Walk the Talk

Posted on June 30, 2026 by camelotkidd

Socialism is not just about slogans and posturing. Socialists have to govern well and in fact they have to govern much better than conservatives due to the imposed ideological stigma.

And when I say “socialism”, I’m not talking about seizing the means of production, simply a return to New Deal reforms that somewhat leveled the playing field between capital and labor. But even these sort of policies would be greeted with shrieks of Communism, Communism, Communism, thanks to decades of pro-capitalist propaganda.

I’ve been thinking about all of this in the wake of the recent primary elections that brought an influx of Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) candidates. Their dilemma is that they will have to learn how to govern in a socialist way while operating in a hostile neoliberal environment. Then there’s that wee problem that the left has been out of power for so long that the muscles of competent governance have atrophied alarmingly.

Democrats and Republicans, since Reagan, have largely refused to compete on doing things for ordinary Americans, especially when it comes to economic policies. Politics has consisted of cultural war bullshit, with the Red Team pushing guns, God and abortion while Team Blue obsesses over identity politics. Policies center on subsidizing banks and corporations, with the idea that money should be given to rich people and programs which help ordinary Americans are simply impossible.

Presently the US maintains a social order in which public resources, state subsidies, collective labor, and technological infrastructures are privatized and redirected toward the enrichment of billionaires. Even though the United States possesses more wealth than any society in human history, and can afford universal healthcare, modern rail systems, affordable housing, renewable energy, rebuilt cities, and first-class public education, it simply chooses not to.

That’s an opportunity for socialists. Neoliberalism’s insistence that we can’t have nice things is bad politics, because a government that makes people’s lives worse is less popular than a government that makes people’s lives better. Since the US is a duopoly and you only get to vote for two options, neither of which intend to help, the only solution is to change the nature of one of the parties. Hence the efforts by socialists to take over the Democratic Party.

What seems obvious in the wake of the two Trump election victories is that the fascist-right can only be stopped in the long term by radically transforming our economic system, with changes that give all working people a shot at a stable, middle-class life. If progressives hope to build the durable majoritarian coalitions needed to make that happen, they will have to deliver concrete material benefits to working people’s lives, so ordinary Americans will once again feel that their lives are equal or better than their parents’ were. 

But to do any of this the newly elected socialists are going to have to relearn how to actually govern. Serendipitously, Matt Stoller has an amazing article on his site Big, talking about the nuts and bolts of governance. Matt says that not only have leftists lost the historical knowledge of how to govern but that conservatives have actively sabotaged competent government as a key component of their takeover. Conservatives, after all, have run on government-bad since forever, then when in power they make it so.

“From 1995-2007, the GOP held the U.S. House of Representatives, and continued to strip out internal capacity. President Bill Clinton and Gingrich cooperated on the “Reinventing Government” initiative, to privatize many executive branch functions. Large numbers of regulatory agencies willingly gave up authority, knowledge, and staff.

And the culture changed, as the Democratic Party and liberal elites became dependent on the Clinton White House. The West Wing created a template for the Democratic insider, which was someone who pretended to be nerdy and detail-oriented, but was in fact just a political operative with an Ivy League degree. Pretty soon, the only way anyone could think about governing was through the lens of deference to fake experts, whether economist, pollster, or corporate lawyer...Anyone who knew anything about governance, and wanted to act using public power, was perceived to be some sort of dirty hippie loser.”

Newly elected Democratic Socialist or leftist officials will face a daunting task of navigating a hostile political, economic and media landscape, where the Democrats are as much the enemy as the Republicans.

Update: Democratic Socialist, Seattle councilwoman, Kshama Sawant, explains what they will be up against. “Also, one of the tactics that the Democratic Party uses when you’re in elected office, and I experience this every single day, is it’s like being in a Mean Girls episode. They ostracize you socially. They try to make you feel like you’re isolated, that you are not welcome, all of that. And it is so crucial, because without this we cannot win, it is absolutely fundamentally crucial that the leadership of the working-class movement be completely clear. This is not about you. You are not there to make friends. You are not there to have a comfortable workday. No. The whole point is that if you are fighting for the working class in the halls of the power of capitalism, which is what a city council or US Congress is. They don’t exist to give working-class people better lives. These are institutions of the capitalist state. They exist to defend capitalist interests and so when you go there, you are not going there among colleagues. You are going there and the people who sit next to you are your class enemies. You are there to fight for the working class. And so, you have to be unbowed and unbroken in the face of all of this. And these are not exaggerations. This is exactly what it looks like. And it takes what I did, what we did, in order to win against the Democratic and Republican parties.”

She continues–“…the Democratic Party goes to absolute war against you if you dare to fight for the working class. And that is the whole point. If you are fighting for the working class, you will become enemy number one of the Democratic Party. So, it is up to you if you want to be a leader of the working class, then you have to embrace that enemy number one status as something that is necessary. And in fact, as I said, as a badge of honor.”

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Psycho

Posted on June 23, 2026 by camelotkidd

More clearly than Americans, Iranian leaders saw Trump’s mental condition and therefore utilized psychologists and psychiatrists in their negotiations of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ending the Gulf conflict.

Drop Site News reported that–“In an effort to navigate President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior during the indirect negotiations aimed at ending the war, Iran’s negotiating team enlisted the help of psychiatric professionals to develop an assessment of the U.S. president’s mental condition and to assist Iranian negotiators in crafting messages passed to Trump by regional mediators.”

An Iranian official told Drop Site.“We added two senior psychologists to the negotiations’ advisory circle so that we can shape messages intended for President Trump from the perspective of managing what we regard as psychopathic behavior pattern.” He said the psychologists began assisting Iranian negotiators following the initial round of bilateral talks in Islamabad in April as the two sides began exchanging proposed terms for a potential MoU.

Here’s what the Iranians had to say about the use of psychologists. “Trump’s reactions have improved noticeably since we began incorporating the recommendations of these advisers into our messages and written communications,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

Yet, Trump’s unhinged behavior continues. When Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, following Israeli attacks on Lebanon, disrupted the negotiations, Trump launched into another one of his tantrums. He reportedly told “Fox News” correspondent Trey Yingst he had informed Iranian negotiators if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, “You won’t even make it back to your fucking country. We’ll take over the rest of your country … I’ll blow the shit out of them” . Trump is behaving more erratically by the day, his threats are irrational and frankly cray-cray.

If we were a serious country questions about Trump’s mental condition would dominate political discourse.

What’s funny is that Trump has flipped the “madman theory” of executive power on its head. Instead of overthrowing the hated Iranian regime through his perceived insanity he’s turned out to be the first anti-imperialist president of the 21st Century. I’ve said for a while that Trump’s secret power is his candor, which is becoming more pronounced as his mental condition progresses. Trump has said maybe a dozen or a couple of dozen blurt-outs that were more truthful than anything any president has said about politics, economics and especially foreign policies for a long time. 

What’s not funny is while the Iranians have figured out that they need a team of mental health experts, I wonder where our team is. Trump’s is committing terrible crimes and deprivations in our name while we all go shopping, continuing on like none of this will ever affect us. And, Trump is not the only psycho out there. Our whole country is crazy. We would require a world-class team of mental health experts to grapple with the psychological compartmentalization and avoidance of all of the darkness of our kleptocratic empire. Maybe it’s a defensive measure to avoid descending into madness if we paid too much attention to all the war, imperialist extraction, exploitation, injustice and abuse that America is built upon, but it’s destroying our country.

It would be ironic if Trump, the psycho, helps us look in the mirror, and perhaps start a process to come to terms with it all.

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Dirty War

Posted on June 19, 2026 by camelotkidd

Having effectively lost the broader geopolitical war against Iran and realizing that conventional military force cannot crush the Axis of Resistance, the United States and Israel are transitioning from direct confrontation to a dirty war. The core of this strategy relies on weaponizing ISIS and al Qaeda from Syria to attack Hezbollah and plunge Lebanon and the wider region into a bloody Sunni-Shia proxy war.

Donald Trump’s recent declaration at the G7 summit reveals much about the diabolical scheme by Washington and Tel Aviv to ignite a devastating sectarian war across the Middle East. Trump stated–“I’d like to see a more surgical attack on Hezbollah. I think it should be more surgical. And we can help them with that, or we can recommend Syria. Syria’s doing a very good job of cleaning up their act. They have a very good leader. They have a leader that’s really done a good job in a short period of time. And he would love to help.”

And it’s not like the US hasn’t done this sort of thing before. The US weaponized Sunni terrorists during Operation Cyclone, where the CIA brought together jihadist‘s in Afghanistan to give the Soviets their “own Vietnam.” Hello Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

Why do you think the US waged a 12 year dirty war in Syria, starting with Obama’s Operation Timber Sycamore, that employed a-Qaeda and ISIS to overthrow the Syrian Government led by Bashar Assad? Cynically, US officials waged their dirty war “of terror” while they pretended to battle the ISIS head-choppers. And of course the compliant corporate media went along with the ruse, although bits and pieces of the story were available to anyone who cared to find out.

By blurting out“if Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else… Syria will do the job,” Trump delivered a glaring, inadvertent confession of monumental strategic failure. It’s a direct admission that Israel’s army, the region’s most advanced conventional military machine, has completely failed to achieve its strategic objectives in Lebanon. But Trump’s statement also makes clear the logic of the dirty war against Assad. By publicly urging a newly reshaped Syrian leadership under Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly know as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, to cross borders and eliminate the resistance, Trump is calling in his chits and reminding al-Jolani of his role as Washington’s local terror-subcontractor.

Why did the US drop the Caesar Sanctions against Syria soon after Assad’s fall, except to prep Syria for its new role? Well…, there was that issue of the sanctions getting in the way of Trump’s son-in-law–Jared Kushner’s–Albanian island resort caper.

Terror is the American way of war. We don’t win wars but we end up turning the hostile country or region into a charnel house. Trump’s latest gambit is a calculated attempt to exploit regional wounds and drag neighboring states into a localized, grinding conflict. The true objective of the US/Israel alliance is no longer a military victory, which has proven impossible on the battlefield. Instead, the plan is to manufacture an endless cycle of civil strife, turning neighbors against one another to weaken the resistance from within.

We do know that if Israel is forced into of a ceasefire in Lebanon, Plan-B may be to attack Hezbollah by the Syrian proxy. Whether we are witnessing preparations for a direct Al Qaeda-ISIS military invasion or the agenda is to blockade Lebanon from the north and east, remains to be seen in the coming days.

Trump is already being attacked for the memorandum of understanding with Iran from across the US political spectrum. Neocons hate it, Zionist billionaires hate it, and pro-war Democrats are already attacking him over it. So the dirty war could be the prize offered to get a treaty?

The official war on terror was always a sick joke. From the Phoenix Program to the Salvador Option, the US has utilized terrorists to carry out its foreign polices of protecting capital and markets while securing resources, so it will be no surprise for the Trump Administration to go back to the well.

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Apophenia

Posted on June 16, 2026 by camelotkidd

My strength has always been pattern recognition but I often wonder if my ability has bled into Apophenia. Thankfully, even though I’m merely just an amateur in the difficult art of extracting truth/reality from a firehose of propaganda, so far events have largely confirmed my reasoning.

Apophenia is how humans tend to perceive connections, messages or patterns in meaningless data or unrelated events. It’s our brains evolutionary shortcut, a pattern recognition ability run wild. It becomes an issue when someone suffering from Apophenia shows tendencies toward wild conspiracy theories.

I’m sure that you, dear. reader, are familiar with this demographic.

The problem for most Americans is that there’s too much noise to signal. How is the average person supposed to filter out all of the bullshit between the 24/7 corporate media falsehoods and the social media sludge? And now there’s AI’s growing role in information abstraction and summarization, where it’s being used to determine what facts and theories are deemed to be valid. After being immersed in such a controlling narrative, thinking independent thoughts let alone completely breaking free becomes a very difficult undertaking. Most individuals find it extremely difficult to admit that their understanding of our country and its history might be very different from the actual reality.

What’s ironic is that our world has grown so complicated, and frankly crazy, that a bit of Apophenia can be comforting. Indeed, Apophenic explanations can be very attractive. Witness how conservative Americans are drawn to Fox News with its ongoing parade of nefarious villains, such as George Soros, plotting to feminize their youth and herd them into UN reeducation camps with “black helicopters”. On the flip-side, liberals are convinced that Trump is a modern-day Hitler bent on cancelling elections and creating a fascist dystopia, with ICE acting as his MAGA “brown-shirts”. Although, to be fair, the second scenario appears much more plausible.

Political analyst, Aurelien, elaborates—“…Apophenia is the tendency to see patterns in data that aren’t really there. This doesn’t seem to be an illness as such (though schizophrenics tend to demonstrate it to a high degree) but rather an exaggeration to pathological extremes of the natural need to identify patterns in the world that help us survive. For many people, it’s more comforting to have any pattern to events, even a threatening one, than no pattern at all, as a classic Defence Mechanism against a world that is too complex to deal with. And of course the need to find the pattern (or avoid chaos) comes first: the actual “proof” is secondary, which is why apophenics very rarely give up in the face of negative or non-existent evidence. The proof is being hidden. If the files on alien contacts aren’t there, it’s obviously because they have been destroyed.“

I think that Aurelien is on to something. Apophenia is comforting to Americans in a country adrift, buffeted by nihilism, precarity and hopelessness, where it’s better to believe in a hero or monster rather than a flawed humans simply making it up shit as they go along.

It’s become apparent that much of what Americans take for conventional wisdom is utter bullshit. Luckily over the last couple decades the growing power of the Internet and select social media networks began offering entirely different channels of information. Heterodox intellect, Ron Unz has produced an American Pravda series that challenges many of the falsehoods promulgated by official sources. I highly recommend it.

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I’m Graham Platner too

Posted on June 9, 2026 by camelotkidd

Watching liberal Democrats attack Graham Platner is infuriating but not surprising. The donkey party has abandoned working class Americans for the professional/managerial/class (PMC’s) and to cover up their betrayal they have embraced an identity politics (id-pol) version of liberalism. So whenever an authentic economic populist comes along the attacks on him are almost always primarily about violations of “woke”.

Platner was a Marine, and when in the Corp, he got tattoos. There’s the skull and crossbones tattoo: Nazi symbology which he got when he was serving in Croatia. Like Platner, I served in the military. I was an Army paratrooper who joined the military for the adventure. Like Platner, I was young and “stupid”. It’s a thing in the military. They desire that demographic. How else are you going to indoctrinate civilians to go off and kill and die for some abstract ideal?

Anyway, liberal Democrats attacked him on the tattoos but it didn’t gain traction. It didn’t work for the same reason attacks on Trump didn’t work–because Americans are pissed and have been voting for anyone they thought would challenge the poisonous status quo. Platner appears very anti-establishment. He’s a left-wing economic populist. These are the policies he’s running on:

Take Back American Power: End Big Oil Price Gouging, Build Now

End Billionaire Welfare: A Tax Policy for the Rest of Us

Defend Democracy and the Constitution

Healthcare Policy: Replacing and Rebuilding A Broken System

You can see how these policies might upset the billionaires who fund both US political parties. So out came the sexual allegations. During his marriage he sent texts to former girlfriends. That caused marital issues, as one might imagine, but he and his wife, Amy Gertner, appear to have worked it out. Moreover The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Gertner told Platner’s campaign about the sexually explicit texts last year, near the start of his Senate bid. Her disclosure came during a conversation with campaign officials about potential opposition research into Planner, the two outlets reported, with the Times citing a former senior official in Platner’s campaign and the Journal citing people familiar with the matter.

If the sexual allegations don’t work, I’m sure they will find something else in which to attack him because Platner is a threat to the apparatchik’s that run the Democratic Party. They’ve perfected a system where they pretend to be liberal by deploying identity politics, while supporting the same oligarchic and imperial policies as the Republicans. The billionaires that fund the Democratic Party may have terrible policies against unions, workers health and safety, and workers rights in general, but now they can be given a pass by liberals by simply being an “ally” to the various identity groups. Those politicians and their billionaire owners can support exploitation of poor people, they can send billions of tax dollars to wars for profit, but if they fly a rainbow flag and use the proper pronouns it’s all good.

With identity politics political energy flows into defining, debating, and policing identity categories rather than material outcomes. Thanks to munificent corporate support, the liberal/progressive Democrats of yesterday who focused on concrete material policies have been transformed into a movement being singularly concerned about racial and ethnic issues, cultural issues, sexual and gender issues.

But identity politics divides people. It tries to change the working class from seeing themselves as a member of the working class with the concomitant class-based concerns about wages, health care, housing costs, etc., which had unified their class in the past through unions and political activism, into seeing themselves as belonging to separate and atomized tribal group identities based on race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. Divide and conquer is the idea behind billionaire support for identity politics. They are literally paying woke ideologues to promote separatism between different racial, sexual, and ethnic identities, and even hatred towards people of a different race or sexuality.

What’s ironic is that as liberals pile onto Platner for his Nazi tattoos, they are literally cheering on and supporting actual Nazi’s in Ukraine. And when it comes to concrete material benefits, historically the socialist/New Deal ideal, that’s now something that only the working-class, who’ve been defined as “white supremacists”, desire. Whomever challenges the new identity based corporate/political agendas and decrees, like Platner, they are now treated as a de facto part of the worst identity group of all: white supremacist authoritarian extremists.

I am Graham Platner too. After the military I became an anti-imperialist/socialist, but have come to realize that Orwell’s 1984 didn’t go far enough in describing the lengths that the ruling uni-party would go to. With the new id-pol consensus, war is needed because other, “authoritarian” “regimes”, like Russia, China and Iran are not allies to the sanctified identities. If we don’t “color revolution” them then they will target gays and women. No identity will be safe. Anyone who is anti-war is by definition not an ally, they are part of the red/brown coalition that all like minded liberals should oppose. Instead you should support your local pro-war politician and billionaire ally.

Platner is a fly in the ointment. The “woke” attack takedowns, perfected and used for a couple generations now, are beginning to fail. Americans are looking at the actual issues and thinking that they care more about the fact that they can’t afford rent, food, gas and healthcare than some more cultural war bullshit.

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Rich people must not be allowed to lose money

Posted on June 5, 2026 by camelotkidd

Our political/economy is based on the concept that rich people must not be allowed to lose money.

Obama foamed the runway with American homeowners so that banks and the rich people who owned them didn’t’ have to take losses in the wake of the Wall Street Crash.

Wealthy, connected but uninsured insiders were made whole by the FCIC in the wake of the run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). We’re not supposed to call it a “bailout” but I’m pretty sure that if the bank had served regular people it would have been a different story. The bank was known for serving the founders of tech firms, as well as venture capitalists, premium wineries, and private equity firms.

Rich people.

And we are witnessing it now with the AI bubble, where suddenly there is legislation to nationalize the hyper-scalers because, of course, “national security”. The story is that the government will acquire “shares” in the AI companies, but don’t let that fool you because with rich people not being allowed to lose money, the costs get socialized by we the people, while the profits get privatized by the rich-fucks that control our country.

Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with AI companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms. AI proponents like Sam Altman have been quietly pushing the idea since last year as the costs of AI mounted. And now Altman is telling us that gaining a stake in AI is a way to “more broadly distribute the economic benefits of AI to the public.”

Yeah, and I have a nice used bridge you might be interested in.

There will be another bailout. AI is economically nonviable, but, AI has “national security” applications, and China, etc. There’s also that teensy-wheensy issue of rich people having lots of money at risk with AI. Have I mentioned that rich people might lose money?

That the rich people can never lose money explains the system of kleptocracy that has grown up around us. I’ve used the term often enough that I should probably unpack it. Kleptocracy, literally means “rule by thieves,” and is a form of government where leaders use their political power to steal their nation’s wealth and exploit state resources for personal enrichment. It’s the monumental corruption that’s resulted from the financialization, and concomitant offshoring of US manufacturing. It’s the utilization of “offshore” finance and tax avoidance regimes to disguise the looting, and the necessity of finding politicians willing to support such an endeavor.

Sound familiar?

Anyway, rich people not losing money will last until rich people start losing their heads.

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FAFO

Posted on June 2, 2026 by camelotkidd

The Trump Administration has misgoverned with a blizzard of pronouncements, policies and actions.

There was Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, random economic sanctions, the DOGE massacre, election rat-fuckery, the ICE attacks and murders, the West Wing Ballroom and command bunker, putting his name on the Kennedy Center, creating his own crypto-coin, suing the IRS for his new “anti-weaponization” slush fund, the new “anti-terrorist” laws, failure to release the Epstein Files where his name features prominently, providing intel for Ukrainian/NATO attacks on Russia, attempting to assassinate Putin, bombing Yemen repeatedly, attacking Venezuela and seizing president Madura and his wife, droning the so-called “drug boats” and murdering hundreds of fisherman, attempting to colonize Greenland, green-lighting Israel’s genocide of Gaza, sneak-attacking Iran with Israel and assassinating Iranian leaders, sanctioning China, again, unlimited support for the data center build-out despite widespread protest, turning over Cold War era plutonium to Sam Altman and Open AI, (what could go wrong?) suckering MAGA supporters with a gold-plated cell phone “designed with American values in mind”, and building a UFC cage on the White House lawn to celebrate our nations 250th birthday, because nothing says America-Fuck-Yeah like cage fighting.

I’m sure I missed lots of outrages, but what the fuck?

To put all of this in grim perspective, Trump is now presiding over the most corrupt, incompetent, repressive regime in the history of our republic. And worse yet, some of his most dismal policies, like unstinting support for Israeli aggression and genocide, have fulsome bipartisan support from pro-war, Zionist Democrats. He has taken what were already some of the worst American policies and accelerated them, even as he destroys positive aspects of the government like support for advanced scientific research, environmental controls and foreign policies that provided food, clean water and public health services abroad as a way in which to engage in constructive international relationships.

Unfortunately, all of this make it up on the fly cray-cray has caught up with the president, who spends most nights shit-posting. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the way Trump has gone about driving the empire onto the rocks in the Middle-East.

Now, with Iran maintaining the closure of the Straight of Hormuz, Trump is desperate for a way out of the mess he made. The facts are stark. Trump effectively holds less than zero leverage with Iran. And Iran holds insurmountable escalation dominance. Former MI6 analyst, Alastair Crooke says that “Trump is in zugzwang. (Any move he makes, potentially only worsens his position, whether strategically or domestically). We saw this same zig-zagging, back of an envelope, non-strategy perfectly illustrated in the iconic imaging from Trump’s Beijing visit – Trump ‘winged it’; no prior preparation; a ‘seat of the pants’ summit.

That image may perhaps come to define this era – today’s iconic moment was of a U.S. President wearing the air of defeat whilst a confident President Xi’s comportment demonstrated who was in control.”

Trump grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth, confident that whenever he got in trouble he could simply declare bankruptcy and walk away. But he now finds himself in an entirely new situation with the war in Iran. He doesn’t have the advantage, no matter what he posted at midnight. And he can’t declare bankruptcy for the seventh time and go on his merry way, because his whole reputation is on the line now. The only path forward is the one that will permanently destroy his legacy. There’s no way he can claim victory and if he tries to slink away the neocon-hawks and AIPAC will eat him alive.

Trump had to fuck around, and now he found out.

Update: Intelligence reports suggest that Iran stands ready to test a nuclear bomb if the US and Israel persist in attacks.

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You will own nothing

Posted on May 29, 2026 by camelotkidd

What is the AI data center mania really about?

Data centers are springing up everywhere, pushed by Silicon Valley hyper-scalers and state and federal governments, even as more and more Americans protest their implementation.

None of the huge expenditure makes sense. Right now hyper-scalers are spending trillions hoping future demand catches up to present their capital expenditures, but it sure seems like an AI bubble. If that is true and AI does not deliver on its promise, what else could the massive build-up of data centers be used for?

Our feral elite claim that AI will be the next technological revolution that will cure cancer, solve global warming and reduce inflation, all while turbo-charging the economy. All of that is theoretically true, I suppose. Artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced logistics could radically reduce human suffering under rational democratic planning. But anyone who has read this blog or has a passing acquaintance with reality knows that the powers that be always promise a utopia based on a new technology, and that ultimately they will always do what’s good for them, full-stop. And now AI is being deployed primarily for surveillance, financial speculation, profit extraction and labor discipline and elimination. Go long dystopia.

Going further, I’m starting to believe that the AI data center build out is actually for the tokenization of the economy: the process by which legal ownership rights to assets, commodities, and currencies are converted into blockchain-based digital tokens.

In an article titled “An Assessment of the Accelerating Timeline for ‘You Will Own Nothing”, Patrick Wood argues that AI acceleration, the technocratic capture of the legislature, the explosion of data centers, the Pax Silica, the federal support, and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) imposition on banking and financial institutions will force others to do the same, and have created the conditions for the continuous acceleration of the tokenization process.

Tokenization enables the financialization of almost anything that exists, turning physical assets into, speculative instruments. Everything will be financialized. You may tokenize a property title or a future crop, but also part of an artwork or a fraction of a worker’s shift. It enables the speculative economy, which is based on financial instruments and not on trade or production, to continue expanding. This is one reason why financial institutions are backing this transformation. This is the reason why technology companies are backing this transformation. They will essentially have become an indispensable part of the financial system.

Wow! Putting the banksters in control of our lives. What could go wrong?

Everything. Which is why the build-out of data centers is also about building a system of surveillance that the Stasi only dreamed about. Current modes of surveillance—digital, monetary, communicative, or locational—are compartmentalized. A private technology company might know your online behavior, another your banking history, and another might track your movements. However, if you pull all this information together and deploy AI, something Palantir, among other companies, does, then the possibilities grow exponentially. When you pair that with real-time monitored financial behavior, then the full possibilities of CBDC’s or programmable money become apparent.

So, anyway, that’s an interesting conspiracy theory that deserves more attention.

Update: The Tucker Carlson show exposes a “terrifying reality“. Prominent economist Richard Werner confirms the global elite are building massive AI data centers for one sinister reason. They are creating a central bank digital currency to permanently micromanage and control humanity.

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Occupied

Posted on May 22, 2026 by camelotkidd

We had a multi-year freak-out over Russian influence on US governance but the real influencer is Israel. No other country comes close.

The recent defeat of Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie in a Republican primary is an illustration of this dynamic, where AIPAC spent tens of millions of dollars to defeat the one Republic in congress without an Israeli minder. Notably, Massie, in an interview, revealed to Tucker Carlson that he was the only one in Congress without an AIPAC babysitter. AIPAC stands for American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, and is a pro-Israel lobbying group that advocates its policies to the legislative and executive branches of the United States. Massie says the babysitters are part of an all encompassing effort to ensure no one in Congress votes against the complete and unconditional support for Israel. Including Israel’s ongoing genocide and savage attacks on Iran, Lebanon and Syria.

Massie was defeated in a race that featured records amounts of spending, much of it from AIPAC, and Zionist billionaires. More than $32 million were spent on political ads, as airdropped candidate, former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein won the Republican primary in Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District over Rep. Thomas Massie. It was notable that Trump called for US Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, to be primaried and removed from Congress for his lack of fealty to the administration’s policies, specifically devotion to Israel.

Gallrein, 68, is a political neophyte. He ran a stealth campaign by refusing to debate Massie and generally avoiding the press, but he’s a Navy SEAL and America-fuck-yeah! Then there was Gallrein’s emphatic endorsement by Trump and his promise to be a good MAGA cult-member. Did I mention that Gallrein is a big supporter of Israel?

It’s informative that the corporate media is avoiding the implications of Massie’s defeat in regards to Israel and the Zionists. Any notion that the US government is Zionist occupied is forbidden. Instead they focus on how Massie was at odds with Trump over non-specified policy differences.

Massie has long been a thorn in the side of Trump and the Zionist lobbies and power centers. Not only does he oppose Israeli policies and US support but he was a key enabler of the release of the Epstein Files, with its emphasis on Mossad blackmail, and Trump’s improprieties, as was former Georgia Representative, Majorie Taylor Greene.

The Epstein Files show just how key Epstein was to ensuring Zionist control over America. Whether by financial largess or blackmail, our leaders have been reduced to servants in Epstein’s world, where a convicted child sex trafficker with ties to foreign intelligence–Mossad–accumulated material that could be used to blackmail American political and financial elites across the entire political spectrum.

Israel’s control over the US is essential to their plans for Greater Israel, as depicted in the Yinon Plan. Former US intelligence official Joe Kent relates—“This is why Israel’s primary goal prior to the war was to get us onboard. They simply can’t fight Iran w/out U.S. combat power.
This is also why Israel will spend 100s of millions or more, buying influence in DC, it is a core pillar of their national defense.”

The Zionist are fighting an uphill battle to reverse the growing antipathy towards the Jewish state. The amount of money poured into the anti-Massie campaign shows desperation because they’re losing control of the narrative. Most alarming for the MIGA crowd is the shift among young Republicans, appalled by the videos and testimony relating to the Israeli genocide carried out in Gaza. The genocide is precisely what caused Charlie Kirk to break from Israel, and it is this departure from Zionist control that resulted in his assassination. The dominance of Israel in Washington has also driven the pushback from prominent conservatives including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Congressman Thomas Massie, and journalists Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

But it’s a testament to the durability of Zionist power that both Greene and Massie have now been driven from office. And if I were Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, I wouldn’t fly in any small planes.

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Post Neoliberalism

Posted on May 20, 2026 by camelotkidd

If you thought neoliberalism was bad, just wait.

Neoliberalism was the owners of the country rebelling against the New Deal class compromise between capital and labor. Back when the US maintained a manufacturing economy workers possessed more power and the compromise with capital enabled the state to regulate safety in the workplace, educate workers and provide the assurance of well paying jobs and social programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

All of that is gone, not just replaced by neoliberalism, but now by post-neoliberalism, which is much worse. The US is effectively an oligarchy verging on a kleptocracy with elections. And with AI poised to eliminate millions of jobs, the billionaires might get the idea that they really don’t need us anymore. We used to have a state that provided social services and overall security and well-being, but in a klept, the state would mobilize on behalf of capital to manage or “neutralize” dissenters, which is what Trump’s counter-terrorism strategy effectively declares.

Much of this has been a long time coming, creeping up stealthily for decades, then accelerating with 9/11, the Patriot Act and the endless “war on terror”, where now any critic of capitalism is accused of “terrorism”. The changes are enormous. Under Trump, oligarchy and kleptocracy are everywhere because the centralization of power and control in the hands of the few is efficient while distributed capital, agency, power and control are inefficient. So we inhabit a world of overlapping monopolies and cartels, the marriage of state and private sector monopolies. In terms of optimizing profits, a monopoly is the most efficient. Nothing else comes close. Thus, we have an economy of overlapping monopolies and cartels, which is the perfection of a system optimized to maximize profits for the owners of the monopolies. All sanctified and protected by the US government

The rollout of AI in the face of profound opposition and even violence will be a litmus test of the power of the klept. We’ve been taught that our vote counts, that democracy means we have a say in collective decisions through the representatives we elect. We’ve been taught we the people have agency, but if the intense opposition to AI is ignored or even squashed by the state, we will know that assumption is past its sell by date.

College grads, booing commencement speakers mentioning AI, understand that the technology is a growing source of unemployment, both because increases in productivity justify reducing labor costs for firms and because corporations are using AI as an excuse to cut labor costs regardless of productivity implications. 

AI has a much darker purpose as a surveil/track/murder technology, that will be coming soon to a locale near you. It’s revealing that AI is expanding the surplus labor population at the same time that it’s making the policing and repression of surplus populations more efficient. The Silicon Valley tech-bros are not wrong to believe their version of late stage tech-capitalism is producing a “permanent underclass.” And while they are the key agents accelerating that problem, they’re positioning themselves as the solution for managing and profiting from it.

What’s humorous is that the same billionaires are aghast that the peasants oppose their grand schemes and don’t appreciate their superiority. I wonder where have we’ve seen this before?

Dark comedy aside, every day we see more signs of the klept becoming fully formed, where the billionaires wield state power while viewing their fellow citizens as a surplus population whose labor the economy doesn’t need, or the consent of the American people to function. To break the bad news-the capital accumulation will accelerate but increasingly through kleptocratic means.

I’ve been saying for a while that it’s impossible to run an empire with neoliberalism as the operating system, and our tech overlords appear to have gotten the memo. The problem for them is that the neoliberal looting has gone on far too long and the empire is a shell of its previous power and capabilities, as Trump’s disastrous attack on Iran has demonstrated.

However there ‘s a plan that most Americans will hate. The argument will be: We’ve spent so much on the attack on Iran–trillions of dollars–and we can’t afford both to maintain the American Empire and continue social spending at the same time. We are going to have to roll back Social Security because we supposedly cannot afford it. We are going to have to reduce social spending because we supposedly cannot pay for it. We are going to have to slash government programs.

Both political parties, Republicans and Democrats alike, will coalesce around the same policies: cut social spending, privatize public assets, and shift resources toward military expenditures and payments to the financial sector. The message to the public will be blunt: Taxes on the wealthy have already been cut. Therefore, the rest of the population will have to absorb the cost through falling living standards. Your standard of living is going to take it in the neck. Expect bankruptcies to surge.

This is why it doesn’t matter who you vote for because our representatives, senators and president all work for the klept. Meanwhile, Americans are fed distractions, red vs blue, identity politics, fake virtue-signaling, and a circus of entertainment.

But we are quickly approaching the point that Frank Zappa warned about—“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

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