BILLIONAIRES BUILDING BUNKERS WHILE THEY DESTROY YOUR FUTURE: Gil Duran Goes Inside the Nerd Riech

A lot of these guys at the pinnacle of Silicon Valley power, and I want to...

I bifurcated in my mind in two areas.

It was brewing since pre-COVID days.

Some of it was about the woke response and these growing companies that had to have things like HR that they hated and diversity that they hated.

And then the Trump re-election in 2024. where there seemed to be a real cascade suddenly of even guys who were not in that world, Tim Cook as a sort of idea.

They all charged into Trump's arms after 2024.

But this movement was really building well before that.

And it feels to me like Trump catalyzed it a lot by saying to them, it's pay to play now.

And, you know, for Mark Zuckerberg to drop a million dollars into Donald Trump's super PAC is, you know, couch cushion money.

These guys have figured out they can, they can push this ideological window wide open and, with relatively few dollars in their world.

I mean, for Elon Musk, spending $277 million in 2024 was couch change.

It was nothing.

They've come to realize this, haven't they, that they've got a financial toolbox that is well beyond what anyone else has.

Yeah, they've come to realize that our political system is mostly for sale.

You can buy politicians.

You can buy legislation.

There's a process generally.

And I think more long-term players understand that you don't want to make it so overt that it trips out the mass of people, right? The game in Washington is very old.

There's lobbyists.

You don't get everything you want this session.

Come back next session.

Sometimes a piece of legislation has to go through multiple times.

There's a way the game is played that keeps it from being too obvious.

Correct.

Sometimes that breaks through in an FBI investigation.

A lot of these guys at the pinnacle of Silicon Valley power, and I want to...

I bifurcated in my mind in two areas.

It was brewing since pre-COVID days.

Some of it was about the woke response and these growing companies that had to have things like HR that they hated and diversity that they hated.

And then the Trump re-election in 2024. where there seemed to be a real cascade suddenly of even guys who were not in that world, Tim Cook as a sort of idea.

They all charged into Trump's arms after 2024.

But this movement was really building well before that.

And it feels to me like Trump catalyzed it a lot by saying to them, it's pay to play now.

And, you know, for Mark Zuckerberg to drop a million dollars into Donald Trump's super PAC is, you know, couch cushion money.

These guys have figured out they can, they can push this ideological window wide open and, with relatively few dollars in their world.

I mean, for Elon Musk, spending $277 million in 2024 was couch change.

It was nothing.

They've come to realize this, haven't they, that they've got a financial toolbox that is well beyond what anyone else has.

Yeah, they've come to realize that our political system is mostly for sale.

You can buy politicians.

You can buy legislation.

There's a process generally.

And I think more long-term players understand that you don't want to make it so overt that it trips out the mass of people, right? The game in Washington is very old.

There's lobbyists.

You don't get everything you want this session.

Come back next session.

Sometimes a piece of legislation has to go through multiple times.

There's a way the game is played that keeps it from being too obvious.

Correct.

Sometimes that breaks through in an FBI investigation.