Peter Thiel to enter Trump inner circle as tech adviser

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For all the doom and gloom predictions it would appear a Trump presidency is turning out to be a pretty vanilla republican administration. The world didn't end in 2000 when the last republican administration had a republican congress, and it won't end this time either.

We just had the largest terrorist attack on US soil, 2 wars, and a handful of financial crises. No big deal.

Well, good thing Trump wants to crush ISIS, doesn't want war with Russia, and doesn't want to meddle in Middle East's affairs. He also wants to make improve the economy by making it finally profitable for companies to do business in the United States again.

Will he succeed? We will have to wait and see (he will).

It hasn't even been 2 days. I know some of the more rabid Clinton supporters said that massive sinkholes would appear to vomit up fire and racist hellbeasts, but I don't think that they even said it would happen this quickly.

That would be an excellent choice. I hope that comes to fruition.

Oh this is nice. The guy who helped create a firm for the sake of spying on people (Palantir). Yeah, totally not questionable in the least. Also, he's probably being used to cover Trump's other nominations which oppose LGBT rights and support gay conversion therapy (even forced when it comes to children).

On many levels I hate who Peter is as a person... but he will make an astounding tech adviser.

Out of curiosity: Which of the two is richer?

Thiel, without question.

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