JD Vance’s Mysterious Past & Palantir’s Plan To Control The White House | Candace Ep 195
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Summary
Everyone knows about J.D. Vance s long history with Palantir s founder, Peter Thiel, but few know about his shady past. And few know that he was a member of Yale s elite Skull and Bones society.
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We hope you're enjoying your Air Canada flight.
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Fast-free Wi-Fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land.
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the new AI warfare technology that Trump is planning to deploy against American citizens.
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But not enough people know about J.D. Vance's long history with Palantir's founder, Peter Thiel,
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who all but placed J.D. Vance in the White House.
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In case that wasn't the end of the world as we know it,
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Ukraine decided to launch a massive attack against Russia right before peace talks resumed,
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and trans people are still riding the gay rights movement all the way to your kids' classrooms.
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Because last week, Candace put me on to J.D. Vance's name-changing,
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and I have not been able to stop thinking about it ever since.
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Because I knew that J.D. Vance had some sketchy history and some dark forces behind his political rise,
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So let's start today by diving into the history of our smooth-talking vice president from the most humble of beginnings.
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Because if you didn't know, J.D. Vance was not born J.D. and not born Vance.
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In fact, he's changed his first, middle, and last names more than once.
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He was born James Donald Bowman in Ohio in 1984.
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Following his mother's divorce from his father, his name was changed to James David Hamill.
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Donald becoming David allowed him to keep his nickname as J.D.,
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and his last name became Hamill after his mother's third husband's name.
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After his mother divorced again, he changed his last name to Vance.
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Worth noting, though, that although he rightly called out Tim Walz for stolen valor during the presidential campaign,
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He was in the press corps and served as a military journalist.
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I don't really know what that means, but I know it means that he didn't see combat.
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So, it's also worth noting that in his book, Hillbilly Elegy,
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he claimed he changed his name on his wedding day in 2014.
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But his legal name change took place in April of 2013, just before he graduated from Yale.
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If you don't know, Yale has a long and storied reputation as a grooming and recruiting ground for America's power elite.
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The intelligence agencies recruit from Yale, and many presidents, politicians, and senior executives grace its halls.
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J.D. Vance, as far as we know, was not in Skull and Bones.
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But I want to remind us all about Skull and Bones real quick while we're here.
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Skull and Bones is the quintessential secret society.
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All sorts of wild stories and rumors surround their induction rituals,
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mostly involving a coffin and somewhat homosexual group acts that are hard to classify as anything other than a shared blackmail ritual.
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Skull and Bones is most notable, though, for the sheer quantity of powerful historical figures that have come through its roster.
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In many ways, it is the quintessential secret society, and it is housed in Yale.
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Directors and founders of the world's largest banking institutions,
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such as Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil, and Morgan Stanley.
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The entire Bush dynasty, from Prescott down to George No. 2,
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And H.W.'s father-in-law and namesake, George Herbert Walker Jr.
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Several of the Bundy family, who surrounded JFK before his death, were members.
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Both presidential candidates in the 2000 presidential elections,
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George Bush and John Kerry, were both members of Skull and Bones, just a couple years apart.
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Likely meaning that they were brothers under the skin, as it is referred to by some Bones members.
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The founder of Blackstone Group, Stephen Schwartzman, was also from that same class.
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And U.S. Treasury Secretary and human turnip, Steve Mnuchin, were also members.
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This is just a tiny handful of the hundreds of people who came through Skull and Bones
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and went on to rule huge portions of the world.
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I personally wondered whether they truly make membership public still.
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Because if I were them, I'd be keeping that stuff secret.
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Because assholes like me will be out here on the internet ringing the alarm that secret societies control the world in 2025.
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And so to clarify, Vance was not in Skull and Bones or any other secret society that we know of.
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But he was groomed for power by none other than Peter Thiel.
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But first, we've got to talk about his ancestry.
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I'm referring to the claims that J.D. himself has loudly made about his Scotch-Irish heritage.
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Because, you see, Ireland was very excited to claim the Vice President of the United States as their own.
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And they launched a genealogical investigation to try to draw a conclusive link between Vance and his claimed Irish heritage.
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And they were surprised to find that they could not.
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no evidence linking the U.S. Vice President to Ireland.
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seeing as in how in his own book, J.D. said, quote,
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To understand me, you must understand that I am a Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart.
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Listen, it's okay to be a hillbilly, J.D., but now you've made it weird.
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You see, Yale was classically a WASP school, meaning white Anglo-Saxon Protestant,
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basically synonymous with the old boys club of American elites.
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And to this day, it still is obviously very representative of the American elite.
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And the plot gets even thicker when you learn about Vance's benefactor and backer
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all the way from Yale straight to the White House.
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Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir and one of the most powerful men in America,
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seems to have more or less placed him there almost single-handedly.
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Derek Brose reported this February that Vance was in attendance
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at David Sachs' June 2024 fundraiser for Trump.
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And real quick, Sachs and Thiel go way back to PayPal,
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where David Sachs was the chief operating officer.
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But these days, Sachs is a billionaire venture capitalist
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with investments in Palantir, Facebook, SpaceX, Airbnb, and Uber, just to name a few.
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He was also just named AI and Crypto Czar by Donald Trump.
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And that's not to say he's evil, just to say that he's not like you or me,
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and his interests are aligned with that same crowd.
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So, Vance attended this Sachs fundraiser dinner,
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and according to two people with knowledge of the exchange during the event,
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Trump informally polled the room to ask who he should pick for vice president.
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David Sachs, Chamath Palipatia, and others all told Trump that he should choose Vance.
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but whether he was or not, all his friends were.
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But Vance owes much more than that to Thiel and his circle of friends around him.
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He claims that he was first inspired to work in big tech after hearing a speech by Peter Thiel at Yale Law School in 2011.
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In 2016, he became a junior investor at Mithril Capital, which is backed by Peter Thiel.
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He then jumped on to Thiel's personal recommendation to biotech firm Circuit Therapeutics.
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And in 2019, he founded his own venture firm, Naria Capital,
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with financial backing from, you guessed it, Peter Thiel.
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Peter Thiel personally brokered a meeting with Trump
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which pushed him ahead of his opposition in the race.
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and just two years later was headed to the White House,
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once again with the funding and support of Peter Thiel.
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Plus, along the way, he became a New York Times best-selling author on his very first try.
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And that book was picked up by Netflix themselves
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and turned into a giant blockbuster hit with A-list actors.
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Even though it earned the rare distinction of a leading actor being nominated for a performance award by critics
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and an award for how terrible a performance was by the audience for the exact same role,
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when you dig into the question of who wrote this book,
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None of his editors or anyone involved with the book seems super eager to talk about it,
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and friends from law school seem not to have had any sense that J.D. was such an authorial genius.
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And as someone who spent COVID writing novels in my free time,
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I can tell you that it is not easy to string together a storyline, let alone a good one.
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Furthermore, it's worth considering who he was presented to us as at the time he was presented.
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and it was clear since 2016 that Trump's voter base, which is middle-class America,
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the regular men and women of this country, particularly of the rural parts of this country,
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They offer up a Midwest hillbilly who came from nothing to achieve the American dream, and then some.
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And whether or not there is some grand evil conspiracy behind his rise,
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He was endorsed, first and foremost, by Peter Thiel,
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ever since day one, all the way to the White House.
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He was endorsed by Venture Capital in Silicon Valley.
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He was endorsed by mainstream publishing and Netflix.
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And ultimately, he was endorsed by the Republican Party.
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All told, that is probably the strongest logic to not like him that there is, at least in my book.
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And just to clarify, I like J.D. Vance, or at least I like what he says.
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He's got a great balance of humility and witty clapbacks.
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He's the best vice president I can remember in my short lifetime.
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But it is awfully convenient for Peter Thiel that he gets his boy into office,
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and then within just a few months, Palantir announces a new mega program with the Trump government.
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And not just any program, but Palantir's specialty, a digital mass surveillance system
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to target you and your family and all the rest of us.
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It's building what some experts are calling the most expansive civilian surveillance infrastructure in U.S. history.
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Instead of scattered files and spreadsheets, the platform will use real-time data integration
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and artificial intelligence to profile behavior, detect fraud,
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and identify individuals or patterns deemed risky by the system.
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At the core of the project is Palantir's Gotham software.
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Already used by defense and intelligence agencies, Gotham will now be used on the domestic front.
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It could influence everything from how benefits are distributed
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to who gets flagged for closer scrutiny by law enforcement or immigration officers.
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They're deploying military surveillance AI to watch our every move and decide who the government should bug.
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And by bug, I mean investigate, harass, arrest, and probably more.
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And while the Economic Times reported that they would be deploying a technology called Gotham,
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Raw Story reported about a different product called Foundry.
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The push has put a key Palantir product called Foundry into at least four federal agencies,
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including the Department of Homeland Security and the Health and Human Services Department, the newspaper reported.
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Widely adopting Foundry, which organizes and analyzes data,
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paves the way for Mr. Trump to easily merge information from different agencies, the government officials said.
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Creating detailed portraits of Americans based on government data is not just a pipe dream.
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The company has received also new contracts from the Pentagon
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and is speaking to the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service
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about buying its technology, according to six government officials and knowledgeable Palantir employees.
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And Democratic lawmakers have warned that Trump could use the personal information to target immigrants
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And that is exactly the wrong narrative to push, guys.
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This is clearly a leftist argument that they are making.
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They could and will use this to target anyone and everyone.
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This won't just get used on critics of the Trump administration.
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This will get used on critics of every future American government until the end of America,
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Once you give them a power, they never give it back.
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And we are entering into territory from which there is no return.
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And inflaming leftist talking points are both unnecessary and not the move.
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And I'm sure I don't need to explain to a conservative why having AI watching you at all times
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and doling out social credit scores is a bad thing.
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Because when you look into these two Palantir projects, Foundry and Gotham,
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Foundry is for corporations to surveil data and trends,
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while Gotham is for law enforcement and military intelligence to surveil the battlefield.
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When you combine the thirst for power and information of corporations with intelligence agencies and combat zones,
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what kind of surveillance system do you think you're going to get?
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Listen, I am sure that Peter is a perfectly nice guy,
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despite his opinion that our tax dollars being used to bomb children in Gaza is really none of our business,
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But even if Peter Thiel creates this system with the noblest of intentions,
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who's the next guy that's going to be in charge of it?
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I mean, it's a good thing that there's no corrupt people in the U.S. government
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who might have access to all of your personal medical, financial, social, digital, and movement data,
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because if there were any corrupt people in the government,
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they might be able to do some really bad stuff with all that.
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Like, it's a good thing that Larry Ellison isn't in the government,
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or at least not since he retired from the CIA way back in the day,
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because he said some pretty effed up things about privacy and digital surveillance over the years,
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citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting.
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You know, I'll just let him talk because he doesn't make it sound any better.
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because we're constantly recording, watching and recording everything that's going on.
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because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on.
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We actually take the video that the police officer is,
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And by the way, the way you turn it on, you can't turn it off.
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Oracle, I need two minutes to take a bathroom break,
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What we do is we record it so no one can see it,
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but no one can get into that recording without a court order.
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You might notice that Larry is literally on stage at a giant conference.
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because he doesn't even realize how 1984 this is.
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of the top 10 richest people in the world most of the time.
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And he's so out of touch that he does not realize how out of touch he is.
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When asked about illegal NSA surveillance programs,
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the great thing is that we live in a democracy.
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we can just get rid of the government and put in a different government.
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We do not have the luxury that you and your boys,
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where we can just install vice presidents and the like.
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And I think we all know that the republic was replaced some time ago
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with an oligarchy, which is teetering dangerously close
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Larry has been making out of touch public statements like this for years.
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Here is a clip from CBS Morning Show all the way back in 2013.
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This whole issue of privacy is utterly fascinating to me.
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Who's ever heard of this information being misused by the government?
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You're saying whatever the NSA is doing is OK with me.
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By the way, President Obama thinks it's essential.
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It's essential if we want to minimize the kind of strikes that we just had in Boston.
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But what point would it be alarming for you in terms of government surveillance?
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If the government used it to do political targeting,
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if the Democrats used it to go after Republicans,
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if the Republicans used it to go after Democrats.
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We stopped looking for terrorists and we started looking for people on the other side of the aisle.
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Who has ever heard of the government misusing this type of data?
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How about that one time when the federal government mandated an experimental medical procedure
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with no concern for HIPAA or medical privacy or autonomy,
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no informed consent and no accountability for your oligarch buddies
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and we made off with a long list of strange side effects
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and a totally mysterious spike in all-cause mortality.
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and started looking for people on the other side of the aisle?
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Like if you started looking for people on college campuses
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I'm sure that our government would never use these powers
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Let's just ask the Tea Party or the Canadian truckers about it.
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Did I mention that this guy was CIA before he founded Oracle?
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He worked on a classified program called Oracle
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because one of the first things that Trump announced
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upon getting into office was his new Stargate project.
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Well, it's Trump's plan to invest half a trillion dollars
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by building out a vast network of supercomputer data centers.
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this government project actually sounds more like
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or the cover-up and erasure of those accusations
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all these new AI digital surveillance programs,
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Just down here at the bottom of the page, guys,
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beginning on the date of the enactment of this act
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to run off with this new unprecedented technology
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A similar argument can be made for surveillance.
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The American dream has been perverted by profits
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to refinance and pay off this credit card debt?
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That's why people are calling American financing
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that you could cut your cell phone bill in half