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It blows my mind that the role of Michael Kratsios during Trump’s first administration as CTO has been basically ignored by the media.

He was brought into the White House by Thiel to help the president with “technology issues.” He is quoted in interviews as early as 2017-2018 saying the administration was trying to gain access to large protected government databases in order to train AI.

Thiel was planning for government data to be ready for Palantir to use ~8 years before the current administration began handing Palantir billions of dollars in contracts and giving employees military rank.

Kratsios is now science advisor for the POTUS, but still somehow barely receives press coverage. The rare coverage he does receive is never critical. Do you remember the big scary Elon Musk is running the White House, stealing our data, and we should all be terrified media narrative?

Musk was only executing the plans Kratsios made during the first Trump administration, and he stepped down as soon as Kratsios was confirmed by the Senate.

It’s like we can state the obvious, “This could be a way for an authoritarian regime to destroy civil liberty.” But nobody will just come out and say “Peter Thiel has already built a platform that will allow an authoritarian regime to destroy civil liberty and crush dissent, and he started planning it nearly a decade ago. Michael Kratsios is the flying monkey who made it possible for him to build it, and continues to quietly do his bidding.”

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I’m not arguing with you that there are people that will pathologically vote Republican. Those aren’t the people that anyone should be worried about changing/trying to convince to switch sides. Doing so would be a losing strategy, and trying to outrun the bear.

There are way more people throughout the entire U.S. that fall into the voter apathy/“didn’t bother bc I’ve accepted both sides are essentially the same” camp. Those are the people that could be won over by Democrats not selecting an establishment candidate. This would be focusing on outrunning the opponent instead of the bear.

Why do you think so many people voted Clinton/Gore in 1992? When he first ran, Bill Clinton was just a smooth talking young guy from Arkansas, who seemed like he genuinely cared about people. Compared to Bush, he seemed like an outsider and a breath of fresh air.

This is a fuck ton of blue (including West Virginia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election

Look at all the blue on that 1992 map, and compare it to all the red on this map when Dukakis ran against Bush in 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election

Flashback: When Bill Clinton Was A Populist

The answer won Clinton rave reviews, partly–ok, mostly–because Clinton showed so much ability to connect with average Americans. (It helped, too, that Bush was so utterly lacking in the same ability.) But the answer was also a hit because it made a persuasive case on substance–one that would actually work pretty well today, right down to Clinton’s suggestion that simply reducing national debt isn’t a strategy for recovery. It takes investment, he says, and controlling health care costs.

We tend to remember the Clinton presidency for its largely centrist pattern of governance–the focus on balanced budgets, enthusiastic promotion of free trade, and so on. But that was a reaction (and, I’d argue, a mostly necessary reaction) to the political circumstances Clinton faced once in office. Back in 1992, even as he was promoting himself as a New Democrat who was tough on crime and demanded work from welfare recipients, he was still a pretty unabashed populist. He championed the need for public investment to create jobs and universal health care, giving them more priority than adopting a crash course towards balanced budgets.

People will vote for whoever can persuade them that their interests will be protected. That’s why Trump has his populist schtick even if it’s a load of horseshit. There is no intention of ever doing anything he has promised poor people, because you don’t make (enough) money doing things that actually help poor people.

He will make the claim though, and then follow through on his promise to hurt scapegoats. That alone is enough to keep just enough people on his hook.

Meanwhile, recycling middle of the road Democrats who are way too willing to compromise their party’s (supposed) values bc they’re afraid of stepping on wealthy people’s toes, only gives fuel to the argument that both sides are the same. The right knows this, and they very successfully use this argument (which is partially true) to create disinformation fueled voter apathy and control the narrative.

Using this strategy, the right doesn’t even have to worry about actually winning over voters from the middle or left bc they can always fall back on the base who is motivated by a scapegoat. They don’t even need a “good” candidate, they just need someone who can be persuasive enough.

It’s like the saying " I don’t have to have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you."

Frankly, if the Democrats actually support the values they claim, they should understand that in 2025, wealthy people need to have their toes stepped on. We are not supposed to have one America where the wealthy profit from exploitation, and another America where everyone else to get exploited. Acknowledging that fact, is the very persuasive elephant in the room that would actually go very far in persuading people the both sides argument isn’t true. Except neither side is willing to address it.

Republicans won’t address it bc keeping that elephant invisible is the entire reason they care about running this country. They need power and control in order to protect their own interests.

I would like to believe that the reason Democrats won’t address it, is bc they have mistakenly convinced themselves that throwing endless piles of money into a campaign (via their wealthy donors) will help them create the most marketable candidate who can pull voters from the center and right. In other words, they’re too focused on outrunning the bear rather than their opponent.

“Sometimes I am attacked by my opponents for being far-left, fringe, out of touch with where America is,” said Sanders. “Actually, much of what I talk about is exactly where America is… You are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, and if we had good policy and the courage to take on the billionaire class, there is no reason that every kid in this country could not get an excellent higher education, regardless of his or her income. That is not a radical idea.”

☝️ 100% this. Democrats, you want a candidate that will win? Stop focusing so much on what your donors want you to do, and start focusing on what your country needs you to do.

I think Karp was born in NY, but Thiel was born in Germany. Just one more thing to add to the list of why Thiel is a hypocrite who never should have been given power.

I find it interesting that being rejected for a clerkship by conservative SCOTUS judges is probably one of the only times he was ever told “No” in his life. Destroying constitutional rights/civil liberty was probably always his long term goal, and even when he failed going the traditional route, he has somehow managed to find an alternative way to destroy this country.

https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-was-rejected-from-a-clerkship-for-antonin-scalia-2016-2

“Palantir gets attacked just because we help make this country even better, because we support the values, because we defend it,” Karp said. “And us being able to win while having an opinion does have an impact on the world, if only because the people who think we are wrong are not good, have to be a little jealous and suffer.”

You know, nobody expects billionaires to be down to earth, but this level of delusional is more than just out of touch billionaire. This is out of touch billionaire who is also blindingly drunk on power.

Before I even got to the part where he actually accused critics of just being jealous, I was already thinking he sounded like a friend of mine who would always jokingly say “You’re juss jealouss” when shitfaced, and people warned her to pace herself. Except this guy is not joking.

He has convinced himself that profiting from the destruction of equality and civil liberty is somehow making America great. I fucking hate this guy. Not because I’m jealous, but because he’s part of a treasonous coup. If there is any justice, he and everyone else profiting from this shit will go down in history as the Benedict Arnolds they actually are.

Setareh added that private prison companies’ profits come from “the destruction of human lives as directed by the Trump administration and made possible by the majority Congress”.

Don’t forget this. They make this possible, and many of them are watching their own investments grow. Every time we support or passively allow them to maintain seats of power, we are also making it possible.

Done

Nobody can excuse continuing to invest in Palantir anymore. Even if you could have fooled yourself at one point into thinking it didn’t matter, here’s an official report explaining why it’s wrong.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

Treasonous rats

I was like “who is Auren Hoffman?”

Oh, how unique. Another piece of shit that made his money using technology to exploit humans, and now feels entitled to power and increased exploitation.

It’s so crazy to watch the embodiment of privilege attempting to dismantle a democracy, and sadly doing very well at it. People like this are the kind of people that never hear no. They will just keep taking more and more until somebody makes them stop.

Everything Peter Thiel touches should be treated like it’s diseased, bc it is. It’s been contaminated by him, and the contamination will always spread until he is contained. That means as long as people continue to do business with him and his associates, as long as people continue to invest in him, and as long as we continue to support businesses associated with genocide and elect people who are invested in Thiel, we are helping to normalize and spread the disease.

It’s one thing to know people like Vance and Stephen Miller are making money from investments with Thiel, but Democrats investing in Palantir while pretending to be part of a resistance or taking a stand against genocide (while also profiting from it) should be a big fucking no! It should be considered a forfeiture of your elected position.

Julie Johnson almost immediately sold her shares in June right after the news of congressional Palantir investments was released. Why haven’t the other Democrats on that list?

Ro Khanna bought $8000 of Palantir Technologies Inc (PLTR:US) on 2025-04-23

Gil Cisneros serves on the Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs Committees, overseeing areas where Palantir’s technology is heavily utilized, such as military logistics and healthcare modernization.

It seems like there is possibly still some resistance within the FBI bc not that long ago Kash Patel was apparently hooking people up to lie detector tests to see who was talking trash about him.

Idk how much he’s widdled down any remaining resistance since then, but I was honestly more worried they were going to send ICE agents after them (which I guess they still might)?

I’m not sure how it works if they’re somewhere like Chicago, does he rely on Chicago branch of the FBI to bring them in or does he have his own FBI people go to Chicago to do it?

So what you’re saying is that Kash Patel now has no choice but to pull out all the stops and perform the most dramatic reenactment of the spy kids movie in order to serve his country?

Exactly, who do you think is most at risk if those district lines don’t get redrawn.

In the case of the GOP though, claiming the constitution as a shield while simultaneously ignoring it and violating it is their whole schtick.

The new strategy seems to be to just edit out the parts of the paper you don’t like, and pretend it was an accident. They still need to be able to just fucking constantly play the victim, and claim anything that gives them hurt fee fees is the only real violation of the most sacred piece of paper (that they’re somehow allowed to edit?) bc only they know what the real intentions of the forefathers were when they wrote it special for their little precious snowflake asses.

Refusing to help the GOP ensure the continued protection of pedophiles?

America: Can you just go ahead and release the files? This is beyond ridiculous.

FBI: Sorry, we’ve got Dems to hunt and local state matters to get involved in. Because we love small government and hate the deep state so much.

I’m mostly worried/concerned, but part of me is morbidly curious to see exactly how deep into the military toolbox they’re willing to go, and how they justify government overreach when they’re the ones doing it.

Facial recognition, license plate scanning, or just plain old fashioned cell phone tracking like they used for Comey? Will they bust out that new x-ray vision through the wall surveillance tech to hunt down Dems for doing the same thing Republicans have done in the past?

How will they explain the cost to tax payers? The old that was then, this is now? (I know they won’t bother to acknowledge how much this will cost in manpower, but it’s fun to pretend). Would they just blame it on the Dems for making them hunt them down?

Shoot at an F-15?

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