Peter Thiel’s Goon Squad: Designer Fascism Comes to Town

How the Deep Right is Coopting Conspiracy Consciousness, Part 1 of 3

(This piece has expanded so much I have had to split it in two just to get it in an email. Part Two next week. Audio version at end of piece for paid subscribers)

“It has something that you don’t have. . . It has a philosophy. And that’s what makes it dangerous.” —Videodrome

Deep State, Meet Deep Right

As everyone has known for some time now, “wokeworld” is pushing things to an insane limit; but there is a limit, because everything has limits.

The two apparent limits that I can see to wokeworld are:

1)      A system that insists that 2 + 2 = 5 cannot function for very long.

2)      People also have limits, and when pushed past them, they push back.

See, for example, the recent X-feed of Carl Benjamin, in response-reaction to woke totalitarianism in the UK, since Heaven-Starmer unleashed his troops:

Consider those words: no matter what means are necessary.

This from one of the leading exponents of hitherto sanity on the alternate media scene.

Do we need to coin a new term: woke-derangement-syndrome?

If so, it is complementary with PTDS (Pro-Trump Derangement Syndrome), and if slightly less ominous, no less deranged and myopic:

And:

Posts like this make me more persuaded than ever that “they” are not going to kill Trump, and never planned to. Every time I am presented with supposed evidence that it was a real attempt, what I see is the opposite, evidence of theatrical perception management that, like a shallow tent-pole movie, relies on a narrative that is arresting but full of holes.

For example:

Like a charismatically cackling super-villain, this is momentarily compelling, until you think about it. Do “deep state” plotters of assassinating world leaders usually deliver cocky threats in the mainstream media right before striking?

On closer consideration, this seems less than plausible. (Imagine the roasting Nuland would have received after the “plot” failed!) Believing it both depends on and props up the idea of alleged “deep state” Democrats— a laughable designation being touted by newly Trump-recruited “Wonder Woman” Tulsi Gabbard—visibly flailing around, in a mixture of over-confidence and desperation.

Perhaps they have been driven mad by their pathological hatred and envy of “self-made” billionaire mega-celebrities like Musk and Trump, as touted by IM-1776’s previously-cited article?

IM-1776’s X-feed gives a fairly good idea of the prevailing “alternate media” narrative leading up to the election. The magazine also seems to be firmly plugged into Peter Thiel’s “deep right” network, including an interview with Blake Masters, Curtis Yarvin’s debate with Christopher Rufo, and a 2023 interview with recent Trump-endorser RFK, Jr. (the Co$ files on whom I will release soon, if don’t die or lose internet access first).

And in fact, it’s IM-1776’s X-feed that drew my attention to this nexus in the first place, because these smart, well-informed, ballsy, and seemingly well-intentioned people are not easy to dismiss.

The Limits of Wokeworld

“Before execution, scapegoats were often worshiped like deities. . . These are the roots of monarchy: every king was a living god, and every god a murdered king. Perhaps every modern king is just a scapegoat who has managed to delay his own execution.” —Peter Thiel

What is hardly being considered (yet) is that the woke-agenda that smart, edgy deep-right media activists like Carl Benjamin’s Lotus Eaters and IM-1776 are reacting against may well have been designed for this very purpose.

I mean, precisely with proposition # 2 in mind (that people have limits), making proposition # 1 (that wokism is a self-destroying ideology) a matter of irrelevance, if “woke” has now served its purpose.

If it was never meant to be the final form of “the Regime,” but only the Weimar Republic for the installation of the Third Reich (with apologies to any Nazi apologists reading).

The evidence that woke has shot its wad in the US, post-13/7, is in how the mainstream media has shifted its allegiance since then, subtly but undeniably, from “Democrat” to “Republican”:

• After 13/7, Mark Zuckerberg praises DJT and starts cozying up to him

• Zuckerberg admits in writing to (illegally) censoring Facebook, thus election interference  

• Dem Golden Boy/ governor of California mocks undemocratic process of selecting Kamala 

• The Atlantic (progressive legacy magazine) publishes article critical of Kamala and DNC  

• The Dem grandee who forced Biden to step aside, Nancy Pelosi, admits to being a cold-blooded reptile on PBS    

• Pop icon (operative), beloved of Dems, Taylor Swift is going to endorse Trump?

• A Democrat member of the Chicago City Council came out against his own party on LIVE TV, saying the convention is failing

• Trump has plans to utilize Elon in the upcoming administration, and Elon is willing to contribute, particularly in shrinking Government spending, which is also a winning policy supported by most.

• Federal Court just opened a report on voter fraud that they sat on for 2 years

• Texas AG acting against voter fraudsters with raids and arrests 

• Brussels disavows EU bureaucrat Thierry Breton after he threatens Musk over Trump interview  

• The Daily Show/Jon Stewart roasts the hypocrites of the DNC 

• Legacy media: America loves Kamala Harris! America: Who is Kamala Harris?

  via Dem darlings Jen Psaki and Don Lemon on MSNBC

• Scott Jennings on CNN roasts Kamala

• Trump’s Dr Phil interview

To me, this indicates that the next phase of regimentation is the long-prepared (long-threatened) totalitarian solution to the madness of wokeworld, and that it is taking the form of a Thielean, Muskian, Moldbuggian “libertarian” technocratic (anti-woke) Patrix.

When Big Daddy steps in to save the world from Big Mommy.

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If so, this “solution” looks roughly the same as what everybody (at least since 1984) has known it would look like: a Draconian tyranny with an iron boot; and instead of a velvet glove, we get a set of VR goggles (or a neuro-link to Mars).

The one crucial element which both “left” and “right” wings of “the regime” inarguably have in common, after all, is that of a technological solution that involves total digital surveillance and controls, extraterrestrial satellite networks (Skynet), AI, and increasingly post-human and invasive biotech.

It has long been known that (as in Icke’s “problem-reaction-solution” formula) the creation of a world crisis would be necessary to fast-track the totalitarian goals of the ruling classes. What has been less foreseen is that—via the mainstreaming of “conspiracy consciousness”—the perception of a globalist totalitarian takeover would also be part of said manufactured crisis, used to bring itself about.

Now that the WEF-ian wokeworld has become sufficiently intolerable and insane, now that anything looks better than this, “whatever means are necessary” includes a good, old-style dictatorship—with a designer twist.

(Over the Paywall: Tech New Deal, Claremont & American Mind, Changing Images of Man 2025, Transhumanism Left & Right, Schmidt & Thiel, Thiel’s Gawker takedown & M.O, the same old sorcery.)