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.

Latest Patreon Talk: AI Bubble, Peter Thiel in Argentina, Nazis in Ukraine and Germany Networking with French Reactionary

AI bub­ble, the Apartheid/Trump axis, fas­cist expa­tri­ates in Argenti­na and Ukrain­ian fas­cism (past and present) are among the top­ics cov­ered in the lat­est Patre­on talks. 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 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.

LLM’s?: Dave’s Latest Zoom Patreon Talk Features Observations by Silicon Valley AI Professional

LLM’s or Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (“AI’s”) are the dom­i­nant and emer­gent tech­nol­o­gy on the scene today. The lat­est Zoom talk fea­tures the reflec­tions of John, a Sil­i­con Val­ley AI pro­fes­sion­al on what AI’s can do, what they can’t do, what they must do, and what they must nev­er do. 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: The Nazi Online Network’s Evolution from “Weev” to Jeffrey Epstein to Peter Thiel; Analysis of The Palantir Manifesto and Related Book

The fright­en­ing Palan­tir Man­i­festo and a relat­ed book advo­cat­ing a “Tech­no­log­i­cal Repub­lic” are the focal point of Dav­e’s lat­est Patre­on talk. Online Nazi evo­lu­tion to Peter Thiel’s inter­net man­i­fes­ta­tion, as well as Thiel’s invest­ment his­to­ry with Jef­frey Epstein are among the focal points of the dis­cus­sion. 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.

FTR#1378 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 4

Intro­duc­tion: High­light­ing the rise of what many call “Tech­no-Fas­cism,” this broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of fas­cism in Manchuria and Japan under Nobusuke Kishi. Kishi’s “Manchuri­an lega­cy” is a dom­i­nant con­sid­er­a­tion in Korea and should be reflect­ed on against the back­ground of what is hap­pen­ing in both Korea and the U.S.

Sup­ple­ment­ing dis­cus­sion of Kishi, we detail analy­sis of anoth­er form of “Tech­no-Fas­cism,” root­ed in the Sil­i­con Val­ley and fea­tur­ing the ide­o­log­i­cal pre­cepts of Cur­tis Yarvin, aka “Men­scius Mold­bug.”

For all its appar­ent nov­el­ty, this ide­ol­o­gy is a high-tech ver­sion of Mus­solin­i’s Cor­po­rate State.

” . . . . Instead of advo­cat­ing for a con­sti­tu­tion­al repub­lic with min­i­mal gov­ern­ment, this new strain of thought push­es for a pri­vate, post-demo­c­ra­t­ic order, where those with the most resources and tech­no­log­i­cal con­trol dic­tate the rules. In this vision, pow­er doesn’t rest with the people—it belongs to the most com­pe­tent ‘exec­u­tives’ run­ning soci­ety like a CEO would run a com­pa­ny. . . .”

FTR#1377 Team Trump Takes the Field, Part 3

Intro­duc­tion: The pro­gram begins with read­ing of two arti­cles dis­cussing the arrival of fas­cism in Amer­i­ca. The arti­cles are lim­it­ed in scope, how­ev­er, Mr. Emory feels a degree of sat­is­fac­tion to see the over­due recog­ni­tion of the true nature of the unfold­ing apoc­a­lypse.

From Hen­ry Giroux: “We live in per­ilous times. The mobi­liz­ing pas­sions of fas­cism are no longer a dis­tant echo of history—they are here, surg­ing through the Unit­ed States like an elec­tric cur­rent. We are in a peri­od of social, ide­o­log­i­cal, and racial cleans­ing. . . . Amer­i­cans are not wit­ness­ing a slow drift toward author­i­tar­i­an­ism. They are liv­ing through the vio­lent, coor­di­nat­ed seizure of demo­c­ra­t­ic life by fas­cist forces embold­ened by indif­fer­ence,  cru­el­ty, and the archi­tec­ture of unac­count­able pow­er. . . .”

Fol­low­ing that read­ing, Mr. Emory presents an infor­ma­tive inter­view by Amy Good­man of a Guardian jour­nal­ist who details the fas­cist forces shap­ing both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.

The influ­ence of Elon Musk’s grand­fa­ther on the devel­op­ment of tech­no­crat­ic fas­cism is a top­ic that will be explored in future pro­grams.