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May 29, 2026Center Right

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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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ACTION NEEDED TODAY: Please Write Email Supporting President Trump’s USPS Mail-In Ballot EO Today

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ACTION NEEDED TODAY: Please Write Email Supporting President Trump’s USPS Mail-In Ballot EO Today

ACTION NEEDED NOW: Please Write Email Supporting President Trump’s USPS Mail-In Ballot EO Today A corrupt federal judge blocked the U.S. The post ACTION NEEDED TODAY: Please Write Email Supporting President Trump’s USPS Mail-In Ballot EO Today appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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New futuristic supercity coming to California aims to solve the housing catastrophe

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New futuristic supercity coming to California aims to solve the housing catastrophe

California’s newest master-planned community aims to tackle the affordability crisis by building homes, a college, and creating jobs all in one location that relies solely on electricity.

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Trump DOJ takes aim at Virginia’s semi-auto gun ban with lawsuit

BizPac Review

2 days ago

Trump DOJ takes aim at Virginia’s semi-auto gun ban with lawsuit

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division sued Virginia Wednesday, claiming a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms violated the Second Amendment. Since Thursday, state judges in Virginia’s […]

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Brett Kavanaugh Took Direct Aim at One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Biggest Legacies

News and Politics - Slate Magazine

3 days ago

Brett Kavanaugh Took Direct Aim at One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Biggest Legacies

The opinion in question is United States v. Virginia, a 30-year-old case also arising from another fight about schools.

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Johnson’s ‘Save America’ NDAA takes aim at DEI, distractions, and military decline

BizPac Review

3 days ago

Johnson’s ‘Save America’ NDAA takes aim at DEI, distractions, and military decline

House Speaker Mike Johnson has devised a plan that he believes may be enough to get the SAVE Act passed through Congress. As previously reported, the Trump-backed […]

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This week on The Hill: House aims to move priorities after conservative SAVE America Act rebellion

The Hill News

5 days ago

This week on The Hill: House aims to move priorities after conservative SAVE America Act rebellion

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has an ambitious legislative agenda this week, but it’s unclear whether he can move those priorities forward as a group of conservative hard-liners demand action on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act. President Trump urged House Republicans last week to fall in line after conservative rebels brought most House…

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Warnock on Vance criticism of Pope Leo: ‘My faith is not a weapon’

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5 days ago

Warnock on Vance criticism of Pope Leo: ‘My faith is not a weapon’

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock (Ga.) expressed concern Sunday about Vice President Vance criticizing Pope Leo XIV. Warnock, a Baptist pastor, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he is “glad” that Vance wrote about his religious journey in his new book “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith.” The Georgia Democrat told host Jake…

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