James Shields is Building a Billion $ Company

Honored to be mentioned. Humbled by the people who reached out. I love you guys. This is just the start. @xenospizza is a rising star.

@raqisright Nailed it

You ever notice losers always find each other? Same table, same rooms, the same grievances. They have “good” jobs: but spend every weekend escaping them They have freedom: but spend it replaying grievances. They talk endlessly about the people who wronged them. Why? Because they have nothing else going on. An empty life is loud about everything except itself.

@Michelle_G_CRE Not this time

@Jamesashields No Karaoke?

K-Town jams just hit different.

@CarlisleDiana @xenospizza

I’ll be in NYC may 28- June 2 I’m gonna go to happier I’m gonna get my aura picture taken I’m gonna go to Leon’s bagels I’m gonna run by the water I’m gonna get lost with my friends in Chinatown I’m so excited :) PLZ let me know things I must do/see!!

So fun!

@camidarling Nice post. I have to revisit this. I have thoughts. 💭

@tednotlasso I get cut off a lot too

(for nyc people) is it just me or have waiters been more intentional about pointing out mocktails on the beverage menu? feel like i’m only getting pitched mocktails and martinis recently

@kenashley Yep sounds about right. Chicago was a shocker.

Where is your city on the list?

@raqisright @martyrdison lol nice

@Jamesashields @martyrdison No my Audi is in Florida

pls don’t kill me

@LeilaHormozi Yooooooo

Surprise 😇

@Chazzym22 Yep

IYKYK

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens." And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds. Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before. Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax. A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program. Simple. They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why. They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed. They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak. By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that... And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren??? Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget. NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K. NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane. The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol. So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that. A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical. It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY. Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough. Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem. That's the SCAM. Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her. Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal. Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck. Outrage is deflection. They'd rather she pay. Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

@Mealsandeals Agreed

@Michelle_G_CRE Glorious

If you don’t have NYC in your profile, you are basically irrelevant

@PatCarino That’s sick. I love it.

This, is how you do it.

@EinhornGabe Score of an interview

Guess how much someone with 9M followers pays for rent in NYC. Whatever you’re thinking… you’re wrong. I was in midtown holding a sign: “How much do you pay for rent in NYC?” TraxNYC walks up. One of the biggest jewelers in the world. $2,200/month. Rent-stabilized apartment passed down from his mom. Asked him for advice for anyone moving to NYC: “There’s no advice. Just make money and have a plan.” Only in NYC. What do you pay? 👇

@MikeMcD89405256 lol I do that normally. Go to Ottomenelli’s in the WV.

@Jamesashields Butcher shop and shoot the shit with the beef guys

Where should I go? Wrong answers only?

@kenashley lol big country

@Jamesashields A country boy can survive.

@TheJSantiago My man

@Jamesashields Agreed