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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he's urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions, like immigration -- and simply pray for him. Because Peter Thiel knows so much more about religion than the Pope.

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Vladimir Putin personally oversaw a resource heavy operation to influence and or recruit Peter Thiel over a period of over a decade. In the end, Putin deemed the operation a success. When Thiel was recruited, he became pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine in their conflict. And instantly, so did JD Vance.

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-- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) Nov 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Super-oligarch Peter Thiel, the main backer of the likely 2028 GOP nominee for president, is accusing the Bishop of Rome of being an agent of the end times and advising Catholic VPOTUS JD Vance to disregard the pope's moral guidance. And JD Vance was fortunate enough to meet the late Pope Francis just before he passed earlier this year. The Hi-Tech Hillbilly also wishes that his Hindu wife Usha will one day convert to Christianity.

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As you read in the main article, Russia President Vladimir Putin spent a decade conducting influence operations on South African oligarchs Peter Thiel and Felon Musk, which ex-FBI SA Johnathan Buna was investigating before his superiors quashed his investigation and began prosecuting him. Peter Thiel and Felon Musk are ruthlessly using hi-tech (Palantir, PayPal, and AI systems) to continue feudalizing Americans while constructing a US police state and influencing people to disregard the lives of Ukrainians, Palestinians, and minorities of color. Moreover, these two nefarious oligarchs are amassing tremendous fortunes for themselves with billion dollar USG contracts, all paid for by the hardworking American taxpayer. Link: FBI Aware of Peter Thiel, Felon Musk, and the Kremlin.

Two of the Three Worst Persons in the World

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-25 05:11 AM | Reply

All normal, yup, nothing to see here.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-25 05:38 AM | Reply

All normal, yup, nothing to see here.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-25 05:38 AM | Reply | Flag: You Said It

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-25 05:53 AM | Reply

"The Hi-Tech Hillbilly also wishes that his Hindu wife Usha will one day convert to Christianity"

And bleach her skin white.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-25 07:52 AM | Reply

"The Hi-Tech Hillbilly also wishes that his Hindu wife Usha will one day convert to Christianity"
And bleach her skin white.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-25 07:52 AM | Reply | Flag: Accurate

"Lighter than that Usha, lighter than that! Fer Chrissake, don't forget I'm a Republican! And did you read the Psalms today?"


#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-25 08:23 AM | Reply

Some background on Thiel's Nazi obsession with the Pope:

"Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They've been a road map for the billionaire ever since."

www.wired.com

www.theguardian.com

I read the Wired story last month and about the lectures he's been giving. The fact that his ideas can be readily traced back to a thoroughly debunked Nazi doesn't seem to bother him in the least.

Here he is at @1 min in freezing up when asked about AI and the Antichrist:

www.youtube.com

Now it seems he's found a fairly progressive Pope to blame.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-25 10:52 AM | Reply

for a really deep dive:

The Antichrist and Peter Thiel: A Road Map to Libertarian Thinking in the 21 st Century
Posted: 5 Oct 2025

papers.ssrn.com

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-25 11:09 AM | Reply

Sofas aside, there seems to be a lot of interaction between Mr Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, and VP Vance.

Has VP Vance been purchased?

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-25 10:33 PM | Reply

How J.D. Vance's Silicon Valley connections helped launch him into Trump's VP slot (July 2024)
finance.yahoo.com

... Donald Trump's selection Monday of Senator J.D. Vance to be his running mate elevates a figure with long-standing financial connections that are sure to play a role in the rest of the 2024 campaign.

And if Trump wins in November, Vance will instantly become a key conduit to wide swathes of the business world -- from powerful corners of Silicon Valley to manufacturers he championed both as a venture capitalist and as a senator. ...

Time living in San Francisco

After graduating from Yale Law School in 2013, Vance spent time living in San Francisco, where he worked at Mithril Capital. That firm was co-founded by Peter Thiel, the former PayPal CEO who has long been a major giver to Republicans, and Ajay Royan. ...


#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-25 10:39 PM | Reply

Has VP Vance been purchased?

Probably more like "trained".

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-25 10:40 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The billionaire who fueled JD Vance's rapid rise to the Trump VP spot -- analysis (July 2024)
www.cbsnews.com

... Former President Donald Trump's selection of Ohio GOP Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate shows one thing remains constant, even in a presidential race upended by an attempt to assassinate one candidate and doubts about whether the other is fit to run: money in presidential politics is still king.

Vance, a relative newcomer to national politics, has assiduously courted billionaires and Silicon Valley titans to bankroll his unlikely rise from bestselling memoirist of despair, drugs and generational poverty in Appalachia to a ticket that could seat him a heartbeat away from the presidency.

During his rapid rise, he has emerged as an ardent and effective defender of Trump, putting an intellectual gloss on the former president's raw MAGA populism. But Vance may never have been in serious consideration for the No. 2 spot on the ticket had he not won elective office in a major Rust Belt state in the first place.

And big donors, particularly from the tech sector, provided the rocket fuel he needed to advance in electoral politics.

Vance's most prominent benefactor over the years is Peter Thiel, the iconoclastic tech pioneer and investor.

Thiel hired Vance at his global investment firm in 2017, and then nurtured Vance's political rise, donating $15 million to his 2022 Ohio Senate campaign and helping him win a closely fought GOP primary before going on to capture the seat in the general election. ...


#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-25 10:42 PM | Reply

@#11 ... Thiel hired Vance at his global investment firm in 2017, and then nurtured Vance's political rise, donating $15 million to his 2022 Ohio Senate campaign and helping him win a closely fought GOP primary before going on to capture the seat in the general election. ...

Does Mr Thiel live in Ohio? My guess is that he may be a resident of California.

So, then, why the interest then in a Mr Vance in Ohio? Unless Mr Thiel saw someone who could easily be motivated by money to obey ... ?

I wish I knew.



#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-25 10:47 PM | Reply

@#10 ... Probably more like "trained". ...

Yeah, that is what it looks like.

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-25 10:48 PM | Reply

Perfect example of what I'm talking about

It's not the money. It's not the wealth of the donor

It's who they support.

There should be outrage over it.

But selective outrage is NO outrage. Fake outrage.

#14 | Posted by eberly at 2025-11-25 11:07 PM | Reply

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