When you hate-scroll my feed, you're letting me into your mind. So I'll show you something good. March 1971, Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett, with Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Duane Allman, Dave Mason, John Hartford, Clarence White, Gram Parsons, Bobby Whitlock. youtube.com/playlist?list=OL…

"You don't have to be." It's one of the most powerful NLP techniques.

"Why do you want to acquire money?" "Because money is power." "And why do you want power?" "Because you can use it to get more money." "But what else do you want? That you can get with all this money & power?" "Sex with people I'd go to jail for fucking otherwise."

They'd all love it if there were naked dudes having a piss orgy in front of kids.

They don't care about the well being of the company, any more than pirahna care about the well being of a horse that falls into their river. They're going to strip it to the bone.

As an immigrant to the US I don't think Americans realize to what extent most of the world admires the states. They look up to it, its incredible. Americans are heroes of the world for the country they've built and the impact on history. Most of modern civilizations major achievements are American, at least the big ones - mass production, space industry, nuclear power, decoding the human genome, robotics and AI, on and on. There's really nothing that compares to the excitement of moving to the states from another country. You made it. This is the big leagues. The main stage. The soft power of Hollywood cultural projection meant by the time I arrived, everything was oddly familiar, the design of street signs, roads, the look and feel of the country. This guy from India said - "you know, its like I am in GTA" - and its true. Everywhere on the planet people play video games as American soldiers. You get primed for it, by the time you get here you're like, fuck yeah, America. When I first moved here for an internship at SLAC I drove a pickup truck down from Canada and played country music. Smoked cigarettes on the highway. Went for late night rips in the hills behind Stanford. Bought a surfboard. It was just awesome, truthfully, and I think America will have to save Europe from itself a third time, simply by protecting freedom of speech, national pride, individual liberties, given Europeans a taste of those things, showing them - look, this is how its supposed to be. This is how rich you can become if you respect individual rights over government rule, if you relax the bureaucracy, the taxation, the regulation. x.com/TRHLofficial/status/20…

That was a solid book. Whatever happened to her?

Well Good evening @TractorSupply @hallawton We are disappointed and actually darned mad. There is zero reason any of these positions cannot be filled with American workers. NONE.

I do not understand, in 2026, why anyone is shorting anything, and I have, over the last several years, watched a generation of intelligent, well-credentialed, technically sophisticated investors set fire to their capital on the short side of a market that has been telegraphing its direction with the subtlety of a marching band, and the only explanation I have ever been able to construct is that none of these people have read a single page of monetary history written before 1990. The setup is not subtle. The federal government is running a 7% structural deficit with no political coalition in either party willing to address it. The Treasury is issuing debt at a pace that will push publicly held debt-to-GDP past 130% within five years, which is the level at which, historically, every government in recorded history has either inflated its way out, defaulted, or both. The Fed is, regardless of what it says in public, the marginal buyer of that debt, and the only mechanism it has to fund the purchases is the creation of new dollars. The money is being printed. The debt is being monetized. The currency is being debased. And asset prices, which are denominated in the currency being debased, are doing the only thing they have ever done in any country that has ever tried this, which is going up. Every country that has run this experiment has produced the same chart. Weimar Germany in 1922 and 1923 produced one of the most violent equity bull markets in recorded history in nominal terms, as the mark collapsed and the Berlin exchange repriced upward by orders of magnitude. Argentina, across four separate inflationary cycles since 1975, produced in each cycle a nominal rally that outran every short thesis published, while the peso lost 99.9% of its purchasing power. Zimbabwe in 2007 and 2008 produced an equity market that rose so violently the exchange had to be closed because the calculations could not keep up. Turkey, right now, in front of the entire world, has produced a Borsa Istanbul up 1,400% in lira terms while the lira has lost 85% against the dollar, and every short of Turkish equities has been carried out in nominal terms even when they were right in real terms. The lesson is not that asset prices are going up because the businesses are getting better. The lesson is that asset prices are going up because the unit they are measured in is getting smaller, and any investor who positions short against this dynamic is betting against the will and capacity of a government to debase its own currency, which is the single most reliable bet you can lose in 4,000 years of recorded monetary history. The government always wins. The government always debases. The currency always loses purchasing power. The assets always reprice upward in nominal terms, on a path the shorts always insist is unsustainable and that always, somehow, sustains. You can short individual frauds. You cannot short the market. You cannot short the currency itself without being on the wrong side of the largest force in modern capital markets, which is the slow, politically inevitable destruction of the dollar’s purchasing power against everything that cannot be printed. The shorts have been wrong for five years. They will be wrong for the next five. The only investors who will, in real terms, preserve and grow their wealth are the ones who understood, early, that the game is not about being right on valuation, it is about being on the right side of monetary debasement, and the right side has always been owning real assets, productive businesses, scarce commodities, and the one monetary metal that has functioned as money continuously for 5,000 years, while the people on the other side continue to insist this time is different. This time has never been different. The math is the math. The shorts will continue to lose. The owners will continue to win.

"I meant to do that."

Gladiator, LA Confidential, Master & Commander. How many actors can claim so many roles in movies that portray superlative masculine values? Maybo Toshiro Mifune? Bogart? Russell Crowe earned his place in history.

Modern problems.

Anything for a pension.

I hate the AI slop bookend story, but there's some good info here. I've been used to turning off video effects on every TV since the '90s to get a more film-like image, but these days you also have to worry about it spying on you & loading all kinds of unwanted software/content.

To the contrary, the statistical odds of Democrats committing fraud are 100%.

It used to be so much more dignified.

I hope @DissidentRight feels vindicated. Perfect example of the celebration parallax.

Prison is the only option for company board members. Fines are nothing to them. They just continue REPLACING YOU with unskilled foreigners. Send ALL Indians home and JAIL the Americans that made their fraud possible.

Europeans discovering Buc-ee’s is my new jam. I love this stuff! Democrats bitch about America, Europeans love it! 🤣❤️🇺🇸

Lincoln was a tyrant, but a respectable one who could credibly, physically submit all his critics.

All you have to do to have a successful revolution is to make the pension seekers understand that they will never collect the almighty pension.