Chris Robert

Live free or die trying. Liberty. Individualism. Small Govt. Founder. Media Guru. Ski. Bike. Hike. Passed Kobayashi Maru. What me Worry?

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I don’t want to hear that the future is bright for American soccer. That they should be proud. That was a disgusting effort. We’re far closer to the bottom than the top. Just not a soccer country

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

If you were born in America, you’re an American. You have a right to live here. Unless of course you’re American. In which case you’re living on stolen land.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

It must suck to have to pretend to be mad at this

[Chris Robert @InfluenceHaus]

love the "prime directive" shout out #StarTrek

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Mostly true. What matters is securing the long-term future of consciousness, both on Earth and other heavenly bodies.

We cannot just focus on Earth, because there are irreducible external (eg massive meteor) and internal (eg global nuclear war) cataclysmic risks.

The Moon is faster to make self-growing, but is more susceptible to problems on Earth. Mars will take longer to make self-growing, because it is so hard to reach, but is more secure from Earth disasters for that same reason.

Both the Moon and Mars should have self-growing civilizations. Making this happen is the prime directive of SpaceX.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Coca-Cola commercial from 1976

The past is a foreign country

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Based Bezos is awesome

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 EPIC! King Charles just gifted President Trump the BELL from the UK's HMS Trump, which was a WWII submarine
HMS Trump sank SEVERAL Japanese ships during the war

47 looks so excited 😂

CHARLES: "And should you ever need to get hold of us, just give us a ring!" 🤣🔔

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just 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.

[Ford O'Connell @FordOConnell]

The irony here is rich.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 50 YEARS AGO TODAY: Dodgers legend Rick Monday became an American hero.

Two protesters ran onto the field at Dodger Stadium trying to burn the American flag… and Rick Monday sprinted in like a damn boss and SNATCHED it right out of their hands.

No hesitation. No apologies. Pure patriotism

@TheVinScully with the call!

[Andrew Fillipponi @ThePoniExpress]

This has gotta be one of the best Pirate player fan moments in PNC Park history. So cool.

[Chris Robert @InfluenceHaus]

@dvesean .Likely some cutty sark scotch available in heaven, if all else fails

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

The rich pay the highest tax rates in the United States. The top 10% of income earners pay more than 60% of all federal taxes and 72% of income taxes, Cato’s @adamnmichel and @SantiagoForster explain.

https://t.co/JzCWqssX9j

[David Senra @davidsenra]

"Capitalism created the possibility of the win win win. It used to be a zero sum game where somebody won, somebody else lost.

The biggest mistake people make, intellectuals in particular, they still think we're in a zero sum world. They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people.

They don't understand that it's this prosperity machine that's creating more, not just for those billionaires, but for everything that they're touching. They're creating value for their customers, they're creating value for their employees. Their suppliers are flourishing, their investors are seeing their capital go up. It can be reinvested and compound.

All philanthropy ultimately comes from business. That's where the profits are.

Where does all the taxes come from? It ultimately comes from business as well.

This is the engine that's lifting humanity out. The entrepreneurs are the drivers of that engine. Somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world."

— @iamjohnmackey

[one (doge)coin to rule them all. @dane_hidden]

@pmarca @elonmusk Florida is indeed totally backwards. Florida already has 235Mi of updated rails done and in service. So weird that Florida is so backwards

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It will cost more than that, and it will still never happen. There is no chance. It is not possible.

[Wasteland Capital @ecommerceshares]

$MU Largest beat & raise of all time. +196% revenue growth at an insane 69% EBIT margin. Never, ever been done at this scale.

3Q revenue guide of $33.5bn midpoint vs $23.3bn consensus. WTF???

Absolute bananas numbers. Unprecedented.

Even the Memory Whisperer has to gasp.

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

Dear Chuck Schumer,

Hi. Black dude here. I can trace my family ancestry to slavery. I even know where they were slaves. My mom experienced Jim Crow. I think I’ve watched every episode of “Eyes On the Prize” when I was younger.

With that said…

Can you directly explain to me how the SAVE Act is “Jim Crow 2.0?” Literally every black person I know has ID. Literally every black person I know has a car or at least a ride. Literally every black person I know knows how to vote (well… except the ones with felonies… but they don’t count).

With your advanced white liberal thinking, you must know more than me. Apparently, as I experience daily on this app, white liberals are experts on being black; even more so than actual black folks. Perhaps you could explain it like I’m five. I’d look it up on the internet, but Kathy Hochul has already told me I don’t know what a computer is and Joe Biden said I can’t navigate it, anyway.

Looking forward to your answer.

No hugs.
Zeek

[Chris Robert @InfluenceHaus]

@MarkMaddenX Made cover of Life Magazine