John Raymonds

Charlie Kirk — On Outliers, Loss, and the Seeds They Leave Behind ⬇️

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The Interview That Never Happened — Part VI: Value Before Volume — Growth is what shows up. Value is what makes it inevitable. 🧵

True.

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

A truly amazing version of this song. 🙏🏼

Much has been written today about the concept of suicidal empathy, but nobody else, as far as I know, has connected that concept to the 2005 incident where a chimpanzee ate a man's lips, nose, and testicles

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

LA is worth saving. Vote Spencer Pratt.

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The Interview That Never Happened - Part V: The Deal You Think You're Making — Structure decides what you keep long after the headline number fades 🧵

Overheard in Los Angeles: “West LA is like real-life Bluesky.”

Bukele's 90%+ approval isn't magic—it's results. Homicides in El Salvador plunged after his gang crackdown. The left and Soros-aligned groups hammer him for "authoritarianism" while ignoring the chaos he fixed. When order delivers that kind of trust, voters hand over power. Rare case of democracy rewarding competence over ideology.

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The Interview That Never Happened - Part IV: The Power and the Partner — Private equity isn't the exit-it's the amplifier if you choose wisely. 🧵

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TTR (noun; acronym); expands “Time To Rand”: Duration of conversation with/among professional intellectuals until they suddenly foam at the mouth about Ayn Rand apropos of little or nothing.

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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The Interview That Never Happened — Part III: The Numbers Were Never the Point - The metrics that matter when selling are the same ones that should have guided you all along 🧵