I may be a hedonistic, post-left, genderfuck, heathen but I'm also a fiercely localist, small town agrarian, Appalachian Luddite and this weird contrarian dichotomy has afforded me an almost absurdly diverse following that has long included creatures that most would consider to be far right. Even aside from my writing, this isn't exactly uncharted territory for me. I grew up in what is now considered to be Trump Country, and I still live and organize in that country as an openly Queer anarchist. This kind of backwoods coexistence can be downright dangerous at times, but it is also a means of survival for any decadent weirdo who deeply hates the city.
I have had to learn how to build bridges with other poor people who hate me, and I have struggled to carry on this tradition into my online existence, communicating on social media with the kind of people that most leftists would sooner doxx than friend. Think what you must about these practices, but they have afforded me a window into the more populist oriented fringes of the right that most people to the left of Ruby Ridge lack and one thing that I can say on this weird authority is that a significant portion of the MAGA movement is rapidly approaching their breaking point with Donald Trump.
Trump has always courted segments of the alt-right along with a spattering of paleocons and quasi-libertarians but his almost unimaginable comeback in 2024 largely depended on them. Biden and Kamala did most of the heavy lifting schmoozing with the Cheney's while facilitating brazenly genocidal policies in Gaza, but Trump was affectively carried across the finish line foisted upon the shoulders of edgelord brociopaths like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk only to flip the switch the moment he crossed the White House lawn to full tilt neocon mode.
I think Trump assumed what most New Yorkers do about the typical audience for such cretins, that these people are all just a bunch of braindead amoral garbage who would follow any authoritarian messiah straight to fucking hell and I have to admit, after a decade of this MAGA horseshit, I was beginning to suspect the same thing. But even deplorables draw lines in the sand and Trump seems to have crossed a lot of them in just a matter of months.
He is dumping trillions of dollars onto the deficit with the pork barrel monstrosity of his Big Beautiful Bill. He is shredding habeas corpus to have any green card holder who bad mouths Israel chucked out of the country. He is engaging in neocon style military adventures in the Middle East on behalf of foreign Zionist welfare scroungers. He is working closely with the terminal yuppies of Silicon Valley to build massive online databases designed to keep tabs on the bowel movements of every American citizen seamlessly across multiple federal agencies. And some of MAGA's most influential influencers are in an uproar.
Elon Musk was essentially tossed out of the Trump Administration amidst reports of his speed-addled tirades in the Oval Office leading to literal fist fights with elderly staffers. Tucker Carlson led a barnstorming multimedia campaign to denounce Trump's collaboration with Benjamin Netanyahu's blood feud against the Mullahs in Iran and fellow MAGA lunatics like Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene actually took Tucker's side when their orange god publicly scolded him for his disloyalty. Trump has similarly made enemies on the Hill, like Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Thomas Massie, who have pushed back against his blatant warmongering and big spending and faced childishly personal attacks for doing so.
However, perhaps the most fascinating fight that has erupted within the MAGA movement lately is naturally the one getting the least amount of mainstream coverage. Recent leaks to the New York Times have exposed the full scale of Trump's collaboration with billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, a big tech analytics company that has long worked with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to track immigrants and "suspected terrorists" using AI-assisted facial recognition technology. During Trump's second reign this relationship has expanded rapidly, with Palantir receiving $113 million in federal contracts since November alone, not including a $795 million contract with the Department of Defense.
The latest leaks seem to confirm long circulating rumors that this same kind of dystopian technology which is supposed to be reserved for shifty-eyed brown folk is being considered for use against the rest of us by even broader sweeping outfits like the Social Security Administration, the Department of Education, and the IRS with talks of a single federal database to include information on every American citizen including their tax filings, medical claims, bank accounts, and student debt.
The reaction from MAGA supporters and influencers on social media has been explosive. Loudmouth imbeciles like the Hodgetwins and Nick Fuentes are calling MAGA a giant psyop. The Patriot Voice, with over 158,000 followers on X seemed to sum up the uproar in a single tweet, posting "I didn't flip on Trump, TRUMP FLIPPED ON US". And my own online interactions with the right have been equally caustic and eye opening.
While I maintain contact with a wide variety of political outsiders, my message has generally remained the same. I have been decrying Donald Trump as a fraudulent corporate welfare queen and a shameless Christo Zionist gimp from the beginning, but my right-wing followers aren't arguing with me anymore. They're cheering me on and asking me to take my vitriol even further. I have had people on Facebook literally apologize to me for voting for Trump. I have even convinced several hardcore transphobes that Trump's latest executive orders against families with transgender children have gone way too far and put every family's private medical decisions at risk.
The conclusion that more and more America First conservatives seem to be arriving at is that Donald Trump is becoming just another globalist neocon. The reality that I have been trying to force feed these people for years however is that this really isn't a recent transition. Donald Trump has always been a craven opportunist with intimate connections to the very swamp he has long railed against. It just took him sewing the various chunks of the federal government together into one big Lovecraftian Death Star suit to finally knock the fucking blinders off.
Until 2011, Donald Trump had actually given out more money to Democrats than he had Republicans and the Republicans that he had cut the biggest checks to were neocon war junkies like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and various members of the Bush Dynasty. He was close personal friends with both the Clintons and Jeffrey Epstein, logging in frequent flyer miles on the Air Lolita even though, like Bill and Hill, he already owned his own private jet.
In spite of the 2016 makeover in which he seemed to be trying to reinvent himself as a sort of Pat Buchanan with dick jokes, the Donald drug this same circus of neocon Washington insiders into his first administration, awarding top positions in his junta to well-known war pigs like John Bolton, Elliot Abrahams, Nadia Schawlow, Mike Pompeo, and Nikki Haley, not to mention giving the VP slot to a shiny, Christo Zionist, closet dandy named Mike Pence.
The proceeding four years actually played out pretty predictably, the populist right just spent too much time bickering with the "Resistance" over Russiagate and facemasks to notice. In fact, the three big crises that defined Joe Biden's one term abortion as well as Trump's comeback campaign to save us all from its afterbirth was pretty much all the inevitable fruit of blatantly neocon policies carried out during Trump's first four years.
October 7th was the inevitable result of Trump's decision to openly endorse Bibi Netanyahu's unprecedented expansion into the West Bank. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the inevitable result of Trump's provocative joint military exercises with the Ukrainian Navy in the Black Sea. And the massive collapse of Babylon's border police state was at least in part an inevitable result of Trump's aggressive attempts at regime change in Venezuela.
This isn't to say that Trump is a neocon perse. He's really more of an ideological rent boy, selling space in his puckered asshole to the highest bidder, and in Washington the highest bidder tends to be whoever can unload the most missiles. This may be why Trump's new and improved second administration still includes neocon heavy hitters like Marco Rubio and Elise Stefanik, but it also includes a suspicious amount of big tech bros connected to aforementioned PayPal founder and technofascist billionaire Peter Thiel.
This includes venture capitalist David Sacks in the new position of White House AI and Crypto Czar, former Palantir software engineer Clark Minor as Chief Information Officer of the Department of Health and Human Services, Colin Carrol, who went directly from the board of a Thiel connected drone factory known as Anduril to the Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, and until recently, Elon Musk, who used DOGE as a cover to replace federal employees with automated software.
In the age of artificial intelligence and space colonization, these are the new neocons and the rabid MAGA loyalists are for once perfectly rational in being terrified of the power their favorite demagogue has awarded them but as I always say, every existential crisis is ripe with opportunities for those of us dangerous enough to tread on the wild side.
Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and a lot of other leading MAGA monsters are fucking frauds, the willingness of these preppy city slickers to go back and beg the Donald for forgiveness should make this crystal clear, but there are a lot of decent if desperate people who have stupidly supported Trump for all the right reasons. Many of them were the same people who exiled the neocons back to the Democratic Party for a decade and threatened to put a legitimate isolationist like Ron Paul in the White House before his son sold out on the campaign trail and handed Trump his thunder
These are the disgruntled deplorables who I reach out to on my blog, the antiwar Marines, the isolationist family farmers, the sovereign citizen gun nuts, and the boogaloo militia bros. You and I may disagree with many of these people on borders and culture war bullshit but all of them are potential anarchists who see the devil in big government and big business. I reach out to these people for the same reason I reach out to Bernie's equally deluded fan club, because they are pissed-off poor people like me who deserve better than the morally bankrupt cult of personality that they've been bamboozled into investing in.
I also reach out to these people because I have honestly come to believe that all free people are now at war with an enemy more sinister than any we have ever encountered in this country before and those of you who accuse me of some kind ideological treason for my attempts to reach out to those betrayed by the false promises of MAGA clearly underestimate the danger of this enemy.
You see dearest motherfuckers, there is another Peter Thiel acolyte in Trump's White House, a Silicon Valley huckster who has successfully passed himself off as one of us, a Christo Zionist Never Trumper who managed to reinvent himself as a MAGA superstar just in time for the midterms, a man carefully groomed and mentored by Thiel, a man whose bestselling memoir was buoyed by his master's blurb, a man whose first venture capitalist firm was bankrolled by Thiel and whose run for Senate received a donation of $15 million from that fucker, literally making it the single largest donation ever made to a single candidate, a man who was introduced to Donald Trump by this same silicon Svengali who would also go on to lobby the Donald to make him his second VP in 2024.
A man named JD Vance. A slick-talking chameleon with all of Trump's pseudo-populist flare and none of his self-defeating pathological neuroses. Peter Thiel's man in the White House. A new kind of neocon for an era of artificial intelligence and space colonization.
We're going to need a bigger coalition to crush this parasite, and we can't afford to be picky when it comes to recruiting fellow peasants with pitchforks and torches. So, I'll say it one more time with zero apologies, from the trailer park to the barrio, it's time to lose the partisan bullshit and tear this motherfucker down.
Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH
Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post
* No Teeth by Perfume Genius
* War Pigs by Black Sabbath
* White Minority by Black Flag
* Our Town by Iris DeMent
* Kerosene by Big Black
* Big City by Merle Haggard
* Hug of Thunder by Broken Social Scene
* Holiday Song by the Pixies
* Territorial Pissings by Nirvana
* Highway Patrolman by Dar Williams
* Ooh That Smell by Lynyrd Skynyrd
