Tuesday Night Buzz

4.26.2026

God I hope Not ...

Can the US-Israel ‘Special Relationship’ Survive the Iran War?

Public opinion data suggest that this perception is translating into a significant erosion of support for Israel. Recent Pew Center polling indicates that six in 10 Americans now hold an unfavorable view of the Israeli government, a striking reversal from the traditionally high levels of support of earlier decades. The shift is especially pronounced among younger Americans and Democrats, but its implications extend across the political spectrum. Even among groups that remain broadly supportive of Israel, such as Jewish Americans and Evangelicals, there is growing unease about the costs and consequences of the relationship.

American Corruptialism

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.

Third, we need to stop pretending we don’t know where the arrow is pointing. The pattern is consistent, it’s one-directional, and it reads like a screenplay. Surges of suspicious trading show up right before presidential actions that only the President and his closest circle could know were coming. The President’s own family holds financial interests in multiple prediction markets at the center of these scandals. The President’s own company — his name on the ticker — swings wildly on his own posts, posts he makes at moments of his own choosing, using words he personally selects. When every coincidence cuts in the same direction, it stops being a coincidence. It starts being a scheme. And you don’t need to be a prosecutor to see it.

4.24.2026

Trump - The Destroyer

.. of the US.

From the Financial Times

Trump’s roving banditry will undermine the US economy

The US will seem a more fickle place to do business, pushing investment and trade elsewhere. American trade policy and the US corporate tax code have never been things of elegant simplicity, but this will seem like a golden age of stability compared to the era of politicised shakedowns now upon us.