Michael D

PM @ Hedge fund. I love gummy candy, my family, equities, NBA basketball, charitable giving, loyal friends & Joy...but not in that order.

[Michael D @MDous]

The team leading the #moveforgood challenge w/ @FitCause, @TeamRWB and @VAInnovation teams. cc:@suchin @schutzy

[Michael D @MDous]

@SDaddySeason Yeah…don’t think it’s anything…

[Michael D @MDous]

@SDaddySeason We going chalamet, turturro or Seth Rogan?!

[Michael D @MDous]

@suchin Best tweet ever

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

It is important to not mix up Hamas and ordinary Palestinians.

Not all Palestinians support the raping and torturing and kidnapping and killing of innocent Israelis.

5.4% of Palestinians somewhat do not support that and 7.3% of Palestinians are extremely against it!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I am pro-Palestinian. Some might be surprised by this due to my recent advocacy on @X for Israel, but you shouldn’t be.

I am anti-terrorist, not anti-Palestinian. It is not inconsistent to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian. And my pro-Palestinian viewpoint is not a new one. My pro-Palestinian perspective began more than 30 years ago when I was introduced to the Palestinian community and their plight in the early 1990s.

I have invested millions in helping promote Palestinian economic development and peaceful coexistence. We would do a lot more if we could be confident that the funds would be used productively.

The crisis in Gaza is largely due to a failure of leadership. The Palestinians elected Hamas in 2006 after Israel withdrew and evicted 9,000 of its own citizens from their Gazan homes. Israel withdrew from Gaza for peace. It was a small scale test of a two-state solution.

Rather than building the Singapore of the Middle East over the last 18 years, Hamas diverted funding to build tunnels, rockets and munitions to wage terror and war in an effort to eliminate Israel and kill Jews.

Like the Israelis, the vast majority of Palestinians want peace. They want opportunities for employment so they can earn a living wage to support and educate their families so the next generation can build a better life.

They want peace, beauty, happiness, health and prosperity as we all do. All of that would have been possible with Gazan leadership which focused on economic development rather than terrorism. Israel and (most of) the world wanted the Gazan experiment to succeed.

Israel simply wanted peace. Israel built a fence and created checkpoints to protect its citizens from suicide bombers and other forms of terror. The Egyptians built a concrete wall at their border with Gaza for the same reasons. The need for a fence and checkpoints is made self-evident by the catastrophic impact on Israel when the fence was breached on Oct. 7th.

Hamas is in the business of terrorism. Hamas makes money with grift, corruption, and funding from Israel’s enemies who support Hamas to achieve their own anti-Israel objectives. Hamas and those that support it don’t care about the Palestinians. The Palestinians are simply a tool to implement their anti-Israel and/or anti-Jew objectives.

Like other businesses, Hamas has a corporate hierarchy where those at the top make thousands of times more than the ‘workers’ at the bottom. Hamas’ leaders have put aside hundreds of millions and even billions for themselves.

Hamas uses their ‘culture’ of terrorism, cash, and other incentives to motivate young, brainwashed —often from youth—, radicalised militants to implement death, torture and destruction. Their ‘success’ at terrorism attracts more funding, amplifies Israel’s response, and the cycle continues.

Hamas does not care about the Palestinian people. Hamas knew with certainty how Israel would respond to the torture, rape, beheading, and slaughter of Israeli women, children, seniors and infants on Oct. 7th.

Hamas’ plan was to hide out in their tunnels and headquarters built under major hospitals, limit evacuations so that Palestinian citizens are exposed to the inevitable Israeli military response, and then rally the world against Israel in a globally coordinated response as innocent civilians die.

Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas. It cannot allow its survival, as Hamas’ existence remains an existential threat. If ISIS invaded our southern border, we would do the same. We would warn civilians to evacuate and then we would go in and destroy the terrorists. We wouldn’t cease fire until they were obliterated.

The whole situation is an incredible tragedy. While I have always hoped for a viable and peaceful two-state solution, the Gaza experiment has been an abject failure. Future efforts for statehood for the Palestinians must learn from this catastrophe.

As always, I welcome your input, critiques and rebuttal.

What did I get wrong?

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

*Essential context*

In Gaza there’s what is sometimes referred to as “Pallywood”

This actor has appeared in quite a few pieces of content the last few weeks

These machines also don’t appear to be connected to anything

This is an *Info War* — trust nothing

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Yuval was at the Rei'm music festival when Hamas death squads raided it and murdered everyone in sight.

"Hang up and pretend you're dead."

So she hid under dead bodies for seven hours.

Listen to her heartbreaking phone call with her dad.

ENGLISH SUBTITLES >>>

[Robert Greenway @RC_Greenway]

💯

We moved our embassy to Jerusalem. No war.

We withdrew from the JCPOA. No war.

We undertook the maximum economic pressure campaign and crippling, historic sanctions on Iran. No war and they stayed below 4% enrichment.

We recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. No war.

We eliminated Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al Muhandis (and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi). No war.

The results? Iran isolated under crippling sanctions reducing their capacity to threaten the region, and historic peace brokered between Israel and its neighbors via the Abraham Accords. 🕊

Two years after Biden took office Iran is enriching over 60%, they’re two weeks from sufficient material for a nuclear weapon, Sudan fell into a civil war, and Israel just experienced the greatest loss of life in a single day since the holocaust.

In seeking to avoid conflict, it is upon us. By embracing our enemy and spurning our friends it will not be easily contained.

This should never have happened.

[Michael D @MDous]

@brian_armstrong Have had staked AAVE stuck for over two years. Why isn’t this rolled out to everyone but only to certain customers? If the technology exists, give everyone access.

[MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport]

“Pure White Aryan Race”

[Micah Rosenbloom @micahjay1]

I’m in an Uber with a driver obsessively checking his Robin Hood account. Either the market is going to crash or I am ;(

[Michael D @MDous]

The Ox loves listening to Podcasts on 1.5x speed and not being dragged back by a slow 1x cart. Make it happen, Elon

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Happy New Year of the Ox!

[Michael D @MDous]

Only took 5.5 years, but I was correct. https://t.co/2iDlIB0Drq

[Michael D @MDous]

Reiterating that Andrew Left and Citron should be investigated. I would short both if there was a borrow.

[Michael D @MDous]

@Suddenlink @SuddenlinkHelp Have been trying to get service for over a month in 96161. 5 visits, 14 phone calls, 3 no show appointments. How can I get internet?! The offshore call center has no idea whats going on. For the love of high-speed internet, please help!

[Michael D @MDous]

@BimaThug "I already got enough money to have me and my family set for the rest of my life. It's not about the money," said Butler....Then Butler signs with MIA with no Championship hopes to escape state income (should have come to HOU and got both)

[Michael D @MDous]

@AlexKoblenz @JetBlue Bro, stop complaining publicly. Be grateful for what you have, nothing guaranteed to be there tomorrow

[Michael D @MDous]

@RedlerAllAccess nice trade!

[Michael D @MDous]

@vader7x Shhh...

[Michael D @MDous]

@trengriffin We’re not even allowed to drink out of plastic straws anymore. I don’t think we’ll be allowed to read print newspapers either 😀. Bullish NYT

[Michael D @MDous]

@trengriffin That 70/30 split of print/digital will continue to shift in favor of digital. Look at dvd v. streaming subs for Nflx on the onset.