David A. Burke

Managing Director @ ParaFi. Any views or opinions presented are solely the author’s and do not necessarily represent those of ParaFi.

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@CliffordAsness Styx & Stones

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@patrick_oshag Steve Jobs in Exile

https://t.co/K5veNra9Rq

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@Beno10_MFC 4,100

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@DanielSLoeb1 Rahm has to pass the litmus test for POTUS candidacy and that clearly includes self-hating bona fides, but he won’t pass…

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@VenmoSupport having an awful hard time creating a teen account. 2 hours on chat support and nothing. Teen app says onboarded but can’t login / doesn’t recognize email address. Works fine on my set-up. At this point any other payment platform looks better than this garbage and failure to resolve. Phone and email doesn’t work and app fails EVERY TIME on teen phone. How do you plan to resolve?

[Jupiter @JupiterExchange]

BREAKING:

Jupiter secures a $35M strategic investment into $JUP from ParaFi Capital to accelerate onchain financial infrastructure.

This deal - which will be settled entirely in $JupUSD - was closed at spot price with ParaFi committing to an extended token lockup.

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

Churchill, when switching parties for the second time (back to the conservatives) said “Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.” But he had self-awareness.

The new version below is “Anyone can gimp, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-gimp.”

https://t.co/NyzeRugD7Y

I would share the good sportsmanship and goodwill of congratulating and offering to help an opponent even if I disagreed with them. But there are limits. Soviet-style socialism and a support of terrorism with some obvious hate of Israel/Jews (please keep the Jews who supported him to yourself I am well aware) is past disagreement, past congratulations, and past a gimp-like offer to help.

The below says “now that you’re in charge please don’t hurt me.” I don’t roll that way.

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@stoolpresidente @stoolpresidente wall st sell side to buy side, prop trader to hedge fund manager

[Am Yisrael Chai 🐙 @AmYisraelChai_X]

Remembering The Heroes of 9/11

TODD: Hello? Operator, listen to me... I can’t speak very loud – this is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco, we have a situation here. Our plane has been hijacked, can you understand me?

LISA: (exhaling a deep breath to herself) I understand… can the hijackers see you talking on the phone?

TODD: No.

LISA: Can you tell me how many hijackers are on the plane?

TODD: There are three that we know of.

LISA: Can you see any weapons? What kind of weapons do they have?

TODD: Yes… they don’t have guns… they have knives; they took over the plane with knives.

LISA: Do you mean, like steak knives?

TODD: No, these are razor knives… like box cutters.

LISA: Can you tell what country these people are from?

TODD: No... I don’t know, they sound like they’re from the Middle East.

LISA: Have they said what they want?

TODD: Someone from the cockpit announced that there was a bomb on board. He said that he was the captain, and to stay in our seats, and stay quiet. He said that they were meeting these hijacker’s demands, and returning to the airport… It was very broken English, and I’m telling you… it sounded fake.

LISA: Ok sir, please give me your name.

TODD: My name is Todd Beamer.

LISA: Ok Todd… my name is Lisa... Do you know your flight number? If you can’t remember, it’s on your ticket.

TODD: It’s United Flight 93.

LISA: Now Todd, can you try to tell me exactly what happened?

TODD: Ok. Two of the hijackers were sitting in first class near the cockpit; a third was sitting near the back of the coach section. The two up front got into the cockpit somehow, and there was shouting. The third hijacker said he had a bomb. It looks like a bomb. He’s got it tied to his waist with a red belt of some kind.

LISA: Is the door to the cockpit open?

TODD: No, the hijackers shut it behind them.

LISA: Has anyone been injured?

TODD: Yes… They… they killed one passenger sitting in first class. There’s been lots of shouting, we don’t know if the pilots are dead or alive. A flight attendant told me that the pilot and copilot had been forced from the cockpit and may have been wounded.

LISA: Where is the third hijacker now Todd?

TODD: He’s near the back of the plane. They forced most of the passengers into first class, there are fourteen of us here in the back. Five are flight attendants; he hasn’t noticed that I slipped into this pantry to get the phone. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor in the rear of the plane. Oh Jesus… help.

LISA: Todd; are you ok? Tell me what’s happening.

TODD: Hello.. We’re going down… I think we’re going to crash. Wait - wait a minute. No, we’re leveling off… we’re ok. I think we may be turning around… that’s it - we changed directions. Do you hear me… we’re flying east again.

LISA: Ok Todd… what’s going on with the other passengers?

TODD: Everyone is… really scared. A few passengers with cell phones have made calls to relatives; a guy, Jeremy, was talking to his wife just before the hijacking started. She told him hijackers had crashed two planes into the World Trade Center… Lisa is that true?

LISA: Todd… I have to tell you the truth… it’s very bad. The World Trade Center is gone. Both of the towers have been destroyed.

TODD: Oh G-d... help us!

LISA: A third plane was taken over by terrorists. It crashed into the Pentagon in Washington DC. Our country is under attack... And I’m afraid that your plane may be part of their plan.

TODD: Oh dear G-d, dear G-d… Lisa, will you do something for me?

LISA: I’ll try… if I can… Yes.

TODD: I want you to call my wife and my kids for me and tell them what’s happened. Promise me you’ll call.

LISA: I promise - I’ll call.

TODD: Our home number is 201-333-1073... You have the same name as my wife… Lisa... We’ve been married for ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her that I love her.. (choking up). I’ll always love her… (Clears throat) We have two boys; David, he’s three, and Andrew, he’s one... Tell them… (choking up), tell them that their daddy loves them and that he is so proud of them. (Clears throat again). Our baby is due January 12th… I saw an ultra sound… it was great… we still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy… Lisa?

LISA: (barely able to speak) I’ll tell them, I promise Todd.

TODD: I’m going back to the group... if I can get back I will.

LISA: Todd, leave this line open; are you still there?...

LISA: (dials a phone number)... Hello, FBI, my name is Lisa Jefferson, I’m a telephone supervisor for GTE. I need to report a terrorist hijacking of a United Airlines Flight 93… Yes I’ll hold.

GOODWIN: Hello, this is Agent Goodwin, I understand you have a hijacking situation?

LISA: Yes sir, I’ve been talking with a passenger, a Todd Beamer, on Flight 93 who managed to get to an air-phone unnoticed.

GOODWIN: Where did this flight originate, and what was its destination?

LISA: The flight left Newark, New Jersey at 8 a.m. departing for San Francisco. The hijackers took over the plane shortly after takeoff and several minutes later the plane changed course - it’s now flying east.

GOODWIN: Ms. Jefferson… I need to talk to someone aboard that plane. Can you get me thru to the plane’s phone?

LISA: I still have that line open sir, I can patch you through on a conference call, hold a mo…

TODD: Hello Lisa, Lisa are you there?

LISA: Yes, I’m here. Todd, I made a call to the FBI, Agent Goodwin is on the line and will be talking to you as well.

TODD: The others all know that this isn’t a normal hijacking. Jeremy called his wife again, on his cell phone. She told him more about the World Trade Center.

GOODWIN: Hello Todd, this is Agent Goodwin with the FBI. We have been monitoring your flight. Your plane is on a course for Washington, DC. The terrorists crashed two planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. Our best guess is that they plan to fly your plane into either the White House or the Capital Building.

TODD: I understand… hold on… I’ll… I’ll be back.

LISA: Mr. Goodwin, how much time do they have before they get to Washington?

GOODWIN: Not long ma’am. They changed course over Cleveland, they’re approaching Pittsburgh now. Washington may be twenty minutes away.

TODD: (breathing a little heavier) The plane seems to be changing directions just a little, it’s getting pretty rough up here. The plane is flying real erratic… we’re not going to make it out of here. Listen to me - I want you to hear this - I have talked with the others and we decided that we won’t be pawns in the hijackers suicidal plot.

LISA: Todd, what are you going to do?

TODD: We’ve hatched a plan. Four of us are going to rush the hijacker who has the bomb. After we take him out, we’ll break into the cockpit. A stewardess is getting some boiling water to throw on the hijackers at the controls. We’ll get them, and we’ll take them out. Lisa, will you do one last thing for me?

LISA: Yes… what is it?

TODD: Would you pray with me?

They pray:

Our father which art in Heaven
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive our trespassers,
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, For ever.
Amen

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me to lie down in green pastures
He leads me beside the still waters
He restores my soul
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for His name’s sake
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

TODD: (softer) G-d help me. Jesus help me (clears throat and louder),

Are you guys ready?...

Let’s Roll...

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Never forget. We honor the lives lost on 9/11 and the heroes who rose that day. We must always defend against terrorism, never give it sanctuary, and never allow its ideology to take root.

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@mdudas Be careful how they return… the mfg process needs constant attention and care.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The parents of American hostage Omer Neutra partnered with the Navy Seal Foundation to deliver a message.

This is powerful.

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

It's heartbreaking & disturbing to see educational institutions weaken their ties with organizations combatting antisemitism. I'm proud to stand with Jewish Americans & introduce the STUDENT Act to bring NEA’s charter to its original purpose of supporting teachers, not politics.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve...

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague." Please Share

[Tyler Winklevoss @tyler]

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad.

It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability.

The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties.

Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism.

This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids.

Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it.

Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@JTLonsdale @DavidSacks @RepMTG maybe read the bill next time and start reading some others and don’t rely on staff or summaries.

[David A. Burke @DavidB121591]

@lessin @lessin get DigitalID. Always the shortest line in the airport security morass.

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@JTLonsdale @JTLonsdale except maybe Jewish kids?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Democrats love DOGE

Bill Clinton fired 377,000 federal workers and everyone loved it

“Tonight at midnight, America puts an end to three decades of deficits and launches a new era of balanced budgets and surpluses. While the numbers will not be official until the end of the month, we expect the 1998 surplus to be about $70 billion.”