The doyen of alt-investigative journalists, Whitney Webb, is worried about JD Vance. When Whitney speaks, it behooves us to listen to what she has to say, if not always to agree with her stated or implied conclusions:
Thanks for writing on Thiel. While reading Musks biography by Isaacson one learns something of Thiel as a composed,inscrutible person of accommodating goals/aims. There’s a picture of him with a group of other Paypal management with the caption ‘The PayPal Mafia’. They all look very Mafia-esque, presumably it was a serious photo, but they may have been striking a pose and Isaacson didn’t know it. Musk clearly didn’t feel at home amongst them and I suspect this largely informed Isaacson’s perspective. In any case, Thiel comes across as an ambitious who holds his cards close to his chest.
Has he changed with time? It’s possible. Clearly Musk has had his eyes opened in the last 10 or so years.
I particularly appreciated your point of triangulation. It’s frustrating in the extreme when people see a connection in isolation and draw strong conclusions from it. It’s creates so much noise in an already noisy Information environment.
I’ve read Whitney Webb and wondered if she sometimes (not often) does this as her content at times relies on a connection without seeming to allow for the fact that connections can sometimes cause those involved to recoil and change directions, in which case it’s less important that there was a connection than what the effect of that connection was.
Trump and Vance are decidedly preferable to Harris and the Dems but that is not saying much! They come with big warts and anyone with such connections to a shady character as Thiel needs to be looked at carefully. Vance may not be weird but Thiel certainly is! How can someone claim to be a libertarian and then develop a deep state spying op like Palantir which sells its data about us to the state- unless it's just pure hypocrisy, greed and double standards. Something does not add up.
Thanks for writing on Thiel. While reading Musks biography by Isaacson one learns something of Thiel as a composed,inscrutible person of accommodating goals/aims. There’s a picture of him with a group of other Paypal management with the caption ‘The PayPal Mafia’. They all look very Mafia-esque, presumably it was a serious photo, but they may have been striking a pose and Isaacson didn’t know it. Musk clearly didn’t feel at home amongst them and I suspect this largely informed Isaacson’s perspective. In any case, Thiel comes across as an ambitious who holds his cards close to his chest.
Has he changed with time? It’s possible. Clearly Musk has had his eyes opened in the last 10 or so years.
I particularly appreciated your point of triangulation. It’s frustrating in the extreme when people see a connection in isolation and draw strong conclusions from it. It’s creates so much noise in an already noisy Information environment.
I’ve read Whitney Webb and wondered if she sometimes (not often) does this as her content at times relies on a connection without seeming to allow for the fact that connections can sometimes cause those involved to recoil and change directions, in which case it’s less important that there was a connection than what the effect of that connection was.
Excellent writing as always.
Re the comment above - auto spell changed the text - Thiel is inscrutable and holds his cards close with uncertain goals/aims
Trump and Vance are decidedly preferable to Harris and the Dems but that is not saying much! They come with big warts and anyone with such connections to a shady character as Thiel needs to be looked at carefully. Vance may not be weird but Thiel certainly is! How can someone claim to be a libertarian and then develop a deep state spying op like Palantir which sells its data about us to the state- unless it's just pure hypocrisy, greed and double standards. Something does not add up.
All for one, one for all.
Well, that’s the “Oh shit!” I was expecting….