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Why Democrats will Stay Home in November

The Only Thing That They Can Agree on is TDS.

Will It Be Enough?

Can Europe, Like America, Return to Itself and Restore the Oikos?

Shed the Cosmopolitan Ambitions of the 60's?

The War on Terror - America's Middle-Eastern Iliad

USAID - The US 2024 Political Campaign Funders of Record

The Nocturnal Council's Hands Recorded in the Cookie Jar

from Google AI:

In March 2026, unconfirmed allegations surfaced regarding a 2022 Ukrainian plot to redirect U.S. taxpayer funds into Joe Biden's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The details regarding these disclosures and the current status of the investigation include the following:

The Alleged Intercept Scheme

According to declassified U.S. intelligence summaries originally reported by Just the News and later shared by President Donald Trump, the U.S. intercepted communications from late 2022. The records allegedly outlined a proposal where the Ukrainian government and U.S. personnel based at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) office in Kyiv would mask hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for clean energy infrastructure projects.

The intercepted conversations suggested routing approximately 90% of those allocated funds through two American subcontractors, with the ultimate destination being the DNC treasury. The individuals recorded in the intercepts believed that once the funds were allocated, the money would be impossible to recall, even if the underlying infrastructure project was later canceled or deemed unnecessary.

Tulsi Gabbard's Actions and Disclosures

Upon learning of these raw intelligence intercepts, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard ordered a review of the matter. Gabbard instructed USAID officials to scour their historical financial and contracting records to determine whether this proposed plot was ever operationalized or if it remained strictly theoretical conversation.

Intelligence officials noted that Gabbard’s team found no substantive evidence that the intercepted communications were thoroughly investigated by the intelligence community during the Biden administration. Officials also stated that the original 2022 communication intercepts are not believed to be the product of Russian disinformation. Gabbard's review aimed to determine whether a formal criminal referral should be issued to the FBI.

Current Status and Evidence 

• No proof of implementation: To date, no verified financial data or formal investigative findings have shown that money was successfully laundered from USAID to the DNC. Ukraine has denied any financial wrongdoing. 
• Separation of disclosures: These financial intercept disclosures are distinct from Gabbard's June 2026 declassification of documents regarding U.S. Department of Defense funding for foreign biological research laboratories in Ukraine and other countries.

The USIC Immigration Remittance Scam that Keeps on Giving...

from Google AI:

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021 as part of a complex conspiracy fueled by political ambition, greed, and a desire to seize control of the country. The plot was largely orchestrated by a group of foreign investors, local politicians, and former mercenaries who planned to topple the government and secure lucrative state contracts.

Several key motives and driving factors emerged from the investigation:

• Seizure of Power and Greed: U.S. federal prosecutors revealed that conspirators in South Florida and Haiti plotted to oust Moïse and replace him with Christian Sanon, a dual Haitian-U.S. citizen. In exchange for their involvement, the plotters anticipated receiving highly lucrative government infrastructure and security contracts.
• Targeted Information: Leaked audio and investigative reports by The New York Times suggest some assailants were tasked with locating a secret document the President possessed. This list allegedly contained the names of corrupt elites and powerful figures involved in the regional drug and arms trade, which Moïse was preparing to hand over to U.S. authorities.
• Political Turmoil: Prior to his death, Moïse was ruling by decree and facing a major crisis of legitimacy. His plans to rewrite the constitution and overturn long-standing political monopolies had alienated powerful domestic oligarchs and opposition factions.

Dozens of suspects have been arrested, and multiple individuals—including Miami-based conspirators and former Colombian mercenaries—have been convicted in U.S. federal court for their roles in financing and supplying the deadly plot.

Why all that "Immigration Graft and Corruption" (Minnesota and California Welfare/ Pre-School Fraud/ Medical Scams) are ENCOURAGED by Government Officials. It all goes to "capacity building" the latest Oligarchy plot to overthrow and steal other country resources. It's Just Another CIA overseas rebel funding stream ala USAID.

Plausibly Deniable Kayfabe for the Oficialistas y Dervishes

The "More Money for Education" Scam

from Google AI:

The four-year graduation rate for Baltimore City Public Schools is 71.7%, while the average SAT score across the district is 867. These figures reflect ongoing challenges within the district, though the graduation rate recently hit its highest point since 2018. [1, 2]

High School Performance Breakdown

• 4-Year Graduation Rate: 71.7% (Class of 2025)
• 5-Year Graduation Rate: 74.6% (Class of 2025)
• Average SAT Score: 867* (out of 1600) [1, 2, 3, 4]

District Academic Context

• Test Proficiencies: Only 12.6% of students test proficient in math, and 31% in reading. [1, 2, 3]
• School Variations: Averages vary significantly across different high schools. For example, magnet and specialized schools like the Baltimore School for the Arts boast much higher averages (e.g., a 1116 average SAT score). [1]
• State Averages: For comparison, the statewide average SAT score is 1001, and Maryland's statewide graduation rate sits higher, typically above 85%.

*PS - The 867 Average SAT Score represent the top ~60% of HS students who actually take the test 

Teachers to Taxpayers... "SUCKERS!"

Anthony Fauci: The Man Who Single Handedly Destroyed All Faith in American Institutional Credibility

Google AI Timeline:

Here is the chronological list of all the key dates identified in the responses above, tracking the timeline of U.S. research policies, USAID funding, and the events in Ukraine:

• Late 1990s: The U.S. Department of Defense begins funding international laboratory biosecurity under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program.
• October 2009: USAID officially launches the PREDICT project, starting its first large-scale funding for global pathogen-surveillance laboratories.
• February 2014: USAID expands its international laboratory funding by joining the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA).
• February 18–20, 2014: The bloodiest phase of the Maidan protests occurs in Kyiv, resulting in nearly 100 deaths.
• February 21, 2014: President Viktor Yanukovych signs a European-brokered compromise with opposition leaders and flees Kyiv that night.
• February 22, 2014: The Ukrainian Parliament votes to remove Yanukovych from power, marking the conclusion of the Maidan Revolution.
• April 6–7, 2014: Pro-Russian separatists storm and seize government and security buildings in Donetsk and Luhansk, marking the operational start of the Donbas conflict.
• April 13, 2014: The Ukrainian government formally launches its "Anti-Terrorist Operation" (ATO) to reclaim cities seized by armed militants in the east.
• August 7, 2014: The Battle of Ilovaisk begins, culminating in late August with a devastating encirclement and retreat that severely crippled the Ukrainian military.
• September 5, 2014: Ukraine, Russia, and separatist representatives sign the Minsk I Agreement (Minsk Protocol) to establish an immediate ceasefire, which fails almost immediately.
• October 17, 2014: The U.S. government (OSTP and NIH) institutes its first strict moratorium on federal funding for gain-of-function research involving influenza, MERS, and SARS.
• February 12, 2015: Following another severe military escalation (the Battle of Debaltseve), the Minsk II Accord is signed in Belarus to re-establish a ceasefire and outline structural political reforms. 

• December 19, 2017: The NIH lifts the 2014 temporary ban and implements the P3CO oversight framework.

• September 2020: The USAID PREDICT project ceases its global field operations.
• February 2022: Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• December 2022: Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel publishes her interview regarding the Minsk agreements "buying time" for Ukraine.
• May 5, 2025: President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 14292, completely halting federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern

What Being a Progressive Democrat is All About...

...pretending that other people, with different opinions and ideas, aren't good enough to govern the country.  That they themselves (and only they) know what's best, and could do a better job.  THAT lies at the heart of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).

The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Action

Talk about an argument AGAINST Democracy.

Rehearsing the Steal...

...FAIL!

One for the Groypers...

...and One for the AfD (BANNED in Germany!)

The Covid Truth Outs...

Hand...SALUTE! 

Tonight we Celebrate Midsommar!

Skal!

An Earnest Federal Suppression of Rebellion Begins...?

The Israel Lobby and Their Paid US Agents are Trying to Get Us to Reneg on Trump's Iran Deal...

...but are they Spinning the Truth about it (ONCE AGAIN)?

More Crackers with Cheese?

 

Selwyn Duke, "Two Americas: Black Rednecks and Karmelo Anthony — and Civilization"

Simply put, society-wide disgust with ghetto culture and its values must intensify

hen thinking about poor Austin Metcalf, I sometimes wonder about his reactions during those last fatal moments on April 2 of last year. When murderer Karmelo Anthony drew that knife, could he not, being young and athletic, have avoided at least a deadly strike? Perhaps Anthony was just too quick. But then I realize something:

The two boys were from vastly different worlds.

Austin occupied the world most of us inhabit. It’s a place where, among other things, proportionate force is instinctively understood. Sure, boys and men, being boys and men, will sometimes have physical conflict, and we understand that part of manliness is standing up for yourself. But we also reflexively know that a shove is to be met with a shove, a swing with a swing. This norm, reflected in Queensberry rules, is necessary for preservation of life and civilization.

Anthony’s world is clearly different. Egos are as big there as virtue is small; touchy and prideful to the hilt, the instinct can be that if you feel “dissed,” you can smoke the other guy. This is why it isn’t unusual hearing about ghetto altercations in which an “offended” party departs, returns with a gun and shoots multiple people. It’s why so many rappers (e.g., Tupac) suffer violent deaths.

So Austin, perhaps poorly acquainted with this world, might understandably have been completely shocked at the drawing of a knife amidst an adolescent locking of horns. It’s not something civilized people may expect. (Perhaps such warnings should be in an updated version of “The Talk: Nonblack Version” — the article that got commentator John Derbyshire canceled.)

Whatever the case, Anthony’s world is reflected in his reprobate supporters, too. Out protesting and uber-emotional, they generally speak as if a shove among youths can warrant deadly action. Yet they don’t just reject proportionate force, a foundational principle in Western law and something operative in all 50 states.

Such people also reject the other laws, rules, social codes, traditions, and customs of the wider and polite society. They’re self-righteous about it now, too, because they identify such limitations as “white.” (Even punctuality has been called a “white norm.”)

Make no mistake, however. Someone rejecting proportionate force and civilization's strictures generally is described in one obvious way.

Uncivilized.

You could also call such a person a barbarian (a word we should make fashionable again).

Or you could call them, as the great Professor Thomas Sowell has, “black rednecks.”

As Sowell pointed out in his 2005 book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, what’s now called “black culture” is largely just appropriated redneck culture. You can, too, trace its roots back 500 years to England, and even then such people were called “rednecks” and “crackers,” the professor noted.

Thus is it no coincidence that redneck and “black” culture share similarities beyond the obvious speech patterns. Just a few that Sowell noted are: aversion to steady work and lack of entrepreneurship; neglect of education and anti-intellectualism; sexual promiscuity and degraded family norms; and, relating to killer Karmelo, proneness to violence and pride-induced touchiness.

Whatever you call it, however, something’s for certain: “Black culture” has got to go.

More and more people of all races are realizing this, including an increasing number of black Americans. Commentator and podcaster Jason Whitlock says that ghetto-mentality blacks should be given the AIR option: assimilation, incarceration or reservation (that is, American-Indian style. Note: I don’t believe in creating more reservations.) And the young black woman here is so disgusted with redneck-black culture that she uses the n-word to identify those epitomizing it.

It’s these people’s desire that the black community shed this black-redneck culture, just as white southerners did ages ago with white-redneck culture. But this hasn’t happened and won’t anytime soon—and this is for good reason.

White redneck culture mostly disappeared because we didn’t exalt it. We didn’t put white rednecks in entertainment, singing stupid, decadent “songs” and getting filthy rich in the process. We didn’t portray their sub-culture as cool and desirable. We didn’t claim that because it was “their” culture, we had to respect it. We didn’t give their style of speech a respectable name and blather on about how language norms are just social constructs, anyway. We didn’t witness them give their kids inane names, as if the child is a new pet ferret, and then wink at their “creativity.” We didn’t recognize their own national anthem. We didn’t elevate “redneck pride” to ethnicity-like status so that maintaining it became a matter of perverse principle. And we wouldn’t have had one of its representatives co-host the Olympics.

Yet we do all this and more with black-redneck culture. We make the aforementioned rap disgorgers rich before someone makes them dead. Today you can monetize ghetto-rat status—and what you reward you get more of—though, of course, only a select few benefit materially. Virtually all are more likely to end up like Karmelo.

This is demonstrated daily, too. Activists wanted police wearing body-cams, and we all have video recording devices. The result: Endless footage reveals that blacks are rarely victims of non-blacks. What is common is to see black rednecks acting like barbarians. And this has all led to a “condition,” affecting all races, dubbed “black fatigue.”

This phenomenon is good, too, because getting fed up with a cultural norm is the first step toward changing it. And here’s what must happen to reform black ghetto culture (again, lamentably, I don’t expect this to occur anytime soon).

The greater mass of people must say, in no uncertain terms, that if you embrace this culture, we’ll have nothing to do with you. We won’t do business with you or hire you; you’ll be scorned and ostracized. Leverage is necessary to this end, and thus should anti-discrimination law be rescinded. (I’ve advocated this for decades for other reasons; e.g., such law violates freedom of association and invites government tyranny.) 

Just as significantly, we must shed the affirmative-action mentality. This means that in response to studies showing that people with “black” names are less likely to get job-interview callbacks, our only response will be, “So what?” When parents name their child De’Quan, La’Teesha—or Karmelo—that screams out, “My mission in life is to oppose ‘white’ [read: mainstream] culture.” And they almost invariably transmit this hang-up to their kids; hence the profiling.

We’re also not going to worry about racial disparities in academics, income and general accomplishment. (These exist between whites and Asian-descent Americans, too.) White rednecks didn’t fare so well in those areas, either.

Another prerequisite is purging ghetto culture from entertainment. To this end, we’d need a traditionalist version of the NAACP to arise and, along with other groups, pressure corporations to cease monetizing black-redneck culture. This is much as how the NAACP and allied entities successfully pressured CBS into canceling black sitcom Amos ’n’ Andy in the 1950s. The kicker, too, is that today’s rap-thug imagery reflects infinitely worse stereotyping than anything on that show. (In fact, Amos ’n’ Andy placed its goofy main characters inside a very well-functioning black world in Harlem, NYC.) I can only imagine how embarrassing some black Americans find it.

Simply put, society-wide disgust with ghetto culture must intensify. We must say, pull up your pants and pull out your ego by the roots. Shed the gold chains and mind chains of imagined oppression. Focus not on victimhood but virtue, not on race but righteousness, not on taxpayer-handouts but Truth, not on gripes but God. You, black-redneck culture, are a dinosaur, and that asteroid with your name on it has finally struck.

Why Does This Sound Familar?

No Wonder Nick Fuentes and the Groypers are SO ANGRY!

from Google AI:

The last Republican mayor of Chicago was William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson. He served two non-consecutive stints from 1915 to 1923, and again from 1927 to 1931. [1, 2]

What's YOUR Brand?: The Kayfabe Political Capitalism Playbook

CHAPTERS: 

00:00 Intro 

00:48 Edward Bernays 

01:45 Elites & Engineering Consent 

02:25 Bernays’ “Torches of Freedom” Campaign 

03:31 From Marketing to Politics: How it Works 

06:11 The Shift from Belief to identity 

07:06 The High Stakes of Identity Politics

Consumer (and Identity) Choice IS Freedom! 

The Archeology of Consumer Identity

From Belief to Identity

From a System of Consumed Objects to a System of Identity Beliefs: (D) or (R) or (I)

Exposing the Neoliberal Multicultural Fantasy

Kayfabe Shooting from the Right

from Google AI:

The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit investigative research organization. Its funding comes primarily from conservative, free-market philanthropic foundations and high-net-worth individual donors, operating mostly through "dark money" channels that obscure the identities of specific contributors.

Primary Funding Sources & Backers

• The Mercer Family: The hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah Mercer (who has served as the board chair), have historically been among the largest financial backers of the organization.
• DonorsTrust: The institute receives funding via DonorsTrust, a donor-advised fund that funnels contributions from anonymous right-of-center mega-donors.
• Other Philanthropic Groups: The organization's historical financial disclosures show grants from conservative foundations such as the Capital Research Center.

Financial Profile

• Operating Budget: GAI typically operates on an annual budget in the low single-digit millions (averaging around $2 million to $4 million, though its revenue fluctuates depending on book and project releases).
• Tax Records: As a registered tax-exempt entity, the institute files Form 990 disclosures with the IRS, which can be reviewed on platforms like the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.

On the Hubris of Good People...

German Guilt-Pride Spirit on American Campus'

Ah Oh, Dr Fauci... Let's See if that AutoPen Presidential Pardon Holds Up....

Leftist Totems and Taboos are Okay...

...but Rightists should never be Dogmatic Kantian Universalists (ie - Race Non-essentialists or believe that 'All Racism is Bad')

Apparently Racial Universalism  is Eurocentric White Supremacy because Leftists deem Race/ Tribe Proportionality "Essential" (ie - BLM) and Socio-Cultural Integration a Sin.

Belfast Explodes?

...Nothing to See Here but Relatively Peaceful Protestors!

Party Gerry Pandering in the Name of "Muh, Democracy!"

Anna Pingel, "The Real Victims of Gerrymandering: Independent Voters"

The political parties are currently at war over redistricting. Red states are shaping district maps to become redder. Blue states are entrenching themselves more deeply blue. Legislators, party operatives, and lawyers are battling over the lines. The conversation largely revolves around control of Congress, and which political party will come out on top; however, there is an overlooked category of citizens in this process – political independents.

A staggering 45% of Americans identify as political independents, yet, due to the electoral systems in the United States and the dominance of the two-party system, they must watch from the audience as the parties duke it out over political control. Now, independents can hardly be grouped as all believing the same political ideology; rather, they usually lean left or right politically but have enough of a philosophical divergence from the party platform that they don’t feel comfortable registering with that party, or they are fed up with the status quo of either side and just want something different. Or they don’t feel sure which side they believe.

Gerrymandering (the partisan drawing of districts during redistricting) leaves independent voters out of the equation. For independent voters, the prospect is especially difficult, because the entire exercise is designed around a world they reject: one divided into rigid red and blue camps.

More blue, more red

The redistricting wars are simply pushing states further apart on the political lines. When a state becomes more politically leaning, it often loses accurate representation of the political electorate residing within. In the past two years, a handful of red and blue states have pushed various gerrymandered maps, with mixed results, and more states are now in process as well. This tug-of-war still ends up generally balancing congressional representation, because both political sides are participating rather than just one. But the unseen consequence is that as states become more partisan, they leave behind the vast segment of the electorate that rejects standard party platforms.

My parents are registered independent voters in Maryland. The state of Maryland has just over 4.3 million voters, with 51% Democrat, 23% Republican, and 24% Independent/Other. That’s almost a quarter of the state’s voters who don’t fully align – or don’t align enough to register – with one of the two main political parties. Maryland has eight congressional districts, with one Republican and seven Democratic representatives. Just this past legislative session, the state legislature sought to redistrict in a way that would gerrymander even further, completely eradicating the Republican seat.

Maryland is a blue state trying to become even more blue, reducing representation for the ideology to which my parents hold, because the result of gerrymandering is that independents in heavily gerrymandered districts often find themselves represented by legislators who have little incentive to appeal to the political middle. Safe-seat lawmakers answer primarily to their most partisan primary voters, not to the independent swing voters who might otherwise hold them accountable in a competitive general election.

In a fairly drawn district, an independent voter wields real power. Close elections force candidates to earn votes across ideological lines and to appeal to independent voters. Gerrymandering eliminates that dynamic. When a district is drawn to guarantee one party an untouchable majority, the general election becomes a formality. The real decision happens in the primary, where independents in many states cannot legally participate.

The party entrenchment that gerrymandering feeds is precisely what drives many voters toward registering as independents in the first place. They leave the parties because they are frustrated with the status quo, only to find that the maps drawn by those same parties have made the status quo structurally inevitable.

Independent voters are the largest and most rapidly-growing segment of the American electorate, yet redistricting processes are almost universally controlled by the two parties that do not fully represent them. At the very least, policymakers on both sides of the aisle would do well to actually listen to independent voters, whether or not they represent a gerrymandered district. Gerrymandering has been in place for decades and probably is not leaving anytime soon. In the meantime, it is absolutely incumbent upon policymakers to consider the independent constituents who have been sidelined. As states move rapidly toward partisan entrenchment, independents are the ones bearing a disproportionate cost.

Gee, I wonder what's responsible for the increasing partisam political divide in America.  It IS a puzzlement! 

Systemic Neo-Racist Hypocrisy on Full Display

...because Race Non-Essentialism is White Supremacy!  @@

What Thiel and Musk Understand About Politics and Government that You Don't

Unite the Kingdom...

Versus "No Kings"!

Leviathans Rising

Woke Progressive Plans to De-Colonize the Democratic Party

On Neoliberals Reaping the Consequences of Going Woke for DoS/ USAID "Capacity Building" Purposes

"Go Woke, Go Broke" in Spades!

"Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitic!:"

"Double Down on Woke and Broke! Cancel the Neolibs!"

LOLs!

Argentina, the New Techtopia

Emma Bubola & Ryan Mac, "Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to the End of the World"

The billionaire’s new roots in Argentina are said to be partly motivated by concerns about the future of the United States and shared beliefs with Argentina’s right-wing leader.

The Saturday tournament at the Buenos Aires chess club hosted its usual lineup of players, including an accountant, a college student and schoolchildren. But this time, hunched over the club’s tiny wooden tables with them, was a new entrant: Peter Thiel, the right-wing tech billionaire and Trump donor.

Mr. Thiel — who, according to one of the participants, “did not play badly” and came in third — had recently decamped from his homes in Los Angeles and Miami to establish a foothold thousands of miles away in Argentina’s capital.

Over the past two months, Mr. Thiel has met with the country’s president, Javier Milei, and his ministers; purchased a mansion in one of Buenos Aires’ most exclusive neighborhoods; and hosted a dinner with local economists where he discussed the Antichrist, one of his favorite conversation topics, according to Argentine officials and people familiar with Mr. Thiel’s activities.

Mr. Thiel, who has a history of collecting backup countries as he hedges his bets against the United States, is considering making Argentina another Plan B, according to two people familiar with his thinking. Born in Germany and raised in the United States, he received citizenship in New Zealand in 2011, and applied for a passport in Malta in 2022.

His new roots in Argentina are partly motivated by his concerns about the direction of the United States, the people familiar with his thinking say, particularly California, where an initiative on November’s ballot could lead to a significant tax on billionaires.

Argentina, a nation relatively insulated from potential conflicts in the Northern Hemisphere, also fits as a potential escape hatch from other risks that Mr. Thiel has publicly warned about — nuclear war and runaway artificial intelligence.

But Mr. Thiel has also been energized by what he’s discovered in Argentina, finding harmony with Mr. Milei’s libertarian slash-and-burn governance and becoming enamored with Buenos Aires’ vibrancy, the people said. They, and others familiar with the billionaire’s activities and discussions about the country, spoke on condition of anonymity to share private conversations.

Mr. Thiel did not respond to a request for comment.

Underscoring his belief in the country, Mr. Thiel, 58, has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina and enrolled his children in a local school, two of the people said. The Argentine government has also explored offering the billionaire permanent residence or even citizenship, a person familiar with Mr. Thiel’s plans said, though it’s currently unclear whether he would accept.

A spokesman for Mr. Milei denied such an offer had been considered. The Argentine government is currently working to establish a “golden passport” program that would allow people who make large investments in the country to obtain citizenship.

“All billionaires of the world who want to flee countries increasingly regulated, with higher taxes and governments that persecute their citizens, are welcome in the Argentine republic, the new land of freedom,” Manuel Adorni, Mr. Milei’s cabinet chief, said last month before congress, answering a question about Mr. Thiel.

Mr. Thiel, he added, was “interested in the deep reforms that we are bringing forward.”

An ideological ally

Argentina may be an unlikely place for a billionaire looking for stability. The country has careened through nearly a century of instability, marred by military coups and spectacular financial collapses epitomized by triple-digit inflation.

But in Mr. Milei, Mr. Thiel has an ideological ally. The two men share an aversion for taxes, socialism and “wokeness” — a negative label critics use to describe progressive politics.

Since becoming president in 2023, Mr. Milei has sought to overhaul Argentina’s economy, pushing sweeping deregulation and government spending cuts. He has sought to attract foreign investment in the country’s natural resources, including oil, lithium and rare earth minerals.

Mr. Thiel and Mr. Milei first met in person in 2024 in a meeting brokered by Alec Oxenford, a former tech entrepreneur who is now Argentina’s ambassador to the United States, according to a person familiar with the meeting who requested anonymity to share private details publicly.

Mr. Oxenford, whose online marketplace company, OLX, received funding from Mr. Thiel’s venture capital firm more than 15 years ago, had been encouraging the then-new Argentine president to meet with influential American business people.

Mr. Thiel, who has vehemently opposed taxes in the United States, grew more interested in Argentina after California political groups began discussing a voter initiative that would apply a 5 percent tax on the assets of the state’s billionaires. By the end of last year, Mr. Thiel was considering cutting ties with the Golden State, and started exploring living outside California.

Mr. Thiel first started seriously considering Argentina as a place to live, at least temporarily, about a year ago and began looking at Buenos Aires real estate, the two people familiar with his thinking said. They said he also hired a local art dealer to furnish his home.

Since arriving in Buenos Aires in April, Mr. Thiel and his husband, Matt Danzeisen, have dined at the home of Argentina’s deregulation minister, Federico Sturzenegger, a person familiar with the dinner said. Mr. Thiel met separately with the economy minister, Luis Caputo.

The billionaire and an associate from his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, also spent time with Mr. Milei last month at the presidential house. In an interview with a streaming channel following that meeting, Mr. Milei said that the meeting was one of two like-minded individuals and that Mr. Thiel asked how he would ensure that libertarianism endures in Argentina beyond his presidency.

“It was an anarcho-capitalist who met another anarcho-capitalist who is bringing things to life,” Mr. Milei said.

A backup country

Mr. Thiel’s interest in Argentina is not solely because of his alignment with Mr. Milei’s policies.

Mr. Thiel also appears to be enjoying Argentine life. He attended Argenna’s most storied soccer game — between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors — and traveled to Bariloche, a lakeside mountain resort in Patagonia.

Last month at a candlelit dinner at Mr. Thiel’s Buenos Aires mansion, influential economists and Argentine intellectuals gathered with the billionaire to discuss the country’s history and economy, before the conversation turned to the Antichrist, according to three people familiar with the gathering.

Some in attendance were unsure of what to make of their host’s apocalyptic musings, on an entity which he has warned in lectures could establish a totalitarian world government, but they listened intently.

The chess tournament this month in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Almagro was a more upbeat affair. Mr. Thiel, who was the highest-rated player in the competition, posed for photos while wearing his third-place medal and stayed to play chess with a child, said Rafael Jabie, a therapist, who finished second.

Mr. Milei and his supporters have been quick to embrace the billionaire as one of their own.

“He is already more Argentine” than left-wingers, Juan Pablo Carreira, who runs the Argentine presidency’s digital communications, wrote on X, using an offensive term for his political opponents.

Daniel Parisini, a right-wing pundit close to Mr. Milei, posted an A.I.-generated picture of Mr. Thiel sitting in front of a parrilla, the quintessential Argentine barbecue, while others online created images of Mr. Thiel eating milanesa, a traditional breaded meat cutlet, inside an Argentine home.

In a polarized nation, rapidly changing under Mr. Milei, Mr. Thiel’s presence has been viewed starkly differently across the political spectrum. Government supporters see the venture capitalist’s presence as proof that Mr. Milei is successfully turning Argentina into a haven for foreign investors. Mr. Milei’s critics, however, see it as another example of the country being sold out to unbridled capitalism.

“What Peter Thiel is doing is terrible,” Elisa Lilita Carrió, an Argentine politician, wrote on X, mentioning Palantir, the big-data firm he co-founded and now chairs. “His settling in Argentina is even worse,” she added.

Others have spread theories that he was coming to meddle in next year’s presidential elections, build large data centers or seize Argentines’ personal data with Palantir, which has deep relationships with the U.S. government.

Mr. Thiel’s only known investment so far has been in personal real estate. Aside from the Buenos Aires home, across the street from a house owned by one of Argentina’s most famous actresses, Mr. Thiel has also bought a plot of land in neighboring Uruguay, a person familiar with the purchase said.

The Uruguayan property, on sprawling grasslands studded with ranches, is near Punta del Este, a glamorous tourist destination on the Atlantic Ocean that people call the Hamptons of South America. Some observers have speculated that it could include a bunker to shelter from nuclear apocalypse.

He would not be the first member of the global elite to think about the southern cone as a place to shelter from nuclear Armageddon. Martin Varsavsky, a Spanish-Argentine tech entrepreneur close to Mr. Thiel, has built a ranch in the Argentine city of Mendoza, which he has said he sees as a potential shelter in case of World War III.

Mr. Varsavsky has hypothesized that Argentina would be completely unaffected if the northern hemisphere were wiped out by nuclear war.

“The moment China takes Taiwan or Russia takes Lithuania, I’m in Buenos Aires,” he said. “It’s good to have a Plan B for civilization.”

Lucía Cholakian Herrera contributed reporting

Emma Bubola is a Times reporter covering Argentina. She is based in Buenos Aires.

Ryan Mac is a Times reporter who covers corporate accountability across the global technology industry.

"Please Sir, May I have some more?"

Internews: Global Architects of Progressive Awokening Grand Narratives & Colour Revolutions

...Creating Dissident/ Dissent "Permission Structures" for Rapid Onset Political "Enlightenment" and Performative Street Reactions.

Can Anyone Here Spell K-a-y-f-a-b-e?

Black Lives Matter: The Reaping of Seeds Sown

...Henry Nowak: Say his name!

Why did the police handcuff Nowak:

from Google AI:

Police arrived on the scene at 11:37 PM (23:37) on December 3, 2025. [1, 2]

Their arrival occurred exactly seven minutes after Vickrum Digwa's brother, Gurpreet, called 999 to report a false claim that Vickrum had been "racially attacked". One minute after the police arrived, at 11:38 PM, officers handcuffed the dying victim, Henry Nowak, based on those false allegations

Gurpreet Digwa has not been charged with a hate crime or accessory to murder.  He has instead been charged with 4 weapons charges.  Apparently killing white people isn't considered "hate" in the UK.

Philanthro-Capitalists for Open Borders and Cheap America Labour, Part II

...Part I

This Time the Labour Costs Tax Free AND Government Subsidized (Welfare/ SNAP/ MediCAID)

The Cloak of Gyges: Why the FBI and DoJ Never Get to the Bottom of Their Investigations...

...Gyges, Much like Actaeon, Can't Afford to Be Seen....

"Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)" (1836) by Camille Corot

The Self-Enslavement of the Capitalist Miser and His Society-Destroying Fake Philanthropic Liberation

 

from Google AI:

Bataille's concept of sovereignty as it relates to the part maudite

For Georges Bataille, sovereignty is not a legal or political authority, but a radical, anti-utilitarian state of being characterized by freedom, play, and loss. It is defined in opposition to the modern world of work, where life is reduced to a series of means-to-an-end.

The General Economy and 'La Part Maudite'

In The Accursed Share (La Part Maudite), Bataille argues that the universe operates on a "general economy" of overflowing energy. Driven by the sun, life produces an inevitable surplus of energy that must be expelled. Because this excess cannot be fully absorbed by productive growth or reproduction, it becomes an "accursed share"—a surplus destined for waste.

Sovereignty Through Loss

Societies and organisms process this unavoidable excess through either productive expansion (war, colonization) or non-productive expenditure (luxury, sacrifice, art, and eroticism). Sovereignty is achieved only when we embrace the latter. To be sovereign means to exist beyond utility, necessity, and the fear of death. While a "servile" life is entirely dedicated to work, survival, and accumulation, the sovereign individual or society actively asserts its freedom by lavishly and unproductively wasting their excess energy in the "miraculous reign of unknowing".

Key Mechanics of Bataille’s Sovereignty

Bataille explored how this concept manifested historically and anthropologically:

• Sacrifice: The deliberate, symbolic destruction of life or wealth, best exemplified by the Aztec sacrifices or Native American potlatch ceremonies. These acts waste the accursed share to achieve a transcendent, spiritual connection with the sacred.
• Unproductive Expenditure: The pursuit of luxury, art, and eroticism. Because the ultimate end of all "utility" is uselessness, engaging in purposeless spending is the ultimate realization of freedom.

For further reading on how Bataille contrasts "general economy" with modern capitalism, you can explore the full text of The Accursed Share.

Real Sovereignty Disdains Rational Utility! 

It's the SuperEgo NOT the Ego!