LA Riots, Musk, Thiel, JD Vance & Palantir - A Failed Palace Coup Against Trump

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LA Riots, Musk, Thiel, JD Vance & Palantir - A Failed Palace Coup Against Trump

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1) LA Riots

Los Angeles, California has been engulfed in riots. President Trump has sent in the National Guard and some US marines to stabilise the situation.

The Times reports 10th June 2025:

And Trump made the same point in his speech to US armed forces yesterday at Fort Bragg.

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President Trump: “And before going further, I want to say a few words about the situation in Los Angeles, California. Have you heard of the place where I've deployed thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to protect federal law enforcement from the attacks of a vicious and violent mob? And some of the radical left, they say, oh, that's not nice. Well, if we didn't do it, there wouldn't be a Los Angeles. It'd be burning today, just like the houses were burning a number of months ago. Generations of army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion and third world lawlessness here at home, like is happening in California. As commander in chief, I will not let that happen. It's never going to happen.”

The Times of London has summarised developments below.

The Times reports 10th June 2025:

Trump has accused California state governor Gavin Newsom - widely regarded to be a future Democratic presidential nominee - of deliberately allowing the riots to continue in order to embarrass and destabilise Trump, going so far as to say that he should be arrested.

The Times reports 10th June 2025:

The deliberate stoking of domestic civil unrest was something that we warned Globalists would seek to inspire in order to replace the old world order with technocracy, back in 2022 on episode 1780 with Joe Rogan.

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Watch the full Rogan episode 1780 on Rumble.

Maajid Nawaz on episode 1780 with Joe Rogan: “…a while back in this conversation, you said something which I appreciate you saying and is accurate, is that having been through all of this, I was able to identify some of these early warning signs. I'm trained in ideological warfare, basically. I have been, as an Islamist revolutionary. And it's why the Egyptian government put me in jail. I know all these signs, and I know how it works. I know how you deconstruct a country for the purposes of destroying it from within. Now, whether it's Twitter and our use of social media platforms, but it doesn't stop there. It includes subversion through infiltration of state bodies by your operatives who are not there to serve people, but who are there to deliver the aims of your organisation.”

Rogan: “And what are the aims of the organisation?”

Nawaz: “So let me play something for you by Klaus Schwab. This is in Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He's speaking in 2017.”

Rogan: “I feel like we should have Darth Vader music playing when that guy talks…we're going to have the proper music for this amazing introduction of Xi Jinping…”

Klaus Schwab: “And I have to say, when I mention our names like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin and so on, they all have been young global leaders of the World Economic Forum. But…what we are very proud of now as a young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, is that we penetrate the cabinets. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I…know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of this cabinet, are actually young global leaders of the World Economic Forum too..”

At his Fort Bragg speech, President Trump also pointed to paid agitators for foreign interests who seek to destabilise America.

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President Trump: “And attempting to infiltrate and occupy federal buildings wearing armour and face shields. The best money can buy. Somebody's financing it. We're going to find out through Pam Bondi and Department of Justice who it is. They're already on it. Who's financing all this equipment? Very professional. Under the Trump administration, this anarchy will not stand. We will not allow federal agents to be attacked and we will not allow an American city to be invaded and conquered by a foreign enemy. And that's what they are.”

In this light, Republican representative and chairman of the House GOP Oversight Committee Anna Pauline Luna has named a specific individual for being responsible for funding the disturbances on behalf of foreign powers.

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna: “Just found a really great deep dive here from the ‘data republican’ on X. So who is behind all these crazy rights in LA and that will be across the nation? Just like, remember, in the summer of love with BLM, remember, who's organising all that stuff? With this, this specifically is being funded by an individual by the name of Neville Singham, who actually made his money by pushing Communist Chinese propaganda, became a billionaire doing it. He's now funding and the guy behind all of these protests was also behind and tied to the protests at Columbia University pushing all of that BS, if you don't remember. And then also too, if you actually look at the social organization that's putting out these flyers, It's the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is, and I kid you not, the actual Communist party. So they're using Hispanics. They're using illegal immigrants. They're trying to hype people up thinking that they care, but they don't care. If they did, they would stop illegal immigration. Obama deported people. Why all of a sudden now? It's political.”

The source cited by Ms Luna in her video is below.

A video purportedly by Anonymous has repeated these allegations.

Anon: “Who's funding the LA ICE riots? Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna gave a name. Neville Singham is the man funding these riots. Not a fringe conspiracy, a billion dollar fact. Neville Roy Singham, former tech CEO, sold his company ThoughtWorks for nearly 800 million, then disappeared into Shanghai, where he now operates inside a Chinese Communist propaganda ecosystem. He's not donating to charity. He's building a political influence machine. Tens of millions funnelled through shell nonprofits like the People's Support Foundation into radical activist groups like the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), The Answer Coalition, Code Pink, and Breakthrough News. Groups tied to anti-ICE actions in LA. PSL was on the ground. They weren't random protesters. They had funding. They had infrastructure. And they had a message that mirrored Singham's pro-CCP, anti-American ideology. Meanwhile, Chirla, the respectable face of immigration advocacy, got over $34 million in taxpayer funding and worked closely with protest organisers. They're not violent, but they laid the foundation. This isn't just outrage. It's foreign influence agitation, funded by a billionaire ideologue with open ties to Communist China. They're not just marching, they're manoeuvring. And now we know who's bankrolling the moves. My friends, we are all Anonymous, and we just pulled back the mask.”

Newsome: “There's the American dream and the California dream. There's no Alabama dream. Eat your heart out, Texas, Tennessee and Florida. This is California.”

Certainly it seems highly plausible that the legitimate grievances of US citizens demanding due process in Trump’s deportation drive are open to being hijacked by foreign interests seeking to destabilise America.

2) Musk Betrays Trump

Just as these riots were developing Elon Musk took to social media to betray his (now former) friend Trump and accused him of being on the ‘Epstein list’. Musk also openly called for Trump’s impeachment and replacement with Vice President JD Vance. This endorsement is significant. We will return to it.

The Times reports 5th June 2025:

Perhaps not quite realising the consequences of what they were saying, the Democrats jumped on the opportunity to demand the release of the ‘Epstein files’.

We responded to Musk by confirming Radical Media’s research that Trump had indeed been on Epstein’s jet, but does not appear to have visited Epstein’s island.

Musk should be aware that it is easy for all of us to declare others as being ‘on the Epstein list’ merely by former association.

Or perhaps by more than ‘mere associaton’.

New York Times reports 4th June 2025:

And Musk’s Chinese-Malay surrogate Ian Miles Cheong, who first suggested that Trump be impeached, should similarly be aware that such accusations can fly two ways.

As Radical Media already established last year, it is no secret that Trump was on Epstein’s jet. To judge anyone associated with Epstein, what is required are other corroborating points of information.

Radical Media reports 11th January 2024:

“President Trump has gone against Netanyahu over Israel. This exonerates him from suspected influence by Mossad owned Kompromat in the Epstein case…Trump also seems to have known about this entire Epstein operation eventually being exposed, from as far back as 2015. A logical conclusion with regards to Trump then, is that he was the man on the inside who would eventually bring the House of Cards down.”

Here is Trump in 2015 raising the fact that former President Clinton will have problems due to visiting the Island.

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President Trump in 2015: “uh…Bill Clinton, nice guy…got a lot of problems coming up in my opinion with the famous island, with Jeffrey Epstein, a lot of problems…”

It would be strange for Trump to raise the matter so publicly on the 2016 election campaign trail if he knew he to were vulnerable to similar allegations.

Released court documents too, from those witnesses who have not been discredited due to having admitted making things up, seem to exonerate Trump.

Regardless, as we stated last year, the best way to verify information such as this is to check it against other corroborating evidence. Our own corroborating check list from 2024 is republished below.

Radical Media reports 11th January 2024:

We said we would return to JD Vance.

Lacking any supporting evidence for his assertion, and even having deleted it since, what Musk appears to have been doing by flinging mud at Trump is instigating a coup attempt against him in aid of his ‘Paypal mafia’ billionaire tech-baron friends, who would prefer one of their own to be directly in power.

It did not go unnoticed that JD Vance’s name was brought up by Musk as the one person he would like to see take over from Trump after the latter is apparently ‘impeached’.

The Times reports 8th June 2025:

“..But the narrative took a more serious turn when Musk suggested it was time to replace the 78-year-old president with his vice-president, JD Vance. The right-wing activist Ian Miles Cheong wrote: ‘President vs Elon. Who wins? My money’s on Elon. Trump should be impeached and JD Vance should replace him.’ Musk’s reply? ‘Yes.’…”

Others have started to notice how Vance is positioned here as the ‘Manchurian candidate’.

Al-Arabiyah reports 12th June 2025:

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Al-Arabiya correspondent: “A thought before moving on from Elon Musk in this kind of conflict that's heating up between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who do you think will win?”

Former South African ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool: “I think it could be M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. I think that the two bulls have different strengths, but it's the combination of the strengths that created this extraordinary moment for the USA, in its attempt to dominate and regain lost ground in the world. And so..but, if Elon Musk wins, it could be because they have a candidate who's waiting in the wings…recruited by the ‘PayPal mafia’, and trained by the ‘PayPal mafia’, and installed, first in the Senate and now in the Vice Presidency. And that may be the win, that the Musk crowd may have. And so, it's no accident that when it was said, let's impeach Donald Trump and let the vice president take over, I'm going to be very naughty based on my watching movies, was that the moment that a ‘Manchurian candidate’ steps in? I leave that question hanging.”

British readers will recall that this is exactly the playbook Musk used against the popular UK political leader Nigel Farage when he endorsed Rupert Lowe to take over Farage’s party. This was after Farage refused to acquiesce allowing anti-Muslim agitator (paid by Likudnik-Zionist lobbyists) stagename ‘Tommy Robinson’ into the Reform party.

Radical Media reports 12th March 2025:

It appears that President Trump has now too witnessed the true colours of Elon Musk.

The Times reports 8th June 2025:

The Times reports 8th June 2025:

“President Trump has declared his relationship with Elon Musk over despite the tech mogul withdrawing some of his most incendiary allegations in an apparent attempt to mend relations. Musk, the world’s richest person, deleted a post on X alleging that Trump was implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein files, documents concerning the notorious New York paedophile. He also removed a post suggesting Trump should be impeached and replaced by JD Vance, the vice-president, one of his most seditious comments from his online tirade last week. However, Trump ruled out any reconciliation…Asked if his relationship was now over with Musk, Trump told NBC News: ‘I would assume so, yeah’. Asked if he wished to repair ties, he said: ‘No.’ ‘I think it’s a very bad thing, because he’s very disrespectful. You could not disrespect the office of the president,’ he said. Trump also warned there would be ‘serious consequences’ if Musk, who donated more than $250 million to Trump’s election campaign, started giving money to the Democrats. ‘He’ll have to pay very serious consequences if he does that,’ he said.”

And despite the Democratic party leaping on the occasion to support Musk in both his demands, Musk saw the writing on the wall, deleted his anti-Trump posts and went into retreat.

The entire saga seems apt considering Musk’s black eye on the day he was dismissed by Trump from his government role.

3) Palantir Palace Coup

The fact that Musk endorsed JD Vance is no coincidence. JD Vance is effectively Peter Thiel‘s political surrogate. JD Vance’s entire political career has been funded directly by Peter Thiel, and Peter Thiel is Musk’s Paypal co-founder.

Theil is now the founder of Palantir, an AI data company that is seeking to unify all government data across every government department, in various countries.

The Trump administration recently signed up with Palantir, granting it unprecedented access across all government departments for data held on private US individuals.

As bad as it is that the Trump administration has signed up with Palantir, the globalist tech barons who comprise the ‘paypal mafia’ have a problem. Their own guy Vance is not in charge, Trump is. The data is not under their sole control, hence it cannot be fully used to further globalist interests, such as war in Gaza.

Radical Media reports 16th July 2024:

Because although Musk is beholden to Netanyahu.

Radical Media reports 29th November 2023:

Trump has not been.

Radical Media reports 21st May 2025:

In fact, Trump has been bucking the globalist warhawk agenda by seeking out peace deals with Russia, Iran and for Gaza.

Radical Media reports 15th May 2025:

Joe Rogan too has been following the anti war line, not least with his recent support for the comic Dave Smith’s anti-war views against pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray, after the two recorded an episode on Rogan’s show and Rogan later mocked Murray.

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Palantir appears to have sent Rogan a message. And they appear to have done so by making a show of power, revealing that they are able to access his ATM pin live on air.

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Oz Pearlman: “…If I asked you, would your wife know your social security number?”

Rogan: “No”.

Pearlman: “So is there any way in the world I can know your social security number?”

Rogan: “I don't think so”.

Pearlman: “…Agreed. I'm skeptical, you're skeptical…Plus, you can't change that, so I'm not going to do that to you…I want it to be spontaneous. Would your wife know your ATM pin code? No?”

Rogan: “No”.

Pearlman: “Lie to me. Do not tell me your real ATM pin code, okay, obviously, unless you want to. Make up a fake four digit number off the top of your head what feels to you utterly spontaneous, when I say ‘go’ one, two, three, four, digit code, random. Go…say it.”

Rogan: “2020”

Pearlman: “2020 okay so you ask me how do I do what I do. I'm gonna write down 2020…it's weird, but statistically, men will lie bigger, women smaller. Men like to lie by saying things are bigger, right?…No shocker. So I don't think I would tell you right off the jump for me that that means that your first number, you don't have to say anything yet, 2020, is smaller. That's what most people do when they're rushed. If I had given you five minutes, you would have done this different.”

Rogan: “No, I wouldn't have.”

Pearlman: “No, you would have…Because you would have thought about it, and then people go down a different path.”

Rogan: “Nope.”

Pearlman: “Okay, worked out for me either way. You'll be honest if I'm right…I got a hit, which means it's a zero or one. I think the first number of your code's a one, isn't it? Your real pin code.”

Rogan: “My ATM pin code?”

Pearlman: “ATM pin code.”

Rogan: “Why would I tell you that on the air?”

Pearlman: “Should I only show this to you?”

Rogan: “Sure.”

Pearlman: “Can we acquiesce that the first number I got was correct?”

Rogan: “Yes.”

Pearlman: “Okay. Now, you did repetition. So I like the fact when people always say to me it's fake when they watch the videos, they're like, you must have set up. Joe doesn't even want this to happen right now. He had no idea this was going to happen. You used two numbers in repeats. What that means is you probably did the same thing. You also didn't use any of the same numbers. I know there's not a two or zero or two in it. I don't think so either. And I'm watching you while I see it. You put the hand up. You might as well have said yes to me out loud, so now I know. Think of the second number, third number, fourth number. Every time you did it, it's a data point. I'm only gonna ask you one more question. I'm not looking for answers. The last number's the biggest, isn't it?”

Rogan: “Yeah.”

Pearlman: “I'm showing this to you. Is there a camera behind me? I don't, wanna make sure I'm only gonna show it to you. It's not 2020. How'd I do, Joe? Is that your ATM pin code?”

Rogan: “Yeah. That's weird. I'm skeptical because I've got that pin code in the mail.”

Pearlman: “He's calling his bank right now and being like, Joe, do you know this? Has this guy been playing the long game?”

Rogan: “Yeah, I don't like that.”

Only the naive would assume that it is possible to guess a random four digit private number using body language alone.

We responded with a warning to Rogan immediately.

All other explanations are far less probable than a data breach, and Palantir is the main likely culprit that is confirmed to possess the technology that makes this possible.

As we stated in our response to Rogan’s pin number being revealed “This is a JD Vance operation, not a Trump operation. Peter Thiel is JD Vance’s main political benefactor not Trump’s”. This occurred only a few hours before Elon Musk turned on Trump, also to endorse JD Vance.

That Vance is entirely a creation of the ‘Paypal mafia’ - and specifically of Peter Thiel and Palantir - is no secret.

Business Insider reports 7th December 2024:

“Thiel, now a billionaire with a net worth of $15.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, cofounded the big data analysis firm Palantir in 2003. He was the first major outside investor in Facebook and contributed early funding to Yelp and LinkedIn, along with a number of other ventures launched by his PayPal peers. Thiel's also a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital fund based in San Francisco. Thiel has also drawn criticism in recent years for his support of President Donald Trump and for secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker Media, which resulted in the company shutting down Gawker and selling the company's assets. After facilitating talks between Trump and now Sen. JD Vance, Thiel gave a record-breaking $15 million to Vance's campaign, the largest donation ever given to a single senate candidate. Thiel later told The Atlantic he was taking a break from politics. Business Insider later reported that he served as an FBI informant.”

And that leading figures in the ‘Paypal mafia’ believe in replacing American democratic governance with a technocratic oligarchy is also no secret.

Armstrong Economics reports 9th June 2025:

“Some may have heard of the tech geniuses who compose ‘The PayPal Mafia.’ The mainstream media glamorizes them as ‘tech visionaries,’ a band of rebellious geniuses who disrupted finance and went on to build empires. Yet, beneath the surface of the so-called PayPal Mafia is not innovation for the public good, but the construction of a new form of oligarchy—one more dangerous than the robber barons of the 19th century. Why? Because this new class of elites doesn’t merely build companies. These men influence monetary systems, shape global narratives, and fund policy engineering through unelected channels… PayPal became a clever workaround to bypass the traditional banking system, cloaked under the premise of convenience. This so-called ‘mafia’ includes Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, David Sacks, Scott Banister, Roelof Botha, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, Premal Shah, Yu Pan, and Yishan Wong, among others who had roots in PayPal. Each went on to build their own tech empire spanning across biotech, social media, space, venture capitalism, and surveillance…”

And that Palantir now seeks unprecedented data on all American citizens is now a matter of public record.

Armstrong Economics reports 9th June 2025:

“..The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Social Security Administration, and the Department of Education have already begun working with Palantir engineers to develop the most extensive federal database in US history. Social security numbers, medical claims, tax filings, bank information, immigration records, education records, debt—every piece of information that various agencies have collected on American citizens will be transferred to the coming centralized database…”

Trump’s big beautiful bill, which Musk has stated is his primary area of disagreement with Trump, sought to instil federal - not state - government control over all AI.

Armstrong Economics reports 9th June 2025:

“…The Big Beautiful Bill has several provisions related to AI, most notably a 10-year moratorium period during which state and local governments will be prohibited from regulating AI. The bill awards the Department of Commerce $500 million to secure federal IT systems using AI. The Department of Defense, Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of Health and Human Services will also receive direct funding to promote the use of AI technology. Prohibiting state regulations ensures that all technology is guarded and controlled by the federal government. There is resistance from both parties, as those who understand technology know the power this would provide the federal government…There are theories that the Elon v. Trump clash is based on this provision. Regardless, the PayPal Mafia tech elite have aligned in a form of techno-feudalism, and they’ve successfully entered the US government. Thiel’s Palantir feeds intelligence to the government. Musk receives massive state subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX while criticizing government inefficiency. Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, funds political influence operations and AI censorship platforms under the banner of democracy.”

The lack of private corporatist control is what really seems to have upset Musk, Theil and his remaining ‘paypal mafia’ associates.

The “paypal mafia” photographed at Tosca in San Francisco, Oct, 2007. Back row from left: Jawed Karim, co-founder Youtube; Jeremy Stoppelman CEO Yelp; Andrew McCormack, managing partner Laiola Restaurant; Premal Shah, Pres of Kiva; 2nd row from left: Luke Nosek, managing partner The Founders Fund; Kenny Howery, managing partner The Founders Fund; David Sacks, CEO Geni and Room 9 Entertainment; Peter Thiel, CEO Clarium Capital and Founders Fund; Keith Rabois, VP BIz Dev at Slide and original Youtube Investor; Reid Hoffman, Founder Linkedin; Max Levchin, CEO Slide; Roelof Botha, partner Sequoia Capital; Russel Simmons, CTO and co-founder of Yelp.

4) A Corporatist Campaign Against Democracy

The ‘Paypal mafia’, headed by Thiel, are beholden to a serious anti-democratic authoritarian technocratic agenda. They agree with the wider MAGA base over the need to shrink the size of the state, but the similarity stops there.

Instead of reducing the size of the state in order to hand decentralised power back to the people, technocrats seek to fill the void by handing that power to the corporate entities that they control, governed by all-pervasive surveillance. This is known as the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ or as Musk likes to call it: ‘Dark Maga’.

Armstrong Economics reports Jun 9th 2025:

Armstrong Economics reports Jun 9th 2025:

“…the feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is directly related to the AI provision in the Big Beautiful Bill. Looking back at Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance, Vance had no political experience before Thiel funded his ascension into the Senate after funding his entry into venture capitalism. Both Thiel and Musk urged Trump to select Vance as his VP candidate, and many believe this was to propel the so-called PayPal mafia into politics. The three men are also strongly associated with Curtis Yarvin…the mastermind behind the…‘Dark MAGA’ or ‘Dark Enlightenment.’ Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer turned blogger, has long argued that American democracy is irreparable and should be replaced by a corporate-run monarchy led by Big Tech. Yarvin sees democracy not as civilization’s peak but as its degeneration—a system that obscures real power, which he claims is held by a ‘Cathedral’ of media, academia, and bureaucracies that spread progressive ideologies. Yarvin calls his views ‘the Dark Enlightenment’ or ‘neo-reaction’ and firmly believes that the ideal government would resemble a feudal state or a tech corporation with centralized power.

Yarvin wrote ‘An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives’ in 2008, which outlines his viewpoints. There is a ton of information he put forth on his substack, Grey Mirror. He believes that the tech elite should rule as they are the only ones intelligent enough to fix our failed society. The R.A.G.E. strategy is to ‘Retire All Government Employees’ and replace them with private corporations under a complete dictatorship run by a ‘national CEO,’ or what’s called a dictator. Yarvin describes his approach as ‘a humane alternative to genocide.’

Just as Curtis Yarvin’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’ was co-opted by Musk as ‘Dark MAGA’, his ‘Retire All Government Employees’ (R.A.G.E) has been co-opted by Musk and presented as the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Peter Theil’s protege, JD Vance has also name-checked Curtis Yarvin while sharing his obsession with slashing government and firing its employees.

Armstrong Economics reports Jun 9th 2025:

…he has met with numerous members of the Trump Administration, including J.D. Vance. Yarvin has said he is ‘coaching’ Theil, according to Time Magazine, and he even called him a ‘friend’ in an interview with the Hoover Institution….Before he entered the White House, Vance spoke favorably of Curtis Yarvin. ‘There’s this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things,’ Vance said on a podcast in 2021, adding: ‘I think Trump is going to run again in 2024 [and] I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people’…Musk is now calling for Trump to be impeached for a third time. Are the tech elite hoping to install Vance to the head position of POTUS? Time will tell the true plan, but this elaborate feud between Trump and Musk is too sudden not to raise suspicions.”

It is important to note that the desire to merely reduce the size of government is not what is objected to with regards to Curtis Yarvin and his ‘Paypal’ mafia. The danger arises in what they seek to replace government with: a technocracy.

The Times reports 8th June 2025:

“On fringe forums and private chats, Maga types have long been talking about the ‘Dark Enlightenment’: the idea that the US doesn’t need a politician at the helm, but a chief executive backed by a cabal of ultra-wealthy tech barons. Followers of the idea argue that these billionaires are best placed to fix the world’s woes, either in office or hovering around it. Musk has the fortune — so who might be the chief executive? Vance, 40, is the Ivy-educated protégé of the tech billionaire Peter Thiel (an early Trump supporter and a former colleague of Musk’s at PayPal, as well as an investor in several Musk companies). The vice-president also connects to the Trump base through his military service, pronounced Christian faith and the rough Appalachian upbringing detailed in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy. A perfect candidate, some argue....The main trigger for the falling-out is the president’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ of large tax cuts for the rich and increased investment in border security and the military, offset by some spending cuts. It passed the House by a single vote and is now before the Senate, but under fire from Musk. He called it ‘a disgusting abomination’ that would drive up the vast government deficit that the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), his waste-slashing drive, had been trying to tame. He has promised in next year’s midterm elections to ‘fire all the politicians who betrayed the American people’ by supporting the bill. There are nerves in the base about how this plays out. Republican politicians worry about the messaging and the money. Musk has deep pockets and a long memory. ‘People thought Boris Johnson v Dom Cummings was bad,’ one former UK government aide said. ‘Now imagine if Cummings was the richest man in the world’.”

The Times quote above mentions Dominic Cummings, who was the Covid era de-facto chief of staff to PM Boris Johnson, but perhaps the author has failed to grasp the true significance of this comparison.

Cummings did to Johnson exactly what Musk has done to Trump, betray his former boss by arguing that the state has become far too bloated.

Recently, Cummings even tried to proffer advice to Nigel Farage.

This is despite Cummings having once suggested the creation of a new political party to thwart Farage, just like Musk has recently done with Trump.

Our response below demonstrates how the problem with Cummings is the same as the problem with the ‘Paypal mafia’: they wish to shrink the size of the state only so that corporate technocratic entities may themselves become the state.

This is otherwise known as fascism.

That Cummings is also himself a confirmed fan of Curtis Yarvin provides further evidence that this ideological faction of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ is using the small state sentiment of the Brexit and MAGA bases respectively, not to return power to the hands of the people, but to shrink the state in order to seize power for corporate technocracy.

Radical Media reports 15th May 2024:

Thankfully, news of Curtis Yarvin’s comic-book villain ‘Dark Enlightenment’ is already spreading.

CNN reports 30th May 2025:

CNN reports 30th May 2025:

“Meet the man who has been advocating to replace American democracy with an all-powerful monarchy — and who has the ear of some of the most important people in Washington and Silicon Valley.”

Time Magazine reports 24th March 2025:

Time Magazine reports 24th March 2025:

“Largely ignored by academic philosophers, the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ movement and Yarvin have curried favor and influence with tech executives in recent years. A software engineer by training, Yarvin has become a kind of official philosopher for tech leaders like PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and Mosaic founder Marc Andreessen. Not unlike the Futurists, Yarvin advocates for replacing democracy with a kind of techno-feudal state—for the government to be run like a corporation, with the president as its ‘CEO.’ This new system is elitist—’humans fit into dominance-submission structures’ Yarvin wrote in 2008..”

As other outlets have already begun speculating on how long this shaky alliance can hold.

New York Times reports 18th January 2025:

And key MAGA voices such as Steve Bannon have gone on the record to state that the distance between these ‘Dark Enlightenment’ Technocrats and MAGA is now insurmountable.

New York Times reports 18th January 2025:

5) Trump is Being Goaded to Over React

The ‘Paypal mafia’ were all one-time Never Trumpers, including JD Vance. Musk only backed Trump after it became obvious that he was going to be the President. Considering the late switch - once they realised that the Democrats could no longer achieve their ‘Dark Enlightenment’ aims - is it any wonder then that certain operatives would continue to goad Trump into ever harsher security responses to the riots, knowing that a securitised state response to disturbances only serves the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ agenda more?

This is the political context in which JD Vance’s uncompromising stance should be read, as he pushes Trump to…

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