Emanuel Porter

Serial entrepreneur with a passion for Bitcoin. Owner of multiple businesses, Husband and Father to Six Kids.

[Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany]

🚨 OLYMPIAN RYAN LOCHTE: "We started watching these people getting baptized, and something came into me, something so pure."

"I'm going to start crying. It felt so real watching these people get baptized."

"And I asked [my girlfriend], 'What is this?'"

She said, "They're washing away their sins. They're getting a fresh start publicly."

"And I was like, 'Honey, I want that.'"

"And so, I got baptized. I washed away my sins, and trust me, I had a lot!"

"... To put your life in front of God and give it to God has changed everything for me."

"I'm finding who I am."

"I am being a better father, a better person, and I just love the person that I've become now, and I owe it to God."

@SatAmericaFNC @FoxNews ⬇️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A glaringly obvious double-standard

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

LeBron James says he isn't a billionaire. Forbes has him at $1.4 billion. He's right.

He went on Complex this week, held up a $405,040 Richard Mille, and said the watch was free. He said his bank account holds a couple thousand. He said his kids have all the money now.

Every line is accurate.

The Lakers paid him $48.7 million this season. His off-court income runs around $80 million annually from Nike, PepsiCo, Beats, and a dozen other brands. None of that sits in a checking account at age 41. It moves into investment vehicles the same week it clears.

The Richard Mille is the RM 65-01 LeBron edition, limited to 150 pieces globally. He didn't buy it. He co-designed it. Richard Mille gave him 001/150 because every paparazzi photo of his wrist sells the next 20 to oil magnates and tech founders. The watch is technically free in the same way the MacBook Tim Cook holds at a keynote is technically free. The brand pays the principal to wear the product.

The 2011 Fenway Sports Group deal is the textbook version of the trade. LeBron got Liverpool FC equity for marketing services, zero cash out of pocket. Liverpool was valued around $300 million at the time. The club sits above $5 billion today. He converted that stake into a broader FSG position in 2021, which now also includes the Red Sox and Pittsburgh Penguins. FSG itself runs north of $12 billion. He paid nothing for any of it.

SpringHill is the bigger one. RedBird Capital led a 2021 round at a $725 million valuation, with Nike and FSG also putting capital in. LeBron remained the largest single shareholder. The company just merged with Fulwell 73, which extends the slate without diluting his control. None of that equity is liquid. It compounds inside a holding structure that does not show up on a bank statement.

Now the kids. "They got all the money now. They take care of dad." Read that as an estate plan said out loud. Move appreciating assets into trusts in your heirs' names while the assets are still small. Pay gift tax on the original valuation. The S&P doubles, the trust doubles, the IRS already saw its slice. The Walton family ran this on Walmart in the 1980s. The Mars family ran it on candy.

The Complex headline is "LeBron reveals he's not a billionaire."

$1.4 billion is the entity. Couple thousand is the man.

[Rap Wikipedia @RapWikip]

Mac Miller freestyles over Mobb Deep’s “Survival of the Fittest” on Hot 97 with Funk Flex, 13 years ago today (2013)

[Emanuel Porter @ThePortersEdge]

Truth!

[Kevin | Large Fam Dad @LargeFamDad]

My boss's boss is like 42, never married, no kids. Earns $275-300K per year. Goes on a minimum of two international vacations a year w/ his girlfriend. 10+ days, all out.

Eats the best food, stays in top notch accomodations. Excursions, tours, nicest beaches, etc.

Great guy, I'm happy for him.

But what I've realized is that without kids, you end up chasing a lifestyle that has to continually be topped in order for you to be satisfied and find happiness.

What he and others like him don't understand is that when you have children, seeing THEM experience life's most basic things and watching their eyes light up at all the "firsts", brings greater pleasure and joy than any vacation or travel experience ever could.

Seeing THEM try blueberries for the first time is greater than dining at the best 5 star restaurant in Europe.

Seeing THEM learn how to walk is greater than walking the Great Wall of China or strolling along the most picturesque beach.

Watching THEM giggle uncontrollably at "peek-a-boo" tops any A-list comedian act.

Seeing THEIR excitement when building a fort out of cardboard boxes and making a door big enough for daddy is superior to staying at 5-star resorts.

Flying kites with THEM far outweighs excursions like parasailing or helicopter rides.

Seeing THEM perform a recital on stage for the first time is more rewarding than watching a Broadway show or top notch symphony orchestra.

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When you have children, all of a sudden you realize that life's greatest joys are not in the pursuit of things or pleasure or travel, but rather in the LOVE and bond you share with your very own image bearers.

Seeing the beauty and magnificence and wonder of life all over again for the first time through THEIR eyes and expressions gives you something the world simply cannot offer, nor even come close.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Emanuel Porter @ThePortersEdge]

@Vk_Preacher Coax cable

[Fox News @FoxNews]

NEW: Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman reflects on being MOVED to tears by the Christian cross after returning to Earth from the historic expedition:

"When I got back on the on the ship — I'm not really a religious person — but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything or to experience anything."

"So I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to just come visit us for a minute, and when that man walked in, I'd never met him before in my life. But I saw the cross on his collar, and I just broke down in tears."

"It's very hard to fully grasp what we just went through."

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Tim Dillon: "I don’t know any women that are mothers that regret or are unhappy. Most of the happiest people I know are women with children. When you meet a young couple with children… I’ve never met happier people, personally."

[Jack @Jackkk]

Joel Osteen shares what Kanye West was like when they spent time together

“I had no contact with Kanye before his spiritual journey in 2018… we talked several times and met several times. He was respectful and kind and sincere as can be, one of the nicest men”

“He came to my house, had dinner, came to the church and did a beautiful Sunday Service”

“I think he struggles with some mental illnesses and he’s talked about that but that’s not what I saw. Some of the things I’ve heard since then were not the Ye that I knew”

“I pray for him often because I know his heart and I know he’s a good man and I believe he loves God. It’s just sometimes you can get a little off course”

“I don’t know where he’s at, I wish I could speak to him again”

[Emanuel Porter @ThePortersEdge]

@tyromper @AB84 Love this!

[Emanuel Porter @ThePortersEdge]

And you all don’t think they don’t know everything we do and say right here in our homes…

[Camus @newstart_2024]

RFK Jr. and Theo Von having a raw, real conversation about recovery that hits different.

RFK Jr. (43 years sober): “I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats. I’m not scared of a germ. If I don’t go to a meeting every day, this disease will kill me.”

Theo Von: “I go to meetings because I forget that people care about me… and that I care about them. It recharges the battery.”

They both talked about how meetings kept them going even during COVID — moving from a bank basement to a playhouse that later burned down. No excuses. Just survival and helping others.

It’s a powerful reminder that real recovery isn’t about perfection — it’s about showing up, even when everything else is falling apart.

What’s one thing that’s helped you stay grounded through tough times?

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Jesus rose from the dead and the first person He went to was His brother who thought He was crazy.

Not Peter. Not John. Not the twelve.

James.

His kid brother. The one who grew up sharing a room with God and didn’t know it.

Think about James for a second. His older brother is Jesus. Not “Jesus the Christ.” Not “Jesus the Savior.” Jesus the guy who worked in the carpenter shop and came home smelling like sawdust and sweat. Jesus who snored. Jesus who ate too fast. Jesus who their mother treated different and James never understood why.

Because Mary kept her mouth shut.

Luke 2:19. She kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Angels showed up at His birth. Shepherds fell on their faces. Wise men brought gold. And Mary told nobody. She just watched her firstborn grow up in a ghetto in Nazareth and kept the secret in her chest like a coal she couldn’t put down.

James didn’t know his brother was God.

He knew his brother was weird.

He knew his mother looked at Jesus different. He knew Joseph moved the whole family to Egypt when they were little and never fully explained why. He knew that one time his parents lost Jesus at the temple and found Him three days later arguing with rabbis like He owned the place. Twelve years old. Already gone.

Then Jesus grew up. Worked the shop. Paid the bills.

Because Joseph died — the Bible doesn’t say when but Joseph disappears from the story — and in Jewish custom the eldest son takes over. So Jesus wasn’t posing for paintings in that carpenter shop. He was feeding His family. Putting bread on the table for His mom and His brothers and sisters in a town so poor Nathanael said “can anything good come out of Nazareth?”

Then one day He left.

Walked away from the shop. Walked away from the family. Left James holding the hammer and the bills and the responsibility for a widowed mother.
James was pissed.

Mark 3:21. His own family went to collect Him because they said He was out of His mind. That’s James. That’s the brothers. Showing up to bring the crazy one home before He embarrasses the family worse.

John 7:5. His brethren did not believe in Him.
His own blood. Ate dinner with Him for thirty years. Didn’t believe.

Then Wednesday happened.

The brother James thought was insane got arrested at night by temple guards. Got beaten until His face swelled shut. Got whipped until His back looked like raw meat. Got nailed to wood and hung up on a garbage hill outside the city.

And James had to stand somewhere — maybe in the crowd, maybe at home, maybe hearing it secondhand — and process the fact that the brother he called crazy just died like a criminal.

Three days and nights of silence.

Three days of James sitting with the guilt of every eye roll. Every argument. Every time he told people “I don’t know what’s wrong with Him.” Every time he showed up to drag Jesus home because He was embarrassing the family name.

Then Sunday morning.

Jesus rose. Conquered death. Walked out of the tomb.
And He went to James.

1 Corinthians 15:7. He appeared to James.

Not in a crowd. Not at a distance. He went to His brother. The one who didn’t believe. The one who thought He was crazy. The one who was pissed that He left the family behind.

He showed up and let James see the holes in His hands.
Matthew 28:10. Go tell my brethren. Not my servants. Not my followers. My brethren.

John 20:17. My Father and your Father. My God and your God.

He rose to the highest position in the universe and His vocabulary didn’t change.

Most men get a promotion and stop returning phone calls. Jesus conquered death and called the brother who doubted Him family.

James went from “He’s out of His mind” to leading the church in Jerusalem.

James went from trying to drag Jesus home to writing a book of the Bible.

James went from skeptic to martyr. They threw him off the temple wall and when he survived the fall they beat him to death with a club. He died for the brother he once thought was insane.

That’s what happened when Jesus showed up after the resurrection and said brother.

One word changed everything.

He’s not calling you servant today.
He’s not calling you subject.
He’s calling you what He called James.
Brother.
The same James who didn’t believe. Who rolled his eyes. Who showed up to take Him home. Who sat in the dark for three days choking on regret.

He went to THAT guy first.

If He went to James, He’ll come to you.

[Eric Matheny 🎙️ @ericmmatheny]

Millennial women bought the girlboss bullshit. And now how many of them are in their 40s, childless and miserable.

Gen Z may turn this culture around.

All we need now is an economy that enables a family to thrive on one income.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Gwen Stefani opens up about the “miracle” that brought her back to God.

“I was desperate… I really wanted to have another baby. And I couldn’t. And I was old.”

“And then my oldest boy, Kingston, comes up to me. He said: ‘Mommy, I really want you to have a baby.’”

“I said: ‘I’m sorry, your mommy’s too old to have a baby now.’”

“And he just, out of his own… he was like, ‘Please God, let my mom have a baby.’”

“And I just was sitting there going, ‘Wow, look at my little boy. He’s praying for me.’ And he was doing it every night.”

“And I never asked him to do that. I never taught him that, really.”

“Four weeks later, I was pregnant with Apollo, who I had at 44 years old. Naturally. Totally a full-on gift. And that was the first miracle.”

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨“WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Office Members, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is SAFE and SOUND!” - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸