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Digging Deeper Into the 2025 Election and the Rise of the Tech Bros

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Hello, Friend,

I promised you bullet points last week, some of which you will find below. First, I want to give all of this some context. Nothing that I’m sharing here is a secret, it’s all readily available on the internet to anyone with a curious mind and a keyboard. Follow any of the links to dig deeper.

Six months ago, after what I and many others believe was a highly questionable election returning a highly questionable individual to the presidency, I decided to go all in here on Substack. I’d been writing about politics again after Kamala entered the race, hoping I might encourage some reluctant folks to head to the polls. Then we discovered Project 2025, but Trump disavowed and dismissed it and that was enough for his voters. Most of the people I tried to warn didn’t seem to have the time or the energy to read the document. Then, J.D. Vance showed up from out of left field with Elon’s and Peter’s blessing and the rest of the Tech Bros lurking behind him.

Suddenly Elon was everywhere. What was happening? Trump is no techie. Who were these guys and what was their real agenda? Why were Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellison, and Musk suddenly all in on the Trump train? Who were Alexandr Wang, Curtis Yarvin, Mark Andreeson, David O. Sacks…each name led to more names, more questions. I wrote articles trying to connect the threads, but also to understand the Project 2025 people and the MAGA people who helped bring Trump back into office and how these various groups and their agendas converged and differed.

Then the election happened. I woke up around 3 a.m. on November 5th and like millions of other people had a vagus nerve overload reaction to the news that somehow, despite the polls and the news reports of record turnout and the lack of Trumpian enthusiasm even in the deep red areas where some of us live, this freaking guy won, again? He won all seven swing states? He won the popular vote? The entire country swung right and not a single county swung left? The total votes cast were less than the votes in the 2020 election?

What?

No.

Not real.

We knew it. We felt it, resonating down to our core.

After all, we’d heard him confess before the deed was done.

“…in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote.”

That’s a pretty strange thing to say to your voters, don’t you think?

The polls were favoring Harris, it all seemed so promising! On election day there were the bomb threats, the incorrect insistence that voting machines aren’t connected to the internet, Elon somehow knowing hours before the news announced that Donny won. What was that app, again? How did he know? Why was he in my home state with a fake lottery offering money to voters to sign vote pledges?

It was off. We all knew it. How did they do it? Why didn’t the Dems do something?

I had a feeling but that’s not a fact, it’s a vibe. There had to be more to the story...

I deleted all of my social media. I deleted all of my political content here. I stepped back, took a deep breath, and dove back in.

Then Donny said that Elon, "knows those computers better than anybody, all those computers, those vote counting computers, and we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide."

Over the past six months there has been increasing evidence of what might have happened. First, the blatant theft of 3.56 million votes through suppression and vote rejection. Par for the course for the GOP, who can only win through gaming the system.

Still, something else seemed off…

I’m not a conspiracy theory kind of person, but I am a curious person. I’m an intuitive person. My gut is never wrong. More and more evidence is mounting that things are not what they seem. The Tech Bros appear to be knee deep in the muck of it. You can read a very thorough and well researched analysis of what has been uncovered thus far on This Will Hold, Dissent in Bloom, Smart Elections, Smart Elections Clarifying Their Stance, Election Truth Alliance Analysis and their Substack with articles on various inconsistencies emerging in the 2024 election. There appear to be a lot of statistical improbabilities, voting data anomalies, and overall oddities that all slid under the threshold for recounts. Then there was and still is an intense insistence that we stop questioning the results. I’ll say this and you may disagree, George Bush stole the election from Al Gore, so why wouldn’t they try it again? Note the grumblings of another Middle East conflict looming, which we will be told not to question. Wasn’t this guy against the forever wars?

Speaking of forever wars, once you start looking at the lucrative defense contracts being doled out to the Technocrats, something begins to emerge.

Here are some of the Tech companies who have benefitted most from Trump’s re-election and the increase in military contracts and government reach. I have added an asterisk to every person who donated to the Trump campaign and/or sponsored and attended the inauguration. This has implications for every aspect of our society, privacy, and autonomy.

Palantir MAVEN, OPEN DAGIR, WARP CORE, Unnamed Citizen Information Consilidation Database (Peter Thiel*) (Note this letter written by former Palantir employees warning about the authoritarian enabling turn the company is taking. Also note that Thiel has deep ties to the Trump administration, but unlike Musk he operates in the shadows. He is, in my estimation, the greatest threat to the future of, well, everything. One other item of note, Jeffrey Epstein was an investor in Peter Thiel’s companies.)

Thiel holds at least 1.7 BILLION dollars in government contracts, with the US. He is also contracted heavily with the UK government to the tune of 414 million pounds.

StarLink provides government satellites for internet access (Elon Musk*)

Starshield (uses StarLink statellites) to provide target tracking, optical and radio reconnaissance, and early missile warnings (Musk*)

SpaceX, Starship, Dragon space technology and rockets (Musk*)

DOGE pursued many of the agencies in charge of regulating his companies while receiving lucrative new contracts.

Musk holds 3.5 BILLION dollars in government contracts, he receives 8 million dollars a day of our tax dollars.

Nvidia GPU and AI development (Jensen Huang*) Note that they also signed a 10 BILLION dollar deal with Saudi Arabia during Trump’s recent visit.

Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon split the 9 BILLION dollar Warfighter Cloud Capability contract. (Sundar Pichai*, Bill Gates (notably did not attend inauguration), Larry Ellison*, Jeff Bezos*)

Open AI (Chat GPT), Meta (Meta AI), and Anthropic (Claude) splitting AI services for US Military (Sam Altman*, Mark Zuckerberg*, Dario and Dariela Amodei-previously with Open AI)

Anduril Augmented and Virtual Reality for the Army and Lattice Command and Control Software and partnered with Palantir on National Security focused AI (Palmer Luckey*)

Archer Aviation, Joby Aviation eVTOL: Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Technology a.k.a. Commercial Air Taxis and Military Aircraft (drones) (Brett Adcock, JoeBen Bivert, Paul Sciarra)

Rocket Lab Neutron Rocket (Peter Beck)

Blue Origin 2.4 BILLION for Rockets and Aviation and National Security Launches (Jeff Bezos*)

Scale.ai (also Thunderforge AI) for US military (Mark Zuckerberg* just acquired a 49% stake in this company founded by Alexandr Wang* and Lucy Guo)

Scale. ai just inked a five-year partnership with the Qatari government to improve government services via AI-based tools and training. Huh.

Just for kicks, here’s a list of every American company that donated to Trump’s campaign and inauguration fund as of February 2025. It’s very enlightening.

DOGE was not what it pretended to be, but it has systematically gathered and delivered our previously siloed data to Palantir. There were Six Executive Orders signed last week, combined they will create a massive government surveillance state. The companies above are all part of the apparatus that will deliver this technology.

Truth told, most of these companies have been working with the US government for years. The shift appears to be towards favoritism for bigger donors/ring kissers and shrinking regulation and oversight along with a free for all in massive subsidies for the broligarchs.

Was the 2024 election manipulated? Will we ever know the truth?

The bigger question is, if we do know the truth and it is what it appears it might be, what do we do about it?

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