The year of living dangerously continues for comedians. The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper spoke the mission of PEUReport.
I would go farther than Klepper and suggest that many of these billionaires are PEU legends who have exercised levers of political power and tapped Uncle Sam's wallet for their financial windfall. That spawned the term "policy making billionaire."
TechGods are employing similar strategies in a more obvious and clumsy manner than their refined PEU peers.
Who can beat Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein's belief that "private equity is man's highest calling?" That gives me a chuckle every time.
My wise friend wrote:
Comedians are great at exposing Societal Malevolent Transformations with great poignancy. Each day the Overton window for normalcy shifts as we accept the administration's shocks to the system as perturbations instead of a great crack.Even the Romans tolerated Juvenal's cryptic messages through comedy for a time. We have seen this deterioration for a long time but probably never thought it would reach this level.
What are we going to do now? Bring Back Caesar? LOL
Who needs Caesar when we have Trump II, the digital Caligula? Trump II wants far more than a beach house. He wants a $200 billion net worth come January 2029.
Politicians Red and Blue love PEU (private equity underwriters) and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
