Things got interesting recently in an elite Signal group called “Chatham House” that an organizer, Silicon Valley chode-turned-Trump Regime AI advisor Sriram Krishnan, hailed as “the memetic upstream of mainstream opinion” and which Semafor credits as being among the spaces instrumental in selling a number of top figures who were formerly MAGAgnostic at best on getting on board the Trump 2024 train. Interesting in that some of the exchanges finally began leaking when one of the said Trump fans in the group, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, turned on another, Singapore-based former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, with the former accusing the latter of being a Chinese fifth columnist for opposing the convicted felon 47th president’s suicidally stupid trade war against the Xi Regime that now threatens grievous economic harm on regular Americans.

“This is insane CCP thinking… Not sure what leaders hang out w you in Singapore but on this you have been taken over by a crazy China mind virus,” wrote Lonsdale, whose company has grossed at least $11.7 billion in federal contracts since 2009 and he’s writing “crazy China mind virus” like some obese middle-aged incel in a Breitbart comment. The Semafor reporter, Ben Smith, notes that both Lonsdale and Srinivasan quickly took to Twitter to get out in front of the Sunday night story after he’d contacted them about the exchange, with Srinivasan ripping Smith as “the guy who published the fake Steele Dossier. He’s writing about a 300+ person group chat that I sometimes post in, along with a bunch of other people,” and Lonsdale writing “Balaji and I have been friends for 20 years and we will always be on the same side against communists and lefty journalists.”

Smith’s article is otherwise pretty dense with coded language and elitist insider-y circlejerking – the perfect encapsulation pretty upfront in that “Chatham House” is named after a century-old British think tank Smith describes as having “formalized the insight that trusted conversations require a degree of privacy” – so it’s not that easy to summarize or otherwise estimate the impact of the circle of trust being broken. Obviously he doesn’t name his source so there’s gotta be a healthy degree of paranoia settling in among the 300+ participants – couple that with this apparently being the first real leak from the group since it was launched last summer would seem to indicate that the reporting is the end result of a major rupture over the Orange God Emperor’s trade policies.

So judge for yourself and take the following two paragraphs as you will:

In February Chatham’s main founder and informal moderator, Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley god who turned MAGA over the last few years, had told bro podcaster Lex Fridman the chat groups were “the equivalent of Samizdat” – the underground anti-communist press in Russia during the era of Soviet totalitarianism – during today’s “soft authoritarian” age of cancel culture and censorship, adding “the combination of encryption and disappearing messages really unleashed it.”

Then about two weeks ago as the meltdown over “Liberation Day” really sank in, legendary sacklicker David Sacks wrote: “This group has become worthless since the loudest voices have TDS.” Addressing podcaster and recent Andreessen hire Erik Torenberg, Sacks then wrote “You should create a new one with just smart people.” Signal soon showed that three men had left the group: Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire, crypto billionaire Tyler Winklevoss, and Tucker Carlson.

Or maybe the real takeaway should be that this article could’ve been about a pro-Trump Facebook group in The Villages if not for the noteworthy names and slightly better spelling involved.

The cunts who call themselves the leaders of the 21st century’s most important industry…