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Swede

(39,244 posts)
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 09:32 AM 3 hrs ago

Billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Vance's 2022 Senate run with "the largest amounts given to a single candidate

John Oliver on JD Vance’s mentor, billionaire Peter Thiel — who once wrote he no longer believes "that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Thiel bankrolled Vance's 2022 Senate run with "the largest amounts given to a single candidate in congressional history."

John Oliver on JD Vance’s mentor, billionaire Peter Thiel — who once wrote he no longer believes "that freedom and democracy are compatible."

Thiel bankrolled Vance's 2022 Senate run with "the largest amounts given to a single candidate in congressional history."

Blue Georgia (@bluegeorgia.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T04:13:56.752Z
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Billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Vance's 2022 Senate run with "the largest amounts given to a single candidate (Original Post) Swede 3 hrs ago OP
And just like in the 2024 Presidential election in both of Ohio's '22 and '24 senate races the democratic Botany 3 hrs ago #1
The republican party hates gays and trans, POC and women....................... Lovie777 2 hrs ago #2
Der Afrika Korps Kid Berwyn 2 hrs ago #3
Soooo sick of all their shite, crawl back into your holes troublemakers. Clouds Passing 2 hrs ago #4
"Billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Vance..." markodochartaigh 2 hrs ago #5

Botany

(77,154 posts)
1. And just like in the 2024 Presidential election in both of Ohio's '22 and '24 senate races the democratic
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 09:43 AM
3 hrs ago

candidate…. Harris, Ryan, and Brown ….. got an undervote. An example of an undervote is when
somebody shows up to vote but skips voting for top of the ticket candidates but votes in other
races. Thiel was neck deep into rat fucking our elections so the dollar can be switched to crypto
currency.

Lovie777

(22,815 posts)
2. The republican party hates gays and trans, POC and women.......................
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 09:50 AM
2 hrs ago

but will ignore it when it comes to cha-ching tho.

It also appears Thiel doesn't care. He's got his so fuck off.

Kid Berwyn

(24,185 posts)
3. Der Afrika Korps
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 09:53 AM
2 hrs ago

The Guardian writer puts two of today's billionaire NAZIs pol-watchers into context:



How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler


by Chris McGreal
The Guardian, January 26, 2025

Excerpt...

They include Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder, who was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated. Thiel, a major donor to Trump’s campaign, has been critical of welfare programs and women being permitted to vote as undermining capitalism. A 2021 biography of Thiel, called The Contrarian, alleged that as a student at Stanford he defended apartheid as “economically sound”.

David Sacks, formerly PayPal’s chief operating officer and now a leading fundraiser for Trump, was born in Cape Town and grew up within the South African diaspora after his family moved to the US when he was young. A fourth member of the mafia, Roelof Botha, the grandson of the apartheid regime’s last foreign minister, Pik Botha, and former PayPal CFO, has kept a lower political profile but remains close to Musk.

Among them, Musk stands out for his ownership of X, which is increasingly a platform for far-right views, and his proximity to Trump, who has nominated Musk to head a “department of government efficiency” to slash and burn its way through the federal bureaucracy.

Snip...

The week before the inauguration, Steve Bannon, Trump’s former adviser, described white South Africans as the “most racist people on earth”, questioned their involvement in US politics and said Musk was a malign influence who should go back to the country of his birth.

Snip...

The South Africa into which Musk was born in 1971, and to which Thiel moved as a child from Germany, was led by a prime minister, John Vorster, who had been a general in a fascist militia three decades earlier that allied itself with Hitler.

Continues...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa



They live. They are not woke. And they use their wealth to turn America into Amerika.

markodochartaigh

(5,461 posts)
5. "Billionaire Peter Thiel bankrolled Vance..."
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 10:17 AM
2 hrs ago

"I bankrolled beans for 0.69 a can last week."
"When you bankroll something you own it."

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