Michael Baker

Investor & Ultrarunner

[Max Schoening @mschoening]

I was born in Germany, I grew up in Spain, I’ve lived in the US for 15 years, and I’ve been a US citizen for about a year.

I never really understood patriotism until I became American.

Usually, when people move to other countries they are expats. A German in Spain for example. When people move to America they become American.

It’s the greatest country on earth and an experiment worth fighting for.

Happy 4th of July. 🎆

[NiCE @NICELtd]

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[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@compliantvc You mean Europe had over a 2,500 year head start. How embarrassing.

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@MrNeverSell OPEN 2.0 Market Maker

[Tesla North America @tesla_na]

“How does it know!?”

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@Mr_Derivatives Meanwhile US stocks earnings growth 🚀 🚀

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@compliantvc 🤣🤦🏻 @IfindRetards please

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

It's not your decision to make, Bernie, whether a price is "unacceptable." That belongs to the people making the purchase, not a government bureaucrat who imagines he knows what a thing ought to cost. If the price is too high, men don't buy it, and Apple lowers it. That is the only authority required: the free judgment of the buyer.

You want to talk greed? Greed is wanting what you did not earn and seizing it by force. Cook offered you a phone you are free to refuse. You offer the public nothing and demand the power to dictate terms to a company you never built, with money you never made.

Apple's "profits" are millions of voluntary choices to trade. Your career is the opposite: taking by law what men would not give you by choice. One of you produced the value. The other just wants the power to command it.

The greed isn't in Cupertino. It's in the Senate seat that confuses a vote with ownership of other people's work.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

If I don’t like Apple’s price hikes, I can take my business elsewhere. I can buy a Samsung phone or a Dell laptop.

On the other hand, if I don’t approve of the taxes Sen. Sanders enacts… I’m screwed. I pay them at gunpoint or I go to prison.

So maybe sit this one out, Bernie.

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@SenSanders

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@NickGibbsIAG Long U.S. / Short Rest of World

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

No fear.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

We tried to tell y'all. 🇺🇸

America is SO back.

[Thought Guardian @ThoughtGuardian]

Channel 9 Announces Plan to Replace News Hosts with Returned ISIS Brides to Counter White Supremacist Karl Stefanovic

[Michael Baker @bakes023]

@BBOreporter @stevenmarkryan Ignore. A bot 🤖

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

It's being widely reported that Australian TV channel 9 has FIRED @karlstefanovic

His "crime"?

Talking to me!

[stevenmarkryan @stevenmarkryan]

Bro took the red pill and I am here for it.

Meet Karl Stefanovic.

Three decades on Australian TV, including nearly 20 years co-hosting Nine’s flagship breakfast show Today (as mainstream media as it gets).

He started unplugging from The Matrix during the SCAMDEMIC.

In 2023 he told viewers on air he was “done” with the vaccine after the push for a fifth booster.

He later went further, openly admitting he “got it wrong” on the jab rollout and expressed regret for his own and the media’s role in the saga.

He recently launched The Karl Stefanovic Show podcast as an independent project, made it clear he wouldn’t be renewing his TV contract with Nine (Today show) when it expires at the end of the year, and finally began speaking his mind.

His guests so far have included “Orange Woman Bad” aka Pauline Hanson, the common sense leader of One Nation (political party) who for decades has been FALSELY attacked and smeared by the media, just like the US media machine did to Trump for his common sense policies and courage.

Another guest on Karl’s new podcast was Pete Evans, to whom Karl publicly apologized for helping smear during the scamdemic.

Then came the latest episode: a candid, hour-long chat with Tommy Robinson. It dropped overnight, was scrubbed from YouTube, Spotify, Apple and Instagram the next morning (not even 24 hours later) then Pauline Hanson (aka “Orange Woman Bad”) instantly re-uploaded the full thing on her channel under the title “CANCELLED.”

Karl’s TV bosses at Nine allegedly called crisis meetings and reportedly reviewed (possibly ending) Karl’s future at the network.

Yes, Karl had a conversation on his new podcast and the mainstream media machine got its panties in SUCH A TWIST that they held a crisis meeting and rumors are now swirling that he has been fired...

...for having a conversation.

...with a guest.

...on his podcast.

Ironically, for a guy pivoting to full-time independent content creation, who is finally speaking his mind without fear, it’s the perfect outcome.

Massive free publicity, instant proof he’s no longer playing by the old rules and has woken up, and a crystal-clear signal to his audience that he’s all-in on unfiltered conversations.

Did Karl Stefanovic just get the ultimate send-off gift from the corrupt media machine as he begins life as an independent content creator?

Karl’s unplugging from The Matrix is almost complete.

Bro took the red pill and I am here for it.

🍿

[One Nation Australia @OneNationAus]

Pauline is right. Starmer was booted out of office due to his plummeting popularity, linked to mass migration and the fact that millions of Brits no longer feel British. Sound familiar? Albo and Starmer are cut from the same cloth. Both believe in mass migration, and both are causing great damage to the countries they have led. No wonder they’re so chummy. Albo was desperate to stand up for Starmer and has been so gushing in his comments.

We can only hope that the Fire the Liar fundraising effort, which has now raised over $4.8 million from the Australian people, is the start of something that leads to Albo’s swift exit from the stage.