Trump’s EOs bring technocratic dictatorship closer to reality

While most Americans were busy with Memorial Day festivities, Donald Trump used the Friday before the weekend — a time commonly used by politicians to hide bad or unpopular news — to issue a handful of executive orders expanding nuclear energy to fuel the next generation of AI and bring his plan for a technocratic dictatorship a step closer to becoming a reality.

Here’s how it all came together:

In one of the first acts of his second presidential term, Trump was joined by a group of his technocratic buddies in the Roosevelt Room to announce a new vision for America’s role in artificial intelligence: a $500 billion public-private infrastructure initiative known as Stargate. At the heart of this initiative was the creation of new data centers meant to power an explosion in AI technology.

Trump’s announcement was later followed by the appointment of Elon Musk to run the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and giving him complete authority to remove any government agency and/or their employees standing in the way of creating his technocratic dictatorship (via Technocracy News and Trends):

Musk has raided 15 agencies, including HHS, SSA, Treasury, General Services Administration (GSA), the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Labor, and Transportation.

Essentially, every government leader who has resisted DOGE has been either fired, resigned, or otherwise shoved out.

In the wake of hubris caused by Musk/DOGE, AI has seized control of all our data and given it to companies like Palantir, GROK (Musk’s X.AI), and OpenAI. (Emphasis mine)

DOGE was presented to the American people as a way to massively cut the cost of government and expose corruption and abuse. The truth, however, is that DOGE was used to hide Trump’s true intentions: the expansion of government’s domestic surveillance capabilities and the building of a “master database” containing the personal data held by numerous federal agencies on nearly every American, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Citing whistleblower complaints, Rep. Gerald Connolly divulged last month that DOGE is building a “master database,” a single exhaustive repository containing personal data held by numerous federal agencies, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

“The DOGE team is reportedly engaged in an unprecedented effort to build a massive database using data from SSA and across the federal government,” the Democratic lawmaker wrote in a letter to the SSA Office of the Inspector General. (Emphasis mine)

Two of DOGE’s top operatives are Sam Corcos and Gavin Kliger. Corcos is a health-tech CEO with ties to Musk’s SpaceX and Kliger attended UC Berkeley until 2020 and worked at the AI company Databricks before joining DOGE as a special adviser to the director at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Corcos, who is also a special advisor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, planned to use DOGE to build “one new API to rule them all,” making IRS and other data more easily accessible for cloud platforms. Once completed, anyone with access will be able to view and manipulate that data.

One of the recipients of this massive collection of personal data is Palantir, a company owned by technocrat Peter Thiel, the man personally chosen by Trump to build government surveillance system (via NewsMax.com):

The New York Times reported that Palantir, the AI-focused software and military contractor, has expanded its “work across the federal government in recent months” after it had been tapped by President Donald Trump to create “detailed portraits” or a digital ID on Americans “which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies,” such as from the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Health and Human Services Department, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education.

Palantir employees told The Times that the company’s engineers had been “quietly” discussing creating a digital ID for Americans and that they had grown worried about placing such sensitive data in one place. Anonymous government officials also told The Times that Palantir’s pick to create a program compiling data on Americans “was driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.”(Emphasis mine)

Creating a digital ID? Donald Trump’s AI Stargate Project has been hailed as the cornerstone of his “Golden Age of America” and the answer to the so-called crisis at the border, but the reality is that it will be the “holy grail” of government control and the eventual mandating of digital IDs.

Peter Thiel has been involved with the Donald Trump presidency, going back to 2016. However, from presidential appointments to the selection of JD Vance as Trump’s VP, Thiel’s fingerprints are all over the place, particularly when it comes to building Trump’s technocratic dictatorship (via Fortune.com):

Networks are powerful. And Thiel has long been at the center of some of the tech industry’s most influential ones.

These networks have wielded tremendous influence across Silicon Valley for two decades, shaping the ideas, funding, and strategies that underpin some of the most successful companies and innovations. With the Trump–Silicon Valley alliance now a defining aspect of the administration, Thiel’s circle is poised to take its clout to the next level and play an ever-bigger role on the world stage. (Emphasis mine)

By the way, many DOGE employees previously worked for Palantir.

One of the significant challenges to creating the copious number of AI data centers Trump plans to build is the enormous amount of energy they require to function, which is why Trump has been simultaneously working on his eventual takeover of the energy sector of the economy.

On February 18, Trump signed the “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies” executive order, an order that brings every independent regulatory agency under the “supervision and control” of the president (ala Project 2025). Among the agencies impacted by the order is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the watchdog responsible for holding nuclear energy companies accountable for reactor accidents and/or releases of radioactive material into the environment.

Ordering the NRC to cease issuing regulations and guidance without his expressed written consent or that of the attorney general meant that Trump essentially made nuclear safety secondary to his technocratic dictatorship. And this past Friday night (remember, bad news day), Trump took the added step of terminating Christopher Hanson, the Commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Ever hear of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)? These compact nuclear facilities were specifically included in Trump’s executive orders. SMRs can be built more quickly and at lower costs than conventional nuclear plants while providing power generation at the scale needed for AI operations. SMRs also offer the flexibility to being located near AI facilities.

Any hope of the Republican-controlled Congress stopping this march toward AI madness can be thrown out thanks to Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Included in the budget-busting, economy-destroying, billionaire-enriching monstrosity is a tiny little provision preventing the states from interfering with AI for the next 10 years:

“AI doesn’t understand state borders, so it is extraordinarily important for the federal government to be the one that sets interstate commerce. It’s in our Constitution. You can’t have a patchwork of 50 states,” said Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican.

AI might not understand state borders, but Sen. Bernie Moreno clearly doesn’t understand the Tenth Amendment.

Trump’s nuclear energy executive orders have been praised by Trumpist Republicans and Con., Inc. as a “promise kept” concerning energy independence, but the reality is that he needs hundreds if not thousands of uninterrupted energy sources to feed the needs of the vast AI network he is building.

So, when you hear Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, the army of “conservative” Republicans in Congress, and the talking heads working for Con., Inc. tell you that DOGE was tasked with finding ways to reduce government spending and expose fraud or that Trump’s nuclear energy executive orders will make America freer, remember that all of this has been done for the sole purpose of building Trump’s technocratic dictatorship.

 

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