It's normal to develop some black technology in the future, right?

Chapter 408: America's Advanced Gameplay

People will form path dependence.

These Silicon Valley upstarts are hoping to replicate their success in the next election cycle, based on how they succeeded in the last election cycle.

But the problem is that the past four years of the current White House have been a complete failure, and the next candidate's appeal to the rednecks will decline significantly, even if the current president supports him.

The media and social platforms controlled by the Donkey Party are no less powerful than Musk's Twitter. Even within the Elephant Party, there are many establishment figures who oppose mg's renewal for another four years.

Not to mention that the traditional media controlled by the Donkey Party think that the Donkey Party is sure to win, even the vested interests who have been here for the past four years think that the Elephant Party’s hope of winning is too slim.

That's why I had the idea of ​​going to Lion City to learn from others.

That’s right, go to Lion City to learn from others.

As the changes in the Lion City's situation gradually settle, all the news about what happened in the last round of turmoil in Lion City has been summarized at their level, and it can be summed up in one sentence:

Under such collective subconsciousness, Malaysia has become the villain in the conspiracy theory, and netizens have produced a large number of videos on the Internet about the Lee family's contributions to the Lion City.

The Silicon Valley upstarts here have more comprehensive information. In addition to the obvious sources of information, their sources also include some under-the-table information provided by Edward.

Edward, a former Silicon Valley upstart, immigrated to Singapore and became the richest man in Singapore.

He became rich because he was the co-founder of Facebook, but Zuckerberg cut his stake to 10 percent on the eve of the IPO.

Later, Edward and Zuckerberg went to court. The entrepreneurial story of Edward and Zuckerberg ended in a mess, but it did not affect his holding of 10% of the shares and becoming a billionaire worth tens of billions of dollars.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Everyone and Zuckerberg don't get along, which leads to them having common ground in many areas.

Musk and Zuckerberg simply dislike each other and want to fight in the octagon. Edwards and Zuckerberg, Facebook's 34% stake was cut to 10%, the hatred is much higher than simple dislike.

"Eron, this matter is too important. If anything goes wrong, we might all be arrested. Don't underestimate the ruthlessness of the donkey party."

"Yes, that's right. The key to this matter is whether Edward can be trusted."

Obviously, in order to stay in control of the White House for a long time, the Democratic Party even quietly stole room-temperature superconducting technology, which shows how much money the interest groups behind the Democratic Party have invested.

The greater the cost, the more it means that we cannot allow anyone to reverse the good situation.

Musk and the Silicon Valley upstarts who stood on the side of the Elephant Party in the last election are among those who have received special attention.

If the country-stealing business they are trying to do is exposed, they will really end up in Xingge Prison forever.

The Rosenbergs, who leaked information about the atomic bomb to their competitors in 1953, were executed in Singer Prison.

The famous electric chair in Singer Prison sent more than 600 prisoners to meet God during the Cold War.

"I am fully confident that Edward is trustworthy." Peter Thiel, who plays a godfather role in this group of people, came out to guarantee Edward's credibility: "I worked with him in the early days of Facebook."

Peter was one of Facebook's earliest investors, so it was normal for him to have some interactions with Edward.

"He hates the Democratic Progressive Party just like we do. This hatred is not just the same as ours, but also a moral hatred. The Democratic Progressive Party cost him a lot of money. If the Democratic Progressive Party had not been chasing him endlessly, he would not have immigrated to Singapore."

No one knew about this, and they suddenly became interested. "What's going on? This shouldn't happen. As a Brazilian immigrant and a wealthy man, shouldn't Edward be the target of the Democratic Party's efforts to win over?"

Brazilian immigrants, that is, immigrants from Latin America, are the traditional voting base of the Democratic Party. In addition, due to their status as top wealthy people, it is generally not reasonable for them to be hunted down by the Democratic Party, let alone hunted endlessly. This is very abnormal.

"Do you remember when Edward immigrated to Singapore?" Before anyone could answer, Peter Thiel continued, "In September 11, it was less than half a year before Facebook went public. The shares he held were worth at least $9 billion based on the internal share price at the time.

Although Edward said on the surface that his trip to Singapore had nothing to do with tax evasion, this move was indeed related to his attempt to avoid tens of millions of dollars in capital gains tax, because Singapore does not need to pay this tax.

At that time we were not as rich as we are now, and tens of millions of dollars were a huge sum of money. Edward tried every means to escape the tax, but he failed. Charles Schumer and Bob Casey stopped it all. They issued a harsh and tough statement, pointing the finger at Edward.

This forced Edward to pay the taxes he was supposed to pay even if he immigrated. In the end, Edward paid a total of $7900 million, which was more than $ million more than he was supposed to pay.

Edward, who had a good memory, could count these numbers easily.

Of the two names Peter just mentioned, everyone only knows the former, Charles Schumer, a veteran senator from the Democratic Party in Congress and the majority leader of Congress.

No one is quite sure who the latter is.

"He immigrated first, and foreign citizens are not allowed to donate to election candidates. It is only natural that he is targeted."

"No, it's not that simple. Before Edward, people immigrated every year to avoid capital gains tax, and they were never held accountable.

After Charles completed the task, Mark made his first political donation to Charles a year later. Mark and Bob have maintained a long-term cooperative relationship. This cooperative relationship is not reflected in the open, but the private relationship is much closer than the overt political donation with Charles. "

There is no doubt that as a former investor of Zuckerberg, Peter had a very deep connection with Zuckerberg before they fell out over their positions and knew him very well, so he could easily come up with such secrets.

Now everyone's curiosity was piqued. "Why? I don't have any impression of Bob Casey."

"Bob Casey is the son of Bob Sr., who used to be the governor of Pennsylvania. But Casey lost the election for governor in 02. Then he worked as the attorney general of Pennsylvania for a few years and then ran for the Senate again. Casey was elected as a senator of Pennsylvania for three consecutive terms, which is a very difficult thing. He is the only senator in the history of Pennsylvania who was elected for three consecutive terms.

It is clear that Zuckerberg has a lot to do with the latter two elections.”

After listening to this, everyone immediately realized the difficulty of this matter. It is obvious that everyone has been deeply involved in various affairs in Washington over the past four years. They are no longer the newbies they were before and have a deeper understanding of the operating logic of Washington.

There are two types of American Congressmen, senators and representatives. The former serve six years each term, while the latter serve two years, so the former is much more valuable than the latter.

Needless to say, in traditional red and blue states, congressmen serve for decades. But in such a fierce swing state like Pennsylvania, to be able to serve for three consecutive terms for 18 years requires some ability.

Although the Donald Trump won every presidential election in Pennsylvania from 1992 to 2012, the Elephant Party won in 16. However, during the period when the Elephant Party won, Casey still won the Pennsylvania Senate election.

"Peter, since you just said that the connection between Casey and Zuckerberg is not as close as it appears, it is definitely not a direct political donation," Musk said.

Peter nodded: “Of course not, it’s the Charity Committee.

There are direct political donations, but more of them are made through the charity committee to help Cathy achieve her goals.

In the charitable donations made by Zuckerberg's charity committee to Pennsylvania, on the surface every county can get money, but when you actually do the statistics, you will find that the amount of money received and the amount of subsidies received are different.

The subsidies received by counties that lean toward the Elephant Party are only one-fifth of those received by counties that lean toward the Donkey Party.

After Zuckerberg became close with Casey, he spent more than 20 million dollars in Pennsylvania every year on average. After the election, he donated million dollars to Pennsylvania at one time.

After listening to this, everyone thought they were good enough at playing, but they didn’t expect that they were still not as good as Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg was the first of these Silicon Valley upstarts to master Washington.

Why didn’t the Elephant Party completely liquidate Zuckerberg after coming to power in 24? Because in addition to Charles Schumer, there was another name on his first donation list, Rubio. Yes, that Rubio.

"It was precisely because of his close relationship with Casey that Casey was able to help Zuckerberg pass the hearing in the Senate in 18."

"What happened in 18 years?"

“Didn’t the Donald Trump Party lose in 16? The Clinton family believes it was because Facebook leaked more than million user data to Cambridge Analytica, which then used the data to target campaign ads.

Targeted push notifications broke the information cocoon created by the Democratic Party. Clinton lost the 16-year election and completely lost hope of entering the White House.

Because of this, the Clinton family asked Florida Senator Palick to challenge him. It was only with Casey's protection that he was able to get through. Otherwise, he would have to pay a fine of hundreds of millions of dollars and a series of restrictive clauses. "

Apparently Peter's words revealed a series of secrets to them.

It was under such secrets that they realized the depth of the entanglement between Edward and Zuckerberg: "So Edward was hunted by Cathy and Charles, and Zuckerberg was completely behind it."

"It is precisely because of this relationship that there can be no connection between Edward and the Donkey Party."

"Yes, Edward is trustworthy, especially since he knows we want to ruin the Donkey Party's plans. He is happy to see this happen. Moreover, the Wall Street capitalists behind the Donkey Party want to deal with Alpha, and we have common interests.

No matter from which point of view, we can definitely reach a strategic cooperation relationship. "Peter concluded.

Why did they choose Alpha Technology? In addition to the fact that Alpha Technology has proved its strength during the great changes in the Lion City and was the first to develop a normalized decryption algorithm for RSA passwords, the most important point is that the consortiums behind the Donkey Party want to take action against Alpha Technology.

Since Alpha's synthetic sand plant was put into production, it is still in the stage of capacity ramp-up. The production capacity in the first month exceeded 20 million tons, bringing in cash flow of more than US$ billion.

This is a huge business comparable to oil.

The production capacity of 20 million tons is not because we can only produce this much, but because the supporting facilities cannot keep up.

As mentioned earlier, the global annual river sand consumption is between 320 billion tons and 500 billion tons, and the natural recovery amount is 120 billion tons.

Even if the price of synthetic sand is set at $20, we can still eat as much as we can.

If we can produce 10 billion tons, the annual revenue will be 200 billion US dollars, which is a more profitable business than oil.

There are many reasons why production capacity cannot be increased now, the most core of which is the shortage of land. Due to the land supply in Singapore, the production capacity is placed here, and the amount will definitely not reach 10 billion.

The second is the cargo volume. The annual seaborne throughput of the entire Lion City Port is about 6 million tons. If you import natural sand and export synthetic sand, with a production capacity of billion, the input and output will be billion. The current Lion City is definitely not able to bear this amount.

Thirdly, cargo ships are not supported either.

Therefore, just solving these three problems and increasing the production capacity to the level of 10 billion tons, the upstream and downstream benefits and cash flow brought are estimated to be in the units of 10 trillion US dollars in terms of capital that can be leveraged and the total benefits brought.

Therefore, American capital hopes to grab the technology directly. This technology must be placed in America, or at least in Mexico. How can it be placed in Singapore?
In China, you can only steal if you can't rob. In Singapore, they also wanted to steal, but when they found that they couldn't steal, they decided to rob openly.

Although they are also planning to wait until the White House changes its leadership before taking action, the corresponding plans are already underway, and batches of people with clean resumes are pouring into the Lion City.

(End of this chapter)