Chris Miller

Businessman/Entrepreneuer. Not a politician, not a bureaucrat, not an attorney. #freedom is undefeated

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The British army once sentenced Daniel Morgan to 500 lashes, a punishment that usually killed a man, for the crime of knocking out an officer who struck him. He survived every stroke. And he spent the rest of his life joking that the drummer had miscounted and only given him 499, so the British still owed him one. He collected that debt at a place called Cowpens.

Morgan was not born to anything. He was a rough, barely educated frontiersman who made his living hauling freight by wagon on the Virginia frontier, a big, powerful, hot-tempered young man. During the French and Indian War, serving as a civilian teamster with the British army, a British lieutenant struck him with the flat of a sword. Morgan answered with his fist and dropped the officer cold. For a colonial to strike a British officer was close to a capital offense, and the court-martial sentenced him to five hundred lashes with the cat-o'-nine-tails, a flogging meant to flay a man and very often to kill him.

They tied him up and laid it on, and Daniel Morgan did not die. He carried the ridged scars on his back for the rest of his life. But instead of breaking him, that brutal punishment forged something. It left him with a cold, permanent hatred of the British army and its contempt for colonial men like him, a hatred he would one day repay with interest. And it gave him his lifelong joke: the drummer lost count and stopped at 499, so the British, he liked to say, were still one lash short of paying him in full.

When the Revolution came, that uneducated wagoner turned out to be a natural soldier of rare gifts. He raised a company of frontier riflemen, crack shots who could kill at distances that terrified British regulars, and he led them north to Saratoga, where his marksmen helped shatter Burgoyne's army and win the turning-point victory of the war. Morgan had a feel for battle that trained European officers lacked, an instinct for ground, for timing, and above all for the men he led. He understood that his militia were not professional soldiers and could not be asked to do what professionals did, so instead of cursing them for it, he built his tactics around what they could do.

That genius reached its peak at the Battle of Cowpens in January 1781, one of the most perfectly fought battles in American history. Facing the dreaded Banastre Tarleton, Morgan set a trap built entirely on human nature. He put his unreliable militia in the front line and asked them only for two volleys, then permission to fall back, which they gladly did. Tarleton's British, seeing the Americans retreat, charged forward in a confident rush straight into Morgan's real line of hardened Continentals, and then Morgan sprang the jaws, hitting the British on both flanks at once in a double envelopment while his cavalry rode down their rear. In minutes Tarleton's command was destroyed, hundreds killed and captured, one of the most crushing and complete victories of the war, and Tarleton himself barely escaped. It was the frontier wagoner out-generaling the darlings of the British army.

So the debt was paid. The boy they tried to flog to death grew up to be the man who methodically dismantled the British in the field, who understood soldiers because he had been treated like dirt as one, and who turned the hard lessons of his own back into some of the finest tactics the Revolution ever saw. Remember Daniel Morgan. The British gave him 499 lashes and made an enemy who never forgot, and he collected the last one at Cowpens, with interest.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Joe Rogan is gobsmacked as award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller reveals the stranger texting you “Do you want to get a coffee?” is probably a SLAVE locked inside a military-style building dedicated to scamming Americans.

VAN ZELLER: “It’s slaves. And we’re not talking about just a few hundred people. It’s hundreds of THOUSANDS of people.”

These scam factories are run by Chinese crime syndicates. They lure young job seekers from across Asia with fake ads promising big money overseas, then lock them inside.

VAN ZELLER: “Once they get there, they take away their passports, and they force them to scam Americans.”

And scam you, they do. The Consumer Federation of America estimates Americans lost $148 BILLION to online scams in 2025.

That boils down to over $400 MILLION A DAY.

ROGAN: “HOLY SH*T!”

Next time a stranger texts you claiming you met at a party, remember who might be typing it.

[Walter Curt @wcdispatch]

BOMBSHELL:

Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s own mother urges voters not to vote for her daughter.

“My name is Donna Arthur and I’m Amy Acton’s mother. I worked at Children and Family Service Association, building one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America.

I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent—and it’s not easy for a mother to say this—but Amy has a serious problem.

She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true. She’s lied her entire life.

My daughter needs help, and she can’t help you if she needs help herself. People can change, but first they have to tell the truth, and my daughter still isn’t doing that.

Don’t vote for people who lie. Don’t let her become your governor. If you think she’ll make your life better, you’re fooling yourself. It will only get worse.”

That’s one hell of an October surprise.

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

The cost of capital, IE interest rate expense, has changed profitability from 2025 to 2026 drastically and will slow all economic growth in 2027 …

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

Safety can be soft. Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

[Defiant Ghost @TheDefiantGhost]

Eric Weinstein: 100% of the population has gone completely insane — And here’s the proof

Not a metaphor.
He says you can pretty much prove it.

Biden spent four years with the nuclear football while declining. Almost nobody treated it as a crisis. Stage-managed, like Roosevelt.

The entire management of COVID was completely fake.

We still can’t “get to the bottom” of Jeffrey Epstein.

Nobody trusts Harvard. People are losing faith in CNN.
Everything is bananas, fictionalized, managed wall-to-wall.

We’re living in what he calls managed reality.

Most people have accepted it.
He’s stuck watching it.

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

"The fastest way to kill a good idea is to ask ten people what they think about it.”
- Kent Hance

[WCHS-TV @wchstv]

A special investigation unit in Charleston has uncovered millions in fraudulent spending since 2018. @JoeCadotte reports: https://t.co/wWVzkK3mRm

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

Imagine what the higher classification reports say.

[Marshall S. Billingslea @M_S_Billingslea]

In light of the suspicious outbreak at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute (a lab that has been associated by defectors with past biowarfare work), it is worth noting that Russia has an ongoing offensive BW program.

The program has been modernizing & evolving over the past several years. (See page 37 linked below).

@SecRubio is right to call for Russian transparency, though all we should expect is stonewalling & disinformation.

https://t.co/zk6bul5OZB

[Marshall S. Billingslea @M_S_Billingslea]

In the 1990s I worked with Ken Alibek, the former No. 2 in the Soviet biological weapons program, after he defected to the US.

He claimed that they had engineered a strain of plague that was antibiotic-resistant & that they had worked on plague chimeras (fusing 2 or more pathogens).

He specifically called out Irkutsk for being involved in the BW program.

This outbreak is deeply worrisome. This may not be just “the plague.” It may be far worse.

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

This guy has testicles of iron. Unreal.

[CALLUM ABROAD @CallumAbroad]

Dark Tourism 🧵

1. Bin Laden Compound #Abbottabad Pakistan 🇵🇰

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

Communism has a 100% success rate of failure.

[Sean O’Leary @OLearySW]

WV's GDP declined by 2.3% on an annualized basis in the 2nd quarter of 2026. Nationally, GDP increased by 2.2%. WV had the lowest GDP growth among the 50 states. https://t.co/QxcQddphLs

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

@priceactionlab In a world of cow pies, the United States of America is the best Patty on the field

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

When smart phones are introduced to a culture birthrates drop. Causation.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"The U.S. economy is running hot and stuck on a hamster wheel as GDP growth must outpace borrowing costs, or risk getting sucked into a debt spiral," per FORTUNE

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

@priceactionlab We don’t even fully understand the human body yet

[Chris Miller @chrismillerofwv]

There is no such thing as “My Truth” or “Your Truth”. There is only Truth.

[David Equalizer @equalizer_dev]

A 2 dollar lottery ticket with a 1 in 300 million chance of a 500 million dollar payout has an expected value of negative 33 cents. A 30 thousand dollar car insured against theft in a neighborhood where 1 in 200 cars is stolen a year is worth positive 150 dollars in expected value.

The math to compute either one takes 4 seconds. Almost no one runs it.

Andrew Lo has been teaching Session 1 of MIT 15.401 since 2003. The Fall 2008 recording sits free on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every decision his students will ever make, from a stock trade to a job offer to which route to drive home, reduces to the same 4-second calculation. Expected value equals probability times payoff.

Institutional desks run it before every trade. Retail investors run it before none. The gap between them has a name and it is not luck.

The math is free. The willingness to run it before you sign is the entire fortune.