, just perhaps, this new financial dependency plays a role in influencing his ‘step back’ decision. WATCH:
Other points worth noting relate to how Thiel outlines his perspectives on geopolitical events. When you look at Thiel’s communication abilities and perspectives it really shows you how shallow, small and generally naïve these top-tier influence agents can be.
You can see how there is a big difference between “theory” and practical reality or “practice.” Thiel waxes philosophically about how the human nature of leadership intersects with outcomes. Meanwhile, President Trump represents the practical application of geopolitical policy. Thiel’s thoughts are narrow and small. Trump’s thoughts are consequential, deep and can bring actionable results.
The contrast between Thiel and his co-panels’ theories, when overlaid against President Trump and his factual application of geopolitical leverage, pressure points, focused policy… and applied truthful/direct and brutally honest relationship presentation to world leaders -what Thiel calls “human agency”, really provides substance to the unique scale of Trump.
The “Thiel’s” of the world are talkers; Donald J Trump is a doer. Boy howdy does this discussion of smaller men showcase that dynamic.
Perhaps you can tell from my description that I really do not have any time/tolerance for the small-minded Technocrats that have assembled a power dynamic far beyond their ability.
The Chairman Xi and Vladimir Putin’s of the world look upon this crew of billionaire technocrats like western children allowed to play with very dangerous weapons. I find myself totally understanding why Xi/Putin hold this perspective view.
We are in a dangerous time in history. Technology has allowed a very specific segment of technically smart men and women to assemble power; essentially the technocracy class. However, these people do not have a solid grasp on the axiom that with great power comes great responsibility. They talk like children without care for even the elocution of their discussion points.
Leadership, true leadership, comes from a perspective of structural stability of the mind. Strong leadership has always been a lonely place for those who carry it.
Geopolitical power in an era of technocracy and the interconnectedness of social media platforms and global communication systems requires great internal discipline and mental stability.
President Trump carries the mental strength of powerful leadership combined with relatability that conveys his message to everyone. In many ways his uniqueness is within Trump’s ability to be a bridge between two eras. It is quite remarkable.
CHAPTERS:
(0:00) The panel introduces Peter Thiel
(1:03) Why he’s not financially participating in the 2024 election
(6:53) US relationship with China, is defending Taiwan worth risking WW3?
(16:38) State of AI: Similar to the internet in 1999
(24:03) Innovation stagnation in the US
(29:42) Thoughts on the current state of the US economy
(32:50) The higher education bubble
(39:09) Who will win AI, Nvidia’s monopoly position going forward
“Technocrats that have assembled a power dynamic far beyond their ability.”
I know a man who gave a newly licensed teenager a pickup to drive. The truck was well maintained and held sentimental value to the family.
Within two weeks the teenager attempted to pass cars on a windy road across a double yellow line.
She rolled the truck, totaled, no injuries. She had the ability to drive, but lacked the wisdom.
Now listen,
Most women turn into good drivers.
So, if you’re a good driver, watch out for turning women.
I wouldn’t be able to drive for sh!t if Pops didn’t give us a 5hp Go kart at 8, if he didn’t let me drive the 68′ Ford pickup in the back field when I could reach the pedals, or if I didn’t get my daytime license at 14 to move irrigation pipe across SE Idaho potato and grain fields in the early 1990s. Crawl, walk, run
“power dynamic far beyond their ability’……..anyone who knows how to ‘pull the plug’ has AI technology by the short hairs. sorry, sorry kinda crude.
AI will take over the human race, boo…….again pulling the plug stops AI in it’s tracks. The human brain, although it can be brainwashed, exists miraculously with it’s own electrical supply. Ad blockers block AI don’t they?? Humans can and will filter AI or pull the plug. Kinda like controlling nuclear bombs, oops AI taking over the red button??
Electronic voting reverting back to paper ballots and hand counts eliminates AI; right?? So, they won’t teach children how to ‘write/sign’ their signature and We haven’t intervened because the kids are being taught AI will be better for them……….
AI is a ‘manmade’ construct; the human brain is God given.
Driving a car takes ‘learning’ kids are being taught AI is the future.
Amen! If not for God Almighty we would not be!! Period. He gives us free will to make choices. He reigns supremely. To God be the Glory!
Life gives one the test first…
And the lesson after.
The same happened to my then “wisdom-less” son long ago on his twenty first birthday. Miraculously no injuries.
Thankful that young lady lives to attend more “classes”.
Reminds me too much of my own “education” growing up, trying to learn now to be a man. I was either incredibly lucky or “somebody” was watching over me.
Not luck, dear sir…
I’ve always thought the same 🙂
And you’d be right. Strengthens your faith, doesn’t it…
Some day never comes
Someday Never Comes | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Lyrics ☾https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/2600.svg (youtube.com)
And we’re always one day away from tomorrow…
Upon relocating due to a job transfer, I had the opportunity to trade my 1976 Datsun 240Z in mint condition for a slightly used, by the former Sale manager’s EX wife, for 1 1978 Datsun 280Z for just a little more than what they traded me for (seems the EX was caught w/someone other than her husband, and it was a revenge type trade off). I only lived 2 blocks from dealership, and had my service work done there. I became friends w/the sales manager, and tried to keep updated as to the whereabouts of my 240Z. It was sold less than a week after I traded, by a grandfather wanting to buy a vehicle for his grandson for HS graduation. The sales manager and I both warned him to make sure that his grandson did NOT STOMP on the accelerator upon releasing the clutch, but, being a spoiled brat(as we found out) he was trying to impress everyone at his HS and began doing donuts in the school parking lot and wrapped the vehicle around a solid steel light post. Unibody +speed+light pole =A BIG (U SHAPE) broken frame (both sides) pile of scrap Japanese metal. I cried. His grandfather was called, he went to the school and in front of all his friends he beat the living crap out of him w/the police there watching and doing nothing. He got what he deserved, no unbelievable sports car and nightmare causing beating due to his stupidity. Some of life lessons are easy, but those remembered forever are usually harsh.
Great piece, thank you.
Technocrats are skilled organizers, some are even good managers. But they cannot lead because they are not trustworthy.
Read, if you will, 1000 books on leadership, study motivational techniques, learn to give inspiring speeches. Yet, the eternal, unalterable fact remains:
Weasels can’t lead.
Technocrats would be working at Office Max if they weren’t handed new discoveries then put into business and propped up by Uncle Sugar…
How true.
Weasels will never be wolverines.
They can only lead other weasels – and typically lead them right into the weasel chipper.
Not to mention the idea that so many CxOs (techno- and other -crats) are at least a teensy bit psychopathic. Not all, but a great many of the most successful ones. Either that or they’re just too busy to listen to their own utterly human instincts and thus ignore that level of need, in themselves but especially in the people around them.
I’ve been a leader, learned motivation, communication and more from experts. But the one thing those experts can’t teach is how to actually care about anything or anybody beyond oneself. Maybe why one should care, but never how to.
I’m of the opinion that those who gravitate towards a career in computing, programming , etc. aren’t psychotic but many are on the high end of the Autism spectrum- Asperger syndrome. Reading other people’s minds is not their strong suit.
He has the capacity to help but won’t.
Then, he’s irrelevant.
He can fornicate himself.
Keeper! Gracias
Brilliant outline. Thank you.
Brzezinski was describing something he fully supported.
Total scumbag.
If you saw a Trijicon RMR here you need a vacation somewhere in the high mountains with water and trout.
Yes, I’m working on it.
So’s his Mornin’ Joe daughter.
The Morning Joe Hoe
The ‘technocrats’ of and for the “Travellers.”
This video that right to reply posted yesterday is tied to the upgrade of the power grid to accommodate this new technology and for the illegal mass invasion of non-western peoples to increase America’s population which according to the Environmental Science is the worst thing you could do to the environment.
It’s quite a good video and of course my heart goes out to our farmers who supply us with food. Worth everyone’s time to watch. And of course ty for the hint.
MARYLAND FARMS ARE IN BIG TROUBLE “This will destroy everything!”
EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS VIDEO.
Extremely important information.
“I’m from the Gov’t, and I’m here to help you…”
https://www.sapling.com/8696537/method-obtain-allodial-title-property
‘An allodial title gives you absolute right to land, without any obligation to any landlord, sovereign or government. If you have allodial title to land, it cannot be seized; no government, agency or bank can place any lien, attachment or encumbrance on land secured by allodial title. You must follow a specific method for obtaining allodial title to your property. Getting allodial title is sometimes called getting a land patent.”
Land owners must / should get Allodial titles to land. Not have fee simple.
The only states that allow for that, to my knowledge, are Nevada and Texas.
Even then, it is only for the life of the person buying allodial title. In other words, no hereditary pass down.
But even if you do, you get no government services, water lines, gas lines, electricity lines, paving unless you pay out of pocket.
No one owns their ‘property.’ When you are issued a title in fee simple, you are buying ‘a bundle of rights’ to the property. Try no paying property taxes and find out what happens.
Further evidence is in the archaic language used regarding property. If you build a home, add on the structures, etc, it is called an ‘improvement.’
What that means is that you ‘improved’ the ‘sovereign’ property in value of which you now have to pay more ‘ad valorem’ (added value) taxes to continue to retain the right to live and use the property.
This is where We all eff up. If everyone just built the most basic, smallest structure to live in, the values that the government charges in ad valorem tax revenue would collapse and bring the local governments to bear servitude to the People.
Thank you for that information.
But don’t most of the local areas authorities have a set of restrictions on what you can build on your property? Here in Australia, you have to submit a plan to a local council even for a ground level decking. Without approval you are not allowed to build it.
When we were building a house in a new estate we had a whole set of standards we had to follow. Some of them come from the State government, some from the local council, and some from the developer. For example, the house needs to be 5m from the walkway, minimum 15 m wide, roof colour can’t be red, and so on and so forth for quite a few pages.
Even if you wanted to deny them their ‘ad valorem’ you couldn’t.
So very sad! But confirms that the Feds/IC/deep state need these data centers when more than 100 million American citizens are supporters of President Trump and are deemed to be Domestic Extremists! I pray President Trump gets elected and puts an end to the destruction of farmers and their farm land! Transmission lines don’t produce food but are a source in assisting tyranny by unelected bureaucrats!!!
Right on target as usual my friend. I have family from that state and perhaps some of those farmers are long last cousins of mine that left PA and headed there
Just a thought the breadbasket of Africa was Rhodesia and it was targeted for a marxist/China takeover and is now a total failed DEI-CRT cesspool and South Africa’s farms and Western Christian peoples targeted for destruction as well, could we connect this to the worldwide war against farmers/food production?
The WEF keeps taking farms your stomach will go out to farmers rather than your heart.
All communists just love to starve their “useless eaters” and the globalists are pushing communism.
thank you Colkitto
i grew up in Maryland. this is outrageous the destruction of our farmland for nefarious purposes.
😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
“elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under surveillance and control”
Pulling the plug is the answer.
Are the attendees of Trump’s rallies AI dependent?? Common sense seems to be the main factor between AI constructed politics and ‘thought’ process run politics.
Reading, writing, and arithmetic instead of AI teaching; the first step is always the children, the future. AI great for fun and games, but not for learning.
tracking device gulch, anytown USA.
Galt’s Gulch had an electronic screen preventing it from being detected from above.
Ayn Rand was nothing if not prophetic.
I admit I did not read the book, but I really enjoyed the 3 part movie very much. Great mention Steph
“Atlas Shruged” One of my favorite Novels!
“Les Miserables”… A Lesson in life that keeps repeating itself
Ayn Rand was much more than that. A brilliant writer of Truths, prompting Realization.
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We are in a dangerous time in history. Technology has allowed a very specific segment of technically smart men and women to assemble power; essentially the technocracy class. However, these people do not have a solid grasp on the axiom that with great power comes great responsibility. They talk like children without care for even the elocution of their discussion points.
Unfortunately, yes. These are not wise men. Their educations, intellects, and interests are narrow and limited. Their ideas otherwise are superficial and puerile where not completely apathetic. They are the current high scorers playing an equivalent of a global reality computer game.
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They seem to all be engineers, not a humanist in the bunch.
my thoughts as well; they appear to have no heart, no empathy for the common human who just wants to be left alone to live their lives as best they can.
No wait….How about Bill Gates?…..Just kidding
Lots of Engineers have ‘heart’. Some relatives come to mind (and heart). lol
A little more context to Palantir and Thiel:
The IC was amongst the earliest clients of Palantir;
CIA front In-Q-Tel was amongst the earliest investors in Palantir;
In-Q-Tel provided the bulk of the computer scientists and technicians at the beginning;
Palanitr continues to provide serviced to a variety of government agencies, particularly IC related agencies;
Palantir has and continues to provide services for government promoted ‘health’ initiatives;
Palantir has and continues to work with DARPA on a variety of projects.
Palantir / Thiel = IC assets
Thiel recruited, supported and promoted JD Vance.
Getting the 🖼???
Yes, Thiel is part of the Deep State hedge against a Trump win. The Vance robot is his property.
I am hoping Vance & his puppetmasters is to get PDJT & MAGA over the finish line and than cut them off, or the slim chance that they are genuine, which I doubt. I’m kinda hoping for a “That Hideous Strength” type ending to these demons. Or a fires of Mt Doom.
Another linkage to Tolkien. I wonder more and more how much Lewis & Tolkien really knew about the Globalist Fabians.
As much as Orwell and Huxley.
What do all 4 have in common? Oxford.
Oxford for the thinkers.
London School of Economics for the doers (politicians, banking and finance, business leaders).
Kinda like Harvard versus the Wharton School?
(And with Harvard, I would lump all the rest of the University of Pennsylvania against its own business branch.)
Also kinda like Fox (engaged in election fraud) versus Fox Business, from whence came the Great Lou Dobbs, one of PDJT’s best supporters (still miss Dobbs every day!).
Orwell of course being the nom de plume ( or should I say nom de guerre?! ) of Eric Blair.
I think his alma mater was Eton? But Huxley yeah. I am reminded of all the time he spent visiting and his famous ’62 speech at Berkeley ( I just read his kid went there too ) and while Huxley wrote some very prescient and dystopic stuff that I read as a kid, I am reminded of Berkeley and how there must be something in the water!
For that helps explain to me how BOTH of my brothers that graduated from there are terminally infected with the “mind virus” of…
Well, you know. Commiefornia.
Correct on Eton. See later connections.
I’m just fascinated still at how the Brits infiltrated academia here and exported the Fabian School, Tavistock, and more social manipulation – and I could go on!
Heck even the Beatles were a part of “it”. But at least they had a good beat and you can dance to it. I give it an 89/100 🙂
Keep reading.
You’re on the yellow brick road.
I like that one BK
Elton John comes to mind. Lyrics to song and picture is about child trafficking. https://www.bing.com/th?id=ODL.94f73f446b2fe05a9d970de565ec5586&w=200&h=200&c=12&rs=1&qlt=99&pcl=faf9f7&o=6&cb=13&dpr=1.3&pid=13.1
At the heart of most secret societies is the goal of keeping the U.S. under the thumb of England.
Huxley’s father was the first President of UNESCO. The Huxley family was part of the NWO.
Changed, now?
Everything.
I should have scrolled, bro. Spot on.
So let me get this straight.
Thiel is an early investor in ****book, and Palantir and a moving force behind the public/private partnership that ushers in the next phase of the surveillance state ( oh, Palantir helped find the CIA’s Bin Laden body double? ( fake story! Swell! ) and he now brings us JD Vance? and now pretends not to be involved in the ’24 selection?
I have to say, I love that he support(ed) POTUS and early on, but…
Sorry, but I smell a Techno(c)Rat.
IC Techno(c)Rat at that.
Funny how FB was fielded after the demise (?) of the previous module of DoD’s Total Information Awareness project. There was serious pushback over fielding the thing from some brave military and some Army civilians who recognized it for what it was (domestic mass surveillance where the target supplies most of the work). Then the OPOrders got rescinded, they said “forget about it” and it, ostensibly, disappeared.
Thus, Facebook.
I just remember the advent and release to the “masses” all that stuff. e.g. twatter/f’book etc and telling my familiy members not to “put me on that thing”!
I used twatter as an early adopter in ’09? or so and remember posting dumb ***t like “gee, where to have lunch? Malibu or Laguna??”. I finally had to erase myself just before the major purges when I saw the people behind the scenes pulling the levers and shadow-banning and real time manipulations from the platform. I was a host/speaker of a very “pro P-DJT” YT channel back in ’16/17/18″ and as such became a target for all manner of weird stuff.
As to “f-book, I back then ( late 90’s? when all was “new” ) had the presence of mind, not to even sign up or even view the garbage there. I have always had an innate distrust for playing in others sandboxes. This the CTH is my only current exception. It is my final rant and wholly opinionated blabber spot!
( apologies and OT rant off/ )
JD’s connection to Thiel is what sundance’s Suspicious Cat smells every day.
I have been keeping it firmly in mind in all observations of JD.
^^^^^^^^
And with good reasons.
Yeah, I don’t know *enough* about Vance to have formed an actual opinion about him. Once I learned of how Thiel *sponsored* Vance? All bets were off.
I just have a now innate distrust for those that seemingly come out of nowhere to become ( near? ) top of the ticket contenders.
Like Obama! – First time ever he was a top. ( apologies! ack )
Obama had 2 other Democrats in the Illinois primary. They were both thrown off the ballot. Leaving Obama with no challengers.
Obama was the head of the Senate organization that was supervising the biolabs in Ukraine.
Thiel spent $10 million to get Vance elected to the Senate. Whitney Webb says that Thiel also financed the investment company that Vance ran/runs. Thiel owns Vance and likely played a big part in getting Trump to choose Vance as VP.
Thiel was also a co-founder of PayPal, which they intended to replace the dollar. Whitney Webb is a great source for learning about Thiel (and Epstein too). His
Yeah, the video opened with Zuck’s homage to him. Says it all.
Another timely one, Patience… Thanks, and ‘keep ’em comin’.
And Facebook was a DARPA (IC) creation known as ‘Lifelog.’
That says even more.
My IT pal told me it was IC right from the start and I never touched it.
It’s like the day after “Revenge of the Nerds” where the nerds have seized power and now have no idea or moral compass on how to use it. Just like any sports star, movie star, celebrity, when they spout off about an issue they’re usually grossly misinformed about it and are only mouthing slogans and platitudes that they’ve heard without any real study of the issue. I think only Bono of U2 has ever tried to dig into an issue and then try to come up with realistic solutions.
“Thiel’s thoughts are narrow and small.”
Like tiny crackers in a bowl of ‘word soup.’
Goes with the ‘word salad’ offered by Kamala.
“Trump’s thoughts are consequential, deep and can bring actionable results.”
Unlike soup and salad. Trump offers the
main menu. The meat and potato’s of the thing.
Well, listening to these seemingly spoiled and full of themselves “influencers” is difficult. They are boring, their narrowness and sense of purpose is entirely over the top…but also dangerous (look at the world and our lack of individualism and security). These men/women see themselves as powerful gods who all bump into each other like a bunch of young armadillos in the early morning darkness, rooting up the ground they prowl over looking, and not caring about true order.
I think the media, entertainment communities are much the same, not as solvent, but nevertheless powerful.
I understand what is being presented. I think it is true. The most important part of the message to me, it the stark difference between a man who truly is a leader and frankly, a willing vessel for God who simply wants to fix the broken pieces of our country.
Donald J Trump is a doer. Boy howdy does this discussion of smaller men showcase that dynamic.
I have decided that most people who expose themselves as influencers in all mediums are much like Thiel-all talk, not action. Most citizens are all talk and not doers. Enough of the DISLOYAL “conservatives” who simultaneously OVER-and UNDERestimate their own importance.
God keeps shaking out the little gods of destruction, deception, and death…but few are paying attention.
Thank you, Sundance. Not easy to herd a bunch of cats. Blessings.
“Peter Thiel says he is choosing to stay out of the political influence game in the 2024 general election.”
… because his flying minion monkeys, J.D. Vance, Vivek Ramaswam(p)y, and Charlie Kirk are doing it for him and are all up in Trump’s derriere thanks to his impressionable and egotistical buffoon of a son Donald Trump Jr who is engaged to Kimberly Guilfoyle the former maven of California and Mrs. Gavin Newsome. Incidentally, Vivek is also funded by Paul and Daisy Soros (George’s brother). Just google “vivek” and “soros”. They don’t even try to HIDE who they are, but that’s how evil works.
Just think of how this will pan out when in 2028 once old dad is out of the way and they roll out the Greek tragedy comedy of Don Trump Jr verses Gavin Newsome and the spin is turned onto the tug-of-war on the “Real Housewives of DC” wannabe Kimberly Guilfoyle. Why… (clutching pearls!)… it won’t be just about the state of our country and its peoples lordship (cough cough — I mean “leadership by representative“)… it will be the hidden story of the dark haired damsel pulled between two dynasties and to the victor goes the spoils… yep… like spoiled garbage. It’ll be the next big “captivation” to distract the American people. Don Jr. would do well to drop the ho, drop his RINOcrat frat brothers like hot potatoes, and fall in line behind his dad and Eric to actually try to save this country and not GRIFT off of it.
This is the internal workings of the RINOcrat Establishment and I believe it was they who were behind the assassination attempt of President Donald Trump in an effort to launch and put forth their Project 2025 initiative. Why else would they slap every legitimate person’s name on it and then make a statement that those listed “may or may not necessarily agree with the contents of the Project 2025 plan” and slap Trump’s name on it unbeknownst to Trump. It was because Trump wasn’t supposed to be here…. and they are hoodwinking the conservative voters that they are the good stewards of Trump’s policies. This is the workings of Charlie Kirk Turning Point and the Heritage Foundation, who incidentally bestowed the title of “Distinguished Fellow” to Mike Pence in 2021.
Well, it took A LOT of “well-meaning” CONservatives to be complacent and complicit to get us in this mess, didn’t it? They’re playing us, friends. PLAYING US.
We need a deep dive thorough cleaning and our real community leaders, the folks who are Constitutional purists and who sign paychecks for a living and support small business and families to STEP UP and RUN FOR OFFICE. We need a FLOOD of candidates to wash these demons out of our political and legislative system locally and federally.
This is our mess we got into and it’s our mess to get out of. We need courageous men and women who can lead and stop this nonsense.
Can we imagine how much our honorable President Donald J Trump could accomplish without being hamstrung from within and tripped up every step of the way by the Uniparty RINOcrat and demonRAT establishment? It sickens me. How do we clean house? We need to forcibly lock up the buildings of rule, take away their little pens and laptops and cell phones… seize their ill-earned wealth… and excommunicate them from our country! They are traitors.
Well said.
“Where are our men of courage?”
With all my heart, mind, body, prayerfulness and soul… I WILL. I WILL. I WILL.
And here is the key to the operation, to install the CFR member former CIA Director Bush Sr to begin the deconstruction of American Manufacturing and outsource it to China/Asia aka “New World Order” “Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis became the Democratic nominee and lost the 1988 presidential election to George H.W. Bush.” Hart had a chance against IC RINO Bush, Dukakis not at all.
The True Story Behind The Front Runner: How Gary Hart’s Scandal Changed Politics
https://time.com/5444465/gary-hart-donna-rice/
What an ahistorical and stupid article by Time Rag. Hart ran against Mondale in 1984, not Dukasis in 1988. He was knocked out by Monkey Business and finished by “Where’s the Beef?” Still the final vote was close.
Shocked that Time could be so wrong.
Time is correct. Hart ran against Mondale in the 1984 primaries and was very competitive but eventually lost to Mondale’s better-funded campaign late in the ’88 primary season, but not because of any scandal.
Hart chose to NOT run for reelection for his Senate seat in ’86, but started in early ’87 to run for Prez in the 1988 election**.
**https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/books/2014/09/gail-sheehy-daring-my-passages-gary-hart
His scandal caused him to drop his campaign in MAY of 1987. He re-entered again in December of ’87*** but was unable to garner much support in the early ’88 primaries so he dropped out permanently.
***https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/12/16/hart-reenters-1988-race-stunning-political-world/001e9ac8-f7ea-4f97-966e-6204758342dc/
Don’t know where you read what you wrote but the facts are at odds with that story.
Yep.
Hmm.
I can see where those few could very well be plotting against PDJT and at least knowledgeable if not involved in J13.
But your theory hits quite a snag when it implies PDJT’s own son was knowledgeable or part of it. (I would not rule out that Guilfoyle could have been).
This theory seems straight out of the Omen flicks. Who plays the dog?
Steph
I don’t think Woo was implying that Don Jr was knowledgeable or a ‘knowing’ part of it, but that she is gullible.
I have had suspicions about Don Jr not being that bright and perhaps a bit jealous of both Eric and Barron for a long time.
The relationship with Guilfoyle has bothered me since day one of that. She could very well be a honeypot.
Think about her prior relationship with Newsome. Has her politics really changed that much?
And her father and his early support. Are you aware that he was linked to organized crime? Possibly even a supporter or terrorism in Ireland?
Don Jr is not the brightest light bulb in the candelabra.
I too am suspicious of her, big time.
And not sure Don Jr is actually dumb. I have several extremely intelligent men in my own family who were at least center-right/libertarian until they married lefty women. Now completely brainwashed.
As always, I maintain that’s not the brain that is bamboozled – it’s the heart, and probably something further south.
Oh and agree that Eric is the real thing. Solid and sensible.
I meant Jr (he not she).
I don’t know about others, but I have noticed a lot of spell and word changes of late of what is on my screen before I hit ‘send’ and what shows up after it populates, almost simultaneously sometimes.
As if my transmission is intercepted and altered by AI before populating.
A lot the last few weeks.
I have had some goofier than usual typos myself!🤔
One of the most astute essays I’ve read in quite some time, not to mention end-to-end… from Greek tragedy to post-Trump (and demons, carrying it right up to Revelation).
LOVE the way you wrapped it up, although the object of your ire sickens me to the same degree.
Man, that’s a bingo…! I remember my days back in high tech. HQ’ed in San Jose. Mid ”70’s. Company, VERY successful semiconductor Company, run by hardware engineers, sales and marketing folks. During our frequent meetings ….on the Coast… everybody gelled – great team. However, there was a bunch of people, lurking , who never joined in. They were strange; never fit in….Just who were these people?
Software engineers….. Now tell me who runs the technology sector?
…’I calls them as I sees them…. ‘
Recommend looking into the fraud Vivek committed with an Alzheimer’s drug. Link to an article.
https://www.newsweek.com/vivek-ramaswamy-fraud-always-has-been-opinion-1823853
Listening to tech billionaires reminds me of the wise line from Firesign Theater. “We are all Bozos on this bus”.
There are many things that technology cannot do.
The lived human experience of the average working person with all of its ups and downs combined with FAITH in GOD and the moral discipline that goes with that…creates a LEADER.
The tech group have no idea how to dig a ditch or unstop a toilet…these are character building experiences.
After Thiel helped get JD Vance on the Trump ticket, he’s backing off political influence.
His influence will continue — behind the scenes — with Vance.
Thiel is not a Trumper. He won’t endorse, instead feigns neutrality.
His goal was to position Vance on a winning ticket. That’s where and why, I have concerns about Vance.
Also, is Thiel looking at Vance running in ’28, when he will become a political influencer ?
He may be playing the long game.
Where is suspicious cat.
Theil gives me the creeps. He has a strong interest in using the blood of the young to slow down aging. He has spoken in the past how he himself is receiving the blood of young, volunteer donors and had positive results.
It’s all just so – – vampiric!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3718758/Peter-Thiel-believes-blood-transfusions-young-key-living-forever.html
Sundance,
You’re obviously working hard. Providing us with these Sunday morning reads is much appreciated.
Thank you for everything you do.
We often proclaim that we really don’t know what we would do, collectively , without you.
-Prayers for your health, wellness and safety.
Thank you for the summary, Sundance.
I no longer listen to those “famous” people who believe their opinion is more important than mine. Not even the ones on the “right” can sway me at this point.
The more they talk the less I can hear what they are saying.
It is all about money.
We are not in the club.
Peter Thiel grew and shelters 5 billion $ in his Roth IRA account – see link below. Average amount in a Roth today is approximately 39k. Thiel’s legal but scummy tactic will one day bite him in the arse. In the future, he will agree to liquidate this loophole or donate much of the proceeds to charity and left wing causes to appease his critics, especially if he supports conservatives.
https://equifund.com/blog/peter-thiel-roth-ira/
Your synopsis of Thiel and his on-stage colleagues is spot on.
You can tell that nowhere on that stage is the providence of God given in their thoughts.
such a shame.
When thinking about Thiel, I always think of a quote by the palaeo anarchist John Zerzan:
“To what kinds of questions is the answer a number?”
I was trained in quant and qual, and came to the same conclusion many years ago. Learning to design/analyze quant and qual research at a prestigious grad department (six years), I concluded that there were no possible interesting or good or human answers that could come out of that approach. So I went over to trying to help people AS PEOPLE. Finding out what THEY wanted to build. Figuring out what stood in their way.
Zerzan also said, “Math is the most reduced and drained language.” I agree. It has been fetishized into an idol, a cult, and a way for clever people to bamboozle with BS then tell you you don’t get it because you’re not as smart as they are.
I am fond of the “electric universe” body of research, and how it challenges the certainties of the Age of Celebrity Cosmologists/Physicists/Mathematicians. Who, when their models of the universe don’t work, simply gin up coefficients to make them work (like “dark energy,” “dark matter,” “the big bang,” and “expansion of spacetime”)…and then argue from within their institutional sinecures against anyone who presents actual experimental/observational evidence that their models are wrong.
For such as these, “truth” is PR, and the turgid self promotion and rank-closing of academia.
There is a similar quant-fetish underpinning to what Thiel and the other quanty billionaires push. Their contraptions defecate garbage because garbage goes in the front.
I say that because of this:
It was Logos–the WORD–that made the universe. Not αριθμούς, Arithmos.
And until one understands that–John 1:1-5–one can only do the work of the Adversary.
China is Communistic; IMHO we should have no trade to boost or sustain their country. The USA has the wherewithal to grow, manufacture, distribute, and innovate all products for living……..
World Trade is a fallacy that leads to World Order. period.
Taiwan…….
Of course I went to that segment first
The ignorance is actually terrifying.😬
Kakistocracy….Government by the least qualified
or most unprincipled citizens.
Techno-crats seem to always seem to fall in
that category.
My best explanation-
Think of Taiwan as being Hawaii.
Hawaii is a State of U.S.
Taiwan is actually geographically closer to
China…than Hawaii is to US🥴
Taiwan is State (province) of China
Taiwan – United States Department of State
☝️ ☝️ ☝️ ☝️
Since 1979, the US Government has recognized
Taiwan as being State (province) of China.🤷♀️💁
US corporations decided to build chip factories in Taiwan
instead of here in our country.
China started changing attitude on
Foreign countries doing business –
placing restrictions on them.
The US chip corporations started getting nervous
about their investments and profits.
NED and USAID started ramping up their
operations.
US corrupt politicians have to protect
their investments and pacify their corporate
donors which have business in Taiwan.
US steps up their efforts to instigate Color
Revolution to get Taiwan to break away
from China. Steps up arms sales to Taiwan..
how would we handle it if China started arming
Hawaii ?
Our government steps up propaganda narrative
here in US. Only way to protect their
business investment 🤷♀️💁🤷♀️
That is just short summary.
We want to go to war with China over
Taiwan….and mess in their business…
Just to protect the businesses which
were not interested in investing here
in the US? Did not want to hire US workers?
Nope.
Can see where techno-crats would
want to intercede ….protect their interests.
Taiwan is a province of China? Do you understand the actual history of Taiwan?
“The ROC government relocated to Taiwan in 1949 while fighting a civil war with the Chinese Communist Party. Since then, the ROC has continued to exercise effective jurisdiction over the main island of Taiwan and a number of outlying islands, leaving Taiwan and China each under the rule of a different government. The authorities in Beijing have never exercised sovereignty over Taiwan or other islands administered by the ROC.”
https://taiwan.gov.tw/content_3.php
You are absolutely correct.
However, I think the point that Gypsy is making is that our (US Government) Dept of State officially recognized Tawain as a ‘province’ of China in 1979, thereby giving official legal and diplomatic status to what Communist China claims now.
That’s the problem, our government meddling in and mucking up other countries and destabilizing past understandings.
BK….
Thank you!
perzactly what I was trying to say!
Great essay, Sundance. Thank you.
Very good talk, his humor and down to earth thoughts are kinda stunning. I thought he’d be technocrat high horse brainy down talking to us.
His take on the Boomers is classic, but skewed; very few were hippies, most were married, working, raising families and enjoying the music.
The rest of his talk is actually worth hearing.
I actually like him.
I can’t listen until later, but I will say in my blueMA state, almost all the boomer musicians I play with are former hippies who nevertheless are married (to other former hippies) and have loving families.
Now when retired, however, their hippie nostalgia seriously taints their understanding of today’s world. I feel like the one-eyed in the land of the blind.
I sympathize.
It seems to me (almost becoming one of them, if not for the draft) that a large pecentage of hippies were smart enough to eventually see what was wrong with their juvenilities and self-correct. Some never quite made it all the way (like Jeff Bridges, as much as I’ve loved his movies) but a great many managed to entirely shed the lifestyle (for want of a better word).
And some of the most dangerous among us are those who failed to step away from the juvenility of believing they know better than everybody else. They never grew up.
OTOH, I think there are quite a few of those “old hippies” on these pages. Not complaining, because I are one, or was almost.
Couldn’t help but remember this great old song, noting it’s now 40 years old.
https://genius.com/The-bellamy-brothers-old-hippie-lyrics
Recommend checking out Dave McGowan’s work. He claims the 60s counterculture revolution wasn’t organic. It was orchestrated by the CIA. McGowan has passed away. But Jay Dyer talks about it on his YouTube channel. Timothy Leery, Gloria Steinem, and High Hefner were on the CIA payroll.
And considering the propositions set forth here (last week)…
https://mises.org/mises-wire/artificial-intelligence-next-easy-money-bust
Is Artificial Intelligence the Next Easy-Money Bust?
… …
Big Tech Easy Money
What we’re seeing is a significant repercussion of the long easy-money era, which, despite the formal Fed interest rate hikes, is still ongoing. The tech industry in particular has been a major beneficiary of the easy-money phenomenon. … entire industries, tech in particular, are built and designed around it. …
I’m seeing a lot of the same patterns in the AI boom as I saw years ago with the WeWork fiasco. Both are attempting to address mundane solutions. Neither of them scale well to the customer base. Both, despite being formally capital-driven, are highly subject to variable costs of operation that can’t be easily unwound. Both apply an extra layer of expense to do little more than the exact same thing as done before.
Despite this, companies like Google and Microsoft are willing to pour tremendous amounts of resources into the project. The main reason is because, to them, the resources are relatively trivial. The major tech firms—flushed with decades of cheap money—have enough cash on hand to outright buy the entire global AI industry. A $5 billion loss is a drop in the bucket for a company like Microsoft. The fear of missing out is greater than the cost of a few dollars in the war chest.
And of course gubmint “easy money” is the easiest of all. So…
Possibly the crystal ball becomes even more crystal-clear.
A match made in “heaven”?
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Someone please explain to me why so many of these guys have bought themselves citizenships and estates in New Zealand.
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Great quiz question. New Zealand was most draconian during lockdown of its citizens
Because, if SHTF and nukes are deployed, NZ is the safest place in the world to weather the fallout etc.
Thiel’s views are narrow and small because his world is narrow and small. And that is the paradigm from which he operates.
He, and others like him in their segregated environments, are incapable of seeing the world any other way…incapable of considering that there are others with very different views. Others that he and his ilk refuse to acknowledge at all. He has never gotten his hands dirty nor had to exit from the bubble he lives in.
Donald Trump on the other hand?
Thiel is a walking/talking example of hubris which has been the fatal undoing of many who have come before him…
Smart he may be.
Wise he is not.
Good article here !!!! Leadership CAN be lonely, perhaps, but a real leader will not care. Right?
His definitive last statement is great; extreme pessimism OR extreme optimism……lead to laziness.
I keep going back and trying to understand the need to snoop on us all. My wife and I raised 3 independent, moral, prosperous kids. They married likewise. We now have a passel of grandkids. The government is like the parents, we all know them, that meddle in their kids lives, still pay their phone bills, slide them money, raise their kids so both can work etc, feel free to add on. It’s an unhealthy relationship for all…. The government does not believe anyone can function without government “help”. Since a large percentage of Citizens get federal funds to function in life the federal government ran out of people to “help” that’s why we have mass illegals. A whole new group to “help”. Just my Sunday thought.
The need is Control, e.g. Power. And there are WAY too many psychos and socios out there wanting Control – about a thousand times more of them than ever, simply because (1) we’re coming up on 8 billion in population, and (2) it’s far easier now to reach out and take than it has ever been.
And because it’s more possible than ever, more and more Control freaks are reaching out and doing it.
Fruit of 1913. Repeal 16th and 17th insults to our Constitution and get rid of the inbred financial control that feeds the cancer.
I do not need to watch any of that program.
“Military industrialists” identified “war” as a source of lucrative military contracts. And, in doing so, they utterly forgot what “real war” actually is. (Which is why we now regularly see their “[X]-million-dollar babies” regularly being set on fire on the fields of actual battle. And, why we have not decisively won a single battle since 1945.)
People like Thiel are the next breed: “Military Voyeurs.” Literally, because they now find themselves capable of gathering “petabytes” of the tiniest bits of information – thanks to the “surveillance devices” they have now managed to embed into every home and car and shirt-pocket – they are probably most interested in selling “mass-storage devices.” To the remaining “military industrial complex” that has now been reduced to “Rumpelstiltskin money.”
They will now tell you how incredibly important it is to know that “Person 134,604,201,309” moved from “coordinate [X]” to “coordinate [Y],” within the supposed “privacy” of their own home, at “time [Z].” This “3-tuple” of data is incredibly important, which is why the Federal Government should [borrow from itself] [incredibly-large currency amount] to “pay for it” and then “give it to me.”
I will cheerfully also sell you warehouse space, where “Top Men” – (Indiana Jones …) – will surely one day find those very-lucrative “storage devices.”
Folks, I’ll say it again: “I-K-E™ … W-A-S … R-I-G-H-T!”
Long before Eisenhower, Wisconsin Progressive (Republican) Sen. Bob La Follette was fighting with his bare hands to keep the US out of WWI (at that time called the European War).
In 1917 he wrote a pamphlet discussing his fervent opposition to the Armed Ship Bill, “The Armed Ship Bill Meant War.” In section X of the pamphlet he wrote:
“The United Press, from the casualty lists of the belligerent nations, estimates that more than 21,000,000 men have been killed, wounded, or reported missing to date, affecting a hundred million non-combatants. And these brutal facts of death and mutilation only suggest the horrors of the intense conflict–women and children homeless, desecrated, starving.
“Already $70,000,000,000 of debt piled up! For unnumbered years to come, generations of helpless people must bow their bended backs under the tax burdens entailed by this war of destruction. For long years to come, all the resources that should go to the world’s betterment, mortgaged beyond redemption to pay for this awful holocaust!”
$70 billion in 1917 is about $1.7 trillion today.
Who profits?
Who pays?
“Science” just published this MIT study of AI controlling individual beliefs. It is academia at its best level of shallowness. This certainly fits Theil’s perspective. Anyone with minor commonsense sees right through this stuff.
“Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI”
13 Sep 2024
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq1814#body-ref-R4-1
Nvidia is intentionally named after “Invidia.” Aka, Envy. Aka, the All-Seeing Eye. Aka, a Deadly Sin.
It’s rocket rise in the markets is because it produces the technology essential to a worldwide surveillance network, social credit system. It sees all things, organizes into patterns. Its chips are necessary for AI. And fully integrated Brain-Computer interfaces. And the Virtual Reality games it produces the brains for are precursors to Transhumanism.
One of its founders, Curtis Priem established his “altruistic” nonprofit, EMPAC, explicitly focused on funding R&D on Brain-Computer interfaces, transhumanism.
This is why Nvidia became so big so fast. It’s an investment in the Deadly Sin of Envy, Luciferian surveillance and control.
…and it’s logo is curiously VERY similar to the logo for man-young boy sexual abuse. And Peter Thiel is? But that’s just a coincidence….
Interesting.
‘They’ always give themselves away with their symbology.
Nice catch on that.
Wow! Such a microcosm of the place in history we find ourselves. Leave it to Sundance to so clearly define something that historians take decades to formulate if it all.
Case in point, important papers of the deposed King of England who signed the Magna Carta are still locked up, not allowed to be seen.
Peter Thiel is another OBVIOUS IC RAT
just like Charlie Kirk, Vivek ,RFKjr ,Vance ,Gabbard and any other cling on.
all of them had a some divine intervention (oh I just woke up!) that made them
come to their senses to run towards Trump
people are so slow to catch on
grifters, every last one of them!
if put your trust in them,
you deserve to get burned!
David from the UK
Yes, they exemplify “the Peter principle”, and innordinately rise above their original level of ability to beyond their function ing capacity
How could Vivek, Vance, Tulsi and RFK2 be IC when they are very effectively campaigning and speaking out loudly against the IC sponsored war in Ukraine and nobody else is?
Makes no sense!
Long long ago, on the first evening of my pursuit of MS Business Manage Degree at UT-Dallas in Richardson, TX (UTD to the locals), the professor (who was a local businessman) provided the following guidance … that is still the mantra of Global Financial Puppet Masters today.
At the time UTD showed some real foresight in developing a 36-hour abbreviated MBA course that was actually heavily mathematics driven and quite popular vs the 60-hour traditional MBA.
RULE #1 for Business OWNERS = Maximize Profits
All actions and rules that follow, support RULE #1.
The Puppet Masters and their minions preside over a Global Business Corporation. “Business Owner” Peter Thiel falls somewhere between the Puppet Master and Minion Class in the hierarchy.
Thiel’s involvement with Rumble, while perhaps just as an investment (?), also gives me pause with regard to that platform. When those involved in government contracts, surveillance, etc., like Musk and Thiel, also advertise their support of free speech, I wonder why. Surely it is not a real stretch to advocate for free speech as an opportune way to keep an eye on those you wish to surveil….????
Seems to me that many of these technocrats are Artifically Intelligent … they spout buzzwords that give them the veneer of intelligence … but just like AI their intelligence is a mile wide and an inch deep …
No doubt the deep state threatened to deep 6 him and any richie richs supporting trump….LNL
Thiel is part of a deep state operation.
I don’t think he was threatened.
Constitutional Scholar and law professor Walter Berns was relatively unknown outside legal circles, and largely forgotten inside them today. But his work was very prescient and instructive.
He wrote Law and Behavioral Science in 1963, cautioning about applying “science” to governing men, the perils and pitfalls of it. And how “following the science” lacks the requisite wisdom needed to be a good leader. And would lead to a scientific tyranny of weak men wielding great power unwisely.
https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2953&context=lcp
The paper is 28 pages long. The first 14 are sort of a game theory exercise in applying “science” to jurisprudence. “If I rule this way on one issue then I’m more likely to advance my agenda on another issue….and ten more issues down the line I care about will also be advanced.” Calculated individual losses for bigger overall individual gains.
The final 14 pages get more into the theories I opened my comment with, legal philosophies of governance, what science lacks that only humanity possesses. Including wisdom. A requisite for good leaders. Weak people lacking wisdom but possessing great power inevitably become rulers, not leaders.
Keep in mind that the US HOME BASED Technocrat Companies deliver to INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS that include Russia and China Inc. They service International Customers by exploiting the US Government Export Regulation System (BUYING Their way through the System).
They payoff the US Government to legitimize the sale of their products across the globe tailored to MEET THE NEEDS of their customers. Recall that it was about 2010 when Bill Gates sold the Government of China Inc. the BETA Copy of the Microsoft based Social Credit System.
There is a premeditation and very clinical aspect to their business acumen.
They may be “children playing at creating technological wonders” …. yet these people are wide awake, cold blooded, Owner, businessmen and businesswomen when comes to the business end of their efforts..
So now my comments require approval ? … was fun while it lasted … So “approved” comments only on the TreeHouse ?
Peter Thiel was an Executive Producer of the 2005 movie, “Thank You for Smoking” along with Elon Musk. David Sacks was the producer. A “PayPal Mafia” production.
The movie was a dark comedy portrayal of how lobbying in DC really works. And from personal experience it’s not far off the mark…even understated.
Here’s the 1.5 hour movie free if you wish to watch it:
https://123moviesfree-ma.123caches.re/watch-movie/thank-you-for-smoking-2005-full-movie-online-free/123movies-69ak8jw-wpl6er7yx?watchnow=1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Levchin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia