—Hans Christian Andersen, "The Emperor's New Clothes"

And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold.

The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now!

“But he has nothing at all on!” at last cried out all the people.

“Listen to the voice of innocence!” exclaimed his father; and what the child had said was whispered from one to another.

“But the Emperor has nothing at all on!” said a little child.

in short, no one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit for his office. Certainly, none of the Emperor's various suits, had ever made so great an impression, as these invisible ones.

and all the people standing by, and those at the windows, cried out, “Oh! How beautiful are our Emperor's new clothes! What a magnificent train there is to the mantle; and how gracefully the scarf hangs!”

Grummz (Mark Kern) needs people to pay attention to his tweets lest they remember his ongoing fraud (crowd-funded vaporware).

I call my congressional reps demanding action. They don’t answer, and they don’t return calls. Trumpist cowards and fools, all of them.

Hegseth does not understand the difference between muscle and strength. Plainly unfit to lead and, I argue, even unfit to serve.

Hard to separate the true believers from the grifters and the opportunists:

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, [...] in a blurb for Balaji’s 2022 book, The Network State [...]

— newrepublic.com/article/1804...

The answer appears to be "no".

Curtis Yarvin states “[A patchwork] may also import menial laborers, as Dubai does today, but they are not to be confused with the actual residents.”

— www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...

It seems multiple factions aligned to achieve their separate, unconstitutional, antidemocratic goals. For example, the "Network State" VC extremists and the Project 2025 "conservatives" who no longer wish to conserve.

This document helped me understand the former:
www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...