Thursday, February 12, 2026
Trump Appoints Another PEU
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
TechGod Vance Pops Off at Olympians
Former TechGod, now Vice President J.D. Vance informed Olympians they are "not there to pop off on politics." In other words, Vance does not want or need citizen feedback.
Olympic values are Excellence, Respect and Friendship. Vance and his boss fail at all three. As a role model Trump II shows Olympic level lying, cheating, rudeness, insolence, impropriety, arrogance, unceasing need for ceaseless compliments from underlings and cruelty. J.D. is the Chihuahua at his master's feet.
That Olympians are asked to reconcile the games values with Trump II's incompetence, insults and bullying, should not be a surprise.
TechGods gave us abysmal customer service, so they've long proven their inability or lack of interest in feedback. Vance comes from this cloth.
Trump II's disintegration occurs before our very eyes and is due in part to his surrounding himself with sycophants like Vance and his clown car cabinet.
J.D. and his creep boss think they can tell independent voters what to think and what to do. Not happening.
Insiders may not listen to the little people but many voters are tired of incumbents who can't seem to pass legislation, i.e. perform their actual job. We'll see how many get sent home this November.
Votes are feedback, VP. Vance so get ready to listen because an Italian Alps avalanche may be headed your way. Get that beacon device in your backpack for you may get snowed under and need rescue.
Recall Trump II's standing while the pharmaceutical executive fainted in the Oval Office and Health Secretary Robert Kennedy's fled the scene. How good are you at self-rescue, Mr. Vance?
Can you dig yourself out of a hole you placed yourself into?
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Lonsdale Excited about Erebor Launch
Trump Is
"Man the ego stabilizers. Throw Kristi Noem overboard! Prepare the pardon punch for Ghislaine. Get the TechGods on the phone, I need more money! Everybody's gone bananas, Obama, Obongo, Bongino....!"
“I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people. What MAGA is really serving in this administration, who they’re serving, is their big donors.
“Those are the people that get the special favors. They get the government contracts, they get the pardons, or somebody they love or one of their friends gets a pardon.””And those people are private equity underwriters (PEU), TechGods and other captains of industry. Many of these people are in the Epstein files and thus need protection.
Monday, February 9, 2026
Erebor: Captive Bank of Anduril
Banking Dive reported Erebor Bank will cater to:
start-ups and high-net-worth individuals within the cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, defense and manufacturing sectors.
Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), now bankrupt, catered to:
technology, life science/healthcare, and venture capital industries, serving as a specialized financial partner for startups, private equity firms, and their founders (wealthy).Add a smattering of crypto to that SVB client mix. Sounds like Erebor is targeting the same clientele.
Iozzo Zings Manufactured Credit Events to Epstein
Renowned hacker Vincenzo Iozzo sent Jeffrey Epstein an article about Blackstone's manufactured default strategy. Their fund would buy a credit default swap on a company and then pursue providing capital to that very company. In the borrowing provisions Blackstone's fund would specify terms that would trigger a credit default. Zing, the ticking credit default swap blows and becomes money in the bank.
The opposite is happening today. Private equity underwriters (PEU) like Blackstone are avoiding credit events by gating redemptions and packaging stale assets in continuation funds.
Sell to self (sister fund) at non-arm's length valuation avoids that credit event where the PEU might have to hand over the affiliate's keys to creditors.
A different Iozzo email to Epstein offered the serial sexual predator a chance to take an equity stake in crypto mining manufacturer Bitmain prior to its planned Hong Kong IPO. It turns out Vincenzo Iozzo is a private equity underwriter.
The Epstein files are a great window into our PEU world. Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one.