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All right, a lot of these tech bros and these tech oligarchs are total crackheads.

And they have completely capitulated to Donald Trump and what appears like capitulation, but really they're playing him because he's so easy to play. And they have decided these tech oligarchs

that they no longer see democracy as useful to their wishes. And they know that none of them are electable.

They know that none of these guys, Peter Till, Alex Carp, Jeff Bezos, could put their

names on a ballot and go win an election. So instead, they would rather nefariously and

manipulatively dismantled democracy.

Here's an example of just what crackheads these guys are.

And all of this, you're going to want to stay tuned into this entire episode, links

to Russia.

And that's a very, very important component to this story.

But here's Alex Carp, the CEO of Palantir.

Just watch this.

When we began talking, annoying each other 10 years ago, hopefully I'm annoying you as much as 10 years ago, or more.

When, when I made a, you know this.

Every decision Palantir made, FDEs, going public, building products, no one, enterprise, large data sets, going to government, acknowledging American superiority, being pro-meritocracy, launching an AI platform, calling into question that AI models would actually be able to perform

without orchestration. Every single one, every single, our ontology, every single one of those

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