The Thiel-Verse with Stavroula Pabst
Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb
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🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Whitney is joined by Unlimited Hangout contributor Stavroula Pabst to discuss Peter Thiel, the man behind Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance and the CIA-linked architect of key aspects of the technocratic surveillance state.
Follow Stavroula: @stavroulapabst / X and Stavroula Pabst | Substack
Originally published 07/25/24.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hey and welcome back to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host Whitney Webb. The past few weeks have been very eventful for American |
| 0:24.5 | politics to say the least, but today we're going to focus on Peter Teal, the man behind |
| 0:28.5 | Donald Trump's recent vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, and his now now outsized influence on now very likely second Trump administration. |
| 0:36.0 | As noted in a recent article published last week on Unlimited Hangout, Teal is responsible |
| 0:41.2 | not only for Vance's relatively short political career as well as his once rocky but now cozy relationship with Trump, |
| 0:47.6 | but also for Vance's venture capital career that preceded it. |
| 0:51.6 | Teal, in my opinion, is one of the most misunderstood billionaire political donors and kingmakers |
| 0:56.2 | in the United States, and I would argue that's by design. |
| 0:59.2 | He spent a small fortune to frame himself and have others frame him as a libertarian and as |
| 1:04.0 | anti-state when his business decisions particularly those that made him a |
| 1:07.8 | billionaire as well as many of his investments point to him being of a very |
| 1:11.4 | different political persuasion. |
| 1:13.3 | His biggest companies from PayPal to Palantier |
| 1:16.2 | incubated close ties with intelligence agencies from their inception, |
| 1:19.7 | aiding and abetting financial and other forms of incredibly invasive and warrantless |
| 1:23.8 | surveillance against innocent Americans. His investments include |
| 1:27.8 | companies tied to foreign intelligence that are now taking over US 911 call |
| 1:31.5 | centers to hoover up all of your data from your smartphone |
| 1:34.8 | and give it to law enforcement as well as companies ushering in an era of |
| 1:38.8 | AI-powered mass murder currently being piloted by the Ukrainian military and now the |
| 1:43.8 | I. What will Teal's influence, which was already significant during Trump's |
| 1:48.6 | first term, be in a likely second term, particularly with his protégéd |
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