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Billionaire Trump ally melts down in spat with pope: ‘Working for Chinese communists”

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Billionaire Trump ally melts down in spat with pope: ‘Working for Chinese communists”

Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence.According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” when he released a 42,000-word encyclical that called for strict regulation of AI, a technology that the pontiff said heightens the “risk of dehumanization” throughout the world.Thiel argued that this sort of thinking was dangerous, CNN reported, because it could result in the US losing the “race” to build more advanced AI to China. Because of this, Thiel continued, the pope is essentially “working for the Chinese communists” by trying to tap the brakes on AI development.Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, has long decried AI critics in harsh terms. Over the last year, he has been delivering a series of lectures in which he has said that opponents of AI development are working as agents for the Antichrist.Journalist Christopher Hale, who writes the Letters From Leo newsletter, noted on Friday that Thiel in the past has even speculated that Pope Leo could be “a manifestation of the Antichrist.”Thiel has said that he instructed Vice President JD Vance, a longtime political ally who received major funding from the tech billionaire for his 2022 Senate campaign, to ignore the pope’s moral guidance despite influencing Vance to convert to Catholicism, Hale added.“Thiel seeded the vice president’s Catholic faith,” Hale wrote, “and he now tells wealthy festival audiences that the leader of that faith works for a communist government.”In addition to his attacks on the pope, Thiel also warned about “a democratic-socialist takeover of the Democratic Party,” pointing to recent victories in New York and Colorado of candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.Thiel said that this “takeover” would doom the US, arguing that “when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,” according to CNN.The New York Times reported in May that Thiel has grown so concerned about the political situation in the US that he’s created a “foothold” for himself in Argentina, which is currently being governed by ideologically likeminded libertarian President Javier Milei.“Thiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B,” the Times reported. “Born in Germany and raised in the United States, he received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011, and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022.”

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AOC stuns Democratic establishment with bombshell endorsement of Ayatollah-sympathizer

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AOC stuns Democratic establishment with bombshell endorsement of Ayatollah-sympathizer

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defied party leadership with an endorsement of fellow leftist Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary.

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AOC throws her weight behind progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race

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AOC throws her weight behind progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan Senate race

Bronx and Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez formally endorsed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the three-way bruising Democratic primary for Michigan Senate.

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AOC endorses progressive Democrat in closely watched Michigan race for US Senate seat

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AOC endorses progressive Democrat in closely watched Michigan race for US Senate seat

El-Sayed, backed by Bernie Sanders, leads polls ahead of Haley Stevens and Mallory McMorrow in primaryAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez has thrown her support behind Abdul El-Sayed, the doctor and progressive Democrat seeking the party’s nomination in Michigan’s closely watched US Senate race.In an interview with the New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez – an influential congresswoman on the left of the Democratic party – endorsed El-Sayed, a former public health director. “Despite our ideological differences and whatever disagreements there are in the party, every single one of us sees this moment as existential,” she said. Continue reading...

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Mamdani-backed candidate rails against billionaires despite her career benefiting from one

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Mamdani-backed candidate rails against billionaires despite her career benefiting from one

New York state Senate candidate Aber Kawas worked at three activist groups funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros before blasting “oligarchs and billionaires” on the campaign trail. Kawas, who has New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement, built her activist resume for over a decade at the Arab American Association of New York, Arab Community […]

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Billionaire Peter Thiel stuns liberal crowd, warns democratic socialists will take over their party

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Billionaire Peter Thiel stuns liberal crowd, warns democratic socialists will take over their party

"When the Democratic Party goes, this country is over," Thiel said.

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AOC endorses Abdul El Sayed in Michigan primary as anti-establishment momentum grows

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AOC endorses Abdul El Sayed in Michigan primary as anti-establishment momentum grows

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) endorsed leftist Democrat Abdul el Sayed in his campaign to be Michigan’s next U.S. senator on Thursday. Ocasio-Cortez’s backing of el Sayed comes after a swing of several midterm election primaries showed momentum growing against the Democratic establishment, with voters in states such as New York and Colorado picking either socialist or anti-establishment […]

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Google billionaire makes surprising New York exit

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Google billionaire makes surprising New York exit

Thanks to New York City’s increasingly radical, anti-business policies, another billionaire has now fled the leftist utopia. According to Bloomberg, late last year Google co-founder Sergey Brin, […]

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