5.03.2026

This Right Here ...

Wishy-washy corporate Democrats are what gave us Trump in the first place.

They need to go. 

Democrats Yearn for Pugilistic Populists

Democrats all over the country regard their party’s leaders as feckless in the face of Trump’s blustering authoritarianism. They are desperate to break up the power of the oligarchs arrayed around the president and believe Democrats have been too timid in pushing for sweeping reforms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crapitalism

Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose

EssilorLuxottica is a Franco-Italian conglomerate headquartered in Paris. €27 billion in annual revenue. Over 18,000 retail stores. 600+ factories and 128 distribution centers across 150 countries. They are the largest eyewear company on the planet by a wide margin.

They own Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Costa Del Mar, and Vogue Eyewear.

They manufacture eyewear under license for Prada, Chanel, Versace, Giorgio Armani, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, Tiffany, Michael Kors, Coach, Valentino, and Tory Burch. The "Prada glasses" at your optometrist were not designed by Prada. They were not crafted in a Prada atelier. They were made in the same Luxottica factory complex as everything else, on the same production lines, with a licensing sticker applied to the temple. Prada collects a royalty. Luxottica sets the price.

They own LensCrafters. They own Sunglass Hut, with over 3,100 locations worldwide. They own Pearle Vision. They run Target Optical. They own Glasses.com and EyeBuyDirect. 

And they own EyeMed Vision Care, the second-largest vision insurance company in the United States, with 43 million members.

One company manufactures the product, owns the brands, controls the retail, and provides the insurance that pays for it. A columnist on 60 Minutes called it "an optical illusion." Fake competition. Dozens of brands on the wall, one company behind all of them. 

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. 

4.22.2026

Dershowitz

Hell, Dershowitz hasn't been a Democrat since he was getting massages (in his underwear of course) from Epstein girls.

Alan Dershowitz quits Democratic Party, calling it ‘most anti-Israel party in US history’