There’s this Thiel industry plant conspiracy influencer called J*sse Michel, runs a Youtube channel called “Am*rican Alchemy”, he’s interviewed ppl like Tom O’Neill, Jacques Vallee, Graham Hancock, Eric Weinstein, etc.
He graduated from Columbia, interned for Jon Stewart&Charlie Rose, worked at Google for 4 years, and then made his way over to Thiel Capital as an investor, he also produced Eric Weinstein’s podcast “The Portal”
In the interview above Michels mentions that he lives in Laurel Canyon, and then he name drops Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon saying “Its a good boo—its actually not even worth reading to be honest… there’s like, a few takeaways” https://t.co/2BpUBlLMlQtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
His brand/content is a mixture of libertarian/populist conspiracism, psychonautics, finance bro-ism, with Dark Enlightenment sensibilities, a lot of his world view seems to be adopted from Thiel’s, he seems genuinely interested in/well read in UFO literature
Michels revealed in an interview with NASJAQ (finance bro tiktoker/youtuber) that he hit up Thiel for Google’s equivalent of a Ted talk which didn’t go thru, but got lunch together anyways where Michels piqued Thiel’s interest by talking ab Rupert Shaldrake¶psychology https://t.co/SAA9yz54Rctwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Michels’ first video/interview was with Jake Paul in 2021, interestingly Michels already had a sort of longstanding relationship with Paul, as did Eric Weinstein who was also featured in the video
(Weinstein is ofc frmr Joint Managing Director of Thiel Capital) https://t.co/JzkVEgrgh9twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Now what do Am*rican Alchemy, IMPAULSIVE (Logan Paul’s podcast), and Red Scare all have in common? They’ve all had Eric Weinstein and Alex Jones on in the past few years https://t.co/uuqHnqSxm7twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For some reason they have AI Venture Capitalist Riva Tez there too, cuz you know, Alex Jones loves transhumanist silicon valley types. She disclosed to the Claremont Institute she collaborated w DARPA while w Silicon Engineering
https://t.co/tsUbJKBZzf https://t.co/0DnmJJPWgQclaremont.org/page/riva-meli…
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She worked at Intel, leading their Strategic Technology Initiative, and eventually founded her AI VC fund Permutation Ventures, as for her being Deputy CEO of Goldman Sachs i’m having difficulty getting clarity on it, she seems to be playing it off as a joke
Michels’ lists off Jones’s virtues, anti-Bush, anti-Iraq War, anti-Neocon… ironically Iraq War architect&neocon Richard Perle was the one who introduced Thiel&Palantir to John Poindexter, a Reagan admin alum who worked on “Total Information Awareness” at the DOD following 9/11 https://t.co/zCGa7husurtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Thiel&Perle are also longtime Bilderbergers, Thiel is even on its Steering Committee… Alex Jones’ has protested outside of Bilderberg multiple times, even at the same time as Michels’ boss Thiel (bottom of list) was attending alongside Richard Perle (top of list) https://t.co/YXlKz9wFkrtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jones actually brings up Bilderberg at one point in Michels’ video, “If there’s a place where you’ve got like half of them are James Bond villains that’s it… but the *incoherent* Steering Committee&the Klaus Schwab… he’s the real deal”
So its strange that a Conspiracy youtuber who works for Thiel Capital and is personally acquainted with Thiel&Weinstein, is having Alex Jones’ on, who ostensibly is against neocons, Bilderbergers, and transhumanists, when his boss represents an intersection of those 3 groups
They have plausible deniability for knowing ab Thiel’s Bilderbergship, but that’s not to say its a given Jones’ is in good faith, Jones’ rise to fame was also strange, when Michels’ mentions Jones’ family background, Alex tries to diminish his family’s weird background&pivots
Most are familiar with Thiel hosting a dinner party in honor of Tom O’Neill, per Bret Easton Ellis
Few are aware Thiel Capital employee J*sse Michels of Am*rican Alchemy interviewed Tom O’Neill for his youtube channel. Its clear Thiel&the Thielverse is interested in psychedelics, brain computer interfaces, & biotech, but why exactly they’re interested in O’Neill I have no idea
Some speculation on why
Context for the Red Scare Thielbucks suspicions, puts Am*rican Alchemy into perspective as well
As if it couldn’t get any worse Michels is an Elon Musk suck up, and attempted to enter the COVID discontent grifter sphere by interviewing Biodefense spook Robert Malone
I think its suspicious that Robert Malone rose to “stardom” thru his initial appearances on Bret Weinstein’s DarkHorse Podcast and the Joe Rogan Experience, two mainstays of the “Intellectual Dark Web” which has significant overlap with the “Dark Enlightenment”
Michels elaborated on what producing Eric Weinstein’s podcast “The Portal” meant, it was “Mainly getting guests [and doing research]”, so which guests appeared on The Portal?
Peter Thiel, Bret Weinstein, James O’Keefe (frmr Project Veritas), Jamie Metzl (Atlantic Council Fellow), Anna Khachiyan (Red Scare), Bret Easton Ellis (Author of American Psycho), Andrew Yang, Sam Harris, etc.
Project Veritas&O’Keefe have a strange connection to Erik Prince, founder&frmr CEO of Black Water PMC, Prince helped train Project Veritas employees in counter intelligence https://t.co/zpJQXG8LHJ
No fucking way lmao
Some of Michels tweets&retweets on COVID origins, China, etc. Pretty squarely aligned with Thiel&Trump team on COVID&China
I think its possible Thiel and those apart of the Trump milieu see anti-vax&anti-COVID policy sentiments as something they can coopt for political gain, as well as a vehicle for “Chinavirus” COVID origins… Trump&Thiel standby mRNA, but also push Chinese COVID origins
Michels’ also did a video on Lyme Disease w Ross Douthat, comparing Long Covid 2 Chronic Lyme, Plum Island to the Wuhan Lab. Michels makes clear his support for Wuhan Lab Origins in a few other videos, such as his interview with Martin Shrekli, Tyler Cowen, probably Malone, etc.
@H_R_Haldeman O’Neill’s research still seems solid to me despite hanging out with sus people, tho Jimmy has expressed doubts ab O’Neill in the past, i’m not sure what the exact angle is https://t.co/OBMoFvcjVm
Bonus tweet, SolBrah was also interviewed by Michels lol
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