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Written by Uriel Araujo, Anthropology PhD, is a social scientist specializing in ethnic and religious conflicts, with extensive research on geopolitical dynamics and cultural interactions
The inauguration of Donald Trump’s second term as US President was a spectacle of power, marked by the presence of Big Tech billionaires, including Elon Musk, whose attendance highlighted the growing influence of tech oligarchs in American politics. This convergence of business and politics highlights a complex, often contradictory relationship between Trump, Big Tech, and the so-called “Deep State” —a folk term for what scholar Michael J. Glennon describes as the “double government,” a shadowy network of unelected officials and entrenched interests wielding significant influence over US. policy. One should keep that in mind in light of Musk’s recent announcement of his “America Party”.
Trump’s ties to Big Tech, particularly Musk, reveal a paradox: while the American leader claims to wage war against the “deep state”, his alliances with tech moguls, deeply embedded in the national security apparatus, suggest he is more entangled with it than his rhetoric implies. Big Tech’s historical relationship with the intelligence community is well-documented. Companies like Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been implicated in providing backdoors, metadata, and surveillance capabilities to agencies like the NSA, thereby enabling mass data collection that fuels the national security state. Take the recent — and rather underreported decision — to appoint executives from these firms as US Army lieutenant colonels in its Executive Innovation Corps, a program designed to integrate AI and tech expertise into military strategy.
Elon Musk himself has been a prominent Pentagon contractor through SpaceX and Starlink, with billions in defence contracts positioning him as a key player in the deep state he claims to oppose. And, as I’ve argued, AI interests largely shape Washington’s foreign policy in its quest for rare minerals and energy. Thus, Trump’s reliance on such figures complicates his narrative of dismantling entrenched power, to say the least.
Trump’s self-proclaimed war against the deep state — evidenced by his threats to declassify files related to JFK, Epstein, and even UFOs — appears more an attempt to “tame” than to dismantle this shadow government. His feud with Musk, sparked by the latter’s criticism of a $5 trillion spending bill and now his recent announcement of the “America Party,” exposes deeper tensions. Musk’s blunt threats to release “dirt” on political figures, including references to the Epstein case and Trump, suggest a potential for blackmail as a tool of political leverage (as I’ve written), further complicating matters. Epstein, who ran a sexual exploitation ring and was named as an intelligence agent, of course had connections with both Musk and Trump.
So much for Trump’s crusade against elite power; his alliances with Big Tech suggest he is, in fact, in bed with a significant portion of the deep state itself.The international dimension of this dynamic is equally telling. Trump’s administration has shown a keen interest in shaping Washington’s foreign policy to align with Big Tech’s interests, particularly in resource-rich regions critical for AI development.
One may recall that Musk’s feud with Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes over X’s (formerly Twitter) content moderation policies escalated into a broader geopolitical conflict. Moraes, tasked with combating disinformation, ordered X to block accounts linked to Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right movement, prompting Musk to accuse him of censorship and threaten defiance.
Musk may no longer be Trump’s pal, but the Republican President’s support for Bolsonaro, along with tariffs and other developments, aligns with Musk’s narrative and suggests a coordinated effort to influence Brazilian politics: elections and the judiciary This interference, framed as a defence of free speech, reflects a neo-Monroeist strategy to assert American influence, often in service of corporate interests.
Musk’s America Party, announced amid his feud with Trump, introduces further complexity. While positioned as a populist alternative, it risks splitting the conservative vote, potentially empowering Democrats. Critics warn this move could backfire, weakening Trump’s base. Yet, it may serve as a strategic leverage tool to do just that and further pressure Trump’s administration, ensuring Big Tech’s interests remain central to US policy.
By leveraging his platform and wealth, Musk can both challenge and collaborate with Trump, maintaining influence despite their spats.
Suffice to say, the structural power of Big Tech within the double government remains unshaken. Professor Glennon’s framework explains why electoral changes, including Trump’s presidency, tend to fail to disrupt entrenched interests. And Big Tech, with its surveillance capabilities and military contracts, is a cornerstone of this system.
Musk’s role as a Pentagon contractor through SpaceX and Starlink, which supports American operations in regions like Brazil’s Amazon, underscores this very reality. Thus far, Trump’s “war” against the deep state (or part of it) is less a revolution than a renegotiation of power, with tech oligarchs like Musk playing a pivotal role. Again, their presence at the inauguration, integration into military structures, and influence over foreign policy reveal a clear enough truth: Trump may rail against the “deep state”, but remains deeply entangled with it.
Blackmail, AI, mercenary armies; even the sexual exploitation of minors to compromise authorities. This is what the “deep state” is all about and such are its depths. To sum it up, the Musk-Trump feud, while provocative, is in itself a symptom of this deeper entanglement, with personal rivalries masking shared interests.
Be as it may, the relationship between Trump, Musk, and the dual government is doomed to be increasingly complicated, shaped by mutual dependence, strategic blackmail, and the global ambitions of tech empires. In this high-stakes game, the lines between ally and adversary often blur, leaving the American public — and democracies like Brazil — caught in the crossfire of an ugly enough struggle that potentially transcends electoral politics.
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see roseanne barr podcast 105 all about melon balls musk.
mumbai musk’s ai ‘grok’ ultimate goal was to develop a “maximally truth-seeking ai.” but this rule stop when the subject become the jews. then truth become ‘hâte speech’….. so convenient.
like your attitude.
go and watch roseanne barr podcast 105 and you’ll learn a lot.
while i support the creation of a third party, the “america party” is so obviously just a sock puppet for musk. musk is in turn a sock puppet for the h1b lovers.
musk grew up in apartheid south africa . the u.s. comprehensive anti-apartheid act in 1986 essentially destroyed south africa and many south africans fled to the usa. musk’s interest in politics can be taken at face value until economic pressure is exerted on his corporations.. until then he has enough support to destroy trump.
he grew up in satanic central head quarters of san fran cisco he spent time visiting his dad in south africa. he grew up in a drug den. literally. from his nannies website which has been disappeared i’d bet or totally rewritten by now since they censored everything.
point is he’s just trying to steal votes from trump to give to the democrats basucally in other words back to his original childhood sentiments. back to san fran cisco.
the only difference now between the us and russia: the us has a covert oligarchy/ corporatocracy, whereas russia’s has always been overt and open.
that’s so far from the truth it’s almost hysterically funny.
if the pedophile dump lose some senators and musk replaces them with democrats, it would probably be possible to close dump in the prison where it belongs.
where you belong perhaps
lets face just the fact($) americans by in large with or without money are some of the most ignorant backward pig $hit stupid$ on the planet. and when you review the rogues gallery of president($) since 1964 you understand why this is true and also how it is possible that they got themselves to this place.
guess what the vatican has more cathic schools in tbe states than all of the rest of the world combined. ask yourself why? trump even went to the “jesuits fortress” as its known of georgetown aka king george. and as you know somehow anericans globally are the worst educated students on earth, the bottom of the class, yet elevated to appear as the most important. ask yourself why.wake up.
and that followed the vatican’s conclave whatever you call it meeting restructuring internal review blah blah, where that then pope declared “how fortunate for us to have this story of jesus” to peddle, in effect.
he, either the last to have a coronation or the first not to. the meeting that preceded the creation of the church of satan emanating from san fran cisco, and everything that has followed since the lucifer trust funded united nations declared global freedom of religion, meaning satanism.
clue epstein was regular guest back in the 80s at sir james goldsmiths mansion who allegedly is diana’s biological father, williams grandfather. its very well known in upper circles and the goldsmiths are katie’s mummies family too her mummy’s a goldsmith before marriage to muddletin. but no one’s allowed to know anything at all about that branch exceot that her grandad was an impoverished railway worker.
and lord balfour first issued his declaration in 1917 right about the time the romano s were murdered ( we are all disposable to them, qe2) which that very next morning the windsors changed their name to windsor. that same day. its always been about russia, the single biggest parcel of land under one title on earth.
now exactly as i’ve said for years and years charles t is head of state in india, not their pm, and i’d bet india is really crown lands too, actually, but they secret it away, so it’s obvious obvious obvious to me now that india lured putin in to the trap set up by brics being really the church and crown together acting anonymously if you like, behind their veils, since now india has officialy rejected the brics currency. it’s like that everything’s like that.
see… india not supporting russia in brics currency plan – here’s why.. you tube. now anyone surprised by that is someone who really understands nothing about reality. nothing. and they probably think they know it all.
and as 0ope francis said “the man who really runs the vatican comes bringing flowers” that is neverland, that’s where they get their flowers from all that way.
he worked at the uni where she, maxima went all that way to get her economics degree and i’ll bet you that’s where brics really was invented. and they planted the seed into putins brain to let the world think it was his idea i’ll bet.
but that’s the conundrum, how could he not have known??? how could anuone except idiots not have known anyone.
anyone who knows the “anerican dollar” is really the city of london petro dollar and they will keep fiat currency in place whilst selling gold as a safe haven, one of england’s main exports, whether that be the dollar or crypto, it will really be fiat.
they should all get oscars shouldn’t they. or the writers prize for creativity.
operation talisman sabre .running right now in queensland .
talisman is an object believed to have magical or religious power’s to protect or harm a sabre ,noun from spanish to know .a weapon. so a magical weapon.so it’s outing the military as scientific aka witchcraft .
that is satanism and general michael aquino was founding member of the church of satan, then created his own temple of set satanic organisation and wrote its bible ..in between constructing the entire us armies training programme.
he suicided 2019 .sabre is mainly used as a femine name .about 80% of its usage. a witch in other words in queensland which would have been planned to occur at least ten years ago.
sir michael jagger referred to qe2 as “the queen of the witches $
in the great us jooocracy you can vote for zionist billionaire a or zionist billionaire b, tweedledum or tweedledummer. what a great choice.