Austin

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

I dunno man seems like wars are super easy when the objective is to win and not launder a trillion dollars to your friends in the DC-VA-MD area for decades

[Austin @las5h3]

@stoolpresidente No shot Dave. @BradyTkachuk71 coming home so the Blues can break your heart in 3 years

[Austin @las5h3]

@kshaughnessy2 @markjeffrey Maybe $BBBY will go up now 😎

[Austin @las5h3]

@glacierptrading @Adrian_Smith12 @ryancohen @michaeljburry But like….the blockchain alone COULD dwarf anything the retail could ever offer in any capacity…big if I know 😂

[Austin @las5h3]

@kazGoSensGo That’s alright @BradyTkachuk71 can come home to STL where he belongs with his brother 😎

[Austin @las5h3]

@EricLDaugh Can @jhugh86 and @TKACHUKycheese_ do what needs to be done in 3 years or sooner and come to STL…maybe we will eliminate state income tax by then lol this town needs you fellas…oh bring Brady too!

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

[Austin @las5h3]

@SecularJuncture @EastGlacierMT @marcuslemonis has to be licking his chops…I mean if things have really improved in last 12 months why would we go lower? Is something broken? Manipulated? If market is just dragging us down as everything unwinds the time has to be soon to deploy some….

[Kyle Tibbitts @KyleTibbitts]

This is an impressive chart.

[Austin @las5h3]

$BBBY standing firm back in the zone again 👀

[Austin @las5h3]

@marcuslemonis @Rwms86 @410Canes305 @BedBathBeyond We’re at the stock price battle zone time to go on offensive sir

[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

Win $1000 @BedBathBeyond shopping spree. Many given

MUST RT and tell us why

[Austin @las5h3]

@profr33dom @fear_munger @Adrian_Smith12 @CViewer12329009 @tZERO @marcuslemonis This lol

[The Lightbringer @Lightbring33r]

By now I'm pretty convinced that every social media and trading platform is there to eavesdrop, to compile data, and then use it against traders. So TA is getting pretty much useless over time, if all gang up and buy, that is useless, too. The more you like a stock, the more it drops. There more of a community there is about a stock, the more it gets rekt and the company with it.
The only protected stocks are the elite stocks.

Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, Nvidia, Tesla.

I think with $GME and the popularity of online trading, AI has been trained so well that it now just destroys every trader. Using tradingplatforms to do analysis, backfires as well, as data is being stored on a cloud.
Then the same tradingplatform publishes news about certain stocks that 100% of the time invert.
Good news become bad news for the stock.

Then we have Jim Cramer who is known to be the "inverse cramer", who plays the algo very well. But maybe he has insight on these exchanges in which direction a stock is going to go.

@michaeljburry posts about "sell", the market pumps hard there after. he posts that $TSLA is overvalued, the stock pumps there after. Inversing him and his analysis. The algo is ignoring any reasoning. In my opinion, it just makes up the price to steal as much money as possible.

@ryancohen known for his memes, posts something, it has no effect anymore on GME. Automatically inverses and shorts the stock even more.

And the best example that @TheRoaringKitty showed us in his livestream, that the AI is live listening to every word he said. The stock kept dropping on his livestream, while the whole world was watching him, people bought the stock. It didnt move anywhere, but down. The stock had no significant volume either during this live stream.
He says he wants to show his portfolio. The stock halts.
He jokingly says that he is ending the stream. The stock halts.
What is internally happening in the system while a halt?
I've seen the orderbooks moving while a halt, while retail cant position themselves at this time. I've seen GME trading over its current price at that time, but we never saw that price on our tradingapplications.

In my opinion, we have to really think this market mechanism through. Fundamentals you can throw out the window. How is this AI, this computer designed, to steal everyone's money?

For me it looks like that this whole market is designed for a couple elites, perhaps secret societies, who are members of these elite stocks. The market does not trade in a fair way. We saw this with GameStop. Full of loopholes, cheatcodes that we have no access to.

We are playing a game on an enemy's field with their rules. You play by the rules, you lose. You dont play by the rules, you get into trouble. Perhaps the best one can do, is to not participate in a rigged game.
Maybe for that a new playingfield has to be created that has more ethic values, more fairplay, where even the elites have the same outcome as retail. But this will never happen😂

[Austin @las5h3]

@profr33dom @fear_munger @Adrian_Smith12 @CViewer12329009 @tZERO @marcuslemonis My theory is any stock that has easily manipulative narrative can be held down via social media negative feedback loop as Fear mentioned. Pair that with low market cap / liquidity and they can push price where they please. By then holders get tired and sell. Wash, repeat

[Austin @las5h3]

@profr33dom @fear_munger @Adrian_Smith12 @CViewer12329009 @tZERO @marcuslemonis Effectively they can continuously siphon money from any ticker that fits this. With no one blinking any eye and simply attributing it to the “narrative” $BBBY is out of business! They suck!

[Austin @las5h3]

@JeroenMensen @CViewer12329009 @tZERO Whole heartedly agree. I remember Marc saying tZero was sooooo close mid 2024. Here we are.

[Austin @las5h3]

@CViewer12329009 @tZERO What happens if we hit $3.00 a share @marcuslemonis will you authorize share buyback if we get to where cash can buy back virtually all shares? What are we doing with the cash?

[Austin @las5h3]

@CViewer12329009 @tZERO My point was maybe give them one final chance heading into 2026 😂 I ain’t defending this shit show sir

[Austin @las5h3]

@magsonthemoon @ThePPseedsShow @michaeljburry Sooo lemme get this straight… noneother than Burry himself is name dropping Cohodes/OSTK who’s been an RC hater publicly but doesn’t publicly talk $BBBY anymore for some reason yet is allegedly heavily involved today but sued Burry for being long the stock years ago? WHAT