Peter Thiel
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard 15 Jun
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at Guantanamo, I think the inmates were running the asylum. The inmates and the defense lawyers were running it. You were way safer as a Muslim terrorist in Guantanamo than as a, let's say, suspected cop killer in Manhattan. There was still an informal process in Manhattan. You were a suspected cop killer.
They'd figure out some way to deal with you outside the judicial, the formal judicial process. But I think something, there was a sort of formalization that happened. There was the post J. Edgar Hoover FBI, where Hoover was, I don't know, a law unto himself. It was completely out of control, CIA even more so. And then once it all gets exposed, it probably is a lot harder to do.
The NSA probably held up longer as a deep state entity where it at least had the virtue. I think in the 1980s it was still referred to as no such agency. So it was still far more obscure. So the necessary condition is that if some part of the deep state is doing it, we can barely know what's going on.
And then, I don't know, you know, the 2000s, 2010s, I think the Patriot Act empowered all these FISA courts. And I think there probably were ways the NSA FISA court process was weaponized in a really, really crazy way. And it culminated in 2016 with all the crazy Russia conspiracy theories against Trump. But I think even that, I'm not sure they can do anymore because it got exposed.
Can't do that anymore.
I'm agreeing with you. The NSA FISA court process is one where you had a pretty out of control process from let's say circa 2003 to 2017, 2018. So that's relatively recent history. I don't know. There are all the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories, which I'm probably too fascinated by because it felt like there was some crazy stuff going on that they were able to cover up. And still are.
But then, man, doesn't the fact that we're still talking about Jeffrey Epstein tell us how hard it is to come up with anything else?
And probably, I don't know, man, I spend too much time thinking about all the Epstein variants. It – probably the sex stuff is overdone and everything else is underdone. It's like a limited hangout. We get to talk about the crazy underage sex and not about all the other questions. It's like when Alex Acosta testified for labor secretary and he was the DA who had prosecuted –
Epstein in 08, 09, and got him sort of the very light 13-month or whatever sentence. And it was South Florida DA or whatever he was. And Acosta was asked, you know, why did he get off so easily? And under congressional testimony when he was up for labor secretary 2017, it was he belonged to intelligence. And then, yeah, the question isn't about the sex with the underage women.
The question is really about why was he so protected? And then I went down all these rabbit holes. Was he working for the Israelis or the Mossad or all this sort of stuff? And I've come to think that that was very secondary. Obviously, it was just the U.S. If you're working for Israel, you don't get protected. We had Jonathan Pollard. He went to jail for 25 years or whatever.
But unrelated, right? Understood. But it's – But this is one particular operation. But so it's – but it was – if it was an intelligence operation, the question we should be asking is what part of the U.S. intelligence system was he working for?
I'm sure that was part of it. I suspect there are a lot of other questions that one should also ask.
My riff on it was always that it was – It's a little bit different from the J. Edgar Hoover thing. And the question was always whether the people doing it knew they were getting compromised. And so it's – the vibe is not that you somehow got compromised. It was more – You were joining this secret club.
You got to be made – you're a made man in the mafia.
No, no, no. Only if we have compromise on you do you get ahead.
It's like – I don't know. It's one of these – Skull and bones type things. Yeah, the closet of the Vatican. The claim is 80 percent of the cardinals in the Catholic Church are gay. Not sure if that's true, but directionally it's probably correct.
And the basic thesis is you don't get promoted to a cardinal if you're straight because we need to have – and so you need to be compromised and then you're under control. But you also get ahead.
Do you have a theory on what was Bill Gates' complicity with Epstein?
Do you think that he needed Epstein?
All of that might be true, but I wonder if there are more straightforward alternate conspiracy theories on Epstein that we're missing. So let me do an alternate one on Bill Gates. Sure. The things, just looking at what's hiding in plain sight. He supposedly talked to Epstein early on about how his marriage wasn't doing that well.
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