White House Ditches PEU Driscoll as Army Chief

The "highly effective" disrupter and change agent Head of the U.S. Army is leaving by year end, according to the White House.  Dan Driscoll is an Iraq war veteran, tech investor and former adviser to then Junior TechGod J.D. Vance (now Vice President). 

Fox News noted the Army's drone program underwent extreme strategic change recently:

....pulling the plug on a drone modernization program that Driscoll had heralded. An Army unit based in Europe was building its own drones before (that unit was) directed to end its efforts and return to being a traditional infantry battalion.

And who is in the drone development business?  The Trump boys.  There is considerable margin difference between supplying parts and selling the whole shebang.

Powerus, a US autonomous-systems firm, just locked in a $22.3 million contract to install a counter-drone detection and tracking system at an undisclosed energy facility in the Middle East. It’s one of the largest commercial deals for aerial threat protection at oil and gas infrastructure in the region.

Trump II needs not a solid reason to send someone packing.  Thus, people who have his ear are the ones influencing day to day "whim making."  The scramble is on for large chunks of Uncle Sam's war budget, growing more obese and obscene by the day.

It's Flex Capital's former COO Dan Driscoll vs. Dominari's Advisory Board (chock full of Trumps and Trump Organization executives).  It's a PEU (private equity underwriter) vs. TOE (Trump org executives) battle.  

Daddy or Trump II appears to be the decider as to how the Army's drone business develops.  He is advised by Pentagon Pete Hegseth, an expert in image generation.  That may be part of winning any war, but clearly far more is needed.

Trump II rails at profiteering military suppliers while positioning his boys to do same.  Eric and Don Jr. have access and their coddling is transparent.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren and increasingly, more are one.  Occasionally, they fight within their respective political teams.  Red on Red in the Pentagon.  Prepare for more such battles.

Saudis Sports Rinse LIV Golf

FT reported LIV Golf may be headed to bankruptcy.  Players who opted for outsized contracts found LIV ready to renege.  Star golfers reportedly received offers worth pennies on the dollar of their remaining remuneration.  

BC Partners private credit arm may fund the operation and Liberty Strategic Capital (Steve Mnuchin) may enter on the equity or debt side.  

The easy, fun big player money is gone as the Saudis decided not to throw more good money after bad. 

Flashback four years to the formation of LIV Golf:

... admitting the SGL was nothing more than what he called “sportswashing” by a brutally repressive regime. “They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with,” he said. “We know they killed [Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal] Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates. They’ve been able to get by with manipulative, coercive, strong-arm tactics because we, the players, had no recourse. As nice a guy as [PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan] comes across as, unless you have leverage, he won’t do what’s right. And the Saudi money has finally given us that leverage. I’m not sure I even want [the SGL] to succeed, but just the idea of it is allowing us to get things done with the [PGA] Tour.”’

Who knew sportswashing had a rinse cycle?  Who besides the players will be hung out to dry?

 Professional golfers will get an up close look at their new private equity/private credit owners.  I doubt they like what they see.  

Welcome to the world of the average worker over the last fifteen to twenty years.  They thought they were part of something until they were told they weren't.  Workers thought they would be fairly compensated, pay and benefits, for their hard work and contributions.  Executives nickeled and dimed them on pay while slashing benefits.  Workloads became absurd and quality suffered.  The system optimized returns to owners and executives, as that was the design.

Trump II expects LIV Golf to survive and keep booking tournaments at his courses.  The man tends to get his way, like all rich scary motherf'ers.

The Saudi royals killed a U.S. reporter because they did not like what he wrote.  I'd hate to be a key person in the golf league that cost them billions, especially one that used LIV Golf to "get things done with the PGA Tour."

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

Mr. O'Leary's Demotions

The Chief Financial Officer of New America Acquisition I Corp, George O'Leary,  resigned recently.  

New America Acquisition I hit the newswire in August 2025 with its recruitment of the Trump boys to its Advisory Board.

In the multi "full time job" world of insiders Eric and Don Jr. have few peers.  After the boys joined New America Acquisition I Corp, George O'Leary lost his board slot (February 2026).  Then he lost his CFO slot (August 2026).  

Nearly three years ago George O'Leary expressed a desire to sit down with fellow Palm Beacher Trump II to discuss solar energy and the important role it could play going forward.  

I'm pretty sure that meeting never happened.  Did George's invite begin the long series of demotions and terminations from New America Acquisition Corp I?  Or did he do something different to piss off the boys or their old man?  We may never know.

PEU Jed York Sought "Full Service" Sexual Activity

San Franscisco 49ers owner and Aurum Partners CEO Jed York was caught prior to pulling his pants down.  

East Palestine Police arrested York at a planned paid sexual meetup in an Ohio trailer park.

York is a venture capitalist/private equity underwriter (PEU) with Aurum and previously worked with Guggenheim Partners. 

Fellow sports team owner Mark Walter is under a different kind of investigation for his insider dealings at TWG Global and Guggenheim.  

New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft dealt with charges for hiring trafficked sex workers several years ago.  Kraft was not the trafficker of those women.  He was just the billionaire john.

What prevents some people from keeping their dick in their pants or avoiding blatant conflicts of interest in their billions in assets?  It could be that PEU aura.  They are used to getting their way.

Note that York got off light.  That's because politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.

LIV Golf Gets PEUd

Professional golfers may soon go through the same grinder federal workers faced under DOGE and corporate employees experienced after a PEU (private equity underwriter) buyout.  

Investors have their operating model and it generally comes with lots of pain for staff and new crappy technology.  

Players' "buy in" means significantly less compensation or no contract at all.  The stars may get to roll their former pay into an equity stake but then again, they may not.

PIF is selling on the very cheap or giving away their equity in LIV.  When will the mystery investor(s) reveal themselves?  Might there be political connections to the political Red Team?  Trump II would love to keep hosting their tournaments at his golf courses.

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

Lonsdale's Push to Criminalize Homelessness

TechGod Joe Lonsdale and his wife formed a think tank to address societal problems.

He wants the homeless off the streets, at least at night.  Exactly how this "saves capitalism" or deals with the myriad of root causes of homeless is unclear.

Cicero pushes forced addiction treatment for homeless persons.

Lonsdale stands to profit from addiction treatment through at least two 8VC affiliates, Tempero and Ritten.

A third stands to gain. Halo Health which addresses primary mental healthcare, both in person and virtually.

Also, 8VC has Galileo which delivers mental health services to underserved persons with complex and chronic conditions as part of its healthcare model.  Hopscotch Primary Care does as well in its focus on rural communities.

Joe believes in stewardship to limited partners, which is definitely not the homeless or other little people.

He believes in patriotism but may side with the widespread position that criticism of Israel is automatically anti-Semitism.  

When the colonists arrived in the free world didn't they have to camp outside? 

Gotta love the liberty loving TechGods who suckle up to Uncle Sam's bank account in venture after venture after venture.  

Add their getting government to make it a crime to sleep outside or criticize the State of Israel, as well as force people into addiction treatment, and they seem even further from their libertarian roots.

TechGods and the LP class enjoy superior influence on elected officials as today's landed, equity holding gentry.  AI is going to unemploy people and Joe wants them jailed once they lose their home.  

The greatest irony might be TechGods made billions from leveraging addiction.....and they may make billions more from that treatment.

The AI Dongularity Encroaches

AI will "cure cancer" and give everyone "a penthouse."  These are the promises of TechGods.  

The reality may be far different.  

As for the quality of TechGod leadership...it is clearly lacking:

Rushing crappy tech to market has a rich long history for those who've experienced vapor or error-ware.

We now have slop-ware.  Customer support!  Face cleanup on page 7.  

China has nothing to do with my wish to not have a data center nearby.  Actual communications from Beacon Data Centers executives are the cause.  Vague and ever changing answers arose from Canada, not Beijing.

TechGods and their private equity underwriter (PEU) financiers control corporate strategy and steer government attention away from their money making ventures while directly facilitating their further enrichment (already at obscene levels)..

Democracy is supposed to reflect the majority.  That has not been the case for some time.  People have long wanted healthcare costs to go down, for the wealthy to bear a greater tax burden, for the U.S. to not intervene militarily across the globe and for leaders to be honest and not manipulate voters.

The workplace is not a democracy but people expect to be treated decently.  Workers don't like seeing output quality disrupted or incapable processes put in place.  AI does both.  Bonus, it's addictive.  It becomes even more tiresome as TechGods lurch from one priority to another.  

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one and for that the common person suffers.

Update:  Business Insider noted:

Is it a Chinese psy-op? Are Americans ignorant? Or are tech bros just completely out of touch? 

Tech leaders across the country are full of ideas about why Americans are in a furor against data centers, positing theories on social media that range from practical to patronizing.

Maybe we don't like insufferable people who lie, manipulate and deceive.

  

That PEUs, TechGods and elected officials are coalescing into one could be the dongularity.  

Update 8-24-26:  Time ran a piece by a Northeaster University professor showing TechGods are all over the place and "disinterested in philanthropy or profit sharing" while avoiding taxes and taking huge government subsidies.

the future isn’t something we build together. It’s something they get to build on our behalf. 

What makes this eschatology dangerous is that it is held by the people with the most resources to act on it. Musk, Altman, and Thiel aren’t theologians speculating about the end times. They’re building the thing their theology tells them is coming, funding the politics that protects their ability to build it, and treating anyone who asks them to slow down as a luddite or Antichrist rather than a citizen with a legitimate concern. A belief that the present doesn’t matter, held by people with the power to shape it, doesn’t stay a belief. It becomes policy, product, and precedent, with tech bros deciding the future on behalf of everyone else, without anyone else’s consent.

And a pox on all their corporate houses and lobbying firms...