The 53rd Regiment

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@ThatNYsportsguy We have the worst record in baseball with a $380 million payroll. David Stearns pushed all the hometown fan favorites out the door this winter. So no, I will not get over it.

Spencer Pratt is on a darkened bridge in Los Angeles. It's dark because criminals have STOLEN all the copper lights. And no one has ever gotten arrested for it. No one is even investigating. This wont be a thing when Spencer Pratt is Mayor.

David Stearns will go down as the worst executive to ever run a NY sports team. Years from now there will be case studies on how poorly he mismanaged the @Mets and how his narcissism and refusal to recognize failure caused immense harm to this team. Coupled with the fact that during his tenure, the Mets have more resources than they ever have had, @StevenACohen2 decision to place Stearns at the helm will be viewed as his greatest business failure and will overshadow anything great he’s done in the world of finance. David Stearns has caused so much damage and continues to. And cohen sits idly by and watches. As a fan it is just so sad to watch.

@MetsMuse Good for Pete!

Pete Alonso to David Stearns and Steve Cohen during contract negotiations in 2025: “When my career is being evaluated for the Hall of Fame years from now, you’ll still be fiddling with your f****** formulas.” Wasn’t mincing words.

@gothburz Bravo!

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said. I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her. Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it. "Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record. I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at. My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building. Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment. I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate. I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic. When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change. I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that. My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say. They want me to apologize. I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

@gothburz Leave that commie city in a commie state run by communists. Get out while can before it all collapses. And if you ever voted Dem, understand you helped enable all of it. @the53rdregiment

@the53rdregiment @sidrosenberg19 @kilmeade @e3z9b_qI1ytkw @IngloriousBhere @EricMoo91919605 @zeroDEIUSA @anthony_ru65 @PershingSoldier The Ballot Box is a horrible way to virtue signal.

Very sad. NYC democrats voted for an Islamist Communist and now they’re finding out. nypost.com @sidrosenberg19 @kilmeade @e3z9b_qI1ytkw @IngloriousBhere @EricMoo91919605 @zeroDEIUSA @OldSaltCityAce @anthony_ru65 @PershingSoldier

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@zeroDEIUSA Democrat Party is a complete clown show. No policies, no solutions, zero constructive input to every problem. Democrat leadership is sick. Democrats are broken. the53rdregiment.com/trump-2-0-brok… @EricMoo91919605 @OldSaltCityAce @PhillipDenton @ArmyVet2x @BJohnnybravo58 @PershingSoldier

Always the same ones causing the chaos. Too bad about your tantrums Dems. State by state we will fix elections if the senate won’t.

Grabbing more taxpayer money and devastating the economy. Those are their goals. Marxism needs a lot of people who have nothing to seize power. "Everybody owns everything" sounds great to people who have nothing. To people who have even just a little, it's hogwash; they know from experience there is always someone willing to, and trying to take your stuff. Democrats know this. That's why everything they've done over the last half century has been to expand the number of people who have nothing, or think they have nothing. So they can be used as "leverage" for Democrats to seize power. Marxism is a cruel lie. People will, at a minimum, aspire to a situation slightly better than their current one. Marxists dangle that in front of them as their birthright, only denied them by the dishonest actions of everyone in a better situation than they have. Marxists promote the "fixed" size of the economic pie so they can take from others, instead of working to grow the economy. This way everyone gets less under Marxism. Except the Party Officials, of course. If the plant manager has the same income as the floor sweeper, why would anyone want to be the plant manager? But, the Party Officials will get more, because they deserve it after all. Marxism is tyranny and hatred wrapped in a lie. Democrats don't care about Democracy, Communism, Social Justice, Climate Change, Healthcare, Veterans, The Poor, Abortion, Israel, Terrorism, Immigration, or any "cause." They only care about power. To them, everything is a tool they can use to gain power. Remember that and everything they do makes sense.

Met with @Pontifex to underscore our shared commitment to promoting peace and human dignity.

@the53rdregiment @ZohranKMamdani @sidrosenberg19 @DavidAsmanfox @lsferguson @PershingSoldier @zeroDEIUSA @EricMoo91919605 @Hotsoup5280 well , no one can say they weren’t “warned”— millionaires, billionaires and their businesses will move to friendly areas and workers (residents) will follow…!

@OldSaltCityAce @PhillipDenton @TheDemocrats @PershingSoldier @lsferguson @kilmeade @IngloriousBhere @zeroDEIUSA @noreen05291 @KarlT56 @ArmyVet2x @anthony_ru65 … and then he graduated to Reverend Wright’s “church” and was reportedly in the “Down-low Club.” 😲 @BJohnnybravo58 @LampeOutpost @Hotsoup5280 @Nederland1965 @PenniNation

@PhillipDenton @the53rdregiment @TheDemocrats @PershingSoldier @lsferguson @kilmeade @IngloriousBhere @zeroDEIUSA @noreen05291 @KarlT56 @ArmyVet2x @anthony_ru65 @sidrosenberg19 Think about it. Where did Obama begin his career in politics? In the living room of the SDS/Weather Underground. '60s radical anti-American communist terrorists.

Can you imagine how much winning & success the USA would have if @TheDemocrats loved America? the53rdregiment.com/the-democrat-p… @PershingSoldier @lsferguson @OldSaltCityAce @kilmeade @IngloriousBhere @zeroDEIUSA @noreen05291 @KarlT56 @ArmyVet2x @PhillipDenton @anthony_ru65 @sidrosenberg19

@the53rdregiment @OldSaltCityAce @PershingSoldier @zeroDEIUSA @EricMoo91919605 @PhillipDenton @lsferguson @BraveIndy60 Ivy league colleges have reached a popping point. Its like a large pimple waiting to come to a head. At some point, the puss is going to come out and when it does, its really nasty stuff!

Randy ain’t wrong folks. Simple truth. @the53rdregiment @OldSaltCityAce @zeroDEIUSA @PhillipDenton @EricMoo91919605 @Johnnywheels17 @IngloriousBhere