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Waters Warns JD Vance Presidency Would Bring Peter Thiel Total Control

Redacted · “This is our LAST chance to get answers about 9/11” Roger Waters on the Twin Tower demolition · June 15, 2026
Waters Warns JD Vance Presidency Would Bring Peter Thiel Total Control
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“This is our LAST chance to get answers about 9/11” Roger Waters on the Twin Tower demolition
"When Trump finally shits himself to death, which he will any minute, JD Vance will be the president of the United States, and he's absolutely owned long Lock, Stock and Barrel by Peter Thiel. So he's a colleague of Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, who is on record saying, and blah blah blah, and we'll do this and that and the other, and we'll rule the world, and if we don't like you, we'll kill you."
Waters expressed alarm that Vice President JD Vance is completely controlled by tech billionaire Peter Thiel and warned that upon Trump's death or removal, the presidency would effectively be handed to Thiel and Palantir. He claimed Palantir CEO Alex Karp has publicly stated intentions to rule the world and eliminate opposition, representing an existential threat to democracy.

About this episode

In this wide-ranging episode of Redacted, host Clayton Morris interviewed legendary Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters about the Campbell family's UK Supreme Court case seeking to reopen the inquest into the death of Jeff Campbell, a British citizen killed on September 11, 2001. Waters, who has personally donated substantial funds to support the legal effort, stated plainly that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were brought down by controlled demolition orchestrated by either the US government or Israel, not by aircraft impacts, and called this case potentially the most important moment in the quest for 9/11 truth. Waters accused the UK Attorney General of blocking the investigation to protect a global ruling class and drew parallels to what he sees as systemic judicial corruption. The conversation expanded into broader critiques of perpetual war, with Waters tracing the profit motive back to the Rothschild banking dynasty's discovery that financing both sides of conflicts between nation-states was supremely profitable. He warned that Vice President JD Vance is completely controlled by billionaire Peter Thiel and Palantir, and that a Vance presidency would hand effective power to tech oligarchs building a surveillance state. Waters also discussed his political awakening regarding Israel-Palestine after visiting the West Bank in 2006, calling Israel a racist state and noting his father warned about Zionist settlements in Palestine as early as 1934. Throughout, Waters emphasized the existential battle between those seeking truth and love versus a ruling class profiting from hatred and war, calling on citizens to read extensively, resist propaganda, and support efforts like the Campbell case that could expose fundamental truths about power.

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