A Sucker Punch From Your Neighbour/Friend?

[cdnz]

Imagine this ..... Trumpet is such big buddies with Putana ( Italian for slut ) ... Why ?

Does Putana have something on him ... Jeffery Epstien style ?

Didnt Russian money help save Trumpet back in the early 90s ?

The rabbit hole goes very deep ... How much cashola is trumpet in it for mother russia

Hopefully someone digs deep enough to find the dirt .... then mabe a nice impeachment followed by a Treason charge

Followed by a date with 'ol sparky ( americans see treason as the very worst crime you could ever commit ) .... we could only wish ...


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Sadly that may not work as he has been through that and came out the other side as a hero in the eyes of his brainwashed supporters.

 

[Vettenut]

As usual money talks. After two substantial downturns on the Stock Exchange’s we now see this . At least it should be a help .

Trump 'probably' announcing some tariff relief for Canada, Mexico on Wednesday: U.S. commerce secretary

Howard Lutnick said the tariffs would likely land 'somewhere in the middle' with Trump, 'but not all the way' to fully ending them.

nationalpost.com

Tariff relief !!!???

So ... what ? Is the piece of Shitt now going to negotiate on the tariffs he never should have imposed and who will he negotiate with ? ... himself ? ...

This loser is really starting to make biden look like a rock star


Oh and btw ... that lutnick is one of the creepiest idiots I have ever seen next to his boss ... looks like he belongs on an episode of To Catch A Predator getting smoked by Chris hansen

 

[Ian M]

I don’t usually voice my opinion about political matters for the simple reason, it is a no-win situation. Some people may agree with you, it is guaranteed a lot of people will disagree with you, some very rudely.

Due to the severity and importance of the current events Canadian’s are forced to deal with, (a lot of American’s also, they just don’t realize it yet) I felt an urge to scribble a few words here.

Full disclosure, I am a conservative by nature. I personally do not like what Trudeau has done to our country over the last nine years. All the speeches I have heard Trudeau give over the years always started with “Canadians want me to do this” (paraphrasing here), then fill in the blanks, raise your taxes (luxury, capital gains, carbon), waste /give your money away etc. At the same time, he hits us with a massive current deficit, doubles our national debt, etc. etc.

Having said that I was impressed with what a Trudeau had to say today (I was around for his Father’s reign also). His speech on Trump’s tariffs was well done. It was on point, forceful and unequivocal about Canada’s response. This is the only time I have said this in 9 years “well done Justin”.

On the other hand, I was somewhat embarrassed with Poilievre’s speech. He tried to make this more a political attack on the Liberal’s and less a push back on Trump. There is a time and a place for everything Pierre, and this wasn’t the time for your diatribe on the Liberals. Unfortunately, I think PP is missing the mark on too many occasions because he is not connecting with Canadians, just check the current polls compared to a few months ago. Once again, I am a conservative, so I have a vested interest in his performance.

Aside from Smith, I think all the Premiers that spoke did a good job also. I hope that Trump, the bully, gets the message that Canadian’s aren’t the easy push overs he thought we might be.

I am very tempted to say the Trump is acting like a drunken sailor with too much power, but I am very reluctant to insult drunken sailors everywhere by placing Trump within their group. I think the world would be a safer place if Trump would just stick to running the oval office shopping channel selling bibles, coins, watches, sneakers, books etc.

I felt a little glimmer of hope when I watched CTV’s interview with the Governor of Kentucky. I hope the Democrats have him around to run for President in 4 years, because after 4 years of Trump I think it is a lock for the Dems to win the White House back, and it would be nice to have an intelligent, rational person, that likes Canadians, sitting at the Resolute desk again.

Anyway, that is my political statement for the decade. All the multitudes that disagree with me please feel free to take your shots now.

These opinions are all my own and I hope everyone has a nice evening.

Remember, Buy Canadian!!!

 

[cdnz]

Tariff relief !!!???

So ... what ? Is the piece of Shitt now going to negotiate on the tariffs he never should have imposed and who will he negotiate with ? ... himself ? ...

This loser is really starting to make biden look like a rock star


Oh and btw ... that lutnick is one of the creepiest idiots I have ever seen next to his boss ... looks like he belongs on an episode of To Catch A Predator getting smoked by Chris hansen

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However this tariff war end, I hope that we and our politicians will not forget this day of how we were exploited by our neighbour. We should never ever put ourself in this position again and be held as hostages.
It is a breath of fresh air to see all levels of goverments working together in the best interest for Canadians.
“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”

 

[Rruuff Day]

Unfortunately this came to my attention today from a private source. This is a longer read but this makes more sense of what is happening now that anything else I have heard or seen and puts Trump in a totally different light than what we have been seeing. JMO

So, this here is the easiest-to-understand breakdown of the Elon Musk / JD Vance / Peter Thiel / Curtis Yarvin / tekdestruktors agenda currently ambushing the USA. If you're still in the dark as to what Musk and DOGE are actually up to, I urge you to read this. It's by Shane Almgren, who has authored a couple of books on adjacent topics ('The Trumpland Diaries' and 'Conspiracy Christianity') and has been investigating the above-mentioned people for a while. Yes, it's a bit long, but not really. He's made it chatty. (This is an excerpt from a longer piece.) Please read and share—

"Finally, we've got a third group—the one that's responsible for all the chaos Elon and DOGE are causing. Their agenda is actually far more extreme than either Project 2025 or the [Christian Reconstructionists/Dominionists]. And the scary thing is, they're already implementing their freakish plan at warp speed while most of the country is busy bickering about all the quaint Project 2025 garbage (and Trump's usual unending fire hose of idiotic nonsense).

There's a few key players we're gonna have to cover some backstory for, namely Elon Musk, JD Vance, a guy you might've heard of by the name of Peter Thiel, and a guy you almost certainly haven't, Curtis Yarvin. These guys are all connected in a mildly horrifying way and we're about to unpack it all...

Once upon a time in the 90's, Elon Musk founded a small company called X.com (No, not Twitter—a different X.com. Dude just has an inexplicable fixation with the letter X). X was a fledgling digital banking service that allowed people to transact with vendors and each other without cash, checks, or plastic.

At the same time Musk was building out X, another young entrepreneur, a German immigrant named Peter Thiel, was building a very similar money-transfer service right across town called Confinity. Rather than compete with each other, Musk and Thiel decided to merge their two companies in 1999, with Musk named CEO of the new company. Shortly after the merger, Musk was fired as CEO by the board, who replaced him with Thiel. After Thiel took over, the company's name was changed to "PayPal.” You may have heard of it.

PayPal attracted some of the most promising young talent in Silicon Valley, and its early members wielded so much power and influence in the tech space that they became collectively known as the "PayPal Mafia."

Besides Musk and Thiel, the PayPal Mafia included:

• Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim (co-founders of YouTube)

• Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman (co-founders of Yelp)

• Max Levchin (current CEO of Affirm)

• Roelof Botha (partner at Sequoia Capital)

• David Sacks (Founder of Geni.com and Yammer, Trump’s new “AI/Crypto Czar”)

• Reed Hoffman (founder of Linkedin, early investor in Facebook, currently on the board at Microsoft)

• Jack Selby (co-founder of Clarium Capital with Peter Thiel)

• Yishan Wong (CEO of Reddit, founder of Terraformation Inc)

• Premal Shah (founder of Kiva, on the board at Change.org)

Plus a dozen others. The PayPal Mafia churned out a Who's Who in the Big Tech space, with nearly everyone involved becoming billionaires many times over. Today, it's one of the wealthiest and most influential collection of individuals, not just in America, but in the entire world.

In 2002, eBay acquired Paypal for $1.5 billion. Although no longer officially with PayPal after being ousted, Elon still held around 10% of the company shares and netted roughly $160 million in the sale.

So that's the Peter Thiel-Elon Musk connection–they co-founded PayPal together.

Now let's see how JD Vance is tied into this crew.

In 2011, Peter Thiel gave a talk at Yale where JD Vance was attending law school, changing the course of Vance's life, as JD recounts it. Vance called Thiel "possibly the smartest person" he ever met, and decided to pivot from a career in law to one in venture capital. In 2015, JD joined the Thiel-founded Mithril Capital, with Thiel as his personal mentor.

In 2016, Vance published "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," thrusting his name into the national spotlight for the first time. It was at this same time that Vance, unencumbered by any political aspirations or pretense and therefore free to speak his actual mind, sent his Yale roommate an email regarding America's leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump, that read: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?")

Vance left Thiel's firm in 2017 and joined a D.C.-based investment firm. Then he launched his own VC firm, Narya Capital, in 2019 with financial backing from Thiel, billionaire VC capitalist Mark Andreessen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

For reasons we'll get to in just a minute, around the time the pandemic was starting to wind down, Peter Thiel decided it was finally time for him to own a U.S. Senator and start pulling some long-awaited political strings. He figured that since he'd funded Vance's VC firm and essentially owned Vance already, he'd just migrate that ownership from the private sector to the public.

Because JD Vance had been an open critic of Donald Trump during Trump's entire first term, Thiel invited Vance down to Mar A Lago to smooth things over in hopes of getting an endorsement from Orange Jesus. Thiel informed Vance of his plans to make him a Senator, so Vance scrapped all his previous principles, decided power was “more gooder” than having any convictions, kissed Trump's ring, and earned the endorsement.

Thiel, for his part, poured an ungodly amount of his own money into Vance's Senate campaign—about $15 million—marking the largest donation to a single Senate candidate in American history. In addition to his personal $15 mil, Thiel also recruited 10 major donors for Vance, including a couple old tech buddies from the PayPal Mafia who chipped in a million each.

So, if you ever found yourself wondering how the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a lawyer-turned-venture capitalist with no political experience or aspirations and a vocal critic of Donald Trump came out of nowhere and managed to snag Trump's endorsement and win a Senate seat in his first foray into politics, there's your explanation: Peter Thiel orchestrated, arranged, and funded the entire thing. A tech billionaire bought himself a Senator.

Now, the next question is Why? This is where it starts to get scary. It's time to meet the final character in our story, Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin is a software developer and tech entrepreneur who started the Unqualified Reservations blog in 2003 under the pen name Mencius Moldbug. He's perhaps best known for founding the anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).

Like most people, Yarvin sees a ton of problems in society. But unlike most people, the problems he sees—and his solutions to those problems—are dystopian fringe at best, and democracy-ending suicide at worst.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

Yes, Curtis Yarvin is an unapologetic proponent of dictatorships since "there's no real difference between a dictator and a CEO, and corporations under the rule of a CEO appear to work just fine." As he puts it, "Nations like the United States are outdated software systems" that need to be "broken up into smaller entities called 'patchworks' which would be controlled by tech corporations."

As he put it in an interview with the NY Times on Jan 18, "Democracy is done."

Now, I know what you're thinking.

"Shane, this Yarvin dude is clearly off his rocker. Nobody in their right mind would take this "Corporate Monarchy" nonsense seriously. Why are you wasting everyone's time explaining in detail the techno-fascist-manifesto ramblings of some internet pop philosopher who calls himself 'Mencius Moldbug?' Dude sounds like he's living in some Matrix-meets-Hunger-Games dystopian fantasy world. Surely NOBODY takes this dude's crazy ideas seriously!"

That's where you would be wrong.

Perilously wrong.

Two of Curtis Yarvin's biggest disciples and advocates for his technocratic ideas are...

Peter Thiel and Vice President JD Vance, the MAGA heir apparent.

The three of them have been friends since at least 2009 after Yarvin's writings and ideologies became super popular within the PayPal Mafia circle. (If you’ve got an hour and a half to waste, here’s Vance on the Jack Murphy Live Podcast name-dropping Yarvin and spewing a few of his more sinister ideas.)

See, people forget that billionaires have political ideologies just like everyone else. And remember, most peoples' political ideologies are generally tailored to improve the life of the person holding them. Democracy sounds great if you're a peasant living under a king with no say in how things are run. But in what way would democracy improve your life if you're a multi-billionaire who can buy politicians? Once you're up that high on the food chain, democracy is no longer a step UP, it's a step DOWN.

So, all these filthy rich, filthy powerful tech bros have jumped on board with turning America into a corporation run by a CEO with authoritarian power. According to them, the masses don't need to be voting – the masses are idiots. (Or as Yarvin puts it, "The masses are asses.") The PayPal Mafia has no interest in becoming beholden to the whims of a bunch of blue collar workers from Appalachia. If they're gonna be free to live their best lives, they're gonna need to unshackle themselves from the "masses who can't even figure life out enough to afford groceries."

Put bluntly, those who can write a check for a few $billion and not even notice it's gone are not interested in the opinions of those whining about the cost of 12 eggs.

As Peter Thiel once wrote in a Cato essay, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Now, supposing they were actually going to attempt to pull this techno-coup off, what would that look like in practice?

Thankfully, Yarvin has had the plan mapped out for years with a little strategy he's given the acronym RAGE: Retire All Government Employees.

It would look exactly like what we're all looking at.

Elon's "haphazard, chaotic coup" of federal agencies is anything but. This has been the plan all along by these Yarvin acolytes: gut the federal workforce—either by mass firings or incentivizing them to resign—crippling the entire government in the process, at which point Big Tech corporate solutions that just so happen to already be on hand can step in and take over the reigns of running our government.

Since you could never get away with doing this as a blatant hostile takeover, you just frame the entire exercise as an "audit to weed out fraud and corruption," then watch the gatekeepers roll out the red carpets and cheer the whole takeover on!

I know it sounds like tin-foil-hat conspiracy, but LOOK at what's happening in front of your eyes.

Isn't it a little weird that JD Vance came out of nowhere to win a Senate seat? And weirder still that Peter Thiel managed to convince Trump to make this virtual nobody his running mate even though Vance was the most unpopular VP pick in polling history?

Wasn't it a bit strange that Donald Trump told a bunch of Evangelicals at a rally, "Vote for me this one time and I'll make sure you never have to vote again?" What the hell did that mean?

Isn't it slightly too coincidental that Peter Thiel's original business partner Elon Musk is currently running roughshod through the American government doing EXACTLY what Curtis Yarvin said needs to happen?

This isn't conspiracy land at this point. These dudes told everyone what they wanted to do, and then they started doing it while we all watch dumbfounded. The Left is going, "Surely they can't be doing what it sure as hell looks like they're doing—taking over the government!" and the Right is just...cheering them on because it "makes the libtard snowflakes cry."

So there's your explanation.

Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.

Hopefully, the chaos makes a little more sense now."

 

[1st Vette]

Every republican!

Certainly everyone in a red hat and suspenders…..

 

[1st Vette]

Welcome guests !

 

[Vettenut]

Unfortunately this came to my attention today from a private source. This is a longer read but this makes more sense of what is happening now that anything else I have heard or seen and puts Trump in a totally different light than what we have been seeing. JMO

So, this here is the easiest-to-understand breakdown of the Elon Musk / JD Vance / Peter Thiel / Curtis Yarvin / tekdestruktors agenda currently ambushing the USA. If you're still in the dark as to what Musk and DOGE are actually up to, I urge you to read this. It's by Shane Almgren, who has authored a couple of books on adjacent topics ('The Trumpland Diaries' and 'Conspiracy Christianity') and has been investigating the above-mentioned people for a while. Yes, it's a bit long, but not really. He's made it chatty. (This is an excerpt from a longer piece.) Please read and share—

"Finally, we've got a third group—the one that's responsible for all the chaos Elon and DOGE are causing. Their agenda is actually far more extreme than either Project 2025 or the [Christian Reconstructionists/Dominionists]. And the scary thing is, they're already implementing their freakish plan at warp speed while most of the country is busy bickering about all the quaint Project 2025 garbage (and Trump's usual unending fire hose of idiotic nonsense).

There's a few key players we're gonna have to cover some backstory for, namely Elon Musk, JD Vance, a guy you might've heard of by the name of Peter Thiel, and a guy you almost certainly haven't, Curtis Yarvin. These guys are all connected in a mildly horrifying way and we're about to unpack it all...

Once upon a time in the 90's, Elon Musk founded a small company called X.com (No, not Twitter—a different X.com. Dude just has an inexplicable fixation with the letter X). X was a fledgling digital banking service that allowed people to transact with vendors and each other without cash, checks, or plastic.

At the same time Musk was building out X, another young entrepreneur, a German immigrant named Peter Thiel, was building a very similar money-transfer service right across town called Confinity. Rather than compete with each other, Musk and Thiel decided to merge their two companies in 1999, with Musk named CEO of the new company. Shortly after the merger, Musk was fired as CEO by the board, who replaced him with Thiel. After Thiel took over, the company's name was changed to "PayPal.” You may have heard of it.

PayPal attracted some of the most promising young talent in Silicon Valley, and its early members wielded so much power and influence in the tech space that they became collectively known as the "PayPal Mafia."

Besides Musk and Thiel, the PayPal Mafia included:

• Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim (co-founders of YouTube)

• Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman (co-founders of Yelp)

• Max Levchin (current CEO of Affirm)

• Roelof Botha (partner at Sequoia Capital)

• David Sacks (Founder of Geni.com and Yammer, Trump’s new “AI/Crypto Czar”)

• Reed Hoffman (founder of Linkedin, early investor in Facebook, currently on the board at Microsoft)

• Jack Selby (co-founder of Clarium Capital with Peter Thiel)

• Yishan Wong (CEO of Reddit, founder of Terraformation Inc)

• Premal Shah (founder of Kiva, on the board at Change.org)

Plus a dozen others. The PayPal Mafia churned out a Who's Who in the Big Tech space, with nearly everyone involved becoming billionaires many times over. Today, it's one of the wealthiest and most influential collection of individuals, not just in America, but in the entire world.

In 2002, eBay acquired Paypal for $1.5 billion. Although no longer officially with PayPal after being ousted, Elon still held around 10% of the company shares and netted roughly $160 million in the sale.

So that's the Peter Thiel-Elon Musk connection–they co-founded PayPal together.

Now let's see how JD Vance is tied into this crew.

In 2011, Peter Thiel gave a talk at Yale where JD Vance was attending law school, changing the course of Vance's life, as JD recounts it. Vance called Thiel "possibly the smartest person" he ever met, and decided to pivot from a career in law to one in venture capital. In 2015, JD joined the Thiel-founded Mithril Capital, with Thiel as his personal mentor.

In 2016, Vance published "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," thrusting his name into the national spotlight for the first time. It was at this same time that Vance, unencumbered by any political aspirations or pretense and therefore free to speak his actual mind, sent his Yale roommate an email regarding America's leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump, that read: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?")

Vance left Thiel's firm in 2017 and joined a D.C.-based investment firm. Then he launched his own VC firm, Narya Capital, in 2019 with financial backing from Thiel, billionaire VC capitalist Mark Andreessen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

For reasons we'll get to in just a minute, around the time the pandemic was starting to wind down, Peter Thiel decided it was finally time for him to own a U.S. Senator and start pulling some long-awaited political strings. He figured that since he'd funded Vance's VC firm and essentially owned Vance already, he'd just migrate that ownership from the private sector to the public.

Because JD Vance had been an open critic of Donald Trump during Trump's entire first term, Thiel invited Vance down to Mar A Lago to smooth things over in hopes of getting an endorsement from Orange Jesus. Thiel informed Vance of his plans to make him a Senator, so Vance scrapped all his previous principles, decided power was “more gooder” than having any convictions, kissed Trump's ring, and earned the endorsement.

Thiel, for his part, poured an ungodly amount of his own money into Vance's Senate campaign—about $15 million—marking the largest donation to a single Senate candidate in American history. In addition to his personal $15 mil, Thiel also recruited 10 major donors for Vance, including a couple old tech buddies from the PayPal Mafia who chipped in a million each.

So, if you ever found yourself wondering how the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a lawyer-turned-venture capitalist with no political experience or aspirations and a vocal critic of Donald Trump came out of nowhere and managed to snag Trump's endorsement and win a Senate seat in his first foray into politics, there's your explanation: Peter Thiel orchestrated, arranged, and funded the entire thing. A tech billionaire bought himself a Senator.

Now, the next question is Why? This is where it starts to get scary. It's time to meet the final character in our story, Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin is a software developer and tech entrepreneur who started the Unqualified Reservations blog in 2003 under the pen name Mencius Moldbug. He's perhaps best known for founding the anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).

Like most people, Yarvin sees a ton of problems in society. But unlike most people, the problems he sees—and his solutions to those problems—are dystopian fringe at best, and democracy-ending suicide at worst.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

Yes, Curtis Yarvin is an unapologetic proponent of dictatorships since "there's no real difference between a dictator and a CEO, and corporations under the rule of a CEO appear to work just fine." As he puts it, "Nations like the United States are outdated software systems" that need to be "broken up into smaller entities called 'patchworks' which would be controlled by tech corporations."

As he put it in an interview with the NY Times on Jan 18, "Democracy is done."

Now, I know what you're thinking.

"Shane, this Yarvin dude is clearly off his rocker. Nobody in their right mind would take this "Corporate Monarchy" nonsense seriously. Why are you wasting everyone's time explaining in detail the techno-fascist-manifesto ramblings of some internet pop philosopher who calls himself 'Mencius Moldbug?' Dude sounds like he's living in some Matrix-meets-Hunger-Games dystopian fantasy world. Surely NOBODY takes this dude's crazy ideas seriously!"

That's where you would be wrong.

Perilously wrong.

Two of Curtis Yarvin's biggest disciples and advocates for his technocratic ideas are...

Peter Thiel and Vice President JD Vance, the MAGA heir apparent.

The three of them have been friends since at least 2009 after Yarvin's writings and ideologies became super popular within the PayPal Mafia circle. (If you’ve got an hour and a half to waste, here’s Vance on the Jack Murphy Live Podcast name-dropping Yarvin and spewing a few of his more sinister ideas.)

See, people forget that billionaires have political ideologies just like everyone else. And remember, most peoples' political ideologies are generally tailored to improve the life of the person holding them. Democracy sounds great if you're a peasant living under a king with no say in how things are run. But in what way would democracy improve your life if you're a multi-billionaire who can buy politicians? Once you're up that high on the food chain, democracy is no longer a step UP, it's a step DOWN.

So, all these filthy rich, filthy powerful tech bros have jumped on board with turning America into a corporation run by a CEO with authoritarian power. According to them, the masses don't need to be voting – the masses are idiots. (Or as Yarvin puts it, "The masses are asses.") The PayPal Mafia has no interest in becoming beholden to the whims of a bunch of blue collar workers from Appalachia. If they're gonna be free to live their best lives, they're gonna need to unshackle themselves from the "masses who can't even figure life out enough to afford groceries."

Put bluntly, those who can write a check for a few $billion and not even notice it's gone are not interested in the opinions of those whining about the cost of 12 eggs.

As Peter Thiel once wrote in a Cato essay, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Now, supposing they were actually going to attempt to pull this techno-coup off, what would that look like in practice?

Thankfully, Yarvin has had the plan mapped out for years with a little strategy he's given the acronym RAGE: Retire All Government Employees.

It would look exactly like what we're all looking at.

Elon's "haphazard, chaotic coup" of federal agencies is anything but. This has been the plan all along by these Yarvin acolytes: gut the federal workforce—either by mass firings or incentivizing them to resign—crippling the entire government in the process, at which point Big Tech corporate solutions that just so happen to already be on hand can step in and take over the reigns of running our government.

Since you could never get away with doing this as a blatant hostile takeover, you just frame the entire exercise as an "audit to weed out fraud and corruption," then watch the gatekeepers roll out the red carpets and cheer the whole takeover on!

I know it sounds like tin-foil-hat conspiracy, but LOOK at what's happening in front of your eyes.

Isn't it a little weird that JD Vance came out of nowhere to win a Senate seat? And weirder still that Peter Thiel managed to convince Trump to make this virtual nobody his running mate even though Vance was the most unpopular VP pick in polling history?

Wasn't it a bit strange that Donald Trump told a bunch of Evangelicals at a rally, "Vote for me this one time and I'll make sure you never have to vote again?" What the hell did that mean?

Isn't it slightly too coincidental that Peter Thiel's original business partner Elon Musk is currently running roughshod through the American government doing EXACTLY what Curtis Yarvin said needs to happen?

This isn't conspiracy land at this point. These dudes told everyone what they wanted to do, and then they started doing it while we all watch dumbfounded. The Left is going, "Surely they can't be doing what it sure as hell looks like they're doing—taking over the government!" and the Right is just...cheering them on because it "makes the libtard snowflakes cry."

So there's your explanation.

Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.

Hopefully, the chaos makes a little more sense now."

Wow that was some read ... brings this to mind .....

 

[Murray20c8]

What's up with Alberta? Doesn't seem like they are willing to help fight the tariffs. Are they doing anything?
Edit: I mean the government of Alberta, not the people. I know they'll do their part buying Canadian whenever possible.
It seems Danielle Smith isn't willing to do anything but support the Federal government.

 

[C SEVEN GS Bob]

What's up with Alberta? Doesn't seem like they are willing to help fight the tariffs. Are they doing anything?
Edit: I mean the government of Alberta, not the people. I know they'll do their part buying Canadian whenever possible.
It seems Danielle Smith isn't willing to do anything but support the Federal government.

Alberta has been burned by the liberal liberal government for several years now and I suspect our provincial government is taking this slowly to make sure we don't get screwed again. I for one would not be opposed to putting an export surcharge on our oil as part of phase 2 if we could be sure the funds generated would be used exclusively to build more pipeline capacity to the east and the west. Alberta has sent billions to other provinces through equalization and gotten no support for our resources from most of the rest of the country. Liberal leadership candidates are now willing to kill the carbon tax and expand sale of all natural resources to fight Trump. I suspect we're a little slower to believe them now in case it's just more noise. It is nice to see support for diversification of our markets but it needs to be more that just talk.

 

[Murray20c8]

I don't understand all the vehemence with the carbon tax. All provinces were asked to do their own carbon footprint reduction program to avoid the carbon tax. Seems like the conservative provinces declined and the liberal ones did. Why is Alberta not willing to reduce their carbon footprint? I don't need an argument that what we do won't matter. That is not the point. The point is Canada agreed to do it. So why can Alberta not do it or is it simply won't do it because it's a "liberal" thing?

 

[Rruuff Day]

........ Why is Alberta not willing to reduce their carbon footprint? I don't need an argument that what we do won't matter. That is not the point. The point is Canada agreed to do it. So why can Alberta not do it or is it simply won't do it because it's a "liberal" thing?

Do a little more research before you tar and feather Alberta for 'supposedly' "not willing to reduce their carbon footprint." I hear this bull$hit all the time from save the world proponents that we aren't doing our fair share. I'm sorry. We are the energy capital of Canada and yes, other than holding their hand out for their share of that energy income, Bob is correct, but it has been much more than several years Alberta has been $hit on by your Liberals. And yes... Between Ontario and Quebec, they are your Liberals. Of the 153 Liberal seats, you have 108 of them. Ask Quebec what they are doing to fight the tariffs while you're slamming Alberta. Other than promising financial aid to Quebec businesses that will be affected by the tariffs, Quebec has no plans to do anything else. Obviously their supposed 'lesser fiscal capacity' which results in an extra $15 billion gift they receive per year allows them the cash to do that. I wish Alberta had the extra cash to be able to do that. Then perhaps we wouldn't bitch so loudly about the infamous Carbon Tax, which now it appears that the Liberals have backed away from too, at least while they are desperate to try and win an election.

 

[Murray20c8]

Do a little more research before you tar and feather Alberta for 'supposedly' "not willing to reduce their carbon footprint." I hear this bull$hit all the time from save the world proponents that we aren't doing our fair share. I'm sorry. We are the energy capital of Canada and yes, other than holding their hand out for their share of that energy income, Bob is correct, but it has been much more than several years Alberta has been $hit on by your Liberals. And yes... Between Ontario and Quebec, they are your Liberals. Of the 153 Liberal seats, you have 108 of them. Ask Quebec what they are doing to fight the tariffs while you're slamming Alberta. Other than promising financial aid to Quebec businesses that will be affected by the tariffs, Quebec has no plans to do anything else. Obviously their supposed 'lesser fiscal capacity' which results in an extra $15 billion gift they receive per year allows them the cash to do that. I wish Alberta had the extra cash to be able to do that. Then perhaps we wouldn't bitch so loudly about the infamous Carbon Tax, which now it appears that the Liberals have backed away from too, at least while they are desperate to try and win an election.

Relax! I merely asked the question. All I here from her is she doesn't want any part of tariffs. I didn't slam all of Alberta. I even like you!

 

[Murray20c8]

I might add that Ontario didn't do anything either. Ford refused and complains about the carbon tax too. I was curious if it's an oil thing with Alberta. I know it's all political here in Ontario. Conservatives against the Liberals.

 

[Rruuff Day]

Relax! I merely asked the question. All I here from her is she doesn't want any part of tariffs. I didn't slam all of Alberta. I even like you!

Lol... I actually like you as well... Don't take that as a romantic overture though, you have your hands full with Jack.
I apologize for coming across pretty strongly. Everywhere East of Manitoba I go I get ragged on about Alberta. Whether we're polluting the world with our oil and gas industry or stealing the rest of Canada's labour force and population, there always seems to be something I get dirty looks for when I say I'm from Alberta. So I guess I'm a bit sensitive....

 

[Rruuff Day]

I might add that Ontario didn't do anything either. Ford refused and complains about the carbon tax too. I was curious if it's an oil thing with Alberta. I know it's all political here in Ontario. Conservatives against the Liberals.

It's a money thing here. We went through hell when we thought the PC had been in power here too long and decided to give them a scare by voting NDP. To everyone's dismay, the NDP formed a majority Government and promptly flushed us down the economic toilet. The people in general don't really care about the extra $911.00 carbon tax. We would like to know exactly where it goes though, but that can be said about all governments taxes... lol... The problem we have is with the oil industry big business. When the NDP slammed an extra 20% tax on oil companies, they just packed up and moved South of the border where they were welcomed by the US. And if this tariff thing doesn't get resolved extremely quick, you guys in the east who rely more on manufacturing, will see this happen as well. Your auto and steel and aluminum plants can't stay in business with the tariffs Trump has placed on them. And that's just the first 25%. Any that can will pack up and move to the US for zero tariffs, cheap labour, and less taxes will. Scary stuff all around.

 

[1st Vette]

Wow that was some read ... brings this to mind .....


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Interesting.
The Georgia Guidestones were a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, and first erected in 1980. The monument was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all.<a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-Sullivan_2009-1)"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a>The structure was sometimes known as an "American Stonehenge" or "Georgia's Stonehenge".

On the morning of July 6, 2022, the guidestones were heavily damaged in a bombing.<a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-2)"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> Later that day, officials demolished the standing parts of the structure for safety reasons.<a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-3)"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-4)"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>

 

[AxeZ06]

I wish Alberta had the extra cash to be able to do that.

A provincial sales tax would help.

(AB is the only province without one).

 

[Ian M]

Relax! I merely asked the question. All I here from her is she doesn't want any part of tariffs. I didn't slam all of Alberta. I even like you!
Lol... I actually like you as well... Don't take that as a romantic overture though, you have your hands full with Jack.

And this is how Canadians have a knock down dragged out nasty argument.

 

[Vettenut]

Interesting.
The Georgia Guidestones were a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, and first erected in 1980. The monument was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all.<a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-Sullivan_2009-1)"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a>The structure was sometimes known as an "American Stonehenge" or "Georgia's Stonehenge".

On the morning of July 6, 2022, the guidestones were heavily damaged in a bombing.<a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-2)"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> Later that day, officials demolished the standing parts of the structure for safety reasons.<a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-3)"><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a><a href="Georgia Guidestones - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#cite_note-4)"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>

Yea some time ago I watched a documentary on the guide stones .... real New World Order stuff ... but interesting

Thanks for posting the links ....

Some eye candy for your efforts .....