Mark Sando

Born in Portland, raised in Tahoe. Have been an actor, writer, filmmaker, in airline biz! Shifted gears & starting driving a truck after my dad’s stroke.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Scott may have discovered the success gene’ and it’s not a gene. It’s a hack, it’s a way of viewing things differently and using that ‘alternate reality’ to create material changes in this world (dopamine, anybody?) to alter your outcomes.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Always 1 step ahead (or 10).

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Elon just personally bought a $1 billion gas turbine company, and no one announced it. No press release, no tweet. The deal only surfaced because a firm holding a 5% stake had to disclose its $50.4 million payout in an SEC filing. What he bought tells you where the real bottleneck in AI is.

APR Energy operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines totaling over 1 gigawatt. Their units arrive on trucks and can be delivered, installed, and commissioned in as little as a month. The fleet was built for blackout zones and disaster response in countries with unreliable grids.

Here's the constraint that makes it worth $1B to one man: Nvidia can deliver 100,000 GPUs in months. A new grid connection for a power plant spends a median of roughly 5 years in the interconnection queue. The chips depreciate while the paperwork sits.

Elon already lived this. xAI's first Memphis cluster ran 100,000 GPUs on about 150 megawatts, much of it from roughly 35 leased mobile turbines while grid power was pending. Environmental groups sued. The DOJ intervened to keep the turbines running. He was renting the most important input to his most important company.

So he bought the landlord. At $1B for 1+ gigawatts, he paid roughly $1 per watt of dispatchable power he can park anywhere. A gigawatt runs on the order of 600,000 H100-class GPUs.

Every AI lab can buy the same chips. Only one of them now owns a power plant fleet that ships by truck.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Perhaps the greatest Futbol coach in modern history praising the undisputed GOAT.

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Sir Alex Ferguson on Lionel Messi’s performances at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

🗣️ “I’ve spent my entire life watching football. I’ve managed against the greatest players, coached some of the best and witnessed generations of talent. But what Lionel Messi is doing at 39 years old is beyond anything I’ve ever seen.”

“Most players at that age are long retired or struggling to keep up with the pace of the modern game. Messi? He’s carrying Argentina to another World Cup final. He isn’t surviving he’s dominating. That’s the difference.”

“People keep asking how he’s still doing it. The answer is simple: his football brain is decades ahead of everyone else. He doesn’t need to outrun you anymore because he’s already seen the next three passes before you’ve taken your first step.”

“Look at this tournament. Every time Argentina needed someone to stand up, Messi answered. When they were under pressure, he demanded the ball. When England thought they had one foot in the final, Messi completely changed the game with two outrageous assists. That’s what greatness looks like.”

“You can organise your defence perfectly, assign two or three players to mark him and spend months analysing every movement he makes. None of it guarantees anything because he only needs one second to destroy ninety minutes of hard work.”

“What amazes me most isn’t the ability it’s the mentality. The bigger the occasion, the calmer he becomes. While everyone else feels the weight of a World Cup, Messi plays as if he was born for these moments. That’s why he keeps breaking hearts and making history.”

“I’ll say something that some people won’t like, but I don’t care. We will never see another footballer like Lionel Messi. When he retires, an era of football retires with him. Players will win Ballons d’Or, score hundreds of goals and lift trophies, but nobody will combine genius, consistency, longevity and humility the way he has.”

“Enjoy every minute he’s still on the pitch, because when Lionel Messi walks away from football, the game will lose a little piece of its soul. There will be great players after him but there will never be another Lionel Messi.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Time for truth, indeed!

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

Tonight @realDonaldTrump will address the nation. Reports are that the President will declassify and publish documents and records about the 2020 election, disclosing to the world serious and very significant FACTS that the legacy media, the Biden Regime, and the vast leftwing network of anti-American pro-corrupt elections cabal have spent the last 5 years lying about.

And not only lying, but punishing, ridiculing, attacking, silencing anyone who has DARED to ask questions.

What’s utterly beyond me is this:

Why would anyone actively seek to keep this information from becoming public?

Why would anyone NOT want the country to know and understand threats to our elections?

After all, it was former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson in the waning weeks of the Obama presidency who added “elections” to the list of America’s critical infrastructure.

Elections ARE critical infrastructure under the law.

Any threats to or vulnerabilities in our elections - the entire system - are deemed a threat to the security of our country.

If there are such threats, it is the duty of the President to take steps to mitigate the threats.

But since Monday, here’s what we’ve seen and heard from @marceelias: the leader of the pro corrupt elections movement:

In anticipation of the speech, Elias started 4 days ago calling on his pals in the leftwing media to argue against the facts @realDonaldTrump is to present. Without, of course, knowing what those are. Elias wrote, “…on Thursday night….he will use this time to once again lie about elections.”

Seriously? @marceelias can’t bother to wait and actually see and hear the speech? Review the documents? The screed he published on Monday called on the media to argue against whatever @realDonaldTrump may say tonight.

And here is the most demented comment of all:

“Sadly, right now, too few people in positions of power are willing to loudly criticize Trump for his lies. Even worse, the once-proud legacy media has proven itself too timid to speak clearly about Trump and his lies”

I had actually not noticed a reticence on the part of the leftwing media to attack Pres Trump and his agenda, his Administration, his supporters, his policies.

What is most disturbing about the steady Elias drumbeat this week is that it is so devoid of reason as to disclose his hatred NOT just of @realDonaldTrump but of anything approaching honesty and integrity in elections.

Is he worried that somehow there are disclosures that will reveal his role in the attacks on our elections?

It is hard to fathom the extremes that @marceelias has gone to in the past several years to destroy America’s elections, starting with lawsuits challenging election laws in state after state as early as 2019 - well before COVID.

Elias has devoted himself to corrupt elections - arguing for dirty voter rolls, for removing all safeguards that would require basic proof of identity and eligibility to vote, allowing noncitizens and illegals to vote in our elections, creating as much chaos as possible in the elections with massive mail ballots that deprive voters of the protections and support when voting in person, turning Election Day into election three months, stealing votes of homeless and vulnerable people in group homes, homeless shelters,memory care units… and on and on.

Every vestige of integrity in the system must according to Elias, be eliminated. All under the guise of “convenience”.

It is a lie.

What Elias and his corrupt elections cronies want is to control the outcomes by controlling the process. So they can gain and keep power.

@realDonaldTrump is right when he says without free and fair elections we will lose our country.

Why would @marceelias want to hide the truth about China or any foreign adversary’s efforts to influence our elections? Why does he want to cover that up?

What is @marceelias afraid of? What did he do in 2020 that he doesn’t want anyone to know?

Time for truth

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[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

@Real_RobN Yes, she is. She is amazing and a symbol of absolute grace & tenacity. Love Kari!!

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

At least he was honest about the gulf between Messi…and everyone else on the planet!

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Jude Bellingham on Lionel Messi’s performance against England.

🗣️ “I’ve played against some unbelievable footballers, but I’ve never faced anyone like Lionel Messi. And that’s the scary part he’s 39 years old, yet he was still the most dangerous player on the pitch.”

“You think you’ve got him under control. You surround him with two or three players, you stop him from running, you close every passing lane… and then, in one second, he destroys everything. That’s exactly what happened tonight. Two assists. Two moments of genius. Two moments that ended our World Cup dream.”

“The frustrating thing is that we knew exactly what he wanted to do. We talked about it before the game. We trained for it. Every time he got the ball we were shouting, pointing, trying to close him down. None of it mattered. He always found a way.”

“He doesn’t beat you with pace anymore. He beats you with his brain. He’s always two or three moves ahead of everyone else. By the time you realise what he’s seen, the pass is already played and you’re turning around watching Argentina celebrate.”

“I’ve never felt that helpless against a footballer before. You can play the perfect defensive game for 89 minutes, but Messi only needs one touch to change history. That’s what separates him from every other player I’ve faced.”

“As painful as this defeat is, I have to give him respect. To produce that level in a World Cup semi-final at 39 years old is something I’ll probably never see again. That’s not just a great player that’s football’s greatest player.”

“Tonight, we didn’t just lose to Argentina. We lost to a man who reminded the world that true greatness doesn’t grow old.”

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Absolutely, utterly insane. Instead of helping people up, to a higher standard, the leftist scumbags want to bring everyone down to some mythical level of equity - BY ERASING ALL STANDARDS! What now? Doctors who can’t read? Pilots who can’t read? Truckdrivers who can’t read? WHAT

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

The Left Declared Competence a Civil-Rights Violation

The left has reached the point where requiring a police officer to read is considered racial discrimination.

Maryland State Police used a neutral examination to determine whether applicants possessed the basic skills needed to write reports and perform police work. Black applicants failed at higher rates. The Biden Justice Department responded by attacking the examination and helping produce a settlement approaching $3 million.

The test did not ask anyone’s race. The department did not exclude anyone because of race. Applicants were measured against the same standard. Under disparate-impact ideology, equality itself became the offense because equality failed to manufacture the desired result.

This doctrine requires society to abolish every standard that exposes a disparity.

Police examinations become discriminatory.
Teacher examinations become discriminatory. Academic requirements become discriminatory.

Any measurement of competence remains acceptable only until it measures competence.

The humiliation imposed on black Americans is difficult to overstate. The same people who call themselves anti-racists have constructed an ideology based on the assumption that black applicants cannot be expected to meet ordinary standards. They then demand that the standards disappear and congratulate themselves for their compassion.

A sane civil-rights movement would insist that every child receive the education required to meet high expectations. The modern left protects failing institutions, lowers the expectations and accuses anyone who notices the decline of racism.

How are normal people expected to share a functioning civilization with ideologues who believe that the ability to read should become negotiable when hiring police officers? Roads, hospitals, schools, courts and public-safety agencies depend on competence. Reality does not accept an equity exemption. A police report filled with errors does not become accurate because the officer was hired through a socially approved process.

Disparate-impact ideology has converted failure into evidence against the test, incompetence into victimhood and standards into contraband. Every bad result produces the same administrative solution... lower the requirement, punish the institution and invoice the taxpayer.

The left would rather abolish qualification than admit that anyone failed to qualify. The public will eventually discover the cost while depending on the people they declared competent by eliminating the evidence that they were not.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

1000% that this violence is coming from the leftists. They can’t convince people with their ideas, they can’t build a better mousetrap, they can’t hold criminals (blue & white collar) accountable, so they use guns, cars, knives & lies to kill their enemies (and this country). SAD

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Marco Rubio Just Went OFF On Left-Wing Terrorism

He just called out:
-Transgender shooter that shot up a Catholic school.
-The far left radical that murdered Charlie Kirk
-Multiple deranged assassination attempts on President Trump

“More than 80% of radical violence is now driven by far-left and anarchist actors.

These are not abstract statistics. Americans have seen what those numbers mean.

An all-out assault on our immigration officers, sniper attacks, explosives, armed ambushes, a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like, "Where is your God now?", a healthcare executive executed in cold blood in the streets, multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president, and the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation, a man who happened to also be a husband and the father of two young children, shot and killed while speaking to a crowd of students.

This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilization itself.

It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can.

This is what radical leftism is.

It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti-capitalist, or anti-imperialist, or communist, or anarchist, or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same.

It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice, liberation, and an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right, on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world.

Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us.”

THIS is the speech that Americans needed to hear.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Yup. Pretty amazing!

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Look how perfect this Messi pass was. It beat seven defenders and the goalie.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

So incisive. This guy is good.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

This is not hypocrisy anymore. Hypocrisy is pretending to believe one thing while doing another. This is worse. This is a moral system so rotted that some deaths are treated as sacred and others as politically inconvenient debris.

A foreign national dies during an ICE confrontation, and the entire outrage industry detonates on command. Politicians howl. Activists swarm. Media vultures circle. Offices are surrounded. “Justice” becomes the word of the hour before anyone has bothered to establish what actually happened.

Then comes the eyewitness account: the driver allegedly put the car in gear and drove toward federal agents.

No matter. The narrative had already been chosen.

But Sheridan Gorman? Katie Abraham? American victims whose deaths raise the wrong questions about illegal immigration?

Silence.

No marches. No wall-to-wall coverage. No trembling speeches. No coordinated demands. Barely even a public acknowledgment that they existed.

That is not selective compassion. It is political scavenging.

They do not mourn the dead. They sort them.

Useful victims are elevated, branded, and weaponized against the country. Inconvenient victims are pushed into the shadows because their names expose the human cost of policies the political class refuses to defend honestly.

There is something profoundly sick about watching people manufacture instant sainthood for one death while stepping over the graves of others without breaking stride.

Do not call this inconsistency. Do not sanitize it as partisanship.

It is a deliberate inversion of moral value.

When outrage depends on the nationality of the dead and the usefulness of the corpse, compassion has ended.

What remains is propaganda wearing a funeral mask.
(article below)

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Wow. This is getting interesting.

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

2026 Investigation into the Fulton County 2020 Election found that Fulton County destroyed 374,128 ballot images for nearly all in-person voting, and selectively and willfully destroyed 132,280 electronic absentee ballot image authentication files, or "SHA" files, for the 2020 Election, which are able to prove that ballots were tampered with, altered, or replaced.

These are HUGE violations of both state and federal violations. Nearly HALF of the ballot images for the 5 MILLION ballots cast across the state of Georgia for the 2020 Election were destroyed. Election data must be saved up to 22 months. If you wanted to cover up election fraud, this is how you would do it.

Simply put, ballot images, not the paper ballot, is used to count the vote, and without the ballot images, no votes could be counted, audits can NOT be conducted or could be accurate, votes can't be authenticated, and elections could not be certified. Fulton County admitted that they "failed to preserve the majority of ballot images," in the Curling v. Raffensperger case.

The Secretary of State's General Counsel, Charlene McGowan, has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal the unlawful actions of country and state, to even include giving false statements of fact and law under oath, saying that Georgia Law did NOT require ballot images to be preserved from the 2020 Election.

So every ballot has a "ballot image," which is what is counted for the vote and used to authenticate the vote. The "SHA" authentication files are like a "finger print" which is assigned to each ballot as it is scanned to VALIDATE the ballot image in the even of an audit or investigation to determine if a ballot image has been tampered with, altered, or replaced...

These files do not "disappear" by accident, and were manually wiped to prevent ANY authentication of ballots, along with the ballot images, covering up election fraud. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing. The 2020 Election was stolen.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Wowser.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bret Weinstein said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.

Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.

Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.

Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.

Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?

Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.

Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

You can see him coming and still can’t stop him. GOAT!

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Thomas Tuchel on Lionel Messi’s masterclass against England.

🗣️ “I’ve coached against some of the greatest footballers in history, but nights like this remind you why Lionel Messi is different. We prepared for him all week. We had plans, we had markers, we had instructions… and none of it was enough. He punished us with two moments of absolute genius.”

“You can stop him for 85 minutes, but Messi only needs five seconds to destroy everything you’ve built. That’s what happened tonight. Two assists, no panic, no wasted movement just pure football intelligence. He doesn’t force the game. He waits… and when you make one mistake, you’re dead.”

“I was shouting from the touchline because I knew the danger every time he received the ball. My players knew it too. Yet knowing what Messi is capable of and actually stopping him are two completely different things. He sees passes that nobody else in world football even imagines.”

“People talk about speed and strength. Messi doesn’t need either. His brain is faster than every defender on the pitch. He dictates the tempo, manipulates space and tears teams apart without looking like he’s trying. That is what true greatness looks like.”

“As painful as this defeat is for England, I refuse to lie. We were beaten by a footballer who continues to redefine the game at 39 years old. Two assists in a World Cup semi-final, carrying his country into another final… that’s not normal. That’s history unfolding in front of your eyes.”

“Sometimes, as a coach, you have to accept an uncomfortable truth. We didn’t just lose to Argentina we lost to Lionel Messi. And if he plays the final like he played tonight, the rest of the world should be very worried.”

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

This is replacement theory, fraud & Dem voting agenda all wrapped in one package. We have always been a very compassionate nation, but that love & care has been used by our enemies to turn the USA upside down & take opportunities from our own native born citizens. It must end now

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

How the fuck were 30% of Haitians living in the US on the Temporary Protected Status program able to get mortgages that American citizens wouldn't qualify for?

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Talk about full circle. Wow. Although I think the ‘old man’ may have one more trick to pull out of his hat. #futbolislife

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

In December 2007, a Barcelona newspaper ran a charity raffle to pick a local baby for a UNICEF calendar shoot.

The winning family brought their 5-month-old son.

The 20-year-old Barca player assigned to bathe him was Lionel Messi.

The baby was Lamine Yamal.

Nobody thought about the photo for 15 years.

Then the baby debuted for Barcelona at 15. Won the Euros at 16 while still doing homework. Took over Messi's number 10 shirt.

On Sunday they meet in the World Cup Final.

Messi is 39. It's likely his last one.

Yamal turned 19 two days ago. It's his first.

The baby Messi held in his hands is now trying to take the trophy out of them.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Yeah, he is the GOAT for a reason. Jude should have simply paid respect to the best to ever play the beautiful game & maybe Messi wouldn’t have had quite the same edge. Definitely don’t want to give him ‘bulletin board’ material in a match. Bad calculation.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 The moment the camera caught Messi's face after getting into it with Jude, you knew.

England were in TROUBLE.

The one thing you never want at a World Cup is an angry Messi.

England's fate was sealed with a scowl.

Writer: Daniel

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

This is a good take. The Judge has legitimate concerns & what the left has done is despicable, corrupt & likely illegal (esp. if it stems from a conspiracy - likely). But she needs to resign & step down. The next justices need bulletproof resolve & she has too much to put at risk

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Clarence Thomas: "I'd rather die than withdraw. If they're gonna kill me, they're gonna kill me."

Amy Coney Barrett: "I'm scared for my life."

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Great thoughts.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The answer is @Alphaschool

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Ridiculous. Happy for this guy, but what?!

[DocumentingLibs @HistorianUSA1]

North Carolina demolition boss gets denied a government contract to tear down houses… because he’s white.

The guy on the phone hits him with:
“Are you Section 3?”
“Are you an ethnic minority?”
“Is your company 51% female owned?”
Answer’s no?
“Sorry, we’ve got too many white guys already.”

Instead of raging, this legend calls his friend who can check those boxes, gets the paperwork done, and they land the job.

Now he’s out there smashing houses with the excavator, loving every minute.

This is your government contracting system in 2026. Not merit. Not the best bid. Quotas.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

Interesting.

[Liam Out Loud @liam_out_loud]

Here's how the insane take over a society.

It's called negative selection: people of conscience get driven out of institutions, and people with no empathy and no guilt flow in to replace them.

Every totalitarian system has the same structure:

- Psychopaths at the core.
- Schizoid ideologues writing the theory.
- Charismatic spellbinders selling it as compassion.
- True believers enforcing it.
- Conformists who know better and comply anyway.

[Mark Sando @ToMarkMyWords]

The problem is that Govt is spending other people’s money on other people. It’s not their money, so they don’t care. It’s being spent on other people, so they DON’T CARE. I literally did more to help homeless people (giving them food/$$’s since I was 19 yo) than Cali. WeThePeople

[CaliRN619 🚑🩺🚑 @CaliRN619]

When someone fraudulently charged $25 on my credit card, I knew within 24 hours and fixed the issue.

When my Door Dash order gives me a small fry instead of the large fry I paid for, I get a refund within a day.

When my Instacart order is missing the bananas I ordered, I ensure it’s replaced immediately.

So why can’t the government figure out how to spot fraud and abuse that’s rampant across all taxpayer funded programs?

The auditors (Congress) are in on the grift and/or the government has way too much of our money that would be better managed at the local level where we can track it easily.

Either way the only solution is for the feds to go back to using our money to fund only the items specifically spelled out in the Constitution and give states responsibility for everything else.