It's President's Day or Unitary Executive Day. Both political teams, Blue & Red, expanded the power of the Presidency over the last thirty years, ironically as private equity underwriters multiplied and their political power expanded logarithmically.
Trump II, the digital Caligula has declared himself "the Donarch" and is ready to bestow significant state treasure on the TechGods who helped elect him.
TechGods traditionally avoided Uncle Sam as a customer, but that is changing now that one of their own is on the inside working on "reconstruction of a technological republic."
Elon's DOGE (Department of Greedy Executives) is charged with replacing people with machines, bots, AI, or whatever crap they are slapping together to produce errors much faster than humans.
The Unitary Executive offers the coup-less coup, the uncivil civil war, and the return of the savage whim of kings, emperors, dictators. Trump II seems intent on rewarding TechGods over PEUs, but it is early in his Game of Cohones.
Update 2-18-25: Demetri Kofinas wrote on X:
There is a war going on in America between the elites in Silicon Valley and the D.C. establishment types who have comfortably held power my entire life. The Valley guys want to turn the Republican party into their vehicle for exercising power and control over the country, including its regulatory policies.Musk believes he can demonstrate his alignment with the new right-wing movement that has captured the Republican party by appealing to stuff like carnivore diets and Christian values and by signaling that he's a tough guy who's "down with God." (these are new things for Musk) Watching his evolution and that of others like him has been pretty enlightening. These people are clearly interested in power, and many of them are consciously reengineering their public images in order to obtain it.
Update 2-19-25: Donarch Trump congratulated himself in a social media post with "Long Live the King!" Wrong country, inaccurate reality.
Update 2-27-25: Pre-DOGE Musk's companies had $38 billion in government business. What will that number be post-DOGE?
Update 3-5-25: TechGod of Spying Palantir stands to grow its AI business with Uncle Sam. Palantir cut its teeth protecting Bilderbergers.
