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The Billionaire Junta: Trump’s Merger of Power and Money

Trump’s America no longer bothers pretending it’s a democracy. With Zuckerberg, Ellison, Huang, and Andreessen now “advising” the state, the mask has slipped: the monopolists have become ministers. The people who should be under subpoena are instead at the cabinet table.

The Gospel of the Grifters

Mark Zuckerberg, emperor of the algorithm, will now guide national ethics—the arsonist appointed to lead the fire brigade. His empire manufactures confusion, then monetizes the escape routes. And the man who turned civic life into a dopamine experiment is now to lecture Washington on the moral dimensions of AI.

The Oracle and His Heir

Larry Ellison, Trump’s billionaire ventriloquist, has been granted official sanction to steer science policy while his son hoovers up the nation’s media outlets. One builds the panopticon, the other paints its ceiling. The American information sphere is becoming a family business, as dynastic as any Middle Eastern ministry or Russian court.

The Lords of Silicon Security

Jensen Huang supplies the chips that power every surveillance camera and drone. Marc Andreessen bankrolls both sides of the cyber military industrial complex. Now they’ll “advise” on restraint. It’s not regulation—it’s choreography. The watchdogs are writing applause notes for the wolves.

The Endnote

This isn’t corruption; it’s consolidation. The billionaires have stopped lobbying and started ruling. The state has become their user interface, and the rest of us are just metadata—scrolling, tagged, and monetized, watching the republic fade behind a trillion transistors of smiling tyranny.

Pam C's avatar

do you think he'll ever learn that he can't get everything he wants? I can't wait till he's a private citizen again. I hope he has so many lawsuits that all the money he's made on is meme coins, his cryptocurrency and his market manipulations disappear all into the lawyer's pockets. 😵‍💫

Sally Sprague's avatar

No he won’t learn, he’s a spoiled brat and he’ll just counter sue the lawyers! Once a crook always a crook 🤮

Allen's avatar

The question did they really defy the president? They have not taken up Trump‘s anti-voting measure they are doing what the Democrats had suggested weeks ago Pass everything but for ice and border patrols.

Fadwellchrispow's avatar

how is the entire population not flipping out as bad as I am? this will be the end of humanity if it goes on any longer

Teoli's avatar

Murder is an unlimited charge. When dump is out office. Charge the crushed ice cream agents who killed citizens in Minnesota and execute them for murder.

Dean A Langdon's avatar

Are we doomed?

CEO's are essentially KINGS.

Up is down, down is up.

It's not for us to wonder.

Let them tell us why.

Mission creep is, not creep any longer.

The Creeps are in charge, and running full bore.

Trump is bored with all this.

DaveHo's avatar

"The communications director responded that “the memes will continue and there isn’t a damn thing this person can do about it.”"

You can fucking resign, maybe?

Thomas Locatell's avatar

The only thing I remember about Graham Jr. is he was a cuck who got off on his wife getting it on with a pool boy. You could say that about any random televangelist. Also my parents forbid us watching his equally repulsive father.

Robot Bender's avatar

The only thing that surprises me about that panel is that Musk isn't on it.

steve schreibman's avatar

Maybe they are finally realizing they are cow towing to a demented racists pig and convicted criminal

Sally Sprague's avatar

Rump needs to fix the problem he created. Nothing has gotten better for the American people since he’s been in office. The USA is losing international confidence

Teoli's avatar

Dump, I DEFY YOU!!!!!