Posted on 08/30/2024 5:05:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Having been told that MAGA people were hate-filled, brainwashed, stupid cultists, Nicole Shanahan was shocked to meet friendly, interesting, and well-informed people.
Nicole Shanahan is an interesting woman (more on that in a minute). She also was, up until this year, a stalwart Democrat. However, the Democrat party’s decidedly anti-Democrat behavior, both in blocking RFK Jr’s campaign and in placing Kamala at the head of the ticket without her having one a single primary ever, soured her on her one-time party. Now that she’s had a taste of MAGA, she’s also realized that the media and the Democrat establishment have been lying all along. Since she’s got rich and powerful friends, let’s hope her epiphany spreads.
Per Wikipedia, Shanahan’s mother was an immigrant who grew up in communist China before meeting her German-Irish father. Her father, a computer specialist, suffered badly from mental illness (bipolar, schizophrenic, depressive) along with self-medicating, causing substance abuse. The pair settled in Oakland, California, and Shanahan describes her upbringing as poverty-stricken and traumatic. Because she was bright and hardworking, though, she went to college and law school.
Image: Nicole Shanahan (cropped). YouTube screen grab.
After becoming interested in patent law, Shanahan leveraged her patent and legal expertise to create a legal tech company. She eventually sold the company in 2020 for an estimated $20 million in IPwe stock (although IPwe’s bankruptcy this year means that, if she hung onto the stock, it’s worth nothing).
In 2018, Shanahan married Sergey Brin, one of Google’s co-founders, with whom she has a young daughter. That marriage didn’t last long. Although Shanahan had a pre-nup with Brin, she negotiated hundreds of millions in Google shares. Estimates are that she’s worth over $1 billion thanks to that short-lived marriage.
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I am hopeful, but cautiously apprehensive that enlightenment has happened with those two.
Nice!
I just watched an hour-long interview between her and comedian Dave Smith, which was really good. But the last 10 minutes had to do with MAGA and her surprise that MAGA doesn’t suck.
There was a tinge of condescension when she said she’s received many letters from MAGA people and they were well written. IOW, no spots of drool on the paper. Because you know how we are — retarded and stuff.
I can’t even imagine the bubble she exists in with the pre-conceived ideas that are so off base.
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