Billionaire tech bro calls protesters an "infection inside our society"

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is doing his best to maintain a chasm between billionaires and the rest of us

At the SCSP AI Expo, a coterie of billionaires and war generals took the stage to explain why US protesters shouldn’t criticize Israel’s genocide. The talk, led by General Mark Milley and Palantir CEO Alex Karp, is the latest in ‘weird ways to justify Israel’s war crimes.’

“We slaughtered people in massive numbers,” begins Milley, thinking he’s somehow forming a positive talking point. “Innocent people who had nothing to do with their government.”

His point (we think?) is that the US has committed so many terrible war crimes that it has no right to criticize Israel’s. This is when CEO Alex Karp jumps in to back up the general:

“And one of the things I find personally very frustrating,” says the billionaire, “is that peace activists are actually the pro-war activists, and we’re the peace activists. You are an infection inside of our society!”

His point, um, is, uhh, well we’re not really sure wtf he’s on.

But his craziness is only mirrored as we look across the rest of corporate media. Senator John Fetterman claims that the peace protesters are actually working against peace in Gaza, which is incidentally something he’s never claimed to be for. Jake Tapper brainstorms the new desperate talking point that Hamas accepted a ceasefire agreement not to stop the war but to look good. And a spokesperson for the Israeli government just admits he has no idea how many civilians Israel has killed.

They’re all insane.

Which is why they fit so perfectly into Thursday Throwdown: your midweek dose of media madness.

Plus, Fox News defends lunatic Rabbi Shmuley, Democratic Congresswoman Jeanne Shaheen again blames student protests on China, and the biggest lie of the week: Andrea Mitchell tells Jen Psaki that she has a reputation for honesty and truth-telling.

It’s all crazy, and it’s all on Thursday Throwdown. Watch with Katie and Aaron, they’ll help you laugh instead of cry.

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