How America & Other Countries Are Using the Dark Side Playbook
“[T]here’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.”–Peter Thiel, Palantir.
““I don’t want to dismiss ethical concerns here, but I worry that ‘conflict of interest’ gets overly weaponized in our politics. I think in many cases, when there’s a conflict of interest, it’s an indication that someone understands something way better than if there’s no conflict of interest. If there’s no conflict of interest, it’s often because you’re just not interested.”–Peter Thiel
“I no longer believe freedom and democracy are possible.” –Peter Thiel.
“Torture is the celebration of human life.” –Steven Miller, White House Chief of Staff
Refers to Trump as a “Stable, Genius”. –Steven Miller
“Everything that is wrong with this country, those who are opposed to Donald Trump are responsible for.”–Steven Miller
““This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,”–Steven Miller re: writing for Trump’s inaugural speech about immigration.
“I was saved by God to make America great again”–Trump
“This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED”–Trump.
“You’ve got to deny, deny, deny and push back on these women. If you admit to anything and any culpability, then you’re dead. … You’ve got to be strong. You’ve got to be aggressive. You’ve got to push back hard. You’ve got to deny anything that’s said about you. Never admit.”–Trump.
We are at an interesting point, I must admit, where we find ourselves in this battle for our democracy. We are 7 months into the GOP’s collective control of almost the entirety of government. Somehow, at this point, they have lost a grip on their MAGA base and a key foundational conspiracy theory that got them here–that the “Deep State” was run by Democrats, and part of their dirty laundry list would be shown in the Epstein Files. However, since a large majority of us know Trump is all over that evidence and is the one going back on his promise to release anything of substance in the Epstein Files, he is losing the MAGA base, and they are having their first crisis of “faith”. He is desperately flinging out call cattle trigger words, comparing this to “liberal” generated hoaxes that MAGA rallied behind him in the past. So far, it isn’t working…until it does.
I was sitting back thinking about in all our insatiable appetite for entertainment over the years, if we got too bored on how good things were and let things slip like our democracy and education, while wishing things were like in the movies—where we had an enemy to face, went on an adventure, and felt the reward from it. Whether we wished that upon ourselves or not, here we are. A set of rather dark figures with not good intentions, emotional intelligence, healthy backgrounds, or mental stability have gotten themselves into a wide range of positions of power. Our country is in grave danger not from without, but from within. If we don’t overcome, we will lose.
In the Star Wars films, there is a “Sith Lord” behind the scenes who is the mentor and brains of Darth Vader. The Sith Lord was a Senator in the Star Wars franchise. He rose to the level of Emperor Palpatine under the guise of the need of the empire. Being a power player, he gets himself elected during a volatile time in the empire, and wins many over. Then he sneaks in total immunity as a manufactured war he was part of helping to create rises, so he can have full control over everything, “only temporary’ (you know, dictator for a day?). Sound familiar? People come around him, and certain trade federations are on board, even with the secret schemes, too.
Well, if you watched Star Wars, you know what happens next. This Sith Lord recruits a warrior who later becomes Darth Vader, who wipes out the Jedi Council with the help of the Clone Army. In response, a rebel force builds, and there you have the beginning of Star Wars.
There is something quite sinister brewing behind the scenes of what we see on the surface in America too, which ,only now people are talking about it. First, let’s look a Sith Lord, sort of speak, of Peter Thiel and Palantir. Palantir has won major contracts with DHS and ICE, including ImmigrationOS and large-scale surveillance infrastructure, formed by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative headed by Musk.
CEO Alex Karp has publicly declared his support for Musk’s DOGE effort, calling Musk “the most important builder” and describing the overhaul as a beneficial “revolution” for both government and Palantir.
Critics—including former Palantir engineers and legal advocates—have warned that combining data across agencies (DHS, IRS, HHS, Social Security, etc.) could enable invasive surveillance, political targeting, and erosion of democratic norms. Similar tools have been used in immigration enforcement and predictive policing—raising fears of bias and misuse against marginalized communities.
Executives close to Palantir—Shyam Sankar, Andrew Bosworth—have taken simultaneous roles in the U.S. Army Reserve while overseeing contracts with their own companies, sparking conflict‑of‑interest concerns. Watchdog groups warn this consolidation gives rise to a merged tech-military-government complex, potentially shifting oversight to private hands. Protests against Palantir itself are also forming in several states.
Peter Thiel has publicly admitted that with their program combined with AI, in 10 to 20 years, 40% of the labor force could find itself without work, but he, nor corporate executives eagerly pushing for the unrestrictive use of AI in their companies, have no plans for what to do with all these displaced workers. Moral obligations are out the window, and that needs to be brought heavily on these executives. However, it is dangerous when you have people like Thiel who see people as expendable unless they are useful. This is what we get with unchecked power among the elite.
Stephen Miller is another version of a Sith Lord. He has long been seen as the brains behind most of what Trump is doing. A lot of draconian, racist, cruel things. You could really see him as Emperor Palpatine and Trump as a Darth Vader, carrying out directives.
However, there is even something more sinister here if we really open the curtain because there is something that Project 2025 founders who are tied to and/or in support of people like Steven Miller, JD Vance, Peter Thiel, and the like have in common. They are white, Christian nationalists who are out to shape this nation into that apocalyptic vision in much the same way Zionists are trying to do that now with Israel.
Netanyahu and Trump have one thing in common, and that is they both needed a zealous if not delusional, base of voters to get them and keep them in office, so they wouldn’t face jail time and lose everything. For Netanyahu, that was the Zionists. For Trump, that was White Christian Nationalists and MAGA. It was a dark side win-win. But make no mistake about it, they both have an ethnic, cultural cleansing agenda. Much like the Sith Lords in Star Wars, they get their power and bills passed by scapegoating a common hated or feared class of people/enemy. Ironically, even in Star Wars, the Sith Lord uses Trumpian terms like “Law and Order” for what they are doing, but it is the exact opposite because they bypass law and obstruct the law, and suppress those who try to expose them for it. But what happens when one party and one man are given all the power? What happens when mass concentration camps like prisons are built, and now due process is gone?
It’s not about immigration reform. It’s about power and control. Once that is done, these weapons will be used on others seen as threats to the white Christian nation. The Zionist stronghold in Israel has already proven itself cruel and deadly to the Palestinians in Gaza and the war effort in Iran. Many Israeli’s note that Zionists want to see the return of their Messiah, so they believe they are helping usher that in by fulfilling prophecy by ridding Gaza of the Palestinians, triggering this war with Iran (which is part of a Bible prophecy), and now trying to gain control of Syria. America has only been in the business of helping them.
A lot of scary things can be done in the name of religion. I met a man who cut his penis off because he was gay and thought God wanted him to. I tortured myself over faulty religious beliefs I was taught by some very well-intentioned but misinformed people, which messed up my life dramatically. Wars over the centuries have started because of religions. This is why we can’t allow that to take hold of our government bodies, and I don’t think we really see the scope in which it has because they keep it under wraps. No one is going to vote for or sit idly by with a bunch of David Dukes running a muck in the White House, but quite honestly, that is what we got. They aren’t going to reveal themselves that way or their true intent. Sith Lords are smarter than that.
Probably one of the smartest moves they did was to put a chaotic, often clueless, aging man as President forward with others who also chime in writing his social media to make it additionally inflammatory. It causes what Steven Bannon termed “flooding the system” with distractions and outrageous bills, and lawsuits that paralyze the system. While he implements a parallel agenda, call it Dark Side Light, the Sith Lords behind the scenes are preparing behind the scenes their agenda as the insidious nature of this weakens this country enough for them to take complete control. Just like Darth Vader, they are using him as cover while they get this agenda done. Welcome to the Dark Side of the Force.
What You Can Do to Stay Aware and Engaged
- Follow watchdog groups and tech ethics advocates for updates and proposed regulations.
- Support legislation that strengthens data privacy and transparency—especially around AI-powered tools used by government.
- Stay informed on Palantir’s contracts at local and national levels, particularly within surveillance and immigration systems.
- Engage with the public protests or campaigns opposing misuse of data tech—voices in Portland, NYC, Seattle, Denver, and beyond are already mobilizing
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