Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/
Link to original thread. 2/ x.com
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3/ Joe Lonsdale recently boasted to Peter Thiel that he has “a lot of really bold friends in HHS & DOD & Department of Education & all these places.” Both men are co-founders of Palantir. The video was posted 3 days ago. youtu.be
4/ Meanwhile, “SpaceX is leading a bid to build Golden Dome with startups Anduril and Palantir, six people said” Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield - reuters.com
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5/ Naturally Joe Lonsdale was super excited that Trump chose Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense. x.com
6/ In Feb 2025, Joe Lonsdale (who founded Palantir with Peter Thiel) bragged: “I have a lot of friends involved in DOGE and have been doing my best to help them *** Companies like Palantir and Anduril actually do better when you cut the waste.” x.com
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8/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale has known JD Vance for years and even hosted him at his house. Makes sense given that Vance is a protege of Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. x.com
9/ A September exchange with Elon Musk. x.com
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And yet...🙁 breakingdefense.com
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11/ Here, Joe Lonsdale (founder of 8VC, co-founder of Palantir) says that he and Sebastian Caliri, his partner at 8VC, are making suggestions to the Trump administration for changing federal healthcare policy. blog.joelonsdale.com
12/ In the same piece, Joe Lonsdale (founder of 8VC & co-founder of Palantir) states that “My old friend Jim O'Neill will be RFK Jr's deputy at HHS; we and talented friends we admire are also close to Mehmet Oz (CMS), Jay Bhattacharya (NIH), Marty Makary (FDA), and more.”
13/ In another blog post, Joe Lonsdale (founder of 8VC & co-founder of Palantir) said that he’s invested in Anduril and Saronic and that “We are bullish” on Trump’s incoming Department of Defense team. He then names names. blog.joelonsdale.com
14/ Here, Joe Lonsdale (8VC founder, Palantir co-founder, & Anduril investor) wrote that “My friend Emil Michael is a genius straight out of the Silicon Valley startup culture that has to be leveraged in Washington, he will be incredible in his new role heading up Pentagon research & engineering.
15/ Notice how Joe Lonsdale (Palantir co-founder, 8VC founder, & Anduril investor) also gleefully recounted Pete Hegseth’s remarks that “Silicon Valley, for the first time in generations, has shown a willingness, desire, and capability to bring its best technologies to bear at the Pentagon…”
16/ Last year, Lonsdale interviewed Hegseth’s “undersecretary-designate” Emil Michael. He wrote it up in a blog post, referring to Michael as “the master dealmaker behind Uber’s dominance.” blog.joelonsdale.com
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17/ Oh boy. Here’s a letter from @warren.senate.gov expressing ethics concerns about Emil Michael (Joe Lonsdale’s friend) and his new position at DOD. warren.senate.gov
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18/ “In a recent interview with tech news site The Information, Lonsdale fantasised about a government that’s run ‘by, like, all my smartest tech friends’”. 11/10/24 thetimes.com
19/ “Lonsdale, 44, set up and helped fund the America PAC (Political Action Committee), the organisation through which Musk funnelled his campaign cash.” thetimes.com
20/ Here, Joe Lonsdale says that “Every US state needs a massive administrative DOGE.” x.com
21/ In March 2024, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale interviewed Leonard Leo & wrote that, “Few leaders have been more successful in rightsizing government than Leonard Leo. What's his strategy? And how can the tech world get involved?”
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9/ Hegseth’s Venmo contacts list has reportedly included Evan Baehr, a former advisor to Peter Thiel. (It was Baehr & Thiel who conceived of the Teneo Network, which is now led by Leonard Leo.) prospect.org
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