Chris Bolster

Public & private investor. Former buy-side analyst. Serial entrepreneur. Perpetually curious. Dad to 3 great kids. World traveler.

[🌊 Negative Tendencies (Neg Ten) 🎸 @NegTendencies]

The word is out about the Election Night Watch Party at the White House on Tuesday.

For weeks, Trump had been assured by Susie Wiles and his staff that all the polls were wrong, and that, once again, the Blue Wave would only be a ripple, if one even showed up at all. And the DOJ was ready to pounce on it if it did.

Trump, after all, was on the ballot. "Vote like I'm on the ballot,' he said, "Because I am."

He told every rally that. He said it on FOX. He had a 90% approval rate, he said. And $5000 checks for everybody. What could possibly go wrong?
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So the East Room was decked out with the finest crystal and china. Staffers thought it would be a fun "cheeky rebuke" to order in platters of finger food from Cheesecake Factory. Just to give a finger to Barack Obama, for his viral joke about Trump’s gaudy renovations to the White House.

EVERYONE showed up in their party clothes. His Staff. His Cabinet. Top GOP politicians. Donors.

But there was no Host or Hostess to greet them. Which was a little odd. The guests mingled among themselves, and waited to be formally welcomed and invited to sample the refreshments.

Where were Trump and Melania?
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Trump waited upstairs in his residence, in order to make a grand entrance to a standing ovation with cheers, once the happy results started pouring in.

And was Melania also waiting upstairs, to march in at his side?

Nope.

Melania was not at the White House at all. On election night, the most anticipated night in politics, with the rest of her husband's term on the line, Melania was somewhere else.
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Finally at 8:00 the first election results came in. But during that entire first hour, not ONE Republican was named. It was only Democrat after Democrat, starting with Jon Ossoff.

Trump never came downstairs. At all.

Marco Rubio was the first to go missing, according to the Daily Mail. Then, one by one, the rest of the party goers slipped out the door.

Only two hours later, an enormous decision was called. Democrats had flipped the House of Representatives to their control. And in most cases, the Democrats won, not by slim majorities, but by double digits.

It was 10:00, and the East Room was empty. The party goers had gone to a nearby Washington bar to drown their sorrows. The Cheesecake Factory food lay untouched on the East Room tables.

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And Trump? He was upstairs watching the results on FOX News, and posting angrily on Truth Social.
He wasn't alone. No, Melania wasn't with him. But Natalie Harp was.

The Daily Mail reports that Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff was upstairs as well. The one who had assured him day after day that Republicans would win.

By 11 pm, Trump stopped posting. “He’s watching Fox News barely uttering a word and paralyzed into silence,” a source close to the president told the Daily Mail.

“It’s very, very dark in the residence,” one senior official said of Trump’s mood. “It’s a dark scene.”
Another source said, “They were delusional right until the very end.”
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Commentary by Glee Violette

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

Two of my buys from last December & January ($TWST and $TXG) recently made it into the the top 15 performers of 2026 in the entire US stock market.

It's unbelievable how quickly enthusiasm built around the AI drug development thesis.

[Jose M @JMLV51]

@atrupar What the hell are we doing here?

[Alejandra Gold @alejandragold42]

So disturbing. Natalie is a devout, evangelical Christian. She and her older brother were homeschooled by their mother Jill Harp and her brother stated that they were taught strict American exceptionalism at home. She attended PLNU, a private university in Point Loma, San Diego CA which is a Bible college by the Church of the Nazarene and then attended Liberty University, a conservative private evangelical Christian University in Lynchburg, Virginia. It’s affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention of Virginia and was founded by Jerry Falwell Sr. She’s been groomed for decades. Perfect for Trump’s cult-like persona.

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@patientinvestor Same for me, though I bought in 2021

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@mvcinvesting Yes. It has multiple growth vectors and a motivated, founder-led team.

I've owned it from $6 and added aggressively on dips (the drop to $10 2 yrs ago and to the low 20s this year). It's my largest holding.

Despite its rise, risk/reward is still good given the growth ahead.

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

$LNSR Great year for what was one of my largest small cap positions (now largest).

They have a powerful razor blade business model and significant growth potential as they take share in the existing FLACs market and the much larger manual surgery market. Potentially $ISRG 2.0

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

I wasn't surprised when they ran into trouble a few years back, nor am I now. This company never made sense to me, despite the hype.

SoftBank's WeWork, once most valuable US startup, succumbs to bankruptcy https://t.co/PsEkUv6957 via @YahooFinance

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

A thoughtful piece by Andrew Walker (Yet Another Value Blog)

Weekend thoughts: Underwriting Overconfidence and "None of the experts own it", by @AndrewRangeley https://t.co/XLU1PqHIaK

[De🅿️ressed Warriors Fan 💔 @GoIdenState]

Ty Jerome in the lab 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@StephenKing Bravissimo!

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@saintmaker52 @matthewjdowd Beautiful!

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@JeffMacke @BFFEIN A Night at the Opera is my favorite.

"You canna fool me....there ain't no Sanity Claus!"

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@Culture_Crit Prague Malostranske Namesti

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@LynAldenContact Inability to agree on what is true underlies many problems.

From inv. perspective, a delicate balancing act:
- Reduce debt/GDP
- Avoid sustained high inflation
- Avoid sustained high int. rates that balloon the deficit
- Preserve $ purchasing power as BRICS develop alternatives

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@JimPGillies @JRogrow Would you consider sharing the whole list?

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@RicksCEO Keep up the good work in executing your growth plans, remain shareholder-friendly in how you manage (especially in capital allocation), and the rest will take care of itself!

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@more_2point0 @AdamKinzinger @elonmusk Have your meds adjusted

[Chris Bolster @chrisbolster]

@saintmaker52 Beautiful!