MB

Proud husband of my wonderful wife and father of 3 beautiful girls. Kent State grad. Die hard Browns & Buckeyes. Enjoy personal finance, boating, & pickleball.

[MB @mb755]

@TexasChance Go to orange beach

[Rich Eisen @richeisen]

In the inaugural episode of ‘This Was SportsCenter’, Dan Patrick joined the show and told the story of the role he had in the origin of the “This Is SportsCenter” series of commercials… and reveals to us which of his MANY appearances in these commercials was his favorite:

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Here it is without a Shadow of a doubt, The Democrats Are Exposed to their Hypocrisy right here! 👇👇🏻👇 Anyone that takes sides with them now are Not American 1st!

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

This kid had 25 seconds to make 4 baskets for $10,000.00. 🏀🏀🏀🏀

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

In 2–3 years, there will be no way to tell what’s real and what’s not… and I have no idea how humanity will deal with this enormous problem.

[King Arthur Fan @brandilwells]

If you grew up in the 1970s, you probably possess these rare traits.

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Remember Ann Landers? This is good.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I think we can all agree on a few things:

We have $36 trillion of national debt growing at a rapid rate, that must be refinanced and issued at a materially higher interest rate as our bonds come due and as new funds are needed.

We had a $1.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2024.

There is an enormous amount of fraud, waste, and inappropriate spending in our government budget.

It is illegal and/or otherwise should not be permitted for our government to fund activities that it cannot do directly through NGOs and other non-profits.

@elonmusk has a proven ability to takeover dysfunctional organizations and turn them into highly functioning ones while massively reducing wasteful overhead and other spending. See Twitter.

@realDonaldTrump won the election with a mandate for eliminating wasteful government spending and ending regulations that interfere with our country’s progress.

President Trump announced during his campaign that Elon would be appointed to oversee @DOGE. In other words, the American people voted for and signed up for DOGE and Elon as its leader.

We are extremely fortunate to have one of our greatest business leaders and entrepreneurs devote a considerable amount of his limited time for free to help our country.

We are extremely fortunate that some of our most talented young people have signed on to help DOGE succeed.

DOGE is just getting started and has already identified a massive amount of waste and likely fraud, and has begun cutting a material amount of costs.

It is axiomatic that those who are beneficiaries of waste, fraud and unnecessary government spending will be the most threatened by the cuts that DOGE is making in these programs. These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed by DOGE.

The beneficiaries of government waste, fraud and inappropriate spending will protest loudly and state false reasons for why DOGE must be stopped because their careers and livelihoods are threatened and put at risk by DOGE’s success. I have seen this movie many times before, but in the corporate world.

The president has stated clearly that he is overseeing DOGE’s activities and that no important decisions will be made without his consent.

Our legal system will ensure that no laws are broken as DOGE executes on its important mission.

Other efforts over the last many decades to eliminate government waste and fraud have totally failed.

DOGE is our best hope for fixing our fundamentally flawed and highly ineffective bureaucratic system for running our country.

Elon and Trump will face enormous pressure and pushback from those who benefit from the current corrupt system.

All Americans must therefore make their voices heard loud and clear about how much they support DOGE, Elon and our president’s efforts to help our country. We cannot let DOGE fail as our country is rapidly on the path to insolvency.

Let’s not let our country down. Let’s do our part in making sure our Congressmen and Senators know that we are 100% behind the president, Elon and DOGE.

It’s the least we can do.

[Chase Brown @chaseabrown__]

LeBron James narrates Ohio State's national championship Game Trailer:

"Why not us? Why not Ohio? Why not engrave our legacy in gold? We've turned doubt into domination... all for this historical moment... 60 minutes for a lifetime of legacy."

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

.@BillAckman: "I prefer the world under Trump than I do to Kamala. I think the single biggest threat to the United States today is some combination of World War Three. Jake Sullivan said days before October 7th that we're in the quietest period in history in the Middle East. We've had the perception and reality of weakness in the White House.

The autocrats and dictators, the Putins and Kim Jong Uns, and the IRGC step into that kind of breach. I think we've had a bad series of foreign policy decisions, beginning with the awful withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Democratic Party presents itself as the party supporting women's issues. Probably the most damaging event for women around the world in many years is the way we withdrew from Afghanistan and what the implications were for Afghani women and girls.

Philanthropically, we supported airlifting out robotics teams and other young women and young girls from Afghanistan. But we took very few, and the ones that are left, their lives have been horribly harmed, and I think that's an incredible stain on the reputation of the United States.

It may even begin before that when Obama allowed Putin to take Crimea with no implications. So we've had kind of a weak history until Trump, and then we had a period of peace. Then we have the lifting of sanctions on the Iranians. They have $200 billion now, which they've been using to fund their terrorist proxies, and I think all of this has led to a world on fire. I don't see how that changes with Kamala as our president. I don't think she's going to be perceived as a strong president.

I think Putin would actually like to end the war, and I think Trump will give him the opportunity or excuse to do so. There are some great examples of how Trump managed everything from the Taliban to otherwise. People take threats from him pretty seriously. He is unpredictable, and that seems to work for foreign policy.

Trump looks at the world as a series of negotiations. Everything's a deal. I think that's kind of why he likes being president, among other reasons. His whole life was about making deals. I think he's pretty good at making deals, and I think that's how this gets resolved. In the last 24 hours, China has taken more steps, showing that it can easily blockade Taiwan.

So, my point is that it's a very dangerous world. I think this is the single biggest issue threatening the United States and really the globe, and I think Trump is gonna do a better job. He's gonna be perceived as a much stronger leader. He's got a degree of unpredictableness, which I think is unsettling to the Chinese and Russians.

Trump's Middle Eastern policy was vastly superior. He basically shut down Iran's funding by sanctions. The Abraham Accords were the most significant progress we've had in the Middle East in many, many decades, and there were meaningfully more steps to take, and those steps were basically stopped.

So, I start on foreign policy. I think we'll have peace in the Middle East. I think the war in Ukraine will get resolved, and I think that's the most important thing for the world right now."

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

Whoa! Chris Cuomo gets it.

This is wild to watch... The tide is turning.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A number of my good friends and family have been surprised about my decision to support @realDonaldTrump for president. They have been surprised because my political giving history has been mostly to Democrats, my voting registration has typically been Democrat (in NY, you must be registered to the party in order to vote in the primary, and usually the Republican candidate has no chance to win), and many of our philanthropic initiatives have supported issues that are consistent with Democratic priorities.

All of the above said, I have always considered myself to be a centrist and/or moderate, and I have voted for the candidate and supported the issues and policies that I believe are in the best interest of the country. Some have accused me of supporting Trump because doing so will somehow benefit me financially. Fortunately, I do not need any financial benefits as I and my family have well more than we need. I have also committed to give away the substantial majority of my resources at or by the time I am no longer, so I don't consider personal financial benefits in the determination of whom I support for office.

Some have suggested that I am supporting Trump because I am seeking a position in his administration. To be clear, I haven't been offered one and I wouldn't take a job in the administration (I love my job and it is the wrong time in my life to work in an administration). I will, however, do everything else I can to help the president succeed in helping our country and its citizens.

All of the above said, I am an investor who manages funds that own some of the best, principally American, businesses in the world. In a better governed and managed America, these business will do better and increase in value faster. One might therefore argue that being 'long' America is somehow a conflict, so I thought to disclose this potential 'conflict' here.

Some of my friends and family who support @KamalaHarris are ok with my supporting Trump, but don't want me to attempt to convince others to support him. Because I strongly believe that a Trump administration will be better for the country and the world than a Harris administration, I think it is important to share my thinking to the extent it helps others come to the right conclusion.

Three months ago, when I endorsed Trump on the day of the first assassination attempt, I promised to share my thinking about why I came to this conclusion in a future more detailed post. I intend to do so in possibly more than one post, with the first, this one, explaining the actions and policies of the Biden/Harris administration and Democratic Party that were the catalysts for my losing total confidence in the administration and the Party.

To be clear, my decision to vote for Trump is not an endorsement of everything he has done or will do because he is an imperfect man. Unlike a marriage or a business partnership where there are effectively unlimited alternatives, in this election, we have only two viable choices. Of the two, I believe that Trump is by far the superior candidate despite his flaws and mistakes he has made in the past.

As always, I welcome your feedback on how I could be wrong and on how the below actions and policies I outline below might actually have been good for America. I have always believed that the best way to get to the truth is to hear the best arguments on all sides of an issue.

While the 33 actions I describe below are those of the Democratic Party and the Biden/Harris administration, they are also the actions and policies that unfortunately our most aggressive adversaries would likely implement if they wanted to destroy America from within, and had the ability to take control of our leadership.

These are the 33:

(1) open the borders to millions of immigrants who were not screened for their risk to the country, dumping them into communities where the new immigrants overwhelm existing communities and the infrastructure to support the new entrants, at the expense of the historic residents,

(2) introduce economic policies and massively increase spending without regard to their impact on inflation and the consequences for low-income Americans and the increase in our deficit and national debt,

(3) withdraw from Afghanistan, abandoning our local partners and the civilians who worked alongside us in an unprepared, overnight withdrawal that led to American casualties and destroyed the lives of Afghani women and girls for generations, against the strong advice of our military leadership, and thereafter not showing appropriate respect for their loss at a memorial ceremony in their honor,

(4) introduce thousands of new and unnecessary regulations in light of the existing regulatory regime that interfere with our businesses’ ability to compete, restraining the development of desperately needed housing, infrastructure, and energy production with the associated inflationary effects,

(5) modify the bail system so that violent criminals are released without bail,

(6) destroy our street retailers and communities and promote lawlessness by making shoplifting (except above large thresholds) no longer a criminal offense,

(7) limit and/or attempt to limit or ban fracking and LNG so that U.S. energy costs increase substantially and the U.S. loses its energy independence,

(8) promote DEI ideologies that award jobs, awards, and university admissions on the basis of race, sexual identity and gender criteria, and teach our students and citizens that the world can only be understood as an unfair battle between oppressors and the oppressed, where the oppressors are only successful due to structural racism or a rigged system and the oppressed are simply victims of an unfair system and world,

(9) educate our elementary children that gender is fluid, something to be chosen by a child, and promote hormone blockers and gender reassignment surgeries to our youth without regard to the longer-term consequences to their mental and physical health, and allow biological boys and men to compete in girls and women's sports, depriving girls and women of scholarships, awards, and other opportunities that they would have rightly earned otherwise,

(10) encourage and celebrate massive protests and riots that lead to the burning and destruction of local retail and business establishments while at the same time requiring schools to be shuttered because of the risk of Covid-19 spreading during large gatherings,

(11) encourage and celebrate anti-American and anti-Israel protests and flag burning on campuses around the country with no consequences for the protesters who violate laws or university codes and policies,

(12) allow antisemitism to explode with no serious efforts from the administration to quell this hatred,

(13) mandate vaccines that have not been adequately tested nor have their risks been properly considered compared with the potential benefits adjusted for the age and health of the individual, censoring the contrary advice of top scientists around the world,

(14) shut down free speech in media and on social media platforms that is inconsistent with government policies and objectives,

(15) use the U.S., state, and local legal systems to attack and attempt to jail, take off the campaign trail, and/or massively fine candidates for the presidency without regard to the merits or precedential issues of the case,

(16) seek to defund the police and promote anti-police rhetoric causing a loss of confidence in those who are charged with protecting us,

(17) use government funds to subsidize auto companies and internet providers with vastly more expensive, dated and/or lower-quality technology when greatly superior and cheaper alternatives are available from companies that are owned and/or managed by individuals not favored by the current administration,

(18) mandate in legislation and otherwise government solutions to problems when the private sector can do a vastly better, faster, and cheaper job,

(19) seek to ban gas-powered cars and stoves without regard to the economic and practical consequences of doing so,

(20) take no serious actions when 45 American citizens are killed by terrorists and 12 are taken hostage,

(21) hold back armaments and weaponry from our most important ally in the Middle East in the midst of their hostage negotiations, hostages who include American citizens who have now been held for more than one year,

(22) eliminate sanctions on one of our most dangerous enemies enabling them to generate $150 billion+ of cash reserves from oil sales, which they can then use to fund terrorist proxy organizations who attack us and our allies. Exchange five American hostages held by Iran for five Iranians plus $6 billion of cash in the worst hostage negotiation in history setting a disastrous and dangerous precedent,

(23) remove known terrorist organizations from the terrorist list so we can provide aid to their people, and allow them to shoot rockets at U.S. assets and military bases with little if any military response from us,

(24) lie to the American people about the cognitive health of the president and accuse those who provide video evidence of his decline of sharing doctored videos and being right wing conspirators,

(25) do nothing about the deteriorating health of our citizens driven by the food industrial complex, the fraudulent USDA food pyramid, and the inclusion of ingredients in our food that are banned by other countries around the world which are more protective of their citizens,

(26) do nothing about the proliferation of new vaccines that are not properly analyzed for their risk versus the potential benefit for healthy children who are mandated to receive them,

(27) do nothing about the continued exemption from liability for the pharma industry that has led to a proliferation of mandatory vaccines for children without considering the potential cumulative effects of the now mandated 72-shot regime,

(28) convince our minority youth that they are victims of a rigged system and that the American dream is not available to them,

(29) fail to provide adequate Secret Service protection for alternative presidential candidates,

(30) litigate to prevent alternative candidates from getting on the ballot, and take other anti-competitive steps including threatening political consultants who wish to work for alternative candidates for the presidency, and limit the potential media access for other candidates by threatening the networks' future access to the administration and access to 'scoops' if they platform an alternative candidate,

(31) select the Democratic nominee for president in a backroom process by undisclosed party leaders without allowing Americans to choose between candidates in an open primary,

(32) choose an inferior candidate for the presidency when other much more qualified candidates are available and interested to serve,

(33) litigate to make it illegal for states to require proof of citizenship, voter ID, and/or residence in order to vote at a time when many Americans have lost confidence in the accuracy and trustworthiness of our voting system.

I welcome your thoughts.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is exactly what is happening

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reagan was awesome

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I am one of many who have been extraordinarily misled by the media on @realDonaldTrump. The reporter below outlines a number of important such examples of media manipulation in a four-minute segment that I strongly encourage you to watch.

These examples are often the ones that are brought to my attention by friends and family who say: ‘How can you support Trump when he said ….’

When I explain that his excerpted words were presented out of context and give an example like the ‘very fine people’ quote and show them the source video, they are stunned when they realize for the first time that they have been manipulated by the media about Trump for nearly a decade.

In a world with increasing demands on our time and an infinite amount of media and social media, very few people go to the source to check facts. As a result, the opportunity for media manipulation has become much greater.

Ironically, I was accused by the same friends and family of manipulation when I shared videos of @POTUS Biden which demonstrated his cognitive decline. I was scolded for sharing ‘right wing propaganda.’

Ask yourself why @KamalaHarris has given only one taped interview with Walz by her side and is relying on the media to present her candidacy, while Trump is doing long-form podcasts, live interviews with hostile media and interviewers, and speaking without a teleprompter.

Ask yourself why Trump wants three debates on diverse networks and Kamala has offered to do only one on a friendly network with carefully negotiated rules.

You can only draw one conclusion:

Trump wants you to know who he is and what he stands for, and Kamala wants to keep herself a secret until the election is over.

I strongly encourage you to vote accordingly.

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

England fans in Frankfurt today.

This is quality… 👏🤣

[MB @mb755]

@ClintFiore I bought the car but made them pay for gas, maintenance, and insurance. Also had to have a job. Worked great with 3 girls. All learned about life expenses early.

[🟧🟫⬜️Red Leg⬜️🟫🟧 @RedLegGI]

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[Eric in Royalton @TheLand1796]

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