Facebook/Meta board member Peter Thiel announced he would leave to focus on electing two Red Team private equity underwriters (PEU) to Congress. Both PEUs were formerly under his employ. Arizona's Blake Masters has his sights set on the U.S. Senate, while J.D. Vance is running for another U.S. Senate seat (Ohio).
Being an economic bully is now an automatic qualifier for public service? It used to be private equity hired former government officials so it could lobby insiders as a non-lobbyist. Innovation has the greed and leverage boys storming the ballot so they can steer public budgets directly to their friends.
How do they do in office? Take Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and Biden Science Advisor Eric Landers.
Former Carlyle Group CEO Glenn Youngkin proved his tightly controlled campaign could bully a 17 year old kid.
Team Youngkin decided to remove the message after belatedly learning that Lynne — identified on Twitter as “Virginian. HS Senior. Democrat.” — was a minor. A spokesman called the teen a “Democrat Party official” and suggested that Democrats had made Lynne a fair target by previously promoting him on Twitter.
This came after Youngkin's 17 year old son unsuccessfully tried to vote for his father. The election official attributed it to an innocent effort, albeit unsuccessful. Here's how the Youngkin campaign responded.
"It's unfortunate that while Glenn attempts to unite the Commonwealth around his positive message of better schools, safer streets, a lower cost of living, and more jobs, his political opponents - mad that they suffered historic losses this year - are pitching opposition research on a 17-year old kid who honestly misunderstood Virginia election law and simply asked polling officials if he was eligible to vote; when informed he was not, he went to school."
Youngkin's campaign clearly pitched opposition research on the unrelated teen. This is interesting, given how tightly Youngkin controlled messaging. Politico reported:
So if you have your own brand, like Glenn did — and [that's] hard; it helps to have about a half-billion dollars in the bank and be able to put about $20 million in the campaign and raise another $40 million so you can have your own brand in a very expensive media market, create your own culture, create your own kind of winning-team mentality, have a fleece vest and a hat for everybody who comes across the Potomac and wants to get on the campaign team and join a winning operation — that's all good. When you create that kind of culture, and that opportunity and that vision of what the state can be like, then endorsements don't matter as much anyway.
When we were creating our own brand for Glenn, it was not in the image of anyone else. You're a Youngkin Republican. Plant your guidepost, and go be your own guy.Alpha Glenn is his own greed and leverage for power man. Why would someone of his stature need to apologize to a kid? To remove the log in his eye.
Blue Team cabinet member Eric Landers resigned after bullying staff. The richest Biden Cabinet member has a personal net worth of $45 million. Landers PEU associations include F Prime Capital and Third Rock Ventures. StatNews reported:
Landers became a symbol of plowing lots of resources into industrialized, mindless science that could be run by machines and technicians.
Sounds like a PEU. Guidepost planted as the greed and leverage boys target taking over government from the inside. Politicians Red and Blue love PEU. Should Peter Thiel be successful, even more of those politicians are one. It bodes poorly for citizens and workers.
Update 2-10-22: Having PEUs populate Congress can help take the sting our of any stock trading ban. They can steer all that obscene individual wealth to their politically preferred PEU. Politicians Red and Blue love PEU and many are one.
Business Insider painted Landers ouster on academic arrogance. That misses the hubris frequently found amongst the greed and leverage boys.
Update 9-14-23: Red Team Senator and former PEU Mitt Romney revealed he would not run for reelection. He called out some of his fellow Senators.
“I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J.D. Vance,” Romney told journalist McKay Coppins.
Vance, like Romney is a former PEU. Romney also called out Insane Reds Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley. Like Vance they went full MAGA and foisted Trump's nonsense on the public.
