Death Star: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Bet on American Technocracy
Palantir’s Manifesto provides a road map for the plans of the post-Trump regime
“It’s too big to be a space station.”
—Luke Skywalker
I do not know how long Donald Trump can keep control of the presidency, but now even the mainstream media acknowledges he is “not well.” Moreover, his own military is locking him out of important meetings for fear that he will either release classified information or interject with bad decisions.
I do know, however, that Trump cannot continue on this trajectory for three more years. The degeneration of his faculties is already an imminent danger to the world. His condition is no longer in doubt and it cannot get better; it can only get worse. It is psychologically impossible for him to admit a single error, much less voluntarily step down from power—despite the political reality. So ultimately, there must be an intervention.
How and when we get JD Vance as President of the United States is still in doubt but we must assume it will happen. Unfortunately, the line of succession is all too clear.
Now the question is: What does President Vance mean for the rest of us?
Death Star
In 2010, Peter Thiel said this about his former company PayPal:
“The basic idea was we could never win an election… because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without constantly having to convince people… through a technological means.
…technology is this incredible alternative to politics.”
This was recorded a year after Thiel wrote that he “no longer feels freedom and democracy are compatible” and blamed women’s suffrage for America’s problems. His desire to overthrow the government has never been a secret.
While many companies have been founded by PayPal alumni over the years, there are three that I consider the primary components of a Death Star aimed at American democracy: Palantir, Tesla, and SpaceX. Between them they represent a multi-trillion bet on a vision for America that they themselves admit no one wants. When Thiel said he didn’t want to “convince people,” he meant it.
The Death Star is the PayPal Mafia’s “alternative to politics.” It is the “small minority” which seeks to end the American experiment.
Science Fiction
All three companies in the Death Star are overvalued by historic proportions. This is no exaggeration. The price assigned to Palantir and Tesla in the public market, and the proposed valuation of SpaceX, are not about buying shares of company securities; they are about buying into science fiction stories.
Tesla is a mid-range car company that has been only moderately profitable over its lifetime, and has benefited greatly from billions in government subsidies. Inarguably, the company could not have gotten off the ground or survived without the welfare of the United States. Tesla (TSLA) is valued by the market at about $1.5 trillion on revenue of under $100 billion. By contrast, Toyota Motors is valued by the market at $250 billion on revenue of $333 billion. In terms of price-to-earnings, apples-to-apples, Tesla is priced over twenty times Toyota. That is madness.
SpaceX is mostly a satellite company with heavy reliance on the United States. Without government subsidies and contracts, it could not exist. While its books are still private in advance of a planned IPO this summer, its revenue is somewhere under $20 billion. Since it absorbed Elon Musk‘s hemorrhaging AI/Twitter company xAI, it’s hard to know whether the company is even profitable at all. Regardless, Musk intends to take it public at a valuation of $1.75 trillion, 110x its most optimistic revenue assumptions. There is literally no precedent for this absurd valuation, even in previous technology bubbles.
Palantir (PLTR) is a software company that sells to enterprises and governments. It portrays itself as an AI company, but it is really a database and applications business that has a single advantage: It has no morals whatsoever. It powers militaries, spy agencies, ICE, and international conglomerates with a product that amounts to a bunch of dashboards for spying on its own employees or anyone else. Like Tesla and SpaceX its valuation has been pumped to an absurd level with price-to-earnings of over 200x. It has the valuation of higher than IBM at $350 billion, and revenue of 14x less.
If SpaceX’s plans move forward, these companies will represent nearly $4 trillion in valuation—90-95% of which is not supported by any rational financials. The Death Star can only be seen as a multi-trillion bet on a combined economic power that is too big to fail, and must take over the federal government to survive.
From its inception, Palantir was designed to be the “operating system for the government.” But what would that mean for us? What kind of system do they want?
Manifesto
Over the last weekend, 16 years after Thiel admitted that he wanted to use technology to replace politics, his second company published what practically demands to be called a manifesto. Palantir’s propaganda is 22 points representing a convergence of beliefs which amount to not just an ideology but a theology. It is techno-religion for the neo-fascist manosphere.
While the specifics are often self-contradictory, the Palantir Manifesto is rooted in several belief systems: technocracy (rule by technocrats); key features of national socialism; and a cult-like belief in their own importance—delivered through jargony faux-liberal gloss designed to get past the filters of normies.
Beginning with the title, taken from Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s book, the stage is set. “Technological Republic” is not just window dressing. It is the actual vision: a society completely oriented around inanimate objects—not people, not life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but technology instead. It represents a view of the world that psychologist Erich Fromm would have called necrophilous.
While I won’t go through each and every point in the Palantir Manifesto, a few highlights should illuminate the psychological payload and the vision for America.
Point 1: White Knight
The first move is for Palantir to play the savior, the white knight who is just repaying a “moral debt” to society by proposing to take over the government and surveil us 24/7. It presumes that Palantir is a good judge of what is moral—a highly questionable concept to put it mildly.
“Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible.”
Having established itself as a do-gooder which just wants the best for us, Palantir moves on to the point.
“The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.”
Here Palantir is selling warmongering as a humanitarian mission through a self-serving claim that engineering skills convert to moral authority—which everyone else should defer to. In reality, it’s just a sales organization trying to create demand for an AI murderbot product no one wants, except the people who profit from war.
Point 4: We’re so hard.
“The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.“
This is a particularly sickening point considering that Elon Musk and his crew of DOGE goons, many of whom were Palantir graduates, deliberately destroyed American soft power, much of which was retained in USAID. This not only gave our adversaries a free shot at influencing the entire world, it destroyed America‘s moral ground. Millions of people, mostly children, will die because of it.
Karp and Palantir’s obsession with “hard power” is not strength, it is weakness in concentrated form. It is how children think, not adults.
Point 6: Bring Back the Draft
“National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.”
What better way to ensure growth for your defense contractor than changing the way America’s military has always worked to force everyone to serve? It is beyond duplicitous to pretend this is anything but an attempt to justify its own growth. It is the deliberate militarization of the population—for money.
Points 9-10: We don’t do introspection.
Palantir bemoans the loss of “grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life”—the epitome of hypocrisy coming from a company founded by Peter Thiel, who has subjected countless politicians, including Hillary Clinton, to false accusations and public humiliation.
The company also says we are being led astray by the “psychologization of modern politics”—and says relying on your inner life will be “disappointing.” This is the same lie Mark Andreesen told when he said: “I don’t do introspection.”
It is malignant narcissism as a lifestyle.
Point 15: Palantir wants to roll back the post-WWII balance of power.
“The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.“
This is a blatant attempt by Palantir to remilitarize the world to open their own markets. No one has been clamoring for this—except the people who will profit from it. Thiel and Palantir claim to be peacekeepers while they are openly promoting the conditions for global conflict.
Point 16-17: You just don’t understand.
Palantir goes out of its way to defend Elon Musk, and billionaires more generally, for their “interest in grand narrative”—glossing over the implications of that interest when it conflicts with the rest of us. The company asserts, without logic, that Silicon Valley “must play a role in addressing violent crime.” This is simply a non-sequitur. Engineers have no expertise in criminal justice. It is just a corporate desire to open a new market, regardless of the cost to society.
Point 20-22: National Socialist Characteristics
If you strip out the specifics, national socialism was an ideology of civilizational supremacy. It was beyond nationalism; it asserted the authority to determine who belonged in the world—and who did not. It both weaponized Christianity, and sought to replace religion with itself. It wanted a monoculture built around service to the state.
The Palantir Manifesto does not invoke racial hierarchy directly like the Nazis did, but the architecture of supremacy is the same. According to the company’s official communication “some cultures” are good and some are “dysfunctional and regressive.”
It‘s not just that some cultures are undesirable around the world; Palantir wants to enforce that intolerance domestically by resisting “vacant and hollow pluralism.”
After reading this document, one must wonder: Who the hell do they think they are?
Technocracy, Inc.
In the early 1930s, Joshua Haldeman made the fateful decision to start a farm during the Depression in the middle of the Dust Bowl. With his farm a failure, he became deeply bitter, antisemitic and racist. In despair, he latched on to a new authoritarian movement called Technocracy, Inc. that sought to turn all of North and Central America—from Greenland down to Venezuela—into a single “Technate.” The Technate would abolish money in favor of a credit system and would be run exclusively by technocrats—engineers, experts, and businessmen. This would lead to overflowing abundance and universal income.
Joshua Haldeman was Elon Musk’s grandfather
Joshua Haldeman made his way to Canada, and after run-ins with the government, and failed attempts to become a politician, moved his family to apartheid South Africa in 1950.
It is difficult to look at the map of the Technate and the current goals of the Palantir-Tesla-SpaceX Death Star and not draw the conclusion that Musk and Thiel are following the basic plan of Technocracy, Inc.—consciously or not.
Same lies, same desired result—an authoritarian nanny state with a docile population.
Tucker’s Mea Culpa
The Death Star faces many challenges. One of them is named Donald Trump, who is not following the program. While Venezuela was part of the plan, Iran is not on the map of the Technate. The broligarchy is unhappy with the distraction. It’s costing them money, and putting their goals of world domination at risk.
Among Peter Thiel’s longtime benefactors, who helped put Thiel on the financial map, are the Mercers—Robert and Rebekah, right-wing billionaires who use their money to launder Russian propaganda, including financing Breitbart, Parler, Rumble, and JD Vance’s campaign. Their most recent investment is $20 million into Tucker Carlson’s network to get him off the ground after he was fired by Fox.
Tucker, along with numerous other MAGA all-stars like Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens, have gone all-in on trying to end Donald Trump’s presidency—and delivered a full mea culpa for supporting Trump’s election.
“I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional.”
Professional propagandists like Carlson do not suddenly find morality. They do not decide one day that telling the truth is the best policy after all. What it tells you is that the money behind them wants Donald Trump gone. And that money is aligned with Vladimir Putin.
JD Vance and the 25th Amendment
While it remains a highly challenging process, the 25th Amendment was designed for exactly this scenario—a president incapacitated by illness, physical or mental. It appears to be an option made more and more possible every day that Trump defies the billionaires who got him into the White House.
If Trump continues this decline, and there is no reason to think he won’t, it is not outside the realm of possibility that JD Vance could get half the Cabinet to go along with forcing Trump to step down. This would give the Death Star a full shot at America before the end of the Trump-Vance term. It is not impossible that this scenario is already in motion.
I find no solace in a vision of the PayPal Mafia’s Death Star set loose with no restraints. It does not fill me with hopium to visualize JD Vance as the president with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel given full reign to try to recreate their childhood apartheid memories in America.
But like the one from the movies, this Death Star is incomplete. It is still vulnerable to exposure, and to sabotage before it becomes fully operational.
“That‘s no moon.”
—Obi Wan Kenobi
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We’re basically screwed.
I am not telling you anything new, But to recap.
Musk's maternal grandfather .Joshua Norman Haldeman,founded the Technocracy movement,Google wikipedia for both
Run out of Canada he fled to South Africa, married a die hard NAZI, Elons mother,
Elon's dad adored Wehrner von Braun and was influenced by his book Dad Marsprojekt and named his son after the leader of the subterranean civilization on Mars: The Elon.
The goal of the the Technocracy Movement is the Technate of America, which resembles Orwells Ocania, and IMO the aspirations of Trumps Shield of the Americas.
Google Technate of America for a map, notice that it includes Greenland, Canada, Mexico,Cuba, Central America and only three countries in South America, Ecudador,Colombia and Venezuela, so far Trump is on course. and he has not forgotten Greenland or Canada, just on the back burner.
Now this is not Trump's idea, this is Musk's, he put the idea in Trump's head and once it finds a home,it becomes his and he becomes obsessed, just he is obsessed with every other thing from immigration to revenge. And now Iran.