Shadows of Technocratic Convergence
From Covid19 to Peter Thiel Becoming CEO Of America
If history is written by the victors, the footnotes are penned by the roast-masters. Pull up a chair, kids—Uncle Chris is here to read tonight’s dystopian bedtime story, now with 30% more sarcasm and zero added sugar or dyes thanks to Bobby Kennedy.
1 Silicon Valley’s Invisible Handlers
The bedtime myth: bright-eyed dorks in garages bled Mountain Dew onto motherboards until destiny booted up. The director’s cut: Langley interns playing C-Suite fairy godmother. In 1999 the CIA birthed In-Q-Tel, basically Shark Tank with subpoenas. Five years in, their portfolio already read like a Bond villain’s Home Shopping Network: Keyhole (later Google Earth), Palantir (data necromancy for spooks), Recorded Future (fortune-telling for geeks), Dataminr ( real-time narrative stock ticker), and Wickr (the SnapChat for people who redact their grocery lists).
Money isn’t neutral; it’s a mood ring for power. If the same checkbook is funding your kid’s Pokémon-Go map and battlefield coordinates for a drone strike, congrats: you’re starring in a mash-up of Silicon Valley and Zero Dark Thirty. By Facebook’s 2004 launch, PayPal escapee Peter Thiel was already sprinkling cash like cyber-Tinkerbell—because nothing says “social networking” like monetizing state espionage.
Key takeaway: The apps cuddling in your pocket aren’t “disruptive innovation;” they’re off-the-books R&D for folks who treat the Bill of Rights like Terms & Conditions.
2 Event 201 — Dry Run or Dress Rehearsal?
October 18 2019, New York City: Johns Hopkins throws a pandemic theme party with the Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum. Drinks served? PowerPoints titled “How to Herd Seven Billion Cats.” They rehearsed everything from information embargoes to supply-chain triage. Six weeks later—boom—Wuhan sneezes on the world. Governments cut-and-paste the Event 201 script faster than a college kid plagiarizing Wikipedia.
Conspiracy? Coincidence? Who can say. BuzzFeed called skeptics “tin-foil toddlers.” History will decide who bought the foil and who invoiced the Pentagon for it.
3 The Fauci Doctrine: Deny, Deflect, Double-Down
Enter Dr. Anthony Fauci, still rocking the same job he landed when cassette tapes were a thing. Congress asks, “Did U.S. funds help juice up bat viruses in Wuhan?” Fauci responds with semantic jiu-jitsu that would make Bill Clinton blush. FOIA dumps later show NIH cash funneled through EcoHealth Alliance for chimeric virus bingo.
“Gain-of-function”? Never heard of her. Emails between Fauci and Jeremy Farrar reveal they hit the “Oh crap” button on a potential lab leak, then raced to circle-the-wagons faster than a NASCAR pit crew. Voilà—Nature Medicine letter insisting “natural origin most likely.” Translation: “Nothing to see here, move along, peasants.”
Pattern alert: Fund risky science → Oopsie pandemic → Manage narrative → Renew grant. Wash, rinse, hide receipts.
4 Vanishing Witnesses: Epstein & Mullis
Summer 2019 brought us a two-for-one special on suspicious deaths:
Jeffrey Epstein—the hedge-fund Hobbit with the Rolodex of doom—allegedly self-deleted in a cell where cameras took a smoke break. Convenient when you need a bunch of scientific elites and celebrities with questionable private lives to push a narrative. Remember the video in 2020 with Tom Hanks looking like a hostage at a military base? I do!
Kary Mullis, PCR inventor and bureaucracy heckler, exits stage left ten days before Wuhan files its first mysterious-pneumonia report. Mullis had spent years yelling, “PCR doesn’t diagnose disease, you clowns!”—which made his absence during the coming PCR mania super convenient.
Nothing to see here, folks. Just another Tuesday in the cosmic sitcom.
5 EVALI, Baric, and the Fog of Vapes
Remember the 2019 “vape-ocalypse”? Media blamed sketchy THC carts for ground-glass lungs. Funny how those CT scans looked like early COVID-19 cases—but hey, correlation is for conspiracy theorists, right? Conveniently, many cases popped up near UNC-Chapel Hill, playground of coronavirus Franken-doctor Ralph Baric. CDC later re-categorized some deaths once the “new” virus got its passport stamped. It’s like retconning your own origin story, Marvel-style.
6 Psy-Ops: Drown the Signal, Flood the Circus
When “lab leak” wouldn’t die, cue the clown car: 5G death rays, magnetic arms, reptilian cabals. Disinfo isn’t about convincing you—it’s about turning the info-sphere into Times Square on New Year’s Eve so you can’t find your own shoes.
Bots sprayed nonsense; fact-checkers swatted shadows. By the end, Joe Public was so dizzy he’d beg Siri for a bedtime story. You don’t have to uproot the truth; you just have to plant enough weeds to choke it out.
7 Algorithms with Badges
Think Twitter is Thunderdome? Spoiler: DHS and FBI were backstage holding the kill-switch. 2020 Slack channels had feds flagging tweets faster than you could type “H—” in “hydroxychloroquine.” Facebook throttled myocarditis talk months before CDC said, “Yeah, maybe hearts do go boom sometimes.” YouTube demonetized docs discussing bargain-bin therapeutics, and WhatsApp kneecapped message forwarding worldwide—because “protect the narrative” is the new “think of the children.” Meanwhile how many kids just dropped dead not long after the jabs? We will never know because who has the technology to keep accurate records?! But they have the technology to implement dystopian pre-crime AI.
8 Algorithmic Eugenics in Practice
Picture old-school eugenics—now replace humans with ideas. The algorithm breeds what the owners like, culls what they don’t, then memory-holes yesterday’s truth without sending flowers. Library burned? Nope, just an updated Terms of Service.
9 Thiel’s Shadow Cabinet: The Billionaire CEO of Empire
While pandemics rewired law like cheap Christmas lights, Peter Thiel assembled a proxy squad that makes the Avengers look understaffed:
Government footholds: J.D. Vance in the Senate (now VP), Blake Masters almost, Michael Kratsios as U.S. CTO. It’s like drafting your own referees.
Platform power: Palantir runs ICE deportations and CDC dashboards—talk about vertical integration. Then there’s Rumble, Facebook equity, Locals… basically Thiel bought every megaphone at the pawn shop.
Podcast posse: All-In (Thiel’s personal wine-and-whine club), Eric Weinstein’s Portal, Lex Fridman’s four-hour hug-casts, Joe Rogan’s Rumble flirtation, Breaking Points, Glenn Greenwald, Russell Brand, Bongino, Rubin, Tim Pool, Triggernometry, Red Scare, Claremont’s American Mind, Bari Weiss—all connected by one dude’s checkbook. Your autoplay queue is basically a Founders Fund infomercial.
Result: a private citizen who can surveil, legislate, propagandize, and invoice the Treasury—without ever shaking a single baby on the campaign trail.
10 Financial Tailwinds: Who Profits?
Pandemic wrecked restaurants, but it minted TechTok billionaires like Wonka bars. From March 2020 to December 2021, moguls added $1.6 trillion to the piggy bank. Vaccine makers printed money. Palantir’s gov-contracts tripled. In-Q-Tel expanded into mRNA gadgets. Remember: when your misfortune becomes someone else’s dividend, that’s not bad luck—it’s product-market fit.
11 Pardons, Waivers, Retroactive Immunity
By 2022 DC whisper-mills claimed planners were shopping for legal invisibility cloaks. PREP Act already shields Big Pharma like it’s in witness protection: three payouts for COVID-jab injuries as of mid-2025, because apparently everyone else just “walk it off, champ.”
12 Convergence Loop: Crisis-Manufacturing 101
Spawn data-hungry platforms (thanks, In-Q-Tel).
Hoard user exhaust like dragon gold.
Run predictive horror simulations (Event 201).
Fund labs tweaking pathogens to “save us.”
Oops—crisis!
Lock narrative via algorithmic cattle prods.
Enact emergency laws, print money, grant immunity.
Profit, high-five, repeat.
Every loop, Thiel & Friends are already at the tollbooth counting coins.
13 Taming the Hydra: Transparency or Bust
FOIA-with-teeth for any outfit suckling intel dollars.
Real-time moderation logs for behemoth platforms (100 M+ users—sorry, Truth Social, you’re safe).
Independent pathogen-risk tribunals—no NIH alumni allowed to grade their own homework.
Emergency powers die after 30 days unless Congress hits “renew” like Netflix.
Liability boomerang: open courts, let insurers sweat.
Donor-Contract dashboards: follow the PAC money, break out popcorn.
Not silver bullets—more like sunlight grenades. But vampires hate UV, so let’s party.
14 Closing Arguments
Risk built civilization; secrecy hollows it out. Right now, experimental virology is outsourced to cheapest-bidder labs. Algorithms lynch whistle-blowers. Crisis becomes the “open bar” for profiteers. If you hand the same gang the panic button and the cash register, don’t be shocked when they smash both.
Freedom requires adults who laugh—loudly—when every coincidence conveniently fattens the same wallet. Because a public ruled by fear isn’t a democracy; it’s a subscription service.
15 Interwoven Architecture — Why None of This Is Accidental
Spy-funded startups feed Palantir. Palantir’s exhaust trains crisis sims. Sims justify bio-labs. Labs birth emergencies. Emergencies green-light algorithms that throttle dissent. Algorithms shepherd policy that fattens the investors who funded the spy-startups. And sitting at every junction is Peter Thiel, Monopoly Man cosplay complete with data top-hat and regulatory cane.
It’s not a conspiracy; it’s vertical integration. The robber-baron railroad game, rebooted for data and DNA. Miss one domino and you’ll swear it’s random. See them all, and the picture spells: “Quarterly Growth Via Chaos-as-a-Service.”
Footnotes
Washington Post, “In-Q-Tel’s Quiet Rise,” 7 Sept 2005.
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Event 201 Highlights Reel, Nov 2019.
Fauci-Farrar Emails, FOIA release, 5 June 2021, pp. 23-27.
FEC filings, Protect Ohio Values PAC & Saving Arizona PAC, 2021-22.
SEC Form D, Rumble Inc. private placement, Aug 2023; TechCrunch, “Thiel Backs Alt-Video Platform,” 1 Sept 2023.
Institute for Policy Studies, “Billionaire Bonanza 2021,” Jan 2022.
Remember, kids: If the same billionaire shows up in every citation, maybe he’s not a side character—maybe he’s the director.