Gay billionaire and Trump devotee Peter Thiel met up with one of FOX News’s resident homophobes Tucker Carlson last night to discuss one of the 58,740 things he believes himself to be an expert on, politics.
During the sit-down, 51-year-old Thiel, who offered a full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, labeled Elizabeth Warren is the most “dangerous” of the 2020 Democratic candidates.
“I’m most scared by Elizabeth Warren,” said the venture capitalist. “I think she’s the one who’s actually talking about the economy, which is the only thing that I think matters by far the most.”
Which might make sense since Warren is criticizing the kind of economic system where wealthy people game the system to become not just billionaires but multi-billionaires while nearly half the country works for minimum wage in soulless strip malls owned by said billionaires who would never visit one but do fly over them in private jets.
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Thiel, who donated $1.25 million to Trump’s campaign and a pro-Trump Super PAC in 2016, continued: “I think almost all the others are equally unimpressive in the sense that it’s all identity politics of one flavor or another. I wouldn’t want to rank how unimpressive they are since that would be forcing me to rank the different identities and which one’s more privileged and more special, and that would be a dangerous thing to get into… But I think Elizabeth Warren’s the dangerous one.”
We’re assuming he’s not a fan of the first credible openly gay candidate, Pete Buttigieg. Because, well, billionaires don’t have to worry about the sacrifices of others who allowed Thiel the freedom he enjoys today as a gay man himself.
During the interview, expert Thiel also opined Google should be investigated for treason, prompting Trump–who of course does not engage in identity politics at all–to fire off a tweet saying he would “take a look” at the matter.
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Chrisk
Yeah, I hate Warren too. Always harassing the Big Banks and Wall streets ability to earn $. I mean she never speaks up for the 1%. Just the peasants. Yep. She’s totally dangerous.
notasjw
Graham would know all about the sewer!
Vince
Jesus Christ give it a rest.
Cam
It’s adorable when you change your screename and your new one exposes the fact you’re an anti-LGBT troll before you even post anything.
IWantAFullBeard
It’s just witnessing someone who is so pathologically desperate for attention that it’s warped basic logic.
Kangol2
Warren’s so scary! She’s threatening to protect consumers and the 99%, and shore up the ACA and Medicare and Medicaid, and spend badly needed $ on our crumbling infrastructure, and strengthen Social Security and the government social safety net, and tighten rules to prevent Wall Street and big banks from bilking this country blind (as they always do, before they spark a financial collapse), and ensure more affordable public higher education, and raise top marginal tax rates on the super-rich–I mean, the billionaires are going to have a major fit! Oh wait, and she has a track record of over 30 years of studying, advocating and doing this work, including creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which actually was doing great work before Drumpf and Mick Mulvaney began gutting it, so I guess the greedster Quislings like Thiel really should be scared of her!
Vince
What a great endorsement for Warren though. Shithead says none of the other candidates worry him but her.
Cam
Thiel is no different than people like Jodie Foster, when she made a full throated defense of Mel Gibson.
Thiel is super wealthy therefore he doesn’t see himself as part of the LGBT community, he just sees himself as part of the super wealthy and none of the problems for the rest of the community effect him.
The same with Foster, she was part of the Holywood elite so Gibson being a sexist didn’t effect her, because she was another celeb and they exist outside of that.
Also, remember Caitlyn Jenner. How long did it take before she finally admitted Republicans are bigots?
youarederanged
I see you’re still running about on here speaking nasty about people as if you know them personally when clearly you lack the personality to actually make friends.
Cam
@youarederanged
In it’s desperation to deflect from the topic of the post, the anti-LGBT troll account lashes out.
Aires the Ram
@Cam: You said: “How long did it take before she finally admitted Republicans are bigots?”
Oh, you know a lot of Republicans, enough so that you can legitimately make such a broad statement?
Or is this just more of the Trump Derangement Syndrome, where if anyone disagrees with you and your politics, then instead of coming up with a discussion, an argument, you just label anyone who disagrees with you a ‘bigot’, because it’s easy and doesn’t require you to actually think about government policy?
Chrisk
Cam
Oh noes. You’ve pissed off the Capo’s I mean the homocons. They’ll need to immerse themselves into a day of watching Hanity, Tucker, and Fox and Friends to figure out how to feel about this.
toronto
Is it just me, or does Thiel look like a sub who belongs in a sling
youarederanged
It never changes. Tucker Carlson isn’t a homophobe, he just doesn’t think our community should be the only voice when it comes to defining gender, among other things. That does not make him a homophobe, it makes him the edgy dude who is willing to say what a lot of people in this county feel. So, we can either label them all homophobes and throw hate at them, getting nothing accomplished, or we can figure out how to find common ground with people who disagree with us. BTW, he only disagrees with us on some things, and guess what, our community isn’t defined by the gender issue alone. We have a complex community with many rights we have fought for and continue to fight for. If someone believes that we should be a protected class, have the right to marry, adopt, and many other rights we enjoy, should we really label them a homophobe or be nasty to them when they disagree with us on a few specific things? Let’s see the hate flow…
Cam
What a shock, the account that always defends anti- LGBT bigots defends Tucker Carlson.