Trump-backing tech billionaire Peter Thiel sees "50% chance this whole thing ends in disaster"

[Miles Archer]

Trump-backing tech billionaire Peter Thiel sees ‘50% chance this whole thing ends in disaster’



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/trump-backing-tech-billionaire-peter-thiel-sees-50-chance-this-whole-thing-ends-in-disaster-report/

Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and Facebook investor, endorsed Donald Trump during a speech at the Republican National Convention, but he’s reportedly been telling friends the president was a risky investment, reported BuzzFeed News.

Friends told the website that Thiel has expressed concerns in a half dozen private conversations between spring 2016, well before his RNC speech, and May 2017.

“There is a 50 percent chance this whole thing ends in disaster,” Thiel told friends privately, according to two sources who attended an event with the tech giant around Inauguration Day.

Thiel seemed “annoyed” by Trump’s actions at an event in May, sources told the website, and he described the administration as “incompetent” and questioned the president’s chances at re-election.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. SHAME on that GAY MAN for supporting this asshole.

[yallerdawg]

5. I know that is a rather "strange looking" fondling going on there...

but are you sure Trump is gay? (Not that there's anything wrong with it, of course!)

[CanonRay]

2. Just another billionaire asshole.

[Nevernose]

8. Small correction:

Peter Thiel is an EXCEPTIONAL asshole. World class.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. there is 100% chance that it is a disaster already for the whole world.

[MontanaMama]

6. You beat me to it.

Unmitigated disaster in progress. 100%.

[riversedge]

22. yes. good phase--Unmitigated disaster in progress. 100%.

[gratuitous]

9. Thiel is talking about a 50% chance for himself

Wealthy people don't like to take chances. They like their capers to be lead pipe cinches, even if they have to use a lead pipe to pull it off. Sure, a lot of poor people are suffering, but as far as a blood-gargling psychopath like Thiel is concerned, the poors are used to suffering, and it's no better than they deserve. But if this might affect Thiel or his bottom line, then it's time for the lawyers, guns and money.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. . The Shit has hit the fan!

[mountain grammy]

23. Exactly!

[HAB911]

4. Well thank you asshole

[Miles Archer]

7. That was then, this is now.

"I am not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a BUILDER."

[HAB911]

10. puke

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Begging The Question, Of Course. . .

. . .builder of exactly what? Well i guess there is that mountain of debt.

[NewJeffCT]

18. builder of

lawsuits against him as well? Builder of a list of ripped off contractors and investors?

[HughBeaumont]

11. Go live on your private enclave and be done with America, Anarcho-Crapitalist dickface.

He once said that giving women the right to vote started this country's downfall.

[leftstreet]

19. omg women shouldn't be allowed to vote?

Peter Thiel also has a disdain for women.[Note 4] In a 2009 essay written for Cato Unbound, Thiel theorized that giving women the right to vote set the United States on a downward spiral:
"The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron." —Peter Thiel [10]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

That a nutcase!

[HughBeaumont]

20. "two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians" . . .

Man, if THAT doesn't speak volumes about that party . . .

[leftstreet]

21. no kidding! n/t

[still_one]

14. What? The so-called occupant in the WH is starting to go against issues you care about so you are

having second thoughts? Same thing with Caitlyn Jenner.

Where were these celebrities when people were being threatened on losing their health insurance, or trump's views on the environment, or attacks on civil rights, women's rights, etc.

I guess empathy doesn't apply to others, only to their "selfish" interests

[Hassin Bin Sober]

15. That fucking jagoff Thiel has a doomsday home in New Zealand. So I guess he's set.

[JI7]

16. Fuck him.

[smirkymonkey]

17. They deserve each other.

They are both major assholes.

[HAB911]

24. Netflix CEO confronted Peter Thiel on 'catastrophically bad' Trump endorsement

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who sits on Facebook's board of directors, wrote an email to fellow board member Peter Thiel castigating him for his "catastrophically bad" judgment in supporting Donald Trump for president, according to a report in the New York Times.

Hastings chairs the Facebook board's Compensation and Governance Committee, which is responsible for evaluating board members. Last August, ahead of a meeting of that committee, Hastings reportedly emailed Thiel to warn him that his speech supporting Trump at the Republican National Convention was reason to question his suitability on the board.

"Some diversity in views is healthy, but catastrophically bad judgment (in my view) is not what anyone wants in a fellow board member," Hastings wrote.

Both men are still on Facebook's board. Neither Netflix nor Facebook immediately responded to requests for comment.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/reed-hastings-confronted-peter-thiel-on-facebook-board-over-trump.html