Mason Sexton

Cultural observationist. Investor. Builder.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Listen to the moment New York City became on top of the world

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

This Knicks team was so deserving of a championship. Played the game the right way. Unselfish. Team first mentality. Led by an absolute gamer in Jalen Brunson. They’ve been a true joy to watch and a team the city can be proud of. #nbachamps

[Sean Fennessey @SeanFennessey]

Tell me more about how he’s not dirty.

[Fred Katz @FredKatz]

This is the textbook definition of a landing spot flagrant. Brunson was called for a less egregious one earlier in the season. Wembanyama avoids it. If he had been called for one, he would have incurred an automatic suspension for Game 6 (if necessary).

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

Best. Tip in. Ever.

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

Babylon Bee for the win

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

@ShamsCharania Would he have been assessed a retroactive flagrant had Jalen Brunson been injured on the play? And if not, then is the league saying you can body slam people and injure them whenever you want? Farcical.

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

Truth

[Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1]

NYC is absolutely electric right now.

Perfect weather. Knicks in the Finals. Hyrox going on. Interns. Summer Friday. Every bar is buzzing. Everyone is outside.

I honestly can’t remember the city having more energy than it does today

[Bad Sports Refs @BadSportsRefs]

“Call a foul on KAT”
“But we just did”
“I know…another one”

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

LFG!

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

Never been on a cruise. No interest.

[Nick Hutchins @nicholasrhutch]

I’ll never understand cruises. Best case, you are a hostage in a mid-tier resort and get to pop off at a Señor Frog’s. Worst case, millions are asking for your ship to be bombed to smithereens to prevent you from returning.

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

Epic vid.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Spencer Pratt’s LA mayor ads are incredible.

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

A lot of truth here 😅

[SweetMarie @Oceanbreeze473]

Being an adult is basically figuring out what to cook with ground beef and chicken for the rest of your life.

[Austin Justice @AustinJustice]

"Blue cities are radical hellscapes that can't fix crime."

Counterpoint: Baltimore.

Baltimore had 334 murders in 2022. Last year it had 133, the lowest since 1977.

The turning point was that voters defenestrated a Soros-backed prosecutor Marilyn Mosby who averaged 333 homicides a year across eight years and declined to use mandatory minimum sentences. (She was later convicted of mortgage fraud, so there's that too.)

Her replacement, Ivan Bates, ran on the Democratic ticket with a simple message: repeat violent offenders belong in prison.

Maryland law already allowed five years with no parole for convicted felons caught carrying a gun, but Mosby never used it. Bates used it a lot. In just two years, his office sent more than 2K repeat violent offenders to prison, double his predecessor's TOTAL.

The city paired that with a precision intervention program that identified the small number of people driving most of the violence, which led to 631 arrests (94% haven't reoffended).

Police also seized 2,480 firearms last year alone, including hundreds of ghost guns, while maintaining a 64% homicide clearance rate. When shooters know they'll get caught and actually prosecuted, behavior changes.

Sandtown-Winchester, once the most violent neighborhoods in the city, just went a year without a killing!

Carjackings (-51%) and robberies (-24%) are also down.

Baltimore didn't change demographics, or its culture, its rules, or much of anything else in those years. It simply voted in a new Democratic prosecutor, who decided the city needed to finally put violent criminals in prison.

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

@Noahpinion Pretty sure guns can shoot drones out of the sky there big guy 😅

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

At some point the politicians will have to cut entitlements. And that will be a rude awakening to the populace.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 66% of all U.S. government spending now goes to welfare.

That’s right! 2/3 of every tax dollar is being funneled into welfare programs.

Americans are getting absolutely scammed

This isn’t sustainable, and the ballooning National debt is the result.

Source: @merlinscapital

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

@nypost 2029???? 😂. This is satire right?

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

That is the goal. Then they have full control.

[Alex Witkoff @Alex_Witkoff]

New York City real estate is being taxed to death. Transfer taxes. Mansion tax. Sky-high annual property taxes. Now another pied-à-terre tax on second homes over $5 million.

This isn’t about fairness, it’s about covering up reckless spending and a growing deficit. You cannot tax your way out of financial mismanagement.

Here’s what happens next: buyers pause, investment dries up, prices fall, development stalls, jobs disappear, and the tax base shrinks even more.

You don’t save a city by driving out capital. You destroy it…But perhaps that’s their goal?

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

@ewarren To suggest such a thing without rooting out the rampant fraud that currently exists in state/local governments is an insult to anyone with a functioning brain.

[Mason Sexton @MasonSpeed]

I do wish the people that forced an unnecessary vaccine on the population could be held accountable. Was obviously corrupt from the start. Once they stopped talking about “natural immunity” as a legitimate defense, which initially they did, you knew the “fix” was in.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The vaccine dosage was obviously too high and done too many times.

I had the original Wuhan virus before there was any vaccine and it was much like any other cold/flu. Bad, but not terrible.

But my second vaccine shot almost sent me to the hospital. Felt like I was dying.