Cole

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

+The guest: “I’m a socialist”

-Caleb: What Socialism are you in favor for?

+ Ummm I believe…

-Take a system that you are in favor of, that you would rather be our system.

+”I just don't want it to be Capitalism”

- Take a system that has been proven to work anywhere in any country that is better than our system.

- “Unfortunately, imperialism is hurting those socialist countries.”

These people are genuinely ignorant and stupid. They just repeat the talking points that they have been given!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The communist frames everything as victim vs oppressor, and they've cast tenants as victims, and housing providers as oppressors. Tenants can steal your property or trash it, costing the landlord hundreds of thousands of dollars, but commie government blocks them from recouping the costs, so apartments fall into disrepair and they'll just leave units empty instead of taking further risk by renting them out to unscrupulous tenants, which creates a phantom housing supply shortage.

I know it's tempting to demonize landlords when it's hard to pay your rent, but this idea that they're just greedy scoundrels is insane. Government is making it impossible to provide housing. Rent freezes sound nice, but like all other commie "solutions" there are downstream consequences to the "free stuff" promises, and it puts society in a death spiral.

The problem is...for every 1 landlord, there's 30-100 tenants. So as far as voting blocs go, landlords are hopelessly outnumbered, they will always lose out, and their needs get crushed. Everyone loses.

Months ago, I wrote about the phantom housing crisis that these insane policies has created. https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Whenever I vowed to arrest bad guys, the pushback was always "you can't do that! There's no room in the jails!"

Communists close the jails, then they can use the "not enough jails" excuse to never enforce the law, as your city erodes.

See their little commie magic trick?

This is how you sneakily eliminate the laws that hold society together...you don't need legislature, you don't need to erase the laws, you just render them moot by making it practically impossible to ever enforce.

[Cole @coletmallory]

@mathlonning Terrible stock. Been in it since 2023. One of my biggest regrets is not getting out at the highs..

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

44% of rent stabilized units in NYC are occupied by people born outside of the US…

American-born citizens are subsidizing the foreign-born to live in our financial capital, while driving up prices of the remaining supply.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

David Friedberg warns: Private property is ending in America.

Governor JB Pritzker just signed a new 0.2% Digital Asset Tax into Illinois’ budget. It hits crypto transactions, transfers, and custody services starting 2027.

This isn’t just about crypto.

Friedberg says it’s the latest sign that private property rights are under direct assault in America. You pay income taxes, buy an asset with after-tax dollars, and now the government claims the right to take a recurring cut every year based on its spending needs.

The Founders created a clear distinction between America and the monarchies, socialist states, and totalitarian regimes where a small elite controls everything. Friedberg argues we’re now on the brink of abandoning that protection.

@friedberg "If the government can say, everything that you've already paid your income tax on and then you've bought it and you now own, the government can take a piece of it every year based on the vote and the budgetary needs of an irresponsible fiscal legislature.
We've lost it all. And that's where we are.

Anytime the government can take your private property after you've paid your taxes, bought something and put it in your garage, we are done for."

This started with the ‘billionaire tax,’ then moved to crypto, and it won’t stop there. It always expands.

Where do we draw the line on property rights?

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

It’s a very simple concept, really.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor.
The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers.

Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward.

Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos.

As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.”

Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress.

Time to choose your side.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Elon is good at managing money.

Government is bad at managing money.

Why would we take Elon’s earned wealth and give it to government to squander?

Exactly how does that make sense?

[Cole @coletmallory]

@Sandeman52 Try California. There’s no heat to worry about, just perfect dry weather every day.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.

The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.

And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.

Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

[Cole @coletmallory]

@JonahLupton @ParadisLabs Jonah, for someone who doesn’t have the time to consistently update the portfolio, do you think it’s worth it to buy into some of the hyped smaller cap stocks like $ONDS, $ASTS, $APLD, $RKLB, $AMPG, $OUST, or would you recommend holding maybe 1 solid pick in each hot sector.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

It’s disappointing that right as the biggest ipo happens in American history, rather than celebrate the achievement, we have to deal with a bunch of socialist politicians scheming about how they can steal his wealth.

I’m no fanboy of Elon Musk, but you don’t get to rob someone, even through the euphemism of taxes, just because you don’t like them. This vindictive and jealous attitude towards wealth creation would be the downfall of our country.

And if we really want to punish something in society it should be Kalshi and Polymarket. They turn every aspect of life into a degenerate casino. These companies are much more of a problem in society than anything Elons companies are doing.

[Joseph Carlson @joecarlsonshow]

I think we should tax Elon, steal all his money, so the government can use it to invest in meaningful projects like space exploration, AI, Solar, and EV's.

[Cole @coletmallory]

@JonahLupton @dnw_stock Did you hear Nikesh’s interview ($PANW) with the All-In Pod? He mentioned the same thing. Software infrastructure companies will always be here.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Nobody can explain how mass migration from the third world has benefited the west. Even the advocates of these policies cannot explain its benefits. That's because there is no benefit and they know it. Death, dysfunction, and horrors beyond comprehension. That's all it brings us

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

The state of California

[Cole @coletmallory]

@KyleReedTrader @mathlonning Traffic sucks for sure, but if you live by the office or work remote it’s not terrible. I lean right (especially coming from LA and seeing that decline), but as long as my state is red and I don’t have to pay ridiculous taxes, I don’t really mind if the people/city are blue.

[Cole @coletmallory]

@mathlonning I think you’d love Austin. I’m also from CA and it’s a good mix of TX & CA. Cooler vibe there, better restaurants, more character in the buildings (not as cookie cutter), and much more to do outside. Some hikes & beautiful scenery, where Dallas has none. Look up Barton Springs.