Trump II announced his first round of appointees to his council of advisors on science & technology. To no surprise, it's full of TechGods.
There is a record of customer harm between Marc Andreessen, who walked away from fintech Synapse's collapse, and Mark Zuckerberg, who's company was found liable for harming children in two different court cases. Good to have both the child predator "facilitator" and financial conman view on the panel.
What, no prediction market founder? Isn't this the way "knowledge" will be grown in the future? Hardly, they couldn't even foresee that insiders would create stacked bets to profit handsomely.
Access to the federal budget and continued regulatory capture is the aim of this dastardly crew. Meanwhile, Trump plans to usurp them in as many ways as possible. After all, Trump II is a deal maker and deal makers earn deal fees.
I predict a fusion tie-up in the future once Trump Media and Technology Group merges with TAE Technologies. Surely, Bob Mumgaard will want to buy out TAE-TMTG at a premium price.
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU (private equity underwriters) and their new TechGod/CryptoBro brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
Update 3-27-26: America's new Addiction Center bar will open in Washington, D.C.
‘The Situation Room’ by Polymarket is coming to Washington, D.C.,” read the announcement posted last Wednesday to Polymarket’s social media. The prediction-market company described the pop-up as “the world’s first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation,” a kind of newfangled sportsbook that instead of showing live sports and betting lines would pipe in information of every kind about the state of the world, from live X feeds to real-time flight radar.
Customers are encouraged to show up with all their addictive apps, car titles, home deeds and large credit lines, dollar or crypto based. Wage garnishment forms will be available for those who need to leave and get home to their families, assuming they have not been sold to cover prior lost bets.
