Two years ago, conservatism was about bringing back the labor market and real jobs. The Neo-Con Right is now trying to destroy them for good.
Sep 22
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PragerU is now selling conservatives one of the largest corporate resource grabs in American history, urging ordinary people to surrender land, resources, and personal liberty to trillion-dollar technology companies building the artificial-intelligence infrastructure designed to replace their jobs and monitor their lives. The campaign is being advanced through data-center executives, an industry-connected evangelist, and a Jewish-Israel activist, while PragerU itself is run by Marissa Streit, a former member of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite signals-intelligence and cyberwarfare division. Oh, and funded by the Adelson family. What PragerU presents as patriotism is really a demand that Americans finance their own replacement, subsidize the global surveillance state that will govern them, and applaud while a foreign-intelligence-to-Big-Tech pipeline helps construct it in their own backyard.
PragerU has been fervently pushing the new conservative principle that Americans have a patriotic duty to surrender their farmland, utilities, tax money, and local sovereignty to the most powerful corporations on earth so they can build fortified, underground machine cities designed to replace our jobs and outlive us long after Skynet launches. Why? It’s probably because nothing says America First like forcing Americans to subsidize the machines being built to make us obsolete. They tell us that it’s “patriotism” because if we don’t do it, China will, and probably because “national suicide” tested poorly with Judeo-Christian focus groups.
The sales pitch arrived through a PragerU program called The Brief, where Shabbos Kestenbaum and Joe Honan, the CEO of Singularity Compute, did what clearly appears to be a paid infomercial designed as conservative education about why Americans should stop worrying and learn to love the server farm. As the name suggests, Shabbos Kestenbaum is an Orthodox Jewish activist and son of migrants who became nationally prominent after suing Harvard for not limiting free speech enough on campus when students or faculty criticized Israel. He’s since become one of PragerU’s most aggressive defenders of Israel. Keep in mind that Kestenbaum is not a technology journalist, energy specialist, or any tech specialist. He is a political messenger whose job is to translate establishment priorities into the language of moral urgency and patriotism.
His best quotes include, “Jews don’t need Harvard. Harvard needs Jews” and “The power of the purse is the last tool available to coerce Harvard.” He’s willing to sue them into bankruptcy to prove how much they need Jews, apparently. Despite being a son of migrants, he’s advocated for the deportation of migrants who criticize Israel.
I mean, I’m all for deporting people. But criticizing a foreign nation should not be on the list of offenses. When referring to the devastation in Gaza, Kestenbaum said, “I do not defend the Israel Defense Forces. I laud and applaud them every day” and “I am proud of what Israel has done.” I’d say “anally raping prisoners until their insides fell outside, and murdering 30% children and 80% civilians aside,” but that’s probably not the case. No doubt, he’s proud of that, too. This is who Prager is using to promote data centers.
Meanwhile, Honan’s company builds the advanced computing infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, which makes interviewing him about whether America needs more data centers about as meaningful as asking Colonel Sanders whether the nation has consumed enough fried chicken or asking Phillip Morris if we should smoke more cigarettes. It was like, “This data center owner wants you to know why it’s patriotic to support data centers,” without the “this is the data center owner” part.
The pitch is pretty simple. Data centers “create jobs” (until construction is over, and then there are almost none), strengthen national security (and eradicate your privacy), cure diseases (no AI-discovered drug or treatment has been given FDA approval, let alone cured a disease), modernize the power grid (sucks off of it or builds an independent power grid that will feed it long after the surface-dwellers are turned to ash), defeat China (beat them to become the largest security state), stimulate local economies (locals universally hate them), rescue abandoned puppies, and possibly make grandma’s tomatoes grow larger. Anyone objecting to the machines drinking local aquifers and swallowing entire power plants is portrayed as either uninformed, manipulated by environmental radicals, or secretly receiving instructions from Beijing through TikTok.
It’s “You either want the machines to run things, or you’re a Communist.” And it probably works on BoomerCons aged 75 to Moses. Literally only one week ago, research employees at Anthropic were kamikazeeing their own careers to speak out in general agreement that AI has about a ten percent chance of killing humanity in the next decade (I wrote about that here). PragerU really, really wants conservatives to support this.
In December of last year, Prager released Mark Mills’sWhat Will Power the AI Revolution?, which explained that artificial intelligence requires massive data centers and correspondingly massive quantities of electricity. He presented this as an unavoidable technological development, even though the Prager audience was not told that he is a partner in an energy-technology venture fund, advises a consortium devoted to digital infrastructure, and previously spent seven years on the board of one of the world’s leading data-center engineering firms. It was another infomercial for global capital disguised as conservatism.
By September 2026, the campaign had accelerated. Victor Davis Hanson told viewers that America’s survival in the AI race depended upon energy dominance. What that means – and what he didn’t explain – is that the law of supply-and-demand means that as Americans are suffering $6 fuel in Florida and record-breaking utility bills in a downturned economy and with hyperinflation caused by the war that Hanson lobbies for, he wants us to slice off even more energy consumption for corporate data centers. That means our costs go up, and data centers often get subsidized by the very taxpayers already struggling to pay their energy bills. The truth is, if we are really going to compete with China, the timeline for data center placement is now. The turnaround time for energy independence is apparently 30 years, because it hasn’t happened yet, and even if POTUS miraculously turned every single lever on the get-it-done machine, and Congress played along, and even if there were no greenie opposition with advocates in the judiciary to throw a stick in the spokes, we would not have legitimate energy independence for more than a decade, minimally. That’s if you break the ground on new refineries and nuclear reactors, ban exports (which has all sorts of complications that would make that problematic), and I’m not even counting gay windmills. It’s fantasy land.
I’m all for energy dominance. Do it now. Go nuclear if you want, drill more wells, frack to your heart’s content, keep it all at home, and throw chopped-up windmills into coal burners for extra power. Heck, double-purpose oil derricks in Alaska as caribou stands, and sell hunting tags on a lotto system payable to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
I’m not an environmentalist and caribou are delicious. But it doesn’t matter: We will not have the power to provide the fuel data centers need today without bankrupting working families tomorrow. It’s not going to happen. The math doesn’t math, if you know what I mean.
Hanson was just delivering another Prager data center infomercial designed to give patriotic, conservative Americans a goal as ambitious as going to the moon, but one that benefits only private corporations and has tragic results for the vast sum of the American labor market. Just grasp that the government establishment absolutely does not care if their funding comes from American families or the world’s richest ten people. If they can enrich the few and hose the many and still end up with a federal budget that’s 60% funded, they’ll pop the champagne corks on the way to wherever Mossad’s new underage island is located.
Then, former PragerU creative producer Taylor Trandahl published a sweeping defense of data centers so enthusiastic that he paused to acknowledge that it “sounded like propaganda.” A few days later, PragerU released Honan’s presentation covering nearly the same talking points about foreign-funded opposition, China, national security, and the supposedly magnificent future waiting inside the humming concrete box behind your subdivision. So yes, it does sound like propaganda, Prager is promoting it, and they’re using industry executives to explain why we should support it.
THE ISRAELI UNIT 8200 CYBER COMMANDO WHO RUNS PRAGER
The obscenity of all this runs deeper than propaganda because Americans are not merely being ordered to tolerate the construction of the beast that will replace them. We are being commanded to subsidize it, surrender our land to it, accept it next door, and then applaud while it learns to perform our jobs without us. The people marked for economic obsolescence are expected to finance the instrument of their obsolescence, like condemned men being charged for the rope at the company store.
That’s not progress, folks. It is a humiliation ritual, a cosmic insult dressed in the sterile language of innovation and national security. It’s the cyber version of kissing the sacred retaining wall. It’s a taxper version of a Goyim humiliation ritual. The plebes must sacrifice their communities and property rights so trillion-dollar corporations can build the Skynet knock-off that’s intended to make human labor disposable. Then, PragerU arrives to explain that resisting this arrangement is unpatriotic, perhaps even helpful to China. They are not merely replacing us. They demand that we smile, salute, and pay for the privilege.
Keep in mind, conservatism in the far, distant past (2024) demanded a return of manufacturing, a revival of industry, and a return of bare-knuckled, manual labor. They did it to get the votes of people laid off and economically stressed by globalist outsourcing. It’s not been two years, and now, Conservative Inc. is literally advocating for the death and funeral of all manual labor, and the jobs reports from a few weeks ago showed that women gained 98% of jobs, because they were “pink jobs” where manual labor need not apply. No danger on earth is more impending and potentially destructive to the economic engine of middle America than the super-computing revolution. And they want us to put the Borg’s brain next door and like it.
WHY PRAGER?
So the question is, why would PragerU give a huge middle finger to working Americans who make up the bulk of the conservative vote, and churn out this endless stream of data-center public lobbying? The answer, besides what’s hidden inside bundled donations from dark money that you and I will never be able to inspect, is that its chief executive officer is Marissa Streit, Unit 8200 cyber commando, the Israeli military’s elite signals-intelligence and cyberwarfare division.
Unit 8200 is frequently compared to the National Security Agency (NSA), although that comparison may be unfair to whichever organization is currently spying on fewer Americans. It’s a toss-up.
She’s publicly described her military-intelligence training as a gift that shaped how she thinks, and that upon returning to America felt compelled to “employ the gifts Israel had given [her]” during that training. Now, she oversees one of America’s largest conservative media organizations, an institution explicitly designed to shape how millions of Americans understand politics and Israel. That institution has now begun selling conservatives on the physical infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, predictive surveillance, centralized identity systems, algorithmic governance, and automating human labor.
Something has to fuel Flock cameras. As a patriotic duty to bless Americans with Israel’s gifts, she has dutifully stepped forward to talk conservatives into supporting it. What a hero, she is.
Consider it: An American propaganda platform run by a former Israeli military-intelligence officer is using financially interested technology and energy figures to convince conservatives that resistance to the machine is un-American. And she would know, because she served in the IDF, I guess.
The builders understood that ordinary Americans would eventually notice the power bills, disappearing farmland, drained aquifers, and secrecy agreements with local municipalities. They also understood that Sam Altman, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg could not sell rural conservatives a used lawnmower, much less an automated civilization. So, they found a better salesman. They put an American flag around the server farm, called it national security, blamed China for the opposition, and sent PragerU to close the deal.
THE UNIT 8200 PIPELINE
Unit 8200 is not just an Israeli version of the NSA, though it is that (and I wrote about it first here). It is a military intelligence factory that recruits technically gifted Israelis while in their teens, trains them in signals interception, data analysis, surveillance, cyberwarfare, artificial intelligence, and offensive hacking, then releases them into the private technology industry with skills acquired while serving the Israeli state. Its veterans have become many of the founders, executives, and “security consultants” throughout Silicon Valley. The Wall Street Journal called the unit one of Silicon Valley’s “hottest talent pipelines,” reporting that publicly traded American companies founded by its veterans were collectively worth roughly $160 billion.
But they’re not just laundering talent to America. American taxpayers have poured hundreds of billions of dollars into Israel through military assistance, weapons transfers, missile-defense programs, intelligence cooperation, and joint technological research through memorandums of understanding and plenty of off-the-books illegal tech sharing between intel agencies. Washington and Jerusalem also created the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation, which uses government (taxpayer) money to finance partnerships between American and Israeli companies. The Department of Homeland Security operates its own branch of the program, offering public funding for joint projects involving cybersecurity, border protection, emergency services, and other homeland-security technologies. That technology – that you and I pay for – gets taken to Silicon Valley and turned into apps or software, and then you and I pay for it a second time when we download it to our phone.
Waze is a good example. The GPS driving app was founded by an Israeli cyber commando, using technology that looks awfully similar to what we gave Israel for weapons systems and intelligence tracking, collects the data from everywhere we go whether the app is on or not, and then both the money and data disappear into the ether. Usually, that means it goes back to Israel.
So what’s happening, to be clear, is that American money and technology strengthen Israel’s military and intelligence ecosystem, Israeli recruits hackers and gives them next-level training that’s better than that of American intel services (most would say), and veterans convert the knowledge, tactics, and prestige acquired in military service into private companies. Jewish venture capital then finances those companies, American corporations purchase them, and American governments and businesses buy their products. The public assumes the risk and supplies much of the infrastructure, while the profits and ownership remain private.
Here’s an Israeli advertisement extolling this “tech partnership.”
The roll call is staggering, because veterans of Unit 8200 and neighboring Israeli intelligence units have helped create or lead companies including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, CyberArk, Wiz, NSO Group, Verint, NICE, and numerous smaller cybersecurity and data-analysis firms. Microsoft bought an earlier company founded by the future creators of Wiz for approximately $320 million. Google later pursued Wiz in what would have been a $23 billion acquisition. The skills cultivated inside a foreign military intelligence service thus become some of the most valuable commodities in the American technology economy.
The traffic also runs in both directions. Unit 8200 reportedly worked with the NSA on Stuxnet, the cyberweapon used against Iran’s nuclear program. Microsoft later provided cloud infrastructure used by Unit 8200 to store and analyze enormous quantities of intercepted Palestinian communications, according to The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call. Former members of the unit reportedly worked inside Microsoft as the relationship expanded. Israeli military surveillance migrated onto American corporate servers while Israeli intelligence veterans continued migrating into American technology companies.
That is the ecosystem surrounding PragerU chief executive Marissa Streit. She trained in this, then became the executive producing propaganda videos telling Americans to welcome the data centers needed to expand that same technological order. The Newest New World Order doesn’t fund itself, people.
FOLLOW THE MONEY AND THE MESSAGE
Despite its public funding pleas, PragerU isn’t supported by subscriptions from grandmothers mailing Dennis Prager five-dollar bills inside birthday cards. Its 2024 filing reported nearly $70 million in revenue and more than $100 million in assets, with almost all income coming from bundled contributions, meaning we have no good idea where they originate. The organization’s founding sugar daddies were Dan and Farris Wilks, Christian Zionists whose father was a pastor in the “Assembly of Yahweh,” a sectarian, Judaizing cult. Their money came from fracking, a popular talking point for PragerU over the years.
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