South Africa’s second-best-known emigrant leaves USA for Argentina

Rice · May 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM

Who next? Elon Musk? Is Argentina’s own oligarchy in the making?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/americas/peter-thiel-argentina.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mFA._W_l.8b34hWsVndum&smid=url-share

GlasgowJohn · May 29, 2026 at 9:15 PM

He arrived to set up some deals . He will be away in a month or tWo...

UK Man · May 29, 2026 at 11:14 PM

Wouldn't know him from Adam.

GlasgowJohn · May 30, 2026 at 8:15 AM

Quote from UK Man

Wouldn't know him from Adam.

I had never heard of him either until the ores started reporting his property purchase.

I doubt he ia kind humanitarian, looking after the interests of the poor and needy in the world.

Rice · May 30, 2026 at 3:11 PM

You’re right, GlasgowJohn . Instead, he is looking after the interests of the poor and GREEDY, starting with himself.

NYT says he has bought a house and has moved his family to Argentina, in case the USA is destroyed in a nuclear war.

With Milei, he could be THE policymaker. With trump, he has too much competition from other oligarchs. (But he did give us JD Vance — draw your own conclusions.)

Google him.

Splinter · May 31, 2026 at 8:51 AM

Shame he doesn't sound like a South African any more, but then he only spent six years there as a kid. He was born in Germany in fact and is married to a bloke called Matt.

Billionaire Trump Ally Flees to Argentina—Just Like the Nazis

A top Trump ally has fled the country amid concerns of a nuclear war.

www.thedailybeast.com

Rice · May 31, 2026 at 6:39 PM

This has nothing to do with the subject of his moving to Palermo Chico (additional property bought in Punta del Este), but it adds another dimension to his story: he apparently likes young people’s blood.

https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html

Beer to be spent?