Trump 2 Alum @usedgov @ODNIgov VP @beckandstone
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We built a massive, intricate machine to teach our children because it would be more Efficient and have Better Outcomes.
Turns out it’s does neither. In fact it just became a giant, wasteful jobs program run by people who hate you and hate your way of life.
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Thank you, TX-32, for putting your trust in me and electing me as your next congressman.
On election night, I spoke about what this victory means, not just for our district, but for the future of our country. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but I meant what I said on Tuesday night. We are Americans, and Americans fight.
I wanted to share my full election night remarks with you. Thank you again for the honor of serving and fighting along side you. I will make you proud.
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The Chief of Staff already has a lawyer. The Attorney General of the United States and the Department of Justice.
Official statement from incoming Oversight Chairman @RepRobertGarcia on Stephen Miller being announced as White House Chief of Staff:
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I wrote a message to my team at @beckandstone this morning and it was suggested I share here. So here it is:
Beck & Stone has grown significantly over the past few years, thanks in large part to a unique moment in our nation's political story.
The "vibe shift" culminating in the 2024 election blew favorable winds to us as a firm that understands these waters and helps our clients navigate it. Every space we work in has this dynamic and politics has been one.
After last night, the winds seemed to change. But did it really? Or did it just blow harder?
Even without digging into public sentiment data on specific policies or the technicalities of any particular race, one fundamental insight arises that should be obvious to everyone here:
Americans want the national revival they've been promised. Period. Genuine, not fake. Fast, not slow. They have run out of patience and sympathy for taking America backward or even standing still.
The "business as usual" paradigm for both politics and culture is a recipe for… well, for last night's results. A complete capsize of a political armada after two years of seemingly effortful sailing of many ships, big and small.
…except for ours. I know this team's ability to create what is new, to remain ahead of the cultural curve, and to offer our clients this foresight as a specialty service will be the reason our company sails on, rocked by changing winds but more alert, more experienced, and with more opportunity for disruption.
We will perceive what others squint to see. We will take the risks others are unwilling to. And we will not give up on our people or our mission.
This was demonstrated last night when one of those people, our client and friend, Jace Yarbrough, was elected to represent Texas' 32nd District in Congress. When Jace and I met, nobody would have expected that Congress was in his future. Good men are exceedingly rare in politics. And Jace is a good man. Who provides for five children and works for his countrymen when Americans trend alienated and self-centered. Who keeps his word and remembers his promises. Who loves his country and seems to never grow weary in fighting for her. I am proud that in the midst of a stormy night when other ships were lost, Jace Yarbrough’s—with many of us aboard—emerged victorious. In him, many now see a glimmer of hope of this promise of revival being fulfilled, as did I when we launched his ship into the dark unknown.
These fundamentals guide all of Beck & Stone's insights and investments. These stories are the ones we yearn to tell. We know from experience that transcendent virtue and hard work will end in victory. Because it’s not about trusting the plan, it’s about trusting the man. And we have so many good men among our friends and clients and in this firm itself. We were made for times such as these.
So if you are wondering what’s next, let me encourage you to just keep looking forward. Then you'll know. You will see: this mighty, terrible wind is with us! It drives us, propels us! Faster! Further! Onward!
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You need to be getting bigger. You need to be putting on mass. You need to be snacking constantly. Raw whole milk, raw eggs, Greek yogurt, ice cream, cottage cheese, honey, oats, carpaccio and charcuterie and cheese. You need to be getting bigger. Get huge, absolutely massive. These people are insane, deranged lunatics. You need to be able to take them on 5 on 1.
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Our biggest issue yet, we just started shipping copies out. My opener is the longest (and possibly best) thing I’ve ever written at over 17k words, tracing the rise and fall and rebirth of the American Empire.
There are many great essays throughout, and an absolutely fascinating interview with the legendary Sgt. Major (Ret.) Mike Vining.
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Today is Election Day! I just voted for our great Republican candidates up and down the ballot.
I ask for your vote today so we can continue this great project of American renewal. We must keep pressing forward, and we cannot return to the Democrat policies of open borders, rising crime, and hyperinflation that we experienced under four years of their leadership.
Please make sure you get out to vote, and get your friends and family out to vote as well.
Not one step back!
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TOMORROW is Election Day! We cannot go back to the chaos we experienced under the Democrats for four years. We must press on, move forward, and continue to put America First!
Make sure you get out to vote tomorrow, November 3rd!
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So what? It is illegal for non-citizens to vote - hard stop. It is irrelevant whether they are here “legally.” Most drug dealers are also here legally.
Majority of noncitizen voters charged by DOJ are lawfully in U.S. nbcnews.com/politics/justice…
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Very short clear explanation of how concretely plausible major election fraud is, courtesy of @shylockh (see below for more, & his blog). Deeply corrupt deep blue cities in purple states like Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta, Philly, etc suddenly find suspiciously large suspiciously blue suspiciously precise ballot batches after all the other votes, very late at night, often with surprising disruptions to the transparency & custody of the relevant papers or USB sticks; as explained in the pics, there are obvious mechanisms easily available if the local party machine has just a very few loyal bagmen, who’d all have clear incredible incentives to stay quiet; given all the crazy shit blue city machines get away with, is it surprising that maybe three guys with lifelong proof-of-loyalty can keep their conspiracy secret, in order to keep getting lifelong checks instead of lifelong imprisonment?
If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too. (via @PolitiFact) to.pbs.org/4zqnWBa
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I said in an interview when Beck&Stone was beginning to breakthrough that “I know, yes, we're a small team… But McKinsey also used to be small. They just had very smart people who were able to go and were able to focus on something and work through those issues and then move on.
“The value proposition of consulting is that we will actually get our hands dirty. You have to be very diligent in terms of the tactical execution of what you are proposing. And then your reputation lives or dies based upon: Did your plan work? Was your diagnosis correct? Did you help resolve it? This doesn't exist any more at a larger scale.”
When we crossed into a “medium-sized” company, leadership’s goal has been keep us working small while thinking big: utilizing the full resources of the company but working hard and fast within your unit. Some things simply don’t scale well and groups of people working together are one of them.
There are a few things that Manidis and Roberts get exactly right.
Small firms will achieve outcomes completely disproportionate to their headcount. These “raiding party” sized groups will outperform at a shocking scale. The countries that rose through the outsourcing of backoffices will fall as those jobs evaporate into the algo. Call center countries reduced to scam hovels.
Scarce, permanent assets will be the holy grail of the AI economy. Assets that cannot be vibe-coded, that will grow under AI dominance rather than shrink. These will often be "rails", physical sites, or “nation-state” assets like a power grid, a copper mine, or a strategic landmass.
“The fourth settlement is one sympathetic to great men and leaves little room for labor as you know it.” This is one of the best lines in the piece and a nice key to the next few decades. If you told people two hundred years ago that labor would be abolished, they would be stoked. Today they whine, “don’t take my toil, let me listen to a pod while I type.”
Inevitably, some of the predictions in the piece will miss. Where this is the case, I think it will be a result of the authors' sheer proximity to the center. Too near to the fire, lobotomized by the Flow. NYC and SF crowds are certain that their world is the only one. A perennial solipsism dominates both bubbles, a gravitational pull that Manidis and Roberts (and the friendly ghost of Leopold Aschenbrenner) are not immune to. The authors argue that all capital will be made subservient to the Line. The Line must go up. AI must continue its march, even irrationally, to prevent massive capital destruction of all that has come before.
But outside of the epicenters, the people have no allegiance to the Line. My brother in Idaho has no allegiance to the Line. Your friend who bartends in Orlando has no allegiance to the Line. For the Leopolds in SF and the FO boys on wall street, it may be their only reality, their existence and work and net worth but the everyman has not corrupted his mind with expectations of winning the final gluttonous end times tech lottery. He has no allegiance to the Line.
Manidis and Roberts argue that the populace will be tied via pensions, equities, and trump accounts to the success of AI, but I don’t see that that coupling has truly taken place yet.
Downstream of this, I still don't see the US nationalizing the AI labs. The labs tried hard but the critical moment has come and gone. The administration has already decided that it is intolerable to be equity partners with Altman or Dario. Some will live and some will die. As long as boomers have a blood in their veins, they'll cling to their free-markets while the groypers and DSA kids would rather see recession than the tech oligarchs and bankers enriched in victory.
Where does this take us? Coming years will be dominated by powerful firms in the private sector and great men, value will accrue to assets that are scarce and durable, companies will act more like countries. Will and Joe are going to make some killer, generational investments during this era.
Thanks to Will and Joe for writing and giving people something think about and to shoot at. I saw some folks complain that the piece is too grim or apocalyptic. I blame the popularization of end times biblical language by the one paypal co-founder. The future that the bible actually predicts is much more interesting. One of the inevitable victory of christendom–––the past and future conquest of Christ over all. Shaping the victorious timeline is our ultimate duty and opportunity.
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Robert and I are thrilled that our gift of over 2 million shares of SpaceX stock will be distributed to children’s Trump accounts in December!
Our initial gift (shares transferring to escrow as we speak) will go to 11 to 17-year-olds who live in zip codes with median family income (MFI) of $57,000 or less, and to those who live in zip codes with too few residents for an MFI to be reported in the census. These families should receive a notice by Monday.
In a few weeks, an additional gift will be finalized for eligible 11 to 17-year-old children in military families serving overseas, children in foster care, and more children whose MFI is $90,000 or less living in counties near our home in the great state of Texas.
Thank you to the incredible team @SpaceX, @Treasury, @IRS, @DellFdn, @GreaterHorizons, @InvestAmerica24, and the legal firms of Morgan Lewis and Gibson Dunn for working over the past few months to make this happen.
We are deeply grateful for the groundbreaking work that Brad Gerstner @altcap and @MichaelDell have done for the long-term financial security for millions of kids.
God Bless America!
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Ahead of Tuesday's vote, I put together a group of economists including Nobel Laureates, fmr senior govt officials & academic economists who oppose the California wealth tax and signed this letter: "Economists Against The California Wealth Tax (Prop. 40)" antiwealthtax.com/
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BREAKING: For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor's safety analysis for full-power operations.
LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory.
ALT Source: Radiant Rendering
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Totally false, Steve. USAID is not funding anything. It’s closing out contracts & shuttering the agency.
BANNON: We haven’t cut off USAID. Don’t let anybody believe we’ve done that. They’re still pouring money all over the country.
OMB, @russvought, we love you, brother. Where are my rescissions on USAID?
If Congress doesn’t have enough balls to do it, how come OMB doesn’t have enough balls to do it?
We’ve got to get serious about this. We’re not serious.
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Russ Vought responded that USAID is not funding anything and is closing out contracts while shuttering the agency. The Trump administration has terminated most USAID programs with staff sharply reduced and remaining functions moved to the State Department. justthenews.com/government/fed… gao.gov/products/gao-2…
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This is such a great, common-sense idea. I remember Palmer Luckey talking about this a few years ago, wondering whether it could be done at a competitive price point, while a lot of people were like, “What for?”
Now Anduril and Qualcomm are actually doing it — rebuilding an American computer manufacturing capability and reducing our dependence on Chinese supply chains.
And they’re doing it with their own money. Bravo.
