Every day I carry a copper coin in the pocket of my uniform.
Stamped across it are three Latin words: sic semper tyrannis — thus always to tyrants.
Life is crowded with things that demand our time, our attention, and our lives. Many of them feel urgent. Far fewer of them are actually important. We miss the important work not because we are lazy, but because we are busy putting out the next fire, answering the next email, finishing the next report.
This coin is a reminder: do not let the urgent become the tyrant over the important.
There will always be another briefing to give.
There will always be another email you could draft.
There will always be another task, another deadline, another pressing matter at work.
Those things are real. They matter in their place. But when they push out time with your spouse, your children, or the neighbor who could use a hand or a listening ear, you have lost the plot.
The urgent is a poor master. It never finishes. It never says “enough.” It will take everything you give it and still ask for more.
Kill the tyrant. Guard the relationships that actually last. Keep first things first.
Never let the urgent become the tyrant over the important.
$FNMA $FMCC "This is a 10X if the President puts this on the list of things he’s gonna do [which he said he would]. I think if midterms go against the President, this is one of the things he can do without the Congress [and if they don't, it is of no consequence]. And the President likes to do big deals, you know. He likes to ring the bell at the exchange. And this is something that can create literally hundreds of billions of dollars for the American people."
Bullish.
Shout out to the F2 community for keeping the radar online.
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@BillAckman with another banger of an interview & more uber bullish commentary on Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac as he sat down for the Equity Mates podcast (published today).
Full interview link also attached.
Shout out to @SamYouWellFlynn for the stellar heads up!
"This is a 10X if the President puts this on the list of things he’s gonna do.
I think if midterms go against the President, this is one of the things he can do without the Congress.
And the President likes to do big deals, you know. He likes to ring the bell at the exchange. And this is something that can create literally hundreds of billions of dollars for the American people."
GLTA.
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@DoNotLoseDontW Hey man, sorry I'm just getting on, but this is a lot and I have an early work morning. I'll try to wade through some of this soon - promise.
To reiterate the entire plan should be:
1. Adjust capital rules
2. Deem SPS debt satisfied and convert remaining commitment to an LOC
3. Listing to a major exchange
4. Gradually exercise warrants
5. Release when safe
NONE of this required Congress and ALL can be done vis executive orders. If Democrats take the majority F2 could become a bigger priority as the POTUS will be handcuffed in other areas by the legislature.
Default sex to "yes." Married 23 years, 5 children, and in full-time employment, my advice to young married couples is that you default to "yes to sex" unless there is a reason to not (some days there are many reasons). We are at "more days than not" status today because we manage expectations - we do not look for "reasons for yes" in this area.
It's a matter of priorities and planning... and worth it.
20 MARRIED SEX Facts and Statistics ...
1 - Most married couples have sex a little over 6 times per month.
2 - Married women are more than twice as likely to have an orgasm as unmarried women.
3 - In 1 out of 4 marriages the wife has the higher sex-drive than the husband.
4 - Roughly 20% of married couples fall into the “sexless marriage” category; defined as having sex less than 10 times per year. Which is totally fine as long as BOTH partners are okay with this. If one is not, that's not healthy. Many of these couples are older married couples, who are unable to have sex.
5 - According to statistics, 75% of married women orgasm during sex. AND many married women don't measure sexual success by orgasms, (but it's definitely very important). Meaning women often still feel connected to their husband, and satisfied, when not achieving an orgasm every time.
6 - The length of a men’s orgasm is roughly 8 seconds long whereas a woman’s orgasm is on average 20 seconds!
7 - The main goal of sex in marriage should be two fold:
1) To please each other person, not seek self-satisfaction first.
2) Re-connection as husband and wife.
8 - God created a woman’s clitoris with 8000 nerve endings .... and its ONLY function is to bring pleasure. Married sex is obviously to be enjoyed for more than just procreation.
9 - Two of the biggest enemies of married sex are busyness and tiredness. So if you're struggling with sexual intimacy, maybe slow down and make it a priority.
10 - Statistically the couples with the best sex-lives are the couples willing to talk about it with one another.
11 - IMPORTANT: How often should a married couple have sex? As often as they both mutually agree to. Whether it’s 5 times a a week, 5 times a month, or 5 times a year, it should be mutual agreement. Neither the higher-drive spouse nor the lower sex-drive should NOT be the one that sets the amount of times when it comes to frequency.
12 - COMPLAINTS: Top complaint from MARRIED WOMEN when it comes to sex? They want their husband to pursue them in other ways than just sexually. Meaning, they don't want to feel like the only time their husband wants them is sexually. Top compliant from MARRIED MEN when it comes to sex? They’d like their wife to initiate more often so they don’t feel like they’re begging. Nothing is worse than feeling like you're begging all the time.
13 - Most husbands feel very emotionally connected to their wife when they have sex with them. Most wives NEED to feel very emotionally connected to their husbands to want to have sex with them. Don't judge your spouse for being wired up different, try to see it from their vantage point and meet their needs their way.
14 - Married sex isn't just about having an orgasm. It's designed to connect and reconnect two people into one ... over and over. Married sex was created to be the purest form of intimacy ... where you touch one another physically, emotionally and spiritually. In fact, it's so good for your marriage, you should probably be having more of it.
15 - God created married sex for SO many reasons ...
* procreation
* pleasure
* oneness
* comfort
* bonding
* intimate knowledge of one another
* connecting AND re-connecting with one another.
16 - Did you know that every time you have sex with your spouse, oxytocin is released into your bodies. Oxytocin is a hormone and neurotransmitter known as the "love hormone" or "cuddle hormone," produced in the hypothalamus and released by the pituitary gland, crucial for social bonding, trust, and attachment. Oxytocin is an incredible gift that connects you to your spouse. That's why many say sex is a glue in your marriage!
17 - Of course anyone can have sex; it only requires a few body parts. But making love requires intimacy, commitment and a deep loving relationship. Marriage and making love will always require more work, but it's definitely so much better! The world makes sex common, God made sex to be special.
18 - We believe if there is anything physical, mental or emotional keeping you from you from having your best sex life in your marriage, you need to see a doctor. They can help with so many things someone might be having issues with.
19 - Of course intimacy is not just experienced through sex. It's found in talking, spending time together, doing spiritual things together, and so on. All areas of intimacy are important.
20 - You made it to #20? We are impressed. Consider reposting this or saving this for later info.
And, if you're ever in an area where we're doing one of our workshops, we talk about all these things on a much deeper scale in our workshops. Join us sometime.
Trey & Lea
Default to "yes." Married 23 years, 5 children, and in full-time employment, my advice to young married couples is that you default to "yes to sex" unless there is a reason you shouldn't. We are at "more days than not" status today because we manage expectations - we do not look for "reasons for yes" in this area.
It's a matter of priorities and planning... and worth it.
Sobering to think we are creating the very thing we deny exists - some omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent intelligence that might deem humanity worth "undoing" because we rebel against it.
This might sound crazy.
But one of the skills you NEED to learn is how to deal with a more and more illiterate society full of emotionally dysregulated people.
If you keep getting frustrated every day over how "ďumb" everything/everyone seems, the stress of it is going to wreck your mind.
@BillAckman One missing key point on the point of calculating odds based on "market sentiment" here is that they're still OTC so MANY institutional investors won't get in or aren't allowed in per policy restrictions.
This is a great audio/video summary of the @BillAckman Fannie and Freddie saga.
Ackman has increased his F2 holdings 5×, held through a drop to $0.35, a surge to $15+, and still see a 10× insight from current prices.
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@SecScottBessent, you have made clear that any GSE ownership restructuring will wait until 2027 or 2028 and will be guided solely by your North Star of preventing any widening in agency mortgage spreads over Treasuries. A new analysis (linked here) shows how a carefully structured recap/release can meet that priority while answering the persistent question of what the United States gains: Treasury would cancel its senior preferred stock as fully repaid, exercise its 79.9 percent warrants, and transfer the resulting common stake (potentially worth hundreds of billions) into a 501(c)(3) that distributes the shares ratably into tens of millions of Trump Accounts under the OBBB. The proposal is designed to fit within HERA’s existing sale authority, the temporary regulations already permitting qualified stock contributions, and formal findings that treat expanded youth asset ownership as valuable consideration, thereby reducing major-questions and appropriations risks. The recent D.C. Circuit decision in Fairholme affirming that the Net Worth Sweep (of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits) breached the implied covenant further supports treating the senior preferred as economically repaid rather than converting it in a way that would further dilute private shareholders. I urge you to read the full piece... it supplies a clear, administration-aligned path that protects the mortgage market while converting the GSEs’ value into a lasting investment in the next generation.
Please review here:
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@BillAckman@pulte
This is a fantastic F2 idea for the Trump Administration that achieves multiple objectives:
1. Give the youth skin in the game—capitalist principles, leading by example—by letting them own shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through Trump accounts.
2. Unlock $400B of value for American taxpayers without delay or a bureaucratic middle layer (prior to the 2028 election).
3. Restore trust in the public markets by returning the GSEs to the NYSE, where they belong, functioning as the public utilities they are, regulated by FHFA.
4. Take off the table the political risk of AOC, Bernie, and Warren running these companies and using them to discriminate against a large segment of the population.
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