Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Do not put your trust in princes
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I am reasonably certain that DOGE is primarily a PsyOp designed to appease MAGA voters as they see their hopes of peace evaporate with the prospect of the next Deep State war. A number of “coincidences” lead me to that conclusion, as well as the fact that large parts of the donor class derive enormous wealth from government spending, notably Palantir. The donor class is financially incentivised to maintain and even increase government spending in specific areas.
Like every election this one takes place in two places at once, one in front of the curtain and the other behind the curtain amongst the donors who are the real power behind the throne. In front of the curtain, we see the noisy struggle between the Republican reds and the Democrat blues.
Behind the scenes is the horse trading that we can only guess at, but there are a lot of clues which can credibly be pieced together. The 2024 presidential race cost USD 2.6 billion1, including both campaign funds and outside money. If you look at the donors on both sides you see a lot of commonalities, not just the fact that these individuals have been able to amass enormous wealth2. I can speculate that their priorities are likely to include: Money printing on demand (the Bernanke put), low taxes on capital, continued government spending and in some cases unlimited support for Israel. As citizens of nowhere, I am not too convinced that they will share a MAGA supporter’s love for America or the desire to see jobs on-shored, but perhaps that is being too cynical (see excellent interview with Chris Rossini of Ron Paul’s Liberty Report out tomorrow on Rumble).
What seems to have happened in 2024 is that the wokeism that the tech billionaires were happy to fund turned into socialism when Biden proposed to introduce a 25% capital gains tax on accrued gains, rather than realised gains. This seems to be the point at which funding the hugely destructive neo-Marxist agenda stopped being fun, resulting in a flip to Trump for some donors.
Immediately after the election, Trump appointed Zionist, Pete Hegseth to the position of Secretary of Defence and the war hawk Mario Rubio to the position of Secretary of State. Conflating America’s interests with another country’s interest is a necessary step in justifying U.S. military intervention on behalf of a foreign country. Warmonger-in-chief Lindsay Graham expressed these sentiments succinctly as “your fight is our fight” in 2016 in Ukraine3, a view unlikely to be shared amongst the America First voters.
Then we get to DOGE. The narrative is that Trump decided to create this department and appoint Elon Musk to run it on 12th November 2024. Firstly, this “department” won’t actually be a department. It won’t even be in the government and won’t have any legal powers, so appears to be some kind of consultative body at best.
My red flags though are generated by the coordinated and largely artificial traffic seen on X, which is being used to ruthlessly manipulate people into believing that DOGE is actually a major win for the People.
I recognised the account making the above announcement, it is an account with huge traction producing mainly favourable images of Elon Musk. Please note the name! So it turns out that DogeDesigner was created three and a half years ago (May 2021) before President Trump made the “unexpected” and “spontaneous” announcement of the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Dodgedesigner makes favourable comments and Musk replies with a statement like “great”. There have been about 350 such exchanges which do not appear to be authentic. Dogedesigner is surely an account run by Musk associates?
Amazingly, Dogedesigner claims that 999,900 (growing rapidly) people follow this stream of Musk images and X corporate announcements. For comparison, veteran journalist Peter Hitchens has five times fewer followers (217 thousand) over 11 years with five times more tweets, implying that his bespoke content is 40x less interesting that a corporate message on X’s market position. Do you believe that 8.4 thousand real people would like the corporate message below?
This huge volume of what I believe is fake traffic is now being used to relentlessly push out favourable images of Musk as a cool hard hitter ready to take on the Washington bureaucracy via DOGE.
Other accounts associated with Musk have similar levels of fake followers, Twitter is now flooded with Musk propaganda, particularly about DOGE.
I find fake traffic irritating as it is designed specifically to mislead hundreds of thousands of people into believing that certain messages are significantly more popular than they are in reality. In addition, it also serves to bury meaningful content under a mountain of propaganda and white noise. I estimated years ago that around 80% of Twitter traffic is fake4. At the moment fake traffic and associated imagery are being used to convince you that Musk is fighting your corner. I very much believe that Musk is not on our side, but that he is actually a player in the donor class’ camp.
Twitter and digital hell
That statement will likely irritate some subscribers, who would prefer to see Musk as a hero and I don’t take pleasure in pointing out difficult facts. Even after the huge deception over COVID, people are reluctant to distrust individuals who are making the right noises. But to really understand what is happening on X you need to understand the long game. For some time, I have been convinced that the long game is the creation of the system set out in Microsoft patent WO2020060605. A link is provided, and I’d encourage people to have a look just to be sure that this document exists and was created by Microsoft Technology Licensing and is not a “conspiracy theory“. You should also understand that the battery chicken existence envisaged in the patent is exactly in line with Klaus Schwab’s call for perma-lockdown in the book Great Reset. Technology worshipers may view this prospect favourably, but I am not so keen on becoming subservient to and monitored by a computer.
I have analysed this system in a 2021 video called Digital Hell6 and will probably write a Substack at some point soon too. I know that many in the “conspiracy theory” movement are aware of this patent.
If you combine Twitter activity with the introduction of implants for the user, you are well on the way to creating the system described in the patent. My feeling is that the features that are being added now to X seem to move in this direction. By a lucky coincidence, Elon Musk is very keen on hacking humans via neural links and would be an ideal candidate to ensure that X does eventually morph into W02020060606.
Follow the money
In the immortal words of Liza Minnelli, money makes the world go around. In this case the money is from a small group of multi-billionaires to fund a carefully selected group of politicians. The billionaires own equity in large companies, some of which receive significant income from government. Musk’s Space-X has reportedly received $ 20 billion from the Federal government since 2008. Palantir earns more than half of its USD 2.2 billion in revenue from the government, including from the military and will stand to benefit from more war. Even more importantly the U.S. and U.K. governments are handing Palantir staggering amounts of personal data.
Palantir’s largest shareholder, Peter Thiel, funded the political career of vice-president J D Vance. Those billionaires have a positive incentive not to reduce government spending in the areas which impact their business interests, they would also benefit from having barely competent people in government so that they can be out-negotiated. This has been a common feature of the U.K.’s public-private partnerships (PPP) experience.
Given the financial incentives for both Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to maintain and increase government spending on Space-X and Palantir respectively, I am not convinced there will be cost cuts. Any cost cuts would anyway be dwarfed by the cost of entering another major war. The almost 50% increase in Palantir’s share price in two weeks since Election Day, suggests that the market also expects significant benefits to accrue to Palantir, possibly due to heightened risks of war under a bellicose Trump administration.
The military-industrial complex will also not abide cuts7. I believe the Deep State’s agenda will continue as before, more forever war, extracting wealth via government contracts and money printing and that we have reached the point of crony capitalism. On the upside there is the hope that the introduction of cultural Marxism will slow down.
The System cannot though provide a solution to the System’s own decay, solutions can come from the grass-roots through local politics, volunteer groups and personal networking. America has the greatest asset in the form of 77 million patriots who want to make America Great Again, but who should avoid misplacing their trust in princes (Psalm 146), otherwise known as doge.
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Alex Kriel is by training a physicist and was one of the first people to highlight the flawed nature of the Imperial COVID model8, he is a founder of the Thinking Coalition which comprises a group of citizens who are concerned about Government overreach (www.thinkingcoalition.com)
https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-senators-praise-ukrainian-marines-slam-vladimir-putin-russia-john-mccain-lindsey-graham/
https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606
https://rumble.com/v1nh8sa-who-really-sets-u.s.-foreign-policy.html
Great article. You are on fire right now. The right don't want to hear this but the left should be all over this. I seen George Galloway have a go at Trumps appointments for being pro Israel.