I happened to know that “learned helplessness” is one of Peter Thiel’s go-to phrases to describe what he believes is an erosion in human agency. It reminded me of it when AOC used the same phrase the other day.
Obviously, it’s common for people to use various turns of phrase. This particular one hit a nerve because of the emerging picture around Justice Dems connections to Thiel’s network, described in this thread and others.
We are starting to get a clearer picture of those network links. More soon. The questions around the small dollar donations are more than fair game and need massive sunlight.

If it’s illegal to game our system with large donations, the same should be true with small donations.
For folks interested in learning more about Thiel, his mindset, his use of the phrase “learned helplessness,” and his pattern of looking at both sides of a problem simultaneously, I recommend reading (or listening to) this book. Lots of insights.

goodreads.com/book/show/3668…
Someone asked why Thiel might help fund Justice Dems. This requires understanding Thiel. He would see this as helping to increase polarization and thus break the back of Dems. Note the “squad” has passed no legislation. And the party is now fractured, thanks in part to AOC.
And stuff like this is a headscratcher, in retrospect.

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22 Dec
It seems plausible that @TedCruz in forcing the NS2 sanctions vote is trying to help give Putin talking points for this kind of rhetoric that would justify an attack against US domestic interests, giving Cruz a way to initiate a US civil war by foreign proxy. @mcfaul
Think EMP attack against the Northeast, perhaps co-signed by China.
I should note that I oppose NS2, also but question Cruz’s motives in demanding a vote on it now, especially when the Biden admin has already sanctioned Russian entities and this goes after a NATO ally.
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19 Dec
1/Let’s talk about @AOC for a minute. What is she going on about? Blaming the president for not passing BBB and whatnot? Nevermind these are strawman arguments she has set up here, does she not see how Congress works? Manchin killed this. What is to be done but try again?
2/It seems her former chief of staff @saikatc put forth a “plan” a year or so ago suggesting how Biden could pursue a “BBB” effort without Congress, by repurposing the Fed around regional development loans. thenation.com/article/econom…
3/Now AOC seems to be suggesting that Biden should be “blamed” for not following Chakrabarti’s “perfectly good” plan. A plan that may or may not be constitutional because it cuts Congress out of the power of the purse, and likely has many other monetary policy implications.
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19 Dec
Perhaps she would be more comfortable in the GOP or libertarian party. Just waiting for her to launch her NFT project and announce she is placing her assets into Bitcoin because ethics. 🙄
Product of a casting call.

washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/…
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18 Dec
1/Time to get real. Most of what people perceive as ‘real’ the last five years has been a constructed stage play designed to tear the world apart. It’s a sham. People were duped. Don’t get fooled again. Here are just a few samples.
2/Kanye West wasn’t sincere in his presidential run. He was a GOP plant, run by Republican operatives, as we now know. He did this as part of a cynical psyop on the African American population, and was tight with Thiel, Musk, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and Don Jr.
3/Brandon Straka was a former hairdresser and actor recruited to run the “WalkAway” campaign in mid-2018. He is now cooperating with DOJ and has provided “material” information. He was instrumental in the #Jan6 attack and is ratting on his accomplices.
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18 Dec
Apparently Brandon Straka has been cooperating with DOJ and the #Jan6 committee. He has been known to OSINT community for a very long time. Here are some photos I snapped of him in Baltimore in 2020. He knows a lot.
Here he is at the Schlafly Eagles summit in 2019, the organization run by the already-subpoenaed Ed Martin and tied in closely with CNP and Mike Flynn.
Straka is a former hairdresser from Nebraska. He seems to have been recruited in NYC a few years ago and ran some bizarre campaigns before he started WalkAway.
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17 Dec
As we enter the cyber war as declared by Russia today, I recommend folks acquaint themselves more fully with Messrs. Mavrodi and Malofeyev.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Ma…
Malofeyev has been the principal advocate of parallel internet services to mirror popular, mainstream sites. You can thank him for Parler and various Russian parallel services that aim to give Russia digital sovereignty.

ft.com/content/918d2e…
And Malofeyev had his own interesting cryptocurrency episode.

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
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