Wendy Siegelman
Wendy Siegelman  ·  4 months ago
NEW: Chart and overview of key links for JD Vance with mentor Peter Thiel, the little-known Rockbridge Network and 2016 kingmaker Rebekah Mercer

One key person in the network close to Vance includes Cambridge Analytica founder Rebekah Mercer, my latest.

#JDVance#PeterThiel#RebekahMercer#RockbridgeNetwork

https://newstracs.com/chart-and-overview-of-key-links-for-jd-vance-with-thiel-mercer-rockbridge/2024/07/29/

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 months ago
Is J.D. Vance "just" an opportunist pretending to be radicalized in order to grab power? Or is the radicalization real? Some thought-provoking observations from Noah Berlatsky:

"J.D. started off with a lot of reactionary and invidious ideas about marginalized people; he believed they were immoral, he believed they were irresponsible, he believed that their lack of traditional values led them astray."

#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #racism #authoritarianism
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/was-vance-sincerely-radicalized-or

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 months ago
David Kurtz looks at the "helpless shrug" Washington Post gave to Trump's ominous statements in Florida and concludes,

"When a former president who tried to stay in office via an auto-coup is now the frontrunner to return to that office and is assuring his most diehard supporters that they only have to make the effort to vote one last time, you should take that as the clarion call it is. No excuses."

#Trump #dictator #media#WashingtonPost
/21

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/trump-promises-2024-is-the-last-time

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 months ago
Washington Post does a deep dive into the pressure campaign big-name tech bros mounted with Trump to have him select J.D. Vance as his running mate. These include Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Jacob Helberg.

"Vance’s most forceful Silicon Valley advocates are euphoric about the former Never Trumper’s rise in the GOP."

See Elena Lacey's drawing at the head of the piece: do you spot any face that's not a white male?

#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #authoritarianism
/22

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/

William Lindsey :toad:
William Lindsey :toad:  ·  4 months ago
"Then he marinated in the eugenic ferment of Silicon Valley techbro reaction, and he came away convinced not that he was wrong, but that he hadn’t sufficiently appreciated his own rightness. Trump’s cruelty and contempt had put Vance off; Thiel and company convinced Vance (by argument or example) that he was being too soft. They told him to listen to his own hate. That’s how radicalization works."

#JDVance#PeterThiel#TechBros #racism #authoritarianism
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