Trump Usurps Netflix Board

Trump II's glass ego could not take a verbal shot from Netflix board member Susan Rice.  It shattered into a thousand pieces but magically came back together after being placed into a Gaza stable coin press.  I can picture Trump ordering his re-assemblers to get the jaw right.  Thus, the public will have to endure his "State of My Ego" speech before Congress and the Supremes tomorrow night.

The political Red Team must be defecating in their drawers over a U.S. President dictating board membership to a company with a pending merger under federal review.  But this is Trump II, the role model for sitting/walking with significant bowel activity.

Susan Rice was a private equity underwriter (PEU) with Amplo, a global venture capital firm.  As recently as 2024 Rice served as Senior Advisor to the RAND Corporation, "exploring the national security and geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence" and as "Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence."

Stanford University was the place where TechGod Eric Schmidt encouraged students to commit intellectual property theft and later try to reach a settlement if their AI product actually made money.  Trump II's White House is actively marketing TechGod AI throughout the globe.  

My guess is Trump's "savage whims" cost many Blue political members corporate slots and he wants more of the same.  He needs to act as his power is evaporating by the day.

Trump wants to upset the applecart that is politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Like any creep, Trump wants all that PEU/TechGod love solely for himself.  

There is another creep that may enter the 2028 Presidential race for the Blue team.

Rahm Emanuel's Centerview Partners may be on the same side as Trump II in the Warner Bros Discovery buyout.  Centerview's Anthony Kim and Blair Effron advised Paramount on its current WBD bid and a prior merger with Skydance.  

I cannot picture a worse candidate for President from the Blue Team if our country is to reverse the outsized and distorting influence of the PEU/TechGod class.  Rahm Emanuel (Wassterstein Perella) is and has long been one.  

Also, if anyone can out support Israel over Trump II, it's Rahm.

The Great State of the TechGod/PEU Union

TechGods Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are newsworthy given their outsized role in U.S. politics and their history of causing widespread harm. 

Almost half of a San Francisco jury pool was disqualified after declaring their hatred for Musk who employed the private equity underwriter (PEU) playbook at DOGE.  

It turns out TechGids are not fans of their products for their children.  Many TechGods severely limit screen time for their offspring.  

After his blistering Presidential defeat in 2020 Trump became a TechGod with TruthSocial.  

Trump II branched into other product offerings from TruthSocial, which now offers ETFs.  Next came World Liberty Financial, which has the USD1 stable coin and the WLFI token.  World Lirbety now wants to be a bank.  

Trump II's administration just approved Erebor Bank, the captive bank of Anduril and new Bank of the TechGods.  Peter Thiel started the bank run that took down Silicon Valley Bank.  Would he start another on Erebor, where Thiel has an ownership stake?

Did you know Uncle Sam has an "all of government approach" to marketing TechGod AI products/services?  

WhiteHouse.gov added more benefits for the billionaire AI clans.  

...new U.S. initiatives to accelerate global adoption of the American AI stack through the American AI Exports Program, including: 

The American AI Exports Program’s National Champions Initiative: The Commerce Department will incorporate partner nations’ leading AI companies into their customized American AI Export stacks, demonstrating that American technology directly strengthens and builds domestic AI capabilities.

The U.S. Tech Corps: A new initiative of the Peace Corps, the U.S. Tech Corps will provide volunteer technical talent with import partners to provide last-mile support in deploying powerful AI applications for enhanced public services. 

New International Financing: The Treasury Department is launching a new fund at the World Bank to help countries overcome AI adoption barriers, in addition to new financing programs launched at the Export-Import Bank, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, the State Department, and the Small Business Administration. 

NIST/CAISI’s AI Agent Standards Initiative: The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced it will facilitate the development of interoperable and secure standards for agentic AI, giving the public confidence in this next-generation technology.

As the Trump Administration unveils a whole-of-government strategy to promote American AI exports, it brings to the India AI Impact Summit a clear message: American AI is the gold standard, and we are sharing it with our partners to secure our shared future.

The State of the TechGod/PEU Union is strong thanks to Trump II.   Creeps supporting creeps.  It's a PEU way street.

Window into Yesterday's & Today's Insanity

The "currency of criminals" got a big boost yesterday at the inaugural World Liberty Forum attended by a who's who of corporate chiefs, crypto thieves and government lackeys (today's insanity).  

Two U.S. Senators lent their good name to the Trump boys by speaking at the event.  Both are members of the political Red Team,  Ashley Moody of Florida and Bernie Moreno of Ohio.  

Moreno's state was just awarded approval for a new bank, Erebor Bank, the captive bank of Anduril and future home of TechGod bank accounts (complete with FDIC coverage).  Erebor will accept crypto as collateral for loans.  Yipppeeee!!!

Just prior to his inauguration Trump II made two major crypto moves.  One, he launched his $TRUMP "Fight Fight Fight" memecoin and two, he sold a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial to a United Arab Emirates Sultan.  The UAE was the first to use WLFI's stablecoin (USD1) for its $2 billion investment in Binance.

$TRUMP is down to $3.39 from an all time high of $73.43.  It has lost over 95% of its value.  Worry not, MAGA supporters, the Trump boys have something special for you.

NYPost reported:

World Liberty Financial, in which the Trump family holds a reported 38% stake, unveiled a partnership with the Apex Group that could help mainstream the company’s digital stablecoin, called USD1, and plans to use that stablecoin to finance a new Trump-branded hotel with luxury floating villas in the Maldives.

What kind of person is needed to keep the chicanery going?  One who looks the other way regarding insiders behaving unethically or illegally.

We know what decades of "deferring to insiders" produced, don't we Larry Summers?  Cheat'em House Rules?  Good show, Chap!

Yesterday's insanity is clearly available for all to see through the Epstein window.

Private equity underwriters (PEU), which sponsored Epstein, aligned with government officials for multiple reasons ( keeping low tax rates, political influence, tapping government budgets, ensuring low interest rates, ignoring criminal behavior, regulatory avoidance...).  

Britain's Prince Andrew gave confidential trade reports to Epstein and is now under arrest.  Did those trade reports prompt Epstein to invest in Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures or Coinbase?

Today's insanity grew out of yesterday's but is far brasher and in your face.  The Trump boys declared their conflicts of interest were forced up them.  Horse hockey!  

Don Jr. called regulated, government backed banks a "ponzi scheme", when crypto has "pump and dumps" and "rug pulls."  TechGods want their own everything, money, bank, country.  The sordid Trump clan will deliver it all for a large cut.

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new, brasher TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  It is all in the PEU/TechGod family.

Update 2-21-26:  Courthouse News reported:

"...(the $35 million) settlement would bar Epstein’s victims from "asserting, commencing, instituting, prosecuting, continuing to prosecute, or maintaining in any court of law or equity, arbitration tribunal, or administrative forum any and all" of the discharged claims against (Darren) Indyke and (Richard) Kahn — Epstein's longtime lawyer and accountant, respectively — who were accused in the underlying class action of facilitating and concealing Epstein's sex trafficking operations for their own financial gain."

Update 2-23-26:   Bain & Co reported private equity profits were down for the fourth straight year.

World Liberty Holds "Carefully Curated" Future Forum

The Trump boys hosted a crypto confab at Mar-a-Lago with Wall Street, elected/government officials and cryptobros.  It was the inaugural World Liberty Forum.  

Don Jr. explained how a Middle Eastern investor already earned a four bagger on his 49% stake in WLFI.  Don didn't say if he used his father's whimsical math formulas to calculate those returns.

Brother Eric also hosted the event.  As it was a "carefully curated event", elected officials needed to be in the room.  WLFI got two U.S. Senators, Bernie Moreno from Ohio (home of the new Erebor Bank) and Ashley Moody from Florida (where Palm Beach is the new Silicon Valley/Botox Alley).  

It wouldn't be a Trump event without a cabinet member and some shameless hawking of wares.

I wonder if the insider crowd will reminisce about Jeffrey Epstein's early investments in Valar Ventures or Coinbase.   

Beware the visionary Sheikh-down.  It can be done "the easy way or the hard way, right boys?"  

Prominent PEU Names in Epstein Files

Creep Jeffrey Epstein sold Howard Lutnick a New York City townhouse for $10.  That's what happens when you are in good graces in the insider money funnel.  

Trump II was named by an underage girl as having "forced her head down to his exposed penis."

Private equity underwriters (PEU) Leon Black (Apollo) and Glenn Dubin (Highbridge Capital) were mentioned by victims as getting massages with the Epstein treatment.  

Trump's "Just Us" Department is yet to meet with Epstein's victims who want co-conspirators and abusers identified.

Time will reveal if that actually happens given politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.  Insiders protected their own for decades.  That is clear for the world to see.

Contempt for It All

Our Health & Human Services Secretary revealed he'd snorted cocaine off a toilet seat to show his germ braveness and contempt for the law.  

Pollution regulations do not apply to the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.  And both of these men are in the Trump-Epstein files,  a world of the rich and powerful where women play a distinctly subservient role

Get ready for more billionaire gas emissions, courtesy of Trump II.  In a meeting with oil executives the President suddenly got up and lumbered over to the window facing the former East Wing of the White House.  Some speculated Trump II had a gastrointestinal motive for his foray.  

Trump II and his TechGods show us every day how much power they have and how little anyone else possesses.  Congress and the Supremes are yet to reign in Trump, the digital Caligula, in any serious manner.  Let's hope that changes soon.

The Constitution provides no room for the Executive Branch to direct elections.  That power is given to the states and can be adjusted by Congress.  Usurping that is typical Trump II and shows his contempt for the rights of others.  

Toilet seat, pollution, deregulating emissions, defecating on the Constitution...please sir, I'd love to inhale more billionaire gas straight from your intestinal tract.  And then, may I have another one?  

If your cabinet, oil executives, TechGods and private equity underwriters (PEU) can do it and survive, I'll take my chances.  

I'll pull your finger when you quit pulling my leg with your ceaseless mistruths and dodgy diversions.

Update 2-15-26:  The New Yorker reported Trump advisor Steve Bannon advised Epstein on reputation rehab:

Bannon wrote, “we must counter ‘rapist who traffics in female children to be raped by worlds most powerful, richest men’---that can’t be redeemed.”

Epstein gamed multiple systems, immigration, peace prizes, the corporate world, even stolen art.

Leon Black and other private equity underwriters (PEU) coached Jeffrey well.

Feds Got Rothstein, Not Epstein.

The Epstein files have numerous documents related to $1.2 billion Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, who looked at Donald J. Trump as a role model.   

The homemade video shows billion-dollar Ponzi criminal Scott Rothstein sitting in the back of a limousine on his way to Yankee Stadium, a glass of vodka in his hand, lecturing to several children -- relatives and family friends -- who are attending the baseball game with him. 

"Here's one thing you should learn about me that's really important, everybody pays attention," Rothstein said. "If you are going to attack me in any fashion, be prepared for the counter-attack and understand that I duel with people much much smarter than you every day. Understand that the repercussions of engaging me could open the gates of hell. Understand that I am capable of evil far beyond anything your imagination could ever conjure up." 

A voice from behind the camera pipes up: "I can verify this as actual fact." The voice is that of Steve Caputi, a partner with Rothstein in the Café Iguana nightclub in Pembroke Pines and one of his closest friends "

He said, 'Listen, Trump operates the same way, the politicians operate the same way, when there's a problem you fix it," he said. "Sometimes you go outside the rules. Everybody does it, that's how it's done. That's how you get to the top." 

And Caputi rode along as Rothstein's meteoric rise began until both of them were hobnobbing with Donald Trump at his Mar-A-Lago estate. 

He said Trump was one of Rothstein's idols and Trump returned the respect in a big way one night at an event at the lavish Palm Beach spread. 

"Donald Trump puts his arm around Scott and says, 'You know, people you're looking at probably the next United States Attorney General,'" Caputi said. "And Scott's trying to look all modest, and Arlen Specter chirps in and says, 'Maybe someday a president of the United States.' And the whole room explodes with applause like the floor of a convention."

Rothstein used his ill gotten gains for influence peddling.  The perpetrator was looking at a reduced sentence (a la Jeffrey Epstein) but the government reversed their offer:

Prosecutors withdrew their motion two years ago to reduce Rothstein’s sentence based on his cooperation in the sprawling racketeering investigation because he provided “false” information and violated his plea agreement.

Sound familiar?   

Rothstein's co-conspirators were investigated, charged and convicted.  

Epstein's psychologist was the victim of a different fraud from financial advisor Donald Hardman.  He copied Epstein on communications with his attorney on settling the fraudulent debt with Regions Bank.  

Local law enforcement took an interest in the Hardman case, just as they had with Rothstein

Epstein started at $20,000 to settle a $200,000 debt plus interest.  The offer rose to $50,000.  It appears they settled on $75,000.   

Makes you wonder about Palm Beach, the new Wall Street given how many financial firms have located offices there.  

Trump II disabled white collar criminal investigatory capacity and ring fenced numerous areas as off limits for investigation.  He even appointed a white collar crime defense attorney as Ambassador to the United Nations.  

Should Trump pardon Scott Rothstein he could fulfill that Attorney General prognostication.  Pam Bondi's bombastic thugery is getting stale.