#HowardLutnick is claiming he has sold 1,000 permanent US residence permits for $5 million each (Trump's "Gold Cards") to the world's wealthiest kleptocrats, oligarchs, and crypto bros.
note that these people will be able to live in the US but (unlike US citizens) will not have to pay taxes on their foreign income.
you should expect america's billionaires to start "emigrating" to other countries and "coming back" as Gold Card holders for tax reasons.
It would also bring into sharp relief the questions about #Musk’s #ConflictsOfInterest as he ranges widely across the federal bureaucracy while continuing to run businesses that are major government contractors. In this case, Musk, the #billionaire chief executive of both #SpaceX & #Tesla, is a leading supplier to the #Pentagon & has EXTENSIVE FINANCIAL INTERESTS IN #CHINA.
"I think, if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy #Tesla," US #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick said on FauxNews Wed evening. "It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again."
"I mean, who wouldn't invest in #ElonMusk? You gotta be kidding me."
Following #Trump’s shameful #Tesla advert on the WH lawn last week, US #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in #ElonMusk's company.
Cabinet secretaries *don't typically* [NEVER] recommend individual stocks, much less those linked to the president's closest adviser.
#kleptocracy #oligarchy #broligarchy
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick
I'm a little behind on reading @interfluidity and I just bumped into this remarkable prose.
Yes, this is what it's about, the #broligarchy and the #christofacists be damned.
https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/04/the-coveted-interfluidity-endorsement/index.html
The man behind #DOGE's "#AI-first" strategy, the 28 year-old ex-#Tesla engineer #ThomasShedd, has quietly—& possibly illegally—become the head of technology for the Department of #Labor.
- Brian Merchant
@brianmerchant
#law #Trump #Musk #technocracy #USpol #government #regulation #broligarchy #plutocracy #NeoReactionary #NRx #Technofeudalism
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/doges-ai-first-strategist-is-now
I agree with Maya Sen who said, “The fact that the world’s richest man works at the behest of the executive & can buy out the #legislature is massively outside the scope of what the framers could have imagined. there’s is simply no constitutional measure that can guard against something like this.”
#Musk Donates to #GOP Members of #Congress Who Support Impeaching #Judges
Amid a controversy over whether #Trump will abide by court rulings, #ElonMusk gave the maximum to the campaigns of #Republicans who back ousting judges who impede the administration.
#law #judiciary #ConstitutionalCrisis #SeparationOfPowers #broligarchy #plutocracy #oligarchy #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/musk-donations-congress-judges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=29AF8158-73AC-450D-83DA-4EC2BA1F079B
But #Jan6 was a peaceful protest?
#Trump’s Attorney General #PamBondi on Tuesday labeled a recent spate of attacks on #Tesla dealerships across the country as acts of “#DomesticTerrorism” directed at #ElonMusk, as Trump allies have pressured the #DOJ to take aggressive action.
#law #USpol #broligarchy #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/us/politics/tesla-vandalism-domestic-terrorism.html?smid=url-share
#Trump #FTC Removes Posts Critical of #Amazon, #Microsoft, & #AI Companies
Business-guidance content published during the #Biden admin has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
The Trump admin’s FTC removed 4yrs worth of business guidance blogs as of Tues morning, including important #ConsumerProtection info related to AI & the agency’s landmark #privacy lawsuits under fmr chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon & Microsoft.
#law #broligarchy
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-trade-commission-removed-blogs-critical-of-ai-amazon-microsoft/
…The WH is the latest govt property on which #Starlink now operates.
In recent weeks, Starlink was also set up at the #GSA, which has served as a hub for #Musk’s government-shrinking efforts…
While several #FederalAgencies contract w/Starlink, the satellite service is typically used to provide internet access in emergency situations & to remote locations — not at federal buildings in DC, which already have ample internet options.
#ElonMusk’s #Starlink Expands Across #WhiteHouse Complex
Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by #Musk’s #SpaceX, is now accessible across the White House campus. It is the latest installation of the Wi-Fi network across the govt since Musk joined the #Trump administration as an *unpaid* [if you don’t count all the extra contracts he’s gotten] adviser.
#law #USpol #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #technocracy #broligarchy #kleptocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/elon-musk-starlink-white-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=08504AF5-44B4-4B40-977F-61893CA9733D
"It's not the sort of old empire style of 20th century dictatorship. It is transnational organized crime mixed with technology."
~ Sarah Kendzior
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #Europe #NATO #Putin #power #broligarchy #crime
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-broligarchy-conquered-america
Analysis: A new Military-Industrial Complex of the broligarchs?
JD Vance & Musk could push Trump - &, most importantly, Pentagon contracts - toward a new MIC - Peter Thiel's Palantir, Anduril, & related companies.
Eg, "Vance’s private venture fund.. has invested in Anduril & other military/space ventures."
The old MIC - Lockheed, RTX, Northrop, et al - ain't used to such competition.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/11/a-new-military-industrial-complex-arises/
#MIC #Trump #Thiel #Musk #JDVance #USPol #ForeverWars #Broligarchy .
Analysis: A new Military-Industrial Complex of the broligarchs?
JD Vance & Musk could push Trump - &, most importantly, Pentagon contracts - toward a new MIC - Peter Thiel's Palantir, Anduril, & related companies.
Eg, "Vance’s private venture fund.. has invested in Anduril & other military/space ventures."
The old MIC - Lockheed, RTX, Northrop, et al - ain't used to such competition.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/11/a-new-military-industrial-complex-arises/
#MIC #Trump #Thiel #Musk #JDVance #USPol #ForeverWars #Broligarchy .
“Musk and his team of tech bros at the Department of Government Efficiency are not actually promoting efficiency… Rather than looking for efficiency, they are simply working to zero out the government that works for ordinary people, turning it instead to enabling them to consolidate wealth and power.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025
#trump #musk #oligarchy #broligarchy #techbros #doge #usa
As part of the #clemency effort, #SBF’s parents Mr. Bankman & Ms. Fried, who are #Stanford University #law professors & longtime active #Democrats [shame], are consulting w/Kory Langhofer, an AZ atty who worked for #Trump’s 2016 & 2020 presidential campaigns. Politically connected businesspeople & DC lobbyists have also received outreach from intermediaries who claim to be allies of #SamBankmanFried….
…The push appears intended to capitalize on #Trump’s #transactional approach to #clemency. Trump favors #pardon seekers w/connections to him—either personally or through lawyers & lobbyists—& claims of *prosecutorial misconduct* [perceived persecution] that echo his own #grievances about the cases against him.
Consulting with a lawyer who has ties to #Trump. Reaching out to Washington #lobbyists. And sitting for a jailhouse interview with #TuckerCarlson.
#SamBankmanFried, the disgraced #cryptocurrency mogul who was once a top #Democratic donor, has embarked on a campaign to secure a #pardon from Trump, 6 people with knowledge of the matter said.
#criminal #law #felon47 #SBF #SEC #fraud #MoneyLaundering #broligarchy #cryptobros #technocracy #CryptoSummit #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/technology/sam-bankman-fried-pardon-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=192A242F-DC90-4B09-B637-04864D8EE473
