I wasn’t going to touch on the “change” in our government until we were further down the road and could accurately access it’s true nature. And as I generally write the blog on Sundays, record the podcast on Mondays, and post on Tuesdays, that means I’m writing this before the inauguration actually takes place anyway.

But I came across an interesting article by Tom Zaja in the Occidental Observer, called Occupy Mars-a-Lago, that so neatly summarized the current situation that I simply “had to go there”.

I recommend the article in full, of course, and the Occidental Observer generally, but what follows are the highlights I enjoyed. Like I said in a previous entry, “if something is said right the first time, why try to say it differently?” This article provides the “current state of affairs” overview I was looking for, a point of view I generally agree with, and touches on a number of the key issues we will likely be contending with in the near future.

I offer the following for your consideration, with a few edits and additions of my own:

Occupy Mars-a-Lago, by Tom Zaja

“In the dying embers of the Biden presidency, the laws of entropy seem to be channeling all of the energy toward the incoming administration. Trump has already promised a flurry of up to 100 executive orders on day 1, but some heat is still emanating from the not-so-friendly-fire between the two factions of the MAGA base. Trump ought to be careful with the pact he’s made with Musk — a Rocket Man whose leverage on him is much greater than that of the one in North Korea. The clash with the nationalist Bannon faction is but a flicker of things to come, and, together with the bevy of other perplexing appointments, reminds us that Trump is a chaos junky who prefers a schizoid soap opera in the White House to help guide his decision-making. Ann Coulter famously said that Trump sides with whoever’s opinion he heard last – which puts populist MAGA on the backfoot considering Musk and Vance have had his ear almost daily in the crucial formative weeks that will define the whole administration.

Musk has been residing in a plush cabin at Mar-a-Lago since early November, only briefly departing for Texas around Christmas before circling back to Orangia to plot his exploits in what Steve Bannon calls the “broligarchy.“ Bannon has had some choice words for “truly evil guy“ Musk, also castigating Vance, Thiel, Sacks and Ramaswamy as “technofeudal overlords.“ It all came to a boil thanks to the Silicon Valley clique’s fanatic insistence on the Hindu-1B visa, which replaces American workers, mostly with Indians, in an arrangement of indentured servitude that even Trump once excoriated.

Indian cultural supremacist Vivek Ramaswamy cited American sitcoms in his claim that there is a shortage of native tech workers, while the issue really touched a nerve with Musk, [sending him into] a fit of woke rage [against those critical of the H1B visa scheme, calling them] “hateful, unrepentant racists” to whom he declared: “I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend”…what bothers so many on the left and right with respect to the H-1B fracas: it’s obviously a greed-driven enterprise to maximize profits, being led by folks who are already fabulously wealthy.

For now, Trump has sided more with his cabinet than the base, but America First activists Nick Fuentes, Laura Loomer and Steve Bannon caused enough of a stink that the H-1B program is slated for reform. Bannon’s critique of the American financial elite, whom he likes to syllogize as “privatizing the profits and socializing the risks“ indicates that he remains a crucial voice in Trump’s orbit. Regrettably, even he recently stooped to the level of anti-racism credentializing with a ridiculous smear of Musk, Thiel and Sacks: “Why do we have the most racist people on Earth, white South Africans, making any comments at all on what goes on in the US?”…

Under the guise of wanting America to “win at everything,” Musk has developed an essentially neocon foreign policy, with some describing him as George Soros on amphetamines. He’s supported both the anti-Maduro coup in Venezuela and the US acquisition of Greenland — places that are conveniently abundant in minerals perfect for use in Tesla’s batteries…but it’s not all bad; the nationalist-populist parties of Europe are getting a big push, while in Canada he and Trump managed to send the rainbow socks and blackface of Justin Trudeau packing …

[Editorial Note: I’m sure we’ll be looking at this more in-depth at a later time, but for now it’s worth pointing out that current environmental laws in Greenland make it difficult to mine their natural resources. Consider what is needed for EV batteries, and know that Greenland’s mineral deposits include: graphite, copper, nickel, zinc, rare earths (used in permanent magnets), gold, diamonds, iron ore, titanium-vanadium, tungsten, and uranium. This all sounds great, who wouldn’t want Greenland?. But it would surely play-out as yet another example of taxpayer money being used to underwrite vast corporate profits.].

Renewed attention on Vivek Ramaswamy by embittered MAGA hardliners is also turning up some damning evidence on how he managed to accrue $960 million. Vivek bought a failed Alzheimer’s drug from GlaxoSmithKline, then employed his mother (psychiatry PhD) to perform unscientific post-hoc reinterpretation of results, after which he hawked the bogus efficacy with a media blitz all the while collaborating with former hedge fund colleagues who were in on the scam early.

It was a classic pump and dump— [sounding] a bit like Elon Musk’s conjugal habits— but is actually a common collusion scheme on Wall Street among high-IQ low-trust psychopaths. Instead of being imprisoned for securities fraud, he’s become a vivacious boardroom bed-hopper much like Vance… Vivek has been gaming the system in America quite literally from Day 1, being the beneficiary of birthright citizenship.

Nevertheless, he’s been welcomed into the Trump fold because he is valued foremost as a salesman with high energy and over-polished enunciation. In Trump world, wealth and success carry their own legitimacy and the overriding ethos is that money talks and bullshit stalks for another opportunity.

Joining Ramaswamy are Kash Patel, Sriram Krishnan, Jay Bhattacharya and Tulsi Gabbard — making Hindus the most overrepresented ethno-religious group in the Trump administration. They say variety is the spice of life, but thus far the whiff of curry must be overpowering. Some on the right may argue Indian over-representation is preferable to the Mayorkas and Blinken crowd who dominated Biden’s cabinet.

However what Trump lacks in Jews he’s replaced with Christian Zionists. Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, Doug Collins and JD Vance come to mind — even Assad-friendly Tulsi Gabbard avows standing with strongest ally—Israel. These last four have done tours in the Middle East; [while] Elon Musk has toured Auschwitz, so the pro-Palestine cause will not have much of a voice in the White House. The new Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is so infatuated with Zionist irredentism that he has traveled to Israel annually since the 1980s, toiling in settler vineyards during grape harvest. Even Vivek proclaimed Israel “a divine nation.“

Jared Kushner will not be part of the administration, although his close associate [Jew] Howard Lutnick will be there to conflict interests and confirm stereotypes as Secretary of the Department of Commerce…Trump is no doubt aware of the outsized Jewish influence when referring to the enemies of the people (media) or the traitors responsible for the border invasion and lawfare campaign against him (Mayorkas, Garland respectively). He’s also come to learn that he was unable to trust some of his longtime associates and inner circle (Kushner, Cohen, Netanyahu)…Nevertheless, Trump relishes the role of being a champion of the Israeli cause and is immensely proud of the embassy move to Jerusalem and officializing the Golan’s annexation. Either the ghost of [Jewish billionaire and largest donor] Sheldon Adelson haunts Trump from the non-existent Jewish afterlife or it’s his widow’s money that Trump can’t say no to.

Commentators like Steve Sailer and David Peyman believe Trump is the most Jewish president ever, on account of both style and policy. It’s certainly easy to see Trump’s expansionist streak as a sister ideology to Zionism: a belief in Eretz Yamerica. This is the inevitability of a lifetime fraternalizing and commercializing with Jews in New York and, increasingly, Southern Florida. The unofficial heartland of MAGA has attracted such subversives as Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin and even Yair Netanyahu [eldest son of Benjamin], whose sincerity cannot be expected to go much beyond Make America Goyische Again.

The real unknown of the second Trump term is how Project Ukraine will proceed. Early indications suggest that the [money] faucets would be shut off and Ukraine would be forced to negotiate without expecting any return of lost land. However, incoming National Security Advisor Waltz gave hope to the neocons that the war would continue: “We are hand in glove. We are one team with the United States in this transition.” Indeed, Trump’s saloon-style diplomacy and commitment to winning may necessitate such a continuity. In 2022, pundits were arguing that Putin needed to be provided an “off-ramp to end the war.“ Now they are scrambling to ensure there are as few off-cuts [as possible] from the Ukrainian rump state that remains.

Volodymyr Zelensky remains widely loathed and ridiculed, especially in Eastern Europe where he is the subject of several local jokes. The surname Zelensky is actually the Slavonic equivalent of Greenstein which, combined with his fondness for green muscle shirts, is said to offer camouflage for all of the money he’s taking.

In his former life, Zelensky was even a host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. The Ukrainian version offered a top prize of just $23,500, which was about what Hunter Biden was earning weekly. It’s now Zelensky who’s going to need a lifeline for his political career to last much longer…

Meanwhile in Europe, resolve is growing incredibly weary. Only Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron, imagining themselves to be Churchill and De Gaulle, continue to talk a tough game. Starmer’s 100-year pledge of loyalty is almost as delusional as believing his term will last much beyond the next 100 days. Macron’s humiliation was recently delivered with the debacle of the 153rd brigade that was trained in France and ran for the hills not long after being deployed in Ukraine. Some stereotypes die hard…

Nowadays in Europe, democratic elections are annulled when the public votes the wrong way, as seen in Romania’s presidential election where bogus claims of Russian interference were made. Former commissioner Thierry Breton even admitted as much: “We did it in Romania and we will obviously do it in Germany if necessary.” This raised the ire of many, including Elon Musk, who began heavily promoting AfD in the leadup to next month’s elections.

Musk interviewed AfD co-chairwoman Alice Weidel last week, and they found plenty of common ground (anti-woke, pro-Israel), however Weidel dropped the ball throughout with a few blonde moments. The first was that she claimed Adolf Hitler was a communist. Weidel should know better than to fudge standard terminologies, and ought to perhaps revisit pre-Nazi history and learn why, precisely a century ago, Germany was printing bank notes in the denomination of 5 trillion Rentenmarks. [The Rentenmark was introduced at a rate of one Rentenmark to equal one trillion old marks, with an exchange rate of one United States dollar to equal 4.2 Rentenmarks, or 4.2 trillion marks. That’s hyperinflation!]

When the topic of Germany’s energy crisis was broached, the usual talking points mentioned Merkel’s nuclear shut-down and wind energy flop, although the obvious elephant in the room was ignored: it’s been America’s foreign policy to thwart German access to cheap Russian gas. It was America who orchestrated the Ukraine conflict, ordered Nordstream destroyed and who is now supplying expensive LNG. Weidal did not even mention that she wants to restart Nordstream. [The largest supplier of LNG to Europe is the United States, and the largest exporter is Virginia based and privately owned Venture Global. Venture Global announced last month that they are planning to go public and offer an IPO this year, hoping to raise $3 Billion in capitalization. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. -Ed.] When Trump was in office, he continued the policy of resource racketeering and Musk will likely be fully on board as an American imperialist.

For all the cultural camaraderie that exists between America and Europe, the economic antagonism has remained a staple of the modern era…[yet] antagonizing Trump and Musk would be a foolish move for Europeans, given their relatively weak position and confused leadership. Both men have at times demonstrated the sort of calculated aggression and petty vindictiveness that can lead to double standards and complete policy U-turns. It’s worth remembering that Musk relocated an entire company — SpaceX — because a Latinx assemblywoman disrespected him. Musk couches everything that he does as a sort of noble principle of universal benefit to humanity: He’s pioneering super intelligent AI, so that it happens safely and is in the right hands. He’s developing brain implants, to help disabled people. He’s having 12 children with multiple women, because of a fertility crisis in some countries. He’s founding a Mars colony, as a safeguard against extinction. Saint Elon promised to be a free speech absolutist but has since introduced Talmudic qualifications like exempting pro-Palestine views, banning groypers and changing the algorithm to “reduce the visibility of negative content.“ When Musk says he is “aspirationally Jewish“ perhaps we should believe him…

As for Musk and Trump — who resemble a sort of Dr Strangelove and mercurial general — they may indeed inspire enough confidence post-Biden to tell the masses to Stop Worrying and Love AI. 2025 is the year that the sun will finally set on the British Empire. Perhaps the American Empire will pick up this torch and acquire some of the real estate that it has set its sights on. For now, we can only speculate that the closing minutes at the Endeavor Room of Mar-a-Lago went something like this: gain Greenland, maintain the greenback and offload the green shirts.”

We’ll look at the dozen billionaires in Trump’s proposed cabinet soon.

Amerika Erwache!

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And…we’ve got our first update:

“Boardroom bed hopper” SwarmySwamy is leaving DOGE.