Epstein & Thiel
E: Brexit, just the beginning
T: Of What?
E: Return to tribalism, counter to globalization, amazing new alliances, you & I both agreed zero interest rates were too high & as I said in your office, finding things on their way to collapse is much easier than finding a bargain
It wasn't America First after all
It was Brexit First
The Tech Journalist Banned from Twitter for Criticizing Fascism, Palantir, & the Broligarchy
Palantir published a 22-part manifesto outlining its authoritarian agenda. The masks are off. It's time to purge America of these broligarchs.
With @gilduran.com
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SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
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I want to run a survey experiment how public support for "Golden Dome" missile defense or NASA's Moon mission changes if with "to be built by SpaceX, a company run by Elon Musk". or test "...using software from Palantir, a firm that says {juicy quote here}"
New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Similarly, Palantir calls for national military service. This is a common and unfortunate affliction of middle-aged and older men, akin to an interest in the Roman Empire or World War II. Its simply not something you see many men in their 20s promote for obvious I-would-prefer-not-to-die reasons. Charitably, it reflects a sense of a desire for creating shared meaning among the young that the elderly perceive is lacking, or to coerce the elite into sharing the cost of military conflict. Uncharitably, it is the old telling the young how to live and risk their lives.
We all have personal views, but the manifesto completely merges Palantir and Karp's vision. Why should a tech company have a manifesto that includes rearming Germany or Japan, or calls for national military service?
Turning opinions into political manifestos demands allegiance or opposition.
It’s a good idea, but I wonder if he knows that Substack is part of the same “parallel media” operation as X & that Musk ally Marc Andreessen has funded both of them? To be fair, I don’t think most people know this (yet). 1/
What’s happening with American media, American education, and America’s approach to places like Greenland & Honduras harmonizes with the “network state” movement (backed by Thiel, Lonsdale, Andreessen, etc), which calls for the construction of “parallel institutions” and “parallel societies”. 1/
ICYMI
Bari Weiss launched The Free Press with funding from Peter Thiel allies Marc Andreessen and David Sacks. She’s the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. 1/
23/ “Inside the Free Press Inauguration Party
Ted Cruz and Jillian Michaels. *Peter Thiel*, Amy Chua, Douglas Murray, Kimbal Musk, and Coleman Hughes. Oh, and RFK Jr.’s kids. Pics from our first D.C. bash!” 1/20/25 (asteriks added) www.thefp.com/p/inside-the...
28/ “In their lengthy sit-down after the 2024 election, [Peter] Thiel referred to Democrats as ‘the evil party’ and spoke of the political left as a ‘progressive cult’ and ‘not very American,’ to no pushback from [Bari] Weiss.” 10/6/25 www.thewrap.com/bari-weiss-c...
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6/ Per UnHerd, Thiel claimed that the most significant loss in contemporary society is God & religion & proposed “Christian democracy” as a possible alternative to fascism and communism. (I wonder if the ideas pushed by Doug Wilson & Pete Hegseth,
meet Thiel’s definition of “Christian democracy.”)
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Here’s the ad promoting the new Peter Thiel backed startup, Objection, where AI will allegedly determine the veracity of journalists’ claims. It looks like they took the ad down, but I screen grabbed it when I could still access it from a QT by right wing Christian investor Nate Fischer. 1/
Astonishing levels of hypocrisy from the "free speech" social network. Half of the content on X is more incendiary than this!
Ironically, this will only bring more visibility to Gil's work.
Characterizing something as “fascism” is now grounds for suspension on X??? So much for their supposed love of “free speech”.
If you look up “Roger Scruton Foundation Memorial Lectures,” the first lecture posted on RSLF’s website is a 2023 lecture by Peter Thiel (JD Vance’s mentor and benefactor).
The mighty @gilduran.com, one of the great modern chroniclers of the broligarchy, was suspended from Twitter for the tweet below against Palantir!
He joins The Left Hook at 530 pm ET
@tparsi.bsky.social joins us at 6 pm ET to discuss the Iran War debacle.
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No paywalls.
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
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The speech is fantastic, and the silence after Wilson’s rebuttal is absolutely delicious. Well done, @wajali.bsky.social !
The “Save America Act” says that all states “shall” submit their voter registration lists to the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge program, which has error rates as high as 14% & relies on data from SSA whose databases were mishandled by DOGE. I include this & other parts of the Act in my 8-point summary. 1/
NatCon is the Thiel-backed conference that has helped propel both Christian Nationalism & JD Vance’s political ascension. Its Statement of Principles—signed by (among others) Peter Thiel—was co-authored by John O’Sullivan, founder of the Danube Institute in Hungary. 1/
Tucker Carlson: “I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people.”
Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Oh no!
