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Felt it was Orwell in the first three sentences - "Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake." Guess it felt like that because we are experiencing it today more than we ever have before. It really is spot on isn't it ..

Project 2025: The right-wing wish list for Trump's second term
Related: Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and Balances and Create an Imperial Presidency
[...]Other proposals include eliminating visa categories for crime and human trafficking victims, increasing fees on immigrants and allowing fast-tracked applications for migrants who pay a premium.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175818228

Why Trump’s ‘gold card’ proposal is more complicated than it sounds
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175886725

Donald Trump will sell $5 million 'Gold Card' visas to wealthy foreigners. Experts say they're dangerous
By Luke Cooper
Sat 8 Mar
[...]
Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria and Ireland all terminated their golden visa schemes after the European Commission found in a 2019 report that "investor residence schemes" could pose risks to the security of EU member nations.

In February 2022, the UK also axed its "golden visa" investment scheme in a bid to clamp down on organised crime and funds filtering into the country via Russian oligarchs, amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

"The overall conclusion of the Migration Advisory Committee's assessment of the (golden visa) route was that it primarily benefits the investors rather than the UK," Priti Patel, who was then the country's secretary of state for the Home Department, said in a statement at the time.

"The operation of the route has facilitated the presence of persons
relying on funds that have been obtained illicitly or
who represent a wider security risk."

In Australia, former Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neil announced in January last year the Albanese government would dump its investor visa scheme, saying "it has been obvious for years that this visa is not delivering what our country and economy needs".
[...]
What do experts say about the 'Trump Gold Card'?

Abul Rizvi, a former deputy secretary of the Australian Department of Immigration, told the ABC that "there are both advantages and disadvantages" to Mr Trump's new visa scheme.

"The advantage obviously is that you get an immediate rush of money into the coffers of the US government," Mr Rivzi said.

"The big risk is: How do you know whether the money was lawfully obtained? How do you know it's not a criminal you're talking about? And how do you know this is not going to lead to assisting criminals to strengthen their foothold in th US?

"It's really hard in countries like China and Russia to check
whether the money earned was legitimately earned
and not earned through criminal means."

After his announcement of the Gold Card , Mr Trump was asked in the Oval Office whether the scheme would allow for Russian oligarchs to legally buy their way into the US.

"Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people," the president responded.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-08/donald-trump-gold-cards-visas-explained/104984228

Back to Yarvin

The Memo: Trump ratchets up confrontation with judiciary
[...]
Three Branches of Government
Our federal government has three parts. They are the Executive, (President and about 5,000,000 workers) Legislative (Senate and House of Representatives) and Judicial (Supreme Court and lower Courts).
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/three-branches-of-government

There is a quote Thiel's, i think, where he says the president should be all powerful, the other two incidental. No, it was Yarvin. It's under Unchecked executive power :
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· Yarvin: “Until this “unitary executive” is so much “more powerful” than the present office that the President considers both the judicial and legislative branches purely ceremonial and advisory — with the same level of actual sovereignty as Charles III today — the “unitary executive” will not work.” “A Conversation About Monarchy”, Gray Mirror, March 12, 2024.
Toward the end .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175801418&txt2find=yarvin

This really is solid Nostradamus-like insight:

"“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
? George Orwell, 1984"