Silicon Valley is Furious About Peter Thiel's $1.25 Million Donation to Trump's Campaign

Inc. Magazine ^ | October 16, 2016 | Bartie Scott

[2ndDivisionVet]

In response to Peter Thiel's pledge to donate $1.25 million to Donald Trump's presidential bid (reported by the New York Times on Sunday), some in the Silicon Valley-centered tech community are going public with a call to reject any company willing to do business with the PayPal co-founder.

In addition to co-founding PayPal and data analysis software firm Palantir, Thiel sits on the board at Facebook and is a part-time partner and investor in startup seed fund Y Combinator.

Thiel substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise--he did have a prime-time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention--but the billionaire has been largely silent amongst his chosen candidate's many controversies of the last few months, which caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee. After speaking at the RNC, Thiel's spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal in August that the billionaire did not plan on donating money or campaigning for Trump's bid. But in September he wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post saying Trump could be the one to fix ineffective government....

[jennychase]

bull.

There is no love for Hillary here. Yet to see any excitement.

[delapaz]

I’m sure Thiel is really worried about this:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=peter%20thiel%20net%20worth

[Vision Thing]

Wow, look at these effin goons attack a homosexual. Closed-minded silly-con prudes. :-D

[bubbacluck]

are going public with a call to reject any company willing to do business with the PayPal co-founder.

Tolerant bunch.

[Vision Thing]

Still, I can imagine the valley boys and gals want to ‘firefox’ Thiel.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Oh goodness..liberal loons are upset that someone has a MIND and refuses to go live on the Democrat Plantation

[Sarah Barracuda]

Liberal mindset..can’t be a true homosexual unless you are a liberal, you can’t be a real woman unless you are a liberal and love abortion, you can’t be a real black unless you are a liberal, and you can’t be a real Hispanic unless you are a liberal

[Talisker]

bull. There is no love for Hillary here. Yet to see any excitement.

Love, no. Fear and lockstep obedience - oh yeah. Silicon Valley is the Valley of Stinking Cowardice.

This is a warning for no one else to dare break ranks and imitate Thiel. Not, really, that he's all that different. But Hillary runs on paranoia.

[Steely Tom]

Silicon Valley is Furious About Peter Thiel's $1.25 Million Donation to Trump's Campaign,

Dozens of Rails coders and VHDL wizards are out stalking the streets with phasers set to KILL.

[editor-surveyor]

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Santa Clara county has been a soviet socialist repugnik for about a century.
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[Innovative]

They are just showing themselves to be the idiots they are.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “There is no love for Hillary here” <<

Yur nuts!!!!!

There is no love for America in SC county.

[hecticskeptic]

The problem with blackballing and boycotts is that two can play that game. I think that Thiel should make the list well known as to who is giving him a hard time.... then let’s see what happens.

[Zeppo]

As usual, the same oh-so-enlightened-and-tolerant Silicon Valley leftists who have conniption fits whenever they talk about the evil hollywood blacklisting of Commies during the 1950’s, seem to always delight in blacklisting anyone who isn’t in lockstep agreement with their own ugly ‘progressive’ values...

[GOP Poet]

Thank you Peter. :D

[HollyB]

The critics are out of their mind. They truly are entrenched in the lies. I can’t wait for Trump to show them just how good our country will be.

[Guenevere]

Jack booted thugs come to mind

THIS is typical of what Trump faces on a daily basis .......from every conceivable elitist source.

Hope Thiel hangs tough

[Flick Lives]

The tolerant Leftists in Silicon Valley can always firebomb the PayPal offices. It’s not like Democrats are strangers to this sort of violence to silence enemies of the State.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/us/north-carolina-gop-building-is-firebombed.html?_r=0

[Billyv]

But true liberals love Freedom, the Bill of Rights, the Costitution, and America, the only country they can live in without being thrown off buildings for their lifestyle. A true liberal is ultra conservative at their core, if they understand liberality. Today’s liberals are not Libertarian they are Liscentious (to live any way they choose without accountability) or they could not vote Democrat ever.