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@melly__dope I support his political view. I see you're a vet. Thank you for your service. I respect your opinion, and right to have it, and see we can disagree without being disagreeable.

I’m going to make this clear. I’m a Giants fan and I’m rooting for wins and success, but I am not a Dart supporter nor anyone on that team that supports his political views.

@marceelias How can I help….put you in prison.

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

@anncantweet @Hebro_Steele This

@Hebro_Steele Eli, this is a great article. You and Gad Saad have such different personalities, but I find value in both. I know individuals who seem to fall into the suicidal empathy camp, but others who for sure are in the white guilt camp. Could you both be right?

@TheRideshareGuy @patrickc @apoorv_bh89 Buddys pizza

@patrickc @apoorv_bh89 Nice, I’ll be there next month for an event. Best place to eat?

Detroit impressions: • The downtown is full of beautiful buildings. All of them seem to have been built specifically in the 1920s. I guess that is after the city had accumulated enough auto wealth but before the twin hits of Modernism and the Depression. (I hadn't known that the GM Renaissance Center, built as a revitalization project, was at the time the largest private development in US history, and also at the time the world's tallest hotel. It may be large, but it is not pretty.) The downtown is surprisingly depopulated -- both the streets and the sidewalks feel empty. That said, it didn't feel at all unsafe. There are lots of great homes in the suburbs. • The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation is amazing, and it's worth visiting Detroit for it alone. Among many (many) other things, it contains the oldest known surviving steam engine in the world, the actual Montgomery bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a deconstructed Model T, a deconstructed Eames Chair, and many great cars, agricultural equipment, locomotives, industrial specimens, and more. (They have the Lincoln Continental that JFK was riding in when assassinated -- which, apparently, was returned to service and used by several subsequent presidents.) • The museum made me wonder why American car design peaked in the mid-60s. (This fact is very evident at the museum.) The LLMs blame the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. (Not quite wtfhappenedin1971.com, but close.) • Good food exists but it is hard to find. • The Heidelberg Project also exists and is unique. • We stayed at the Dearborn Inn, which is wonderful, and contains cottages modeled after the homes of significant American figures. Dearborn (and Hamtramck) are now predominantly Muslim, apparently for reasons that go back a century to Henry Ford's $5 wage. Dearborn felt noticeably prosperous (we stopped for coffee at a fancy Japanese cheesecake cafe); Hamtramck did not. • Michigan.gov says that the Hispanic population of Michigan is just 6%. Coming from California, the absence is very striking. • The Detroit Institute of Arts is remarkable, particularly the room with the American landscapes and the section with the Dutch masters (especially The Visitation). An obvious question is why there is nothing quite like it in the Bay Area given how much richer the latter is than Detroit ever was -- we techies are just so uncultured by comparison. The Diego Rivera murals are amazing (and quite strange; you can see why they were controversial). • Detroit is full of historic plaques -- they are truly everywhere. This is presumably due in part to the fact that Detroit has a lot of history, but it still has many more than places with comparable historical depth. Some research suggests that it might be related to generous tax credits for historic preservation. Whether or not that is true, Detroit persuades me that other places should engage in more plaquemaxxing. • I recommend a visit! You overall leave with some sense for how exciting America must have felt in the early 20th century.

@patrickc Nice summary…but no mention of Bell Isle.? Landscape architect was who did Central Park (Olmsted?). Also, Dequindre Cut is a hike and bike trail that ends at riverfront. Hamtramck was Polish when I was a kid in 70s and early 80s.

@TedMostert @saylordocs Is that right? Does it work with other assets? My stocks have been going up at a higher rate than my mortgage so I don't have to repay the mortgage? That's really nice of the lender...didn't realize those were common terms in collateralized loans.

@CPTXMark @saylordocs if bitcoin keeps going up in price at a higher rate than the interest rate you never actually have to repay the loan

Imagine a father who secures $100K in spot Bitcoin. He holds the asset until the valuation hits a massive $5,000,000. Liquidating the position directly triggers devastating taxes on $4,900,000 of pure profit. So he executes the perfect institutional maneuver instead. He locks the Bitcoin in a legal trust, takes out a collateralized loan against the stack, and lives off the borrowed liquidity. Because he never executed a sale, his tax liability remains at absolute zero. Upon his death, the heirs receive the Bitcoin with a brand new cost basis set exactly at $5,000,000. The government cannot legally touch a single cent of the accumulated gain. This is exactly how generational wealth is permanently secured.

@jeremyct Find a cheaper apt and a roommate to split the rent.

around me, places like Chipotle and Chick-fil-A are hiring at about $19/hour. full time that’s roughly $3,300/month before taxes. after taxes you’re probably taking home around $2,900. average one bedroom apartment? close to $1,900. so most of your paycheck disappears just keeping a roof over your head. and somehow people still call this a “budgeting problem.” working full time shouldn’t feel like survival mode.

@cmonty36504906 @MichaelDell Yes, and the Austin area is literally overflowing with Dellionaires. What's your point?

@MichaelDell "Build" is a term that is doing a lot of work for you here. An awful lot. Didn't everyone else involved also "build?"

Robert Reich forgot the 6th and most common way: 6) Build something millions of people actually want

Sitting down? Odds of Trump winning these states before counting stopped on election night… GA: Up 8% and 83% in: 99% PA: Up 16.2% and 64% in: 99% Mi: Up 10.4% and 59% in: 97% Wi: Up 4.9% and 82% in: 97% Odds of losing all 4 states? 1 in 11.1 million or 0.000009% Stolen.

⚠️ Why does James Comey always run to Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC when the heat is on? It’s not random. It’s a pipeline. Wallace’s husband, NYT’s Michael Schmidt, was one of the key reporters that parroted Comey’s leaks and memos during the Russia hoax years. The machine works like clockwork: ➡️ FBI insiders leak ➡️ Media allies (like Schmidt) amplify ➡️ Nicolle Wallace runs interference and frames Comey as the victim Works like a charm. Same players. Same script. Same protection racket — we see it in this 2025 clip. We see it now. Media surrogates still recycle the same victim script on live TV over the “8647” fallout. Do they think we’re stupid? The American people aren’t falling for the Big Lies anymore. We are onto the two-tiered media-intelligence games.👀

Remember last week when Gretchen Whitmer's best friend was indicted on 16 felony charges for allegedly stealing $20 million from the state?? That story disappeared pretty fast…

You decide!!! No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism. You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like. Bro. You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai. You live in a constitutional republic. Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested. The modern left's definition of fascism: You love your country? Fascist. You want to enforce the border? Racist. You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot. You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow. Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left. But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country. But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them. Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected. Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin. Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao. Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon. Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII. Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini. Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign. Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote. But Trump is the king. Okay buddy. You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours. And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water. The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned. No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968. Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote. During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant. But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression. The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration. Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check. That's how you keep power without wearing a crown. Biden built a censorship machine. Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire." They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho... Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley. And it doesn't stop at speech. The extreme left justifies taking children from families. Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene. The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father. Same playbook. During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital. But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously. $2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings. January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings. Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided. Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated. CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up. 75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

@BlueCollarBKNY @EnergyUp_ You're connected or you wouldn't have recognized that

@EnergyUp_ Don't disconnect from life is 4 words

This is the world's most famous immunologist..! He lived 108 years, and when asked about the secret to his long life, he said the reason wasn't food, nor a healthy regimen, nor even low stress. And when they asked him about the secret to longevity, he replied with just one word..

@THEBuddyRevel @MattWallace888 @grok Yes, the libtard class is violent. Especially the trannys. On that we can agree.

@MattWallace888 @grok He asked how it felt to be the only western leader who can't go out in public unless he’s encased behind bulletproof glass. Carney went to a hockey game last week and sat in the crowd…and he wasn’t flanked by security. Trump is now universally hated, except by MAGA inbreds.

Can you read his lips @grok and tell us what he said that caused President Trump to react that way?

@Putin_Will_Fall @paulg @DanconiaLoken You know why. Cause he’s either an idiot or lying (to virtue signal)

@paulg @DanconiaLoken Why? She’s an idiot.

Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html

Dr. Peter McCullough sends a message to Dr. Fauci.

@brianeskow @orcish_dreams Intelligent, but not a good person. I don't regret not voting for him.

@orcish_dreams Absolutely. Also seems like a good, interesting, intelligent, and thoughtful person. I don't regret voting for him twice.

I’m finally starting to understand why many people on the right dislike President Obama. He is a civil rights activist at heart. He believes this country has a lot of work to do before the adjective “fair” can be applied to it. That ticks a lot of people off. I still like him as a man and still respect him as a president. I’m just acknowledging my heightened awareness of his role in the current political environment.

@orcish_dreams @brianeskow Definitely. But Eliz's comments which were spot-on, also. Leaders pushing the oppressor/victim narrative are toxic. Eloquence makes it worse.

@brianeskow I thought he always presented himself well and spoke eloquently. That still hasn't changed.