Blastoise Capital

one man’s journey to get out the ghetto
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[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

There def is more important thing than trading or work for that matter

[Johns Charts @johnscharts]

Many more important things than trading.
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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

@connieconcita @juan_gonzalesP Jungelgurl be like:

[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

@FadedAlpha_ That Emma Vigeland is trying to do damage control by just putting attention to the weapon part of the story from NYT... real piece of work she is. Can not believe I was a TYT fan back when she was on there

[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

@FadedAlpha_ he is the new Paul Ryan and the rest of that cohort.... slowly forgotten

[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

@mnd1059 @jbulltard1 its more this brand is out of style.. all the girls now wear alo or aritzia since late 2024

[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

@jordanrn96 @MarioNawfal he does need to get a better schedule... the guy is prolly only sleeps 4-5 hours a day. Not good for anyone

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@juan_gonzalesP That TimB blocked my alt. Him and Yellow are the reasons I want BTC to go to 0. F them. This crash out will be legendary.

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@RJ9974896734346 guy blocked my burner. people like him and yellow are reasons I want BTC to go to 0. F them

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@HighyieldHarry and for that low production too...

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@Cognitobot @CGasparino yikes

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@juan_gonzalesP Jfc we need Tim b and firebird back asap… wtf is this guys. Connie this is when the gay sounds make sense, where is it??

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@BowTiedPassport

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@SpecialSitsNews Tbh this is not a bad play.. “I was hamstrung by a couple of backstabbers in my own party” is going to be good rhetoric and he gets to leave Iran saga. Not a bad option. He does need to get out if this Iran saga this month no ifs or but

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@Iam_ezzii @rolandgarros i think this is going to be her first grand slam she takes home. She is going to dominate for a while like Sabalinka has been.

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@Glitch_Trades @kiantrades

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@ImpulseLonley @Geiger_Capital nikka he is playing lip service... look at the actions. HB1 is getting restrictions as the bloomberg article covers... get your head out your ass and realize the game being played..ur current rational is when Biden was president "but the president says there is no border crisis".

[Blastoise Capital @BlastoiseCap]

@kiantrades keep shit talking it, it seems to be working, I need this to go back to 100 ASAP lol

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@EladioSantiag14 $MDA