Brian Pontarelli

Founder @FusionAuth, coder, husband, father, wine/beer/cocktail enthusiast, home-brewer, drummer, music lover.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

Investor: “we want to buy your company”

Me: “we are growing 2-4x per year and not looking to sell. Any offer would need to be super compelling”

Investor: “awesome! How does 4x ARR sound?”

Me: “what part of compelling did you not understand?”

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@Beardandcamera By definition, gender is identity and is separate from biology. Therefore, organs and biological abilities are not a factor in gender:

https://t.co/I3igMYKTib

Check out 3.b.

If your debate was about biological sex, you are correct. Otherwise you aren’t.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

Be VERY skeptical of billionaires that are trying to tell you how to think and where to get your information. They never have your best interest in mind.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

If the election outcome is as I expected, it should cause the large minority of the country who supported @KamalaHarris and predicted her victory to begin to question their sources of truth.

Half the country has believed that @X is filled with mis- and disinformation, and that they could only therefore rely on The NY Times, MSNBC, CNN and other mainstream media for their news. And they did.

If, however, you have been active on @X for the last year, you have known the truth days, weeks and often months before the facts appear in the MSM.

The MSM excerpted, clipped and cut to defame @realDonaldTrump while claiming that @JoeBiden was fit as a fiddle. Then when Biden’s polls collapsed, @KamalaHarris was anointed the candidate and her hagiography was written with glowing acclaim from the press. But this could not hold as she ducked the media and held fast to the teleprompter.

Citizen journalists with their phone cameras in hand captured the real Kamala forcing her to defend her record and her plans in more media appearances. It did not go well and the public demanded to learn more so @KamalaHarris had to risk more unscripted media.

The doom loop was underway with perhaps 60 Minutes as one of the more dramatic examples, even after CBS tried to save her, most glaringly by excerpting one answer to replace a word salad response to another. But the citizen journalists on @X quickly caught and outed this fraud and demanded a transcript.

As many who supported Kamala began to realize that they have been misled, they became open to Trump as an alternative, but they didn’t want to rely on the media to understand him because they did not want to be misled again.

They wanted to hear the candidate in his own words and that is where @lexfridman and @joeroganhq long form podcasts came to the rescue. When Kamala was offered the same opportunities to explain herself, she rejected them. And the voting public could only draw a negative inference.

When the story of this election is written, I expect it will be as much about how half of America woke up to the reality that they have been manipulated by the media. This should lead to an abandonment by many of the MSM as their primary source of information. It will push more people to @X, to podcasts and other empirical sources, and it will lead to a more informed public.

The other outcome I hope happens is the implosion of the Democratic Party. The Party lied to the American people about the cognitive health and fitness of the president. It prevented, threatened, litigated and otherwise eliminated the ability of other candidates for the primary to compete, to get on ballots, and to even participate in a debate. The Party and the administration used lawfare in an attempt to imprison, bankrupt or otherwise kill off Trump as a candidate. These acts are collectively grave threats to our democracy. With the highest irony in order to hide these acts, the Party accused the opposition candidate of being the grave threat to democracy.

The Democratic Party proved itself to be fundamentally undemocratic. It needs a complete reboot. The leadership should be thrown out and those responsible should apologize to the American people.

Honest Abe said it best:

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@farzyness As a highly educated, critical thinking democrat, you are completely incorrect in every point.

What it sounds like you’ve been fed is Fox News propaganda. You say people should use their brains but you aren’t using yours.

Just do some research and you’ll figure it out.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

Wowzers! What the flip is going on over at @okta?

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

What. The.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

People keep saying that America has become more divisive and polarized.

The truth is that it’s the same but the racist, homophobic, transphobic, authoritarian bigots think it’s okay to come out from the shadows.

Spoiler alert, it’s still not okay.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@elonmusk 😂 like you aren’t doing the same thing.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

Achievement unlocked. My first block.

Though I think this is standard for most folks that support horrible people.

I mean doesn’t supporting a racist mean you’re a racist?

Honestly, I wonder who would work with @unclebobmartin at this point.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@bennyjohnson You must have watched a different interview than the majority of rational voters. She destroyed FNC so hard they had to flag Bret to stop the interview.

You can see my video cut showing it.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@unclebobmartin And silence.

I have more questions if you are game. And I will tie them back to @elonmusk, who, by the way, I’m certain both of us are more intelligent than. You and I can debate who’s the better engineer and/or businessman between us though. 😉

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@unclebobmartin We got here by your replies.

Okay, so you are okay with racism, lying, stealing, sexual abuse, insurrection, and some light treason (top secret document hording)?

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

Hey @BretBaier. What were you looking at off screen during this interview with @KamalaHarris?

My guess is your producer flagged you off the topic because you were “losing ground”.

What was @FoxNews scared of?

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@unclebobmartin Wow. I’m not even sure what you are saying at this point.

Let’s play a game. I ask you a question and you give me a straight answer. You game?

Do you fully support Trump and everything he represents (I’m guessing so based on your replies but want to confirm)?

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@unclebobmartin Which part? The technology part? I guess if you think so…

I happen to like a lot of Tesla technology, but as many have stated, Elon has nothing to do with it. He’s a horrible engineer.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

Soooo how do you say that you are scheduling multiple Uber Blacks in the future? Because, “I’m gonna place an order for some blacks” is super messed up!

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@jk_rowling Ah. You try to sound objective and intelligent, but only to lace everything with opinion and bias.

I’ll keep asking you this but how does any of this affect YOU?

It doesn’t.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@MTGrepp Wait wait. You think a teleprompter is lying and makes her a bad person?

You must have teleprompters in every room in your house - including the bathroom. 😂

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@jk_rowling Wow, you’re not very smart are you? How does anyone’s gender have anything to do with you?

Spoiler, it doesn’t.

But you aren’t intelligent enough to grasp this fundamental concept and let people live their lives.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@jk_rowling You are mixing up terms. There is biology and there is gender. “Man” and “men” are gender. “Male” is biology.

[Brian Pontarelli @bpontarelli]

@RepMTG And Trump said he could nuke hurricanes to stop them, which have more energy than 10,000 nukes. Now they are saying they can make hurricanes. Where are they getting all this energy?!?

Holy shit this is dumb!

https://t.co/fvxSVukRUZ