• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Hardly red-string. This is bog standard business news. JD Vance is part of the Thiel political incubator project, intended to finance both right-wing media projects and partisan electoral bureaucrats. He’s running the same playbook as Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers employed a decade ago. A playbook they got from the O&G and Tobacco lobbies ten years before that.

      If you’re looking to go down a rabbit hole on Epstein specifically, I might point you towards TrueAnon podcast. They did live coverage of the Gislaine Maxwell (ep 29/30) even getting into her trial. And they have a ton of material on the Koches (Ep 94/95), Elon Musk (The Lamest Show on Earth eps 1-3), and Peter Thiel (Palantir ep 105 and Survival Of The Grimmest ep 244).

      TrashFuture does a ton on the Silicon Valley political networks as well.

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      4 months ago

      Theil paid for his running for Senate and got him his jobs… Theil so happens to be a billionaire from PayPal, hmmm who else is a billionaire from PayPal .

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        Theil also bankrolled Hulk Hogans sextape lawsuit against Gawker, because nearly a decade earlier, Nick Denton (founder of Gawker) de-closeted him online.

        Hmm who else was ripping off his shirt at the RNC.

        (N.B. Nick Denton is an asshole here, but the moral of the story is don’t fuck with Theil because he holds a grudge).

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      I recently read (well, listened to) this book on the subject and it turned me on to the whole genre of non-fiction true-crime. I found it on Libby after hearing an author interview on NPR.