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Peter Thiel acted as patron to pro-dictatorship blogger Curtis Yarvin
“He's, you know, been a patron to this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who is you know better known as a mold bug, but you know, this blogger who is whose big idea basically is, is a dictatorship.”
Thiel designed the stock structure that drove Zuckerberg and Saverin apart
“It was Teal who sort of set in motion this stock structure that creates the conflict between Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, which is the, you know, whatever the basis of the social network.”
Thiel invested $10M each in former employees JD Vance and Blake Masters
“Putting ten million dollars into this guy, Blake Masters, running for Senate in Arizona, ten million dollars into JD Vance Both of them either former or current, you know, Teal employees”
Peter Thiel attempted to make Balaji Srinivasan FDA commissioner under Trump
“Teal attempted to get Balaji Srinivasan made FDA commissioner.”
Thiel pushed climate deniers as Trump's top presidential science advisors
“Thiel also had the opportunity to suggest all these chief, candidates for chief scientists, the top scientific advisor to the to the president and his two main choices were climate change deniers. Who, you know, one of whom William Happer... The other, his oth…”
Chafkin: Thiel Sheltered Investment Income Tax-Free in Roth IRA
“Teal has been pursuing his whole career, this very, very, very aggressive strategy to pay. It's legal, but just exceedingly aggressive strategy to pay almost nothing in taxes on his on most of his income. It's his investment income. Because it's all in a Roth …”
Chafkin: Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital failed and lost billions of dollars
“And as a result, his hedge fund completely failed. And you know, he had to basically, it was reformed as a, you know, family office, like the outside capital it w w went away. And he lost billions of dollars.”
Chafkin: Josh Hawley took Peter Thiel funding and backed Vance
“Josh Hawley is another one of these figures, also a figure former Stanford review guy who has taken money from Teal, who has endorsed JD Vance.”
Chafkin: Thiel was first speaker to acknowledge being gay at RNC
“First time they acknowledged it on stage. Cause there actually had been one other, there had been another instance. But that That person was booed during the, you know, during the during the speech. And Teal not only wasn't booed, but he got a standing ovation…”