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Compiling the best resources on Elon Musk’s siege of the American government, the extremist philosophy of Curtis Yarvin, and the beliefs of Silicon Valley elites.
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Washington Post article: There was the inauguration after-party held by far-right publisher Passage Publishing (its online offerings include a periodical titled Man's World, a $100 set of three Hardy Boys books, and a $295 "fascicle" by Yarvin whose purpose "is to disturb your historical and philosophical sense of where we are"). Grimes, the pop musician and mother to three of Elon Musk's children, hung around Butterworth's green room with Yarvin before her DJ set began. The rest of the time a patchwork of Trump 2.0's leading lights and Capitol Hill locals, seemingly unfazed by the spectacle, nibbled on venison tartare and black olive brioche at their favorite new haunt. Late last Thursday, for example, you might've seen Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead (dismantle?) the FBI, joining Kassam for caviar and chips fried in beef tallow.
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Reminder that Grimes attended Yarvin’s wedding last year and was reported by WaPo on January 31 as having been seen with him at a Trump inauguration party hosted by his publisher.
Photo of Yarvin at his wedding Photo of Yarvin with his bride Photo of Grimes at said wedding A post on X: vocalcry says “I can’t believe we missed each other.” SimoneSyed responds “I was in a [sic] against the wall all night w my married friends and their bbs all night,” attaching a photo of herself at the wedding with Grimes, whose face is obscured by a smile emoji with sunglasses.
February 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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As Yarvin wrote in 2009:
Nonetheless, I think liquidation is an error. Here's why. Imagine that, instead of holding securities, everyone held cash. We can then replicate the chain of events from portfolio decline to consumer-spending recession, by replacing a decline in asset prices with a simple destruction of money. Suppose, for exam-ple, that every dollar whose serial number is divisible by 2 was badly manufactured. One day, all these dollars disintegrate. Thus, everyone's net dollar worth falls by 50%; spending craters; so does production; and we get, in short, exactly what we're seeing now, with our 50% decline in financial-asset prices. Now, how should a healthy government - a New Downing Street - react to this event? Option one: it can do nothing, allow consumption to fall, and let production stabilize at its new equilibrium. This is the liquida-tionist solution. If dollars were Fourth Empire sols (or gold), liquidation would be the only possible solu-tion. However, they are not. In the famous words of Ben Bernanke, USG has a "device called a printing press" which can produce them at zero cost. Option two: the US can stimulate consumption by printing new dollars and lending them to banks, who will then in turn lend to consumers, who will spend. This is the monetarist (Fisher/Friedman) solution. It is not available to us at present, because economic actors are so deeply indebted that they cannot borrow even at zero interest rates. Option three: the Keynesian "stimulus." The US can stimulate consumption by printing new money and spending it. For reasons that are essentially cosmetic, this is generally done by hiring people to do useless jobs - Keynes himself, for example, once suggested burying stacks of bills in abandoned mineshafts, then filling up the mines, to produce an equivalent of gold mining for fiat currency. Most of your "green jobs," inasmuch as they produce nothing of any practical use to anyone, are of just this sort. However, there is a fourth option. My example was specially crafted to make it obvious. Hopefully, you are already jumping up and down in your seat with your hand raised. Option four is to simply replace the defective dollars. If you held dollars with serial numbers divisible by 2, you now have a wallet full of green lint. Send us the green lint We'll weigh it, figure out exactly how many dollars you used to have, and print new ones to replace them. Note how much simpler and more elegant this approach is. We are actually fixing the actual problem: the destruction of money. We are curing the disease, not the symp-toms. We are giving the feverish patient antibiotics, not immersing him in a bath of icewater. Moreover, option 4 is also the fair solution. Whose fault is the crisis? USG's. What did USG do wrong? It printed detective dollars. How can it make its wrong right? Replace the defective products. Not only does this restore the equilibrium of production and consumption, it also restores the contents of its citizens' wallets. Of course, the financial crisis was not actually caused by defective dollars. No: it was caused by a defective banking system. This system, while nominally "private," was constructed and operated under the laws of USG, which claimed and exercised the right to regulate it down to the last crossed T - even if this regulation was in many cases inadequate or even counterproductive. Moreover, the Rube Goldberg machine that managed to amplify two trillion actual dollars into a $100 trillion securities market could not have operated without an incestuous connection between bank and state, in the form of both formal deposit insurance and informal "too big to fail" moral hazard. Again: the fault is clear. Thus, Plan Moldbug: the real-life equivalent of mailing in your green lint. Replacing a defective financial system is harder than replacing a defective printing press. But still quite doable, as we'll see. Step zero: call up Larry and Sergei, and get them to lend USG a few hundred of Google's best coders. We'll need them to write our new financial system. (We don't have time to do it the Beltway way.) Step one: nationalize all market-priced financial assets at the present market price, exchanging them for new dollars. USG buys…
February 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Nothing to see here! Just the president mindlessly parroting neoreactionary talking points. Of course DOGE is going to report “irregularities” in Treasury payments! Because they’re operating under Yarvin’s theory that the entire financial system is defective and therefore all debt is illegitimate.
Per Talking Points Memo: I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump said on a plane and we won't hear about it again. But after recents, who are we kidding? Anything is possible. On Air Force One today en route to the Super Bowl, Trump told reporters that DOGE analysts (whatever that means) had found "irregularities" in U.S. treasuries and that the U.S. may not be obligated to pay some of them. "Maybe we have less debt than we thought," he said. Needless to say, this is quite literally violating the express language of the 14th Amendment which says: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned." TPM further notes: One other point worth noting is that Trump seems to be basing this on some analysis from the DOGE boys. This appears to have been one of the DOGE boys' main goals at Treasury, getting access to details about what kinds of payments Treasury makes, the answer being close to everything the U.S. government does outside of the Pentagon and some of the Pentagon stuff too. The Treasury also services the U.S. debt, which is what we're talking about here. I'm less clear on what access to which part of the Treasury Department these guys could have gotten to get information about how the Treasury Department sells and services Treasury notes. But all that detail aside, imagine thinking that by downloading a ton of data and having a few days to analyze it you could make the determination that a…
February 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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At a higher level, both monetary policy and Keynesian stimulus pretend to be cures for the banking cycle. Neither claims to understand it at all, but both have been promising to eliminate it for the last 75 years. This has not happened, of course. The remedies are palliatives for the destructive effects of the collapses, but this is like taking cocaine for your strep throat. What it really needs is a specific cure, ie, antibiotics. To end the banking cycle permanently, our existing structures of long-term debt which back short-term liabilities need to be restructured. One way to do this is the classic Austrian approach: let everything col-lapse. If we were actually on the gold standard, this might well be our only option - but we're not. It is much easier to transition to a fixed-supply fiat currency, which is in fact harder than gold (because there is no new production at all). Basically, the only painless, specific, and lasting way out of the banking cycle is to purchase all financial assets with freshly-issued dollars, then sell the assets and destroy the dollars paid for them, and start lending back up with new banks and matu-rity-matched accounting. This is a full reboot of the financial system. Accept no substitutes. Yes, it involves some inflation, but the inflation is (a) one-time, and (b) pointed at the actual problem.
February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Keynes and Fisher did not propose inflation as an all-purpose stimulant for general fun. They proposed it as a cure for economic recessions and depressions, which were certainly in no short supply at the time. We are entering a recession or depression now, so it seems wise to revisit the issue. Is cocaine a good remedy for depression? Why do so many people want to inflate? Again, the answer is easy. What we see in a recession or depression is a drop in consumer spending. Since spending is the flip side of production, we can think of the GDP (the sum of the prices of all goods and services sold by businesses to consumers) for any country as the amount of money spent on that country's goods and services. If that number falls by, say, 5%, the average business in the country has produced 5% too many goods and services. Screenshot of an Elon X post: Reducing the federal deficit from $2T to $1T in FY2026 requires cutting an average of ~$4B/day in projected 2026 spending from now to Sept 30. That would still result in a ~$1T deficit, but economic growth should be able to match that number, which would mean no inflation in 2026. Super big deal. 10:02 PM • Jan 30, 2025 In response to Elon’s post, conservative think tank economist Oren Cass asks: Is it possible that Elon thinks (a) we can get enough economic growth in one year to raise tax revenue by $1 trillion, and (b) inflation falls to zero if the budget is balanced? Looking for a more charitable interpretation... Anonymous rightwing account Fischerking posts: If Trump succeeds in forcing through mass deportations, combined with Elon hacking away at the government, firing people and reducing the deficit - there will be an initial severe overreaction in the economy - this economy propped up with debt (generating asset bubbles) and artificially suppressed wages (as a result of illegal immigration). Markets will tumble. But when the storm passes and everyone realizes we are on sounder footing, there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy. History could be made in the coming two years. 5:24 PM • Oct 28, 2024 • 318.4K Views Elon responds: Sounds about right
February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I’m not generally an alarmist, but I also genuinely thought Constitutional order would survive at least the first couple weeks of Trumpism. I can’t shake the feeling that Musk’s DOGE is attempting to Yarvinize the entire US financial system. Yarvin wrote out his economic plan in 2009:
Thus, Plan Moldbug: the real-life equivalent of mailing in your green lint. Replacing a detective financial system is harder than replacing a defective printing press. But still quite doable, as we'll see. Step zero: call up Larry and Sergei, and get them to lend USG a few hundred of Google's best coders. We'll need them to write our new financial system. (We don't have time to do it the Beltway way.) Step one: nationalize all market-priced financial assets at the present market price, exchanging them for new dollars. USG buys all publicly-traded American securities, and foreign securities held by Americans. It thus becomes the sole owner and operator of all public companies, and in doing so it also acquires all the banks (for the price of their common stock, which is not much these days). By acquiring all the banks, it acquires all their dodgy mortgages and other "bad" securities. Obviously, after this process, all debts USG owes to itself are cancelled. Hedge funds, private equity, and other exotic assets held by individuals may require some appraisal. But these are held by rich people, who are patriotic and don't mind taking a bit of a haircut. Also requiring appraisal are homes; if you are a homeown-er, USG calculates your home equity (per-haps using an automated appraisal, such as Zillow's), and buys it from you. You are now a renter; USG is your landlord. Your new rent is calculated as a percentage of your home appraisal. The result of step one is that USG owns all financial assets, major corporations, and real estate. In return, each USG citizen has one number: how many dollars they have. Perhaps the most straightforward way to implement this is to give every American a direct account at the Federal Reserve (a privilege now held only by banks). Thus, all your portfolios are automatically sold at the current market price, and your statement is mailed from the Eccles Building. The little number at the bottom, however, is the number you care about. This number has not changed. If your portfolio was worth $250,000, you now have $250,000. Is it instantaneously effective? Only inasmuch as the Googlers can implement all five steps instantaneously, perhaps; but only steps one and two are needed to reverse deflation, and these are easy. Is it effective? Yes, because tripling everyone's net worth should restore consumer spending quite handily. Is it fair? Perhaps not perfectly, but at least your new net worth is a function of your old net worth, and the government picks no winners or losers. Is it popular? Does a bear... And does it restore a stable, free-market financial system? USG sells all the assets it nationalized, and its new dollar is the hardest currency in human history. We are increasing total dollar net worth over its pre-crash level, to make up for the termination of credit expansion, so the new dollar may have a slightly lower purchasing pow-er. But the new dollar is watertight and does not leak, so there will be no persistent inflation. And none of this matters at all, because Plan Moldbug will never, ever happen. At least, not as long as we have anything like the government we have now. The problem with Plan Moldbug is that it can only be executed by a strong govern-ment. The election of Barack Obama has considerably strengthened USG, by removing the fraudulent Outer Party and returning Washington to its natural "apolitical" condition as a one-party state. Nonetheless, not all one-party states are created equal, and ours is weak and getting weaker. You may think this is a good thing. Please allow me to disabuse you of this notion.
February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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With what we know as of now though, I do think this project could explain in part Shaotran’s appeal for Musk.
ballotproof a Voting made faster, smarter, and more secure. DevPost for HackGT 2020 (TOP 8 PROJECT!) Check out our official website here Full-repo @authors: @Devrath lyer (Stanford '24) @Ethan Shaotran (Harvard '25) @Koushik Sridhar (UNC '24) @Pratham Soni (Stanford '24) • Introduction With an emphasis on social distancing and remote engagement as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic mail-in voting surged from 24.9% to 50.3% of ballots 1 in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, respectively. This surge will also trigger an unfortunate increase in ballots rejected due to the avoidable human error; we've already started to see the effects, with half a million ballots rejected 2 in the 2020 primaries. As first-time voters, this issue is extremely critical to us as our generation seeks democratic representation. In an effort to reduce rejection rates, we introduce BallotProof, a methodology built for faster, smarter, and more secure validation of ballots. • What It Does BallotProof is built from the ground up with ease of use and security in mind. As a result, the platform was developed with a server-independent structure, with all image analysis done on the client-side to avoid any risk of data leakage. BallotProof takes in input images of the front and back sides of your ballot and uses image analysis to specifically determine which errors can prevent your critical vote from being counted. We handle everything for you from start to finish, with automatic cropping of your pictures to showing exactly which sections in which errors were made and specific templates made for your unique ballot. Our methods are currently able to point out if you've made any of the following: 1. Incorrect pen colors 2. Blank sections 3. Excessive bubble fill-ins 4. Improper write-in format 5. Ban bubble fill-ins 6. And much more!
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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An older archived version of his website shows that before his business, Shaotran was using it as a blog. One short post sought to bring AI into the classic Trolley Problem. Don’t worry, he assures us. AI will prevent such paradoxes. Because it’s… psychic?
The Trolley Problem BY ETHAN SHAOTRAN • PUBLISHED DECEMBER 4, 2019 • UPDATED DECEMBER 10, 2019 Your self-driving electric car is zipping along the road and out of nowhere, a child runs onto the street right in front of you. The car's onboard Al algorithm has two choices - either swerve onto the side of the street and potentially harm the passengers or continue straight and run over the child. But perhaps the technology has accelerated so quickly that these kinds of surprises simply won't occur, as sensors would detect the child from the periphery long before the road. This is known as the Trolley Problem in Al circles, and this ethical dilemma has sparked furious debate. A typical driving scenario where the Trolley Problem could be significant. I had an opportunity to interview Jeff Dean, an Al expert and one of the first employees at Google, who believes these conundrums would never actually take place. In fact, he claimed that the technology would be able to predict the child running onto the road long before it ever happened, preventing the situation entirely. Researchers around the world are looking for a technical solution to the Trolley Problem. Without a clear answer, societies and governments around the world will not adopt self-driving cars. This technology unlocks a massive opportunity for cheaper transportation and electric vehicles (EVs) powered by renewable energy, leading to substantial socioeconomic improvement.
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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His author bio has been removed from Amazon, but ThriftBooks still has a description of his book Stock Prediction with Deep Learning. His business website, energize dot ai, boasted of its work with OpenAI before going offline sometime in March or April of 2024. It linked to a paper on AI he cowrote.
Edition Description For centuries, human beings have tried to predict the future, whether it be NBA playoffs, weather, or elections. In this book, we tackle the common misconception that the stock market cannot be predicted, and build a stock prediction algorithm to beat the stock market, using Deep Learning, Data Analysis, and Natural Language Processing techniques. If you're new to Artificial Intelligence and Python, and are curious to learn more, this is a great book for you! Industry experts also have plenty to learn from the variety of methods and techniques used in data collection and manipulation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ethan Shaotran is an AI developer, researcher, and author of "Stock Prediction with Deep Learning". He is the founder of Energize. AI, where he built a financial stock prediction algorithm that outperformed the stock market in 2017. He is currently working on a thought experiment series to raise awareness on Al-related societal challenges within the Al community, regarding regulation and potential moral hazards, as well as autonomous vehicle driving software. Ethan has studied Economics and Al courses from Harvard, Stanford, and USF, is an affiliate with the Harvard Kennedy School's AI Initiative and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery. Shaotran’s now defunct website’s homepage stating, “Energizing AI. A safer way to use LLMs.” And a link to “Our work with OpenAI.” We need a new approach to democratically align AI. We are introducing Aligned, a platform for global governance and alignment of frontier models, and eventually superintelligence. Over the past few months, we’ve been working with OpenAI through their Democratic AI Grant [1]. In this paper, we’ll detail our underlying motivations, process, and initial findings. You can find the Aligned public report on the Energize site1 and open-sourced code on OpenAI’s GitHub2. In 1776, the United States embarked on a novel task: a constitution committee convened to develop a constitution to guide the nation. We are at a similar inflection point. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) must align with the values and interests of the general populace. Accordingly, its development will need a similar constitution to govern, inform, and steer it in important scenarios [2]. Building on the democratic processes of the past 4 centuries, how do we: • Collect inputs from a broad population of people, akin to a constitutional committee. • Identify consensus among those peoples’ inputs to create an actionable, traceable constitution (set of guidelines) for AI. We aren’t proposing a philosophical experiment where we let a group solve human morality by talking in an artificial, sanitized environment. Instead, we want to record the issues real-world users find in the wild and what those users think should be done to resolve them. Thus, we believe one piece of the alignment puzzle will be a scalable platform to host these deliberations and elicit principled and practical constitutions. Crowdsourcing wisdom for content alignment and moderation has been explored in various capacities across several platforms. X, formerly Twitter, rolled out Community Notes [3] to identify information in tweets their community deems misleading. Their algorithm identifies user-proposed notes that have support from people across varying perspectives. Such work provides evidence for the effectiveness of large-scale con…
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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In October, xAI announced Shaotran’s team as the winner of its 2024 Hackathon. The challenge was, “Developing a prediction pipeline focused on a Machine Learning task, with the aim of integrating XAI techniques to black-box predictions.”
xAI’s October 17th post on X announcing Shaotran’s team as the winners, along with a linked video of Shaotran demonstrating his team’s product: “Team eXpect was the runner-up at our hackathon, earning $5,000 in AP| credits. Congratulations! @raydelvecc @rag_pil@EShaotran @GiovanniMDanto2” Copy from xAI’s website: Challenge Developing a prediction pipeline focused on a Machine Learning task, with the aim of integrating XAl techniques to black-box predictions. The challenge involves: • augmenting the prediction task with various types of explanations (e.g., instance-based or rule-based). • evaluating their impact on model transparency and understanding under various critical conditions (i.e., when the model performs well and when it does not). • developing a use-case scenario that demonstrates the benefits of explainability integration into machine learning tasks, fostering more transparent, responsible, and accountable Al systems.
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Some notes on Ethan Shaotran: It appears he’s done a pretty thorough job of scrubbing himself from the online record, but archives provide us with some clues as to why he was chosen by Musk.
His bio on Harvard’s website now only provides an error message: “Oops! That page can’t be found.” Archived version reads: Ethan Shaotran is a Harvard student and founder of Energize.Al. He's the author of several Al books, patent inventor, and was published by lEEE for his research at Harvard SEAS on autonomous systems. He's cross-registered at MIT and HBS. Interests Al, building fast. Projects • OpenAl Democratic Al: selected by OpenAl to work on Al alignment ($100k grant). • Energize Al: the scheduling assistant for professionals. • Harvard SEAS: created algorithms for autonomous vehicles, published in IEEE ICAS. • Filed 4 patents in computer vision and logistical systems for Amply (acq. by BP). • Harvard Mountaineering Club. • Worked as a scuba divemaster in Hawaii over a gap year. • Research Science Institute (RSI) Scholar in 2019. Papers & Writings • E. Shaotran, I. Pesok, S. Jones and E. Liu, "Aligned: A Platform-based Process for Alignment." • Aligned: Platform-based Alignment (OpenAl announcement, 2024). • E. Shaotran, J. J. Cruz and V. J. Reddi, "Gesture Learning For Self-Driving Cars," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS), 2021. • C. Chace et al. Stories from 2045: Artificial intelligence and the future of work. Economic Singularity Club, 2019. • E. Shaotran. Stock Prediction with Deep Learning. Amazon, 2018. His GitHub profile has been locked down. The archived version shows his GitHub repository, open ai self-driving development tools, a game called RingTower—available on IOS!—and an app to track your verbal words per minute for some reason.
February 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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NBC’s famed The More You Know shooting Star logo
February 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The two OPM officials said the level of access granted to DOGE agents means they could copy the social security numbers, phone numbers and personnel files for millions of federal employees. "They could put a new file in someone's record, they could modify an existing record," one said. "They could delete that record out of the database. They could export all that data about people who are currently or formerly employed by the government, they could export it to some nongovernment server, or to their own PC, or to a Google Drive. Or to a foreign country."
February 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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WaPo, getting their head in the game.

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Records obtained by The Post show that several members of Musk's DOGE team - some of whom are in their early 20s and come from positions at his private companies - were given "administrative" access to OPM computer systems within days of Trump's inauguration last month. That gives them sweeping authority to install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities.
February 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Through simpering prose, he explains that Trump need only appear to be in control after installing a CEO—Yarvin’s favored euphemism for a “monarchist—who will run the executive branch without any congressional or judicial oversight. He called it The Butterfly Revolution.
From Yarvins’s blog: The regime in internal exile What we're going to do is turn the Trump entourage into a regime in internal exile. While in exile, this regime will be a larva—a harmless caterpillar. Once duly elected, in office it will not just caper in front of the cameras (in fact, it will not talk at all to the legacy press)—it will spread its wings, and become a beautiful governing butterfly. Trump himself will not be the brain of this butterfly. He will not be the CEO. He will be the chairman of the board—he will select the CEO (an experienced executive). This process, which obviously has to be televised, will be complete by his inauguration—at which the transition to the next regime will start immediately. For Trump, being President will be exactly like it was—all the photo-ops and more-without any papers to sign, "decisions" to "make," etc. The CEO he picks will run the executive branch without any interference from the Congress or courts, probably also taking over state and local governments. Most existing important institutions, public and private, will be shut down and replaced with new and efficient systems. Trump will be monitoring this CEO's performance, again on TV, and can fire him if need be. But rebooting America is the easy part. The hard part is the path from egg to larva to imago. We can dream about the butterfly as much as we like, but it lives most of its life as an ugly brown grub. Let us now design this insect. What Trump is going to do is to build this regime-in-exile or occupation authority as a private and (needless to say) peaceful institution —a larva. By winning a Presidential election, he will then install it in office. Metamorphosing into a beautiful butterfly, this larva will perform the feat that eluded Trump's first regime-turning office into power. As soon as it takes symbolic power, the butterfly will be ready, willing and able to take actual power-to actually make America great again. You have seen nothing— nothing. Doing this will require powers in the Presidency that have not been seen in the lives of those now living. It will be a kind of restoration of the historic office. It will, in fact, require the executive powers of Washington, Lincoln and FDR—or even more. Delegation Finally, once proper legal authorization exists, Trump takes over the executive branch and appoints a CEO. As we said at the beginning, he is not this CEO. FDR was a lot like Trump in some ways. He was intensely charismatic, insanely witty, and had the attention span of a fly. But there was one difference—FDR was a scion of one of America's great families. As a born aristocrat, FDR was confident. That meant he could delegate. That meant that although he was anything but a manager, he could find competent people to manage for him, whom he wouldn't micromanage. A Trump who was confident enough to act as America's chairman of the board, not America's CEO-who could pick an amazing CEO, ready, willing and able to take unlimited executive authority over all federal, state and local agencies, corporations and institutions-could truly make America great again.
February 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM