In 2014, Google engineer Justine Tunney created what, at the time, seemed to be a bizarre petition on the official White House website. She called on then-President Barack Obama to step down, and for three specific things to take place:
- Retire all government employees with full pensions.
- Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry.
- Appoint [Google executive chairman] Eric Schmidt as CEO of America.
While it made news, nobody took it seriously, and it was covered largely as some sort of crazy person’s idea. However, fast forward 11 years to 2025, and that ‘bizarre’ petition has become reality:
1. Retire all goverment employees.
Trump, in concert with Elon Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficency’ (DOGE), is undertaking a mass firing of government employees.
2. Transfer administrative authority to the tech industry.
The tech billionaires were given front row seats at the inauguration, signaling their importance to the administration. Along with Musk’s insane amount of (illegal) power to hack apart government agencies, and ‘unofficial’ advisers like Marc Andreessen, a large number of tech leaders are being appointed to be major players in Trump’s administration.
3. Appoint [Google executive chairman] Eric Schmidt as CEO of America.
Okay, it’s not Eric Schmidt – but it’s one of the other tech CEOs. As many have noted, Elon Musk currently seems to be acting as the CEO (if not President) of the United States.
Was the 2014 petition some type of prophecy? Is it all just a massive coincidence?
It’s neither: it simply stated publicly a plan that major players in the tech industry have been working towards for over 15 years, after basically becoming cult members of the neoreactionary movement (NRx, also referred to as the ‘Dark Enlightenment’). I wrote about it at length, warning about this threat, before the election last year (see The Technocratic Conspiracy), but I realise it’s rather a long essay and many people don’t read that kind of thing anymore.
If the essay is too long for you, below is a shorter video that summarises much of what I wrote about.
But I also wanted to post this short article now, as a short summary – because a coup is literally underway in America, and hardly anybody seems to realise.
Justine Tunney’s “petition” is literally an NRx manifesto. Her suggestion to ‘Retire all government employees’ is a phrase invented by the thought leader behind NRx, Curtis Yarvin, who even has an acronym for it : RAGE. Yarvin is also the source for her suggestion to install a CEO as leader instead – he is of the belief that democracy is a failure, and that America should “get over its dictator-phobia” by moving to rule by CEO/monarchy.
Like Tunney, lots of people in the tech industry – including many of the billionaires – have bought into the NRx cult, which is basically: democracy needs to be killed, and the country should instead be run like a tech corporation, with a CEO. And the only people smart enough to do the job are tech people, who are – and I am not joking here – often consider themselves as equivalent to gods. They are remaking the world, creating magical things, and traveling to the stars. They believe they are the new gods, the true and only worthy rulers of the planet, and only they should decide how things are run – the rest of us should have no say in it.
As a prescient 2013 article on NRx at Techcrunch noted:
You can see that a certain set of ideas are spreading throughout the startup scene… It’s not hard to see why this ideology would catch-on with white male geeks. It tells them that they are the natural rulers of the world.
It’s why tech billionaire Peter Thiel, bemoaning the moment that women were given the right to vote, wrote in 2009 that he no longer believes “that freedom and democracy are compatible”. Thiel is a devotee of Curtis Yarvin and the ideas of NRx.
Another devotee of NRx and Curtis Yarvin is a protege of Thiel’s: current Vice President J.D. Vance. Thiel, who gave Vance his first job, invested in his first company, and financed Vance’s run for the Senate in 2022, obviously also passed on his NRx influence (a reminder also that Thiel’s former PayPal partners in David Sacks and Elon Musk were the ones who pushed Trump to name Vance as his VP pick). In 2021 in a podcast interview, Vance laid out exactly what is happening now in America, as his ‘suggestion’ for how Trump should start his second presidency – and he cited Curtis Yarvin as the influence for that suggestion.
Let me be clear: J.D. Vance actually said out loud, four years ago, that he (and his fellow NRx devotees) had a plan for taking over America, and that it was based on NRx teachings.
There’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who’s written about some of these things…
…we should just seize the administrative state for own purposes, we should fire all of the people…I think that what Trump should, do like if I was giving him one piece of advice: fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts – because you will get taken to court – and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say “the chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.”
What Vance is suggesting is literally a coup. This is not a conspiracy theory. As far back as Curtis Yarvin’s original writings and Justine Tunney’s petition, through to Vance more recently, NRx cult members have said exactly what the plan is to take over America, and how it will end: in a dictatorship. The NRx-cult aligned tech billionaires currently holding the levers of power in the United States are now enacting that plan, to the letter of what they said they would (and waiting in the wings are their more quiet co-conspirators in the religious right/Project 2025, who hold some of the same goals).
Seems kind of a big deal to me, how about you?