Rick LeJuerrne

I think entrepreneurs make the difference. I consult with and teach entrepreneurs at a university in flyover country.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

The single largest case of negligence and fraud in history. The damages are generational.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

The damage this evil man did to shool aged children in this country during the Covid pandemic will be felt for decades to come, and he got away with it!

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Corporate Media Can’t Be Bothered To Investigate Fraud And Crime, They Have An Algae Bloom To Track https://t.co/HGP1WZSER6

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

Single largest case of negligence and fraud in history. Generational damages and the media is silent.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

ABC, CBS, and NBC have been largely silent in regards to DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s recent declassification regarding Anthony Fauci’s cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

Single largest case of negligence and fraud in history. Generational damages.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Tulsi Gabbard didn’t just release 1,600 pages of documents on her last day in office. She exposed something far uglier: the intelligence community didn’t investigate the lab leak. They built a protective cocoon around Anthony Fauci and called it national security.

They had the evidence early. A May 2020 report from Lawrence Livermore laid it out plainly ... all the conditions for an accidental release of a lab-modified coronavirus were already present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Precursor viruses. Reverse genetics work. ACE2 receptor testing. Biosafety failures. It was all there.

Instead of following that evidence, they let the man who approved the funding for that research steer the entire origins discussion across 18 intelligence agencies.

Fauci didn’t just offer opinions. He shaped the narrative, suppressed dissent, and later lied to Congress about his involvement. And the agencies went along with it.

Whistleblowers who tried to push back were retaliated against. The institutions that were supposed to protect the country chose to protect one well-connected bureaucrat instead. This wasn’t a mistake. It was a decision.

Corporate media is pretending this never happened. They won’t even touch it. That silence tells you exactly whose side they were on.

This is bigger than Fauci. This is proof that when the truth threatened powerful people inside the system, the system circled the wagons and buried the evidence. Tulsi just ripped the cocoon open. Now we’ll see who tries to sew it back shut.
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[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

All great journeys begin somewhere humble…

[DonPJenn @DonPJenn]

The Beatles play for 18 people at the Aldershot Club, December 1961.

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

@ihtesham2005 Thank you for sharing. I’m going to share the results of Ms. Van Deer Meer’s research with all my students from here on out.

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

Important research confirming a gut feeling I have always had.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

Give this entrepreneur the Presidential Medal of Freedom!

[Matt Braynard @MattBraynard]

We're so back.

An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The American Revolution was bankrolled by one man. The richest in America. He died broke in debtor's prison.

Robert Morris.

In 1781, he raised $1,400,000 on his own personal credit to march George Washington's army to Yorktown. The Continental Congress had no money. The states refused to send any. France had stopped. The final $20,000 came from Haym Salomon, a Polish-Jewish broker who personally underwrote the rest. The richest man in the country put his balance sheet behind the war and ended it.

AOC said this week that "the American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time."

The math doesn't survive the source documents.

Morris signed the Declaration of Independence. He signed the Articles of Confederation. He signed the Constitution. One of only two founders to sign all three. He served as Superintendent of Finance from 1781 to 1784, ran the Continental Navy as Agent of Marine, and chartered the Bank of North America. The financial machinery of the United States was built by the merchant who had spent the prior decade running the largest shipping firm in Philadelphia.

John Hancock was the wealthiest man in Boston. George Washington owned 8,000 acres at Mount Vernon. The signers were merchants, planters, and lawyers at the top of colonial society. The complaint was taxation without representation, levied by a Crown an ocean away. The Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts hit merchants hardest. That's why merchants funded the war.

Then the math finished Morris off.

He owed nearly $3 million by 1798. He sat in Prune Street debtor's prison for three years. George Washington visited him there. Congress passed the Bankruptcy Act of 1800 in part to secure his release. Morris died in 1806 with a five-line obituary in the Philadelphia papers.

$1.4 million in personal credit. $3 million in personal debt. The richest man in America bankrupted himself funding the war AOC says was fought against him.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Secretariat, the Belmont Stakes, 1973. If you know it, it never gets old. If you don’t, sit your ass down and watch the fastest horse God ever put on the planet run the best race of his life.

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

@ElectionWiz A lesson here for my Intro to Business students…

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

A lesson here for my Intro to Business…

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

Blocking the JetBlue–Spirit merger didn’t protect consumers from a monopoly. It protected the actual giants, Delta, American, United, and Southwest, from a stronger low-cost challenger. A combined JetBlue-Spirit could have pressured the incumbents on price and forced real competition into the market.

The Founders hoped America would be led by people of wisdom and character.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is neither.

She crusaded to block this deal in the name of “protecting competition.” The result? Spirit is shutting down. Thousands of jobs lost. Low-cost fares vanishing.

The proposed deal would’ve given the combined airline ~9% market share. The Big Four already control 76%+.

That’s not populism. It’s reflexive left-wing ideology dressed up as consumer protection, and ordinary travelers and workers are paying for it.

I’m no fan of monopoly power. It’s a real threat to freedom. But sometimes a merger is the threat to monopoly power, not the cause of it. Life is more complicated than merger = dangerous monopoly.

America deserves wise and virtuous leadership.

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

🇺🇸 Here's what $39 trillion in debt really means:

If we confiscated every dollar of U.S. corporate profit ($3.8T/year), it would take over 10 years to pay off.

Sell every ounce of gold ever mined: $32 trillion. Still $7 trillion short.

Liquidate every Bitcoin in existence on top of that: $33.5 trillion. Still $5.5 trillion short.

If we confiscated every dollar of federal tax revenue ($5.3T/year), it would take over 7 years to pay off, assuming zero spending.

The debt is 71% of every home in America, or 30% of every publicly traded company on Earth.

The debt grows by $7.2 billion a day, or $84,000 a second.

This is a problem.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Ownership is the key to all freedom.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time last month. That's another trillion added in five months. Interest alone is running $88 billion a month. Cut six cents out of every projected dollar for five years and the budget balances. It isn't radical. It's basic math.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

The credo of too many politicians has become "how do we take more of what you earn" instead of "how do we help you to earn more".

[R. Philip Sarnecki @Philip_Sarnecki]

Kansas has the HIGHEST INCOME TAX RATE in the region!

Higher than liberal Illinois.

Higher than liberal Colorado.

Working families in Kansas are getting crushed by taxes and the career politicians did nothing to address it in the legislative session.

It’s time for new leadership in Topeka!

Kansans should keep more of their own money.

As your Governor, working families will start winning again!

[Rick LeJuerrne @Rick1322]

Utterly ridiculous system…

[RealClearInvestigations @RCInvestigates]

A new report says that American taxpayers are expected to spend 6.93 billion hours and more than $477 billion to be in compliance with the 2026 tax filing season.
https://t.co/v99utcYgO4

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

On tax day, remember that the federal government takes in more than $5 trillion/year, which is more than the GDP of every country on the planet (except the US itself and China).

They still overspend by another $2 trillion.
They refuse to address rampant waste, fraud and abuse.