Joe Sixpack

Tenders are the new IPOs. Continuation funds are the new exits. Secondaries are the new pricing layer. Private credit is the new high-yield. The whole capital-formation stack rebuilt itself outside the public markets, and most people are still reading public quarterly reports.

@_CB01 Just need Cramer to tell us this an IPO you need to buy!

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Barney Frank ran an "escort service" out of his home that was connected to an underage callboy ring that operated out of Chevy Chase Elementary School in Washington DC.

It’s not an antisemitic conspiracy theory when a foreign lobby openly brags that they bought two congressional seats with candidates who will be loyal to Israel.

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

@BigJoeBastardi Climate changeeeeeee!! Meh, just called the weather!

Gasp. 2 pm Saturday deviations from normal

@SMB_Attorney Incredible - happy birthday to the big guy!

Thirty-one days of going through the motions of ordinary life while carrying something that made ordinary life feel pointless... like it was over. And then. The genetic testing proved the lab wrong. He did not have X-ALD. The lab had made an error. A result that was wrong, delivered with complete confidence, that sent our family into a month of grief that never should have happened. I don’t have a good way to describe what that reversal felt like either. Relief doesn’t cover it. Gratitude doesn’t cover it. A lot of disbelief but a feeling like I was given a second chance at life. I wasn’t angry. I promised God I wouldn’t be in our many conversations that month and I felt strongly I had to honor that. Frankly, I was scared not to. What the further testing confirmed was that the Doose Syndrome diagnosis was correct. Serious. Real. Something we manage carefully and watch closely. But not fatal. Not the abyss we had been staring into. Crazy how the perspective shifted… And thankfully he has been seizure-free since 2022 with medication. There is still activity on his EEGs. We watch it. We always will. But today he is five years old. He is healthy. He is happy. He is everything. Here is what those thirty-one days taught me that nothing else could have: Almost nothing you are worried about right now actually matters. Not the deal that might fall through. Not the money or the status or the thing that kept you up last night that you will not even remember in six months. None of it. The only things that matter are the people in your house. Their health. Your presence with them. The ordinary Tuesday morning where nothing remarkable happens except that everyone wakes up and nobody is sick and you get to drive them to school. I believed this intellectually before the summer of 2022. After thirty-one days in those woods, I believed it in my bones. My son does not know this story yet. He is five. He is busy being five. But someday he will read it. And I want him to know that those thirty-one days were the days that finally taught me what I was actually living for. It was always for him. Happy birthday, buddy. Love you more than anything in this world.

Okay, late night story time. And actually this should probably be the last time I tell this story… it’s time for me to move on. But many people over the years have asked me to give the full details and I’ve never had it in me but tonight I feel good so whatever… here goes: My youngest son turns five today. In early 2022, when he was just a little over one year old, we started to notice something wasn’t right with him. He’d fall… a lot. Now babies fall down, obviously, so it took a little while for it to click. But this was more than that. One day, I’m at Disney with my older son when his mother called: “I think something is wrong and you should come home.” Gulp. Doctors, testing, observation… it finally clicked and before long it was confirmed: He had a rare form of pediatric epilepsy called Doose Syndrome. I took this news really hard. Someone said “this is a life changing diagnosis” and I remember dying a little bit inside hearing those words. All I ever wanted was for my kids to have a good, normal life. But then it got worse. Way worse. July 4th, 2022. While most people were grilling, we got a MyChart update that I will never forget for the rest of my life. Bloodwork came back and it said the following: “Indicative of X-linked ALD” I had never seen those words before so as anyone would, I quickly Googled it. X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. X-ALD. A rare, fatal neurological disease that destroys the brain. Progressively. Completely. He was one year old. There are no words for what that moment was like. I am not going to try to find them tonight. I collapsed in my yard and cried in a way I could never recreate. We scrambled to get our son’s doctor on the phone. It was a holiday. I screamed at the nurse on call. His PA finally called us back. What happened after that is a total blur, but I remember her using the words “new journey” several times and it destroyed me. Then, believe it not, it got even worse. X-ALD is a genetic condition that disproportionately impacts boys. And if my 1-year-old son had it, it meant there was a 50/50 chance his older brother had it too. I remember the exact moment I discovered that fact. A 60-minutes episode of two brothers, both affected and dying on X-ALD. My soul left my body. I went from perfectly normal July 4th holiday to finding out my whole family might be dying in a matter of hours. To make matters worse, I had just started a law firm a few weeks earlier. This wasn’t the time for a family health emergency. I spent a lot of time that month walking into the woods behind our house. Between phone calls, between emails, between the ordinary demands of a life that had suddenly become completely surreal. Out there among the trees, screaming at the sky and crying until I had nothing left. A father who did not know how to hold what he was holding. I learned *everything* about X-ALD. I read studies and the meta studies on the studies. I analyzed his test results from every angle. By the time we met with the head of pediatric neurology for the local children’s hospital on July 12th, I could tell I knew more about X-ALD than he did. He was wearing socks with little bottles of wine on them and I remember vividly wanting punch him in the face. We started making plans to go Minnesota to receive care at the leading center for X-ALD. Then we met with the geneticist. She was amazing. We rush ordered genetic testing… They debated whether to test his older brother too. “It will be $500 extra dollar” they said. Everyone thought we should wait but me. I had to yell but I finally got my way. Thirty-one days. That is how long we lived with it. Thirty-one days of looking at this small, perfect, laughing child and believing, based on everything we had been told, that we were going to lose him. Thirty-one days of my older son also being at risk. You can’t un-live that…

@trdraaron He is out in a couple of years. Time for a new king!

Trump consolidating power at quite a clip. He and sons are exempt from tax audits, insider trading like never seen, has his man in at the fed, massie out. I kind of see it more as the end of America and whatever new version is unfolding is riskier than ever.

If a Chinese paper wrote a story about how a primary race in Kentucky was the most consequential race for China after pro-China donors poured $35 million in the race What’s would that mean?

This is so won’t be able to sue the data centers for poisoning the water supply

Fuck Bill Gates

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

Full breakdown of the new January 6th report - The FBI deployed 26 paid confidential informants in Washington DC on January - 4 entered the Capitol building during the events - 13 entered the restricted areas around the Capitol - This means over a dozen FBI-linked informants were actively in the “riot” or restricted zones - CHS provided intelligence that Jan 6 “was gonna get a little hairy.” FBI HQ allegedly did nothing to prevent escalation and later claimed otherwise to Congress - ZERO charges against any of their FBI informants FBI covered up details before the election, confirmed Director Christopher Wray announced his resignation timing tied to report release - Media and Democrats pushed the “inside job by Trump” while dismissing FBI and Antifa involvement, despite early knowledge of CHS numbers (THEY KNEW) - Jan 6 politically benefited Democrats with impeachments, indictments, criminalizing MAGA, Jan 6 Committee focus - No accountability for uncharged informants despite “greatest attack on democracy since 9/11” rhetoric - There were allegedly payment made. Congress needs more details on CHS (Confidential Human Source)’s conduct, payments for hotels and more and pre-event activities - Says the FBI, media, and prior investigations are all not credible This only means one thing. Democrats used the FBI to stage an insurrection against Donald Trump. They tried to cover their tracks by hiring outside people to be agitators, then have those people they hired immunity against prosecution for doing the same activities they prosecuted Americans for All to steal the election and rush certification of their stolen election Inside job. Treason.

@ScottPaterno Blame trial lawyers.

When did school buses start going door to door? We had to congregate at a communal stop. Society lost something there.

Spencer Pratt’s New Commercial Just Won Him The Election.

@HollyBell8 Glenn Close

Which a actress should play me? Probably a dead one.

Mossad straight-up deceived the United States into bombing Libya in 1986 with one of the most cynical false-flag ops in history. Ex-Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky spilled it all in The Other Side of Deception. They called it Operation Trojan. Mossad naval commandos snuck a secret relay device (the “Trojan”) into an apartment in Tripoli. It picked up fake radio messages from an Israeli ship at sea and rebroadcast them on Libyan frequencies so U.S. and British intelligence would intercept them as genuine Libyan orders. The messages made it look like Qadhafi was actively directing terrorist attacks worldwide. Mossad fed the Americans “confirming” intel from their own sources. The U.S. swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Result? President Reagan ordered the April 14, 1986 bombing of Libya, killing civilians, derailing hostage releases, and sending a bloody message to the entire Arab world. Ostrovsky: “Operation Trojan was one of the Mossad’s greatest successes. It brought about the air strike on Libya that President Reagan had promised… the Trojan gave the Americans the proof they needed.” These deceptive bastards manipulated the world’s superpower like puppets to advance their agenda and bragged about it. From: The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad’s Secret Agenda by Victor Ostrovsky (p. 116) PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/177DG7p…

@sentdefender Cuba clearly next with this drumbeat...taking this with a big grain of salt. Cuba knows they'd get toasted the minute they attacked USA. Military industrial complex on display with this "news".

According to Axios, citing classified intelligence products shared with the news outlet, Cuba has acquired 300 drones from Russia and Iran since 2023 and has concept operations (CONOP) on the books where they would be used to target U.S. installations and vessels at Key West and Guantanamo Bay. Per the report “officials don't believe Cuba is an imminent threat, or actively planning to attack American interests. But U.S intelligence indicates the island's military officials have been discussing drone warfare plans in case hostilities erupt as relations with the U.S. continue to deteriorate.”

We're so back. An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

Who would have thought it would take 2 reality TV stars (Trump and Pratt) to pull us out of the libtard madness. Literally the last hope before we go Euro woke.