To understand the outcome of the next four years (and beyond), it is important to begin with the same information. One key not discussed anywhere else is outlined below.
Consider this a baseline for future context in the world of the USA and President Trump politics.
♦ Summarized it looks like this: In late summer 2023 not only myself, but several insightful analysts in the world of high finance, had come to the conclusion that Musk’s financial effort with the purchase of Twitter was unsustainable, unless something changed.
Something did change.
In early August of 2023, understanding the dynamic at stake, and also having a strategy for his own interests, Oracle’s Larry Ellison said, ‘he would not let Elon Musk fail with Twitter’.
Billionaire Larry Ellison, a Tesla Board member, already had invested money in place, but that wasn’t the motive on this move. In hindsight, Ellison was brilliant and intensely strategic. It is important to understand what exactly ‘board members’ are recruited for, and the stability/security reasons for why they are recruited.
Ellison pumped money into the problem, relieving Musk of the cash flow problem created by his inability to divest shares (Musk was max-limited by Board). Ellison also helped make the $1.5 billion loan made by SpaceX, (unknown at the time) go away.
Ellison essentially positioned Twitter for the same dynamic reason that Bezos bought and used WaPo. This is the world of high finance, and these moves are all about influence, leverage and ultimately positioning. Ellison wanted a vessel for influence, a friendship and common ideological alignment therein just made sense.
With financial breathing room and a nod in the direction he needed to follow, after a brief stint with Ron DeSantis, Musk using his platform, leaned forward into Trump. The rest of that relationship origin is history.
Oracle, specifically Larry Ellison, is now positioned as the biggest benefactor of a second Trump administration, with a very specific group of technocrats in close alignment. AWS Jeff Bezos has been trying to make up ground ever since.
♦ Now that’s the elevator speech part; that’s the encapsulated or summarized version. But it’s in the details where things get interesting.
It should be emphasized up front that no one is a bad guy in the framework of what took place; however, neither is this altruism.
These are essentially self-interests in a common alignment. As long as the alignment is for good purposes, then the network of billionaire allies is in a very cool place.
♦ CRITICAL MOMENT – Returning to the August 2023 remarks by Larry Ellison about not letting Musk fail.
The person Larry Ellison was talking to was Donald Trump.
Larry Ellison nets about $50 billion per year in revenue; that’s not wealth growth; that’s income or cashflow. Pause and put yourself into that room and think about that conversation for a moment, or more.
In August 2023 President Trump understands that Twitter will survive. Ellison will not let Musk fail and will underwrite whatever is needed in order to ensure success. Everything candidate Trump does from that moment forth, carries that baseline.
Now, in August 2023 Larry Ellison was not saying, hey Trump I support you; instead, the reality of what the Oracle billionaire was saying was that Twitter would survive. [Insert additional Trump thoughts of Truth Social and DWAC here]
Indeed, factually, several months later in 2024 Donald Trump is watching Elon Musk try to launch Ron DeSantis on Twitter – with much less success than his SpaceX rockets. Trump knows this is a test flight of DeSantis by Ellison.
Donald Trump keeps moving, keeps relentlessly campaigning, keeps targeting the primary opponents and knocking them down one-by-one. All the while knowing that in the background of Musk, is Ellison.
Strategically, Donald Trump needs Ellison and strategically Donald Trump wants to position Ellison to need him. Bringing the interests into alignment is The Art of The Deal.
Eventually, over time, the alignment of interests takes shape.
In the spring of 2024, the broad outline of a technocratic team falls slowly into place. By summer 2024 we see Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, David Sachs, Peter Thiel all in common alignment. The technocratic team bring in the RFK Jr element along with the Vivek Ramaswamy element, and Peter Thiel’s background seeding of Senator JD Vance blossoms. The rest, as they say, is now history.
However, it is important to remember, this is an alignment of common interests. Insofar as those diverse but intertwined interests are good for the USA, then this is an extremely powerful coalition. There is a great deal of commonality, but there is also the opportunity for some disparity – especially if the technocrats push the Office of the President too hard.
Remember, Musk faced two issues: (1) short term capital and (2) short term expenses.
Here I must give Elon Musk major credit for seriously strategic problem solving. Ellison solved problem #1, Musk solved problem #2 with fractal computing and big-time urgency on AI as a way to reduce data processing costs. The net result surfaced a few days ago:
[…] “Musk has given 25% of the shares in xAI, which Musk founded last year, to investors who helped fund his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022, sources with knowledge of the talks told the Financial Times. XAI is set to close a $5 billion fundraising round as early as Wednesday – doubling the company’s valuation to $50 billion in just six months, according to the paper.” (LINK)
Sixteen months ago, I didn’t think Musk could pull it off. He did and should be congratulated. So too should Larry Ellison be admired for strategic foresight and incredible positioning for maximum benefit. Just a brilliant outcome from both men. Well done!
♦ Now I need to bring in another metaphor:
A person could make the argument that splitting the atom was a great altruistic decision to create abundant energy. However, it must also be accepted the good decision ultimately created a serious weapon, the atomic bomb.
Thus, embedded in the argument about Musk and his chase of AI is a defense that solving the problem of data processing costs (fractal computing and AI), is a way to get rid of the inherent dependency on IC systems and massive space-consuming Server Farms previously needed to run simultaneous user social media platforms.
Fair enough. I totally understand the upside.
However, in steps Peter Thiel and Palantir with a business model to repurpose the beneficial side of AI, add in facial recognition capabilities, and create something that Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community would gain from. That’s the downside.
AI can both split the atom (good) and create the atomic bomb (bad).
♦ When the AI search and filter capability is merged with facial recognition, “Real ID”, and ultimately the NSA metadata; then adding fractal computing power and imagine the search results. My concern is it’s only a matter of time before an Obama-type administration take power again. What will that merged system look like if weaponized?
Palantir agreed to cooperate with the FBI and launched facial recognition AI on behalf of their federal contract with the FBI into the events of J6 attendees. The FBI arrests followed. Palantir’s access to the DHS/TSA database, as granted by the FBI for use in their J6 targeting operation, can be looked upon as a beta test for how artificial intelligence could scour the national biometric database and deliver results.
Three key points:
(1) Palantir doesn’t have access to the full NSA metadata library yet. Concerningly that’s another part where Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and JD Vance can come into play in (’28).
(2) Palantir (AI surveillance) is beta tested with various sub-silos (like FBI), under auspices of various legal authorities (like J6).
(3) Palantir’s product, combined with Real ID and biometrics, can also be used to identify and locate illegal criminal aliens. Thus, the Tom Homan Deportation Operation benefits from incredible targeting efficiency. But will DHS stop using it when the deportation program concludes?
As long as these systems are operating for good, then I look at the financial windfall to the technocrat group as no issue. However, if those systems are weaponized for a process of targeting that violates the basic elements of our constitutional protection, then we have a problem.
“Politically Exposed Persons” outside the Big Club should be cautious.
Eyes wide open.
The same quandry man has always faced, good and evil.
It takes a good man with a gun to stop a bad man with a gun.
Twitter became X and the balance shifted, still not Equal, but enough to let in the sunlight.
This is a Perpetual Game in Life.
A very succinct statement.
I don’t know that I understand the key to what will happen in the next four years but I now understand clearly why I never became a billionaire! 🤣 Godspeed Sundance!!!
So basically we will be transitioning from a government being told what to do by billionaires, to a government being told what to do by different billionaires!
It has always been thus.
Tokenization has always been the goal…and all that comes with it.
Understanding where we are and where we are going…interview with Michael Millerman and surprising insights into Peter Thiel and Alexander Dugin
Go right to 49:48 min…..
Quotes: Trump’s 2024 electoral Victory is something that Dugan would interpret as the victory of the Great Awakening over the great reset…after the election it hasn’t just changed the administration, it’s changed the course of history
The Connection Between Dugin and Peter ThielWhile Peter Thiel and Alexander Dugin come from very different backgrounds, they share several common critiques of Western liberalism. Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in companies like Facebook, has long been critical of what he sees as the cultural and intellectual decline of the West. Like Dugin, Thiel is concerned about the rise of wokeness and political correctness, which he views as distractions from more fundamental societal issues.
“In a recent speech, Thiel described wokeness as a diversion, a way for elites to avoid addressing the real problems that face society, such as economic inequality, scientific stagnation, and the erosion of personal freedoms. This perspective mirrors Dugin’s belief that Western societies are in a state of spiritual and intellectual decline. Both thinkers argue that Western liberalism has failed to provide people with a meaningful sense of purpose or community, leading to widespread dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
While Dugin’s critique is more overtly spiritual and metaphysical, Thiel’s focus is more pragmatic. Thiel is particularly concerned with how wokeness and political correctness have stifled innovation and creativity in the West. He argues that the focus on diversity and inclusion has become an obsession, distracting from the more important goal of scientific and technological progress. In this sense, Thiel’s critique of wokeness can be seen as a more practical application of Dugin’s broader philosophical rejection of Western liberalism.”
https://www.michaelmillerman.com/blog/dugin-influences-western-thought-and-politics
Ian Carrol claims that Larry Ellison worked for the CIA prior to founding Oracle.
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Bunch of overpaid digital jerkoffs programmed to let computers do their thinking for them, no human intelligence involved, sorry.
When I think of how many people had their hands on the lever of power in the United States, with the blood of Americans on those hands, the results of this election seem far too easy. The button pressed on my cortisone is still stuck in the place it was four-plus years ago.
Fraud was still rampant in this election, but all of it was down ballot. I can’t make any sense that the most evil people in the world are going to use Congress to protect them from President Trump. The largest group of paid-off squishy cowards in our elected government preside in Congress. These treasonous criminals are going to let Kash Patel and Bobby Kennedy have access to the worst of the crimes against humanity in modern history? I don’t buy it.
So, what are they planning to do about it?
I’m beginning to get visions of Terminator.
I believe this was gamed out long before Elon publicly came into the picture.
I also think twitter was instrumental in accelerating the RDS clown show, and Elon’s brief flirtation with Con. Inc. was a head fake.
Completely agree with this take on AI. Very much a two edged sword. The productivity benefits can save our economy, while application to surveillance and control can enslave us. Our fate would not seem to be in our hands unless Pres Trump can dramatically reduce the size of the security state.
How did we luck out that Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and other technocrats had the values of free speech, etc? Well, it has been pointed out it is in their interest, but also, they were raised in a society that held those values. How can we re-teach to younger generations? It does seem Gen Z is now getting with the program, but unless we disembowel DEI and the institutional capture of universities, K-12 schools etc., we are right back where we started
Many people expressed alarm about the potential for technology like this to be used for nefarious purposes at least as far back as the start of the Social Security system nearly a century ago, where an identifying number was assigned to every person. And justifiably so – all of this technology will definitely be used for nefarious purposes during the final 7 years of this age.
None of this should come as a surprise to anyone that is familiar with the Bible (Jews, Christians, old and/or new Testments, it’s in both). Since it’s been told to us in advance, we can know what will happen with 100% certainty.
This is not a call for fear, for God will never abandon his children, but to use our time purposefully. The Bible instructs us:” Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.”
Ending this with one of my very faves:
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8-tZEHOpZ20?playlist=8-tZEHOpZ20&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&start=
The Rogan Adreessen interview gives even more light on the alignment. 2 hour 45 minute mark .
The Harris goal was to have 2 or 3 banks, 2 or 3 tech companies. 2 or 3 of everything. That was not going to be capitalism.
It was going to be Communism.
Boeing and Intel or 2 good examples of why that system always fails. We are human, sooner or later you get some very bad management. A country or civilization finally breaks down. You saw it with the Soviet Union, Venezuela. China is beginning to have serious problems that are on a scale to be unsolvable.
The surviving banks would either bend the knee or grovel even further or be gone. We were so close to being gone.
Technically, when private industry is cartelized and controlled by the government, it’s fascism.
100% agree Sundance.
Thank you.
Are we unburdened by what has been? Hhhmmmm…I wonder.
Thank you SO much, Sundance, for today’s Learning experience. The clarity you present is Amazing.
As is the thought- ‘stimulating’.
Pokémon Go: The Dark Truth Revealed
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Based on a recommendation from a commenter here not long ago, I spent some time exploring the material on Whitney Webb’s site. I became sick to my stomach about what I learned and did not stay long.
I do, however, have strong misgivings about the seemingly sudden presence within the highest levels of our government, of influencers like Thiel and his associates in the AI community, after reading about the way the Palantir AI software is being deployed by the Israelis in the conduct of actual raids against suspected Hamas terrorists in Gaza. The admission is made that an estimated 10% of persons killed in these raids are innocent/not guilty of terrorism/are viewed as an acceptable level of “collateral damage” [my words]. All sanitized, distancing, unemotional words that enable our increasingly dehumanized and dehumanizing culture to accept deliberate, cold-blooded murder as a tough break in the “game” of life?
IMO, these people have no business being within a country mile of the inner circles of our President, his Cabinet, or the members of his administration.
Welsh Substacker Johnny Vedmore does a less sensationalist job than Webb of tracing out the web of self-appointed techno overlord billionaires and their co-conspirators:
https://newspaste.substack.com/p/musk-and-epstein-the-third-culture
While these people were planning our and our descendants’ futures as serfs in a multipolar silicon global order, Big Mommy MSM was feeding the masses sportsball, fake news, permawar (which we and our children were perpetually sent to figh), and Buy Thing Get Excited For New Thing.
Or as Vedmore put it (and parallel to Mike Benz’s work on The Blob): “the standardisation of government-sponsored psychological operations to systematically manipulate an unwitting public.” “Government” meaning revolving-door permastate operatives serving their billionaire masters above all concerns.
Webb offers up some interesting digging but always seems to have an axe to grind. Vedmore just reports the facts as he digs them and lets the reader fashion and hone the personal tool set. And he doesn’t front as knowing everything, or more than y ou–he’s often surprised by what he finds. Grains of salt either way…but you might him worth reading.
I agree with your closing point. I reject the self-gas-huffing techno-twerps who have held themselves over those who can create and evolve into something better than serfdom in a global technofeudal gulag.
FWIW, in the link above Vedmore reports on “The Edge,” which began its anti-hip but hipper than thou “billionaires’ dinners” in 1999. Just as everything was getting ready to crash. I mean was ready to be crashed.
https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-1999
Thanks so much, Sailor Gal. This looks like a great site. Best, ML
Mankind has dealt with the good/bad debate since before he became able to create and control fire. The debate stays the same, the subject changes but man never does.
vance is the deep state plant
My question, where will the coming of the antichrist fit in all this.
summoning the demon
Garbage in, Garbage out. It has always been thus in coding
Excellent analysis, Sundance. Thank you.
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