"After giving Vance his first job, Peter Thiel personally took him to meet Donald Trump, and now he is VP nominee. That's a really good internship"
[Another entry in the Transcript Project at CofA Blog]
TRANSCRIPT: [begins at 0:23 in this video ]
J.D. Vance is not a widely known public figure. He is best known for having written a well-received autobiography, which he started while he was at Yale law school. Mr. Vance also served for six months in Iraq in a public affairs unit in the marine corps. Yes, even the marines to have public relations.
After he did his law degree and then at Yale, he became a protege of a very right wing billionaire who you might remember from the first republican national convention, that nominated Donald Trump for president. He had a primetime speaking slot and was one of the weirdest speakers of the RNC.
His name was Peter Thiel. He got J.D. Vance a job at a biotech company in San Francisco after J.D. Vance graduated from law school. Peter Thiel got him the job literally. The company's CEO says explicitly that J.D. Vance was hired, quote, as a favor to Peter meaning as a favor to Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel then got J.D. Vance a second job. He directed one of his venture capital companies that they, too, should hire J.D. Vance.
This is why these
guys are so against any kind of affirmative action. Clearly they got where they
are in this life out of sheer merit as represented by having your billionaire
friend call people and tell them to hire you even though they are not sure why
they are supposed to be hiring you.
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I LOVE THIS QUOTE: "This is why these guys are so against any kind of affirmative action. Clearly they got where they are in this life out of sheer merit as represented by having your billionaire friend call people and tell them to hire you even though they are not sure why they are supposed to be hiring you."
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After Mr. Vance washed out of the second job that Peter Thiel gave him, Mr. Vance got another job at a different venture capital firm with another tech billionaire, Steve case, who founded AOL.
How did that work out?
Mr. Case is on the records and, quote, Vance wasn't really working very much. [ LAUGHTER ].
Nevertheless, Mr. Vance then was able to go and start another venture capital firm with, surprise, yet more help from Peter Thiel.
Like Mr. Thiel who is named his companies after things in the lord of the rings series of J.R.R. Tolkien books, lord of the rings is sort of a favorite cosmos for naming things and cultural references for a lot of far right and alt right figures within Europe and the united states.
J.D. Vance names things after Tolkien figures and places like his mentor, like Peter Thiel who had given him all his jobs in the world.
Mr. Vance also when he founded his own venture capital firm with help from Peter Thiel named it after the rings and called it NAYRA -- n- a--y-r-a, a place that has something to do with elves and rings from the lord of the rings series. I don't know
Thiel’s new notable investment for Mr. Vance was in one Kentucky company. That Kentucky company went public and promptly went bankrupt.
So that's the career. Does that sound like a rocket fuel trajectory of a person on a fast track to be nominated as the vice presidential nominee of the republican party of the united states before he turns 40?
No, it does not.
Writing a memoir and otherwise being Peter Thiel's intern is not usually the way you get to be a vice presidential nominee. It's not the way you get to be a united states senator either. It is the way you get to be a U.S. senator if you are J.D. Vance. J.D. Vance's campaign for the U.S. senate was the first time he ever ran for anything. His campaign was substantially, emphasis on substantially, funded by Peter Thiel.
He dumped $15 million into a super PAC that supported J.D. Vance running for senate. That super PAC then further effectively took over the operation of the campaign and ran most of it for Mr. Vance.
After Peter Thiel personally took J.D. Vance to meet Donald Trump, literally Peter Thiel physically walked him into the meeting and presented him to Trump, that is how Vance got the Trump endorsement for that U.S. senate seat, which is all you need to win a republican primary for Ohio senate. That's how we won the republican primary.
He then vastly underperformed.
And that's how he got to be the vice presidential nominee of the republican party right now.
As internships go, that's a really good internship.
Watch video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRNy8v_Ocgg
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Blogged by Kay Ebeling
Note: AI Generated transcript, so imperfect.
Read more here:
Peter Thiel and JD Vance: Here are links to several articles about their relationship
How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the rise of JD Vance
(Another installment of the Transcript Project at CofA Blog, documenting our strange times in print) https://cityofangels25.blogspot.com/2024/07/wtf-am-i-doing-with-these-transcripts.html
-ke
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