Edward Louis Schmitz

Podcaster @ Vida nos Trilhos, electronic engineer, technology and personal development enthusiast, blogger, inline skating freak, Husband and Dad.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

É estarrecedor, mas também revelador, como Alexandre de Moraes pode permanecer no STF e continuar julgando e prendendo pessoas depois que todos vimos as provas de que Vorcaro/BM pagou à empresa de sua família pelo menos R$ 80 milhões. Tudo isso sob um contrato obsceno de R$ 129 milhões que sua esposa negociou e enviou diretamente a Vorcaro, e o casal então comprou dezenas de milhões em novos imóveis.

O tratamento extremamente favorável do STF em relação ao BM começou quando Dias Toffoli — cuja família também recebeu enormes quantias de dinheiro de pessoas ligadas ao banco — viajou em um jato particular para uma partida de futebol no Peru com o advogado petista @augustodeAB, que representava diretores da instituição. Poucos dias depois, Toffoli ordenou que todo o processo do Banco Master fosse mantido em sigilo absoluto.

Você não encontrará um advogado respeitável que diga que R$ 129 milhões é uma quantia razoável ou compreensível para qualquer profissional, mesmo o mais renomado, quanto mais para uma advogada comum como Viviane de Moraes. Além de seu papel como esposa do ministro, ninguém consegue explicar o que poderia justificar essa riqueza geracional transferida ao casal por esse banqueiro bilionário, corrupto e ladrão.

E esqueceu-se, embora não devesse, que a Globo noticiou que Vorcaro conversou com Alexandre de Moraes no dia de sua prisão sobre uma operação, e que Xandão também se encontrou com ele nas festas.

Não há escândalo judicial pior em nenhum lugar do mundo, pelo menos na última década. Mesmo assim, ele permanece impassível, com o mesmo imenso poder sobre o país e a vida das pessoas, como se nada disso tivesse acontecido.

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@ducavendish Merecido!

[Roberto Motta @rmotta2]

A SpaceX, de Elon Musk, abriu o capital. Mais de 4.400 funcionários se tornaram milionários. Cerca de 400 deles têm mais de US$ 100 milhões em ações.

A SpaceX deu opções de compra e participações a todos os funcionários, incluindo soldadores, técnicos, baristas, serventes e outros trabalhadores. Reportagens citam garçons, cozinheiros e operários que se tornaram milionários.

Juan Hernandez é um imigrante mexicano que começou como soldador em 2015. Ele nem sabia o que era a SpaceX. Ele ganhou um pacote de ações inicial de 10 mil dólares e comprou mais ações via desconto em folha. Suas ações hoje valem 880 mil dólares.

Trevor Hise entrou em 2011 como engenheiro de lançamento, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações que hoje valem US$ 13,5 milhões. Ele tem 37 anos e está semiaposentado.

Essas histórias foram contadas pelo New York Times e Wall Street Journal.

Essa é uma história de criação e distribuição de riqueza totalmente incompreensível para a esquerda.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

Quando vejo notícias assim, sempre acho que tenho pouco TSLA.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Tesla is secretly building a @robotaxi charging empire!

Arizona just got hit with pre-permits for 2 massive dedicated V4 Supercharger sites, not open to the public.

Chandler alone? 56 stalls.

This isn’t for your Model Y. This is Tesla quietly building the backbone for the Robotaxi fleet.

They’re not playing small.

They’re preparing for thousands of autonomous cars that never stop running.

The Robotaxi era is loading… and the chargers are already going up

@elonmusk, @roadtoautonomy

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@RicardoRoveran 30

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@RomeuZema 🚀🚀🚀 awesome!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@roxmo VOO, SCHG, SCHD.

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@MarioNawfal Here is Grok answer. 💪🏻 @elonmusk @MarioNawfal

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@MarioNawfal Same for me. Crazy.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did, knowing full well that the legacy media, far-left propagandists and those who are actually guilty would:

1. Admit nothing
2. Deny everything
3. Make counter-accusations against me

I knew that I would be smeared relentlessly, despite never having attended his parties or been on his “Lolita Express” plane or set foot on his creepy island or done anything wrong at all.

Nonetheless, the extreme pain of being accused of being the opposite of who I am was worth it.

The strong must protect those cannot protect themselves, especially vulnerable children. I will gladly accept any amount of future pain to do more to protect kids and give them a chance to grow up and have happy lives.

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@ducavendish Mind blowing. Já testou? Eu vou testar via AWS inicialmente.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

A Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minnesota shot a second person dead yesterday. Most of the debate since then has focused, understandably, on whether the ICE agent acted in what he perceived to be self-defense.

Whatever the case, it’s clear that, by encouraging people to interfere in law enforcement operations, the Left is getting people killed. Videos show both victims, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, impeding law enforcement operations, which progressive nonprofits, Democrats, and liberal influencers have been encouraging for months.

Good drove her vehicle perpendicular to block traffic while her partner taunted ICE officers. Pretti intervened at least twice, first by waving traffic through on the street and again as an ICE officer sought to subdue another person interfering in the operation, triggering the agent to use pepper spray against him.

In saying this, I am not defending the decisions and behaviors of the ICE officers or anyone else. The killings are a tragedy. And there is a worthwhile debate underway over ICE tactics, separate from the specific behaviors of Good and Pretti.

We don’t know what was in the minds of Good and Pretti specifically, but Democrats, progressives, and anti-ICE activists have for years called ICE and the Trump administration fascist and compared them to the Nazis. On January 19, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called ICE “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Last year, in California, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation to block ICE from hiding its identities. The Los Angeles mayor called them a “reign of terror.” And a few days ago, the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota urged citizens to “put your body on the line” to block ICE protests.

Walz and other Democrats have blocked state and local law enforcement from working with ICE, which has contributed to increasingly risky behavior by anti-ICE activists like Good and Pretti, and thus growing danger to everyone involved. There were no Minneapolis police visible in the videos of the Good and Pretti deaths.

And many of America’s largest progressive cities and states are all openly defiant of federal law, declaring themselves “sanctuaries” that protect illegal migrants from the federal government.

California, New York, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and others are “sanctuary states”. At the same time, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, San Diego, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Madison, Milwaukee, Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Newark, Jersey City, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chapel Hill, Durham, Asheville, Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Reno, are “sanctuary cities.”

The underlying problem is that for decades, schools, Hollywood, and the media have made clear that we should risk and even sacrifice our own lives to stop fascism and Nazism. And yet neither ICE raids nor Trump are fascist, and it is offensive to compare them to the Nazis.

The Nazis rounded up Jewish citizens and shipped them to death camps. ICE, by contrast, is detaining foreigners who the government believes committed criminal offenses beyond coming to the US illegally. No nation in the world has allowed more people to enter illegally. Nor has any treated them with greater due process than the US is doing.

The American people elected Trump president, like it or not, and the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause in Article VI establishes that federal law prevails over conflicting state or local laws. It ensures the Constitution, federal statutes, and treaties are the “supreme Law of the Land,” binding state courts and governments. The ICE raids may be bad politics, but there is no question that they are constitutional.

While some Democrats and progressives know their language is hyperbolic, half of the individuals surveyed told pollsters last year that Trump is a fascist. Such radical beliefs appear to have partly motivated two assassination attempts against Trump and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

While the radical Left has for decades called its political opponents fascists, these views were until recently marginal views, even within the Democratic Party. Moreover, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, and Hillary Clinton all spoke out against illegal migration until 2016. So what changed? Why did so many Americans come to view a democratically elected president and law enforcement operations as equivalent to fascism? What radicalized the Left?

Part of the answer is bad information. Many progressives believe ICE is simply sweeping up hard-working and law-abiding immigrants, and do not know that 64 percent of immigrants detained since Trump took office in January 2025 had criminal convictions or pending charges, in addition to having broken the law by entering and working in the country without a visa.

For some, labeling Trump as a fascist was simply a political tactic and not something they believed. But many others believe it, as the polling data shows.

Many people, both liberals and conservatives, believe progressives like Good and Pretti are acting out of empathy and sympathy for migrants. But if they are, it is purely ideologically driven, not from any real-world understanding of migrant communities. Few of the white progressives protesting ICE have ever spoken more than a few words to much less gotten to know illegal immigrants, even those who work for them as cleaners, cooks, and gardeners, much less come to understand their lives...

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[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@ducavendish Por isso prefiro TSLA. 😉

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@cb_doge @elonmusk 👀

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@silvano_trotta @HustleBitch_ Exactly

[Edward Louis Schmitz @edward_schmitz]

@JoaquinTeixeira 🤭

[Dama de Ferro @DamaDeFerroTV]

Amizade linda, concorda @SecRubio ?