In 2015, I marched for Bernie and donated to his campaign.
In 2019, after years of being a miserable democratic socialist who blamed everyone else for my sadness, I decided that I couldn’t stand being a miserable fuck anymore, and needed to start taking risks and aggressively started doing stuff to change my life.
I started working multiple jobs. I had 3 I was juggling at one point. I funded my life with one of them, and with the additional jobs, I invested all of my dollars in Palantir. It was honestly fun. Yeah, I worked 70 hours a week usually and sometimes would go 60 days without a day off, but it was exhilarating. I was making changes and doing things. It was way better than being miserable and angry and making my entire identity about politics and my disdain for “the rich.” Those were hopeless times and I was glad to be doing something for myself.
I was able to grow a portfolio of 4,000 Palantir shares at an 8 dollar cost basis between 2021-2023. 32,000 dollars from hardcore grinding. Between 2023-2025, that 32 grand grew to over 400 grand. In May 2024 I started rotating some of the profits into TSLA, along with purchasing with new income.
I’ve learned so much about capitalism since 2019, how wealth is created, and the difference between makers and takers. I’ve been inspired by so many amazing builders and entrepreneurs on this platform. I’ve even interacted with many of them. Totally surreal.
Today, I cheered in my car as it drove me home when I heard that Elon’s pay package was approved. I voted my 750 shares on it with a huge grin on my face. If Elon gets paid 1 trillion dollars, I will be a multimillionaire.
After all I’ve been through and after everything I’ve done for myself over the last 10 years, I look at this post by Bernie and know I would’ve cheered it on in 2015, but today, I see it for what it actually is. Manipulative, depressing rhetoric intended to depress a base of voters and make them feel hopelessly dependent on him and his colleagues. None of them build anything or create value or give working class people like me the opportunity to peg my labor against their genius. They did nothing but make me miserable.
I hope even one person can read this get pumped to start doing shit. There are ups and downs, but it’s yours. Nobody can take your grind away from you. Kick ass and build over years of time and watch what happens along the way. Don’t listen to sad miserable people like Bernie.
Endless money printing is the source of most of your economic woes.
It's not 'billionaires', 'capitalism', or any particular race of people.
Your pounds, dollars, euros, naira, and yen are devalued daily.
And as long as the problem is misdiagnosed, it will continue forever.
Why are people so obsessed with doomerism? Every era convinces itself that this is the end – that NYC is “finished” because of Mamdani, that the economy is collapsing, that the dollar will hyperinflate tomorrow. Humanity seems addicted to the belief that progress must eventually fail.
But perspective matters. New York survived 9/11 – towers fell, smoke filled the sky, and people still showed up the next morning. The idea that a single politician could somehow be worse than that is absurd. Cities don’t die because of policy – they evolve, they adapt, they outlast.
The same is true of the world. Markets correct, currencies wobble, empires rise and fall – yet life continues. The pendulum always swings back, even if it spends time at the extremes.
We’ve survived world wars, depressions, pandemics, and everything in between – and somehow people still think a headline signals the apocalypse.
Maybe it’s just human nature to confuse change with collapse. But history keeps whispering the same truth: things endure.
Hey @CharlesSchwab - I need to speak with someone from Schwab Private Wealth Services this week. Please reach out via email, the mobile app message center, phone, or X DM.
Here’s why this is urgent: At least 6 of your ETF funds (around 7 million $TSLA shares) voted against Tesla’s board, and my 240,000+ Tesla investor followers are asking why Schwab would oppose one of the most successful corporate boards in history. Many of my followers are Schwab clients holding more shares than me (45,000 or more).
As a custodian of ETF shares, your fiduciary duty is to vote in shareholders’ best interests. For a board that has delivered extraordinary returns, voting against their recommendations doesn’t align with retail investors, Tesla employees, or the leadership we invested to support.
If Schwab’s proxy voting policies don’t reflect shareholder interests, my followers and I will move our collective tens of millions in $TSLA shares (or possibly hundreds of millions) to a broker that does, via account transfer as soon as this week. I’m not making empty threats - I am ready to move my shares now. The Tesla investor community is engaged and ready to act as well.
If you’re a foreigner in America, you have *no right* to our jobs or our homes. You are a guest. You’re free to go to Disney World, but we don’t have benefits or energy for anyone but our own. It's not racist, and we're not apologizing for it. Americans First.
I really dont care anymore. The fact that 40 million Americans are on Snap benefits blows my mind.
We have a huge fraud problem in America.
Generational benefits should not be a thing.
The whole system needs to be revamped.
Every major U.S. war was funded by printing money, not taxes. 💣
@LawrenceLepard argues that if the US ran on Bitcoin, it would eliminate this loophole, making wars financially impossible without citizen consent.
This is the most radical use case for BTC you'll hear.
It’s almost 11pm on a Friday night right before he embarks on a 24 hour flight to Asia to make peace deals, trade deals, and economic deals.
There is nobody else who has the energy or drive like President Trump.
We had a trip to DC planned and we still went. Was there the last 4 days. Was hard to get tickets for the Washington Monument. Closed. All museums we had planned to go to are closed. Also library of congress and U.S. archives closed. We’re in Kitty Hawk, NC now. Wrights Brothers Memorial and museum was a planned visit. Closed.
Amongst all the NOISE around Bitcoin's price...
Bitcoin hashrate just reached all-time highs.
Hashrate = how much ENERGY the Bitcoin network is harnessing. This is the true indicator of Bitcoin's growth and power.
Hashrate just crossed 1.25 zettahashes/second, aka, the Bitcoin network is now doing 1.2 SEXTILLION calculations PER SECOND.
Do you understand the power of Bitcoin?????????
1.25 sextillion seconds is 39.6 trillion years. That's 2,870x longer than the existence of the entire universe.
Bitcoin calculates 2,870x the length of the universe EVERY SECOND.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. That means Bitcoin calculates 248 MILLION times the length of the universe every day.
Don't forget... Bitcoin's hashrate is going up exponentially!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile, some lame-o's in the market have their panties in a wad because Bitcoin went down by 10% last week.
Yeah, and Bitcoin is still up 147,218,726,000% all-time. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
ZOOM OUT.
As @elonmusk said, YOU CAN'T FAKE ENERGY.
Bitcoin is explicitly showing you that it is the most powerful network of energy in human history, and growing EXPONENTIALLY stronger.
That network protects and secures the ONLY digital, verifiably finite asset in the known universe.
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY EARTH IS DEDICATING UNIVERSAL-LIFETIMES WORTH OF ENERGY TO BITCOIN.
(Before the "but actually" police come in, yes, of course, calculations per second (a rate of computation) and seconds (a unit of time) aren't necessarily relatable, so it's not actually "universal-lifetimes" worth of energy, but the point remains.)
AND, that network is completely DECENTRALIZED. No politician, no central banker, no member of the ruling elite can ever change or bend the rules to their will. The entire Bitcoin protocol was designed to be transparent, predictable, and incorruptible.
There has never been a harnessing-of-energy around a thing that everyone uses -- money -- greater than what you are witnessing with Bitcoin.
And you think it's not gonna replace the Dollar, a system that is perpetually LOSING energy????? GTFOH.
Learn what proof-of-work is.
Learn why and how proof-of-work = energetic truth.
Learn why a money based on energetic truth was always going to be the final, ultimate monetary solution.
Learn why that money is Bitcoin.
Then you will understand why Bitcoin has done what it has done, and why it is just getting started.
STUDY BITCOIN.
@Micro2Macr0@mikealfred He's great. I listen to him as religiously as I listen to you. You're very different yet you both bring tremendous value. I love the different perspectives.