Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙

"If you want to know how to change the world, read Category Pirates." - Bill Walton NBA Legend

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@TheKevinDalton “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”

- Margaret Thatcher

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

Everyone is arguing about whether FIFA adds $17 billion to US GDP.

Wrong number.
Wrong question.

America's national brand fell 7% in a single year.
Roughly $2.6 trillion in estimated brand value. Gone.

Then millions of World Cup visitors showed up.
And started filming.

Not the Statue of Liberty.
Buc-ee's. Waffle House at 1am. Free refills. Ranch.

An Englishman in a cowboy hat apologized on camera.
"We owe America a huge apology. America is nothing like what the media tells us."

Qatar spent $220 billion on a designed rebrand.
They bought polarization.
America spent nothing.
And is winning.

Full breakdown in this week's Pirate Street Journal.
Link in bio.
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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

Brad, thanks again for your leadership.

You might find this podcast on your invest America accounts interesting.

We’re disgusted by the mainstream media. For not covering this legendary new category of charitable investing you created.

So we’re doing our best to educate people. 🙏🇺🇸

https://t.co/usNa3njT9j

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

Firefighters, Teachers, and Sheriffs Associations all come out against CA Socialist wealth tax Prop 40 promoted by AOC, Bernie & Ro that is driving companies, jobs and revenue out of the state.

Prediction - in 100 days, in a major blow to the national socialist agenda, the CA Wealth Tax Prop 40 will fail by a large margin. CA will also pass the Retirement & Personal Asset Protection Prop 42 as CA voters say enough is enough and choose families over big, failing gov’t tax & spend. 🧐🇺🇸💰

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

Musk Bought The Future. New York Sold Theirs.

In May, Elon Musk personally spent over $1 billion.

He bought APR Energy.
One of the largest mobile gas turbine fleets on earth.

Over a gigawatt of power on trailers.

Deployable anywhere in 30 days.

Not Tesla.
Not SpaceX.
Not xAI.

Musk.
Personally.

Everyone will tell you he bought electricity.
Wrong.

He bought freedom.

A gigawatt on wheels means he never asks a utility for an interconnection.

Never waits on a permitting board. Never begs a state to let him build.

He removed governments from his supply chain.

And.

New York just became the first state in America to ban construction of new large data centers.

A one year moratorium.
Signed by the Governor.

Musk bought the future.
New York sold theirs.
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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@RickCarusoLA And LA is going to put Bass back in. Stunning.

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@Codie_Sanchez He’s a 🐈. You’re a beast. Fxck ‘em Codie. 🏴‍☠️

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@briansooy Amen brother.🏴‍☠️

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@illusory_aether 🙏🏴‍☠️

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@TheKevinDalton These people are donkeys. NY just lost $11b in tax revenue because the value creators are leaving.

https://t.co/WiGVWZHPZq

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

Musk Bought The Future. New York Sold Theirs.

Two trades happened this summer.
Same asset.
Opposite directions.

In May, Elon Musk personally spent over $1 billion.
No press release.
No tweet.
Regulatory filings surfaced it in July.

He bought APR Energy.
One of the largest mobile gas turbine fleets on earth.

Over a gigawatt of power on trailers.
Deployable anywhere in 30 days.

Not Tesla.
Not SpaceX.
Not xAI.

Musk. Personally.

Everyone will tell you he bought electricity.
Wrong.
He bought permission.

A gigawatt on wheels means he never asks a utility for an interconnection. Never waits on a permitting board. Never begs a state to let him build.

He removed governments from his supply chain.

The most sophisticated category designer alive just made himself sovereign over the scarcest input of the AI age.

Now look at the other side of the trade.

This week, New York became the first state in America to ban construction of new large data centers.

A one year moratorium.
Signed by the Governor.

A three year version waiting in the legislature. At the same time, New York City's new tax regime is driving out the developers and billionaires who fund whatever gets built next.

Musk bought the future.
New York sold theirs.

So ask yourself one question.
Is your company, your career, your city positioned where the future is legal?

Or where it just got banned?
Because the future does not wait for permits.
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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

Quick math, Governor.

∙New Yorkers' share of data centers built somewhere else: zero.

∙Community benefits from projects that went to Texas: zero.

∙Tax revenue from a gigawatt that never gets built: zero.

You didn't negotiate a better deal for New Yorkers.
You took them out of the deal.
100% of nothing.
Is nothing.

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@nypost There's an old rule in economics: make something abundant and cheap. And people use more of it.
(It never fails.)

New York is running the experiment in reverse.
Make success expensive.
And people do less of it.
In New York.

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@AOC @GovKathyHochul The same week New York banned data centers, Elon Musk was revealed to have personally bought a gigawatt of mobile power.

No permits needed.
No permission asked.

You didn't pause AI.
You relocated it.

Moratoriums don't stop the future.
They just change its address.
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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@TeeFaircloth And there always will. 🏴‍☠️

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

For decades the game was "knowledge is power." In the age of AI knowledge is a commodity.

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@RobertStover Legendary. 🤺🏴‍☠️

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

At 18 I got thrown out of school.
I tried to get jobs in business.
Failed every time.

On paper I looked like a loser.
No degree. No credentials. No pedigree.
In a comparison game I had nothing.

So I stopped competing.
And started creating.
I built my first company.

Not because I was better than anyone else.
Because I stopped trying to be.

Better invites comparison.
Different makes comparison irrelevant.

Better is a trap.
Different is a catapult.
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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@RobertStover 💪🏴‍☠️

[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

I was 12 years old.
No credentials. No degree. No experience.
Just a paper route.

But I knew my customers.
Their names. Their dogs. Their schedules.

One day a customer asked me to babysit.
Then another. Then another.

By 12 I had two income streams.
Not because I was qualified.
Because I was known.

Here's what that taught me.
Credentials get you into a comparison game.
Relationships get you out of one.

The people who hired me to watch their kids didn't compare me to other babysitters.

They trusted me because they knew me.
That's been true every single day of my career since.

Your reputation is worth more than your resume.
Build accordingly.
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[Christopher Lochhead 🏴‍☠️ ✍🏼🎙 @lochhead]

@garrytan And. There must be real consequences for crime.

Average killer out in 15.
Rapists out in 5.

This must stop.