SHNEAKO - Is Peter Thiel Preparing Us for Doomsday？

00:00:00.320 This is Peter Thiel.

00:00:02.080 Ew.

00:00:02.400 This is a long-

00:00:02.960 Why does he look like old Mr. Beast?

00:00:05.380 You might know him as the multi-billionaire who co-founded PayPal and Palantir.

00:00:09.600 Peter Thiel rejects the idea that death is inevitable.

00:00:11.760 We want you to be able to change your heart and change- 0.88

00:00:15.240 Oh, this nigga's trying to be God. 1.00

00:00:16.940 This is worse than I thought. 0.56

00:00:17.820 As CEO of PayPal, Peter Thiel is on a whole new playing field.

00:00:20.860 In 2002, he secures a landmark deal.

00:00:22.380 eBay acquires PayPal for $1.5 billion.

00:00:24.300 Thiel becomes a multi-millionaire at 35 years old.

00:00:26.000 and literally their career trajectories just show how money is the root of all evil it's like

00:00:30.500 they're never happy they always want more they want to become transhumanist it goes from being 0.99

00:00:33.980 greedy fucks and paypal to literal transhumanism mass surveillance it doesn't stop they're not 0.99

00:00:39.080 happy people andrew tate said it to me in that conversation at the party like i'm miserable i 0.99

00:00:42.740 can't do anything when money is your god when money is your priority you are never satisfied

00:00:47.060 and you will always try to become god i want to learn about peter teal a little bit more i've been

00:00:51.700 speaking a lot about this and it does relate to the video we just saw because peter teal

00:00:55.100 is backing jd vance and jong's guess his hypothesis was that nikki haley was going to be the vp 0.86

00:01:01.160 but jd vance ended up being trump's vp and he is uh basically like an ai tool for peter teal

00:01:07.400 gave him 15 million dollars and peter teal is financing palantir which is uh cia surveillance

00:01:13.660 which is going to introduce the social credit system where we are all being questioned all

00:01:18.620 the time if you have a thought that goes too far oh you didn't think it was six he didn't think

00:01:22.560 six million they electrocute you that's what we're about to see because of palantir so let's go see 1.00

00:01:29.360 i need to learn more about him peter teal is a strong democracy you would prefer the human race

00:01:33.840 to endure right uh you're hesitant well i yes i don't know i i would this is peter teal this is

00:01:43.360 a long hesitation why does he look like old mr beast does he not does he not have the same face

00:01:50.000 I really hope Mr. Beast doesn't go down this trajectory, bro.

00:01:52.320 But that fucking new finance credit usury system targeted towards kids, not looking good. 0.98

00:01:56.620 Is Peter Thiel. 0.99

00:01:58.000 This is a long hesitation.

00:01:59.720 This is a long hesitation.

00:02:00.940 There's so many questions implicated in this.

00:02:02.160 Should the human race survive?

00:02:06.080 Uh, yes.

00:02:07.400 Okay.

00:02:07.700 But why is he hesitant?

00:02:08.620 He's been a major player in Silicon Valley for a long, long time.

00:02:12.340 I'm Peter Thiel.

00:02:13.860 I build companies and I support people who are building new things.

00:02:17.400 from social networks to rocket ships.

00:02:20.280 You might know him as the multi-billionaire who co-founded PayPal and Palantir,

00:02:24.740 as Facebook's first outside investor.

00:02:26.720 The guy who funds out-there projects like floating countries,

00:02:30.300 private space travel, and the quest for immortality.

00:02:33.940 Peter Thiel rejects the idea that death is inevitable.

00:02:37.280 He wants to transform humanity.

00:02:40.480 Transhumanism was this radical transformation 1.00

00:02:43.120 where your human natural body gets transformed into...

00:02:47.960 So was genderism just a project? 0.99

00:02:49.920 Was Chris Tyson just a product to figure out

00:02:51.780 how billionaires could be transhumanists?

00:02:53.660 Sensational.

00:02:54.280 So they could turn each other into Terminators? 0.69

00:02:56.500 Immortal body.

00:02:57.820 We want you to be able to change your heart and change... 0.92

00:03:01.360 Oh, this nigga's trying to be God. 1.00

00:03:03.520 This is worse than I thought. 0.99

00:03:05.680 Is this nigga actually the Antichrist? 1.00

00:03:06.900 Your mind and change your whole body. 0.95

00:03:10.160 But he also wants to change something else.

00:03:13.860 For decades, Thiel has schemed from the shadows to reshape American politics.

00:03:18.700 Are you even a real schizo? These are not humans. 1.00

00:03:21.760 Okay, you are, yeah, you're definitely a real schizo. 1.00

00:03:24.060 Tonight, I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up and vote for Donald Trump. 0.92

00:03:30.040 He bankrolled Trump's first campaign.

00:03:32.400 He turbocharged J.D. Vance's career.

00:03:35.200 Thiel openly questions the democratic system.

00:03:37.840 and he's declared that to him, freedom is incompatible with democracy.

00:03:42.900 His vision of an ideal society sounds more like an oligarchy,

00:03:47.400 a country ruled by a few powerful rich people, or even just one.

00:03:56.100 Influence is rapidly expanding across the world.

00:03:59.480 From the beginning of his career, he's been building tools to rewire how power works.

00:04:04.900 Palantir, his brainchild, enables intelligence agencies and militaries to anticipate their enemy's next move before it's me.

00:04:12.540 I'm getting my notes. I'm posting the notes from the Iran war on Twitter so you guys can see.

00:04:17.880 I'm going to take notes on this too, I think.

00:04:19.400 Maybe even your next move too.

00:04:23.960 None of this happened by accident.

00:04:26.500 Peter Thiel plays the long game.

00:04:28.800 He's patiently planned his moves for decades, always several steps ahead.

00:04:34.260 So what does Peter Thiel actually want?

00:04:37.700 What's his problem with democracy?

00:04:39.380 I can't post the notes, it's too long for X. I'll figure it out later.

00:04:41.940 And is there an end game?

00:04:49.380 This video is largely based on the research collected in The Contrarian,

00:04:52.900 Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin.

00:04:57.140 You'll find a link in the description. 1.00

00:04:58.500 Books are stupid and gay! 1.00

00:04:59.780 New York City, 2010 1.00

00:05:04.880 A TV show has set up a night for Peter Thiel to meet Gary Kasparov

00:05:08.940 One of the greatest chess players of all time

00:05:11.260 Wait until you find out about Peter Thiel's upbringing

00:05:13.840 They like chatting about politics, technology, and of course chess

00:05:18.640 Peter Thiel's a diehard chess fan

00:05:20.920 In fact, he's a national chess master

00:05:23.320 He's admired the Grandmaster Kasparov since he was a teenager

00:05:26.920 And the respect is mutual

00:05:29.520 Kasparov admires Thiel's intelligence and business sense.

00:05:33.080 He's one of the probably most successful entrepreneurs of his generation.

00:05:36.960 He's very aggressively investing.

00:05:39.240 He looks for the future.

00:05:40.720 Thiel's legendary status in business is hard to overstate.

00:05:44.280 His companies have created technologies that have changed the course of the modern world.

00:05:48.480 And his influence helped define tech, an industry that has produced millions of jobs

00:05:53.720 and trillions of dollars of wealth.

00:05:56.000 That night, Kasparov and Thiel hit up a chess club.

00:05:58.960 Thiel plays a game of speed chess with the owner and wins.

00:06:02.560 I'm totally embarrassed.

00:06:07.520 Kasparov suggests his chess skills are probably why Thiel's such a successful businessman

00:06:12.640 and why he tends to hire chess players for his companies.

00:06:24.160 And sure, Thiel is probably onto something.

00:06:27.280 Chess skills transfer well into the world of business.

00:06:30.480 It's a game of strategy where it pays off to think several moves ahead.

00:06:35.280 Skills that don't hurt in politics either.

00:06:40.240 Sometime after this evening Kasparov and Teal drift apart.

00:06:43.760 Maybe the two don't have that much in common after all.

00:06:46.720 It's not just that the Russian ca-

00:06:48.240 I pin the Iran notes in the chat if you want to check them out later.

00:06:50.320 Kasparov is a way better chess player.

00:06:52.480 He's also one of the world's most prominent pro-democracy activists.

00:06:56.720 He's a major thorn in Putin's sight, tirelessly campaigning for a freer Russia.

00:07:02.000 So I'm fighting to restore democracy in my country.

00:07:05.680 Trump's potential victory could threaten not only democracy in this country,

00:07:10.240 but, you know, democracy worldwide.

00:07:12.960 And Peter Thiel? Well, kind of the opposite trajectory.

00:07:17.280 Critics warn he's emerging as a major threat to American democracy.

00:07:21.760 billionaires like teal reshaping politics is terrifying connecting to airport wi-fi ranks way 0.94

00:07:29.100 lower on the scale but having your data floating around unprotected online is a threat you can

00:07:33.940 actually do something about this is where today's sponsor nordvip oh my god really dude isn't nord 0.97

00:07:39.840 vp on a fucking israeli spyware too fucking hell qr code like figure out the time and place man 0.99

00:07:45.240 this video is going so well nordvpn let's see their origin this video i'm still gonna watch 0.99

00:07:48.760 where's this originated nordvpn ceo thomas ocamas where come on let's see who owns this

00:07:59.720 he's a billionaire early life what does this say oh he's probably just greek okay 0.99

00:08:07.880 peter teal is also gay and has a bf he is literally a jewish cocksucker dude is he 1.00

00:08:14.520 He's literally gay, bro. 1.00

00:08:20.480 Sam Altman also a gay Jew, bro. 0.98

00:08:23.440 A former German colony on Namibia's coast. 1.00

00:08:26.360 Nigga. 1.00

00:08:28.840 After some years in Ohio.

00:08:35.060 During the 1970s, the city is occupied by apartheid South Africa.

00:08:39.520 At the time, it's a town clinging to its German roots,

00:08:42.140 where Hitler's birthday is still celebrated,

00:08:44.820 and the Nazi salute is a casual greeting for some.

00:08:48.160 Peter's father Klaus takes an engineering job

00:08:50.380 at a uranium mine just outside town.

00:08:52.300 Man, how the mighty fall, huh?

00:08:54.780 I'm joking.

00:08:55.900 Man, he had so much potential.

00:08:57.320 The mine is controversial and shrouded in secrecy.

00:09:01.680 According to international law,

00:09:03.400 South Africa isn't allowed to mine here,

00:09:05.700 but they go ahead anyway.

00:09:07.700 Extracting Namibia's uranium

00:09:09.220 is part of South Africa's nuclear weapons program.

00:09:12.140 The regime is secretly developing bombs to defend against a possible Soviet attack and to protect the apartheid way of life. 0.85

00:09:20.360 According to a former British activist group, black laborers have worked at the mine under dangerous conditions.

00:09:26.040 Meanwhile, white families like the Teals enjoy a privileged life. 0.94

00:09:29.960 Brand new medical facilities, country club memberships, kids in private school.

00:09:34.960 Young Peter is reportedly first put in a whites-only school in Johannesburg, then in a Jer- 1.00

00:09:39.220 Oh, man. So much potential.

00:09:41.800 German language school in Swakopmund, where the curriculum pushes a Christian nationalist

00:09:46.440 worldview and entertains white South Africans as the real victims of the region. 0.83

00:09:51.740 This is where Peter Thiel spends formative years.

00:09:54.980 It's a world where his family benefits from a white supremacist regime, where his father

00:09:59.880 actively advances its military interests.

00:10:03.140 A world where the founding belief is that some people are meant to rule, and the majority 0.55

00:10:08.480 must serve when Peter's 10 he and his family returned to the US Peter's

00:10:17.580 developing into a classic nerd he loves sci-fi and fantasy the rings he's top of

00:10:23.240 the class and becomes one of the country's top chess players under the

00:10:26.160 age of 13 it's not cool to be a nerd in the 70s and 80s so Peter is reportedly

00:10:31.160 bullied on the regular but he knows he's smart and going places

00:10:37.040 His chessboard has a sticker that says born to win.

00:10:40.200 I've got chess teams in Israel.

00:10:41.300 Peter wants the best for himself, so he studies hard to get into the top university.

00:10:44.620 At the time, Stanford is ranked number one in the US.

00:10:47.380 When he makes it there in 1985, Stanford...

00:10:49.280 Dude, so why is it like all these tech billionaires are really just revenge of the nerds? 0.51

00:10:53.240 It's just revenge of the dorks?

00:10:54.980 Elon jumping up and down allegedly in my...

00:10:56.660 Whoa, can I go get the pizza and jerky on the island? 0.86

00:11:01.020 It's all just dorks. 0.98

00:11:02.740 It's all just dorks who are mad at Chad. 1.00

00:11:04.940 and so they fucking destroy the world and become gay and suck off israel it's like this is who's 1.00

00:11:10.680 this it's literally revenge of the nerds bro bill gates like he literally named his company 1.00

00:11:15.980 microsoft he's like hey you're microsoft you got little dick bill little dick bill 0.99

00:11:22.360 and so he develops a company and starts allegedly in my opinion creating a pandemic to kill 0.99

00:11:30.000 everybody that made fun of him as a kid. Peter expects fellow overachievers, but finds a party

00:11:34.980 scene instead. He'd rather hit the books. That's why Clavicula is in jail. That's why Clavicula is

00:11:39.280 facing criminal charges. But all these people on the pedophiles and the pedophiles, all of them

00:11:44.140 walk free. It's like because they just hate Clavicula so much. The bong. And he's once again 1.00

00:11:48.520 teased for being a nerd. According to the author Max Shevkin, many of the students he perceived as

00:11:53.380 bullies also identify as liberals, a connection that reportedly sticks with him. We have asked

00:11:58.760 Thiel ourselves but didn't get a response. Peter developed into a Reagan-supporting conservative.

00:12:03.680 The campus itself feels far too left-wing for him. Anti-Reagan and anti-apartheid protests are

00:12:08.420 prominent, and Peter starts to clash with demonstrators. In The Contrarian, Shevkin 1.00

00:12:12.760 describes how classmates recall at least one instance where Peter defended apartheid as

00:12:16.740 economically sound, an allegation.

00:12:28.760 What do you think he was inviting him for that party for?

00:12:30.540 Because he really cares about his input, about looks-maxing?

00:12:32.640 No, he just wanted us to infiltrate.

00:12:34.000 He sees clavicular as the representation of the bullies.

00:12:37.160 He went to school.

00:12:38.700 According to this video, Peter Thiel grew up in a Nazi area,

00:12:42.420 or his father grew up in a Nazi area where they still did Hitler salutes,

00:12:45.960 with an ultra-white nationalist Christian background.

00:12:49.480 Clavicular, to Peter Thiel, is the physical representation of that.

00:12:53.680 And so he invites him to his party, probably to try to do some

00:12:56.000 Ha! There's some Epstein shit on him, you know what I'm saying? Get the baby oil ready and get 0.99

00:13:00.700 his revenge. But Clavicula did not follow that. I see Clickbait going around trying to say that

00:13:05.260 he did. No, he did not. He didn't go.

00:13:06.980 ...that Thiel has since denied.

00:13:10.440 At the time, some defenders of apartheid drew on libertarian arguments.

00:13:14.360 Libertarians believe the best society maximizes personal and economic freedom while minimizing

00:13:18.900 government control. They see free, unregulated markets as the best way to allocate resources

00:13:23.800 and drive innovation. More radical libertarians value property rights and free markets above

00:13:28.760 basically anything else. Critics say this leaves little room for values like social justice,

00:13:39.740 which are cast as secondary or even incompatible with the libertarian definition of freedom.

00:13:44.560 From that perspective, apartheid could be rationalized. South Africa's systematic 0.82

00:13:48.440 denial of civil rights was simply the price to pay for its higher level of wealth than

00:13:52.400 neighboring countries. By Peter's sophomore year, he's known on campus as a hardcore libertarian.

00:13:57.520 And though the 80s see students increasingly advocate for race and gender equality,

00:14:01.320 Stanford is not an entirely liberal institution. It has a fair share of other conservative and

00:14:05.640 libertarian students and faculty members during Peter's time there. Still, Chavkin describes

00:14:10.120 Peter feeling like he's in the minority, and that the dominant campus culture is hostile to people

00:14:14.760 like him. So he does what he'll keep doing throughout his life. He builds a network of

00:14:19.680 like-minded men. The beginnings of a network that was Hustler's University support him throughout

00:14:24.640 his career. What will later be known as the so-called PayPal Mafia. With 11 other conservative

00:14:31.100 men, Peter launches a campus newspaper. The Stanford Review aims to stir things up. It

00:14:36.220 regularly criticizes campus culture from a conservative perspective with a famously

00:14:40.100 biting style. Throughout Peter's time at Stanford, a few pieces especially stirred a pot.

00:14:45.220 Shevkin found a few examples in the Stanford archives that-

00:14:47.580 We'll make sure to see what happened. Mossad attacked. Are we good? Are we good? Are we back?

00:14:50.080 Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!

00:14:51.640 Okay, we're good.

00:14:52.340 ...wasn't allowed to reproduce. 0.99

00:14:53.820 One columnist claimed that gay men engaged in unnatural sex. 0.89

00:14:57.380 Another complained when Stanford considered adding non-white authors to the Western culture course, 0.98

00:15:01.840 arguing it signaled the decline of the West.

00:15:04.260 One whole issue was devoted to passionately defending a student accused of statutory rape,

00:15:08.360 who was later found guilty.

00:15:10.520 Peter's not just looking to provoke.

00:15:12.340 He wants money, power, and influence.

00:15:14.660 Revenge of the nerds.

00:15:15.680 And as its founding editor-in-chief, the Stanford Review launches him into the public intellectual he's known as today.

00:15:21.360 The paper captures the attention of high-profile conservatives, and a bit later Peter gets a book.

00:15:24.680 Imagine the type of torture Netanyahu and PPL like Teal will experience in Jahannam.

00:15:30.620 Dude, that's got to be the most brutal fire of all time.

00:15:33.060 But, I mean, that's not for us to do.

00:15:34.860 Leave it up to Allah. 0.99

00:15:36.000 Leave it up to God.

00:15:37.580 We are not the rulers of hell.

00:15:40.380 The diversity myth is co-authored with David Sachs,

00:15:43.300 the student who wrote in defense of an accused racist in the stanford review nowadays sex is

00:15:47.860 also an influential figure on the american right he currently serves the trump administration as

00:15:51.860 the white house's ai and crypto czar the book argues that universities are dangerous breeding

00:15:56.900 grounds for left-wing intellectual conformity that nowadays real racism barely exists in america

00:16:02.900 and that diversity initiatives pose a threat to western culture sex and teal have since apologized

00:16:08.180 for some of the more controversial parts of the book but these are the same anti-vogue sentiments 0.97

00:16:12.260 that are winning elections today you know i ended woke totally everything woke turns to shit our 0.98

00:16:18.300 country will be ilan omar we're gonna see then but no i mean did he really end woke peter thiel's gay 0.97

00:16:23.860 and he supports him like what woke has got to be one of the biggest psyops of all time i did fall

00:16:28.940 for that a lot too put me in the chat if you fell for wokeism a little bit like uh ending the woke

00:16:33.200 mind virus because yeah i mean people understand that that gays can't reproduce and that

00:16:37.180 transgenderism has one of the highest suicide rates of any demographic and obviously it's just 1.00

00:16:40.920 kind of like a lot of it's kind of repulsive i don't want to get banned on youtube but it's just

00:16:47.200 a lot of people find it gross not me it's fine but yeah wokeism and all this stuff like oh two

00:16:53.180 genders yeah based cool and then you see all these transgenders and gay people support trump

00:16:58.900 like wait what's going on wait is this really about wokeism is this really because wokeism

00:17:02.980 is cancel culture and then the same people who like talk about wanting to end woke are the ones

00:17:06.720 banning you from the club for listening to it in a song that's too edgy, right?

00:17:10.320 And then the people who want to escape the Matrix apologize and bend over for it. 1.00

00:17:13.140 Everything woke turns to shit. 0.99

00:17:16.660 Our country will be woke no longer. 0.99

00:17:20.840 Though Peter has plenty of gripes about Stanford,

00:17:23.100 he stays on and graduates from its law school in 1992.

00:17:26.260 He moves to New York to begin his legal career.

00:17:28.900 Only aiming for the best, his goal is to clerk for the Supreme Court.

00:17:32.420 That's literally right by my crib.

00:17:34.120 I'm in Miami right now.

00:17:34.960 Legal career.

00:17:35.560 I have two, you know, but only aiming for. Yeah, this is the city hall. All the Diddy trial stuff.

00:17:40.600 The Diddy trial stuff is right here. It's right by Foley Square. So the Diddy trial, Luigi Mangione, Maduro, all that.

00:17:46.520 Even 6ix9ine was held, I think, right here, unless it was in Brooklyn. 0.98

00:17:51.020 But so many trials in 2025, 2024, even this year, all took place right here.

00:17:56.980 All the protests were all right here. Remember that girl with the flappy titties chasing with it? 0.98

00:18:00.340 Poor baby oil on me. It was all right here.

00:18:02.220 the best. His goal is to clerk for the Supreme Court. He's got top grades, his own influential

00:18:06.760 paper, and connections to the right people. Sneaky John McAfee died same night as Surfside

00:18:11.300 Building Collapse IDF was there too. Wow. If he really is then. I didn't know that.

00:18:16.800 I got interviews with two justices. They normally interview eight people and select four as clerks,

00:18:21.780 and I missed it with both, and it felt like it was the absolute end of the world.

00:18:25.980 Peter's not used to setbacks. He plunges into what he later described as a quarter-life crisis

00:18:30.560 and briefly moves back in with his parents.

00:18:33.060 But back on the West Coast,

00:18:34.760 Peter proves he has a neck for turning losses into big wins.

00:18:40.400 I took an L and came right back.

00:18:41.800 It's 1996.

00:18:42.560 The tech industry is booming.

00:18:44.820 Silicon Valley is a place with endless possibilities,

00:18:47.340 loads of investor money, and above all, unclear rules.

00:18:50.500 Peter wants in.

00:18:51.680 Sure, he can't really code,

00:18:52.780 but he can hand that off on someone else.

00:18:54.760 Peter studies up on hedge fund management,

00:18:56.540 raises some capital,

00:18:57.540 and reinvents himself as an investor.

00:18:59.120 At the same time, he continues publishing anti-woke columns, one that claims indigenous

00:19:03.920 people's day as anti-Western winds up in the Wall Street Journal.

00:19:06.620 You see how they use white identity and wokeism to gain a populist movement and then to really 0.63

00:19:11.320 inject what they want, which is mass surveillance.

00:19:13.020 And I see people saying Discord, the new CEO, is born in Israel.

00:19:16.720 I know.

00:19:17.720 And he wants you to scan your face just to use it.

00:19:18.720 It used to be that they needed to use terrorism to get mass surveillance and now they just

00:19:22.020 say that it's normal and that you need it just because they care about you, right?

00:19:26.000 This is what I'm saying.

00:19:27.000 reason to step away from all these political parties white nationalism all the isms isms isms

00:19:32.440 it's all a psyop to get support for the same thing stop stop whoa oh my god he's anti whoa 0.92

00:19:42.000 he's literally gay bro peter meets the brilliant young cryptographer max leftchin max is obsessed 0.58

00:19:47.200 with palm pilots clunky little handheld computers at the time they're barely more than a calendar

00:19:52.040 with an internet connection not all investors would listen to a 20-something jabber away about

00:19:56.300 PalmPilots. But Peter is not a typical investor. Max believes PalmPilots will have way more

00:20:01.360 potential if they can be linked to businesses. If personal devices were linked to a business's

00:20:05.820 infrastructure, a whole new world of users would open up. Like connecting an individual

00:20:10.520 directly with a bank. All someone needs to figure out is how to build an encrypted network that can

00:20:15.620 securely link a handheld device with a corporate system. And Max believes he can do it. He is way

00:20:21.220 ahead of his time and Peter sees the potential immediately. He offers Max a quarter million

00:20:25.620 dollar investment the very next day. Peter will become known for these big bets on inexperienced

00:20:30.280 founders. Bets that very often pay off. On the surface, PayPal looks just like another convenient

00:20:37.680 way to pay. But in reality, it was built on a radically libertarian vision. Money moving freely,

00:20:43.640 beyond government control. The same vision that would later drive the crypto movement.

00:20:49.640 And just like crypto, that freedom quickly attracts the gray areas of the economy.

00:20:53.980 PayPal's early growth comes from industries most banks avoided, like gambling and NSFW 0.99

00:20:59.220 Recently, what the fuck? 0.92

00:21:02.600 Have you guys been investing into crypto more? 1.00

00:21:04.520 Have you guys been all panicking and selling?

00:21:06.240 I want to keep on investing.

00:21:08.020 Okay, Bitcoin keeps going down. 1.00

00:21:09.600 Fucking hell. 1.00

00:21:11.420 God damn, it's bottoming more and more. 1.00

00:21:15.400 Oh, my God. 1.00

00:21:18.040 Oh, my God, bro.

00:21:19.420 Lowest in a year.

00:21:21.720 Oh, five years is not terrible.

00:21:24.380 Five years is not terrible.

00:21:25.440 good thing peter's been nurturing his political connections i'm holding i'm not a financial

00:21:32.840 advisor but i'm buying the dip and i'm holding chefkin tells it he worked to keep his business

00:21:37.460 alive by lobbying congress to keep online gambling legal you guys saying it's over it's over you know

00:21:41.560 how many times we went through this exact cycle every four years for the past like 12 dude everyone

00:21:46.020 says it's all every time it dips it's over it's over it's over cope and to stop paypal from being

00:21:51.220 treated as a national bank. We also asked Peter Thiel directly about this, but didn't get a

00:21:55.400 response either. E-commerce is exploding in popularity. There's high demand for a tool

00:22:01.260 that can simplify online transaction. And Max and Peter aren't the only ones working on a solution.

00:22:06.120 PayPal isn't even the only online payment startup in the same building. There's a very similar

00:22:10.340 company on the same floor. It's called X.com, and its founder has a lot in common with Peter.

00:22:15.520 enter elon musk huh

00:22:20.620 most notably elon musk is also an enterprising immigrant with roots in south africa wait so

00:22:27.800 where's peter teal peter teal's from germany out here trying to influence our elections like this

00:22:32.800 is literally the globalist agenda that trump was swearing to destroy yeah he was born in frankfurt

00:22:38.860 you literally have these foreigners backing bro it's man i really thought peter teal was american

00:22:44.500 he's the one backing jd vance and supporting trump and he's a billionaire philanthropist 0.99

00:22:48.540 from fucking germany and just because they're white they get to hide they get to hide under 0.99

00:22:52.780 this wokeism thing and pretend to be white nationalists and stuff it's so it's such a 1.00

00:22:57.280 genius grift to be a south african white or german white like teal and you go undercover and people

00:23:03.520 think you're america what does his accent you're dubious of course dubious of course you would 0.96

00:23:07.320 fucking jordan peterson what does he sound like close to two decades at this point yeah he sounds 0.96

00:23:11.040 american and uh like peter he also shows little regard for traditional rules of the banking 0.99

00:23:17.480 industry ew dude why the fuck that nigga look like that bro you understand like peter he also 1.00

00:23:23.100 shows little regard for traditional rules of the banking industry nigga what the fuck oh my 1.00

00:23:28.940 i want the best pizza party can i go to the most amount of jerky i was looking for a crazy party 0.99

00:23:37.920 my elon voice is getting better i need the crazy ice cream party no i just need a while out i just

00:23:43.440 i just really need to let loose i just need to let go all my inhibitions free i'm around the

00:23:49.040 area right now in the virgin islands can i come now asap super important playing by every rule

00:23:55.200 only slows down growth but for a while they have no idea what each other's companies are for

00:23:59.760 until a paypal employee finds a business that holy sub five has planned for x.com in a dumpster

00:24:04.720 And then it becomes impossible to ignore each other. They become two of the biggest fish in

00:24:08.960 the sea of online payments. PayPal's growing rapidly, but at the same time bleeding.

00:24:13.200 And you know who's the next? Who's up next? The next PayPal mafia? Who's next in the payment

00:24:16.960 industry? One more time. We recovered this early in the stream. Does anyone know? Who is next?

00:24:24.240 Who is trying to enter the financial ward now? Yup. Exactly. Exactly. Once again,

00:24:31.120 going to reiterate i'm so excited to share that we are acquiring the financial services have time

00:24:34.760 to live with myron and talk about iran and this tech stuff my g i just did nobody told me about

00:24:39.860 investing building credit or managing money when i was growing up that's exactly why we're joining

00:24:42.540 force with step i want to give millions to young people the financial foundation i never thought

00:24:45.920 share soon he's literally and look at that of course nick shirley dude bevevalent supporting 0.92

00:24:52.700 this shit yeah mr beast is on track 100 i've been saying this he's going to be the next elon 0.97

00:24:57.440 Peter Thiel. I like the guy and I hope he doesn't do it, bro. He has time to come around. Every new 1.00

00:25:02.980 user gets a cash bonus. Most transactions rack up fees and servers are expensive. Worse, the

00:25:07.780 anonymity that makes PayPal attractive also opens the door to credit card fraud and PayPal would

00:25:12.300 have to refund the victim's stolen money. And I have to, in hindsight, looking back, I do think

00:25:16.340 that I invested too much energy into that Somali daycare thing. Like I do think that that was a lot 1.00

00:25:21.260 of that was a psyop and was controlled. It was to push that isms of white nationalism and stuff and

00:25:25.780 to redirect attention towards some stupid shit while billions of dollars go to Israel. 1.00

00:25:30.780 I probably did focus too much energy on that. 1.00

00:25:32.940 Although it does look like a scam.

00:25:34.360 It does look like there's some scamming going on.

00:25:36.280 That is, I probably did fixate on that a little too much.

00:25:40.900 Max Lefgen responds by building an anti-fraud system called Igor,

00:25:44.680 software that flags suspicious patterns and blocks scam transactions.

00:25:48.440 All the while, user anonymity is still preserved.

00:25:51.020 Igor successfully curbs fraud by half of what it was.

00:25:54.220 The FBI takes interest in the technology and starts using the software to catch money launderers.

00:25:59.480 Still, PayPal isn't profitable.

00:26:01.740 Peter thinks he knows the answer.

00:26:03.460 It has to become a monopoly.

00:26:05.540 Eliminate competitors, dominate the market, and set the rules.

00:26:08.960 As Peter often puts it, 0.97

00:26:10.340 Competition is for losers. 0.99

00:26:11.400 Competition is for losers. 0.99

00:26:12.600 Competition is for losers.

00:26:14.020 This strategy will come to define Peter Thiel's success.

00:26:16.640 He'll outline it in the business bestselling book Zero to One,

00:26:19.500 and it will become a guiding principle in the tech industry.

00:26:21.660 What I think everybody who is a founder or entrepreneur should aim to do is build a monopoly.

00:26:26.260 And all the great companies that people have built are monopolies of one sort or another.

00:26:31.520 By 2000, the online payment space has grown more competitive.

00:26:34.500 And PayPal is still operating at a loss.

00:26:36.560 Elon suggests a merger, and Peter agrees.

00:26:38.980 Uniting is their best chance for survival.

00:26:41.860 According to The Contrarian, they clash from the start.

00:26:44.320 Over the name, over the software.

00:26:45.960 Elon becomes CEO because he's a bigger shareholder, but Peter allegedly can't stand his leadership.

00:26:50.280 He's set to think Elon's a reckless egomaniac.

00:26:52.660 And Elon is set to think Peter's a sociopath who only cares about money.

00:26:56.040 Their battles stall the company's growth.

00:26:57.920 So Teal decides to end them. 0.99

00:26:59.760 Elon goes on his honeymoon, leaving the CEO position undefended.

00:27:02.700 And in an elegant, calculated move, Peter captures it.

00:27:05.820 Levchin and others loyal to Teal start voicing their gripes about Musk.

00:27:08.760 They manage to convince enough board members to oust Musk and to insert Teal as temporary CEO,

00:27:13.920 a position he'll keep.

00:27:15.280 It won't be Teal's last tactical takedown.

00:27:18.560 Great graphics, man. 0.99

00:27:19.680 this is fucking this is sick video shout out to the guy who made this video this is uh fern 0.99

00:27:24.480 as ceo of paypal peter teal is on a whole new playing field in 2002 he secures a landmark 0.99

00:27:29.600 deal ebay acquires paypal for 1.5 billion dollars teal becomes a multi-millionaire at 35 years old

00:27:35.840 walking away with at least 55 million dollars from the deal now he has the capital and credibility

00:27:40.640 to pursue his wildest dreams the day he signs the deal is the day he also steps down as ceo

00:27:46.080 PayPal was just a stepping stone.

00:28:16.080 they want to instill their will, embody a Frankist ideology. They just want to be remembered for 0.91

00:28:21.620 whatever. They want to literally take over a mortal life, be immortal, affect the world the

00:28:31.560 way God does. Now he's ready to move on to bigger and bolder projects, and to live the high life as

00:28:37.040 a very rich person. He buys a silver Ferrari and fancy apartments. Now the formerly bullied kid is

00:28:42.560 life of the party. More and more people want to be in his orbit. Teal's personal trajectory is

00:28:55.760 skyrocketing, but the country is spiraling. In the wake of 9-11, Americans also face a recession,

00:29:08.080 an unpopular war and widespread trauma.

00:29:38.080 is anxious too. He's increasingly concerned with the threat of religious terror.

00:30:08.080 He finds the Bush administration isn't tough enough on Islam.

00:30:34.040 His politics seem to shift.

00:30:36.000 At Stanford, he wrote fiery libertarian essays railing against government power.

00:30:40.580 Now, he's arguing the opposite, that the U.S. must use extrajudicial methods to catch terrorists.

00:30:45.480 As he put it, outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.

00:30:50.880 For Thiel, the trade-off is clear.

00:30:52.560 The West must compromise.

00:30:54.180 More security, less freedom.

00:30:56.200 Here's the email.

00:30:56.840 This is not right from the email.

00:30:57.820 Someone wrote an article copy-pasting what she said.

00:30:59.560 So she's fantasizing and saying, in the wake of the future, they're standing at ground zero saying,

00:31:04.120 what are the Arabs implying they no longer exist the father explains the Arabs were people carried

00:31:07.940 out the 9-11 attacks it is year 2032 and a father son walk in the streets of lower Manhattan

00:31:12.440 approaching the world trade center to think this used to be the twin towers the son not understanding

00:31:16.760 asked the father what are the twin towers the father smiles and looks at the son and explains

00:31:19.900 the twin towers were two huge buildings that used to be here until 2001 the Arabs destroyed them 1.00

00:31:23.100 the son looks up to his father and asks and what are the Arabs

00:31:25.560 it's an email Julian Maxwell wrote fantasizing about Arab genocide and he sees a business

00:31:32.840 opportunity in it. What if Igor, the software Max Levchin built to catch fraudsters, could be retooled

00:31:37.720 to catch terrorists? Wouldn't the CIA be interested? In 2003, Teal gets a team to start working on it

00:31:43.640 right away. They'll call the company Palantir. In the Lord of the Rings, Palantir is a mythical

00:31:49.720 stone that sees and communicates across far distances. Sauron, the evil character who seeks

00:31:54.280 to dominate Middle-earth... Wait, so Palantir in Lord of the Rings is what? I've seen this... Oh,

00:31:57.640 Palantir is spelled like this. It's a mythical... Oh, it's the evil stone. I've seen this a million

00:32:01.720 times. Palantir Lord of the Rings, let's see. Palantir Lord of the Rings is one of the several

00:32:08.560 indestructible crystal balls. Oh, it's literally the evil, it's this evil ball protecting that

00:32:14.120 to connect with Sauron. Sauron literally just being Satan.

00:32:20.880 Okay. It just shows like again this is how Revenge of the Nerd is. Like imagine

00:32:25.880 you name your company to destroy the world off of some nerd shit in Lord of the Rings. Like 0.99

00:32:30.540 It's so...

00:32:32.680 And you notice, too, in Lord of the Rings,

00:32:37.060 this is the one eye.

00:32:38.180 It's the one eye symbolism.

00:32:39.380 This is the representation of Satan, the Antichrist.

00:32:42.060 The Antichrist being a one-eyed demon figure,

00:32:44.380 the Dajjal one-eye figure.

00:32:46.740 You look at a $1 bill, if you have it in your pocket right now,

00:32:48.880 it has the one eye, the all-seeing eye.

00:32:51.440 It's the little representation of evil.

00:32:53.220 Let's look at the $1 bill.

00:32:55.180 We're getting skits, but it is what it is.

00:32:56.480 It's why you guys are here, right?

00:32:57.280 So look at the back of a $1 bill.

00:32:58.620 It says, In God We Trust.

00:32:59.440 and here it says uh novus odor socorum right and in latin that means new world order this is on the

00:33:06.340 back of all your bills all right kind of them bragging and just showing to your face all the

00:33:10.640 goyim use this and spend their lives trying to slave away for this and mr beast is saying that 0.99

00:33:14.240 you need to be a slave to this deal with teenagers allegedly in my opinion they are saying here that

00:33:18.900 the new world order is tied to the central bank system and look here on top of this pyramid on

00:33:23.660 the back of one why is the pyramid even on the one dollar bill why is it on american currency

00:33:27.320 Here's a pyramid, and here's the All-Seeing Eye on top.

00:33:29.120 It looks identical, right, to Sauron, the All-Seeing Eye in Lord of the Rings, Palantir?

00:33:32.360 But anyway, there's tons of esoteric knowledge here, Freemason, and God we trust one.

00:33:42.940 Why is there Latin here? 1.00

00:33:44.720 Novos Ordo Secorum.

00:33:45.900 Why is the Great Pyramid here?

00:33:46.820 Why is this eye here?

00:33:48.220 Important.

00:33:49.100 It's always right in your face.

00:33:52.140 Dominate Middle-Earth uses a Palantir to spy on enemies and conspire with allies.

00:33:56.860 The power of Isengard is at your command, Sauron, Lord of the Earth.

00:34:03.300 Basically, Teal is offering Sauron's power to anyone who can afford it.

00:34:07.320 And here's what the definition, Novus Ordo Secorum, means a new order of the ages.

00:34:11.500 New world order.

00:34:15.220 New order of the ages.

00:34:17.000 The messianic age, the end of the world. 0.95

00:34:20.160 Palantir's promise, use network analysis to find unforeseen patterns in vast troughs of data.

00:34:24.840 This is especially interesting to U.S. intelligence agencies who had collected information on Al-Qaeda

00:34:29.920 conspirators but failed to see the connections till after the attack.

00:34:33.780 In the early years, many users are disappointed with Palantir's service.

00:34:37.420 But their timing is excellent, with everyone terrified of another attack.

00:34:41.300 And Teald's chosen CEO is excellent at raising money.

00:34:44.680 And this is important. 0.99

00:34:45.760 Someone in the chat said he was on death row for killing his gay sex partner and stuffing 0.99

00:34:49.460 him in a suitcase and dumping him in the desert. 0.88

00:34:50.980 then the government just let him go and now he advocates for normalization with Israel to

00:34:55.000 economically destroy them. That guy's a joke. Who are you talking about? Who dumped the gay body in 1.00

00:35:00.880 the desert? Tell me, chat. What are you guys talking about? He died in his pubes? His name 1.00

00:35:05.840 is Alex Karp. He's another former Stanford classmate. When Osama bin Laden is captured

00:35:12.320 and killed, rumors circulate that Palantir was used to find him. Public interest in the company

00:35:17.280 skyrockets. Based on what's known,

00:35:47.280 Today, about Palantir's abilities at the time, any meaningful involvement is questionable.

00:35:53.900 When media outlets ask Alex Kerb about that rumor, he's careful not to confirm or deny involvement.

00:35:59.760 He tends to dodge the question with a smile and imply that some connection is there.

00:36:04.000 Did your company help to track and kill Osama bin Laden?

00:36:09.860 When you open the paper and look in the news about these kind of things, there's a two-thirds chance, depending on the country involved, that somehow my company was involved.

00:36:21.660 One media outlet isn't buying the hype. A gossipy blog called Gawker.

00:36:26.680 According to Max Chafkin, Gawker's Silicon Valley page reports no real link between Palantir and the Bin Laden raid and suggests the company spread the rumor just to boost sales.

00:36:36.520 Valiwek is known for roasting the tech industry back when most news outlets tend to sing its praises.

00:36:41.800 And a favorite target of Gawker's gossip and mockery is Peter Thiel.

00:36:45.900 Thiel will take care of Gawker later.

00:36:48.800 Beyond founding Palantir, Thiel spends the 2000s turning tech startups into giants.

00:36:53.420 I was the sort of first angel investor in Facebook in the summer of 2004.

00:36:57.060 The business was already tracking quite well.

00:36:59.040 They only needed money to buy more computers, so I think that was always sort of a promising sign.

00:37:02.720 In 2004, he becomes Facebook's first big investor.

00:37:06.000 Teal not only funds the company, but becomes Zuckerberg's mentor.

00:37:09.500 Now, Zuckerberg is one of the richest people alive.

00:37:17.940 And Teal's investment will net him a- 1.00

00:37:19.560 Look at those fucking glasses, dude. He looks like Woody Allen. 1.00

00:37:21.980 Can I get on Band on Meta?

00:37:25.280 Teal doesn't stop there.

00:37:26.920 Through his network, he backs Airbnb, Spotify, SpaceX, and later OpenAI.

00:37:32.040 In 2007, Teal seems to have spotted-

00:37:36.000 on spotify the financial crisis early he bets against the u.s housing market the gamble

00:37:52.720 what the is that tts noise what was that noise pays off a 60 return in just six months

00:38:00.400 banks will collapse and around nine million americans will lose their jobs

00:38:04.480 But for Teal, it's cause for celebration. According to Chefkin, he flies his stuff to

00:38:08.880 Maui with unlimited tabs for food, booze, massages, and surfing. We asked Peter Teal if this is true,

00:38:15.040 but he didn't answer. But Teal's golden run doesn't last. After a string of bad investments

00:38:24.080 and mass redemptions, his hedge fund suffers huge losses and all but collapses. By 2011,

00:38:29.680 he will have lost nearly two-thirds of his client's money.

00:38:33.080 The crisis seems to make Thiel more cynical.

00:38:35.820 In 2009, he writes that he still believes in libertarianism.

00:38:59.680 and congratulations that's peter teal right okay we're gonna start you off with a five hundred

00:39:05.640 thousand dollar investment maurice is gonna talk to you about some corporate restructuring we'll

00:39:10.920 follow as a corporation in delaware come up with a stock structure that allows for new investors

00:39:14.420 now let me ask you something who's edward of saverin is that his only scene

00:39:20.660 this is before they go to that meeting that we just saw it seems like that's probably the only

00:39:36.920 scene damn i don't even remember that michael's ever shares the best advice

00:39:41.220 speaking of peter and it's sort of a closing question what's the best piece of advice he 0.59

00:39:44.500 ever gave you i think peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote that in a world

00:39:54.880 that's changing zuck oh people in the chat are saying zuck what is this zuck quickly the biggest

00:40:00.760 risk you can take is oh look at his look at his eyes not taking any risk and i really think that

00:40:08.480 that's true right i mean a lot of people i think think that um think that you know whenever it

00:40:12.220 comes down whenever you get yourself into a position where you have to make some some big

00:40:15.620 shift in direction. People are going to point to the downside risks of that decision and locally

00:40:23.080 but no longer in democracy. I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible he

00:40:36.720 declares. He argues that America has been in decline since the 1920s when women gained the 1.00

00:40:41.940 right to vote and when the Great Depression created mass unemployment. In his view, women

00:40:46.420 and poor people are especially hostile to libertarian policies. Their ability to vote

00:40:51.400 stands in the way of his ideal society. The essay makes waves. Gawker Media calls him a loopy

00:40:57.960 libertarian, ridiculing him for wishing women couldn't vote. Thiel later clarifies it's not

00:41:02.720 that he wants to take one class of voters' rights away. The problem is that Americans in general

00:41:07.740 won't vote for libertarian policies.

00:41:11.060 So, better to do away with democracy altogether.

00:41:15.280 Meanwhile, Gawker Media gleefully reports

00:41:17.540 Teal's investment failures.

00:41:21.520 They claim he exaggerates his net worth 0.95

00:41:23.440 and make fun of his hypocrisies.

00:41:25.720 Gawker reported on a lot of important topics

00:41:27.660 other media outlets wouldn't touch till much later,

00:41:30.280 like the crimes of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.

00:41:33.340 But they also posted a lot of arguably cruel gossip.

00:41:36.280 In 2007, they outed Teal's sexual orientation with a post titled, 0.96

00:41:40.600 Peter Teal is totally gay people. 1.00

00:41:42.920 Peter Teal's sexuality was an open secret at the time, but he didn't seem to want it reported.

00:41:47.620 His outing was clearly a violation of privacy.

00:41:50.540 According to The Contrarian, Teal sees Gawker's coverage as damaging to his business.

00:41:54.560 Gawker, more like Cocker, you dig what I'm saying?

00:41:57.200 Yes.

00:41:58.000 And plenty of other people have grudges against his side.

00:42:00.620 So Teal quietly funds a team of lawyers to

00:42:03.300 Yeah, well Vicky wants to stream right now, but let's lock in on this, huh?

00:42:06.120 ...take up their cases.

00:42:07.680 The decisive moment comes in 2012, when Gawker publishes a leaked sex tape of the wrestler Hulk Hogan.

00:42:13.860 Hogan sues, and Teal secretly bankrolls the fight with $10 million.

00:42:17.900 Wow.

00:42:19.720 R.P. Hulk.

00:42:21.240 Hulk Hogan the GOAT.

00:42:23.300 The stage is set for a major courtroom battle.

00:42:26.120 Hulk Hogan, former professional wrestler turned reality star, is taking on media website Gawker.

00:42:31.100 Gawker is hit with just over $100 million in damages and files for bankruptcy in 2016.

00:42:45.980 Gawker Media is no more. And Thiel is proud of his win, calling it the most philanthropic thing

00:42:51.180 he's ever done. In an interview, he compares the journalists behind the company to terrorists.

00:42:56.460 The world learned that it's dangerous to mess with Peter Thiel.

00:43:00.120 Reporters Without Borders called his feet a serious threat on freedom of the press.

00:43:04.560 Critics argue that this set a precedent for wealthy individuals to weaponize the courts and bury media that criticizes them.

00:43:11.500 But Peter Thiel is just getting started.

00:43:18.780 It's often said that two things in life are certain.

00:43:26.460 I would have allowed him in the shatano regime. 0.98

00:43:28.060 Death and taxes.

00:43:29.360 Well, Peter Thiel disagrees.

00:43:31.380 With others see as inevitabilities, Thiel sees as problems to be solved.

00:43:35.620 He famously funds biotech companies pursuing life extension.

00:43:39.380 His hatred of taxes has some poor resources into anti-tax political actions and also seasteading.

00:43:45.280 Man-made island nations free from income tax and governmental regulations.

00:43:49.200 A floating libertarian utopia where he can escape systems he finds oppressive.

00:43:54.340 An idea he has since abandoned.

00:43:55.640 He looks into other exit plans, like a bunker in New Zealand, which he also later drops,

00:44:01.060 and the chance for humanity to reach Mars.

00:44:03.720 This becomes Peter Thiel's pattern, seeking escape.

00:44:07.260 Escape from rules that govern everyone else.

00:44:09.600 If you are top G, then Peter Thiel is toppiest G.

00:44:12.460 Sloppiest toppiest G.

00:44:13.220 I was so close to unbanning you on Metalol.

00:44:15.880 Okay, well, it is what it is, bro. It is what it is.

00:44:20.320 Should I stop making jokes about Elon Musk flapping his arms up and down

00:44:23.320 and go get beef jerky on an island if I want to stay on X?

00:44:25.640 I like Elon Musk. I'm just joking about that stuff. He's Elon the GOAT.

00:44:29.660 But escape on Peter Thiel's scale doesn't come easily.

00:44:32.920 Immortality research and space exploration require massive resources.

00:44:37.260 Changing tax laws requires massive influence.

00:44:40.260 Fortunately for Thiel, his wealth and influence have grown enormously.

00:44:44.140 So he can attempt to reshape politics to enable his search for escape.

00:44:49.240 In 2007, he does something unusual for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

00:44:53.400 He starts funding presidential candidates.

00:44:55.640 His first big bet is the libertarian Ron Paul, a longshot candidate for presidency, but a

00:45:00.700 politician with a passionate base.

00:45:02.740 Wait, I like Ron Paul, and Rand Paul, are these guys corrupt too?

00:45:06.780 Like Thiel, Paul is an advocate for extreme free market capitalism, they're also both

00:45:11.060 skeptical of climate change to different degrees.

00:45:14.160 Ron Paul doesn't win the 2008 presidency, Obama does.

00:45:18.120 In 2012, Ron Paul runs again, and this time Thiel is his biggest donor.

00:45:22.140 Let me be clear. Peter Thiel is a bumblecloth. He might be gay. 0.98

00:45:29.040 I have hope that we can not poke each other in the butt, because Barack Hussein Obama, and we need change. 1.00

00:45:36.800 We don't need to change our genders. We need to change the economy. 1.00

00:45:39.860 By a long shot, Thiel wasn't really banking on Paul's win. Instead, he was thinking ahead.

00:45:45.540 In an interview with the magazine Slade from 2012, Thiel says he was really campaigning for 2016,

00:45:50.580 building up a strong libertarian base.

00:45:55.780 Thiel seems to want a candidate who will assure his wealth will be protected.

00:46:00.040 One who will grant more power to the tech industry

00:46:02.840 and one who shares his view that America is in decline

00:46:06.000 and needs a strong man to become great again.

00:46:09.100 When Trump is revealed as the best candidate to promote those aims,

00:46:12.300 Thiel donates $1.25 million to his campaign.

00:46:16.160 In 2016, Thiel takes the stage at the Republican National Convention during primetime. 0.92

00:46:20.580 Dude, like an openly gay guy at the RNC. 1.00

00:46:24.380 Tonight, I urge all of my fellow Americans to stand up. 1.00

00:46:28.040 Nigga, you're German! You're German! You're German! Fuck! 1.00

00:46:31.880 Vote for Donald Trump. 1.00

00:46:33.420 Thiel campaigns for Trump as if his views represented Silicon Valley.

00:46:36.820 But at the time, Trump is deeply unpopular in tech.

00:46:39.960 Of the top tech companies in the Valley, not a single CEO donates to Trump's 2016 campaign.

00:46:45.260 And Thiel's support of Trump makes him somewhat of a pariah.

00:46:48.080 According to the contrarian, friends cut ties with him or refuse to discuss politics.

00:46:53.380 Teal is unbothered.

00:46:54.880 They'll change their tune soon enough.

00:46:57.020 Besides, he's starting to lean into his image as the Silicon Valley supervillain.

00:47:01.120 He reportedly once said,

00:47:02.660 I'd rather be seen as evil than incompetent.

00:47:05.720 When Trump shocks the world by winning, Teal is part of the transition team.

00:47:09.720 His role is to appoint...

00:47:10.580 Vicky will slip it back in while staring into her chinky eyes. 1.00

00:47:14.500 She wants her seat inside her.

00:47:18.080 and Drug Administration. A dream job for Thiel, who's railed against governmental regulation for

00:47:23.040 decades. Thiel reportedly suggests 150 names to Trump. According to Max Chavkin, his list includes

00:47:28.960 to no surprise ultra-libertarians, but also very controversial figures, fringe people from his

00:47:34.640 growing network of far-right reactionaries. Trump only approves a handful of them,

00:47:40.960 the least controversial suggestions that Thiel makes. So Thiel's first attempt at capturing

00:47:45.760 the White House seems to have failed. Politically, Teal retreats to the background for a bit.

00:47:50.400 He and his partner have their first child and he seems to focus on family life for a while.

00:48:15.060 But the background is where Peter Thiel thrives the most.

00:48:19.260 Outside of politics, Thiel's businesses are skyrocketing, especially Palantir.

00:48:24.540 During COVID, Palantir wins government contracts to analyze pandemic data,

00:48:28.280 tracking infections and vaccines.

00:48:30.480 In 2025, Business Insider reports that under the second Trump administration,

00:48:34.240 ICE will use Palantir to track down immigrants who overstate their visas.

00:48:38.480 Palantir's involvement has only intensified under Trump and has been instrumental for over a decade

00:48:43.000 since Obama's second administration. The Guardian reports in 2025 that Palantir provides ICE with

00:48:48.760 tools that help their agents fulfill Trump's aggressive deportation quotas using a vast data

00:48:53.420 network. It includes government records such as text data from the IRS and private databases like

00:48:58.860 location history from cell phone records. Now Palantir also incorporates facial recognition

00:49:03.800 data from Clearview AI, another startup where Peter Thiel is the first investor.

00:49:08.900 The pattern is clear.

00:49:10.140 so one of the main takeaways we learned so far that I didn't know here he was a major investor

00:49:14.820 in Facebook early on he part he was a mentor for Mark Zuckerberg he was one of the OG funders of 0.52

00:49:20.520 the Trump campaign in 2016 and he was alienated for that he was a gay nerd that was bullied and 0.92

00:49:25.800 hates white Christians and wants to get revenge of the nerds and Palantir has oh wow this literally 0.98

00:49:32.040 looks like the eye of Sauron here all-seeing eye pro-transhumanism corrupted by greed Palantir 0.99

00:49:38.700 thrives in chaos. And chaos is only ramping up. What looks like a political setback with Trump

00:49:50.300 may just be Thiel's chance to plan his next move. Thiel won't back Trump's second campaign,

00:49:55.340 but he will build up another politician. Thiel won't back Trump's second campaign,

00:50:03.660 pain. He does look like the meme, huh? Fucking hell, nigga look like a chipmunk. Build up another 1.00

00:50:10.060 politician. We're effectively run in this country via the Democrats. What does J.D. stand for? So

00:50:14.960 what's J.D. Vance's original name? He was a never-Trumper, remember that? Only two years in

00:50:19.200 Senate before, uh, only two years in Senate before he became the VP. Jesus Christ, that's a bad

00:50:25.960 picture, bro. Holy moly. But what's his original name? James David Vance. David. Ooh, David.

00:50:33.660 So what is his real name?

00:50:36.220 Original name is what?

00:50:38.380 Real name is James Donald Bowman.

00:50:40.160 So he literally changed Donald as like a wasp name.

00:50:46.920 And he changed it to make him more Jewish. 0.62

00:50:49.540 Can you watch David Ickes interview with Jake Shields?

00:50:52.340 Really interesting info.

00:50:53.920 Okay, cool.

00:50:54.520 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:50:55.340 I want to get David Icke on stream.

00:50:56.740 Jake Shields texted me about that.

00:50:57.760 I want to get David Icke on here.

00:51:00.100 What's his name?

00:51:00.720 James David Vance.

00:51:01.780 Why JD?

00:51:03.660 Anyway, oops, excuse me.

00:51:04.960 That's via our corporate oligarchs by a bunch of childless cat ladies 1.00

00:51:08.400 who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made.

00:51:13.200 Teal injects J.D. Vance's primary campaign with $15 million.

00:51:16.840 J.D. stands for jerky dick, really? 1.00

00:51:18.840 Vance. 1.00

00:51:19.340 G. David.

00:51:21.880 G. David.

00:51:23.740 Is now vice president of the United States.

00:51:27.140 Teal and Vance's relationship didn't come out of nowhere.

00:51:30.080 Vance worked at one of Teal's companies and Teal became his mentor.

00:51:33.080 as Vance himself says. And it was also Thiel who brought J.D. Vance and Donald Trump together.

00:51:39.720 After Trump is elected as president again in 2024, several members of the tech elite rally

00:51:44.660 behind him. There's Elon Musk. Remember that? Yeah, very. OK, look at him flapping his arms.

00:51:48.940 But over here, again in 2024. Again, remember, he doesn't swear on the Bible. This is a House

00:51:53.760 Republicans are calling on the FCC to investigate Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance. Yeah, why don't

00:51:59.220 investigate the epstein files fucking frauds but look at all members of the tech elite the tech 0.98

00:52:03.460 elite you remember here he doesn't swear on the black rally behind him so you got jeff bezos bezos's 0.98

00:52:08.220 wife dead center mark zuckerberg who else is here they're all all the paypal mafia all the 1.00

00:52:14.520 og tech millionaires right here fuck jesus christ fuck jesus christ fuck jesus christ 1.00

00:52:20.020 fuck jesus the power of jesus the power of jesus they see that the power of jesus get mad 1.00

00:52:28.800 get mad get mad get mad ten dollars to say that stupid shit there's elon musk who was against 1.00

00:52:34.740 trump in 26 what oh is this way this is elon go to is i show the salute scene and becomes his most 1.00

00:52:41.740 visible supporter in 20 no show the salute show the salute this is right before he said that uh

00:52:47.520 trump was implicated on the epstein files he switched up quick elon my heart goes out to you

00:52:54.340 remember this come on please there's oh no oh he didn't show it oh he was so close to showing it

00:53:00.020 boom but glad wait wait wait wait i know i'm doing a lot of detours but this stuff is important

00:53:05.120 where's the video goes out here watch for his wiki leak video also search

00:53:13.000 jake tran he's disappeared after sro vid i met jake tran he's disappeared

00:53:19.220 There's Mark Zuckerberg, who abolishes fact-checkers at Madder less than two weeks before Trump

00:53:28.900 takes office, and there's Sundar Pekai, the CEO of Google, who donates one million dollars

00:53:33.460 to Trump just before inauguration.

00:53:36.420 At the inauguration of Trump's second presidency in January 2025, major tech CEOs are clearly

00:53:41.460 visible in the front row.

00:53:43.640 And he does not swear in on the Bible.

00:53:45.840 when Mark Levin puts his arm around Trump, he says, I'm the first Jewish president. It's true.

00:53:49.600 It's true. It's great. But one person isn't there that day. Peter Thiel. He's in the background

00:53:55.040 again. Peter Thiel. Instead, he watches Palantir's stock skyrocket and topping the market for much

00:54:01.300 of 2025. The surge is in part fueled by government contracts. And not just in the US. Palantir has

00:54:07.520 been hired by Israeli forces allegedly. Dude, if you want to manipulate the stock, not manipulate,

00:54:11.680 but if you want to benefit from the stock market, I should have been looking at this stuff. Looking

00:54:15.000 back look at the the major tech investors who was the new testament has all the answers you are

00:54:20.180 looking for okay i know yeah we're looking through that but we could have seen the donors the major

00:54:24.360 donors and been like okay if teal is investing all this money into trump then that means his

00:54:29.200 company is going to skyrocket that's why he's investing because he just wants the stock to win

00:54:32.380 if i was if i was analyzing that properly i could have invested in palantir and made some money from

00:54:37.820 that stock and you know sold when it went up hindsight huh to enable ai power targeting of

00:54:44.360 Palestinians, which the company denies, and by Ukraine in its war against Russia. These and

00:54:50.200 other contracts not only boost Palantir's profits, they also give the company access

00:54:54.780 to extremely sensitive data. Few assets carry more power or more potential for harm. So who

00:55:01.480 decides how it's used? We reached out to Peter Thiel as well as Palantir because we had a lot

00:55:08.100 questions. Unfortunately, none of them were answered. In 2012, Peter Thiel said,

00:55:15.920 one of the things I like about technology is that when technology is unregulated,

00:55:19.920 you can change the world without getting regulated. Why is social media regulated?

00:55:24.080 You should be on Burger King. I like Burger King. Yummy, yummy, fry French. 1.00

00:55:28.920 Approval from other people. At its best, it's not subject to democratic control and not subject to

00:55:34.720 the majority, which I think is often hostile to change. A recent venture Teal backed is called

00:55:40.440 Erebor, a crypto bank named after the mountain in The Hobbit where a murderous dragon hoards treasure.

00:55:45.860 And now Trump is pushing one of Teal's wilder ideas, low-tax freedom cities where corporations

00:55:50.760 can operate without federal regulations. Sneaky sneaky sneaky, can't you see? Sometimes your

00:55:56.180 words just hypnotize me. And I just get the thing. Well, ARL people coming in here, Aiden made you,

00:56:01.980 Aiden made you.

00:56:02.520 Aiden made you.

00:56:03.100 Is A.R.L. mad at me again?

00:56:04.440 What happened this time?

00:56:07.300 I heard you have tech teams in Israel.

00:56:08.380 Tech teams in Israel.

00:56:08.980 What else is he saying? 1.00

00:56:10.340 Why do you have such a shitty personality? 1.00

00:56:12.040 This is yesterday. 1.00

00:56:13.040 How many sources of incomes do you have?

00:56:15.840 Sneak a look at the clock.

00:56:16.880 It could change your life.

00:56:18.340 Obama, Obama, Obama. 1.00

00:56:19.680 Dude, what the fuck is this guy? 1.00

00:56:21.180 He's been chatting for weeks. 1.00

00:56:22.800 No, I'm joking.

00:56:23.400 No, I'm joking.

00:56:23.960 Okay.

00:56:24.840 All right.

00:56:25.260 I was going to time you.

00:56:25.960 You know what?

00:56:26.500 Take five minutes out and think about what you said.

00:56:28.060 Think about that.

00:56:28.600 Sit in a corner and watch for five minutes.

00:56:30.000 cities in our country again. These freedom cities will reopen the frontier, reignite American

00:56:36.140 imagination. Freedom cities aren't just for making a lot of money. The goal is also to conduct

00:56:41.140 research without governmental approval. One such place already exists. Prospera in Honduras.

00:56:47.940 You already know who helped fund it. The libertarian utopia Peter Thiel dreams of

00:56:52.640 no longer needs Mars or the open ocean. It's being built right in America.

00:57:00.000 holy great video shout out to fern there's peter teal is destroying democracy

00:57:07.100 teal looks like a bond villain he really does oh look surveillance boy had his privacy violated 0.90

00:57:12.380 it's like yeah right he's so mad that he got exposed for being a gay guy but it's like your 0.99

00:57:16.860 whole fucking thing is is adding mass surveillance yeah that's a great point 0.99

00:57:19.940 of course he's obsessed with immortality hell is awaiting him facts great video shout out to fern 0.99

00:57:30.000 See you.

SHNEAKO - February 11, 2026

Is Peter Thiel Preparing Us for Doomsday？

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