Christiaan Stoudt

Democrats will do whatever they need to get votes for power.

Are you suggesting that the other Presidents and the government establishment aren't corrupt and only Trump is the bad one? You're just helping prove my original point with how you've chosen to comment on my original post and then insinuate that I'm fine with ignoring action people are trying to say Trump did... It only helps strengthen the viewpoint of fake "ethical" people all of a sudden concerned about perceived corruption while they are completely silent about past corruption or even current corruption in various states and NGOs... The "hot headlines" are almost always only about Trump and not other situations. Trump certainly is a flawed man with lots of issues but its proven that more people and the media freak and try to demonize him while they go completely silent on actual documented things by others. Few people actually have the ethics to talk about all the corruption and call out everyone no matter their affiliation or political voting record...

@cstoudt @gothburz Are you suggesting that their conduct did not give so many chances to suspect or suggest corruption as the current President's conduct does? Regardless, as an American citizen I'm sure you'd be against corruption, not for it, and therefore be welcoming of scrutiny & transparency.

I placed $1.5 billion in futures at 6:50 AM. Fourteen minutes before President Trump's Truth Social post. That's generous. Usually, I get five. The S&P was barely breathing. Premarket Monday. The kind of quiet where a single order echoes through the entire book. I bought $1.5 billion in futures. The index moved 0.3% on my entry alone. That's how thin the market was. That's how empty the room was. At the same time, I shorted $192 million in crude oil. Then I sat there. Three screens. One coffee. The futures blinking green on the left, the oil contract bleeding red on the right, and in the center, a Truth Social feed set to refresh every four seconds. Fourteen minutes is a long time when you know what's coming. Not because I was nervous. Because I was early. At 7:04 AM, the president posted. Productive discussions. Five-day halt on strikes. Peace talks with Iran. S&P jumped 2.5%. Oil cratered 6%. My position gained $60 million before most Americans' alarm clocks went off. Good morning. Iran later denied that the talks ever happened. Called it fake news. The speaker of their parliament accused the president of manipulating financial markets. The talks might not be real. The sixty million dollars is. The analytics accounts flagged it within the hour. "Unusual activity." "Orders 4-6x larger than anything else trading at the time." That's their word for it. Unusual. My word for it is Tuesday. They always flag it. That's their function. Flagging is not investigating. Flagging is the system's way of noting that it saw something, documenting that it will do nothing, and calling that process oversight. The actual investigation is conducted by the CFTC. The CFTC has one commissioner. Out of five seats. One. The other four chairs are empty. Not vacant. Emptied. There is a difference. Vacant means nobody applied. Emptied means somebody decided the body responsible for policing futures markets should not have enough members to hold a vote. That's not negligence. That's architecture. You know what we call this pattern on the desk? TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. Escalate on Friday, capitulate on Monday, and extract in the window between the decision and the post. It's so reliable, we named it. We have a private Slack channel. #taco-tuesday. It updates automatically when Truth Social pushes a new geopolitical keyword. We don't teach it as insider trading. We teach it as a market structure. New analysts learn it in their first week. By the second week, they stop flinching. The phone rang at 6:47 AM. Three minutes before I entered the position. The call lasted ninety seconds. Ninety seconds of context. $60 million of outcome. You call that insider trading. I understand why. Insider trading is the word you learned. It's the crime from the movies. The whispered merger at a cocktail party. Four hundred shares of a mid-cap pharmaceutical. That gets prosecuted. That's the version of this crime the system was built to catch. What I do is different. I place $1.5 billion against a war decision made in a room I have the phone number to. On a platform overseen by a commission with one member. In a market where the president's social media account is the most powerful price-setting mechanism on earth. That's not insider trading. That's infrastructure. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your brother-in-law. I made $60 million trading on a war. The difference is not the crime. The difference is the decimal point. Americans paid for this war with four-dollar gas and sixteen billion in taxes. I paid for a phone call. We are not in the same economy. Last month, $529 million was wagered on Polymarket's Iran strikes market. Six accounts pocketed $1.2 million. Deposited funds the same day. Hours before the bombs fell. One account cleared $553,000 at 17% odds, seventy-one minutes before public confirmation. He has not placed another bet since. The president's son sits on Polymarket's advisory board. Two federal investigations into the platform were quietly dropped this year. Twelve government officials sold stocks in the weeks before the tariff crash. All of them reported the sales after the deadline. Nobody calls any of that insider trading. They call it prediction markets. Delayed disclosures. Portfolio rebalancing. I call it the junior varsity version of what I do with futures. An Oxford law professor called it the most far-reaching securities fraud in history. We call it the window. Tomorrow, this will be gone. Buried under a new tariff. A new ultimatum. A new TACO. Next Monday at 6:50 AM, I will be here again. Coffee. Three screens. The phone. The ninety-second call. The fourteen-minute window. The game isn't rigged. Rigged implies something broke. Nothing broke. Every component is functioning exactly as specified. The one-member commission. The anonymous platforms. The four-second refresh on the Truth Social feed. The phone that rings at 6:47. I didn't exploit a flaw in the system. I am the system.

White people are a minority in California… Now their skin color stops them from running for office. Welcome to South Africa.

Wikileaks shows the US government knew all about this 20 years ago.

@willgarden1 @gothburz It isn't natural because the "scrutiny" is not done by the masses on the other Presidents when they were in office.

@cstoudt @gothburz Isn't it natural that the most important elected office in the land would invite the most amount of public interest and scrutiny?

I guess I'm not surprised to hear this... I guess we need to really hound @SecRollins and @SecKennedy to start ACTUALLY helping small producers....

There was a time, not long ago, when you voted on Election Day & knew the winner by bedtime. Then COVID hit. Lawyers like Norm Eisen & Marc Elias dismantled election laws to flood the system with mail-in ballots. Election Day became Election Month. In my 2022 race, we led on Election Night, despite machines “failing” that day. Then they spent 13 days counting mail-ins until my opponent pulled ahead. In 2024, it took nine days to count. One morning we learned Yuma County had “found” a vault of mail-in ballots that doubled their total. This stinks to high heaven. Americans have lost faith in our elections. If we don’t end Election Month & restore Election Day, with paper ballots, small precincts, & results the same night, voters will stop showing up.

Those wheels you’re looking at are 0.75 millimeters thick. That’s half the thickness of a US dime. Each one was carved from a single block of aluminum, and NASA sent six of them to Mars knowing they’d eventually shred. Curiosity was built for a 2-year mission. It landed in August 2012, and by December that year NASA had already extended the mission indefinitely. Thirteen years and 35.5 kilometers later, the rover is still going, but the wheels started cracking just 14 months in. The damage came faster than anyone at JPL predicted. Sharp embedded rocks were punching straight through the skin between the treads. So NASA assembled a Wheel Wear Tiger Team (a crisis problem-solving tradition that goes back to Apollo 13) and got to work. In 2017, they uploaded a traction control algorithm from Earth that adjusts each wheel’s speed in real time based on the terrain, reducing force on the front wheels by 20%. They rerouted the rover to softer ground and started driving backward when possible, because pulling wheels over rocks produces less force than pushing them into rocks. The wildest part: if enough treads snap off, Curiosity is designed to find a sharp rock on Mars and use it to deliberately rip out the damaged inner section of its own wheel. JPL tested this on a replica rover and found Curiosity can keep driving on just the outer third. They predict this won’t be needed until around 2034. Every 1,000 meters, the rover pulls over and uses the camera on its robotic arm to photograph its own wheels so engineers on Earth can count every crack. Each wheel also has tiny holes that spell “JPL” in Morse code, which Curiosity uses to measure distance by photographing its own tracks in the dirt. These photos directly changed the next rover. When NASA built Perseverance, engineers 3D-printed about 70 different tread designs before landing on 48 curved treads instead of Curiosity’s 24, with thicker skin. They tested the new wheels over 60 kilometers and got zero damage by Curiosity’s original failure definition. “A boring graph with no data on it,” as one JPL engineer put it. A $2.5 billion machine doing self-surgery with rocks on another planet because the mission outlasted its design by 6x.

Because Democrats haven’t exactly figured out how to launder money from NASA. But when they do things will quadruple in cost if not more.

WOW 🚨 Investigation finds the money Chicago Democrats started funneling into NGOs for community violence intervention programs grew more than 15x faster than the police department's budget Over $1 BILLION dollars and they’re stealing the money Just 1 guy stole $700,000 The man “was charged with murder, burglary, and nearly $700,000 worth of theft. At the time of his arrest, he had four active arrest warrants. When I saw this story, I had a simple question, how often are peacekeepers getting arrested? So I started digging and I found 28 other arrests over the past three years involving people who identified themselves as peacekeepers or violence interrupters, or were wearing peacekeeper vests” - Free Press The “community groups” are Chicago CRED (the organization behind the Peacekeepers program) and other Community Violence Intervention (CVI) initiatives in Chicago, they’re all nonprofit organizations

Our medical industry hates America and its citizens.

@hedcannon @x_GrimReaperx @Breaking911 I'm originally from Texas and in my mid 50s. Texas is certainly not "cleaner and more orderly than ever." If you think things are better here than they were you're misinformed....

@cstoudt @x_GrimReaperx @Breaking911 What is yours (or his) criteria for this? Portland is worse. Seattle is worse. Step outside to their exurbs and they’re clean and orderly. Texas cities are cleaner and more orderly than ever. Even Detroit is better now than it was 15 years ago and that was a 60 yr slide.

TUCKER: "There's not a single Western city thats thriving" "Sharia Law has made Islamic societies more advanced than the West."

@Tiamat531229675 @bonchieredstate He never praised Sharia law... but why would you have listened to the clip since you're just an anonymous account pushing hate.

@cstoudt @bonchieredstate Muslim countries are a shithole. Sharia Law should never be praised. Even Hasan Piker wouldn't do that. End of.

Remember when Tucker used to argue that Russia is inherently more moral than the West because its government “champions” Christian values? Notice how he’s flipped that standard so he can praise Islamism. It’s all just anti-West slop. There’s no actual principle.

You're still incorrect in your assessment but I know you're trying very hard to be "right" or make me the problem with "contradicted yourself" type crap. My statement - "Any ethical and honest person knows that the "Sharia Law" YOU MEAN is NOT the Sharia Law HE MEANS especially since he called out the bad versions in his own statements" was to Breaking911 and all those that have demonized primarily Sharia Law from Iran and the very secular ones. That is the "one" I'm talking about when I say "YOU MEAN." Since Tucker did call out radical and secular type ones I labelled that BAD because that is what everyone mostly talks about as Sharia. I as well as Tucker never said "the UAE one" or others were Good. I never also stated MY view - because my context was talking about Tucker and Breaking911 and what was said by Tucker. There was no reason for me to interject my view into the discussion....

@cstoudt @7GOATrings @Breaking911 You contradicted yourself in your comment to me. If you can figure out where I'll engage in conversation with you. If you can't, well, it was nice talking to ya

The narrative of all the posts that have covered this basic topic of the recent trade and tweet is specifically about a "person" - Trump. If the narrative was anything else then we'd consistently have seen this type of commentary in 2000 or 2020 or 2023, etc. If that wasn't the point you were making then there should have been no reason to use TACO because that wasn't anything prior to Trump and the tariffs. Another thing that clearly ties the post to more about a person than a situation. When Trump is gone the noise around trades and "corruption" will likely mitigate itself considerably even if there are still only four empty chairs - just like before Trump. That ultimately is my point - all the noise is because of him mostly - not the actual corruption.

@cstoudt The piece is not about a person. The piece is about a four-second window that exists regardless of who posts. The next administration will have the same window. And the same four empty chairs.

Yes - the BAD VERSIONS that everyone is primarily speaking to in the current context - Iran and the secular ones that murder and beat women. UAE has softened their approach a lot, hence why Tucker did the comparison. Actually please read and try to understand my comment before you keep trying to get a "dig" on me so you can feel "right." Everything in my original statement was about Tucker's words and context and included NOTHING on my view of Shari. I only shared my disgust of people that pull out context and lack ethics and honesty when trying to have a conversation.

@cstoudt @Breaking911 Not him, but you referred to “bad versions” of sharia law. All “versions” of sharia are horrible and fundamentally misogynistic and inhumane.

America is a crappy place currently compared to what it was in the 80-00's. We've all seen the decline. That is his point. Not well stated and filled with issues, but overall that is his point. Also, of course he has a more tailored view because of his celebrity and that is another reason people should filter the crap coming out of his mouth instead of going into some outrage tantrum.

@cstoudt @x_GrimReaperx @Breaking911 I’m sure the hotels Tucker stays at are awesome. Moscow (an infamous shithole) is better than an any comparable city in the US? For who? Dubai is a shopping mall and golf course in a kitty litter box slave state. Calling America a “crappy place” is stupid. Compared to what?

"Us Gen X need less people like you because you haven't helped anything or provided any value." Note the words - "need less people like you." That means I knew you were Gen X because I assumed your you were born in 1977. You're the troll that really doesn't understand context. All you've done is attack and never once took responsibility for your incorrect views. Clearly your parents really didn't teach you well.

@cstoudt @Breaking911 I am gen X you blithering idiot. Go troll somewhere else.

I have no idea why so many focus on Islam when the context of his clip was about the decline of America and those that hate it... We'd do better if people actually were more responsible and tried to fix that than focus on a new threat. It seems stupid to attack a new enemy and just ignore the existing ones in our country that helped put us in this position....

I'm not judging you, and I've seen the entire clip in context. Tucker's words are perverse. Islam is no more a religion than White Supremacy is... would you demand unity with the Klan? Islam is an ideology that does not teach respect for life, as it does not value life. It teaches followers to hide their true beliefs under a veil of respect & kindness, long enough to consolidate power. And once they have power... Islam commands them to slaughter, rape, and enslave non-believers. Islam has no place in the United State.

I'm certainly not a fan lately either but never was a big one overall. I think he is just disillusioned like so many of us and has the luxury of getting to talk about it on a public forum and paid which usually leads to just blabbing... I'm just tired of the demonizing that happens for so many subjects and demand that you "pick a side." I try to censor myself a lot but sometimes I just have to share in comments... In this case I think he was right about hateful people hurting us overall. Either way we are in trouble as a country for sure.

@cstoudt @kennycollins88 @Breaking911 I used to really like Tucker, but I am not a big fan of what he is now. Not saying he is always wrong, but imo he has an agenda that I am not a fan of at all.