Ideas are cheap. Most good ideas die in execution. I've kept a few alive in my small world. Thinking out loud and sharing what I learn along the way.
Smokies
Joined August 2026
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Justin Morgan retweeted
@GHHILL1911 here’s one a friend sent me a while back.
Justin Morgan retweeted
BREAKING: President Trump reveals his new anti-fraud program set up to reward people who expose fraud with a 1% commission on the money uncovered.
"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%."
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DOJ's published guidance caps individual whistleblower rewards at up to $30,000 per tip, not an uncapped 1% of fraud uncovered, with a total program fund of $25 million. A $1 billion fraud tip would not yield a $10 million payout under the official program rules. newsweek.com/trump-vance-of… foxnews.com/politics/trump…
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I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.
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The presumption that the Fed raising short-term rates reduces inflation is predicated on the belief that higher rates reduce demand and investment.
But what if higher rates don’t reduce demand and investment because the demand for intelligence and energy is unaffected by higher rates because winning the race for super intelligence has a near infinite ROI and the demand for compute will remain incalculable.
Why won’t higher rates at this unique moment in history therefore lead to more inflation as interest costs are embedded in everything?
And the problem is compounded as the more the Fed raises rates, the more inflation we will have and the more the Fed will need to raise rates further and so on.
But what if the old models don’t apply to the current paradigm and the Fed is wrong?
I think the Fed might have just made a mistake. Am I right or am I wrong?
Justin Morgan retweeted
SpaceX will literally have rocket landing pads on Mars before we build a new runway at Heathrow. No exaggeration.
Heathrow Airport's third runway may be delayed to 2039 bbc.in/4ysOuRC
Justin Morgan retweeted
🔥 WATCH: View from INSIDE Air Force One during President Trump’s flyover of Neyland Stadium in Knoxville for the Tennessee-Texas game
Watch closely, because you might miss the stadium, due to how fast AF1 was flying 🤣
🎥 @RealAmVoice
Justin Morgan retweeted
BREAKING: Abdul El-Seyed’s sister is caught on film admitting that Abdul is lying about his policies and that he’s not a capitalist.
Justin Morgan retweeted
Without those Tennessee Volunteers—including Crockett and roughly 30 others who formed the largest state contingent—the Alamo garrison would have been thinner and the 13-day stand shorter. That delay let fellow Tennessean Sam Houston organize forces for the San Jacinto victory that secured Texas independence. History would have unfolded differently.
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Tennessee’s Arion Carter was suspended by the NCAA for taking a $427 flight. Now the Tennessee linebacker is donating $427 to cancer research for every tackle he makes this fall. Absolute perfection. Good for him.
First @ArionCarter was suspended for a $427 flight by the NCAA. An amount he paid back.
Now he is donating $427 for every tackle this season to cancer research. 😏😏😏
How he continues to give back in the best way possible. ⤵️⤵️⤵️
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Justin Morgan retweeted
Ted. Look at our deficit. Look at how much we pay in interest every minute of every day. Look what that is doing to interest rates.
It’s Econ 101, you either have to raise revenue significantly, cut spending, significantly. Or both.
Talarico committed to support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill. That was a pre requisite for my doing the event with him this week.
If this Hawley/ Warren bill passes, we would reduce the deficit. We would cut costs for patients. Drug pricing would drop like a rock.
Yet not a word from you in support Ted. Why ?
A true capitalist would understand how these economics work. They wouldn’t ignore the fact that our debt levels pull money away from business. And consumers.
If you truly want to do what is best for business, and the economy, we are going to have to raise taxes and cut spending.
The best place to cut spending is by removing the HealthCare middlemen that are Too Big To Care, which is exactly what the Break Up Big Medicine Bill does
You ready to whip up support among republicans ? Or do you prefer people dying because they can’t afford care , and the economy continuing to slow down because we are having to print money to financial engineer our debt obligations.
What say you Ted ?
Mark, your second paragraph refutes your first, and your support for James Talarico makes the contradiction even stranger.
You’re right: taxes change behavior. That’s why President Trump cut them. After years of Obama-era stagnation, we rewarded work and investment. Before COVID, unemployment hit a 50-year low and poverty fell to the lowest rate ever recorded.
Last July, every Senate Democrat voted to let a $4 trillion tax increase hit Americans, the largest in history. Now Talarico wants higher taxes, calls capitalism an “oppressive system” to be dismantled, says “God is nonbinary,” says there are “six really common biological sexes,” and wants a “giant welcome mat” at our southern border.
If incentives matter, and they do, why on earth would Texas go backwards?
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David @friedberg on the hypocrisy of @RoKhanna:
"This is some dude who has a $300M net worth. His children have memberships at 3 country clubs."
"The dude lives in a $10M house in Washington, DC."
"And he used to be the moderate Silicon Valley guy who would go around to all the tech CEOs and founders and VCs and be like, 'Give me your money. I'm a moderate. We're going to make the Democratic Party work for you.'"
"Then he saw the tides change, and he's like, 'Oh, this is yum, yum. I'm going to run for president in 2028.'"
"Just to be clear on this, he is so unlikable, I think he'll likely end up being Secretary of Housing and Urban Development if AOC is elected president."
"I do not disagree with him or Gavin or anyone else that tax policy in America is fucked up."
"When billionaires borrow against their unrealized capital gains, they should pay capital gains tax. Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15% or 18% or 20%. In fact, labor should pay less. Income tax should be much lower. Capital gains should be much higher. That would be a fair tax policy."
"I don't know a lot of people who are wealthy who will look me in the eye and truly disagree with that."
"It's a lot of bullshit when we all say, 'It incentivizes investment.' Great, it incentivizes investment. What are you going to do with your excess capital if the tax rate is 40% versus 20%? You're not gonna invest it now? Of course you're going to fucking invest it."
"But instead of those practical solutions like I just laid out, they're all like, 'Let's go fire up the fucking socialist train because it's worked so well in fucking Cuba and Venezuela and the Soviet Union and all these other places.'"
"What both parties are missing is a policy agenda that says: Here's the shit we have to do to keep America from going down the socialist death spiral. And they all should be fucking doing it, both sides."
