Meet the TheoBros: MAGA’s ‘Aristopopulist’ Plans for an AI-Powered Post-Democratic Future

Meet the Theo­Bros. They’re theocrats, but they don’t live in the dark ages. On the con­trary, some of them are among the biggest tech entre­pre­neurs on the plan­et. Titans of indus­try. Oth­ers are indeed reac­tionary preach­ers with a desire to turn back the clock at least a cen­tu­ry or two. It’s an umbrel­la the­ol­o­gy. Although less a the­ol­o­gy and more a polit­i­cal move­ment built more around a wor­ship, and under­stand­ing of, pow­er more than any real val­ue sys­tem. And it’s a move­ment that is only acquir­ing more and more of pow­er thanks to this net­work’s close work­ing rela­tion­ship with the cur­rent White House. It’s ‘the Dark Ages meets tech­no-fan­ta­sist future’ walk­ing the halls of pow­er today.

The Theo­Bros aren’t real­ly a new net­work. More of a alliance of already well estab­lished inter­ests con­geal­ing around a shared vision for the future. A vision cen­tered around the promise of cre­at­ing break­away soci­eties. More specif­i­cal­ly, break­away author­i­tar­i­an-led soci­eties, where Sil­i­con Val­ley fas­cists and theocrats are free to run things as they see fit. It could be seen as the next step in the ‘Seast­eading’ ini­tia­tive Peter Thiel launched rough­ly two decades ago, or the relat­ed ‘Char­ter Cities’ ini­tia­tives, except now they’re refer­ring to the ‘Net­work State’, a con­cept built around the ide­al of build­ing both vir­tu­al and phys­i­cal ‘anti-woke’ com­mu­ni­ties that, even­tu­al­ly, col­lec­tive­ly have enough real eco­nom­ic and polit­i­cal pow­er to replace the cur­rent US demo­c­ra­t­ic sys­tem. Numer­ous fig­ures aligned with the pow­er­ful theo­crat­ic Coun­cil for Nation­al Pol­i­cy (CNP) are part of this move­ment along with Sil­i­con Val­ley tech titans like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Bal­a­ji Srini­vasan, who envi­sions a future San Fran­cis­co run by and for tech firms, with spe­cial zones in the city where only ‘loy­al’ cit­i­zens are allowed to roam. Theo­Bros’ ven­ture cap­i­tal firms like 1789 Cap­i­tal and New Found­ing are rais­ing bil­lions of dol­lars to invest in not just advance tech­nol­o­gy and AI, but also cre­ate theo­crat­ic white Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist polit­i­cal enclaves like the High­land Rim Project in Jack­son Coun­ty, Ten­nessee. And when it comes to pow­er­ing the ener­gy-inten­sive economies of the future (pos­si­bly break­away Net­work State economies), com­pa­nies like Valar Atom­ics are promis­ing to pro­vide the next-gen­er­a­tion mod­u­lar nuclear pow­er that can pro­vide data cen­ters with all the scal­able ener­gy they need. That’s the promise of a com­pa­ny found­ed by a twen­ty-some­thing high-school dropout who also hap­pens to be an acolyte of Doug Wil­son, the MAGA-aligned neo-Con­fed­er­ate Domin­ion­ist preach­er cur­rent expand­ing his influ­ence in Wash­ing­ton DC. As we’ll see, Valar Atom­ics is already lead­ing the next-gen­er­a­tion nuclear pow­er tech­nol­o­gy race, thanks to both mas­sive ‘Theo­Bros’ invest­ments but also a Trump admin­is­tra­tion that has made the devel­op­ment of next-gen­er­a­tion nuclear pow­er a major pri­or­i­ty. A Valar Atom­ics is just one exam­ple of a grow­ing array of major tech­nol­o­gy firms owned and oper­at­ed by fig­ures aligned with the Theo­Bros agen­da. An agen­da that appears to be a real-world man­i­fes­ta­tion of Peter Thiel’s bizarre the­ol­o­gy that views any reg­u­la­tion of tech­nol­o­gy as a con­tem­po­rary man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Antichrist. It’s the post-Trump/­post-democ­ra­cy vision from the same fusion of oli­garchs and theocrats we’ve long seen ani­mat­ing the MAGA agen­da and it’s not real­ly new, but more the next step in the path towards fas­cism the US has long been trav­el­ing.

Brilliant Zoom Appearance by Barrett Brown: Epstein, Thiel, Auerenheimer and The Nazis

Where­as the rhetor­i­cal drum­beat about Epstein is “Israel, Israel, Israel,” “Mossad, Mossad, Mossad,” the real­i­ty is that the wealthy, pow­er­ful pedophile was net­worked with a fas­cist milieu includ­ing Peter Thiel and the bril­liant Nazi hack­er Andrew “Weev” Aueren­heimer. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

New Patreon Zoom: AI’s and What They Can, Might, Will and (Probably) Won’t Do

Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence is here to stay–the ques­tion is what effect(s) will it have on our world? This talk explores some of those con­sid­er­a­tions. Ever won­der what “vibe cod­ing” is? NB: Mr. Emory’s views on AI diverge from John’s per­spec­tive. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

Latest Patreon Talk: Legacy of “The California Violences,” Intrigue in Philippines, World War II Looted Gold, “The Dallas Conspiracy”

The lega­cy of the late Mae Brus­sell is embod­ied and per­pet­u­at­ed in Dav­e’s work. The lat­est Patre­on talk high­lights that fact, as well as fac­tors set forth in the unpub­lished Peter Dale Scott man­u­script “The Dal­las Con­spir­a­cy.” As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

Newest Zoom Patreon Talk: Private Investigator Ed Opperman’s Discussion of “L’Affaire Epstein” (Ed Has Been on The Frontline of The Investigation)

The most recent Zoom Patre­on talk fea­tures licensed pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tor Ed Opper­man. For rough­ly a decade, Ed has been on the front­lines of the Epstein inves­ti­ga­tion. He fills us in on, among oth­er top­ics, he threats of lit­i­ga­tion and worse by the for­mi­da­ble Mr. Zam­poli, an asso­ciate of Epstein. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

Latest Patreon Talks: RFK, Jr.‘s Christian Nationalist Health Care Agenda; Jeffrey Taubenberger’s Frightening Stewardship of NIAID; World Commerce Corporation’s Role in JFK Hit and World History

Dav­e’s Lat­est week­ly Patre­on talks detail (among many oth­er things) RFK, Jr.‘s Chris­t­ian Nation­al­ist approach to health care and alto­geth­er ter­ri­fy­ing glimpses of pos­si­ble bio­log­i­cal war­fare “false flags.” As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

Patreon Zoom Talk About AI’s: What They Can Do, What They Can’t Do, What They Might Do and Who Are the Ones Who Tell Them What to Do?

Peo­ple are won­der­ing (fear­ful­ly and fran­ti­cal­ly in many cas­es) what Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence is, isn’t, can do, can’t do, MIGHT do and, above all, WHO con­trols it. This Patre­on talk with a Sil­i­con Val­ley pro­fes­sion­al address­es those con­cerns and will be fol­lowed by future Patre­on talks with him about the sub­ject. As peo­ple with an oblig­a­tion to our descen­dants, we have the respon­si­bil­i­ty to pre­serve a record of the events lead­ing to the col­lapse of our social and polit­i­cal milieu. There is no bet­ter way of ful­fill­ing that oblig­a­tion than by obtain­ing the lat­est flash dri­ve, con­tain­ing all of Dav­e’s 45+ years on the air and a library of old anti-fas­cist books. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

What Are the “Seeing Stones” Seeing?

We have dis­cussed Palan­tir and its depre­da­tions in numer­ous pro­grams. The news that Palantir–the alpha preda­tor of the elec­tron­ic sur­veil­lance land­scape and inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the most crit­i­cal parts of the intel­li­gence community–has bought mil­lions of dol­lars of gold bars and will accept pay­ment in gold bul­lion as pay­ment for future trans­ac­tions rais­es inter­est­ing ques­tions. (The com­pa­ny is named after the “see­ing stones” in the Lord of the Rings tril­o­gy.) This fol­lows the com­pa­ny’s relo­ca­tion to Den­ver from the Bay Area by rough­ly a year. Joe Biden’s Direc­tor of Nation­al Intel­li­gence Avril Haines was a key mem­ber of Biden’s tran­si­tion team, as well as a con­sul­tant to Palan­tir, the key play­er in which is Peter Thiel. Thiel is also a big part of “Team Trump”. WFMU-FM is pod­cast­ing For The Record–You can sub­scribe to the pod­cast HERE.

Who Are the Brain Police? Facebook’s Building 8 and The End of Our Civilization

In FTR#718, we not­ed the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty and fas­cist under­pin­nings of the gen­e­sis of Face­book, includ­ing the cen­tral role of Peter Thiel in the fir­m’s begin­ning. In numer­ous pro­grams since, we have chron­i­cled the anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic and fas­cist man­i­fes­ta­tions of Face­book, includ­ing the com­pa­ny’s deci­sive role in the Cam­bridge Ana­lyt­i­ca gam­bit, in which ele­ments of Peter Thiel’s Palantir–the Alpha preda­tor of the elec­tron­ic sur­veil­lance landscape–helped to “game” the 2016 elec­tion in favor of Trump. With con­tem­po­rary dis­cus­sion of attempts to “rein-in” Big Tech, we are remind­ed of an ele­ment of dis­cus­sion in FTR#1021, among oth­er pro­grams. Although she has left the com­pa­ny, for­mer DARPA chief Regi­na Dugan was work­ing on a Face­book project to oper­ate the social media plat­form by uti­liz­ing brain-to-com­put­er inter­face. This work was under­way at Face­book’s “secre­tive” R & D Build­ing 8, described as pat­terned after DARPA itself. This dis­turb­ing detail sug­gests that the fir­m’s sig­nif­i­cant nation­al secu­ri­ty con­nec­tions may well embrace the advanc­ing of mil­i­tary research per se. As we not­ed, this tech­nol­o­gy will per­mit the tap­ping and data­bas­ing of Face­book users’ thoughts!

“FascisBook” Update

In FTR#718, we not­ed the intel­li­gence com­mu­ni­ty and fas­cist under­pin­nings of the gen­e­sis of Face­book, includ­ing the cen­tral role of Peter Thiel in the fir­m’s begin­ning. In numer­ous pro­grams since, we have chron­i­cled the anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic and fas­cist man­i­fes­ta­tions of Face­book, includ­ing the com­pa­ny’s deci­sive role in the Cam­bridge Ana­lyt­i­ca gam­bit, in which ele­ments of Peter Thiel’s Palantir–the Alpha preda­tor of the elec­tron­ic sur­veil­lance landscape–helped to “game” the 2016 elec­tion in favor of Trump. Updat­ing that cov­er­age, we note that an enor­mous Face­book bot farm, decep­tive­ly not­ed as “Russ­ian,” was assem­bled to swing the 2020 elec­tion to Don­ald Trump. ” . . . . Accord­ing to Paul Bischoff of Com­par­itech, a British cyber­se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny, the net­work includes 13,775 unique Face­book accounts that each post­ed rough­ly 15 times per month, for an out­put of more than 50,000 posts a week. The accounts appear to have been used for ‘polit­i­cal manip­u­la­tion,’ Bischoff says, with rough­ly half the posts being relat­ed to polit­i­cal top­ics and anoth­er 17 per­cent relat­ed to COVID-19. . . .” Face­book has also imple­ment­ed a low-pro­file, high-dol­lar finan­cial sup­port pro­gram for major news out­lets that have suf­fered because of Face­book’s incur­sion into the infor­ma­tion busi­ness. ” . . . . Less well known, and poten­tial­ly far more dan­ger­ous, is a secre­tive, mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar-a-year pay­out scheme aimed at the most influ­en­tial news out­lets in Amer­i­ca. Under the cov­er of launch­ing a fea­ture called Face­book News, Face­book has been fun­nel­ing mon­ey to The “New York Times”, “The Wash­ing­ton Post”, “The Wall Street Jour­nal’, ‘ABC News’, ‘Bloomberg’, and oth­er select paid part­ners since late 2019. . .”