2025: An Olive Branch for the New Year

An open letter to all non-billionaires

I wanted to start 2025 with something that maybe, just maybe, we can all agree on — an olive branch of sorts that we can all hold on together, at least temporarily.

In a game of Survivor, sometimes you have to make alliances.

Having done this work for years now, I’ve talked to thousands of people, including many people on the other side of our national fracture and one thing remains true: As violently as we may disagree, and for righteous reasons, for the most part people are still people. I’ve had numerous MAGA-Q believers help me when they felt it was the right thing to do, even as we disagree about everything else — and vice versa.

What I know is that they love their families like everyone else. They love their country, even if it’s a very different part of it. And they don’t like getting jacked around. So while the oligarchy argues over how to divide up the poors, IMO they have no idea how united Americans really are on this point, regardless of political affiliation.

Trump is captured by a half-trillionaire conman who uses financial and digital terrorism to get what he wants. And while he awkwardly follows Trump around, it’s all a series of LARPs to help ensure that Trump pays out on Musk’s investment — by keeping the MAGA-Qniverse in line. He’s just pandering to white nationalists who were mad about his stance on H-1Bs.

The Bannon-style “populism” that characterized much of Trump’s propaganda and “policies” for a decade are being supplanted by Musk and the broligarchy’s “Dark Enlightenment” ideology — the plan to weaponize the US government to promote mass acceleration towards a techno-fascist, eugenicist monarchy. This involves full scale class war, with the most metastatic example being Elon Musk himself.

The trouble is this end-state will take the power away from people like Bannon, who won’t go quietly, or at least without guarantees — not to mention the rest of us who will be a permanent underclass regardless.

But IMO, unless Trump completely capitulates to the wishes of the Musktopus, Trump will be gone well before his term is up — and at that point people like Steve Bannon will get on board or get on the bus to the gulag. JD Vance will be the President — let that sink in — and the Thiel/Yarvin/Musk cult that controls much of the Cabinet will use this moment to really get to work implementing the North American Gilead they boasted about planning for years.

We will be at the beginning of The Handmaid’s Tale when suddenly everyone realizes at once what’s actually going on. The new regime is just… there. You submit or be subject to violence — no matter who you voted for.

The question is whether we roll over for it. My hope is that we won’t — regardless of what it takes. My fellow citizens who voted to MAGA seem to already be realizing they got played to some extent. Hopefully we can all agree that anyone who claims to love America should not let monarchy come back here. It sucks, for everyone but the monarch and his Court, jesters and all.

Speaking for myself, but I know many who agree, billionaires should be taxed out of existence. They are a symptom of a system gone awry, not a sign of success — the power structure has been taken hold of by messianic psychopathy gone wild.

In 2025, we either stand up or shut up. Those are the choices, and I know mine.

Happy New Year. 🇺🇸🏴‍☠️

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