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30,000 ft perspective. Remove yourself from a specific ticker or situation and think about this. @FINRA is a SRO with unchecked “absolute immunity” charged with regulating the very entities who fund their existence… would you bite the hand that feeds you? No? Me neither.

@Malone_Wealth You think they couldn’t wrap their head around it? They know damn well how he bridges the gap. They wanted him to say issue shares (dilution) on live TV. He refused to do so but the harm was still done. Not saying it almost looks worse.

This interview was incredible. Cohen said multiple times that the offer was half cash half shares and they continously said that he only had $29B in cash so HOW COULD HE POSSIBLY BUY A COMPANY FOR $56B!?!? In my own head I said "umm because the other half is shares??" and CNBC could not put that math together. Then told him "The math doesn't math". Eventually leading to complete confusion on RC's side and him realizing that they brought him on to just try to make him look incompetent compared to all of the "finance pros here". Absolute shill-fest. @ryancohen

@WhiteHouse I think I speak for most Americans when I say take your 2 week ceasefire as a W and stfu. Stop with the inflammatory dick measuring comments that will escalate this back into a broader conflict. Not saying give Iran the house but they’ve got us by the sack… just stop

@ruth_capital @DeItaone Right. The fact that we got Iran to agree to a ceasefire is a W but it was absolutely not because we made them bend the knee. Them agreeing is a gift to the US. Why continue to instigate. The US needs this ceasefire more than Iran does. Why risk pissing them off more?

@DeItaone man can we just shut the fuck up and chill for a week

VANCE SAYS IF IRANIANS DON'T ENGAGE IN GOOD FAITH THEY'RE GOING TO FIND OUT THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT ONE TO MESS AROUND

X is becoming unusable to get reliable information... The monetization is creating a powerful incentive to post "*breaking* FAKE news" ... this is all while everyone is asking "@ Grok is this real?" because no one can confirm anything. Public Townhall is slowly becoming Misinformation Central.

@KrisPatel99 If the US government weren’t captured by Israel and had a spine, they would turn the knife on Israel right now. YOU drug us into this shit, we want out. Either cut the shit with sabotaging negotiations or feel the wrath yourselves. But then…. Files start dropping

How do you negotiate in good faith with someone whos ally keeps bombing you? At some point the US has to reign Israel in... Israel is doing a lot of harm to US credibility and every day that goes by with this conflict, people are loosing faith in the ability of the US to control the situation. This is why, even with information on a diplomatic solution beginning to materialize via back channels, the Oil markets no longer trust any "words" and instead will only respond to actions. Actions like Oil tankers moving through the strait in higher volume.

Only way out - US turns on Israel for leading us into this mess AND sabotaging any attempt at peace. Continue bombing = long drawn out war. Walk away = lose war on most every metric and risk Iran still not opening SOH. Turn on Israel to show the world they instigated this? Peace?

So did Trump just blatantly disregard his own 5 day pause or is this all Israel? Feels like Israel… doing all it can to pull all the other gulf countries into the conflict by attacking power infrastructure knowing damn well that was going to translate to Iran attacking neighbors

@amitisinvesting He wants out but Iran isn’t going to let him out. He poked the beehive like an idiot and now the bees are swarming and anyone close by is getting smacked despite the fact that they didn’t poke it. He can’t leave our Middle East allies to fend for themselves. Iran knows this

So let’s get a sense of the vibes now that Trump has said this… If you aren’t long, would you go long? If you are long, would you derisk? If you are short, would you double down? The war isn’t over, but this shows Trump might not want to escalate as much as people think…

@pdicarlotrader I’m not saying there’s not money to be made in the green Bx. But the biggest gains happen on a trend reversal. Arguably, the best time to buy in crypto is when the Bx is deep red. You may go lower but you’re going to catch the biggest turnaround days and your gain window extends

@West16B Last time MBX met criteria bull cycle ran 354% and lasted 145 weeks More than enough money to be made there as opposed to trying to snipe the bottom

THT Long Term Model called the top on $BTCUSD back in November. Since then, price is down about 40%. I would not be touching crypto here. Short term we could see a relief rally, but when MBX is red, most bounces end up being traps for retail. I would rather wait for the Long Term Model to flip back long than try to pick a bottom.

There’s a very real war being fought on X. The “the US is pummeling Iran and winning camp” the “Iran is in full control and has the US by the sack” camp and the very loud “Netanyahu is dead” camp. Some overlap of course. What’s everyone else’s timeline look like?

@TheMoneyApe How is it that banks stall legislation anyways? Since when do they have legislative power to stop anything?

ERIC TRUMP ON THE CLARITY ACT 💥 ERIC TRUMP CLAIMS EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE AT MULTIPLE LEVELS TO DELAY OR BLOCK PRO CRYPTO LEGISLATION. HE SAYS THE REASON IS SIMPLE: WHEN CRYPTO WINS, FINANCIAL POWER SHIFTS FROM INSTITUTIONS TO THE PEOPLE. WILL HIS DADDY TRUMP PAS …Show more

@Budgetdog_ @BudgetDog Did you link some else’s handle?

28. Insider trading is illegal unless you're in Congress. 29. Your tax refund is an interest free loan to the government. 30. You want to fix your finances but don't follow me @budgetdog 😉

Uncomfortable Truth: If your parents made $100k in 1990... You'd need $243k today to live the same life. 30 more uncomfortable truths that nobody's talking about:

🚨🇰🇵 After the nuclear test, North Korean Supreme leader Kim Jong Un said, “Our nuclear test was for peaceful purposes. We challenge no one, but if you think you can capture North Korea like Venezuela, remember you are playing with fire.”

More and more information will come out about Epstein till the US attacks Iran… and we will…. 🔮 the swamp will throw a country into war and kill thousands to protect their name and power.

Nice dead cat bounce on bitcoin and all the major stock indices this morning. The key will be confirmation. Will this rally hold into the close and bounce again Monday. If so we may have something.

We sure the algos arent compromised?

What if it’s all connected in the largest financial terrorism plot ever? 10/10 starts the dominoes - big boys takes some shots from forced liquidations. then China buys the absolute shit out of gold and silver, big boys take more shots on their short positions.. now the unwind

Recent disclosures tied to $MMTLP show internal communications between the SEC, FINRA, and the broker-dealer lobby (FIF) coordinating actions around unrecoverable loaned shares and effectively naked short positions. For readers of InvestorTurf, this is not a revelation. It is validation. In our prior investigation, “How Wall Street Creates Counterfeit Shares for AMC and GameStop,” we documented how U.S. market plumbing enables synthetic share creation through a closed loop of regulatory failures involving FINRA, the SEC, and the DTCC. The $MMTLP case fits that framework almost perfectly. Our reporting laid out three core claims: 1. FINRA is structurally conflicted, acting as both regulator and protector of broker-dealers that fund it. 2. The DTCC tolerates chronic settlement failures, allowing phantom shares to persist under the cover of “fails to deliver” and netting mechanics. 3. The SEC consistently defers enforcement, choosing market stability and institutional protection over rule of law and investor protection. The $MMTLP halt exposed the endgame of that system. When naked short positions became mathematically impossible to close, trading was stopped, not to protect investors, but to prevent forced buy-ins that would have exposed the scale of counterfeit share issuance. That outcome is not an accident. It is the logical conclusion of regulatory capture. Why This Was Inevitable Under Gensler Gary Gensler’s SEC has repeatedly promised reform while presiding over the same outcomes: • Record settlement failures • Token fines treated as a cost of doing business • No criminal referrals tied to systemic naked short selling If internal communications show regulators coordinating with industry lobbyists while retail investors were locked out of the market, that raises a fundamental question: who is the SEC actually regulating? InvestorTurf has long argued that the SEC does not function as an independent watchdog, but as a pressure-release valve, stepping in only to manage optics and contain risk when the system threatens to expose itself. The Legal Implications If regulators knowingly facilitated or concealed market manipulation, the issue moves beyond incompetence. Conduct of this nature, if proven, would fall under federal criminal statutes, including: • 18 U.S.C. § 371 — Conspiracy to defraud the United States • 18 U.S.C. § 1348 — Securities and commodities fraud • 18 U.S.C. § 1001 — False statements or concealment within federal jurisdiction • 15 U.S.C. § 78j(b) and Rule 10b-5 — Market manipulation and fraud These are not abstract theories. They are the exact statutes designed to address coordinated deception in U.S. financial markets. The InvestorTurf Conclusion The $MMTLP disclosures do not represent a breakdown in oversight. They represent how the system is designed to function when naked shorts become too visible. FINRA shields. The DTCC obscures. The SEC delays. And retail investors are told to trust the process. If senior officials were aware of unrecoverable synthetic positions and acted to suppress price discovery rather than enforce the law, then accountability must go beyond hearings and resignations. Criminal investigation is the minimum threshold. Markets cannot survive when regulators protect the counterfeiters. InvestorTurf has been documenting this pattern for years. $MMTLP didn’t expose something new. It exposed what regulators were willing to do when the truth got too close.

@TheLongInvest Even worse now because Trump can’t afford a bad market going into mid terms. Taco for sure.

Negotiating against Trump would be the easiest for any side Set a small bait and he’ll bite immediately, sending him down a rabbit hole Everything that comes next sounds like compromise He’ll think that he got the upper hand by reacting harsh to the first distracting bait But in reality he’s been played missing the big picture. Any person you can trigger to bite, you have control of.