Trump vs Musk: The Palantir Presidency?
President Trump is deepening his alliance with Palantir, the surveillance tech giant with ties to Israel and the CIA, just as he threatens to cancel Elon Musk’s contracts over their recent fallout around the spending bill.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars,” Trump posted on Truth Social, “is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.”
Palantir is building a sweeping AI-driven database of U.S. citizens, integrating government-held data on everything from political activity to firearms ownership. Even within the Trump-aligned America First movement, this direction is raising alarm.
Nick Fuentes, an influential hardline America First commentator, wrote:
“Feeding every ‘MAGA extremist’ into an AI database controlled by a CIA/Mossad cutout… Seriously, if Palantir isn’t the deep state, then what is?”
A deeper shift is underway: Trump is increasingly siding with Peter Thiel’s surveillance empire—and turning on Musk and the libertarian-leaning tech wing of MAGA.
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Sources:
['Trump Flipped On Us': MAGA Reacts to Potential National Citizen Database](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-palantir-maga-database-surveillance-2079905)
[Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American](https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-taps-palantir-create-master-142225807.html)
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Plebbit can fix this. After the message boards clients are done, I we should focus on a plebbit client for fundraising using crypto, with a UI similar to Patreon, GoFundMe, GiveSendGo, etc.
The difference between general-purpose message boards like reddit and 4chan, and crowdfunding sites, is that the UX in the latter is entirely focused on maximizing visibility of each fundraise relative to its perceived value and/or established connections. The goal is to enable fundraisers to raise as much money as possible in the shortest time possible. That is why content discovery and onboarding ease is so crucial for these sites, which are designed specifically for this.
A plebbit client for fundraising would use its own default list of “subs” which are actually fundraisers, with all the necessary fundraiser info set as required values in the subplebbit, and it would still be interoperable with other plebbit clients, but every sub/fundraise would probably be token-gated (ie only who has donated can comment).
We’ll probably explore different designs for it, it will be very interesting to see how it all plays out.