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babaganusz's avatar

Marcie wins all the internets again.

"If one believes in the promise of paradise in the afterlife, why would one want to stay forever in this sinful realm of earthly suffering?"

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Tom Van Valkenburgh's avatar

Peter Thiel having his balls licked by Ross Douthat is one of the most insufferable scenarios I’ve witnessed this month. The douchery in that room could power a medium-sized town.

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werecat's avatar

Jeff Bezos commissioning LOTR spinoff the Rings Of Power, not realizing that he is the inspiration for one of the great tragic characters, Celebrimbor, is peak irony.

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Mart's avatar

Thiel is one of the ones that has really worked his billions into the tax free side of the ledger. Like in a normal world maybe a HSA goes up to half a million max, or a Roth go up to $2 M? But to hide billions seems crazy to me. Who is going pay foe ICE?

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Mart's avatar

Thiel is one of the ones that has really worked his billions into the tax free side of the ledger. Like in a normal world maybe a HSA goes up to half a million max, or a Roth go up to $2 M? But to hide billions seems crazy to me. Who is going pay foe ICE?

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JCfromNC's avatar

/// ...or Marc Benioff, who lit up the Salesforce tower in San Francisco as the Eye of Sauron, though it looked like a giant glowing asshole instead. //

Same energy:

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Fender Deluxe's avatar

I haven’t read through all of the non-comments, so apologies if this has been noted already.

Thiel and his ilk have all read Tolkien but they clearly didn’t understand any of the works.

Unless Thiel wants to be Saruman, and that raises the terrifying question: “Who is Sauron?”

May he end up like Sharkey.

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PuraVida's avatar

What incoherent babble!

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Dave's Not Here's avatar

Common ground!

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

I've been trying for hours and I still can't think of anything compelling enough to make me watch a conversation between Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel.

I can hate them both to the nth degree with no further inputs.

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MRobtheMathSnob's avatar

Who's Peter Thiel? He's the one herb to rule them all.

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JuanPain's avatar

That WSJ article on Thiel (thanks, gift link!) describes and other his Scrooge McDuck associates and partners as "devout Christians." Not sure how utterly awful pos people twist themselves in knots over by believing themselves to be Christians while doing such depraved things.

It's like when Judge Smails told Danny the caddy* he felt bad for some guy and sentenced him to the gas chamber because he felt he owed it to him.

*Yes, I had Caddyshack (and Blazing Saddles) on repeat through most of my teens and early 20s.

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Asphalt-Type Person's avatar

They're Xtiains only in the sense that they see Xtianity as an useful tool to keep the rabble in line, but otherwise, it's "Rules for thee but not for me"

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Fender Deluxe's avatar

They’re just simple farmers. The common clay of the new west.

You know. Morons.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie.

Thiel's spiel

is quite surreal

A Howard Beale he ain't.

Thiel's deal

Just makes me feel

LIKE GETTING THE TORCHES, PITCHFORKS, and TUMBRELS.

Now.

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jamie yeager's avatar

seems like ol' pete's gonna be the cheney to preznut JD unadvanced, without the bother of getting elected if, as is statistically probable, king bladderfailure croaks the bucket while still preznutting. so any journalists who get a head start on digging into his background and public record will prove to be well-prepared for the new, different, and yet still the same, horrors of probable preznut #48. cuz thiefl will be the one saying "froggy" while JD bleats "how high?"

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

He's the most loathsome Franfurter in the entire world, and I met some true assholes there in my day.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

Here I had always thought Norman Spinrad's BUG JACK BARRON, with its deranged, immortality-craving villain Howards, was far-out fiction.

Well, it was at the time ...

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I'm sure Robert Heinlein thought his folksy, dimwitted grandfatherly world President in Stranger In A Strange Land whose wife was the power behind the throne and consulted an astrologist before making any decisions of state was really over-the-top in 1963.

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Fender Deluxe's avatar

… but Reagan made it a reality.

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