Trump II, the digital Caligula, is undeterred in his efforts to turn the U.S. government into a money funnel for his family and friends. That means holding Congress for the Red Team in the 2026 midterms.
Blackstone Group co-founder Stephen Schwarzman has long been a Red Team political supporter. Private equity underwriters (PEU) have sponsored politicians of both stripes for decades, preferring to do so quietly, behind the scenes. Trump II added a new big money group to his side, TechGods.
TechGods are far brasher than PEUs (aka the greed and leverage boys). Never mind that their products harm children or have criminal early adopters. Meta had a policy that forgave child sex predators fifteen times. TechGods know that their federal immunity from criminal liability would be long gone based solely on public will.
PEUs have a similar benefit, highly unpopular with the American electorate. It's their preferred "carried interest" taxation which enables billionaires to pay lower tax rates on income than their secretary or gardener. Both political teams have run campaigns on eliminating this benefit, but can never get together to actually implement those promises.
In 2025 Trump II granted PEUs their wish to enter worker 401(k) retirement accounts. Retirees can now chose to invest in private equity, private credit and other alternative investments. One can now have a Bitcoin IRA.
Why should anyone put supposedly safe retirement money into a speculative cryptocurrency? It only makes sense if the U.S. economy is morphing into a giant casino. That leads us to a recent TechGod offering, prediction markets. They market user opinion as knowledge in order to avoid the stain of wagering. Nearly 80% of the public has no interest in using prediction markets.
Trump II is a salesman and is selling on behalf of TechGods (in addition to subsidizing them).
Only 38% think AI will improve health, whilst 36% think AI will improve the national economy, 31% see a positive impact on the job market, and 37% believe it will enhance their own jobs.The Trump boys are profiting far more directly from their father's executive orders and budgetary priorities than Hunter Biden ever did selling a few paintings and sitting on the Burisma board. Don Jr., Eric and Jared's take is in the billions in Year 1 of Trump II.
The New Year pump is on for $TRUMP now that Trump Billionaire Club game has launched. $TRUMP rose from $4.70 to over $5.00.
A Bloomberg columnist derided Trump II's impact on norms. I decry his impact on knowledge, which requires theory.
"One failure of a theory requires its modification" - Dr. W. Edwards Deming
Trump's irreality has him doubling down on false facts and nonsense narratives. He is incapable of revising his beliefs that have no basis in reality. As a wise physician once told me, "That person is refractory to learning."
Why should anyone care that our President is incapable of ingesting new information and revising his theories about the world as his mind is overloaded with hubris, greed and self aggrandizing? Because like attracts like. Because the President is a role model for youth
Trump is un-revisable. For most of us that requires endurance, awareness and naming that which is going on. Thus, having closed out a 2025 PEU Year, we enter 2026, the Year of the society harming TechGod.
Independent voters may have ditched Trump II, but the PEU boys and their TechGod brethren remain firm supporters. They have the money and technology to manipulate people and intend to do just that. Please revise your world view to incorporate this.
