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[JP @PauckeJ]

@espn Epic College Sports moments- so good.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good

[Renee @TexasCowgrl1111]

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $246,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $246,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
So why does owning a home work differently?
Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
It’s about being charged for value you never received.
And people are starting to notice.

This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Larry Ellison just asked the one question no journalist on Earth can answer.

A Wall Street Journal writer told Ellison to his face that Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Ellison didn’t argue. Didn’t get emotional. He just asked a question.

Ellison: “This guy is landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing. You ever land a rocket?”

One question. No recovery.

Ellison: “Who are you? Why should I believe you as opposed to my friend Elon?”

This is the question the entire media class has been dodging for a decade. Who are you to judge? What have you built? What have you shipped? What problem have you solved that didn’t involve a keyboard and a deadline?

Ellison: “You’re there in front of your Apple Macintosh typing up an article saying Elon’s an idiot.”

They sit behind a laptop they did not engineer. Using a network they did not build. Running on silicon they cannot explain. To tell the world that the man sending humans to space doesn’t know what he’s doing.

They have never built anything heavier than a Word document.

And they publish it with absolute certainty.

That’s the part that should disturb you. Not the criticism. The confidence behind it. The total absence of self-awareness it takes to judge disciplines you wouldn’t last a single semester in.

Musk does not operate in opinion. He operates in the physical layer of the universe where the math closes or the rocket does not come home.

His critics operate in a text editor.

He built the vehicle that carries NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The satellite constellation delivering internet to active war zones. The EV that forced every automaker on Earth to abandon their combustion roadmap.

His loudest critics built a byline.

So why the coordinated hatred?

Because they lost the leash.

The attacks didn’t escalate because Musk got worse at engineering. They escalated because he bought X. He cracked open the algorithm. He handed the public square back to the people. And he shattered their ability to control what you’re allowed to think.

They don’t hate the engineer.

They hate that the engineer took their monopoly.

You cannot cancel a rocket. You cannot publish a hit piece on gravity. You cannot edit the laws of physics.

They own the syntax.

He owns the physics.

One of them is going to Mars.

[Michael S. Kim @Mike_kim714]

500k followers giveaway pt 1!

My golf bag plus some @Titleist goodies

Comment, like, repost to enter. Must be a follower

Clubs not included unfortunately*
Still need those for my day job

[JP @PauckeJ]

@Mike_kim714 @Titleist Yes let’s go, this could only improve my mindset and 20 handicap!

[JP @PauckeJ]

God Bless you and Happy Easter

[JP @PauckeJ]

Finally, thankful to the coaches that appeared a month ago to share their perspective

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump signs executive order designed to SAVE COLLEGE SPORTS from a financial arms race
- Athletes can only transfer schools one time before they graduate without having to sit out a season
- Athletes can only play up to 5 seasons in a 5 year window
- Aug. 1 effective date
- Federal funding can be STRIPPED from schools who do not comply

Trump just followed through, this is what he promised!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I was flying Southwest from Dallas to New York. Three rows ahead of me, there was a young soldier in uniform. He looked barely 18. He was staring straight ahead, gripping the armrests. He looked nervous. When the drink cart came around, the flight attendant asked him what he wanted. 'Coke, please,' he said. 'Heading home?' she asked kindly. 'No, ma'am,' he said. 'Deploying. First time.' The whole row went quiet. The flight attendant didn't say a word. she handed him his Coke. Then, she got on the PA system. 'Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very special guest in Row 8 today. Private Miller is on his first deployment to serve our country. Since I can't buy him a drink, I’m going to ask a favor. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, pass it forward.' I grabbed a napkin. I wrote: 'You got this. Stay safe. - A dad from Row 12.' I watched as napkins traveled up the aisle. Napkins, receipts, pages torn from books. By the time we landed, the soldier had a pile of paper on his tray table three inches high. He stood up to get his bag, and he was wiping his eyes. He carefully packed every single scrap of paper into his rucksack. 'Thank you,' he told the flight attendant. 'No,' she said. 'Thank you.' We all walked off that plane a little quieter, reminded that freedom is just a word until you meet the kid who is defending it.

Credit: Margie Lee

[JP @PauckeJ]

@nicksortor We are pons in their turf war. Wake up people. Privatize security, we will be more secure and it will no longer be a bargaining chip.

[JP @PauckeJ]

@GuntherEagleman Privatize security! Enough of the government bullshit and one side using our security as a bargaining chip against the other. We are pons in their turf war. F’them. Privatize it.

[JP @PauckeJ]

@JoshPateCFB @spann

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

🚨NEW: Stephen A. Smith *ASKS QUESTIONS*🚨

"How come it was okay to celebrate ICE when Obama was in office — and you had networks literally traveling with ICE to show you the marvelous work that they were doing — but suddenly Trump is doing it and now it's a pariah and ICE needs to go and be completely banned?"

"Why are sanctuary cities existing? Why do you get to implement laws that get you to ignore federal laws? How does that benefit our country?"

@DailyCaller

[JP @PauckeJ]

Proud of Team USA!! 🇺🇸

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

To every Team USA medalist: YOU MADE HISTORY. From the podium to the hearts of a nation, thank you for every incredible moment. 🇺🇸❤️

[Modern Dad @ModernxDad]

The only man who wants to see you do better than himself..

[The Big Podcast @bigpodwithshaq]

Bo Jackson on NIL:

“It's teaching young kids how to run away from their problems…It’s ruining college sports.”

Full episode ft. Bo Jackson & Barry Sanders: double check but https://t.co/s1v79jWUQw

[JP @PauckeJ]

@Olympics @FISfreestyle Ohhh the $14M sellout to a communist country?? Please.

[JP @PauckeJ]

@DrAlmarielao Death penalty! Old enough to know the difference of good and bad.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I love the Olympics. Winter, summer, every single games, I tune in.

I love it because we see how sports bring us together.

I love it because we are reminded that sports are the ultimate equalizer. Look at weightlifting in the summer Olympics or downhill skiing now. The weights and the mountain don’t care what country you come from, how much money you have, or what religion you are. The weights and the mountain are the same for every single competitor.

I love it, most of all, because the Olympics remind us of a core life lesson: greatness and heartbreak live right next door to each other.

You can’t find greatness without a few meetings with heartbreak and failure.

We saw this very clearly over the weekend.

Like many of you, I’ve been following my friend Lindsey Vonn’s inspirational comeback. She’s 41, one knee is completely rebuilt, and now she went into the Olympics with a freshly-torn ACL.

As storylines go, you can’t get any better. It is gutsy. It is brave. It is a little bit crazy.

And it brings out all of the losers to do their naysaying.

“Why would she do this?” 
”She must be missing something in her life.”
“It’s irresponsible.”

What these people don’t understand, because they’ve never tried anything great, because they’ve never pushed themselves to the absolute edges of their limits, because they’ll never know their real potential, is that there is no such thing as risk-free greatness.

Yesterday, when her Olympic dreams ended in that horrible crash that left all of us praying for her in front of our televisions, the haters were out in full force.

I don’t need to repeat it. Twitter has given losers enough of a platform; I won’t be amplifying them in this newsletter.

(1/x)

[JP @PauckeJ]

@ESPNBooger It was fine. Didn’t understand him any more than I did Shakira. Nothing to write home about but most of these are like that. More hype than they typically deserve. On to the 2nd half of a boting game