03/04/2025
The Billionaire Coup is Here—and the Economy is Collapsing Right on Schedule
By Political Sideshow
What’s Happening Right Now Isn’t a Crisis—It’s the Plan.
The United States just saw its GDP growth estimates for Q1 2025 collapse from +2.9% to -2.8% in a matter of days. That’s a 5.1 percentage point drop—the kind of swing that usually only happens in the depths of economic catastrophes like 2008. But here’s the thing: this isn’t just some unfortunate downturn. This is exactly what Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and J.D. Vance have been preparing for.
They want the economy to collapse.
Why? Because it gives them the perfect opportunity to accelerate the destruction of democracy and install their techno-monarchical regime.
This isn’t just some short-term recession. This is a controlled demolition of the American economy so that a handful of billionaires can rebuild it in their image—without democracy, without public accountability, and without the interference of “we the people.”
The Yarvin Playbook: Create the Crisis, Seize the Power
Curtis Yarvin, the political theorist behind the neoreactionary movement (NRx), has been pushing for years to dismantle democracy and replace it with an authoritarian, CEO-led state. His political vision includes three key elements:
- Accelerationism – Encourage and accelerate economic collapse to create a power vacuum.
- Techno-Utopianism – Rebuild society under billionaire control, using technology to suppress opposition.
- Neo-Monarchism – Install a strongman leader (Trump) as “Chairman” while a billionaire CEO (Musk, Thiel) actually runs the country.
This is what we’re watching unfold, step by step.
Step 1: Collapse the Economy to Justify Extreme Measures
The -2.8% GDP contraction isn’t a normal economic hiccup—it’s a warning shot.
We saw this same pattern before the Great Recession of 2008, when GDP dropped -1.2%, then -4.2%, then -7.2%. And what followed? A massive consolidation of wealth and power into the hands of the ultra-rich.
Now, the same playbook is running again—except this time, the people at the top aren’t content with just getting richer. This time, they want to take control of the entire government itself.
- Instead of fixing the economy, the Trump administration’s response will be to change how GDP is calculated—a trick straight out of the authoritarian handbook.
- Instead of addressing unemployment, they’ll say “the real unemployment rate is much lower” (even when millions are out of work).
- Instead of restoring economic stability, they’ll deregulate and privatize everything, ensuring billionaires hold all the leverage when the dust settles.
Step 2: Use Crisis to Dismantle Democracy
A failing economy gives them the excuse to purge government institutions and consolidate power.
Here’s how it works:
1. Blame “the deep state” for the crisis – Call civil servants, regulators, and independent agencies the enemy.
2. Fire thousands of government workers overnight – “Retire All Government Employees” (RAGE) is the plan, and Trump’s team is ready to fire 50,000+ career public servants.
3. Ignore the courts – When judges block authoritarian moves, just refuse to follow the rulings.
4. Centralize police power – Shift law enforcement from local/state control to the federal executive branch.
5. Take over media and education – Nationalize or defund independent press and universities that push back.
Step 3: Make Authoritarianism Feel Normal
The broligarchs—Thiel, Musk, and Vance—aren’t just funding this transition. They’re engineering the cultural shift that makes dictatorship seem reasonable.
- Buy media platforms → Twitter/X, The Federalist, right-wing social media empires.
- Fund think tanks → Project 2025, Claremont Institute, Heritage Foundation.
- Control information flow → Algorithmic suppression of dissent, promotion of billionaire-approved narratives.
- Drive public opinion → Use AI and social media manipulation to create an illusion of mass support.
- Shape economic policy → Deregulate industries, privatize public resources, dismantle safety nets.
- Destabilize democratic institutions → Undermine courts, replace bureaucrats with loyalists, defund agencies.
- Neutralize “we the people” → Replace governance with corporate rule-by-decree.
Step 4: Install a “CEO of America”
Trump isn’t the real power in this system—he’s the distraction. The plan, as outlined by Yarvin himself, is for Trump to act as a ceremonial figurehead, while an unelected “CEO” takes absolute control of government.
This is why Musk, Thiel, and Vance are positioning themselves as “warrior-philosophers” and “visionary disruptors.” They are preparing to wield real executive power while Trump plays the role of populist frontman.
If you think this sounds far-fetched, remember how quickly Silicon Valley went from “free speech absolutists” to “let’s ban the press and dismantle elections.” This is already happening.
What’s Next? The Final Push for Authoritarian Rule
The next steps in this takeover are already in motion:
✅ Mass government purges are happening in slow motion. Tens of thousands of federal workers are already gone.
✅ Courts are being ignored—Trump’s allies are testing how far they can go without consequences.
✅ Economic collapse is accelerating—GDP numbers are worse than expected, and the market will react accordingly.
✅ Elections are being undermined—Musk and Thiel’s networks are flooding the zone with disinformation to delegitimize 2026 and 2028.
At this rate, by mid-2025, we may be looking at a fully consolidated autocracy, run not by elected officials but by billionaire overlords who have spent years engineering the collapse of democracy to replace it with their rule.
This Isn’t a Conspiracy—It’s a Business Model
This is how power works. Billionaires never needed to stage a military coup. They just bought the institutions that were supposed to stop them.
Now, we face the real test:
- Do democratic institutions have the strength to resist?
- Will the public recognize what’s happening before it’s too late?
- Can we stop a billionaire-driven dictatorship before it cements itself permanently?
This is the final stage of the billionaire coup. The only question is:
Will we fight back?
