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Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist'
Thiel also accused environmental activist Greta Thunberg of being one of the Antichrist's "legionnaires."
Oct 10, 2025
Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future "Antichrist."
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories to leave a majority of their wealth to a charity of their choosing.
Thiel said he warned Musk that his wealth was likely to end up going "to left-wing nonprofits that will be chosen by Bill Gates" and that his fortune would be better served to fight against a potential Antichrist figure that might emerge. Musk appeared receptive to these concerns, Thiel added.
Investigations have found that while Musk has pledged donations to charities and has donated money to charitable organizations, the funds have often either benefited his own interests or have not been properly distributed. His philanthropic group, the Musk Foundation, failed to donate the legally required amount to qualify as a charitable foundation last year for the third consecutive year.
He pledged nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla shares—just 2% of his net worth at the time—to the United Nations in 2021 to help feed 42 million people who were at risk of starvation for a year, but instead sent the money to his own foundation.
As Reuters noted, the Antichrist is a figure prophesied in the Christian Bible, and Thiel personally believes that this figure will emerge to "create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI, or climate-induced disaster."
The Washington Post, which along with Reuters got a transcript of Thiel's lectures on the Antichrist, added some more context to Thiel's personal conception of the Antichrist in a Thursday report.
Specifically, the Post reported that Thiel told his audience that environmental activist Greta Thunberg and artificial intelligence critic Eliezer Yudkowsky were "legionnaires of the Antichrist."
"In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said. "In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer."
The Post also reports that Thiel complained during his lecture that he's had a much harder time in recent years avoiding paying taxes.
“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” he said. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.”
Thiel, a cofounder of digital payment platform PayPal, has long been an associate of both Musk and Vice President JD Vance, whose 2022 US Senate campaign he generously funded.
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'People Are Being Robbed': Maine's Platner Credited for Showing Democrats How to Win Back Trump Voters
"Not a lot of Dems who can pull this move off," remarked one observer.
Oct 06, 2025
Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner over the weekend earned plaudits after he urged compassion to working-class Americans who have been taken in President Donald Trump's false promises.
During a town hall event at an American Legion post in Caribou, Maine over the weekend, Platner, who is running to unseat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in 2026, was confronted by a woman who demanded to know what he planned to do about "the illegals" living in the state who were purportedly getting "free benefits."
While many in the audience reacted negatively to the woman's question, Platner urged them to have compassion for her.
"If you listen to what she was saying, at her core, she's angry about the exact same things you are," said Platner. "People are propagandized, people are misinformed, but people are not stupid, and we shouldn't treat them as such. People are angry because they know they're being screwed."
People are being robbed. The answer to that is not shame or anger.
The answer is empathy and compassion. pic.twitter.com/82JFvRyjtM
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) October 5, 2025
"If somebody robs your neighbor's house, you don't go over there and laugh at them afterward," he said. "They've been taken advantage of, and that's what this is. People are being robbed. They're being robbed of their critical thinking, they're being robbed of their empathy."
Platner concluded by saying that "the answer to that is not shame, the answer to that is not anger, the answer is empathy and compassion."Platner then likened people who get "taken in" by MAGA propaganda to neighbors who have been robbed.
Platner's answer earned praise from some observers who said it offered Democrats a way to win back blue-collar voters whom they have been losing in recent elections.
"Not a lot of Dems who can pull this move off," remarked Washington Post economics reporter Jeff Stein.
Democratic political consultant Rebecca Katz also had praise for Platner's message and said it made no sense for Democratic voters to line up behind an establishment candidate such as current Maine Gov. Janet Mills, whom party leaders including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are pushing to enter the race.
"Can you imagine seeing the incredible response this guy is getting all over the state, the lawn signs popping up for him, the volunteers signing up, the small donors engaged, the people genuinely EXCITED and then deciding, 'Nope, we need someone older and more establishment?'" she wondered.
Pro-Palestinian organizer Tariq Habash shared the video on his X account and said that it should basically end the Maine Democratic Senate primary right now.
"If Democrats actually try to run another candidate instead of Graham just shut down the whole party," he wrote.
Platner, an oyster farmer and political novice, has made fighting against oligarchy the centerpiece of his Senate campaign, and he has repeatedly called attention to the class divide as the biggest problem in the US.
On his campaign website, Platner says that he would “be a strong supporter of a Medicare for All system, moving away from the for-profit insurance system that has brought us nothing but grief." He has also vowed to protect Social Security, and to implement a “billionaire minimum tax" that would crack down on the loopholes used by the superrich to avoid making tax payments.
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Bernie Sanders on What Corporate Media Does Not Want Discussed: The Oligarchy
"Let’s talk," says the Vermont senator, "about the reality which the corporately-controlled media and the corporately-controlled political system don’t talk about very much."
Sep 24, 2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont penned a new op-ed published Wednesday in which he attempts to redirect the American electorate away from what most media outlets seem fixated upon to a subject he argues they would rather not acknowledge, discuss, or promote—let alone challenge: the existence and power of the nation's oligarchy, which day by day continues to hollow out democracy while keeping the working class mired in relative poverty with families scraping to meet basic material needs.
"Let’s take a deep breath and, for one moment, forget about Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, the UN, Charlie Kirk, Gaza, a government shutdown, and the other crises that we face," writes Sanders, an Independent, in The Guardian.
Instead, he says, "Let’s talk instead about the reality which the corporately-controlled media and the corporately-controlled political system don’t talk about very much," which is a two-tiered nation in which extremely wealthy billionaires—including mega-billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg—live in "a world completely removed from ordinary Americans" that struggle to have affordable healthcare, housing, and education while earning wages that are lower, on average, than they were half a century ago despite huge increases in worker productivity.
Sanders writes:
What we are witnessing right now is the rise of two Americas. One for the billionaire class. And one for everybody else.
In one America, the richest people are becoming obscenely richer and have never, ever, had it so good. That America is overflowing with unimaginable wealth, greed and opulence that makes the Gilded Age seem very modest.
And then there is a second America–an America where a majority of people live paycheck to paycheck, struggling to secure the very basic necessities of life–food, healthcare, housing and education.
The sad conclusion, Sanders argues, is that the political system in the United States "is badly broken," crushed by the same oligarchs who have amassed large enough private fortunes that they can control "our government, our economy, and our future."
Noting that Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Zuckerberg—just four individuals—are now have an estimated $1.3 trillion in combined wealth, Sanders says it's not just them. "The top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%," he writes.
[The 1%] don’t ride overcrowded subways to get to work or sit in traffic jams to get home. They fly on private jets and helicopters they own. They live in mansions all over the world, send their kids to the most elite private schools and vacation on their own islands. And, for fun, some spend millions to fly off into space on their own rocket ships.
And then there is the other America, where the vast majority of our people live. For them, the economy is not just broken, it is collapsing. In this America, despite a massive increase in worker productivity, real weekly wages for the average American worker are lower today than they were more than 52 years ago.
Since Trump returned to office, Sanders has been traveling the nation as part of his "Fight Oligarchy" tour that has attracted tens of thousands of attendees in red, blue, and purple states. While the message appears to be resonating—and more lawmakers and candidate running for office echoing Sanders' message—the Vermont senator says the fight against massive inequality—both on the economic and political front—is far from over, but must be kept front and center.
After listing the litany of economic injustices faced by the nation's working class, Sanders says, "Enough is enough. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said in 1933: 'We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.' That warning is even more relevant today."
Despite President Donald Trump being in office and the headwins seemingly in favor of the billionaire class, which has been able to buy elections and increase its stranglehold on major media outlets and platforms, Sanders suggests that the people still have the upper hand when it comes to the long-term battle for the nation's future.
"I know day-to-day life can take a toll, but we must not allow ourselves to fall into despair," he writes. "If we do not allow ourselves to be divided up by Trump and is oligarch allies, we can change the path we are on."
"The choice is clear," Sanders concludes. "Let’s stand together for democracy and justice."
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