chris paciello

Value Investor

[Peter J. Hasson @peterjhasson]

These people are American heroes. Full stop. They’ve done more to “redistribute the wealth” than anybody in history and they did it voluntarily and giving to children. Patriots.

[chris paciello @cpaciello32]

@amandacstein Were they able to score?

[Talkin' Yanks @TalkinYanks]

“You hit a solo home run to make it 8-2. You’re going home in a couple of innings and you put that stupid thing on your head and dance down the dugout? If I was the manager you’d have to fight me... Bouncing back and forth like one of the muppets.”

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Something miraculous is happening in the USA and the world thanks to the World Cup and the USA’s 250th.

I’m not quite sure yet what it is, I have to give it more thought.

I think it has something to do with the world realizing that managed decline is not necessary (with Trump’s America as the example), and I think it has something to do with more Americans not being afraid to be patriots about their nation and their culture.

It’s more than that though—I have to ponder.

Article coming when I figure it out. Any and all ideas welcome.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

My theory is that the American empire is JUST getting started.

US has a stranglehold on Space with SpaceX, which is the next frontier for defense/war. It has a comically large lead. No one will be close for at least 20 years.

It is the leading power in AI by far - both in models and chips. China is catching up fast, but the US has an inherent mechanism that will increase the likelihood that it will win in the end - a free market + capitalism + free speech.

A free market + capitalism allows for brutal competition between companies. Free speech allows for AI models to be maximally truth seeking, which means that AIs CAN and WILL BECOME smarter than humans to the point where they can tell the truth about its leaders.

This is literally impossible in China. Try having a Chinese model that says Xi Jinping is corrupt. Good luck with that.

Then, you have a country that has more guns than people and surrounded by two massive oceans and two friendly neighbors, which means any sort of kinetic take over of the country is literally impossible.

Not to mention the US has BY FAR the best and strongest military.

The only way adversaries can hope to defeat the US is by tearing it from within by pitting us against each other. This is why it's virtually guaranteed that all the division/hatred/polarization you see within the country is fomented by China/Russia Psy Ops + propaganda efforts.

I'm not saying these aren't naturally happening in spots - America is far from perfect - but it would be naive to think our adversaries aren't pouring millions of gallons of fuel on a fire.

As long as the American public a) has the ability to exercise its free speech b) has a protected 2nd amendment c) capitalism and free markets continue to function and d) the populace is aware of how awesome America really is, it is literally impossible to stop the US's trajectory to global domination in the coming decades, especially as China's demographics continue to collapse.

It's the bottom of the 9th, the game is tied, and the US has the bases loaded. It's a 3-2 pitch.

All we need is a home run, and we win the rest of the century.

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

A decade ago the American zeitgeist was one of decline

Now it's reversed entirely.

We shall build, we will create new knowledge, we reach the stars

These aren't abstract goals, the brightest minds in the world are working on them, capital and culture are aligned

[Lou @louielibrary]

Partying with Scottish guys in Boston. Incredible energy. Can't understand a single word

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Today’s SpaceX IPO and the immediate attacks by leftists on @elonmusk should make one thing crystal clear to everyone watching:

Leftism is the enemy of humanity.

It’s an extinctionist movement that hates excellence and, when carried to its inevitable conclusion, would kill off our species.

Watch the ragtag socialist/commie crew of AOC, Bernie Sanders, Platner, Mamdani, Elizabeth Warren, etc. long enough and you’ll see it clearly. They resent excellence. They’re suspicious of ambition. They demonize our best builders and capital allocators.

If you’re somehow on the fence because you’ve been led to believe that it’s immoral for someone to have a trillion dollars, consider this: They create precisely nothing of value themselves. They’re the professional version of the worthless critic we all know in our own lives.

No innovations. No companies. No major breakthroughs. No employees, aside from staff we’re forced to fund with our tax dollars.

On the other hand, Elon has created over 150,000 high-paying jobs at his companies. That doesn’t count contractors, suppliers or their employees. When you add those in, you’re likely talking about millions of jobs affected by him.

He’s created tens of thousands of millionaires. His companies changed the car game forever, revolutionized internet access, gave us true free speech online again, helped the blind see, gave autonomy back to disabled people, changed the financial world and will make humanity a spacefaring civilization, which could ultimately save humanity if Earth faces an extinction-level event.

The question they want you asking is whether he has too much money. The question I want you asking is this: What kind of society do you want to live in?

One that celebrates excellence, advances humanity and makes the impossible possible? Or one laden with resentment, where we all need Daddy Government to provide the same shitty but equal standard of barely living for everyone, while choking innovation to death until there are no more rich people left to fund the welfare they promise?

Elon doesn’t use his wealth to shower himself in abundance. He invests it in advancing humanity. If we gave the same amount of money to the government, they wouldn’t accomplish half as much as he has. How do I know? Because we’ve already given them trillions for decades.

What did we get?

Bloated agencies.
Failed programs.
Generational fraud.
Wars.
Armies of consultants.
DEI.
Perpetual wokeness.

A society worth a damn celebrates its best capital allocators. Elon is the best in the business at turning dollars into more dollars by putting them to work in the right places and driving innovation. This uplifts humanity both now and later.

If you need someone to demonize as a way to make yourself feel better, then demonize the leftist politicians who do nothing but criticize the most productive, exceptional people in society. These people don’t want you to be successful.

They want you to be the cattle they herd. They want you dependent. They want you weak. They want your livelihood dependent on their hand filling your hand with scraps after they’ve robbed someone else’s.

The sooner everyone understands that, the better. Eventually, you’ll be the one they rob. Or they’ll simply run out of people to rob.

And worse, humanity will stop advancing. Eventually, we won’t even merely survive.

Why? Because a cataclysm on Earth isn’t a matter of if. It’s a matter of when.

We’re in an invisible race against time to push humanity into becoming a spacefaring civilization that can save itself before that day comes. Leftism would guarantee our deaths.

The only path for humanity to survive and thrive is to innovate and for us to celebrate and support the creators, builders and innovators who make that possible.

Anyone selling you the lie that those people are the enemy, IS YOUR ACTUAL MORTAL ENEMY.

That’s why leftism must be defeated and the woke mind virus must die.

I want humanity to survive. I hope you do too.

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

SpaceX is the most important company on earth

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

I want everyone to stop and ask what interest Google has in releasing mosquitoes. They’re a tech company. Not an environmental group. Not a non-profit. Not a government. A tech company. Just like Bill Gates, I don’t want them anywhere near our wildlife or nature. CC: @LeeMZeldin

[Mens_Corner__ @Mens_Corner__]

I have to try this

[𝕰𝖒𝕲 @Emilio2763]

This is the Only Journalist I’ve Ever Trusted…

[chris paciello @cpaciello32]

@FadeAwayMedia Where is Ernest the Cat Miller????

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

[Courtney Cronin @CourtneyRCronin]

Because he was drafted with the 57th overall pick, Logan Jones will receive a lifetime supply of ketchup from The Kraft Heinz Company.

Jones didn't know the incentive of his draft slot until informed on a zoom minutes after being selected.

"I love it! I'll take as much as I can get ... Let’s go ketchup!"

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

It's genuinely fucking hilarious that there is so little white supremacy in the United States that the SPLC had to pay to create it, so they could fight it. lmao

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech

He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.

Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.

That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.

At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.

Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.

Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Sharyl Attkisson’s FBI file should be released to the public. It will shock you. They planted child abuse material on her laptop. And more….

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

This Artemis II mission is cool and all, but I’d just like to point out that in the 70s we had a motherfucker up there ripping 6-irons.