U.S. politicians love private equity underwriters (PEU). Red Team funder Peter Thiel founded Mithril Capital and Founders Fund, both PEUs.
Yahoo News reported:
Tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel are funding U.S. Senate candidates like J.D. Vance, who won the Ohio Republican primary this week and has talked darkly of Trump regaining power and defying the Supreme Court to remake the federal government.
But it’s not just Republican politicians, technocrats from Silicon Valley and opportunistic media personalities. The drift toward illiberal and antidemocratic impulses has also been embraced by a significant portion of the conservative religious community.
Two of his former PEU employees are running for the U.S. Senate. Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and increasingly more are one.
In addition to reducing U.S. democracy many wealthy billionaires like Peter Thiel have other countries as Plan B. Insider reported:
The number of wealthy Americans applying for citizenship or residency in foreign countries has skyrocketed over the past three years as US billionaires, tech entrepreneurs, and celebrities look to create a "plan B" for their families, multiple investment migration firms told Insider.
Peter Thiel chose New Zealand for his Plan B.
Policy making billionaires have controlled the national agenda for decades leaving the common person with essentially no impactful voice. To prevent the public from waking up to this disturbing fact both political teams are driving narratives that are increasingly desperate and frankly insane.
The Blue Team's Antifa was a horrible development as violence begets more violence. The Red Team's subservience to a pathological leader caused it to lose its ethical backbone. Conservative Christians have been manipulated in their support of a serial predator, sexual and otherwise. Rev. Billy Graham came to rue his foray into the political arena, calling it a mistake late in his life.
I am sure some form of Christian Nationalism was around when our country was founded. Our wealthy white landowning Founding Fathers purposefully chose freedom of religion. The Constitution's First Amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Peter Thiel's of the world believe their money can buy anything, even immortality. They are so powerful that their will is done, nearly exclusively. These earthly gods will eventually fall. They always do.
My prayer is that people realize and live Christ's words:
I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despite-fully use you, and persecute you.
Greed and Hate destroy people from within. Manifested in action Greed and Hate can eventually destroy the world. It is time to turn back from that trajectory, i.e. repent.
Update 5-9-22: Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote that bully billionaires need to be challenged alongside pathological politicians (liars, thieves and sexual predators). It's a big job turning around decades of billionaire ass kissing and fawning ironically begun by Reich's boss Bill Clinton. They've not been held to their crimes by a "Just Us" Department that takes financial settlements but requires no admission of guilt. Individuals have no chance of holding the privileged class to account for their indecent actions. Institutions with a backbone are required and they are remarkably absent.
Peter Thiel is sponsoring an anti-birth control Red Team U.S. Senate candidate who once worked for Thiel's PEU. They are free to have preferred taxation but women must not be allowed tools to control how and when they grow their family.
Update 5-10-22: Bloomberg reported:
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Peter Thiel, an ally of former President Donald Trump, are backing a startup investing firm that says it plans to go head to head against large money managers that promote stakeholder capitalism and “political agendas.”
Decades of PEU political influence cannot be undone with one new startup. Red Team PEU Peter Thiel is a walking political agenda with one value, greed.
Update 5-23-22: Robert Reich noticed ungodly Peter Thiel in his Guardian piece. He left out how his former boss Bill Clinton set the stage for the greed and leverage boys to explode in number and grow their gargantuan wealth. He left out how both political parties catered to PEU policy making billionaires and ignore public will.
Update 6-6-22: Theil's former PEU employee Blake Masters blamed gun violence on "black people, frankly." That may work in lily white Arizona where less than 5% of the population is black. Super wealthy crackers love their ghost guns and life extension supplements. Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and increasingly more are one.
Update 6-10-22: The rules don't apply to the ungodly PEU gods.
Update 6-14-22: Peter Thiel's Palantir protects the Bilderberg Group when it gathers annually. Palantir may soon be used by Britain's National Health Service. Remember:
As one Bloomberg headline put it: “Palantir knows everything about you.”
Update 7-18-22: Arizona's Red Senate primary is heating up and Thiel's $13 million in funding is a concern for one candidate.
Update 8-3-22: The Associated Press called the GOP Senate primary for Blake Masters, a 35-year-old “anti-progressive” venture capitalist who was propelled to the front of a crowded field by at least $15 million in super PAC funding from powerful Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, his longtime boss and mentor. Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and increasingly, more are one.
Update 8-18-22: A local council denied Thiel's application to build an 18 acre series of buildings in their New Zealand community. His sprawling lodge community will have to go somewhere else.
Update 9-2-22: PEU God Peter Thiel said "No" to Senator Mitch McConnell's plea for funding for Blake Master's Senate run in Arizona. Sometimes the PEU gods say "yes" and other times the answer is "no."
Update 9-6-22: The high tech billionaires who broke society's bonds are buying luxury bunkers and hiring military security to protect their earthly lives and material gains.
Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is about only one thing: escape from the rest of us.
Never before have our society’s most powerful players assumed that the primary impact of their own conquests would be to render the world itself unliveable for everyone else.
Update 9-17-22: "A new pro-Trump dating app backed by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel has not even launched yet, but it’s already facing lots of rejection." Heterosexual only.
Update 10-15-22: Peter Thiel is ready to tip the voting scales on behalf of Blake Masters who is already making claims of a stolen election. Thiel is confident his money has pushed J.D. Vance through the victory tape. If you liked how the greed and leverage boys destroyed your workplace you'll enjoy the PEU god's democracy disruption. Peter Thiel is so dedicated to U.S. democracy that he is pursuing his third passport, this one from Malta.
Update 11-25-22: Peter Thiel backed "freedom loving" bank GloriFi burned through $50 million in investment money, laid off most of its staff on Monday, and informed workers it was shutting down.
Update 3-9-23: Hollywood's new preferred villain is an:
...immediately recognizable type we've grown well acquainted with: a visionary (or so everyone says), a social media narcissist, a self-styled disrupter who talks a lot about “breaking stuff.”
So why do voters keep electing them?
Update 8-27-23: "Tech execs are buying $150,000 red light therapy beds and $70,000 hyperbaric chambers." How lovely.
They m--ay be behind large land purchases next to a California Air Force Base.
Update 8-28-23: Tech bros are behind the purchase of over 55,000 acres of farmland with the intent of building a new high tech city.
One local rancher told the San Francisco Chronicle that Flannery Associates' buying spree "was like a hostile takeover ... it was Shakespearian, a 'Game of Thrones' kind of thing."
Update 9-24-23: A Greek economist says capitalism has been replace by technofeudalism. I'll amend that to PEUdalism.
Update 10-8-23: How can the ungodly PEU gods destroy civil society? Un-civilally.
Update 10-21-23: Marc Cohodes wrote "Peter Thiel is and always has been Dirty."
Update 11-11-23: Billionaire Peter Thiel had this to say about his past support for Donald Trump:
“There are a lot of things I got wrong,” he acknowledged. “It was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought. They couldn’t get the most basic pieces of the government to work. So that was—I think that part was maybe worse than even my low expectations.”
And these are the people gods driving government policies...
Update 11-12-23: Andreessen and other AI sponsors are balking at paying for the use of copyrighted material. Isn't that the West's beef with China?
PEU gods take and take and take.
Update 2-4-24: Senator and former PEU JD Vance said the President (Donald Trump) would not have to follow Supreme Court decisions on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Everything is disruptable to these wankers.
Update 2-6-24: Former Red Team Rep. Liz Cheney called JD Vance "unfit to serve." Vance is there to pull levers for his PEU brethren and facilitate their excessive greed.
Update 8-3-24: As for the rules not applying to the Tech Gods consider two stories. First, free speech absolutist Elon Musk hamstrings that very thing through SpaceX nondisparagement clauses:
Non-disparagement clauses have become widespread in the tech industry, leading the labor board to rule last year that they aren’t legal in severance packages. In March, the board filed a complaint against SpaceX for using the agreements. In May, OpenAI apologized after reports found that some departing employees were threatened with the loss of their vested equity if they didn’t sign restrictive exit docs.
Second, Microsoft founder Bill Gates sampled the young female interns to the point the company prohibited female interns from being left alone with him.
women who were interviewed to work at Gates' private office, Gates Ventures, were asked explicit questions regarding their sexual histories and porn-watching habits. Men who were interviewed for similar positions couldn't recount any such lines of questioning when asked by reporters.
The PEU/TechGods are a class in and of themselves. And they plan to keep their beneficent status.
