Peter Thiel was one of the only competent public figures supporting Donald Trump.
Just like Tucker Carlson and yours truly, Thiel is looking at his 2020 campaign and thinking, “this ain’t happening.”
President Trump’s most prominent Silicon Valley supporter, billionaire Peter Thiel, has told friends and associates that he plans to sit out this year’s presidential campaign because he thinks reelection is increasingly a long-shot, people familiar with the matter say.
Mr. Thiel, a venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal Holdings Inc., spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2016, where he criticized the state of the economy and described Mr. Trump as a man set to rebuild America. One of the few tech leaders to publicly back Mr. Trump that year, he also donated $1.25 million to the Trump campaign and related groups.
In recent weeks, however, in private conversations from his oceanfront estate in Hawaii, Mr. Thiel has said he soured on the president’s prospects, the people said. Mr. Thiel said he believes it is likely that the economy will be mired in deep recession in November, with double-digit unemployment, and that any sitting president would be at a stark disadvantage to a challenger.
Mr. Thiel doesn’t currently plan to speak at this year’s Republican convention, scheduled for Aug. 24-27, one of the people said. Though he may eventually still vote for Mr. Trump, Mr. Thiel hasn’t donated any money to Mr. Trump this year and currently doesn’t plan to, the people said.
One person who speaks to Mr. Thiel about politics says he described Mr. Trump’s campaign as the “S.S. Minnow,” a reference to the ship that ran aground on the television series “Gilligan’s Island.”
It’s a good metaphor. Perhaps the best metaphor ever. It’s more than just running aground.
For those who didn’t grow up watching reruns of the show because it was the only thing that was watchable in the slot before school between 1991-1993, let me tell you: It was supposed to be a three hour tour (a three hour tour). The ship gets completely lost, due to a storm, but also due to the incompetence of the crew. It runs aground while lost at sea, on an island that is totally uninhabited. The crew is completely incapable of figuring out how to get off the island, due to being a bunch of silly goofballs, who were also all completely self-absorbed and incapable of self-reflection.
A Republican ending up with “I let a bunch of black crack dealers out of prison” as his primary accomplishment is certainly comparable to a desert island. What’s more, the MAGA plan was as simple as a three hour tour. It was all just basic populism.
Trump is the Skipper, the disgruntled leader of the crew who can’t ever get anyone to follow his instructions.
Jared Kushner is Gilligan, the retarded first mate who bumbles around.
Ivanka is Ginger, the woman who is obsessed with looking fashionable in the middle of a disaster.
The Howells would represent the conservative boomers who don’t really know what the hell is even going on, but are certain we’re going to get off the island soon.
Mary-Ann, who is the only normal person on the island, represents the masses of Trump supporters, who are a little bit dumb but basically just good hearted folks who want everything to work out; they didn’t sign up to be involved in this weird circus but are taking it in stride.
Tucker Carlson is the Professor, a genius who is always coming up with plans to get off the island but is constantly thwarted by the stupidity of the rest of the inhabitants.
“I let a bunch of black crack dealers out of prison” island is quickly transforming into the island from LOST instead of the island from Gilligan’s Island.
This is all beyond bizarre, and it has taken a turn into dark fantasy with horror elements. We all sense that while there were some interesting elements, the ending is going to be really, really bad.
The rumor mill is claiming that Trump is fed up with Jared, but the fact is that he is remaining as the head of the campaign.
There is simply no way that Trump can win with this insane plan to try to win the black vote. He has to run as far as possible from this harebrained scheme, which seems likely to have been designed to cause him to lose the election.
The fact that letting the blacks out of prison is the single thing he accomplished while president is irrelevant. People don’t know what has been done and what hasn’t been done, and he needs to run a fear-based campaign, telling people they’re going to be slaughtered by the blacks if they don’t vote for him. That is the winning formula here.
“Vote or die” will bring out the vote. If he keeps pushing this thing with black people, people are going to be too angry to vote at all.