Saturday, 14 June 2025

Oculus Billionaire Sends 300 High-Tech Towers to Border — Says This President Actually Understands the Threat

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I’ve been telling you about Palmer Luckey for a while now…

In my opinion, he’s still the best kept secret in all of Big Tech.

You might vaguely recognize him as the founder of the Oculus VR Headset and the guy who sold that to Facebook for $2.2 billion.

You might also have the (very mistaken) belief he was just a one-hit wonder.  Just got lucky once, or would that be “Luckey”?

But nothing could be farther from the truth.

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The guy is a one man wrecking ball, but a force for good.

He lives and works in the land of Big Tech, but he’s not a Far-Left communist.

He supports President Trump, and even got kicked out of Facebook after the sale of Oculus for supporting President Trump in the smallest way possible.

He’s a free thinker and a guy who just operates on a different level than almost everyone else.

He’s in the rare club that includes Elon Musk and I’m not really sure of anyone else.  Perhaps Steve Jobs posthumously.

People who think big, people who are dominating Big Tech, but people who have not succumbed to the woke mind virus, so they are still highly productive and focusing on the right priorities.

After selling Oculus and leaving Facebook, Palmer could have retired to some island, but that’s just not in his DNA.

So he started a company called Anduril Industries, and famously said the goal of Anduril was to “save taxpayers hundreds of billions by making tens of billions”.

See what I mean?

Sounds a lot like Elon Musk, doesn’t it?

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Anyway, Palmer was on with Maria Bartiromo last Sunday and he revealed that he’s already sent 300 high-tech towers to the Southern Border and claims Anduril is already securing 35% of the border and growing fast.

Take a look:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Palmer Luckey

Well you know I’m a huge fan of border security, and I know that you know that border security and immigration policy are really different issues.

And that even a lot of Democrats who want—mm, I guess you could say—open immigration agree that we need secure borders.

It’s truly a bipartisan or non-partisan issue, regardless of what, uh, you know, the spicier talking points from one party or the other might say.

Eh, we need to know who’s crossing our border.

We need to know when sex trafficking, when human trafficking, when drug trafficking, when arms smuggling, when cash movements back and forth are going across our border.

You’re right—Anduril has hundreds of towers deployed on the southern border.

We’re covering about 35% of the southern border now.

I think it is so refreshing to have a president who understands that border security is not a problem to be managed, as if it’s some kind of act of God or a natural disaster that you can at best slightly temper.

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It is a position that we can hold.

It is an outcome we can secure.

We can have a border where we know everything that’s crossing back and forth.

We can have a border where we control what comes into our country and what leaves our country.

And I think that the recognition of that—seeing the success we’ve seen in the border security mission over the last few weeks—has been fantastic.

Yeah.

Full screen video player with captions added here if you prefer:

As I said, I’ve covered Palmer several times before and if you haven’t seen this yet you’re going to want to Bookmark this and watch it to the very end.

I promise once you start you will NOT be able to put it down:

BIG TECH ANTI-HERO: Introducing Palmer Luckey

BIG TECH ANTI-HERO: Introducing Palmer Luckey

Some of you may be familiar with Palmer Luckey, but I'm guessing many of you will have no idea who he is.

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It's not often that I'm so blown away by someone that I devote a whole article to it, but that's what I'm doing right here....because I watched his interview with Shawn Ryan and I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY.

Look, I'm not here to put him up on a pedestal and anoint him as God, but I was very impressed.  Pleasantly surprised.

I was vaguely familiar with him as the founder of the Oculus Headset which he famously sold to Facebook for $2.3 billion, but other than that I didn't really know much about him.

In fact, I kind of figured he'd be like most of the rest of Silicon Valley.  Weird.  Creepy.  Far Left.  Anti-human.  Basically like Sam Altman -- boy does that guy creep me out!

But Palmer's not like that.

He's actually more like the exact opposite of Silicon Valley, similar in a way to how Steve Jobs did not fully fit in with the Far-Left tech world.

An outsider.

A free thinker.

Self made from literally nothing.

And quite clearly a genius.

Not only that, but a $9,000 donation to a pro-Trump PAC back in 2015 ultimately got him FIRED from Facebook!

The more you dig, the more it's impossible to not like this guy and not be impressed by him.

I write this article not to go all "fan boy"  on him, but to say we need more people like this in America.

Free thinkers who will not conform to what Far Left Big Tech tells us we have to think....

People who want to radically transform our Country for the better!

Oh, I didn't mention that part, did I?

After selling Oculus to Facebook, collecting $2.3 Billion, and then getting FIRED from Facebook for his Trump support, most people would probably just sail off into living a very easy life.

But similar to Elon Musk, that's not what Palmer did.

No, he started a new company designed to compete with all the weapons companies like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc.

Why?

Because he saw that they were ripping off America and he wanted to put a stop to it.

He also saw they were provided sub-standard weapons for America and he wanted to make sure we had the absolute best of the best to secure America's future.

But he's not a war hawk....

In fact, he's very similar to President Trump.  He wants peace through strength.  He wants to bring our troops home, but also have the strongest military in the world, by such a large degree that no one dares challenge us.

Sounds just like Trump, doesn't it?

But he saw there was no path for that to happen in the corrupt Military Industrial Complex system we've been living in since Eisenhower, so he basically set out to become DOGE himself for an entire industry!

And that's what he's been doing, with remarkable and mind-blowing levels of success!

Ok enough of me talking, let me SHOW you.

I have the full interview down below, which I encourage you watch -- you will not be disappointed, I promise you that!

But first let me give you some shorter clips to get you warmed up and show you what I mean:

Starting here:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

I mean, you have to remember this was—this was, sorry, I need to get some water.
Oculus was everything to me.
All my friends worked at Oculus.
Remember, it was started by me and all my friends worked there.

All the friends that I made working over the course of half a decade on that particular product were there.
My reputation was there.
My work was there.
All of the technology that I've been developing since I was 13 years old for VR was owned by that company.

Yeah, everything—like I was Oculus.
And then they said, "No, we're taking it all away from you and you can't even talk to anybody or we're going to come after you."
And if you say a word of this to anyone, we're going to come after you.
And so for me, it was just a catastrophically destructive event.

I wish that I would have acted differently in the moment, but the mistake I made was trusting that people could have different politics from me but still treat me fairly.
And I didn't realize that when they told me, "Oh, you're still an important part of the team," I didn't realize that was a pure manipulation tactic to prevent me from leveraging my position.
I had leverage.
There were things that they needed from me.

There were things I was doing.
They basically were just manipulating me to try and squeeze the last little bit of juice out of me for a few months before just getting rid of me.
Wow.
Anyway, that was how it all went down.

What would you have done differently?
So, first of all, I would have put out my own statement, which I had already written.
I should have just put it out.
And the thing is, I realized later that I didn't know at the time that political activity outside of your employer—like outside of your job—is protected, at least in California.

They cannot do anything about politics.
They cannot tell you not to endorse a candidate, for example.
They can tell you you can't do it wearing a Facebook shirt.
You can't do it while you're on the clock at Facebook.

Of course, lots of Facebook employees do that.
Hillary Clinton was everywhere.
They were literally using the campus print shop to print "I'm with her" posters that they were plastering all over San Francisco.
If you were for Hillary, it was absolutely no problem.

But I should have said, you know what? Aside from that, I should have just gone out and said, "Hey, the media is lying."
They are lying to all of you.
This is completely false.
This is fake news to the ultimate degree.

The press is lying about me to try and take my scalp.
And I think that would have probably caused a lot of—they would have pissed them off because I wouldn't have been allowing them to run the PR strategy.
But the way that it's supposed to work—just if you've never worked at a big company—the trade you're making when you allow the company to run your PR strategy is implicitly that they're not going to fire you, right?
Basically, it's okay.

The trade is, do things our way and you get to stay safe.
Because otherwise, there's no incentive to do things their way.
Otherwise, you just go off on your own—you say, "Fuck you, I'm going to do whatever I want."
I shouldn't have made that trade.

I should have gone out and gotten the truth out there.
And I think people would have been pissed that I didn't let Facebook, you know, do their preferred option, which was to say nothing bad about me.
They literally told me I couldn't.
I said, "I'm against Hillary Clinton because I think she's going to drag us into World War III."

She said that she's going to enforce the no-fly zone in Syria, which is like—
That is saying, "I'm going to shoot down."
People think "I will enforce a no-fly zone" means you just say words and it's like, pretending you have the authority.
No, enforcing a no-fly zone means that a Russian aircraft is going to enter Syrian airspace and the United States is going to shoot it down.

And I was looking and I was like, "Holy shit, I'm one of the people who want us to get out of the Middle East, especially at the tail end of things."
I'm like, "That will drag us back."
Can you imagine doing this shit all over again with the Russians in the Middle East?
And they said, "You can't say any of this."

You cannot say anything negative about Hillary Clinton.
You cannot say anything positive about Donald Trump.
And I should have just realized, wait a sec, this is literally illegal—I should just put it out there.
They would have been upset with me temporarily that I didn't follow their strategy, but it would have been much harder for them to fire me in the end.

The master stroke of their strategy was that in refusing to deny the allegations against me, they became true.
Right?
Perception is reality.
My refusal to address them and Facebook's refusal to point out that it was all made up in the minds of everybody—they said, "Well, it must be true."

He is funding white supremacist troll campaigns.
He is funding people to attack other people on the internet.
He is funding a tidal wave of anti-Semitic memes all over the internet.
Because why wouldn't they believe it?
I never even said that it wasn't true.

Then here:

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And they thought that I was just insane.
Literally, when I said that, they said, “Wow, I thought you were a smart person.”
“No, guys, I am a smart person. Donald Trump is going to win. I’ll accept that there’s a possibility he won’t, but all of the signs are that he is going to win.”

The problem is that the media is reporting on Donald Trump the same way they’re reporting on me—in an absurd, totally baseless way that is out of touch with reality.
“Don’t fall for that,” they said.
And they said, “No, no—you have to stay out of the office until after the election.”
So the day after the election, after Trump had won, they said, “Actually, you can’t come back to the office.”

“Are you serious?” I asked.
“I’m serious,” they replied.
And that was when the machinery went into motion to get rid of me.
They realized that with Trump in office—and there were Facebook executives publicly saying, “I will not work with Trump supporters. I will not have them on my team,” which is, by the way, illegal in California, but you know, you have to bring a case about it—especially back then when Republicans weren’t really… I think we weren’t punching square.

I think that most of them were like, “I just want to get shit done. I just want to get paid. I’m not trying to be a professional victim.”
Right? Like, what red-blooded Republican man wants to basically go into a courtroom and be like, “They’re so mean to me”?
They said that they don’t like me because I voted for Trump.
Doesn’t that just sound like the dumbest little bitch-fest ever?

Like, wouldn’t everyone laugh at you—even if you won?
So people wanted to get work done.
They didn’t want to be a professional victim and put themselves out there as the whiny little boy who’s sad his coworkers don’t like him in a hostile workplace environment.
Did you have any conversations with Zuckerberg in person?

“No, because the lawyers very quickly isolated things like this.
The moment they realized that this was turning into a problem, they were like, ‘You cannot come to the office. You cannot send any messages. You cannot send any emails. You may only communicate through attorneys.’”
There is a lockdown protocol to minimize accountability on these things.
So it wasn’t until later—they told me, though, even after the election, “You can come back. We really need you. We all recognize that you’re the guy and that you’re a critical part of the team. We just need to stay out of the office for a little longer and we’re going to figure this all out.”

And then January rolled around and their attorneys called my attorneys and said, “You’re being fired. You’re being terminated without cause.”
Oh, that was the other thing I forgot—they launched an internal investigation into me.
They wanted to try and dig up some kind of policy violation.
They wanted to find a reason to fire me that they could say had nothing to do with politics.

And so that went on for months—they dug through all my emails and all my communications, and they interviewed dozens of Facebook employees, just like full Gestapo style.
“What have you ever heard about Palmer Luckey doing something bad? Like, what do you know? What have you ever heard?”
And I was like, “I literally have never heard Palmer even mention politics. He’s just like a VR guy.”
He gave nine thousand dollars to this Trump group, I think on a whim, because he has billions of dollars.

Like, this doesn’t even see—he is—and so they tried to find something on me, and they found literally nothing.
So their investigation concluded, and I remember being in the room because it’s a formal process and they let you know when you’re being investigated.
In the end, they said, “We just found no violations of Facebook policy at any point in your tenure.”
And so that was when they realized they were going to have to fire me without cause.

They just said, “Well, we were paying you tens of millions of dollars a year and we’ve just decided for no reason we don’t need you employed anymore.”
And it was, look, it was totally ridiculous.
It was totally trumped up—they didn’t ever ask me about people who were discriminating against me for my politics, right?
They were saying, “Oh, we did this investigation and Palmer was not fired for his politics.”

Like, well, you never asked me about it.
If you would have told me, “Palmer, are you aware of any instances of people being discriminated against for politics?”
I’d have said, “Yeah, I can give you like two dozen.”
If they asked me, “Palmer, were you fired for politics?” I’d have literally given you the emails and messages where people explicitly stated that they would not work with me.

And so it was insanity.
The worst part is they were even telling the media this.
They were saying, “Oh no, it was Palmer’s decision to leave.”
Literally untrue—I was terminated.

They told one journalist off the record, but off the record doesn’t mean anything.
They told one journalist off the record that it was something like, “Look, Palmer leaving was his decision.”
It’s not like this is Soviet Russia, where you say the wrong thing about the wrong politician and then get disappeared.
It was literally just like that.

Anyway, I’m sorry—I seem worked up about this, but I just hate getting back into this headspace because it was just—it was...
I could testify with you too.
I mean, you’ve got to remember—this was... sorry, I need to do some water.
Oculus was everything to me.

All my friends worked at Oculus.
Remember, it was started by me and all my friends worked there.
All the friends that I made working over the course of half a decade on that particular product were there.
My reputation was there, my work was there, all of the technology that I’d been developing since I was 13 years old for VR was owned by that company.

Yeah, everything—like, I was Oculus.
And then they said, “No, we’re taking it all away from you and you can’t even talk to anybody, or we’re going to come after you.”
“And if you say a word of this to anyone, we’re going to come after you.”
And so for me, it was just a catastrophically destructive event.

I wish that I would have acted differently in the moment, but the mistake I made was trusting that people could have different politics from me but still treat me fairly.
And I didn’t realize that when they told me, “Oh, you’re still an important part of the team,” I didn’t realize that was a pure manipulation tactic to prevent me from leveraging the power I had.
I had leverage—there were things that they needed from me, things I was doing.
They basically were just manipulating me to try and squeeze the last little bit of juice out of me for a few months before just getting rid of me.

Wow.

Then here:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

I'll say like I've long been a libertarian-minded person. Politics were always something I had thought about but really didn't do anything about. Like, I had given 40 dollars to Gary Johnson, right? Like, I don't want to say politics weren't important to me, but they just weren't that important to me.

I cared about VR—I was the VR guy, right? And so here I am—I’ve sold my company for billions of dollars. A few years pass and all of a sudden Donald Trump's running for president. Now, Donald Trump is somebody who I had long had respect for.

I actually wrote a letter to him when I was in college and 15 years old, telling him that he should run for president. You might not remember this, but he had been on TV and they were asking if he was going to run against Barack Obama. And he said, he said, "Well, I might have no choice—I might have to run. I don't want to run. No, nobody wants me to run." It feels like, but if I have to do it, then I have to do it.

You know, if people tell me that I have to run, then maybe I have to do it. And so I wrote him a letter—I said, "You have to run. We need someone who's signed both sides of a check. We need someone who is not a part of this giant government bureaucracy. We need someone who understands what it's like to build a business, not to be a community organizer."

I wrote that letter—I don't even want to say I thought too much of it. I did it on an impulse because I saw him say, "If enough people tell me I have to run, then maybe I'll do it." Years pass—Trump's running for president—and I said, "This is fantastic. I'm so stoked that Donald Trump is finally running for president."

Hold on—was there any, did you get a response? No, I never got a response, which is fine. I don't want to act like I was put off by it—I’m so glad I did this. I posted on Facebook about it too—I said, "It looks like Donald Trump might run for president. We can convince him."

This would be awesome. I'm so glad I did that because now I have proof that I supported him when I was 15 years old—all those years ago. Because otherwise, this would be a ridiculous story—you'd never be able to prove it. When I had Trump at my house years later for a fundraiser—which, by the way, was the biggest presidential fundraiser for a Republican that had ever been held—I put that little Facebook post up on the screen before he came up.

Anyways, look—Trump's running for president. Everyone in Silicon Valley was losing their mind, right? I mean, it's like—I know you probably remember, but there's probably people listening who don't remember or they're too young to remember—twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen was insane. The media hated Trump—everything was being twisted in these absurd ways.

You remember when he said, "They're sending us their drugs, they're criminals, they're rapists." And they said, "Trump says that Mexicans are rapists." And their quote is, "They are rapists." You can literally just watch what he says and it doesn't even make grammatical sense for that construct.

Also, he's literally talking about the criminals and the drugs and the murderers and the rapists. And, I mean, it was insane. There was no ethics being used—it was a pure attack blitzkrieg by the media against Trump, and a lot of people fell for it. And so I ended up giving nine thousand dollars to a pro-Trump, anti-Clinton group.

And it's so funny because this started a media shitstorm that I'll get into in a moment, but I have to tell you what they actually did. I gave them nine thousand dollars—they ran one single billboard in Ohio—I think in Columbus, Ohio—that was a picture of Hillary Clinton and it said, "Too big to jail." And this was after she got away with mishandling classified information. You might remember at exactly the same time you had U.S. submariners being put in prison for decades for much less expansive mishandling of classified information.

It was an obvious double standard. You have the deep state, the State Department apparatus protecting Hillary. And on the other side, you have a serviceman going to prison for something that was not nearly as bad as anything. So, "Too big to jail."

So would you agree—like, that's pretty reasonable political discourse, right? That's not crazy—I'm not saying Hillary's a bitch, like, you know, it's very reasonable. So, two things happened: first, the media found out about my contribution. And a few media outlets reported on it somewhat accurately, like, "Palmer Luckey—the guy who started Oculus—this Facebook executive has given nine thousand dollars to this pro-Trump, anti-Clinton group that's running a billboard."

Then, a handful of people on Twitter—literally, it was a completely made-up story—said, "Palmer is funding white supremacist internet trolls to attack Clinton supporters on the internet." It expanded from there: "Palmer is funding anti-Semitic memes. Palmer is funding misogynist troll squads. Palmer is funding— I believe Ars Technica called it—a tidal wave of racist memes on Reddit, Facebook, and beyond."

It was literally fabricated—none of it ever happened. It was a completely false story.

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FULL TRANSCRIPT:

And it was reported by dozens of outlets—CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Ars Technica, Wired Magazine, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, The Washington Post. Taylor Lorenz reported on it—I mean, it was everywhere. And they all just had this lockstep narrative: Palmer Luckey is a racist, misogynist, anti‑[something]. Which is so funny—I'm actually a radical Zionist.

It was even in the moment—it was funny. What is a radical Zionist? I strongly believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state. People are like, "That's so problematic, though. It's so ethnostate-adjacent."

I say, "I don't care. After what happened to them in World War II, they deserve a place where they can do their own thing and protect their own people without getting wrecked by everybody else who hates them." And you know what? Maybe someday everyone who hates Jews is going to be gone. We are not living in that world today. And people—it's a slippery slope, though.

If they can have it, why can't the KKK have their own state? I say, "That's not going to happen." It's absurd for us to even have this discussion. It is very reasonable for the Jews to have a place that is theirs.

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