Tag: LateStageCapitalism

All these people wearing those “anti-social social club” hoodies, thinking they’re being cool because they’re advertising the fact they’re not well socially adjusted. I think it’s lame, but whatever. You do you.

But, did you know that’s a massive corporate owned brand, just leeching your money from you? It’s owned by Marquee Brands, since 2022 and also controls brands such as Ben Sherman, Body Glove, Dakine, Istoner, Totes, Martha Stewart, and others.

Also, the CEO makes a measly $10+ Million/year, so that’s cool. Keep buying the shirts bro. Neil will have this 3rd yacht soon.

Thank goodness Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Musk’s “X” is bringing it back. I couldn’t think of two other tech bros who love racism more than those fucks. Of course, “relearn.org” is little more than thinly veiled white christian nationalism. The Catholic Church is little more than a racist terrorist organization at this point.

Don’t believe me? Then why isn’t the church denouncing all of these organizations? They couldn’t give fuck as long as people keep giving them money.

Have you bought anything made by Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Reebok, Champion in the past 6 or 7 years and thought “this isn’t anywhere as good as it used to be”? There’s a reason for that, and it’s completely planned – of course, by yet another venture capital parasite. It’s a $20 billion company that doesn’t design or manufacture anything, they simply rent the logo out to the cheapest bidder. Quality control is right out the window – it’s little more than a logo stapled to a royalty agreement.

The company is called Authentic Brands Group. Their playbook is to wait for a beloved brand to hit financial trouble, buy the intellectual property, the name, logo, and trademarks. Strip out the designers, factory workers, & quality control, then license the brand name to third-party companies who actually make and sell everything. ABG just sits back and collects royalty checks not giving a rats ass about what is or isn’t actually produced.

ABG’s own IPO filing was shockingly transparent about the whole plan : “We generally do not design or manufacture the products associated with our brands and therefore have more limited control over such products’ quality”. They call themselves “brand guardians” but what they really guard is the trademark. Not the stitching, the materials, or the people who made the thing worth buying in the first place.

Here’s what happens after ABG “saves” a brand. Brooks Brothers was founded in 1818 and dressed 40 presidents. ABG bought it out of bankruptcy in 2020 and launched a cheap diffusion line at Macy’s that reviewers called “a little bit shabby.” Eddie Bauer was bought by ABG in 2021 and just filed its third bankruptcy in February 2026 with all 174 stores closing. Forever 21 was bought out of bankruptcy in 2020 and went bankrupt again in 2025 losing over $400 million in three years and closing all 350 U.S. stores.

ABG doesn’t need the stores to survive. When an operating partner goes bankrupt, ABG still owns the brand. They just find another licensee. The workers all lose their jobs. ABG loses nothing.

And ABG isn’t the only company doing this. Here’s who owns what so you can make informed choices:

Authentic Brands Group: Aéropostale, Arrow, Barneys New York, Billabong, Brooks Brothers, Champion, DC Shoes, Dockers, Eddie Bauer, Element, Forever 21, Frederick’s of Hollywood, Frye, Greg Norman, Guess (pending), Hunter Boots, Izod, Jones New York, Juicy Couture, Lucky Brand, Nautica, Nine West, Prince, Quiksilver, Reebok, Rockport, Roxy, RVCA, Sperry, Spyder, Tapout, Ted Baker, Van Heusen, Vince, Volcom

WHP Global: Toys “R” Us, Babies “R” Us, Rag & Bone, Vera Wang, G-Star, Express, Bonobos, Joe’s Jeans, Anne Klein, Joseph Abboud, Isaac Mizrahi, Warners, Lotto, Lands’ End

Marquee Brands: Martha Stewart, Laura Ashley, Sur La Table, Emeril Lagasse, America’s Test Kitchen, BCBGMAXAZRIA, BCBG, Ben Sherman, Bruno Magli, Anti Social Social Club, Totes, Isotoner, Destination Maternity, Motherhood, A Pea in the Pod, Stance, Dakine, Body Glove

Same playbook everywhere. Buy the name. Gut the product. Collect the rent. That’s capitalism, baby.

Oracle. You may know them. Larry Ellison, the CEO and long time Trump supporter and mega-donor, just laid off 30,000 employees last week. They cited changes in the industry causing them to do this.

Today, they hired a new CFO. Want to guess what their compensation is?

$29,700,000. Yes, $29.7 Million dollars.

Her name is Hilary Maxson. Previously she was the CFO at Schneider Electric where her compensation package was $2.5 Million in 2020, growing each year just a little bit from the previous year until she reached 2025 where she was compensated $2.8 Million.

Prior to this, she was a SVP for Schneider Electric, pulling in about $800,000 annually.

Larry Ellison just paid her over 10x what she was previously making.

Let’s get one thing clear. Oracle (who’s insanely invested in AI, and buying up all the components, which is creating a worldwide emergency shortage of chips, hard drives, memory, and processors) is causing basically everything from baby food to your Netflix subscription to go up in price. They shit-canned 30,000 people, so they can give this worthless sack of fucking skin nearly $30,000,000 a year.

Tell me, Larry. What can this bitch bring to the table that values her at $30,000,000 a year, more than 10x what she was making just a couple days ago?

Fuck it. Add Hilary Maxson to the list of people who should be fucking shot out of a cannon directly into the sun. Don’t worry. I’m not just ragging on her because she’s a woman. That cannon is loaded with a completely disproportionate amount of men over women, and Larry Ellison is near the top of that list.

Welcome to capitalism, baby.

https://www.dougfordclownshow.ca

That fat fuck just needs to die.

• $5 footlongs
• Video game demos in stores
• Cereal with toys inside
• Friday night trips to Blockbuster video
• Radioshack
• Pizza Hut buffet
• MuchMusic actually playing music videos
• $0.25 wing night
• Privacy

So, basically there’s this app called Stava which maps your runs. Some dude on a French aircraft carrier decided to go for a jog on the deck, and it more or less mapped his run. In the middle of the ocean.

But, what’s most concerning here is that a journalist was able to uncover this. Publicly.

Now, this really isn’t a matter of national security as let’s be honest, all major military powers worldwide have adversary ships tracked down to the inch across the world at any given time. But, what about the average person. You know.. that cute girl down the street? Who goes for a run past your house all the time? Who you start to stalk on the Strava app, without her knowing? And now you know whenever she’s out and about and what she’s doing? Yup. Nothing creepy about that.

Protect your privacy people. Block these bullshit apps. Stop relying on these “free” features so you can play some bullshit exercise game where you compare your runs with your friends. It’s not worth it, because somehow, someway, all of these companies get cracked – someone finds a loophole to extract your data. And if it’s not hackers across the Internet, it’s the company themselves doing nefarious shit with your personal data, selling it to god-only-knows-who, but most certainly your insurance company.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Shut this shit down. This is ruining the world.

Remember when every tech bro was pushing the Metaverse as the next big thing? Only, it totally fucking sucked, so nobody used it? Because it required a VR headset nobody could afford, and further, nobody wanted to use?

That didn’t stop Facebook (Meta) from selling a shitload of “property” within it’s fake virtual world. People dumped millions into it to stake their claim, but that’s all going away now. Meta will be shutting it down in less than 2 weeks. Any money you’ll spent there will disappear. Remember, you don’t own it, you’re just “leasing” it.

But, that must have cost a lot of money to build, right? You’d be correct. In fact, it cost Meta $80,000,000,000.00 to do so. Yes, that’s right, $80 BILLION dollars to build some bullshit virtual world that they’re going to kill off entirely.

Any guesses what $80 Billion could have done for good in this world?

Fuck it. Zuck needs another doomsday bunker in New Zealand. What a complete piece of shit he is.