Bought & Sold Presidency - the Rise of Corporatocracy

 

Corporatocracy (/ˌkɔːrpərəˈtɒkrəsi/, from corporate and Greek: -κρατία, romanized: -kratía, lit. 'domination by'; short form corpocracy) is an economic, political and judicial system controlled by business corporations or corporate interests.

Back in 2019, fellow Synchro-mystic, podcaster and respected parapolitical researcher: Steven Snider (aka: Recluse) and I began comparing notes on the now-infamous cabal of capitalists known as the PayPal Mafia. This ultra right, high tech cabal arose from Silicon Valley during the personal computer revolution of the 80's & 90's. Prominent among it's original members was Elon Musk... and perhaps the less known, but perhaps more nefarious... Peter Thiel.

Besides being gazillionaires... Musk and Thiel have, each in their own way, fostered a sinister, tech-driven ideology known as the Dark Enlightenment. This movement is extremely anti-democratic to the point of espousing a return to essentially a feudal, autocratic, aristocracy. In the age of Citizen's United vs FEC, this time around the aristocracy manifests as Corporatocracy. How do they presume to achieve this? Simple... by buying unscrupulous politicians... Senators... Presidential and VP candidates... you get the picture.

The curious are encouraged to read Recluse's articles... Wars and Psywars, and his epic The Lovecraftian Enlightenment?... as well as my article titled: Rise of the Nerds - Eschatological Singularity. These posts illuminate much of the parapolitical happenings of our present day. Along these lines... I have thus labeled the above-mentioned PayPal Mafiosos: American Archons.

So picture this... it's early 2017... the newly elected Great Robber Baron/Pretender Trickster King (aka 45, the Orange One, etc.) is in the Whitehouse... and Elon Musk is sitting alone in his dark mansion... smoking a fatty and sipping a brandy. He's thinking... Shit... Vladimir Putin just bought the Presidency by making Trump an offer he can't refuse. I want to own a president too! But how do I go about it?

Reportedly, Musk had voted for Hillary in 2016, and although Musk generally supported the Democratic Party through 2020… he tweeted that he was changing his political affiliation, supporting the Republican Party in 2022. Coincidently, Musk also buys the social media giant Twitter that same year for $44 billion dollars. So Musk begins planning the purchase of his very own president. First, he buys out Twitter, which had banned the Great Pretender the previous year, in 2021...

It's 2022. Imagine Musk thinking... I'm confident Trump can be bought... hell, he is desperate! After his January 6th fiasco... he will be cash-strapped paying all his legal fees! But if I want to own a genuine US President, not merely a convicted felon, washed-up reality star... I will need to make sure he wins the next Presidential election!

So Musk turns Twitter into X... eliminating ethical oversight by cutting the content moderation, public policy and global trust & safety departments. Musk needed a social media platform, free of content moderation, as an instrument of disinformation. Eliminating the blue check mark, which verified the authenticity of twitter accounts, Musk sold verification to the highest bidder... allowing bad actors, foreign and domestic, free reign, back on the platform.

Now Musk can shamelessly spread the Great Pretender's outrageous lies, by insuring they rank high in every twit-X feed. Fast-forward to October 20, 2024 and we find Musk handing out one million dollar bribes daily... awarded by Musk's Amerika PAC each day to registered swing-state voters who sign a petition in support of free speech and the right to bear arms. All pretense of legality or ethicality now completely gone, Musk brazenly buys voters. 

It is clear that PayPal Mafioso Musk has bought Trump... lock, stock & barrel. He did so by contributing $75 million to the Trump campaign in 2024. With that said... what does Palantir Technologies Inc. founder, Peter Thiel hope to gain by buying financing JD Vance? 

A notoriously secret firm, Palantir was founded with support from the US Central Intelligence Agency in 2003. Back in 2018, Palantir, Thiel's data collection agency, allegedly worked with Cambridge Analytica (more info here), the firm at the center of a controversy involving data harvested from Facebook users, according to whistleblower Christopher Wylie. Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica, including its CEO Alexander Nix, were caught on camera suggesting the firm could use sex workers, bribes and misinformation in order to try and help political candidates win votes around the world.

 

More recently, Palantir had been controversial for it's deep access to public health data, and has been linked to efforts to track undocumented migrant workers in America in recent years. With that track record, what did Theil have in mind in his support of Vance? It was Theil who essentially introduced and championed Vance to Trump in February, 2021.

From Forbes Magazine:

"JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s running mate, has had a long, collaborative relationship with GOP donor and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, one that has aided Vance from his time in venture capital to his role as an Ohio senator. Vance and Thiel’s relationship dates back to 2011, when the senator met Thiel following a talk the venture capitalist gave at Yale Law School.

Thiel later became a mentor to Vance, according to The Washington Post, with Vance making the switch to venture capital and joining the Thiel-co-founded Mithril Capital in 2015 as a partner, according to Politico. Thiel also reportedly brought Vance, who had established himself as a critic of Trump, to Mar-a-Lago in 2021. Following the meeting, Vance became more sympathetic to Trump and his policies, downplaying the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and securing an endorsement from the former president in his 2022 Senate run just weeks before Election Day.

Vance garnered more support from Thiel during his successful Senate run in 2022, receiving record-breaking donations of about $15 million from Thiel, which marked the largest amount of money donated to a single Senate candidate ever. Peter Thiel’s net worth: $7.9 billion... largely thanks to his role as one of Facebook’s earliest investors, as well as his work as a general partner of venture capital firm Founders Fund, which is a key investor in Stripe and SpaceX. Thiel has also invested millions into Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition software firm.

Thiel, who is also a co-founder of the CIA-backed analytics firm Palantir, has given millions of dollars in donations largely to Republican lawmakers and political action committees since 2010.

Elon Musk's bid to buy Donald Trump, mirrors his PayPal Mafia buddy, Peter Theil's buyout of JD Vance. Although it appears that Theil is playing more of the long game. Perhaps Theil is counting on Trump's election, followed by his replacement by Vice President Vance. Whether by failing health, or cognitive decline... triggering Trump's stepping down voluntarily, or by the invocation of the 25th amendment.

In many ways the proposition of Vance gaining the oval office is more disconcerting than the Great Pretender himself holding the presidency. Vance's pivot from harsh critic of Trump (prior to 2015, Vance suggested Trump could be America’s Hitler)... to 45's most avid supporter... demonstrates Vance's complete lack of principles. Such a bought politician would be a devastating blow to the remnants of Democracy still intact in these United States. Vance would be the pliable puppet that Silicon Valley’s PayPal Mafia seeks.

Recently, Cost Plus Drugs founder and “Shark Tank” star Marc Cuban, has been a staunch critic of some in Silicon Valley’s push to back Trump’s re-election campaign. While speaking with “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart recently, Cuban said much of tech executives’ support comes from their overwhelming wealth and belief they know what is best for the country... “They’ve gotten to the point now where they feel like they should control the world and that there should be a CEO in charge of everything,” Cuban told Stewart... “Because they’re rich as fuck!”

Cuban added that “you get to that point sometimes where I think they’ve lost the connection to the real world,” before pointing to Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s ambitions to reach Mars and, what Cuban calls, his attempts “to be the most influential man in the world.” 

However, Thiel and Musk are not alone. Several prominent tech leaders, many of whom have ties to crypto, have recently said they would support Trump’s re-election campaign. Besides Musk... that list includes Andreessen Horowitz’s Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, billionaire Winklevoss twins, and David Sacks, among others.

Such pathologic, egocentric narcissism of the super rich... the American Archons... is an indicator of what we all can expect from the rise of Corporatocracy in these United States. Dark money of Super PACs (those nefarious capitalist/political instruments that... thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling on Citizen's United vs FEC... allows corporations the same privileges of citizenry) allows for unlimited and untraceable spending by corporate entities, which soon may include non-human AI entities.

Contrary to the belief of the American Archons... corporations are NOT people.

The past 40 years have seen massive expansion of the dominance of large corporations in the global economy. A wave of neoliberal reforms spread internationally from the 1980s with the promise that deregulated markets would unleash the animal spirits of private enterprise, bringing a new era of growth and prosperity. Corporations were touted as the heroes of the neoliberal dream, casting off the shackles of staid state bureaucracy as they leapt forward into a future where there was no alternative to unfettered global capitalism. – Claire Provost 

So what happened?

Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM. 

The system of contemporary capitalist globalization operates for the exclusive benefit of a global plutocracy that has no national boundaries or loyalties. Oligarchy, a word that has been applied exclusively to the modern-day capitalist barons of Russia, is no less real in the triad of the United States, Japan, and Europe. The operation of this global system and its current financial architecture is as far as it could possibly be from the fairytale version of “free market” liberal democracy glorified in standard economic textbooks and the mainstream media. 

- John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)