dave, 7 months ago

@shoq @Green_Footballs WTAF?!! Charles C. Johnson is one of the more odious internet trolls; his FBI code name of “Genius” is an apparent snarky reference to his long-demonstrated lack of mental acuity

The nugget at the end - that CCJ just outed Peter Thiel as an FBI informant in retaliation for Thiel not pouring money into whatever latest harebrained startup CCJ concocted is … I guess … an appropriate level of idiocy, absurdity and spitefulness for our time?

kkarhan, 7 months ago

@dave @shoq @Green_Footballs #PeterThiel being a #snitch is nothing new - he has that kind of stench...

wndlb, 7 months ago

@shoq @Green_Footballs Isn’t your good one also the NYTpitchbot?

msbellows, 7 months ago

@shoq @Green_Footballs
This story is WILD. I'm already boggled by these "teaser" snippets that come nowhere near close to covering everything:

"Charles Johnson, a longtime associate of Thiel's and a notorious figure in the far-right movement that Thiel has subsidized for a decade [and also an FBI informant]...helped recruit the billionaire as an informant...." [Yes, THAT Charles Johnson.]

"Thiel, Johnson said, was directed by the FBI not to report on his interactions with Donald Trump or other US political figures." [Which either is a lie to reassure RW bad actors, or a refutation of the RW paranoiac refrain that "the Biden DOJ/FBI is out to get
us for political reasons."]

"Thiel is a citizen of Germany, the United States, and New Zealand; as of last year, he was reportedly in the process of acquiring yet another passport, from Malta." [The 1976 film Network was correct, as it is about everything, about $ not having citizenship.]
https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-fbi-informant-charles-johnson-johnathan-buma-chs-genius-2023-10