a10smann

God ✝️, Family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧, MAGA 🇺🇸, Bitcoin 🍊

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Here's a complete Father's Day gift guide:

1: Nothing

Because gifts are for women and children.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. There's immense power in rejecting that trend. Slow down. Create space to think clearly.

[Naval @naval]

It's the Age of Builders.

(sorry financiers and talkers)

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Fauci funded the Wuhan research. Then he helped steer the intelligence that cleared it.
Gabbard's final act as DNI was to declassify the proof. And it confirms what a CIA whistleblower had already sworn to Congress weeks earlier.
What the documents actually show. 🧵

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The El Segundo Times were very eager to dox where my children sleep; they thought that was newsworthy. Have they reported on the arsonists who set fire to my office in the middle of my election?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

You literally just signed SB 73 before the LA mayoral election. This law prohibits unauthorized access, disruption, modification, or seizure of voter rolls, voter lists, or certified voting technology by law enforcement (including federal agents) without a court order or specific state election law investigation.

You are actively making laws to make it HARDER for there to be election integrity.

Time to take down the California Communist Party

[John M. Cameron @johnrockshomes]

I am a J6er.

Entrapment happened when the doors were opened, and we were let in and given tours while feds in the crowd led the way. Watch video at the 12 sec mark. A black dude is walking against the flow of traffic, saying, "Welcome home, brave men." He was a friend of Ray Epps.

Murder was committed when Michael Byrd shot an unarmed protester, and Lila Morris beat another one to death.

Incitement occurred when the peaceful crowd was fired upon with flashbangs and rubber bullets to the face.

A miscarriage of justice took place when Americans were charged with assault against law enforcement for stopping cops' punches with their face.

Selective prosecution happened when prison sentences were handed down for the same charges $50 tickets were given in the past and afterward.

It was the only Trump rally with no counter protest because ANTIFA disguised themselves as MAGA supporters and initiated the breach.

The double standard and hypocrisy of partisan law occurred when BLM rioters caused over a billion in damages, killed 22, including a cop, and in the end, 95% of the cases were dropped and many got paid.

The cover-up was the sham J6 committee doctoring evidence, then deleting it all.

The Fedsurrection combined all of these and used the riot to stop the reading of election fraud at the Joint Session of Congress.

The Big Lie was and is that it was a free and fair election.

God Bless the J6ers.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Meet Doris, she lives in California and is registered as a 126 year old who has voted in 51 elections and has NO IDEA.

California’s voting system is so corrupt that by simply knocking on the door of the “126 year old” proves election fraud.

EXPOSE IT ALL.

[Jennifer Callahan @jenlynncallahan]

Wildest takeaways from my time at the Ballot Processing Center today.

✍🏻 Signatures only need to be 40% accurate (!) this is the setting the machines are set at for LA County (called the ASV)

🗳️ The last two drops disproportionately supported Raman. Are those coming from specific neighborhoods since they’re such an anomaly? Or are the neighborhoods pretty spread out that you count from on a given day? “We’re not sure.”

💌 If you’re unable to sign, you can make a “mark” like a dot or slash instead of signing. A witness then signs below.

I asked them how they verify these signatures. Turns out, they simply don’t.

Well, you must check the witness signatures, right? “No, we don’t.”

So what if I stole a ballot, made a dash by the person’s name, and signed my name? “You shouldn’t do that, but in theory it would be counted,” they said.

How many of these “marked” ballots get in per election? “We don’t know,” they said.

Ripe for fraud, no?

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The richest people do not just buy assets.

They buy legal environments.

Normal people live inside whatever tax code, labor market, housing market, bureaucracy, and currency regime they were born into.

The wealthy arbitrage jurisdictions.

They choose where income lands, where assets are held, where residence is declared, where risk is minimized, where heirs are protected, where lawsuits are harder, where government takes less, where prestige compounds.

That is real power.

The yacht is the visible part. The real asset is optionality.

Monaco is a sovereign wrapper around elite optionality.

That is why “being realistic” becomes so poisonous.

The average person is trained to optimize inside one box.

Wealthy people optimize across boxes. Different tax systems. Different passports. Different banks. Different asset custodians. Different residences. Different legal protections. Different capital markets. Different risk regimes.

They are not playing harder inside the same game.

They are choosing the game board.

That is the highest-level distinction.

Monaco exposes the hypocrisy of modern states.

Governments claim they can tax, regulate, and redistribute their way into fairness, but capital is mobile. Labor is trapped. The worker is taxed at the payroll level before he can breathe. The billionaire can relocate, restructure, borrow against assets, defer gains, hold through entities, and cross borders. The state squeezes the people who cannot leave.

That is why the middle class gets crushed. It is legible, stationary, and taxable.

The global rich are mobile, advised, and structured.

This is also why Bitcoin matters in the same conversation.

Monaco is geographic exit.

Bitcoin is monetary exit.

Both exist because people with capital do not trust political systems to leave them alone. One gives tax and lifestyle refuge. The other gives bearer monetary refuge. Different form, same impulse: protect value from predatory discretion.

The real truth:

Monaco is not an anomaly. It is the honest version of the world’s wealth structure.

Most places hide the hierarchy behind democratic language. Monaco puts the hierarchy on the coastline.

It shows that once capital reaches a certain level, politics becomes a service provider, not a master. Jurisdiction becomes a menu.

Citizenship becomes one tool among many. Residence becomes strategy.

Tax becomes negotiable through geography. Community becomes optional.

Obligation becomes something for people without exit.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Me trying to figure out how votes get counted in LA

[a10smann @A10smann]

@_The_Prophet__ Wait until this comes to the physical world. When robots start building robots. Exponential acceleration is wild to watch live.

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

For too long, our political class treated efficiency as a substitute for resilience and consumption as a measure of prosperity.

Trade policy, industrial capacity, and national security are inseparable. And to allow foreign dependencies to degrade any one of those domains is to allow them to define America’s future. Under @POTUS’ leadership, we are rebuilding domestic production to restore American sovereignty.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

These Spencer Pratt videos by @dsonoiki are better than 99.9% of political consultant ads. He does it again.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

“I want to give the park back to the families. And I believe Spencer Pratt can do that. That’s what I’m counting on.”
-Norm Langer
Owner of LA’s legendary Langer’s Deli

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Voici ma grille de lecture. Mes prémisses. Tout tient en 5 axiomes.

On a enfumé l'humanité en complexifiant l'humanité.

Sciences humaines, économie, philosophie politique. Des milliers de pages, des thèses, des écoles, des courants, des contre-courants. Pour aboutir à quoi ? À une bouillie où plus personne ne sait ce qui est vrai.

Alors que tout tient en 5 axiomes. Lisibles par un enfant de 12 ans.

Axiome 1 — Tu es propriétaire de toi-même.Ton corps, ton temps, ton esprit, ton travail. Personne d'autre. Tout ce qui contredit ça est une forme d'esclavage, même habillé en "solidarité", "redistribution" ou "intérêt général".

Axiome 2 — Ce que tu produis t'appartient. Si tu es propriétaire de toi-même, tu es propriétaire de ce qui sort de toi. Ton travail, tes idées, ton capital accumulé. La propriété privée n'est pas une convention bourgeoise. C'est l'extension logique de l'axiome 1.

Axiome 3 — Tu n'as pas le droit d'initier la violence. Ni physique, ni par procuration via l'État. Tu peux te défendre. Tu ne peux pas agresser. Une taxe non consentie, une réglementation qui t'empêche de produire, une expropriation "pour le bien commun" : ce sont des violences déguisées en lois.

Axiome 4 — Les échanges libres sont positifs par définition. Si A et B échangent volontairement, c'est que chacun valorise ce qu'il reçoit plus que ce qu'il donne. Sinon ils ne le feraient pas. Tout échange libre crée de la valeur. Tout échange forcé en détruit. Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est une tautologie.

Axiome 5 — L'État de droit existe pour protéger 1, 2, 3, 4. Pas pour les violer.Le rôle légitime du droit : faire respecter les contrats, punir l'agression, protéger la propriété. Point. Tout ce qui dépasse ce périmètre est une dérive. Et toute dérive, historiquement, finit en tyrannie.

C'est tout.

Pas besoin de 800 pages de Piketty. Pas besoin d'un agrégé de socio. Pas besoin de Bourdieu, Habermas, Stiglitz.

Ces 5 axiomes suffisent à analyser n'importe quel discours économique, politique, social.

Le test est simple : quand quelqu'un parle d'économie ou de politique, vérifie si son raisonnement respecte ces 5 prémisses.

S'il dit "il faut redistribuer" → il viole l'axiome 2.
S'il dit "il faut réguler ce marché" → il viole l'axiome 4.

S'il dit "l'État doit décider à ta place pour ton bien" → il viole l'axiome 1.

S'il dit "la propriété est un vol" → il viole tout le socle.

S'il contredit ces axiomes, il est en train de te pisser dans le cerveau.

Peu importe son diplôme. Peu importe sa chaire. Peu importe ses 30 ans de carrière.

Il te ment. Ou il se ment.

L'humanité est simple. Ce sont les parasites intellectuels qui ont intérêt à te faire croire qu'elle est compliquée.

Parce que tant que tu crois que c'est compliqué, tu as besoin d'eux pour te l'expliquer.

Et tant que tu as besoin d'eux, ils existent.

[Blueprintsmb @blueprintsmb22]

Long post but the TLDR is choose your reference points carefully.

I grew up comfortable in Kansas with a father who owned a small business pulling $40k a year. I felt rich until I went to Brown. Then I felt like the poor. There were students that had BMWs parked on different parts of campus so they wouldn't have to walk far to get access to a car.

I needed to make money to pay back my parents for college so I went to Wall Street. After Morgan Stanley, I worked for a single manager hedge fund managing $1.5Bn (alot of money back in the day) in SF that had just received an anchor investment from Yale University.

My boss was making more money than ever and was spending it. He would vacation with Lance Armstrong and Cindy Crawford. He became close with Wes Edens at Fortress. We made investments in Fortress portfolio companies. My boss took board seats on some of these investments. My boss spent alot of time frustrated he was not on the same level as Edens.

My boss was also close with Charles Schwab and we also invested in SCHW. Charles would let my boss and the firm stay at Stock Farm in Montana to host events for our LPs and management of some of our portfolio companies. It was the first time I ever flew private. I met Don Valentine of Sequoia who was an LP in our fund. We ran into Huey Lewis in the men's locker room before playing some golf. It was a world I never knew really existed growing up in Kansas.

We were also investors in Herbalife and would complain to the CEO at the time Michael Johnson (ex Disney) that he was massively overpaid and that the compensation structure of the company needed better alignment for shareholders (based on hitting key KPIs, etc). He would say he impressions mattered in his industry and living in LA was expensive.

When 2008-9 happened, our fund got decimated as we basically were a long only. Heavy exposure to Fortress names with massive leverage was no bueno. My boss had board seats which meant we were restricted. Yale pulled their entire investment. While the world was burning down, my boss in his fancy office in the Transamerica building told me that I was lucky "to not have any money to lose" while the world was burning down lol. I get what he was saying now as we saw clients that had amassed generational wealth in tech or owning boring businesses in Louisiana lose half of their net worth in 12 months. People were scared.

I would move back to NYC and end up working for 3 billionaires at different points during my career as a journeyman buysider. I did well enough at points to have direct contact with some of them. I saw the same dynamic - always someone doing better. Always frustrated. Not that happy.

I stayed in this world just trying to stay alive with some good years and years I got paid nothing when performance was poor. I was fine staying on this never ending hamster wheel until 1) I got married 2) we had a daughter 3) my dad's cancer diagnosis got more grim and I did more self reflection on what game of life I was playing.

Ultimately I left to buy a small business which has been hard. I still have friends on the buyside and in tech that struggle with comparison. But the reference points I was around constantly in my W2 are no longer loud. I wake up early and turn on machines. Most of my team members never graduated high school. My customers are mostly salt of the earth sales people working for small distributors sprinkled with some big publicly traded companies. $4 gas is a huge problem to everybody I interact with during my day - my customers complain daily about it in their daily lives. I sometimes lend money to my team members when they need help. I have to fix problems every day as the business isn't big enough to support hiring a general manager right now. But I'm home for dinner every night. This works better for me and my family.

My life is simple now => bring in business to make sure the 10 team members can feed their families. Last year when tariffs and a big customer shutting down hurt business badly for 3 months, my accountant told me to start firing employees as my competitors were either shutting down or firing 25-33% of their entire staffs. Entire shifts were shut down. I fired no one. It didn't feel right. I just stopped paying myself.

This year things have turned around. Team members are making 25-33% more due to overtime. I have more purpose now as my life is simplified as I'm just focused on making sure my team can eat, we make good product for our customers and the business can continue to pay down debt.

This is a hard path. I wouldn't recommend it for many, but it works better for me at this point in my life. My mental health has never been better. My wife reminds me how big of an asshole I used to be in finance as I was always stressed about my exposure / frustrated I wasn't doing better. What changed? My reference points changed. I no longer live in NYC. I live in this myopic world where I spend my weeks talking to team members, customers and vendors. 4am until 4pm is spent living in this world. 4pm-8pm is spent with my family before I go to bed ahead of a 330am wake up.

I have no doubt if I stayed in finance and was living in the Upper West Side in NYC, I'd still be playing my own version of "why aren't I doing better."

It took having a child and thinking more about my Dad's mortality (he passed this October from cancer) to re-evaluate things. I wish I had been brave/smart enough to consider a pivot earlier in life.

https://t.co/kenM7z2Feh