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  1. I ponder if historians in a future era will look back at the Trump Era as the Last Of The Good Old Days. For America at least.
    He is not the cause but definitely a symptom.

  2. Doesn’t matter how much money power fame these guys get, they still end up miserable cunts.

  3. It’s not Trump I’m worried about it’s Elon Musk.
    Musk is building a dominion no human has ever held before.
    He is building something for which history has no precise comparison.
    A single man’s control over the physical infrastructure of Earth, the information layer that runs on top of it, and now the political apparatus of the world’s most powerful nation.The phrase “Master of the Universe” has always been hyperbole. In Musk’s case, it may be turning into a job description.
    THE BLUEPRINT HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHTOn 20 May 2026, SpaceX filed a prospectus with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. It may become the largest IPO in history, targeting a valuation of US$1.75 trillion — approaching US$2 trillion in some estimates. That alone is extraordinary. SpaceX generated US$18.67 billion in revenue in 2025, placing the offering at roughly 109 to 116 times trailing revenue. Apple, for context, trades at around eight times revenue. To justify its valuation on conventional financial metrics, SpaceX would need to generate something approaching US$300 billion in annual revenue within a decade — a sum comparable to New Zealand’s entire GDP, produced by a single company under the control of a single man.But the numbers, astonishing as they are, are not the point. What matters is what the prospectus actually describes.Unlike every other IPO document ever filed, this one opens with a declaration that reads less like a financial disclosure and more like a manifesto. It states plainly: “We do not want humans to have the same fate as dinosaurs.” The corporate mission is to “extend the light of consciousness to the stars.” The prospectus promises investors “an age of abundance with an endlessly prosperous and exciting future” and formally commits to propelling humanity to “Kardashev Type II status” — a civilisational classification developed in 1964 by Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev for measuring how much energy an advanced civilisation can harness from its surrounding universe. A Type II civilisation has mastered the energy output of an entire star.No one has ever filed a legal document quite like this with the SEC. One commentator described it as reading “part financial disclosure, part science fiction.” It is also a blueprint — and that blueprint reveals a profound evolution in how global power is engineered.THE GEOPOLITICAL CHOKEPOINT: THE LESSON OF UKRAINEWe have already witnessed the proof of this paradigm shift. In the theater of Eastern Europe, the traditional state monopoly on warfare fractured. When Russia severed Ukraine’s legacy communications infrastructure, it was neither the Pentagon nor NATO that restored the digital nervous system of the defending army—it was Starlink.Almost overnight, a private commercial satellite network became the foundational infrastructure of a high-intensity state conflict. Artillery coordinates, drone feeds, and frontline commands routed exclusively through Musk’s architecture.This operational dependence granted unprecedented, non-state leverage. The world watched as a private citizen arbitrated geopolitical boundaries in real-time. By selectively denying Starlink access near the Crimean coast, Musk unilaterally halted Ukrainian maritime drone offensives against the Russian fleet. He required neither a military uniform nor a democratic mandate; he simply adjusted a line of code in a private corporate network. It demonstrated a chilling new reality: a non-state actor no longer needs to construct traditional weapons to dictate tactical outcomes. They merely need to control the digital baseline upon which modern states depend.THE KINETIC SHADOW: WEAPONIZATION THROUGH PURE MASSYet, the true strategic hazard of this empire lies not in software blockades, but in the unyielding laws of orbital physics.Because SpaceX commands 80% of Earth’s orbital mass, its expanding fleet introduces the latent potential of Kinetic Force via Mass. A 100-metric-ton vehicle like Starship is designed for peaceful logistics, but traveling at orbital velocities of 27,000 kilometers per hour, it carries immense destructive energy. At those speeds, an intentional impact bypasses the need for conventional explosives; the solid hull flash-vaporizes upon impact, striking with the concentrated force of a tactical nuclear weapon—entirely free of radioactive fallout.This is the commercial manifestation of the Cold War’s theoretical “Rods from God” concept. By scaling orbital mechanics into a mass-production industry, a private entity inadvertently circumvents international treaties against weapons of mass destruction.The launch vehicles themselves become the projectiles. The satellites become the interceptors. The capability to adjust an orbital trajectory via software and precision-guide a heavy megastructure into a terrestrial or space-based target means that a peaceful logistics empire is, by its very architecture, a dual-use weapon system.No one has ever filed a legal document quite like this with the SEC. One commentator described it as reading “part financial disclosure, part science fiction.” But it is also a blueprint — and that blueprint reveals something that should command the attention of every sovereign nation: a lone individual who commands the physical chokepoints of global survival, holding the latent power to blind armies, isolate continents, or alter the kinetic balance of the planet at whim.

  4. That our NZ govt has chosen to follow lunatic, fascist Trump, on so many matters, is political suicide. We should politely be distancing ourselves so we don’t become embroiled in the ‘self-inflicted’ issues Trump is now unable to solve. The problem here is Trump and Luxon share many similar personality traits, so the sensible, ‘in-touch’ folk need to put a handbrake on Luxon and insist he become a ‘watcher’ and not a main ‘actor’. But can his ego cope with that? Sure hope so!