KJS DC 3.26

This one is long.

PROLOGUE

Secretary Lug-Nutz

Let’s start with what we already know.

Howard Lutnick — your US Secretary of Commerce, paid by your tax dollars — committed what amounts to full-frontal nepotism and corruption. In plain sight. On the record. And as of today, he’s still in office.

Here is what happened. Lutnick was a key architect of America’s aggressive tariff policy. His sons — Brandon and Kyle — used their firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, to quietly approach struggling businesses across the country. They offered to buy those businesses’ rights to potential tariff refunds. Twenty to thirty cents on the dollar. Cash now, in exchange for whatever the government might owe you later.

Think about that play. If the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs unconstitutional — which it did, on February 20, 2026 — the US government would owe those businesses a full 100% refund. Cantor Fitzgerald would pocket the difference. A 300% to 500% profit. Funded entirely by taxpayers. By you.

Heads I win. Tails you lose. And if his own policy failed, his family made billions from the failure.

That’s the secretary. Let’s keep going.

America is not theirs to hedge.

The Rare Earth Kickback

In January 2026, Lutnick’s Commerce Department issued a $1.6 billion Letter of Intent to a company called USA Rare Earth. Weeks later, it was revealed that Cantor Fitzgerald — his sons’ firm — acted as the lead placement agent for the private funding required to unlock that government money. The Secretary’s sons collected private fees to help a company access public funds that the Secretary himself controlled.

As of February 27, 2026, Representative Jamie Raskin and other lawmakers have formally demanded internal records from Cantor Fitzgerald. They called it “next-level insider trading.” The investigation sits with the Justice Department. Which is run by Pam Bondi…LOL

CHAPTER ONE

The Play

They built a circular ecosystem. Understand this and everything else makes sense.

Step one: Use the presidency to loosen laws on guns, cryptocurrency, and prediction markets. Step two: Own the platforms where those newly deregulated activities happen. Step three: Use the presidency and its megaphone to funnel millions of users directly into those platforms.

The Trump sons — principally Donald Trump Jr. — have constructed a business network designed to profit from the intersection of deregulation, manufactured cultural division, and the privatization of high-risk sectors. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a business model. It has receipts.

They have bet on vices — guns, gambling, crypto, tobacco, hard seltzer — because vices are recession-proof. They have bet on volatility because volatility is what they create. The policy and the portfolio are the same thing.

No partisan framing needed. Just follow the money.

The policy and the portfolio are the same thing.

CHAPTER TWO

1789 Capital: The Shadow Fund

The vehicle is called 1789 Capital. It manages over $1 billion in assets. It is run by two men most Americans have never heard of.

Omeed Malik is the dealmaker. Former Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, he left in 2018 after a high-profile legal battle and an eight-figure settlement. Once a registered Democrat, he pivoted hard to the right during the pandemic. He now runs the mechanism that takes “patriotic” companies public — through SPACs, through private placements, through a merchant bank called Farvahar Partners. He reportedly helped broker the secret meetings at Mar-a-Lago that brought RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard into the administration’s orbit.

Chris Buskirk is the ideologue. He founded American Greatness, a leading pro-Trump intellectual publication. He co-founded the Rockbridge Network alongside JD Vance — a secretive high-net-worth donor circle that functions like a private club for billionaires to influence policy without public disclosure. Buskirk coined the term “Parallel Economy.” His argument: stop trying to change woke corporations. Build your own banks, your own media, your own defense contractors. Build a financial system that answers only to us.

The Portfolio

The 1789 portfolio tells you everything. GrabAGun — an online firearms retailer that went public under the ticker $PEW, paired with Credova, a financing platform for guns and ammo, designed specifically to route around traditional banks. Polymarket and Kalshi — prediction markets. Anduril — an AI defense contractor. Tucker Carlson’s media venture. Juul. Happy Dad hard seltzer. Uranium.

This is not a diversified growth portfolio. This is a map of everything they have deregulated, directed government contracts toward, and promoted to their base — while owning the platforms those same people use.

The Contracts

As of March 2026, companies backed by 1789 Capital have received over $735 million in government contracts since the administration took office. The $620 million awarded to Vulcan Elements by the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital is the single largest loan that office has ever issued. Anduril has received over $120 million in Air Force and Marine Corps contracts. Cerebras Systems received $45 million from the Department of Defense.

Don Jr. famously helped screen candidates for Pentagon and Energy Department positions during the transition. Loyalists were placed. Contracts followed.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal have formally flagged that at least four portfolio companies received over $735 million in taxpayer funds since the administration began. Critics call it a private venture fund with a direct pipeline to the federal treasury. They are not wrong.

A private venture fund with a direct pipeline to the federal treasury.

The Rockbridge Dark Money Machine

The Rockbridge Network is where the billionaires live. Membership starts at $100,000 for Limited Partners and reaches $1,000,000 for Principal Partners. It operates as a nonprofit and Super PAC hybrid — a dark money umbrella steering at least eight organizations. Transparency is nearly nonexistent by design.

Peter Thiel is a key investor. A non-US-born billionaire who co-founded PayPal with Elon Musk, Thiel has been the primary financial engine behind JD Vance’s career — funding it, shaping it, essentially writing the script. His data company has been absorbing private government data since the administration took office. The Winklevoss twins are pushing for crypto deregulation that directly benefits the family’s World Liberty Financial project. Rebekah Mercer, who previously funded Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart, is in the room.

Their 2026 internal strategy allocates $30 million across three areas: a rapid-response media operation to bypass mainstream news, $3.75 million in lawfare to sue journalists and researchers, and a government-in-waiting project to ensure federal agencies remain staffed with Parallel Economy loyalists — regardless of who wins the next election.

CHAPTER THREE

Assassination Bingo

Last weekend, as US and Israeli strikes hit Tehran, the prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi processed hundreds of millions of dollars in trades on the exact date of the bombings and the political fate of Ayatollah Khamenei. Polymarket alone handled $529 million in bets.

Analysts identified six accounts that generated over $1.2 million in profit by placing massive bets just hours before the strikes. Not days before. Hours.

Donald Trump Jr. holds a dual role at these platforms: investor through 1789 Capital and strategic advisor. There is a limited universe of people with access to non-public US military intelligence. That universe and the universe of people with financial interest in these platforms overlap in one place.

The SEC has been asked what it thinks. We are still waiting.

Meanwhile, Trump Media has launched Truth Predict — its own prediction market integrated directly into Truth Social. Gamifying geopolitical events for the base.

Congress is currently debating whether to stop lawmakers from using these markets to trade on information their constituents do not have. That debate is being treated as a serious first step. It is not. It is a confession that this has already been happening.

Think about it: With a father who dodged the draft, from a family that has never done a day of real work, and you build systems to profit from the fog of war? Who can know the timing of foreign strikes but them; and who profits from bets on death. There is no polite way to say all this. Let’s not pretend this even remotely acceptable

CHAPTER FOUR

Are They Even Good at This?

Here is the part they don’t advertise.

While the S&P 500 has returned roughly 16% over the last six months, the public-facing stocks of the Parallel Economy are getting crushed. PublicSquare ($PSQH), the flagship anti-woke marketplace, is trading near its all-time low of $0.60. It has lost approximately 74% of its value over the past year while bleeding millions every quarter. GrabAGun ($PEW) has seen extreme volatility — a brief spike after deregulation announcements, then a hard pullback with heavy short interest from Wall Street. Truth Social ($DJT) operates primarily as a meme stock.

If you invested $1,000 in the S&P 500 six months ago, you have roughly $1,160. If you put it into PublicSquare, you have about $260.

The base is losing their shirts. The inner circle is not.

The Trump family reportedly receives 75% of net proceeds from their crypto project World Liberty Financial — regardless of what the token price does for retail buyers. Malik and Buskirk collect management fees on the $1 billion they’ve raised. The retail investors — the base, the people who “buy what they believe” — provide the liquidity and the political cover while the private managers at the top capture the government contracts and the fees.

They are not good businessmen. They are good at raising money, but not at making it or returning it. The difference between a businessman and a con man is what happens to the people at the bottom of the stack.

The base provides the liquidity. The inner circle captures the contracts.

CHAPTER FIVE

DOGE Was the Trojan Horse

Look at the whole thing at once. When you do, DOGE stops looking like a cost-cutting exercise and starts looking like what it was: a data extraction operation dressed up as fiscal responsibility.

No real accounting. More spent than removed. And an unprecedented amount of private government data flowing directly to systems connected to the people running this fund.

Peter Thiel’s data company did not arrive in Washington because the government needed efficiency. It arrived because data is the asset. Your Social Security number. Your medical records. Your financial history. The architecture of your life. These things have value. They fed a system that has been growing ever since.

You are asking where all the safeguards went. The independent agencies. The watchdogs. The whistleblowers. They were fired, bought, or tied up in courts. The checks and balances that took generations to build were targeted specifically because the people running this operation understood exactly what those systems were designed to stop.

They knew. This was not recklessness. That is the distinction that matters. A reckless person breaks things without thinking. These people mapped what to break and in what order. They knew which pipes carried the water and they corroded them on purpose, knowing it would take years to repair. That is not chaos. That is premeditation.

This was not recklessness. That is the distinction that matters.

CHAPTER SIX

In Some Room It Was Built

Somewhere a small group of white men sat in a room and ran scenarios. They had large ambitions, could lie through their teeth, very low self-esteem, an inverted moral compass -and AI.

We know that because they built a system not to help, but to hurt. When they could have done anything with power, this is what the chose. They premediated, intentionally designed, and broke the law to keep going. 

They have no love. They hate America actually.

We want to break it, not fix it. We want to create unemployment while claiming to create jobs. We want deregulation, not because markets work better without rules, but because we own what fills the vacuum when the rules disappear. We want division because divided people don’t organize. We want surveillance because information is power and power is money. And we want to get richer. We want a parallel financial system — our own banks, our own media, our own AI, our own defense contracts — that runs independent of any democratic accountability.

They incorporated the fund. They called it 1789. They named it after the founding of the republic they were planning to hollow out.

Agenda 2025 was the operational document. Heritage Foundation was the address. The plan identified every independent agency with authority over them and built a roadmap to dismantle each one. Not because those agencies were ineffective. Because they were effective.

The media investments buy time. The lawfare investments buy more time. They understand they will eventually be caught. The goal is to extend the runway — to corrode enough of the system that accountability, when it comes, has to fight through years of legal obstruction, dismantled institutions, and manufactured doubt about what is even true.

This connects backward. Epstein. The same networks of powerful men using money to insulate themselves from consequences. The same vertical systems of suppression. Different era, same architecture. All of it — every corrupt arrangement that has been buried, sealed, or left unprosecuted — is part of the same story. It will all need to be looked at. Together. The full accounting.

Greed and the desire to control whatever they can’t have is what they were after. These are our next Benedict Arnolds, who shall live on as colossal losers in the history books forever.

FINAL CHAPTER

The Reckoning That Is Coming

Here is what happens next. Not what we hope. What happens.

The house of cards falls. It always does. The architecture of this particular collapse is already visible. Courts are moving. Lawmakers are demanding records. Investigative reporters have the receipts. The international community is watching. And somewhere in the civil service — in the agencies that were not fully gutted, among the career staff who stayed, in the offices of inspectors general still operating — people are documenting everything.

When accountability comes, it will not look like the old playbook. It cannot. The old systems were the ones that were either captured or corroded. What replaces them has to be different in kind, not just in degree.

The financial reckoning will be sweeping. Not one lawsuit. One reckoning. A class action by the American people as shareholders of this republic — demanding the return of illegally obtained proceeds from every actor in this network. The Lutnick family’s tariff arbitrage profits. The contract windfalls that flowed to 1789 portfolio companies through loyalist placement. The crypto proceeds. The management fees collected while the base’s investments evaporated. All of it.

We are not interested in tying this country up in a decade of individual cases while the architects retire to their compounds. We remove it all at the root. One coordinated legal and legislative action that traces the money from the first corrupt contract to the last and claws it back. Fully. Redistributed to the public trust from which it was taken.

One reckoning. Not one lawsuit. Remove it all at the root.

The political reckoning will be generational. Bondi. Bussent. Lutnick. Noem. The inner circle of this project. They will be remembered the way Benedict Arnold is remembered — not as political opponents, but as people who chose personal gain over the country they swore to serve. The children who participated will be included. The billionaires who funded and architected the tear-down will be named. This is not about political revenge. It is about historical record and legal consequence. Both will come.

The structural reckoning will be constitutional. Policymakers cannot be regulated the same way after this. The loopholes that allowed a Commerce Secretary to run a family hedge fund against his own policies, that allowed a president’s children to collect government contracts through a private fund, that allowed dark money to staff federal agencies — those loopholes close. Permanently. With new frameworks that have accountability wired in from the beginning, not bolted on afterward. Money comes out of politics. Not as a slogan. As law. Public financing, mandatory disclosure, strict separation between policy and investment. The new framework is not built from what hasn’t worked. It is built from what we now know — hard evidence of exactly how the old system failed and exactly which doors were left open.

AI gets its own reckoning. When the tools of machine learning are used to map the most efficient way to dismantle democratic institutions while avoiding prosecution, that is not innovation. That is a weapon. The governance frameworks for AI-assisted policy manipulation do not yet exist. They will.

Good people with accountability wired in. Visibility and truth assured.

Here is the vision. Not utopia. Something more honest than that.

A government that publishes what it spends and who it pays, in real time. Elected officials who cannot hold investment positions in sectors they regulate. Agencies staffed by people with expertise, not loyalty tests. Courts that operate without fear. A press that can report without being sued into silence.

And a population that understands what can be taken from you. Not just the money, though that too. The thing that was nearly taken was the idea that this country belongs to all of us. That it is not a vehicle for enrichment, for whoever holds power at any given moment. The institutions are ours. The treasury is ours. And the next generations.

They built a circular ecosystem to extract everything they could from the public trust while dismantling the systems designed to stop them.

We will build a circular ecosystem of accountability. Visibility feeding truth. Truth feeding consequence. Consequence feeding reform. Reform feeding a system that is harder to corrupt than the one we had.

The paddy wagons are coming. The history books are already writing. And on the other side of all of this — a restored system, a returned treasury, and the permanent lesson that America is not theirs, not anyone’s.

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