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one day at a time

[M @metratweets]

@zerohedge @grok explain this to me like im a kid

[Baseball @mlbelites_]

This is the best interview you will ever hear

[Michael A. Gayed, CFA @leadlagreport]

The reverse carry trade has begun.

Japan will fucking panic.

🇯🇵🐦‍🔥

[M @metratweets]

@andyantiles_ @grok explain the section 8 thing

[M @metratweets]

#AmericaFirst

[M @metratweets]

Don’t go to war with Iran, @realDonaldTrump. Nobody who voted for you wants this, and honestly I don’t think any American—red or blue—wants U.S. soldiers fighting in a war that isn’t ours. The only people who benefit from war are the ones pulling the strings.

[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.

[M @metratweets]

Move to China then and tell us how you like it

[Minga @KillaMinga]

We don’t have anything cool in America… just guns and racism

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Left is the party of murder

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

This could be the lowest moment in MSM history.

[M @metratweets]

Cédula al piso

[The Hollywood Handle @HollywoodHandle]

Pixar’s ‘CARS’ released 19 years ago today.

[The Money Cruncher, CPA @money_cruncher]

The IRS hasn't updated some items for inflation in years:

- $3k capital loss limit (1978). It'd be $15,248 now.
- $3k dependent care credit (1976). It'd be $17,140 now.
- $25k/$32k social security income tax brackets (1984). They'd be $77k/$99k now.

[M @metratweets]

@NFL apologize to @LilTunechi

[M @metratweets]

What if they just ban Tik tok and y'all just continue living your lives without being short clip crackheads

[M @metratweets]

@Gentilenewsnet @KeithWoodsYT i've been following you for a while and you got some serious introspection to do buddy, it aint normal the level of racism and hate that you publish every single day...go take a walk or something

[M @metratweets]

I wish McDonald's employees were more efficient to fix the icecream machine as they are finding a CEO's assassin

[Agustín Romo @agustinromm]

Obvio que Trump va a ganar Florida, un Estado lleno de latinos que se escaparon del comunismo para vivir en el capitalismo no van a votar a la izquierda nunca más. Ellos saben mejor que nadie lo que hace el socialismo.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A must read on the American people.

[M @metratweets]

that's hot pocket