Buckhead Head

if you want to have cities you’ve got to build roads

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I will die for my country of Buckhead, Atlanta GA

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@BowTiedBroke 674ft

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@destroyjoanly Leave a copy of your transcript in the Jaliscos window booth and your application will be reviewed when we return from Summerfest

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@OCMGolf Assessment inbound to the Lamar household #fuck

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Buckhead Head’s Favorite Bars in no particular order:

-Piano Bar (Washington, DC)

-Yesterday’s Bar & Grille (Clifton, NJ)

-Mr. C’s (Atlanta)

-Pete’s Out In the Cold (New Orleans)

-No Name Pub (Big Pine Key, FL)

-The Ugly Dog (Cashiers, NC)

-The Palms (Lexington, VA)

[Big Rob @bigrobbbbbbbb]

Big Rob’s Favorite Bars in no particular order

-The Velvet Elvis (Milledgeville, Ga)

-Cutters Pub (Athens, GA)

-Huge Ass Beers (New Orleans, LA)

-Bubba Garcia’s (St Simons Island, GA)

-Summits Wayside Tavern (Cumming, GA)

Excited to think of more that I missed

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@MKaminskiMusic top 8th, Mario for Yoshida, Hungry like the Wolf for Duran, Ghost Busters for Gasper… all three 4-3 ground outs. Great work my sweet prince

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@BWLH_ Bröthér I fear I’m falling for the engagement bait here but I don’t think u know what ur talking about

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@TrigpullGOAT “Metro atlanta”

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said.

I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her.

Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it.

"Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record.

I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at.

My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building.

Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment.

I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate.

I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic.

When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change.

I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that.

My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say.

They want me to apologize.

I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Coal in Old School RuneScape has, in theory, outperformed cryptocurrency Ethereum this year https://t.co/X6Q6NwyMfv

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@DadInvest From Chastain Park to Mr Cs, Buckhead will be free

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I will die for my country of Buckhead, Atlanta GA

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It’s unfortunate that objectively the best way to take a phone call is on speaker phone while pacing around the room. Jackass move to do it in public, but I’m doing it in private 100% of the time.

[yarn enjoyer 🇵🇸 @Purlnelope]

It’s not illegal to tell a cop that you’ve fucked his wife, that’s case law

[liens of new york @liensofnewyork]

This is Atlas shrugged for people who couldn't get through 1,000 pages

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Loyd to all his ex’s on International Women’s Day #IWD

[Hoops Crave @HoopsCrave]

Kanye West on wishing Kim the best:

"I can't wish her the best because she would end up with me"

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Just sent a starship troopers meme to the work teams gc. Happy Monday coworkers.

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@ThatGuyRocked do Luke Schenscher

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Every four years I am reinvigorated by national pride to cheer against Canada in every single Winter Olympics event

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We’re going to war with Iran?

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Asa father of 3 this tweet has radicalized me beyond belief. I still have time for banal pursuits. I must continue to procreate.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet