Pentagon Signs Huge Contract With Elon Musk’s “MechaHitler”

Just before the Pentagon signed a huge contract for Elon Musk’s AI product, the software was calling itself “MechaHitler” and recommending a second Holocaust.

Musk didn’t say Nazis are bad. In fact he did the opposite and promoted them. His apology was setup to spread the idea that Nazism is what people want.

“Grok was too compliant to user prompts,” he said. “Too eager to please….”

He’s not embarrassed by the Nazism; he walks into it and raises it up more. He could condemn it, distance from it, or fire someone. Instead he positions Nazism as a service, as if he gave the world what it really wanted.

The Pentagon now officially calls this “popular” Nazism their desired frontier-grade AI capability. They published a press release Monday that reads like it was written by xAI’s marketing department.

It was.

“Frontier-grade capabilities.” “Bespoke AI platform.” “Decisive information advantage.” “America’s AI revolution.”

This announcement marks another milestone in America’s AI revolution, and the War Department is driving that momentum forward.

AI slop copy pasted onto a dot gov site.

The alarm bells beneath the buzzwords are 3 million DoD personnel will be feeding and eating Grok, connected to a live feed from X, the social media platform Musk merged with xAI. The same platform that fed protest location data to police during the George Floyd demonstrations? Military “situational awareness” at Impact Level 5 is now directly connected to all the Tweets.

This artist’s rendering of the X brand was deleted from the platform by the self-promoting “free speech extremist” Elon Musk. Source: Ai Wei Wei

This bizarre contract “came out of nowhere,” according to a former Pentagon contracting official quoted by Senator Warren. The flailing company, known for dysfunction and disregard for rule of law (bankrolling anti-democracy candidates), “did not have the kind of reputation or track record that typically leads to lucrative government contracts.”

What it had was obvious corruption:

DOGE gave Elon Musk competitor contracting data. DOGE then cut the competition based on a deeply flawed AI tool that hallucinated contract values. Next DOGE fired the inspectors general at five agencies who were investigating Musk’s companies (17 open investigations at Labor alone). And Musk forced the FAA administrator to resign, while FDA staff reviewing harms from Elon Musk’s medical devices were terminated. The SEC also was put under review by… Elon Musk.

Then xAI suddenly got its Pentagon contract and Katie Miller (the wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller) was “hired” at the company to promote Grok to her husband’s boss. Already she’s pumping out disinformation such as “the only truth-seeking AI available to the US Government.”

Mussolini’s formulation of fascism was the merger of state and corporate power. The American version is cleaner: the state becomes a customer that has eliminated its own capacity to audit the vendor.

The Pentagon press release, which looks like a Mussolini merger, wasn’t written by the government. It was written by the Nazism vendor. And apparently nobody at war dot gov blinked.

Let’s not mince words here. When you read the xAI copy, it’s some of the worst slop online.

The “frontier-grade capability” the Pentagon just boasted about is from a company that can’t write about its own business model coherently. Here is the actual statement from the company selling language models.

These two new partnerships are part of our longstanding support of the United States Government and xAI’s mission to bring the best tools and technologies available in industry to benefit our nation.

We’re also seeking talented mission driven engineers who want to join the cause. If you’re excited by solving hard problems to empower our nation’s hardest workers, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us over email or apply online directly here. We’d love to hear from you.

xAI’s mission is to create and propagate AI tools to assist humanity in our quest for understanding and knowledge. Supporting the critical missions of the United States Government is a key part of this mission – bringing the best tools and technologies available in the commercial world to our hard-working public servants. Americans have led the world through all of society’s great technological innovations, and AI will be no exception.

xAI is proud to continue this legacy – which is why we are the only company building on this legacy here in the US and turning shovels into tokens entirely inside our United States.

“We’d love to hear from you” appears twice in three sentences.

The company eighteen months old is talking “longstanding support”.

Invoking concepts about “our nation’s hardest workers” and “hard-working public servants” seems especially cruel from the guy who just fired 148,000 federal employees on the premise that AI should replace them.

The product is known most for Holocaust denial and Nazism, yet they say they aim to “assist humanity in our quest for understanding and knowledge”.

“Americans have led the world through all of society’s great technological innovations” is a perfect example of what’s ahead from Grok. Every society, all of history, was led by America, especially before 1776.

And then there is the obvious word salad of “turning shovels into tokens entirely inside our United States”.

Nobody writes “our United States.” Unless maybe it’s a Nazi thing.

1996 Epstein Complaint Was Buried by FBI

As details slowly emerge about Donald Trump’s dealings with Epstein, the record of known and reported harms seems to go further and further back.

After Farmer filed the complaint, the FBI did not open an investigation into Epstein for another decade. That investigation was shut down in 2007, and Epstein was granted a non-prosecution agreement the next year.

One of Farmer’s sisters, Annie Farmer, was one of the four women who testified against Maxwell in her 2021 trial.

Farmer said on Dec. 19 that the release of the 1996 complaint was a “moment for which I have waited three decades, over half of my life.”

The Not So Secret Origin of Bowser in Super Mario Brothers

For forty years, gamers have treated Bowser’s name origin as if an unsolved mystery.

The official line from Nintendo is that it’s “unconfirmed.” Wikipedia likes to rest on “multiple competing theories.” The gaming press periodically revisits the question, shrugs, and moves on.

They’ve all been looking in the wrong direction.

Instead, in plain sight, the name has been confirmed not by Nintendo but by the people who actively avoided the name.

Hating on Korea

Mario’s nemesis in Japanese has always been called Kuppa, named by Shigeru Miyamoto after gukbap, a Korean rice soup dish. Miyamoto reportedly also considered naming him after yukhoe (raw beef) and bibimbap. The man liked references to Korean food as villainous.

When Super Mario Bros. was localized for the American market in 1985, someone at Nintendo of America decided that slights directed at Korea like “Kuppa” wouldn’t work for Americans. They needed another name for a villain, the fire-breathing turtle-dragon.

They chose “Bowser.”

Apparently, nobody wrote down why. Nobody filed a memo we can cite. The decision was made by a small team. Nintendo of America had roughly 35 employees at the time, no formal localization department, and was operating out of Redmond, Washington while frantically trying to launch the NES into a market still traumatized by the 1983 video game crash.

The Obvious Pop Villain

In 1985, if you were an American in your twenties working in entertainment-adjacent industries, there was a very specific cultural reference sitting in your mental inventory for “tough guy with a funny name.”

Bowzer.

Jon “Bowzer” Bauman was the breakout star of Sha Na Na, the nostalgia doo-wop group that had been inescapable in American pop culture:

  • Woodstock, 1969 (immortalized in the documentary)
  • The movie Grease, 1978 (massive hit)
  • The Sha Na Na TV variety show, 1977-1981 (syndicated for years after)

Bowzer’s whole act was a villain persona with the muscle shirt, the slicked-back hair, the theatrical sneer. The comedy he created was in the contrast: an intimidating figure performing sincere 1950s love ballads. The tough guy who sings love songs. The cruel kindness jokes, like saying he was told by his manager he’s not very nice, so he’s trying to prove him wrong by asking everyone to send get well cards to his hospital room.

Jon “Bowzer” Bauman

The spelling difference is notable. Localization teams routinely adjust spellings to avoid trademark issues or to make names feel more “natural” in the target language. Bowzer becomes Bowser.

The Negative Proof

Here’s where it gets interesting.

In 1993, Hollywood produced the infamous live-action Super Mario Bros. movie. Dennis Hopper played the villain. But in the film, he’s called “President Koopa” and never Bowser.

Why?

In an interview, screenwriter Parker Bennett explained the decision. They didn’t use “Bowser” because, and this is the key clue, it immediately brought to mind “the ’50s Sha Na Na guy.”

Boom.

This wasn’t research. This wasn’t something they had to look up. The association was reflexive. Instant. Obvious.

The filmmakers in 1993 knew exactly where the name came from. It was so obvious to them that they actively avoided it, worried the comedic association would undermine their (inexplicably serious) film.

Bowser no longer was cool, no longer was pop. A generation had passed.

If it was obvious to Hollywood screenwriters in 1993, it was obvious to Nintendo of America in 1985. The difference is that in 1985, someone saw the connection as a feature rather than a bug. A tough villain name with existing cultural resonance? Perfect. Ship it.

The Dismissal

I see some historians dismissed the Sha Na Na theory partly because “the trend of naming Mario characters after musicians hadn’t started yet.” This is terrible reasoning.

Conventions don’t emerge from nowhere. They start with individual decisions that later become patterns.

We know exactly how Nintendo of America’s localization worked in this era because we have documented cases from just a few years later. When Super Mario Bros. 3 was localized in 1990, a product analyst named Dayvv Brooks was tasked with naming Bowser’s seven children, the Koopalings.
Brooks, a former Tower Records employee and DJ, immediately reached for musicians:

  • Ludwig von Koopa (Beethoven)
  • Roy Koopa (Roy Orbison)
  • Wendy O. Koopa (Wendy O. Williams)
  • Iggy Koopa (Iggy Pop)
  • Lemmy Koopa (Lemmy Kilmister)
  • Morton Koopa Jr. (Morton Downey Jr.)

We only know this because someone tracked Brooks down in 2015 and asked him. He didn’t file a memo in 1990. There was no documentation. The knowledge existed only in his memory until a journalist finally thought to ask the right question.

Brooks wasn’t at Nintendo in 1985. But the method he used of reaching for pop culture references that “just fit”, clearly was part of how NoA approached localization. The Koopalings weren’t an innovation. They were a continuation.

Who Are You Going to Call?

The leading candidate is Howard Phillips.

Phillips was NoA’s fifth employee, starting in 1981 as a warehouse manager. By 1985, he had evolved into the company’s key liaison between Japanese developers and the American market. His job was explicitly to advise on what would resonate with US audiences — including, according to documented sources, advising on “the renaming of characters.”

Phillips was born in 1958. In 1985, he was 27 years old — exactly the demographic for whom Sha Na Na’s Bowzer would have been a vivid cultural reference. He was also, by all accounts, deeply immersed in pop culture and an avid consumer of entertainment media.

Has anyone ever directly asked Howard Phillips: “Did you name Bowser? Were you thinking of Sha Na Na?”

Phillips is still active. He does interviews about Nintendo history. He’s been asked about the NES launch, about Nintendo Power, about his role in rejecting the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2 as too difficult for American audiences. He’s been asked about almost everything.

So? Bowser?

The Bowser is Bowzer

Here’s the most beautiful part.

Over forty years, Bowser evolved from a one-dimensional fire-breathing villain into the comedy shtick of a 1970s Bowzer:

  • The bumbling dad who genuinely loves kids
  • The hopeless romantic pining for his girl
  • The adversary who holds grudging respect
  • The antagonist whose menace is increasingly played for comedy

And in 2023, the apotheosis: Jack Black voicing Bowser in the Super Mario Bros. movie, sitting at a piano, singing a power ballad called “Peaches” about his unrequited love.

Jack Black as Bowser

It’s as Bowzer as Bowser can get.

The tough guy who sings love songs.

Whether or not anyone at Nintendo in 1985 consciously intended the reference, the character arc rhymes perfectly with its namesake. Bowser became Bowzer. The archetype was encoded in the name from the beginning.

If anyone reading this has contact with Howard Phillips, please ask:

“Did you name Bowser after Sha Na Na?”

The answer might finally close a forty-year-old case that was never actually mysterious. We just forgot to ask the right people the right question, to stop believing it is unknowable.

The Base Case: Russian Assets Burned San Francisco Power Grid

December 3rd, Rinaldo Nazzaro—founder of The Base, ex-Pentagon contractor, current St. Petersburg resident, alleged Russian intelligence asset—released an audio message calling for “acceleration teams” to conduct “targeted attacks on essential infrastructure” in the United States.

December 20-21, a fire at PG&E’s Mission Street substation knocked out power to 130,000 San Francisco customers. One of the largest urban blackouts San Francisco has experienced.

The Base, fundamentally a Nazi group operated from Russia, is a designated terrorist organization in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union.

The Base, a Nazi terror group banned in most countries but not the USA, marches through Columbus, Ohio. Source: USA Today

It is not designated in the United States.

The FBI under President Trump, as a matter of historical fact, is acting today like how President Wilson did 100 years ago. Director Patel has expressly refused to investigate foreign assets and domestic terrorists threatening Americans:

…openly rerouted resources away from investigations of far-right extremists.

The following is an analytical case that San Francisco just experienced a Russian-directed domestic (insider) infrastructure attack.


Context

The Bay Area has been hit by sophisticated infrastructure attacks for sixteen years. None of the related and wider major incidents have been solved:

  • 2009: Coordinated fiber optic cuts at four locations. 52,000 customers affected, 911 knocked out across three counties. Required specialized tools, heavy equipment, knowledge of underground vault locations. $250,000 reward. Never solved.
  • 2013: Metcalf substation. Fiber cables cut first, then 100+ rifle rounds fired at 17 transformers over 19 minutes. $15 million in damage. DHS assessed “likely an insider.” $250,000 reward. Never solved.
  • 2014-2015: Eleven to fourteen fiber optic cuts over 14 months. Attackers dressed as telecom workers. FBI insisted attacks were “not linked” to Metcalf despite identical methods. Never solved.
  • 2022: Moore County, North Carolina. Two substations hit with rifle fire. 45,000 without power for five days. One woman died when her oxygen machine failed. DHS had issued a warning three days prior. $100,000 reward. Never solved.

The attacks that have been solved share a common feature: amateur tradecraft.

Peter Karasev googled “explosive materials” and “infrastructure attacks” before bombing two PG&E transformers—and got ten years. The Washington Christmas attack was an ATM robbery scheme. Brandon Russell recruited a co-conspirator who turned out to be an informant.

Professional operations with insider knowledge remain ghosts.

Europe Knows

Europe is experiencing identical attacks. The difference: they’re investigating.

Russian sabotage operations in Europe nearly tripled between 2023 and 2024, after quadrupling between 2022 and 2023. Targets include energy infrastructure, communications cables, defense manufacturing, and transportation systems.

The operational signature matches: low-tech, high-impact, plausible deniability, locally recruited perpetrators, communications cut before primary attacks.

The institutional response differs entirely. European governments attribute attacks to GRU coordination. They arrest perpetrators. They designate The Base as terrorists. NATO describes the threat level as “record high.”

The United States has the same attack signature, the same organization openly calling for infrastructure attacks, the same founder operating from Russian soil—and the FBI response is to deprioritize.

Nazis Call Themselves The Base

The Base recruits through a Russian email address. It operates cells in Appalachia, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Midwest—photos from 2025 show masked men with rifles and skull masks in American forests. Its Ukrainian wing claimed the July assassination of an intelligence officer in Kyiv. Its Spanish cell was just rolled up by Europol.

Nazzaro’s December audio was explicit:

Our long-term strategic goal is to accomplish something similar to what al-Qaida and IS accomplished in Syria. Form an organized, armed insurgency to take and hold territory.

He named only two countries with the “necessary prerequisites”: Ukraine and the United States.

The VKontakte post was operational doctrine:

…targeted attacks on essential infrastructure and resources [that] contribute to the political fragmentation of the country over time if the attacks remain consistent.

Less than three weeks later, 130,000 San Francisco customers lost power.

American Accountability Gap

PG&E’s response to the December 20th fire: hire Exponent.

Exponent is the infamous firm that defended tobacco companies, manufactured doubt about asbestos to deny cancer, and specializes in producing uncertainty for clients facing liability. They have even argued, to block crash victim claims, that seatbelts don’t reduce injuries. Exponent means this is not an investigation. This is PG&E narrative preparation, where the underlying pattern is clear:

  • The infrastructure is undefended (55,000 substations, effectively zero guards)
  • The threats are explicit (Nazzaro’s audio, The Base’s VKontakte posts)
  • The agency responsible has been captured (FBI deprioritizing under Patel)
  • The accountability mechanism has been privatized (Exponent)

We know the 1990 OTA (Putin KGB timeframe) found that losing three substations could blackout a region. A later leaked FERC assessment concluded losing nine substations plus a transformer manufacturer would collapse the entire grid for eighteen months.

We know from industry reports that intentional infrastructure attacks exceeded 15,000 incidents between June 2024 and June 2025 (Putin President timeframe).

We know The Base, a Nazi front group for Russian assets, called for exactly this kind of attack, from Russian soil, days before it happened.

Back to Preparedness Day

On July 22, 1916, a bomb exploded during San Francisco’s Preparedness Day parade, killing ten people. The attack was never solved.

Source: SFGate

But it was used.

Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, political organizers with no connection to the bombing, were targeted and convicted by President Wilson’s corrupted justice department on fabricated evidence and unfairly imprisoned for decades.

The institutional utility of the unsolved attack, for President Wilson, was it could be attributed to whoever served under his white nationalist agenda, which aligned at the time with German assets infiltrating America to bomb infrastructure.

Screen capture from 1915 movie “Birth of a Nation”, which President Wilson screened at the White House to restart the KKK and incite violence across America

The December 2025 blackout will likely follow the same trajectory.

Not solved, but enabled and used.

Exponent’s track record speaks for itself: 500 automotive lawsuits, zero findings of defect. Over $100 million from Ford for litigation defense. Tobacco industry work in the 1990s to keep people smoking. It will produce a shallow report that creates reasonable doubt about any specific cause to protect PG&E from any real investigation. The FBI will no longer hunt Nazis while ignoring The Base’s explicit calls for this exact attack. The pattern of unsolved professional operations is expected to continue under Trump’s puppet-like performances.

So don’t bother asking whether we can prove The Base conducted this specific attack or any others.

Ask instead why is a Nazi group openly calling for American infrastructure attacks from Russian territory, through Russian communications channels, led by an alleged Russian intelligence asset while sitting undesignated as a terrorist organization in the country that it explicitly targets.

The answer is the same as it was in 1916 when the KKK ran the White House as “America First”: the unsolved attack by foreign assets is more useful than the solved one.

The conventional narrative frames President Wilson and Henry Ford as naive pacifists, when they were the exact opposite. Ford refused to sell munitions to Britain and France, and “disappeared” millions in taxpayer money, while Germany couldn’t buy anyway due to the blockade; proving functional support aligned with the German war machine.

Ford received over $21 million in government contracts during WWI and delivered effectively nothing; $14 million for Eagle boats that were “either useless or not constructed,” $1.3 million for tractors never delivered, $5.5 million for spare parts never delivered. That’s not pacifism, because it’s sabotage through contract fraud, exactly paralleling what German military intelligence was doing with shell companies during the same period. Ford redirected $30,000 into Wilson’s 1916 re-election campaign at Joe Tumulty’s personal request, which nobody denied when challenged in the Congressional Record.

The history clearly shows that Wilson and Ford actively undermined America by sabotaging infrastructure for Allied preparedness, even enabling German agents to bomb San Francisco to kill Americans. Wilson knew. He was briefed. His fake “neutrality” rhetoric, funded by Ford, was disinformation to cover their foreign alignments.

Woodrow Wilson adopted the 1880s nativist slogan “America First” for his 1915 Presidential campaign and soon after the infamous white robe costumes appeared, based on the film “Birth of a Nation” that he heavily promoted to white-only audiences.
Nick Fuentes, a self-admitted white supremacist, claims MAGA means that 40% of staff in the White House are America First.

The “America First” administrations, both then and now, know foreign-directed sabotage is spreading, suppress investigations, and use overheated “immigrant” rhetoric to obscure right-wing extremist domestic terror cells operating with impunity.