Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Abdul to Trump: I dare you to be stupid enough to elevate me with your presence

 El-Sayed to Trump: "I Dare You To Come" Campaign In Michigan

LOL it's not about governing, it's about skimming the $7+ trillion which flows through their fingers

Doug is such a puppy.

Mike Benz lights his hair on fire about $3 billion from USAID funding a full-on Truman Show in Brazil's $2.6 trillion economy

 OK Mike.

 

As usual with American news stories about the riots in France, they deliberately hide the role of immigrants, and this time the role of the left fueling the immigrant riots

 Student riots engulf France as far-right presidential frontrunner Le Pen vows fiscal turnaround

CNBC furnishes this photograph sending the message that it is ethnic French confronting the police, not African Muslims:


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're not showing you the truth.

October 3, 2026:

Riots spread from Paris’s immigrant suburbs across France

France struggled to contain riots that grew out of school protests in Paris suburbs with large immigrant populations, with schools set ablaze, police attacked and around 5,000 people arrested.

Saint-Denis, Aubervilliers and Pantin were among the centers of the unrest in Seine-Saint-Denis, northeast of Paris. Immigrants accounted for roughly 32% of the department’s population in 2020–2021, according to national statistics agency INSEE. French-born residents with at least one immigrant parent accounted for a further 32%. ...

France’s suburbs have repeatedly been the starting point for nationwide unrest involving young people from immigrant families. In 2005, three weeks of riots followed the deaths of two teenagers of African descent hiding from police in an electricity substation. In 2023, the police killing of Nahel Merzouk, a teenager of North African descent, triggered another wave of violence. ...            

And today:

How will the riots change France? The violence has dark implications for the political and demographic future of the country 

... For the right, the images of crowds dominated by immigrant-descended young people burning down ornaments of the French republic without fear of the forces of order feels like an early Christmas gift. ... it is easy for voters to see crowds with few white faces in the news and interpret this as representative across urban France. Without data easily available, the truth can be whatever you want it to be.

... The protests which began in lycée Saint-Exupéry in the Créteil banlieue of Paris before steadily spreading across France, caught the government by surprise in their scale and intensity. They have also shocked the French public by the high representation of second and third generation immigrants in the protests, and by the direct participation of elected officials from Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s hard left La France Insoumise (LFI) party in the riots. 

... The most shocking thing for the general public is not just the violence and the damage itself, but the openness with which Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party has aligned itself with the aims and the means of the protests.

From the very beginning of the protests, LFI politicians have been present at the school gates — something that would be seen as shocking particularly to a British audience. ...

  

If Republicans were smart they'd run on SPX hard for the remainder of the campaign because it's all they've got

 S&P 500 rises to record high as oil and yields move lower

Yields aren't significantly lower, oil is $88 and $98, and USA gasoline is $4.32.

 


 

Year-to-date trade deficit of $138.2 billion was still off nearly 20% from the same period a year ago

 Trade deficit hits $105.6 billion, widest since just before Trump tariffs enacted last year

VUSTX New All-Time Low

And it doesn't look like we're done, either.

VUSTX New All-Time Low

$8.34 Black Monday Oct 19, 1987

$7.44 Tuesday Oct 31, 2023

$7.08 Monday Oct 5, 2026

Total return, 3-years, Sep 30, 2026: +0.97%. 10-years: -2.20%.