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Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues
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You know, nobody expects billionaires to be down to earth, but this level of delusional is more than just out of touch billionaire. This is out of touch billionaire who is also blindingly drunk on power.
Before I even got to the part where he actually accused critics of just being jealous, I was already thinking he sounded like a friend of mine who would always jokingly say "You're juss jealouss" when shitfaced, and people warned her to pace herself. Except this guy is not joking.
He has convinced himself that profiting from the destruction of equality and civil liberty is somehow making America great. I fucking hate this guy. Not because I'm jealous, but because he's part of a treasonous coup. If there is any justice, he and everyone else profiting from this shit will go down in history as the Benedict Arnolds they actually are.
Don't forget this. They make this possible, and many of them are watching their own investments grow. Every time we support or passively allow them to maintain seats of power, we are also making it possible.
He's not even fucking from here. Like, he immigrated, he's American, but he came from Germany and that makes his love of surveillance even more damning
I think Karp was born in NY, but Thiel was born in Germany. Just one more thing to add to the list of why Thiel is a hypocrite who never should have been given power.
I find it interesting that being rejected for a clerkship by conservative SCOTUS judges is probably one of the only times he was ever told "No" in his life. Destroying constitutional rights/civil liberty was probably always his long term goal, and even when he failed going the traditional route, he has somehow managed to find an alternative way to destroy this country.
https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-was-rejected-from-a-clerkship-for-antonin-scalia-2016-2
No returns on Thiel though, we have to make that clear here. If Adolf was German and the Austrians don't take him back, we don't take Thiel or Trump back
Given power? The dude did not get given his economic power. Thiel stole it from us!
Honestly I'd happily propose gutting them for the shear fucking lack of humility alone. If you are going to be a right bastard at least know what you are, I hope I am granted the opportunity to watch them cry in confusion as their lungs fill with blood.