Chapter 1: What alarming trends are tech billionaires using to influence politics?
Today, I'm joined by journalist Taylor Lorenz Taylor. There is some really disturbing story reporting coming out of the paper formerly known as The Washington Post. Kylie, pop this up. Exclusive pro-Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order alleging Chinese interference.
in the 2020 election proposing a national emergency to surprise, surprise, expand presidential power over voting, like banning mail ballots and voting machines. And then there's another headline here that JB Pritzker popped up. Trump seeking executive power over elections is urged to declare emergency.
Activists say they are in coordination with the White House, are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. It's been a while since I have had my civics class, Taylor, but it's my understanding that the Constitution exclusively says that voting is up to the states.
yeah absolutely i think this is just i mean it's wild because they're just doing it all out so in the open now and it's also just revealing like it's really mad libs with them it's like china voting you know you know what i mean when has china interfered directly in our voting system this was not even an allegation that they were trying to make until recently it's just absurd
i also think you have the uh nicholas maduro who donald trump uh the government got and now they want him to say that 2020 was meddled with and i guarantee you the fix is in he's going to give nicholas maduro a pardon and so like you said they telegraph exactly what they're going to do especially loose lips dementia ridden kinks he's always giving, showing his hands, right?
So the people that fund him, when we look at these oligarchs, Jeff Bezos is $45 million richer. Then you get to Elon Musk, billions of billions of billions of dollars richer. And then you get to Palantir. You have that coke head, Alex Karp, who's just a complete psychopath. And then Peter Thiel. And these people in this company are really diabolical.
And this is where your reporting really takes over. So please enlighten my viewers and listeners as to how dangerous companies like Palantir are and their surveillance plans for private citizens.
Yeah, well, I think a lot of people are familiar with Palantir now and the massive data harvesting, the way that they are completely intertwined as well with like weapons manufacturing, et cetera. But Peter Thiel's goal has always been a lot bigger than just Palantir. I think Palantir is a company that everybody knows, but I think
As Palantir expands its surveillance net, we also have to look at some of the other companies that Peter Thiel is funding. For instance, this company, Persona, which has suddenly become overnight one of the primary identity age verification tools that major social platforms and gaming platforms like Discord and Roblox are using now to verify identity. This is also a Peter Thiel company.
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Chapter 2: How are companies like Palantir involved in surveillance and data harvesting?
the Mark Zuckerbergs and all of the unhinged, insatiable billionaires mining their information forever and defining maybe a six month. I mean, you know, I've been down a bender on something before and I'm like, I'm so into this online. And then you're like, God, that was stupid. I can't believe I spent my time on that. Well, teenagers, that's that's a part of growing and knowing.
OK, let's move on to the Democrats. For me, Taylor, there are two different types of Democrats right now. There are the Democrats that I was back 15, 16 months ago where I was a good MSNBC Democrat and I had a steady diet of corporate media. And then there is the Democrat that I am now that I see the complete difference and I see the error of my ways
And not branching out more to independent media, not understanding how a person like Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer are compromised because they take money from Palantir and they take money from AIPAC. So there are some good Democrats who are fighting the good fight against corporations. But I think what you want to talk about right now are the corporate Dems.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, I want the Democrats to be better. Like, I hate when people say, oh, you hate on the Democrats all the time. Listen, no one is equating them to what the fascists in the White House are doing or whatever. But these Democrats, such as Gavin Newsom,
especially and i say that because he just has been pushing a lot of this reactionary stuff he said that you know his he saw his his daughter you know on her phone too much during her birthday party and so that means that we need to remove anonymity from the internet and roll out widespread age verification this is what i'm talking about you're buying into the heritage foundation's plans hook line and sinker um we need to fight back against that so there's you know there's people in the senate um and the house that i think we need to call out the co-sponsors of the kids online safety act
know how it sounds it's not what it does guys this is a bad and dangerous law that is not going to protect children online um but you know and we have people yeah lawmakers warner blumenthal i don't want to name them all but uh but these are people as you mentioned uh hakeem jeffries it's the establishment dems that are going along with this and it's really really regressive and dangerous and it's ultimately pro big tech that's what's frustrating this is just a really important microcosm of what's happening in a lot of places right now
So you have something that is labeled as we're going to keep kids safe. But really, it's a gift to the tech oligarchs to create a digital profile of your child that will make them inherently more addicted to all of the things they shouldn't be addicted to. And then you have APAC, which now is no longer donating under that moniker.
Hakeem Jeffries is receiving money through other names and then disseminating it. You have just the Republicans in general. We're the pro-family party. Shut the fuck up.
up y'all are so anti-family you're a party full of deadbeat dads with all these baby mamas and all this going on elon musk god knows how many petri dish babies he has by the way elon musk endorser of the kids online safety act that's all you need to know like
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Chapter 3: What are the dangers of age verification for children's online safety?
So if you see headlines, so and so is protecting children online. I promise you they are not. That is not what these laws are about.
We'll have you back on. We're going to keep monitoring this because I think that this is really important. This is the stuff they're trying to embed that goes under the radar that then 30 years from now is this huge problem like cigarettes. Originally, nobody thought they were a big deal and then it ends up being a really horrible deal. Okay, Taylor, thank you so much.
Thanks for having me.