Peter Thiel Insider Picked to Oversee Trump’s Defense Department Transition

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24 points·vonklaus··5 comments

Truly an amazing million dollar investment on Thiel's part. The Trump presidency is his next unicorn.

Looking forward to America becoming a kleptocracy just like Putin's Russia, with Thiel and friends leading the charge.

> Looking forward to America becoming a kleptocracy just like Putin's Russia, with Thiel and friends leading the charge.

also like Obama, who appointed a whole bunch of people who donated large amounts of money to the DNC to ambassador and other high ranking positions?

http://observer.com/2016/09/wikileaks-guccifer-2-0-obama-sol...

So Palantir is going to analyze all Americans' data. Sounds great. Just great.

Previous discussion on why normal, "experienced" very much in the wrong way people were not picked for this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13040395

TL;DR: "neo-cons" + Reagan's 1980 transition staff are all probably dead or seriously retired by now.

Traditionally experienced conservative, but non-neoconservative, defense experts are not particularly hard to find, even with the neoconservative domination of the Bush-era national security apparatus.

OTOH, it might be that finding such people willing to work for Trump's team may be quite difficult.

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