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Weston Kurz

Weston Kurz

@FirstBanker

Follower of Jesus, Leadership Guru, CEO Dayspring Foundation, Real Estate investor, former FirstBanker, alum of Colorado State U and Erie High

Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Jon Gordon
Jon Gordon@JonGordon11·
If you could teach your kids
ONE positive habit first…
which would it be? A) Gratitude B) Positive Self-Talk C) Forgive Fast D) Encourage Others
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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
We all need to learn history a little bit better.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
Colorado needs some significant reforms at all levels, especially the judicial system. Can we get the names of the judges who continually let this nonsense happen?
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga

🚨 20 ARRESTS. ATTEMPTED MURDER. ONE MONTH OUT OF JAIL. THEN HE WALKED INTO A JET ENGINE — AND NEARLY TOOK 231 SOULS WITH HIM. ☠️👿✈️ In the shadow of Denver International’s perimeter fence, 41-year-old Michael Mott — a man with over 20 arrests dating back to 2002 — delivered the most savage indictment of our justice system yet. 2005: Arrested for attempted murder with a gun. Pleaded down to second-degree assault. Served just six years. In prison: Charged with felony assault with a weapon. Post-release: Domestic violence, felony menacing, burglary, assault on a peace officer. April 10, 2026 — one month before the incident — arrested again for felony trespass and resisting. Released. On May 8, he scaled an 8-foot barbed-wire fence, ignored the alarms (dismissed as “deer”), strolled calmly onto Runway 17L, and stepped directly into the path of Frontier Flight 4345, accelerating for takeoff to LAX. 231 passengers. Pilots aborting at 127 knots. Engine fire. Smoke-filled evacuation. Twelve injured. Mott? Sucked into the turbine and pulverized into pink vapor. The medical examiner ruled it suicide — but the real casualty was every principle of ordered liberty. This wasn’t a “tragedy.” It was the logical endpoint of a system that treats violent recidivists like redeemable nuisances instead of societal predators. Plea bargains dilute justice. Early releases recycle danger. “Compassion” for the criminal becomes indifference to the innocent. Physics, unlike our courts, does not negotiate with woke dipshidiot twatwaffles. A jet engine at takeoff thrust rendered the verdict that the law kept deferring. We don’t need more studies. We need a justice system that incapacitates the Michael Motts of the world before they force 231 strangers to pay the price. The passengers survived by a miracle, not by policy. How many more “miracles” before we admit the policy is the problem? #JetEngineJustice #RecidivistReckoning #20StrikesAndStillFree #FixTheSystemOrBurn #DenverAirportBreach #PublicSafetyFirst #NoMoreRevolvingDoors

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Nuggets Lead
Nuggets Lead@NuggetsLead·
QUESTION OF THE DAY⁉️ Simple...YES OR NO TO THIS DUO??
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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
@AnthonyWChavez @jeffhunt And she might get called up in the Bottoms or Kirkmeyer administration as well? 🤔 Nvm that won’t ever happen cause Barb and Scott won’t make it past June. Nothing against them, they just don’t have “it.”
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Anthony Chavez
Anthony Chavez@AnthonyWChavez·
@FirstBanker @jeffhunt His wife might get called up to serve in the Marx administration, pure politics, and self-service with a platform to simp is what @jeffhunt is doing.🥴
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Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner@CoryGardner·
Craig Morton was my first favorite Broncos player. In my mind he was forever young. Ageless. Time catches up,even with the greatest. Thanks for making this Colorado kid a forever Bronco. denverpost.com/2026/05/11/cra…
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Jeremy Nicolls
Jeremy Nicolls@JeremyNicolls·
Should the Nuggets pursue Giannis to pair him up with Jokic? That offense/defense combo might be elite. What say you Nuggets fans?
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Jeff Hunt
Jeff Hunt@jeffhunt·
@AnthonyWChavez Nah. No money paid. I'm calling the race as I see it. Could be wrong, but I think Marx has the lead. I also have no intention to "destroy" anyone's candidacy, unlike some others in the media. All 3 would be great as governor.
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ACSI USA
ACSI USA@ACSIUSA·
ACSI USA VP David Balik supported ACSI Western Division Senior Director Kati Melton in earning her doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy at Vanderbilt University.
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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
@robbiehendricks If you are a Christian then I would add pray a lot and make the primary goal of your business to glorify God and invite Jesus, Spirit and God the Father into the daily flow of your work. Anything done WITH God will always be better than anything done without Him.
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Robbie Hendricks
Robbie Hendricks@robbiehendricks·
Key pitfalls to avoid in business, investing, and real estate: • Legal - Never toe the line. Consult attorneys often. Jail and lawsuits are real and they happen way more than you think - either can destroy you, your marriage, your biz, your reputation. • Tax - Get a monster CPA. Pay your taxes. Period. Don't get cute on this. • Insurance - Do not buy off the shelf insurance. Find a boutique firm and get a robust umbrella policy. One bad break could crush you, protect yourself. • Partnership - Bad partners not only kill good deals, but they end in drama and lawsuits. If you’ve got a weird feeling, walk. • High-Maintenance/Strings Attached Investors - Trust me. Find other capital or pass on the deal if it’s your only option. • Comparison - Kills happiness. Follow your own lead, compare only to yourself. You’re running your own race. There is nowhere you're "supposed to be". • Deal Obsession - Do not want a deal (or any investment) to work so badly that you adjust your criteria or numbers to make it work. • Doom Obsession - If you are paralyzed by what could go wrong, you’re lost…it’s impossible to move if your belief in the future has died. • Spending As If It Never Rains - Cash up. Keep more dry powder than feels reasonable. Don’t buy stuff with the income you haven’t yet earned in the assumption that the party never ends…rain is inevitable, keep several umbrellas. • Being Cheap - Will destroy you. Never cheap out on insurance, attorneys, accountants, staff, consultants, or education. Being cheap will eventually cost you 100x than doing it right the first time. • Don't Romanticize Gurus - Never meet your heroes. You'll very frequently be disappointed. What did I miss?
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Scott Bottoms for Colorado
Scott Bottoms for Colorado@ScottBottomsCO·
🚨 Scott Bottoms is winning with less because he’s offering more The fundraising numbers are in! …and what they show is massive. Scott Bottoms is proving you don’t need a bloated campaign machine to win. While others have burned through up to 4 times the money, Scott won the State Assembly and locked down the #1 ballot position with far, far less. More answers. More leadership. More action. This campaign is powered by an effective strategy and real Coloradans who need help and are looking for hope. Every dollar you give Scott goes 4x further, no waste, no overpaid consultants, no out-of-state gala circuit. Just grit, momentum, and results. Donate today and help us keep pushing: secure.anedot.com/scott-bottoms-… #ReclaimColorado
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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
This is what happens when you elect socialists!
Yogi@Houseofyogi

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

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Erin for Parental Rights
Erin for Parental Rights@Erin4Parents·
Colorado! Please take just 3.5 minutes to hear about the more than a DOZEN unconstitutional laws that have forced gender ideology on everyone in our state and stripped away your rights. We need to understand exactly what’s been done—so we can stop it. ➡️ See full list on my website 🔗👇🏼 ➡️ Share this video and the document with everyone you know. ➡️ We CAN fix this. It starts with the 3 @ProtectKidsCO ballot measures. Vote YES and tell every voter you know to turn out in November! 🗳️
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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
This is a must read for every government official as well as every entrepreneur.
Brivael Le Pogam@brivael

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
@robbiehendricks This is exactly what we did back in 1998 after buying a Carleton Sheets playbook for $500. From first flip lease to own to 32 multifamily unit deal in 2010. This is the way.
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Robbie Hendricks
Robbie Hendricks@robbiehendricks·
Young RE Investors: It is far smarter to build wealth in real estate with good flips, 2-4 unit rentals, house hacks, and BRRRRs than it is to jump into multifamily off the rip. Why? • You can build up your personal capital • Build up your track record and reputation • Learn to manage contractors • Discover all the ways properties fall apart • Learn to budget capex (you will fail at this often) • Learn to lease and manage residents • You will not risk other people's capital (or much of it) • You can quicly recover from a failure Multifamily is not a quick way to wealth, nor is it a low risk endeavor. That said, it is a solid way to protect and grow existing wealth if you know what you're doing (or if you're an LP, finding an operator that knows what they're doing).
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Jon Gordon
Jon Gordon@JonGordon11·
Comment below and I’ll pick a few winners to receive my new book.
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Weston Kurz
Weston Kurz@FirstBanker·
@ACSIUSA This makes me smile 😃 Two of the best theologians I know in the Christian school space.
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ACSI USA
ACSI USA@ACSIUSA·
"You can't just sprinkle Jesus dust on an otherwise secular education." Noah Brink joins the Grafted Together Podcast and shares how Franklin Christian Academy (TN) prepares students for God's calling by teaching Christianly: acsi.org/podcast. #christianeducation
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