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Sep 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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The new Atlantic piece on Mitt Romney calls out 3 of America's smarmiest Senators, who fake their support for Trump and betray the US, but skips how they're connected: Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz & J.D. Vance owe their careers to Peter Thiel. They're owned. 1/
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It's bizarre that the Atlantic links Hawley, Cruz, & Vance but won't say they share a patron. It matters who pulls their strings: Hawley and Cruz are the 2 Senators who upheld objections to the electoral vote on Jan 6. Without them, no Capitol attack. 2/
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Ted Cruz, who worked on post-election maneuvers for Bush vs. Gore in 2000, was Thiel's first successful political project. Thiel funded Cruz's run for TX Attorney General in 2009, then for Senate in 2012. Cruz won with the help of Ali Alexander's set. 3/
Thiel has managed Hawley for decades. Hawley wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review. Thiel helped Hawley found Teneo in 2008, then funded his run for Senate. (James O'Keefe tipped the election to Hawley with dirty tricks; this gang is all linked.) 4/
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Hawley's Teneo was in the news recently - ProPublica and Esquire wrote about how dangerous it is - but bizarrely left out that Josh Hawley was a founder. These links matter; it's irresponsible to leave them out. 5/
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Sen. JD Vance of Ohio is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Peter Thiel. Thiel met law student Vance in 2011, then became his patron: installed him at Mithril Capital in 2016; set him up with Narya Capital in 2019; gave him a slot at 2019 NatCon, spent $10M running him for Senate. 6/
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The Atlantic nailed the insincerity of Senators Hawley, Cruz, and Vance, their "oily disingenuousness". (Mitt Romney: "I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance".) But they left out the WHY - the money, and the paymaster, Thiel. 7/
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After the Jan 6 Capitol attack, Roger Stone sought "pre-emptive" pardons for Hawley and Cruz. They are in deep. The Jan 6 "Big Timeline" has 58 entries for Hawley, 41 for Cruz, and 12 for Vance. It's worth a read. 8/
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Lots of people are reading @anneapplebaum's 2020 essay "History Will Judge the Complicit" today to understand Lindsey Graham. It's sobering to compare to Dorothy Thompson's 1941 "Who Goes Nazi?". Both try to classify collaborators. Both separate "resenters" and "opportunists" 1/ Image
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New today: Peter Thiel's secret society of illuminati had a website so insecure it exposed his entire membership list. And it's... interesting. His Palatantir folks, sure. Leonard Leo. The president of Stanford. Ezra Klein. And some D politicians who really shouldn't be there. 1/
Going to post the membership list in chunks. It's tech-fascists and fake-centrist pundits and Silicon Valley business guys and health wackos like Peter Attia and Trump toadies like Scott Bessent and a few arts folks and then.. Cory Booker? 2/ Image
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People seem surprised that Trump's AG was using private email. But the Jan 6 investigation showed: Trump officials do EVERYTHING on private email. That's why their comms had to be subpoenae'd. Nothing was archived.

1000 Hillarys, and not one article mentioned it. 1/
This account has been pointing out for years now: in 2020 Trump's officials openly flouted the Presidential Records Act and did official business on insecure devices. And they kept doing it in his second administration, because no one called it out. 2/
The contrast with the treatment of Hillary Clinton is .. sobering. It's going to be in textbooks someday, as an example of media bias. 3/
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The Trump-appointed chairman of the panel approving his fascist arch turns out to be an architect who restores palaces in Russia, lectures in Russia, and publishes in Russia: Rodney Mims Cook Jr., son of a famous GA politician, a cartoonishly pretentious monument builder. 1/ Image
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The current version of Rodney Mims Cook Jr.'s floridly self-aggrandizing website lists five lectures or presentations in Russia (including at the Kremlin) and one at the Russian embassy in DC. He's proud of his ties (h/t @nycsouthpaw) 2/ Image
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Apr 14
The only bright side of the DOJ's disgusting effort to vacate the convictions of the Proud Boys who led the Jan 6 Capitol attack (they weren't pardoned, just commuted): now they can all be subpoenae'd to testify and can't plead the 5th anymore. They'd have to talk. 1/
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The Jan 6 pipe bombs were deeply connected to many people including sitting Congressmen. No way do Trump and Blanche want any of that to come up in court. They will want that case to go away and if they will work the corrupt DOJ to make it go away quietly. 3/
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