Levi Waters

Husband, Farmer, Aerospace VP/GM

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

Justice Served.

[Court TV @CourtTV]

A Florida judge has locked up Thomas Stein, sentencing him to life in prison plus 45 years for the murder of 15-year-old Kayla Rincon-Miller. Kayla was shot and killed along a Cape Coral street during an attempted robbery in 2024. Stein's trial featured a massive twist when his co-defendant, Christopher Horne Jr., took the stand to identify him as the shooter. During the emotional sentencing, a crying Stein apologized and begged the judge to hug his mother one last time before being taken away. The judge denied the request and handed down the maximum penalty.

[Nom De Plume @bravoCo104498]

Holy shit this is amazing.

Ro Khanna 10x’d his wealth since he took office 😂😂

Not a single job created. Not a single innovation. Not a single company started.

Just insider trading.

And he calls himself a hero defending the poor against Robber Barons 😂😂😂

This guy is a joke of a human being

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Gavin Newsom is doing the thing corrupt politicians always do when the spotlight finally turns back on them.

He's pretending the investigation is the scandal.

It's not.

The scandal is that this man has spent his entire public life inside the gap between power and accountability, and he STILL acts stunned when somebody decides to take a peek behind the curtain.

Gavin is a product of the California lobby machine, the one that trades names and makes sure their guys win.

His whole business career was bankrolled by the billionaire Getty family. But you'll never hear Gavin rage about Getty money. He saves that for Elon.

This is a man whose entire political career is a pattern: overreach, scandal, fines for "irregular" accounting. Over and over.

He had an affair with his own appointments secretary, who happened to be the wife of his campaign manager and best friend.

Btw; she got a $10,154 city payout. Supposedly no wrongdoing. Why are taxpayers paying for Gavin's adultery?

He believes he's above the law. That if it's for the "right reasons," the law is made to be broken. That's what every dictator tells himself.

2004, he issued marriage licenses against state law. Courts voided them.

French Laundry, November 2020. He's got the whole state locked in their homes. He went after Elon for keeping Tesla open, told him to comply or get out of California, played hard-ass enforcer on national TV.

Then he drove up to Napa and threw a $400 plate dinner for lobbyists. Like cmon dude, at least pretend to believe the stuff you say on TV.

(oh and btw, multiple businesses he owns got PPP relief during covid. just saying.)

Beyond that, I don't get how anyone thinks this man is a great governor, let alone honest.

Under his nose, $20B in unemployment fraud, $800M of it mailed to people in prison cells. Has spent $24B on homelessness yet no auditor or taxpayer can tell what happened with the money or if anything changed.

The high speed rail is a running joke, $33B to $100B. No one's buying innocent OR competent.

And then there's his wife.

Her nonprofit paid her $1.8M over the years and routed another $2.1M to her OWN production company.

Then the $20M state diaper program, run through a different nonprofit she co-founded, whose co-CEO sits on her board.

Why is his wife the only person suitable for all these deals? That's family dealing, plain and simple, and it's the exact thread federal investigators are pulling on right now. Her finances. Her taxes. Her nonprofits.

So let's add it up, Gavin.

Your best friend resigned over your affair. Your chief of staff just pleaded guilty to federal fraud. You've got two ethics fines in two years and the state's own enforcer calling it a "pattern of repeated violations." Your wife is pulling millions out of nonprofits and landing state contracts. $20B in fraud walked out the door. $24B on homelessness that vanished. A bullet train that's a national punchline.

And your pitch is that the only reason anyone's asking questions is that Trump doesn't like you? And to be clear, some of these investigations started under the Biden Administration.

Come on, dude.

This is the disease with these people. Decades inside the machine, public money in, private benefit out, no consequences, and the second anyone investigates they wrap themselves in democracy and scream persecution.

But Gavin Newsom thinks scrutiny happens BENEATH him.

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

Thanks, Elon.

And thanks to you too, Gavin.

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record.

You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary.

Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

A man who’s been on the public tit for HALF A CENTURY had no room to gaslight.

Ed has created exactly ZERO in his life yet he still thinks he knows best how to spend MAKER’s money. STFU

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. While working people struggle to get by, the billionaire class is becoming the TRILLIONAIRE class. It's disgusting. I'm fighting to tax the rich so we stop rewarding trading stocks over punching clocks.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

👏 👏

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Ro, you’re lying and you know it.

You compared a man’s net worth to a country’s GDP. A balance sheet to a year of output. You went to Yale. You learned the difference between a stock and annual output flow.

But being a politician and lawyer, you love to lie and gaslight the economic illiterates, it’s your entire business model.

You want a 5% tax on Elon to fund free trade school for every American.

Trade school costs $80B/yr, you can’t even fund a year.

Elon doesn’t have $55B in cash. It’s stock. You know this.

To pay, he sells roughly $70B of Tesla and SpaceX shares, and the sale itself gets taxed on top. SpaceX raised $75B at its IPO this morning at a $1.77 trillion valuation.

Imagine him selling that amount every year.

Ro isn’t taxing Elon. He’s taxing everyone who gas exposure to the market. Every pension fund and index fund on the planet gets wrecked. And given Ro, he’ll insider trade and short before the bill passes.

And for what? To rip capital from the best allocator alive and hand it to the most incompetent institution in human history. Elon turned PayPal gains into Tesla and SpaceX: 120,000 jobs, launch costs down 90%, two industries that didn’t exist, a $1.77 trillion company from nothing.

You’ve never built anything. You’ve never employed anyone. You’ve never created a dollar of value in your life. You collect a government salary and demand tribute from men who do what you can’t.

Your machine spends $7 trillion a year and still runs a $1.8 trillion deficit. It loses up to $521 billion a year to fraud. More than your entire tax raises. The Department of Education went from $34 billion in 2000 to $268 billion in 2024. 8x the money. Reading scores at multi-decade lows. Trade schools still unfunded.

You don’t lack money. You lack competence, and you want Elon to subsidize it.

You haven’t donated your wealth. You haven’t moved into government housing. Empty your accounts first, Ro. Then preach.

Elon’s options get taxed as ordinary income at the top rate when exercised. Over $500 billion in lifetime taxes, the largest tax stream from one human ever. You want $55 billion now in a way that craters the shares the $500 billion depends on. Your tax doesn’t raise money. It kills the companies, kills the jobs, kills the pensions, and torches a bigger check already in the mail.

You’re the monkey in the middle, Ro. You can’t build. You can’t allocate. You can’t even count. So you eat from everyone else’s pie and call it fairness.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

Here in lies the problem. They still think massive gov’t is the answer to all our problems. They look right past the fraud, the bloated budgets and the inefficiency of all the bureaucracy.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

This the basic difference.

Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous.

Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It is difficult to imagine an American who has been a greater parasite on the public coffers than @BernieSanders. He has contributed NOTHING to the United States other than decades of cantankerous and sullen envy-fuelled anger at those who create.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

@EndWokeness Look at the energy and focus he puts into listening to these kids. Ever notice him at a press conference when confronted about murders happening constantly across his city? Quite the contrast…

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

NONSENSE.

[Build with Henry @RedWaveCrewHP]

THIS is why folks no longer want to give the job a 2 week notice before quitting

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

@RepJackKimble The sheer volume of brain dead gullibles on this platform is astounding 😂

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

Sad. And this guy is genuinely hurt over the fact that these people do not care about the citizens they represent. However, he shouldn’t be surprised.

[Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 @kevinvdahlgren]

Seattle city Council…

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

This is such a bad take by the president on so many levels. The guy truly is a moron.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

I’ve had the equivalent of major medical since this was passed. Haven’t had a real co-pay plan for over a decade.

Disastrous policy.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.

But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

Should be the norm across the entire country!

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

Starting April 1, Texans will no longer be allowed to use food stamps to buy sweetened beverages and candy.

Tax dollars shouldn't be used to fund unhealthy diets.

https://t.co/0V8vkD9Wvt

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

This is how stupid people like Booker think the voting public are. He believes this nonsense will be bought hook line and sinker.

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

Cory Booker films an interview in New Jersey and a random bystander who just so happens to be carrying around “Cory Booker 2028” merchandise pops in for the cameras.

Lmao.

[Casey DeSantis @CaseyDeSantis]

The exodus to the Free State of Florida continues…

You’re here because Governor DeSantis’ leadership built something worth fleeing to—Please don’t bring what you fled from.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

The typical comments from a Taker, not a Maker.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

BREAKING: Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announces he is leaving Seattle and moving to Miami.

This comes on the SAME DAY Washington state passed a 9.9% “millionaires tax” on incomes over $1 million.

Billionaires would rather run away like cowards than pay their fair share.

[Levi Waters @levi_waters]

Well said. Great overview of how destructive this bill is as well as some personal accountability from her POV (a rarity today).

[Ranee Soundara @naynerz]

What bothers me about this bill, as someone who was born and raised in Seattle and spent half my childhood in Island County, is not just the tax itself. It is the worldview behind it.

Of course we want to support early education, school lunches, and programs that help uplift the most marginalized people in our communities. That is not the issue. The issue is whether the state actually understands who it is targeting, who it is hurting, and whether it can be trusted to distinguish between durable wealth and the fragile economics of people trying to build something.

Washington keeps writing statewide tax policy as if the whole state is Seattle. It is not. This state, Seattle especially, loves to perform its liberalism. It talks constantly about progress, equity, and protecting the vulnerable. But bills like this expose how selective that politics can be. When statewide tax policy is written around a narrow image of wealth, it does not just touch Seattle tech workers. It also reaches family-owned and pass-through businesses across the state, including people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds who built something over time and do not live anything like the caricature of the wealthy.

Across the state, there are family-owned businesses, small operators, and early-stage companies where income is irregular, cyclical, and often tied up in keeping the business alive. In those businesses, the real risk is not the average year. It is the unusual year — the year when several years of work, reinvestment, or one strong season finally shows up as income on paper. That is what this bill misunderstands. It treats that kind of income as excess personal wealth, when in many cases it is the very capital a business needs to survive, hire, grow, and reach the next stage.

That is why this bill is so destructive. It kills family-owned and operated businesses that are already trying to make it. It kills startups before they ever have the chance to become durable. And while the American Dream is often more myth than reality, this bill punishes even the attempt at upward mobility in a system that is already stacked against ordinary people.

As a woman of color founder building a women’s brand, I now find myself researching where I need to move my business in order to give it the best chance of surviving — and where I can eventually build something that rewards the employees who help me get there.

That is the problem with bills like this. Even if today it is 9.9% above $1 million, the moment the mechanism exists, people start asking the obvious next question: when does 9.9 become 10? When does $1 million become $900,000? When do success, marriage, or growth become things the state quietly teaches you to fear?

And I do not absolve myself of responsibility for any of this. I voted for this governor. I contributed to the American Dream Killer, and I 100% regret my vote.