True Democrat just means neoliberal corporatist. They only care about money and the appearance of giving a shit about people.

Corporations win. Again. They will suck every minute and cent from you until you are a broken husk.

Years of accumulating debt, competition from larger chains like CVS and Walgreens, and costly opioid lawsuits had pushed Rite Aid to the brink.

https://tinygrab.com/who-bought-rite-aid-in-2025/

Yes they had debt before, that’s why they went bankrupt in the first place. Now they are going bankrupt because private equity decided to buy the business and sell off what they don’t want.

I’m pretty sure there’s a Rite Aid near where I am and it’s almost always closed. The only other option is the CVS that’s in Hannaford. Another 35 minute drive in the opposite direction to Walmart. 45 minute drive in the other direction to a CVS.

So a gas station with a pharmacy and minus the gas station? That’s the business model?

Private Equity?

In 2025, Rite Aid emerged from its Chapter 11 restructuring with a significantly leaner operation and a new owner: a consortium led by Cigna’s Evernorth health services division and the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R).

Evernorth, Cigna’s health services arm, had long been eyeing Rite Aid’s Elixir PBM. Elixir, while facing challenges, possessed a significant book of business and a valuable infrastructure.

This wasn’t simply about a larger company swallowing a smaller one; it was about strategically dismantling and repurposing Rite Aid’s assets to maximize value and ensure the survival of its core pharmacy business.

So yeah, they bought the part of the business they give a shit about and are systematically closing the rest of the business, a.k.a. brick and mortar stores.

Private equity don’t really give a shit about that fixing any lthing. So they print a bunch of corporate word salad mumbo-jumbo about how they’re gonna fix shit and when it doesn’t work out, they’re like yep we got the money that we want and the business part that is valuable. Fuck the rest of it. Who cares if there’s another food desert, or whatever the medical equivalent is, and all the rural towns at the rely on these pharmacies for medication.

I guess Walmart pharmacy wins by default.

So, Fiat currency is going to shit the bed and be quickly replaced by the digital dollar Which will of course destabilize the world banking system.

The US will probably try to pay off its existing trillions in debts using the USD and causing massive inflation before replacing it with the digital dollar.

America clearly thinks it won’t matter, and it can be self-sufficient until it drives enough people into a digital currency, while ignoring the massive inflation caused on the USD.

Yeah, that only worked on small contractors when he was building his casinos because they didn’t have the infinite Russian money for lawyers.

Turns out that doesn’t work so well on sovereign nations and international corporations.

If we’ve learned anything from cyberpunk, this is always the endgame for corporations. The more technologically advanced they become, the easier it is for them to subjugate the masses. Corporations are built for long-term control of assets long after their founders die.

What we should be currently figuring out is that once corporation become sufficiently wealthy and allowed to donate endless amounts of money to politicians, they become more powerful than the governments ability to control them.

You can thank the Supreme Court for ruling that is sitting president can do whatever the fuck he wants for four years unless he pisses off Congress so bad that they impeach him, Which isn’t enough because the Senate also has to want to remove him.

So I guess you become president, do whatever you want for four years, make a whole bunch of money By stealing it from the American taxpayers convincing half of them that it’s OK to steal from their opposition, wipe your ass with constitution, and then die before you can be held accountable while passing off all the grift to your nepo-children and vapid family.

Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the US and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world. But for a long time, unlike many of his peers, he was unable to boast that he controlled a chunk of the news and opinion reaching the American public.

Boo hoo. Cry me a fucking River you privileged fuck.

The answer is simpler than you might think. Progressive policies often ask you to change things that you don’t want change for the benefit of a larger group.

The idea that new policy will fix old problems and magically make things better is simply laughable.

Add in a constant stream of nostalgia that is constantly tells the younger generations how everything used to be better back in the good old days, and none of this should be a surprise.

Why the fuck would anybody support progressive policies that make their life more difficult, more cumbersome, and add extra bureaucratic red tape so that somebody else might benefit 50 years from now?

Why would anybody agree to make changes in their life and adopt progressive policies that make things more difficult and more restrictive while constantly being told about how used to be so much better before the government stepped in and decided that this is bad for you can’t have it anymore.

Right wing = conservative = people don’t like change. So yeah, people are const being told how things used to be better and resisting new policies that they don’t like that make things worse.

What a hard concept.

Let’s use recycling as an example. Before recycling was sold to everyone as the way to save the planet, everyone put all the trash in one can and it went to the dump.

Somewhere down the line, corporations managed to convince government that everyone should help them recycle the packaging trash that they produced. Recycling is good and will save the environment if everyone does their part.

Fast-forward 40 years and now there’s 8 different bins to separate all of the different types of plastic and glass and metal and paper and trash. And who has to do all of this work? yiu and me and everyone except the corporations that created it in the first place.

Why is the corporation that created that garbage and plastic waste not responsible for us clean up in the first place? Why are these progressive policies such as recycling everyone’s face instead of solving the problem which is too much plastic packaging?

Are you surprised that people would not want to recycle because it’s a huge pain in the ass specially in rural places where there is garbage collection and everything has to be sorted manually at the dump?

Are you surprised that people don’t like California’s restrictive emissions, laws, and anti-modification laws? But it’s good for the environment. It will improve the air quality. Gasoline is bad.

Why would I wanna buy a new car that runs shittier needs more maintenance brakes but it is environmentally friendly? (go do some research on how the EGR system works for diesel engines and tell me that you want that shit on your car)

Seems like a better solution would be to increase public transportation so people don’t need a fucking car as their primary mode of transportation.

But it’s much easier to guilt trip people into thinking their car is bad for the environment and convince them that they need to be the savior of the fucking planet then it is to legislate and force oil companies and car companies that want to sell more oil and more cars.

My point is people keep getting told life used to be easier things used to be better and everything sucks now in order to fix it. We need to pass these laws which no one wants and surprise that people are voting for the conservative part is it we don’t want to change shit.

Conservative parties have a lot of other way worse ideas as they relate to social issues and societal problems. Usually the easiest solutions to scape goat somebody else and say hey this group of people over here sucks. They are the cause of all your problems not these corporations and rich fucks who pay us lots of money to ignore you and your needs.