Caleb Swayze

Building Franchise locations in the SE

[Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ @FreightAlley]

The story of TVA is fascinating and largely underappreciated.

Before TVA, only 3% of the Tennessee Valley had access to electricity. It was one of the poorest regions in the country (TN, NC, GA, and Alabama)

But the Federal government funded so much infrastructure build-out that it created excess electricity that far exceeded demand.

But that isn't the most important legacy: The TVA generated so much electricity that it enabled the United States to conduct the Manhattan Project largely in secret.

Without the TVA, we might not have developed nuclear power (or the bomb), and world history may have turned out very different.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

If Tennessee was really the worst state to live in people wouldn’t be moving there in large numbers, which they are.

Typical nonsense.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:

“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

[Alien Milian (Al) @alienmilian]

Question for Freight X, which analyst do you trust more? @FreightAlley or @thefreightnerd

[Noah Pollak @NoahPollak]

One of Trump's greatest legacies will be how he blew up a half-century of western diffidence, restraint, and failure on terrorism. As the era of Islamic terrorism began in the 1970s, western countries (very much including Israel) spun up all kinds of pseudo-sophisticated theories and excuses to avoid carrying out the only successful policy, which is killing terrorists -- as many as you can, whenever you can.

There are entire university departments, think tanks, media outlets, NGOs, foundations, and political parties devoted to promoting self-defeating, enervating fictions about terrorism designed to tie the hands of the West. We just have to live with it, deal with it, accommodate it, accept the barbarism. Terrorists have grievances. It's partly our fault, after all, because reasons. There are no military solutions. If we're nice to the terrorists they will actually help us stabilize the region. The tropes go on forever and they are invented by people who want the west to lose, and who would rather be wrong but appear sophisticated than be right and appear crude.

Trump wants our side to win. The winning approach to terrorism is very simple. Bomb them to smithereens. Kill them off. Decapitate the regimes. Sanction them until they have no more money for jihad. Trump gets it, because unlike so many people in politics, he doesn't care whether Harvard likes him.

Winning is going to generate a real peace dividend for America. Finally dealing with Iran -- the head of the snake -- will enable the US to step away from the Middle East. It will send a message to our adversaries that the big dog is still in charge. And very enjoyably, it will sweep aside decades of dumb elite groupthink about how we have no alternative but to cut deals with terrorists. Thank you President Trump.

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Watching progressives melt down as women are
liberated is sight to behold…

[Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha]

Oh please, Gavin. Tennessee is a beacon of freedom and opportunity. California is the place of high taxes, the most expensive living, sanctuary for illegal immigrant criminals, and the template for American decline.

Just ask @innoutburger, @Oracle, and the tens of thousands of former Californians who now call the Volunteer State home.

[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

Finally dropped! After all the wait the jail thing is live. Diamond hands paying off fr.
@cashstackneda @YoDiggity94 @malwarerelics

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[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

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[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

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[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

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[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

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[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

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[Cons @CaptainCons]

"Now everyone uses therapy words to escape accountability. Everything is toxic, everything is trauma. Nothing is ever their fault."

this could describe the entire last 15 years

[JOSH DUNLAP @JDunlap1974]

Mike Rowe: “We’ve been telling kids for 15 years to learn to code.”

“Well, AI is coming for the coders.”

“It’s not coming for the welders, the plumbers, the steamfitters, the pipefitters, the HVAC, or the electricians.”

“In Aspen, I sat and listened to Larry Fink say we need 500,000 electricians in the next couple of years—not hyperbole.”

“The BlueForge Alliance, who oversees our maritime industrial base—that’s 15,000 individual companies who are collectively charged with building and delivering nuclear-powered subs to the Navy … calls and says, we’re having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can you help?”

“I said, I don’t know, man … how many do you need? He says, 140,000.”

“These are our submarines. Things go hypersonic, a little sideways with China, Taiwan, our aircraft carriers are no longer the point of the spear. They’re vulnerable.”

“Our submarines matter, and these guys have a pinch point because they can’t find welders and electricians to get them built.”

“The automotive industry needs 80,000 collision repair and technicians.”

“Energy, I don’t even know what the number is, I hear 300,000, I hear 500,000.”

“There is a clear and present freakout going on right now. I’ve heard from six governors in the last six months. I’ve heard from the heads of major companies.”

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

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[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

The U.S. Energy Secretary just obliterated Net Zero ideology in 60 seconds.

Oil, gas, and coal power EVERYTHING including green energy.

This is what adults sound like.

Liberals are not ready for this conversation.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

can't believe that episode of "The Office" when Jim Halpert choreographed this entire Venezuela situation

[Chris Hoffmann @STLChrisH]

It's normal for service contractors to charge a "billable hour rate" between $300 - $800 per hour, depending on a number of variables...

Here's how “billable hour efficiency” works for contractors like Nathan.

Attorney: Sits in office, and is able to seamlessly move from one matter to the next, billing nearly 100% of their time to their customers in a given day.

HVAC technician: Spends roughly 30% of their time each day driving to calls. Another 40% doing non-repair work - I.e. diagnosing, communicating with customer, getting approval of selected option.

And then ends up billing for 30% of their total paid time in a given day.

We call this “wrench time.”

The result? The HVAC pro has to bill an hourly rate that covers all direct costs, overhead and profit in 2.4 hours (30% of an 8 hour day).

And that’s why HVAC companies often have billable hour rates for their “wrench time” that are greater than your attorney’s rate.

Does this make sense?

[Caleb Swayze @CalebSwayze]

@shawngorham Doing this in Charleston SC. With the proper crew, very profitable. Leads are golden nuggets and many sophisticated investors are catching on. You’re right.
I’ve been in homes with sewage overflows and owners are still unpacking boxes. Unfortunate.