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[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy.

Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it.

They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one.

They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing.

But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP.

Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.”

That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government.

Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion.

The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it.

Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms.

Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds.

The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built.

This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire.

AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read.

It just solves the problem.

And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive.

The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut.

AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim.

So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy.

What they will never say is what it actually threatens.

The illusion that activity equals progress.

The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job.

The machines are not coming for your purpose.

They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Listen very carefully... 1929
Does this sound like today?

[AchieveMen @AchieveMenHQ]

This.

[Darius Dale @DariusDale42]

COLD TAKE: The solution to our failed experiment with crony capitalism isn't socialism. It's proper capitalism.

This chart didn't happen because folks on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley are smart. This chart happened because folks on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley are smart enough to rig every aspect of government to siphon income and wealth from the bottom 80-90% of households to the top 10-20% of households—including, but not limited to fiscal policy, tax policy, regulatory policy, border policy, trade policy, and monetary policy.

This is not a Republican ❤️ vs. Independent 🤍 vs. Democrat 💙 issue. That's what the media gets paid to convince you to believe because the elites who run our institutions want us tribally fighting amongst ourselves instead of directing our collective ire at them.

The sooner we band together with a proper understanding of how THEY've rigged our system against US 💜, the better off our children will be. 🇺🇸

Refer to slides 9-33 here for more details: https://t.co/PTsFYjYGTq.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Milk Road @milkroaddaily]

Lyn Alden: Social security, pensions, Medicare... "it's basically a Ponzi scheme at the end of the day."

They were all built on the assumption that every generation would be bigger than the last.

Fertility rates collapsed. Now a shrinking group of young workers has to support a massive aging population.

The politicians who designed it are long gone. And now the bill falls on people who had no say in any of it.

FT @LynAldenContact @PeterMcCormack.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk just now ended Zohran Mamdani’s whole career in once sentence:

“Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker”

MIC DROP 🔥

[AchieveMen @AchieveMenHQ]

@MAGAVoice Agree on the matter of funding. But you do not seem to understand the purpose of NATO: not as an axis of power, but a defensive union, chiefly (though not exclusively) against the russo/Soviet encroachment and aggression.
If there is a smoking gun if Iranian misdeeds, pls share.

[Giovanni's BTC_POWER_LAW @Giovann35084111]

Achievement unlocked!
Power Law paper published.

Thank you for all your support and constuctive criticism along the way.

[Sykodelic 🔪 @Sykodelic_]

Whale Holdings for Bitcoin just put in the largest spike in its history.

By a country mile.

Damn.

Whales have accumulated around 270,000 in the $59,000 area.

Every metric for Bitcoin accumulation right now is off the charts...

Just as ETF holders are capitulating and everyone is expecting $40k.

Whether you think the bottom is in or not, this kind of accumulation is unprecedented and signals nothing other than massive demand for Bitcoin at these prices.

[AchieveMen @AchieveMenHQ]

True. Witness to it in the courts, especially in texas. Very one-sided. Very bad for the children. Very destructive to fathers and fatherhood.
@KenPaxtonTX
@brianeharrison
@wilcotxgov
@ACLU

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Divorce lawyer James Sexton on why modern marriage feels unfair to men.

He says the man is expected to provide financially, protect, and be part of the family, all enforceable by the state. But the woman’s side (love, affection, sex, being a good mother) can’t be forced.

If he fails, he can go to jail. If she fails, nothing.

He told the story of an air traffic controller who lost his high-paying job due to anxiety after his mother died. The court still imputed his old salary for child support, leading to jail time when he couldn’t pay.

What’s your opinion, do you think the legal risks in marriage are unfairly stacked against men?

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is an unimaginable surrender. For perspective on how much of a humiliation this is for the U.S. the Marshall Plan cost the United States $13.3 billion between 1948 and 1951, which is roughly equivalent to $150B in today’s dollars. This is windfall for Iran without having to change a single thing.

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

If MSTR went back to $200 tomorrow and STRC regained $100 everyone would be calling Saylor a genius for retiring the debt and buying at the bottom.

Zoom out.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson’s method for remembering everything you read:

Stop highlighting. Stop taking notes while reading.

Read a section → close the book → write down what you remember in your own words. Reformulate it. Connect it. Criticize it.

That’s how information actually becomes part of you.

What’s your take, do you learn and retain more by actively recalling and rewriting, or by highlighting and passive note-taking?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Of course capitalism isn't natural, you incomplete set of plastic picnic utensils.

What's natural is theft, robbery, and murder.

What's natural is anarchy, chaos, the rape of the weak by the strong, and nature red in tooth and claw.

The free market, which you call "capitalism", is not called "free" because everyone is free to do whatever they want. Because what a lot of people want to do is steal. You'll know which ones by the hammer and sickle logo they draw on things.

No, the free market is called free because it is freed from coercion and violence.

And of course it was spread by violence, you factory-defective lawn flamingo. Because it was spread by hanging all the bandits and robbers, and if hangings aren't violence I don't know what is.

And of course it's maintained by coercion, you British pub food connoisseur. If you don't coerce thieves not to steal, then they will steal everything you build faster than than you can build it.

You have to use violence to stop the violent, and coerce the coercers not to coerce.

And of course it's maintained by the superficial facade of liberal democracy, you Vogon poetry appreciator. The global average citizen is a mentally retarded third-world savage with less emotional self-control than my cat. If we let them have candidates that truly represented their agenda, then every useful thing humanity has built for the last twelve thousand years would be torn down in a week to buy them more party drugs. Followed by every woman being raped to death, and then uncomprehending starvation as they slowly and painfully learned that grocery stores don't spontaneously spawn food pickups, like in video games.

Jesus Christ, woman, you're talking about a species that evolved to live in hominid tribes of 100 apes, and throw rocks at zebras. In modern civilization, the so-called "average" person is so far out of his depth that the fish have lights on their noses.

And the more complex and sophisticated civilization gets, the more investments in the future that we need to protect, so that the retarded monkeys don't steal them all to buy more vodka and cigarettes.

Yeah, sure, sometimes capitalist systems end up defending property that someone's great-grandfather stole. But so fucking what? You think communism is gonna fix that? You think communism is gonna bring justice?

Communist nations can't afford justice. They can't even manage to feed themselves half the time. Get back to us when you've mastered the agricultural revolution, we've only been waiting since the beginning of recorded time.

The trick is to put the seeds in the dirt, guys.

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

When I gave this speech in October 2022, Bitcoin traded near $20,000, Strategy held 130,000 BTC worth about $2.6 billion, and $MSTR was ~$24 split-adjusted. Weeks later, after Bitcoin fell below $16,000, our debt exceeded the combined value of our BTC and cash reserves by ~$300 million, and $MSTR fell into the $13 range by year-end.

We stayed focused, strengthened the company, and executed our strategy. Since then, Strategy has raised over $60 billion of additional capital and invested it in Bitcoin, adding more than 716,000 BTC. Today, our BTC and USD reserves exceed debt by ~$48 billion. Thank you to everyone who believed, endured, and took the long view.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

America sends money to 177 out of 193 recognized countries.

Thats 91.7% of the world.

We are $39 TRILLION in debt and have our own issues that need to be fixed here at home.

We shouldn’t send a single penny to other countries.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[AchieveMen @AchieveMenHQ]

@DrJStrategy Nailed it.

Unfortunately, government schools are turning out tens of millions of voters who cannot even understand the words, context, and concepts such as:progressive, technocrat, serfdom, confiscation, reallocation, expropriation, constituency

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

SpaceX, Hayek, and the Progressive War on Wealth Creation

The progressive left clings to the fantasy that wealth is manufactured by the state and its pet technocrats rather than by entrepreneurs who risk their own capital to create real value.

In their mythology, government planners are the heroic “designers” of prosperity, while the private sector is a problem to be taxed, regulated, and morally lectured. As Hayek warned, “the more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual,” and progressives are determined to make individual planning all but impossible.

Their entire project rests on a basic fraud, confusing redistribution with creation. Social-democratic and socialist progressives boast about “fairness” and “equity,” but their toolkit is nothing more than confiscation and reallocation, slicing the same pie thinner while pretending they’ve baked a new one.

Hayek’s point that “there is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal” goes straight over their heads, they weaponize the latter to justify endless expropriation from those who actually produce.

The manufactured outrage on the progressive left over the SpaceX IPO is not about fraud, abuse, or failure, it is about their ongoing indoctrination campaign to portray success, risk-taking, and genuine wealth creation as moral crimes. A private company goes from “10 percent chance of success” to one of the most valuable enterprises on earth, and their instinctive response is not admiration or curiosity, but rage that such achievement is even allowed to exist. They see Elon Musk’s trillionaire status not as the byproduct of extraordinary innovation and execution, but as a kind of cosmic theft that must be punished by the tax state.

This is entirely consistent with the broader progressive project, socialize resentment, demonize entrepreneurial gains, and condition the public to believe that any concentration of wealth outside the state is inherently illegitimate. Hayek saw this coming decades ago when he warned that central planning steadily erodes the scope for individual initiative, because the logical end of their ideology is a public that no longer dares to think in terms of independent ambition or long-term wealth building. Progressive leaders feed this mindset daily, insisting that “rigged” markets and “oligarchs” are the problem, while cleverly leaving the state, and its favored constituencies, as the only acceptable repositories of power and resources.

Their reaction to SpaceX is a case study in this pathology. A company that has slashed launch costs, expanded human access to space, and built critical strategic infrastructure is reduced in their rhetoric to a symbol of “inequality” and “greed,” precisely because it exposes how much more effective decentralized, risk-taking capital can be than bureaucratic planning. The message encoded in their fury is clear, do not build, do not risk, do not aspire, unless it is under the watchful, confiscatory eye of the state.

$SPCX