RickD

🇺🇸 Living the American Dream well above the speed limit. Capitalist, Entrepreneur, Former Investment Analyst. Robots, lots of Robots

[RickD @Duffinator1]

@spl1011 @TriState_Tesla @SawyerMerritt @Tesla I own three Teslas and have an R2 reservation. All three Teslas have the free driving aides and two have FSD. I was also an early Tesla owner and paid for FSD on my early 2018. It got transferred to my 2025 for free

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@nicksortor Knicks win, let the destruction begin!

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@TriState_Tesla @SawyerMerritt @Tesla Yep. Ford and GM have had that tech for a decade.

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@DavidSacks @wholemars Thank you for adding clarity to this very important issues. We can’t/shouldn’t stop the development of AI tools but should be applying guardrails when needed.

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Very sad

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

David Friedberg: California’s Voting System Looks Fraudulent, But It’s Working Exactly as Designed

@friedberg believes California’s extremely loose election laws enable “appointments” not free elections.

Why? The voting data in LA makes no statistical sense.

“ Pratt's post-election mail-in ballots declined by 1/3.

So statistically, the population of people that send in their ballots late reduced for Pratt by 1/3, increased for Nithya Raman by 80%, and Karen Bass 10% less, if you just look at the mail-in ballots before and after election day as a comparison.

I don't know if there's a sociopolitical way that you can assess those statistics and assume that these are individuals casting their individual vote for who they think should be Mayor of LA.

Basically, the concentration of incremental votes that Nithya Raman got came around the Skid Row area in Los Angeles.

But when you look at the basic statistics of what happened in person, mail-in before, mail-in after Election Day, it becomes a real statistical quagmire on how did this sort of a sociopolitical shift happen in such a way that it did?

Now, there was a report published, and they highlighted the 2018 California midterm elections and the challenges that they saw arise in that midterm election because of some of the legislative changes that were made.

First, California Assembly Bill 1921 legalized the practice of unlimited ballot harvesting in the state. What that means is that any individual in the state of California has the right to go and collect ballots from any other individuals, regardless of relationship, fill them out, and send them in.

California, two years later, 18 months later, also passed a law that made it permanent that every person registered in the state of California would get a ballot, so tens of millions of ballots then get mailed out.

Then there was another series of laws that were passed that said anyone can register to vote. You don't need to prove your citizenship. You can use a gym membership card as an example.

So anyone can register to vote. There is no proof of ID when you get a ballot. There is no demonstration that the person who fills out the ballot has anything to do with the individual who's supposed to be voting that ballot, and it is legal for an individual to go out and collect hundreds or thousands of ballots, ship them in, and they will all qualify in these kind of mail-in ballot voting processes.

So there's nothing illegal or fraudulent going on. In fact, the system is operating exactly as intended.

It has been set up and structured in a way that with the right construct, you can get an individual appointed, not elected, but appointed to a particular role in government under a, quote, ‘free election’ in California.”

[RickD @Duffinator1]

I don’t think Ro is that smart but the rest of Brad’s comment is accurate.

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

You are smarter than this Ro. Imagine if Bernie had taxed @elonmusk 100% on his PayPal capital gains. We would have no @Tesla or @SpaceX - none of those jobs or GDP. Who do you think allocated the capital better for society? He will already pay $100 B + in taxes - more than any human ever. I hope he donates some to kids via @TrumpAccounts to make every kid a shareholder in 🇺🇸 & continues investing all his heart, soul & money for the benefit of America & all humanity! 🇺🇸🚀🤍

[RickD @Duffinator1]

@ClayTravis Yes they are

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Stupidest post on X today

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.

The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.

We need a wealth tax.

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@teslayoda None. Looking forward to the SpaceX/Tesla merger

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@TiffanyFong She’s not that smart

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@SullyCNBC I’ll raise you one and go 11:02 am PDT

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@wholemars Gimme sum 🚀

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@TiffanyFong Big order but probably won’t get much. Not buying in the secondary market until the dust settles this Fall.

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@EndWokeness I thought she was going away? Not soon enough I can see.

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@WallStreetApes I watched this live. It was before the verdict was read.

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Clear thinking on this.

[Deon Joseph @ofcrdeonjoseph]

I’m going to wrap this Karmelo Anthony case up in just a few words.

No. You cannot stab someone in the heart for pushing you.

Race was not a factor. Poor choices were.

Good talk.

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@wholemars We’re ready 💣

[@jason @Jason]

The highest-ranking openly gay cabinet member was selected by [checks notes]... President Trump!

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@Mr_Derivatives Maybe somebody fat fingered a trade…like 2010