Good guys could easily take advantage of the fact Peter Thiel named his company after the bad guy weapon.

The Letterhack provides Democrats with some needed remedial tips.

I listened to an interview with journalist Matt Binder about Palantir after I posted my piece about how Palantir is a company named for an evil surveillance tool. Matt Binder mentions how of course Peter Thiel knew full well what he was naming his company after, that he was aware of what it was about in Lord of the Rings. And of course he did. Peter Thiel founded the company Palantir in 2003, after the trilogy of Lord of the Rings movies had been released during the years of 2001, 2002, and 2003. In an interview on a different episode of the same Wajahat Ali show was where journalist Gil Duran had said that Democrats are ignoring a home run here in telling people about this. Artist Matt Strackbein has even helpfully done some quick mockups for Democrats on his show The Letterhack Presents.

Youtube screenshot of The Letterhack that pictures Matt Strackbein on stream with a pleading expression, with a mockup for the Democratic Party to message on the badness of Palantir. It shows an image of the Palantir being used in Lord of the Rings and a picture of Peter Thiel of Palantir. The caption says You guys, it's named after the bad guy's cell phone in LOTR!!! THAT'S BAD!!! And has an annotated arrow pointing to the bad guy labeled Trump, Nazis, Project 2025, Elon Musk, etc.
Youtube screenshot of The Letterhack that pictures Matt Strackbein on stream with a pleading expression, with a mockup for the Democratic Party to message on the badness of Palantir. It shows an image of the Palantir being used in Lord of the Rings and a picture of Peter Thiel of Palantir. The caption says You guys, it’s named after the bad guy’s cell phone in LOTR!!! THAT’S BAD!!! And has an annotated arrow pointing to the bad guy labeled Trump, Nazis, Project 2025, Elon Musk, etc.
Youtube screenshot of The Letterhack that pictures Matt Strackbein laughing on stream with a mockup for the Democratic Party to message on the badness of the golden dome and AI weapons systems from tycoon billionaire government contracts. The picture shows a robot with evil looking red light eyes in its metal face with the Skynet logo from the movie Terminator. There's an annotated arrow labeled Killer Robots pointing at the robot. There's a photo of Trump and the golden dome picture with Pete Hegseth standing next to it, and the caption reads You guys, the golden dome is the same as sky net from the terminator movies!!! That's bad!!!! There's an annotated arrow pointing to Pete Hegseth that says also killer robots.
Youtube screenshot of The Letterhack that pictures Matt Strackbein laughing on stream with a mockup for the Democratic Party to message on the badness of the golden dome and AI weapons systems from tycoon billionaire government contracts. The picture shows a robot with evil looking red light eyes in its metal face with the Skynet logo from the movie Terminator. There’s an annotated arrow labeled Killer Robots pointing at the robot. There’s a photo of Trump and the golden dome picture with Pete Hegseth standing next to it, and the caption reads You guys, the golden dome is the same as sky net from the terminator movies!!! That’s bad!!!! There’s an annotated arrow pointing to Pete Hegseth that says also killer robots.
Youtube screenshot of The Letterhack that pictures Matt Strackbein on stream looking incredulous with a mockup for the Democratic Party to message on the badness of tech billionaire agendas, the image shows Keanu Reeves as the main character from the movie The Matrix in front of a dark and gloomy depiction of machine city from the movie. The caption reads Elon Musk, and Republicans want to create machine city like in the Matrix. That's bad!!! Annotated arrow labeled Tech billionaires dream come true is pointing at the machine city spires, and an annotated arrow pointing at the protagonist of The Matrix is labeled The Left.
Youtube screenshot of The Letterhack that pictures Matt Strackbein on stream looking incredulous with a mockup for the Democratic Party to message on the badness of tech billionaire agendas, the image shows Keanu Reeves as the main character from the movie The Matrix in front of a dark and gloomy depiction of machine city from the movie. The caption reads Elon Musk, and Republicans want to create machine city like in the Matrix. That’s bad!!! Annotated arrow labeled Tech billionaires dream come true is pointing at the machine city spires, and an annotated arrow pointing at the protagonist of The Matrix is labeled The Left.
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