"AI Promoter" American Edge's Dark Advisors

The American Edge Project, a TechGod lobbying group, currently has a commercial singing the praises of AI.  I wanted to know more about the folks pushing unrestrained AI on our citizenry.

Flashback to June 2020 before Tech giants were elevated to TechGod status:

Ten organizations today urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to shut down American Edge, a new political advocacy group that Facebook launched to influence federal policymaking through advertising and political spending.

After watching the Cane Brew commercial with its Matthew McConaughey like CEO, I looked under the bottle cap to sample its leadership content.  

American Edge had the necessary Red & Blue political stars on their various advisory boards.  Nearly all are private equity underwriters (PEU) ranging from Pine Island Capital to Liberty Strategic Capital to Fortress to Google Partners.  

Their advisory board is a walk down memory lane.  Two members, Frances Townsend and Greg Walden, played a significant role in PEU Report stories over the years.  

Fran wrote the White House Lessons Learned Report on Hurricane Katrina which omitted the hospital with the highest patient death toll, Lifecare Hospitals, a Carlyle Group affiliate.  It's nice when the White House does your risk management for you.  Fran went on to work for Carlyle advisor James A. Baker's law firm advising corporations on how to get out of their government messes.  She then joined PEU MacAndrew & Forbes before going to Activision, which is selling to Affinity Partners and Middle East sovereign wealth funds.  

Greg Walden was head of the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC's) oversight function during the years Chief Financial Officer Chris Ward embezzled over $1 million.  Walden's group could not provide the basic oversight required by a local nonprofit organization, getting a financial audit and have it presented by the partners in the audit firm.

It's no wonder the American Edge Project is doing the TechGod's bidding (like Fran did for Carlyle) and asking for no oversight (like Walden did for the NRCC).

What comes around goes around.  Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.

PEU Generals & Admirals Everywhere

ABC's This Week interviewed Admiral Mike Mullen this morning about Trump II's War of Choice on Iran.  Yesterday, CNN's Michael Smerconish interviewed Admiral James Stavridis about the same topic.  Neither network revealed their conflicts of interest from their private equity ties.

Admiral Mullen's C5 Capital is "tackling some of the biggest societal issues that corrode global security and disrupt peace."  That sounds germane to the current outbreak of war.

C5 was founded by South African born Andre Pienaar who calls himself a "cybersecurity, space and energy expert and investor.  He does not have the same name recognition as Elon Musk or Peter Thiel but he is politically connected. 

Pienaar serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Institute of Peace which was renamed in December 2025 to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.  That board is currently under disruption like everything Trump II, private equity underwriters (PEU) and TechGods touch.

An SEC filing stated:

Admiral Michael Mullen, Ret. joined the Pine Island Capital Partners team in 2018.  

Mullen was not alone in getting a free pass on his conflicts of interest.  The Carlyle Group's Admiral James Stavridis got same. 

Surely, Carlyle's global strategists are working overtime with the seismic remaking of industries and the globe, something they have had a hand in for decades.

Thank heaven for the French.  They may be the first to surrender in war, but they did not surrender to conflicted warriors.  Their interview with General David Petraeus disclosed his PEU role with KKR and his numerous positions, one of which deals with the Middle East.

The PEU Admirals & Generals have returned to the airwaves, no longer afraid that Trump II might twist their words or whack heir firm in retaliation for anything less than "Trump is great, Trump is good and I thank him for our food."

It's risk taking time, everything, everywhere and all at once.  Where are the sane minds in Congress and the Supremes?  Many are retiring, so I hear.  How many will end up on a PEU or TechGod payroll?  

And how many PEU/TechGod candidates will emerge to replace them?

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one and for this many suffer needlessly.

Shield the Little People, Lord

Trump II hosted similarly oriented leaders at his Trump National Doral for the launch of the Shield of the Americas.  Let me guess:  This shield involves a bunch of high tech stuff that is obscenely expensive and enriches the already richest people on the planet.  And that shield, which includes a high tech military, will be used against "the cartels."

It is the seventh day of Trump II's War of Choice on Iran, a historic "fully integrated, multi-domain operation."  No wonder Iran is blowing up data centers.  TechGods will not be pleased.

Trump II wants to open up Iran to the West and direct where their natural resources go while using oil proceeds to buy TechGod products/services and invest in unsellable private equity underwriter (PEU) affiliates/secondary offerings.

World leaders may not be aware that showing up to any meeting with Trump II is at their peril.  They risk being used, usurped and/or reduced to a prop in Trump II's irreality play. 

Chris Whalen of The Institutional Risk Analyst wrote:

The year 2025 was another year of magical thinking ℅ Donald Trump, a man whose mere presence in the room causes everyone else to descend to their most base level. Trump came to Washington as a president who spurned convention and embraced crypto currencies. 

He rejected New Deal regulation and shamelessly encouraging greed and self-interest in a way not seen since the years following WWI. The impact on financial markets is profound and may continue for some time.

Trump's military escapades are hostile takeovers of attractive targets, formerly known as sovereign countries.  He's a deal maker and deal makers earn deal fees.

Trump II's usurping is ceaseless, driven by want.  It's a form of resource lust.  That combined with his desire to dominate means nearly everyone and everything is a potential target. 

Greed is the language of PEUs and disruption the signature mark of TechGods. 

Lord, shield us from the takers of the world and their violence.  Soften their hearts such that they can fully rejoin the human family and fulfill what Christ taught us, to love you and to love our neighbor.  

Update:  TechGods hate when one of their own (a former Palantir engineer) reveals the rigged game and offers to work on behalf of the little people.  They want government power and resources trained in their direction. 

TechGods are good at stealing, but bad on sharing or making whole people damaged by their products/services.  

Jilted Synapse "bank" customers could use some of what Andreessen Horowitz is passing around.  Might those Synapse account losers show up at Joe Lonsdale's Erebor Bank, the new Bank of TechGods?  They'd be smart not to touch it.  "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

Power Pledges: Old & New

TechGod companies pledged to fund increased electricity costs from their data centers at Trump II's White House.  Major TechGods did not personally show up to make the pledge.  They sent representatives.

True to form Trump II, the Digital Caligula, worked in a revenue source for data centers.  In times of emergency (likely caused by the strain they place on the system) data centers can sell their power back to the grid.  In some areas that could fetch sky high rates.

This is not the first pledge by the rich and powerful.  Recall the Giving Pledge?

TechGods were once for it but now against it.  Divorced wives have proven far more effective philanthropists than the men who set them aside.

Only eight of the twenty two deceased signers of the pledge fulfilled their commitment.  That's a 66% failure rate.  The pledge has not aged well.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU (private equity underwriters) and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.

The public got to see one in action as Red Team Senator Tim Sheehy (PEU Blackstone Group) manhandled a U.S. Marine protesting Trump's War of Choice conducted in conjunction with our 51st state (Israel).  Blackstone co-founder Steve Schwarzman must be proud. 

Decorum has been replaced by Deplorum.   Sheehy has a bright PEUture.

Obsequiousness Abounds

Trump II entered his War of Choice on Iran based on a "feeling based on fact."  When exposed to similar brilliance my physician father-in-law would say, "that may be the result of eating a bad burrito."  It was a nicer way of saying don't confuse your brilliance with your excrement.  

Trump II is infamous for his savage whims.  Libertarian TechGods prostrate themselves before Trump II (with Anthropic being a recent exception).  

Apparently our TechGods learned the fealty position from Congress.  It's one with a good view of Trump II's cankles.

The public is unhappy with the economy, Trump and Congress.  Voters did not elect Trump to run Venezuela, Iran, Gaza, Cuba, Greenland, Canada, Mexico or any country other than the United States.

Gasoline is up from $2.33 to $2.93 per gallon.  That's a 25% increase in a few days.  I'm sure more consequences are coming for Trump II's "feeling/bad burrito" that he rated a 15 on a scale of 1 to 10.  It takes a lot of gas for someone to punch through the maximum number of the scale they just set.  Trump II is full of it.

Time will reveal if Trump II's effort to open up Iran for the PEU (private equity underwiter)/TechGod class is successful.  It is a bold, brash whim, worthy of ketamine fueled TechGod in the midst of a rager.

Political Risk Insurance for Persian Gulf Shippers & Epstein Enablers?

Trump II came to the rescue of shippers stranded by his Iranian War of Choice.  He mobilized the U.S. Development Finance Corporation's (DFC's) "Political Risk and Guaranty products."  Their press release states:

DFC will offer support to commercial shipping charterers, shipowners, and key maritime insurance providers to minimize market disruptions and help ensure the free flow of goods and capital.

Trump appointed Ben Black to head the DFC last May.  Black is the son of Apollo Global co-founder Leon Black, a major sponsor of Jeffrey Epstein, the infamous international pedophile sex ring operator.

That's Leon Black with Donald Trump in 1996.  Ben was not yet a teenager.  Epstein later commissioned an artist to create a painting of Ben and his brother.

Epstein's other financial sponsor was Les Wexner of Victoria's Secret.  Modeling for Victoria's Secret was a frequent lure used by Epstein and his partner Ghislane Maxwell in recruiting new girls to farm out to the rich and powerful.

Ben Black sits on the board of Dogpound, a luxury gym where Victoria's Secret models workout.

Trump II may want to purchase political risk insurance regarding his friends and their Epstein connections.  He said he wants it to go away.

Loose lips sink ships and possibly presidents too.  It's a very small world for the rich and powerful.

As for the commercial ship sinking, Trump II said the U.S. would escort oil tankers and giant cargo ships through the Straits of Hormuz.  Calvin Froedge wrote: 

The US largely abandoned this escort strategy during the Red Sea conflict. In fact, an entire coalition of US and European naval forces along with Gulf States attempted this against the Houthis. The campaign was an utter failure and the ultimate conclusion from US military leadership was that it was much better risk reward to focus on suppressing strike capability. Yet after months of airstrikes Red Sea traffic never fully returned. Attacks continued.

Trump is disconnected from reality.  The political Red team needs to wake up and realize the Digital Caligula is wearing a coat made of cryptocurrency and his inadequate password is showing.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  

Official Unofficial March into War

Professor Jeffrey Sachs noted the U.S. is "in the hands of a broken. corrupted, gangster-led system."  Decades ago private equity underwriters (PEU) saw the benefits of moving to Washington, D.C. to influence people of power.  More recently, America's TechGods did likewise.

TechGod of War Palmer Luckey landed another $4 billion for Anduril's futuristic weapons/surveillance offerings.  

Gangster relations and those they deem worthy will enjoy obscene amounts of money, as they have for decades.  

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  It is quite a system they are creating for one another while abandoning the little people.