Chad Petherick

Follower of Jesus. Investor. Hockey fanatic.

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@valknowsball Nahh you haven't studied Steve's entire tenure as a GM. Go look up Drouin and Marty St. Louis trades. He'll sit on this if he has to. Larkins contract length and AAV is more leverage to Yzerman than what Larkin has with the NMC.

[World Hockey Report @worldhockeyrpt]

I get why Larkin wants out but his play in March was a major reason Detroit fell off.

- 11 games from Feb 28-April 7 without an even strength goal.

- 9 games from March 2-April 4 without an even strength point.

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@blashdril @LucasMFRaymond There's precedence for him not being bullied. See Marty St. Louis and Drouin in Tampa.

[🏴‍☠️ @calvinfroedge]

It's amazing how a redneck UFC fighter is literally smarter than everybody in Trump's administration

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@nps621 All the Trump stans have completely flipped on what they used to believe.

[Eric Brakey 🌲🦔 @EricBrakey]

The Roman Senate had its Cato — and the U.S. House has its Thomas Massie.

When I ran for Congress six years ago, I asked @MassieforKY for his opinion on another Congressman (and good man) who had decided to vote for impeachment of Donald Trump.

Thomas told me, with a sigh, "He caught the TDS."

To us both, it seemed clear that, whatever Trump's actual faults, the impeachment was another manifestation of Russiagate — a deep state operation designed to box in @realDonaldTrump's decision-making on war and peace in Eastern Europe.

He had sincere disagreements with Donald Trump (as he does with every President), but it was never personal.

When he opposes the President on any matter, it is always for a principled purpose — and generally (always) a matter of liberty and the Constitution.

Unlike most in Congress today, Massie's principles and compass are not oriented around support or opposition for any man occupying the White House. Rather, he seeks to preserve and restore whatever tattered remnant remains of the American republic.

That's why Thomas Massie can oppose the President on spending and still stand as one of his lone defenders against Russiagate.

This is, frankly, what I have always respected about Thomas Massie's exercise of virtue.

He is one of the very few practicing national politics today with a proven ability to walk the narrow path of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice.

In the Roman Senate, there was Cato the Younger — the Thomas Massie of his day (and the archetype of Roman stoicism).

Cato was the one man always ready to stand up for the republican order as the country fell to competing brands of populist imperialism.

To this day, the death of Cato is regarded as the symbolic death of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire.

It is not hyperbole to suggest that today's primary in Kentucky may be similarly regarded by historians as the rebirth or demise of the American republic.

1. If Thomas Massie wins today, the people will have won a defiant victory against the warfare class. Thomas Massie will transform from a niche libertarian folk hero into one that can define an American generation.

He could be President (if he wanted it) and finally restore Thomas Jefferson's vision to this country.

(NOTE: Thomas Massie has no ambition for this. I once asked him to consider it and he seemed so offended by the question I felt ashamed for asking him.)

2. But take Thomas Massie away and put a fork in it.

Call the American republic dead.

Tear down the statues to our founders and replace them with effigies of the new Caesars.

Instead of the humble wisdom of the original republican — Thomas Jefferson — we can look to the golden visage of Donald Trump, the last "republican," who made it official:

"We are all imperialists now."

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For the sake of our republic, I pray for a Massie victory.

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@llbuythat @MarioNawfal Fair but you'd expect those numbers to tick up as they realize the younger generations have more control + boomers start to die off.

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@w_terrence The American experiment is over.

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@beinlibertarian Why not just call it the Massie Party?

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@AP4Liberty Lol this guy @AP4Liberty claims to be a libertarian. Just another MAGA shill who abandoned his values for views and clicks. Austin is just closet MAGA pretending to be libertarian.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

So it was another Boomer win.

The young people were energized by Massie. He won them in a romp.

The GOP no longer pays attention to the future of this country. They ignore their interests.

The Boomer class and their self entitled interests win again

H/t @TheLaurenChen

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

We deserve everything that's coming.

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@PeterMcCormack Spot on.

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

Honestly, Trump’s party purge makes it so much easier to vote in November. In the past I felt like it was my civic duty to review every candidate regardless of party. Now I can safely assume that any GOP candidate is Trumpy as hell and just vote straight against that.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie declared:

“I came here to make sure our Republic doesn’t die by unanimous consent in an empty chamber.”

History will remember him for it.

But Washington is no longer salvageable.

The Republic has fallen to foreign influence and corporate power.

[Justinian @justinian1800]

Some are calling $PCT's NJ approval "only conditional." Here's why that misses the point entirely.

Yes — NJDEP issued a one-year conditional approval rather than permanent. Here's what that actually means:

The hard part is done. NJDEP already made the legal determination that PureFive® dissolution recycling qualifies as post-consumer recycled content under NJ law. That determination doesn't expire. The "conditional" part is administrative verification — documenting feedstock sources, processing data, and end-use applications. Things PCT already has.

Why conditional and not permanent? Because PCT is the FIRST dissolution recycler ever approved under NJ law. NJDEP is setting national precedent. They want 12 months of commercial data in the formal record before making it permanent — standard regulatory practice for novel technology. FDA does the same thing. EPA does the same thing.

The conditions are things PCT already does. They sourced 10.5M lbs of waste PP from New Jersey alone in 2025 — more than any other state. The documentation trail exists today.

For brand owners facing the January 2027 food-contact mandate — conditional approval is legally sufficient RIGHT NOW to count PureFive toward NJ compliance. They don't need permanent. They need qualified supply before their deadline. PCT just became that supplier.

The conditional period actually gives PCT TWO catalysts — yesterday's approval moved the stock. The permanent approval announcement in early 2027 moves it again.

NJDEP set the national template. California, Washington, and the EU are watching.

The thesis isn't challenged. It just got its first official government validation.

$PCT 🧵

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

@private_dataguy @turtlespeed2020

[Chad Petherick @Chackwick]

Can anyone in the $PCT community that understands the nuance better chime in on this? My understanding is that most companies are currently buying ISCC credits representing recycled feedstock at some point in the supply chain even though the final physical product is virgin and using mass balance certification to claim PCR. With these practices under scrutiny and today's announcement from NJDEP, doesn't this materially change things? NJ drew a line in the sand that paper credits and chemical recycling mass balance claims no longer count? I am not fully up to speed on how this works in practice so someone please correct me if I'm wrong! @Mike_Taylor1972 @private_dataguy @Seawolfcap

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.

It migrated inward.

Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.

That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.

So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.

The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.

The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.

The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.

That is the trade.

A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.

This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.

The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.

It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.

The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.