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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  2719 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why those polls that say Clinton’s ahead could be wrong

Can somebody please explain why Thiel is supporting Trump?





mk  ·  2719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think only Thiel knows. My guess is that he sees Trump as a bomb to blow the lid off of the current order. I don't suspect that he admires Trump. If that's the case, it's s dangerous gambit to be sure. Sometimes things burn for a very long time.

kleinbl00  ·  2719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thiel has it lodged in his head that he's a self-made billionaire who has risen against the odds to the top of the neolibertarian pile through merit and that the closer we can get to Grover Norquist's drowned bathtub government the more his ubermensch ideals will be to fruition.

Having read a book about Thiel and a book about Musk, they're both assholes but Thiel is a big asshole.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2719 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can't stand Thiel and that's a really good description of why.

Recently watched Best of Enemies, and he strikes me as the type of person who is completely inline with William Buckley and The National Review. Really need to learn more about Buckley and Vidal now.

kleinbl00  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a feeling you might like George Packer's The Great Unwinding. It's a pretty nice set of essays on these United States and the people who make it up. In case you wanted some Jay Z, Oprah, Newt Gingrich and Joe Biden to go with your Peter Thiel.