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As a german I am sorry for Palantir, Peter Thiel (and by extension Elon Musk), Adolf and Donald Trump. We are just not exporting the best we've got and I am terribly sorry for that. We will try and change that in the near future.
The Donvict's cabinet all have ties to shady contractors and taking the tax payers to the cleaners?? Ya don't say!! Alex Karp is the CEO of Palantir. His hair makes the "Aliens" meme guy look that much more amazing and he says way dumber shit. You'd totally trust that guy with tax payer money right??
edit: Side note, a Palantir executive was 1 of 4 Techbros awarded rank of LT. FUCKING COL in the Army Reserves. Just because. No they didn't earn that shit and it was just literally handed to them.
I used to work for a small programming/consulting company that had somehow secured their own $12 million annual piece of federal pork. The money was ostensibly for "improving" manufacturing in our state so they couldn't just pocket that money. Instead, one of our employees administered the fund from a rented closet-sized office elsewhere in our city and doled it out to other companies which in turn hired our company's consultants at absurd hourly rates (for example I was paid about $40 an hour but was billed out at over $300 an hour) to do shitty work on useless projects.
This was only one of our scams. We also hired retired colonels from the various services and paid them $200K a year to not show up very often - we had an entire wing of usually-empty offices for these people while those of us actually doing some work here and there were packed like dogs into cubicle kennels. These colonels helped us secure lucrative defense contracts.
The funniest part of this job was listening to my bosses raving about how "welfare queens" were destroying the country.
I'm guessing there were no improvements to manufacturing unless you count "assembled in the USA" stamps.
Our only actual "improvements" helped companies hire unskilled labor instead of union tradespeople.
Stephen Miller is a cuck bitch Nazi who has still refused to respond to my challenge to a bare handed fight to the death.
Pussy.
This comment section is the best.
This guy, and people like him, should be put out of our misery. If he's not living in fear then he'll continue making your life worse.
He's a parasite, and parasites are detrimental to the health of the majority and they should be dealt with accordingly.
These jackals are always whining about Democratic insider trading, and here they are doing it themselves, and hiding it in their child's account. At least corrupt Dems like Pelosi and Schumer own it themselves.
I'm never surprised how absolutely blatantly corrupt this regime is. Rage inducing.
Pointing at Stephen Miller and exclaiming "Conflict of interest!" is like arriving late to a party and then farting quietly in a corner.
I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure that if you, as a child, have your parent fraudulently open an account in your name (like so they can avoid taxes or scrutiny or whatever), you can sue your parent for every single dollar they put in that account and then later took out of it. And because minors are not allowed to file lawsuits, the statute of limitations does not even start ticking until the child turns 18. Maybe we should all make sure that children like Steven Millers’ are aware of these facts.
Well by draining the swamp they meant building a dam that created a lake.
The investment, held in one of Miller’s children’s brokerage accounts, raises conflict of interest red flags as the tech company continues to play a substantial role in the work of U.S. immigration officials.
Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin called the group’s report “very silly”
... This is the same official spokesperson that downplayed concerns about Trump trying to shut down the office of Civil Rights and Liberties, and then like a month later defended DHS and the Pentagon hooking federal employees up to a lie detector test to find leaks
The watchdog group that obtained Miller’s filing identified 11 other administration officials who either currently hold or have owned stock in Palantir, though none with holdings as large as Miller.
Guess he has a vested interest in acting like a hateful psychopath, and gleefully breaking apart families. It's good for business.
This ghoul has CHILDREN?
Looks like he tried to hide the stocks, And was too stupid to do it right. Open an LLC investment group with somebody else's name.duh
Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller is Grima Wormtongue, whispering poison into HitlerPig's miraculously healed ear.
The guy who funded frump in 2016 and 2024, who hand picked and funded Vance for VP, and controls all the data and knowledge within the data sets of every single law enforcement, investigation, defense, social service, finance, tax, and security agency in the US, and owns several members of congress, also has stock in palantir because he is palantir.
Hi Petey!
Remember how the story ended - those who thought they could rule by knowing all and controlling all, through fear and force, were destroyed - by those with will and wisdom.
And a tabloid tried reporting on thiels involvement in the early 2010s and was sued out of existence, plus he defenestrated his side piece last year that dint gain any media attention.
There was some guy on the Toronto ROM board who was also invested in the ICE transportation stuff. He was roasted back by the ROM the next day and off the board.
I think miller may be the little man behind the curtain
That cunt doesn't get nearly enough negative attention. He's the real 'brains' of the operation.
it was an easy stock call.
Same with jail stocks, but only shitty humans profit off blood money.
Why am I not surprised? If I tell people, they probably won't believe me.
Of course he does. MAGAts do corruption well.
Erm... no shit Sherlock? Palantir is his fucking company? He founded it?
Not to say he isn't a shitstain on this planet, but this is not news?
Edit: I could have sworn the title of the post said "Peter Thiel" - maybe it was updated later, but more likely my brain glitched...
Palantir Technologies was co-founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, and Stephen Cohen in 2003
Yes, that's what I said, reduced to the relevance of this headline.
The headline is that Stephen Miller of the Trump administration, owns stock in Palantir. Miller is not Peter Thiel. Miller is the angry bald guy that is always dramatically screaming we should be more aggressive with deportation policy.
Because he, and 10 others in the administration, own stock in the company that also receives millions in federal contracts regarding immigration and deportation, one might suggest Miller has a vested interest in the policies he is always aggressively screaming about being necessary for America's safety.
Considering that even the conservative Cato institute has said the deportation policies outlined in the big beautiful bill, will ultimately cost tax payers trillions of dollars to fund, one might suggest that the policies Miller and others in the administration have put forth, are actually driven by greed rather than any ideology or belief that what they are doing is in America's best interest.
The blurb mentioning Thiel's company is to provide context to the reader about how much money his company has already made under this administration.
Given that Thiel and the entire administration do all seem to be in agreement that democracy should be dismantled in order for a ruling class of chosen elite to take it's place, one might begin to wonder, if that is really a good idea. It would seem then, that it is as newsworthy as anything else documenting more blatant corruption and scamming of America by the chosen elite who are leading this administration, and hoping to convince everyone what they're doing is in America's best interest.
My apologies - somehow my brain replaced "evil neocon fuck Miller" with "evil neocon fuck Thiel". Understandable glitch in hindsight...
held in one of Miller’s children’s brokerage accounts
So not exactly for his own benefit. Doesn't say who manages the account.
Sometimes the ownership is through a fund, too, but this sounds like direct ownership.