Mark Pratley

Retired Mechanical Engineer. Lifelong investor. Woodworker. Stock analyst.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@InsideOptions_ replicated this. not really seeing any value in it. other conditions and signals are more useful

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

Is it true that judges are not required to be US citizens?
As a US citizen, I think I should only be judged by a person from my country and would go another level saying I would want them to be a natural born citizen too.
Why would it be ok to be judged by someone who isn’t?

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@realDonaldTrump FM

Force multiplier

Is what grok would describe it is

It can do things for me faster than I can do myself

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@TicTocTick Nice sarcastic post!!!😃

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@TheLongInvest Or he did the right thing regardless of the consequences….
What a true leader would do?
Guess it depends on how you look at it.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.

Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.

1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.

2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.

4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.

5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.

6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.

7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@Godfatherparte2 I agree with the point: political Islam is not compatible with Western civilization. The graphic just does it badly. Don’t invent quotes. Use the actual verses in context, plus blasphemy laws, apostasy, and what happens when those norms gain power.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@TriggerTrades Skew up +6 pts today. That’s not a good sign for da bears.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@TicTocTick Not.

He just happened to be president with the Y2K build out.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup.

[Mike Bales™ 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

After seeing this shared across social media for the past several months, my own words continue to hit home with me every single time.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🔥 TRUMP JUST REPOSTED JFK’S MOST TERRIFYING SPEECH — AND THE DEEP STATE IS PANICKING

JFK saw it coming. In 1961. And now, Trump has just made sure 300 million Americans see it, too.

The speech everyone’s talking about: Kennedy’s address to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961. The CIA had just botched the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy was livid. He’d been lied to by his own intelligence apparatus. And he walked onto that stage and said something no president has dared say since.

“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.”

Read that again. Monolithic. Ruthless. Conspiracy.

This wasn’t some fringe radio host. This was the sitting President of the United States, on live television, telling the American people that a shadow network of power — operating through intelligence agencies, media complicity, and institutional capture — was working against the republic itself.

And then he said the quiet part out loud:

“Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”

Sound familiar?

Sixty-five years later, Trump drops this video on Truth Social. No commentary needed. The speech does all the work. And within hours, the same media outlets that spent four years calling Trump a conspiracy theorist are suddenly very quiet.

Here’s what they don’t want you to connect:

- Kennedy was assassinated 2.5 years after this speech

- The Warren Commission was a joke — even the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979 concluded Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy”

- The files are STILL classified

- Trump has been pushing to release them, but the permanent national security state refuses, instead slow-walking the order

The timing isn’t random. This isn’t just history. JFK described a permanent national security state that has only grown more entrenched — one that operates beyond elections, beyond accountability, beyond the reach of voters.

Kennedy called it “a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.”

That machine didn’t disappear when he died. It got even stronger.

Trump reposting this isn’t nostalgia. It’s a signal. The same forces JFK warned about are the same forces that tried to destroy Trump — Russiagate, two impeachments, lawfare, media blackout, assassination attempts. The playbook hasn’t changed. Only the names.

And now the sitting president just reminded the country who the real enemy has always been.

The speech that scared them then is the speech they’re terrified you’ll watch now.

Sharing this because they’re counting on you not to watch it. Don’t let them win. 🎯

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@MMMTwealth @TheLongInvest Your whole post is a lie based on the screen shots you post with it. Think it is better to block you. TLI posts ideas and analysis. I can’t stand his political bs but at least he has content and you can pick to follow or not.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@SpeculatorPL1 @market_sleuth You have no clue about 2000….

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@joao_wedson Your narrative around 2000 is totally wrong. You should study Y2K. There were real earnings and a Cliff event.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@MasterPandaWu From my analysis, rebounds on Friday are about same % as Monday and Tuesday.

[Viktor Bunin 🛡️🇺🇸 @ViktorBunin]

Never in my life did I think I would be a Marco Rubio fan, but this is just so damn good.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@BillMelugin_ @zerohedge How can a nonprofit provide a federal benefit?

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@TheProfInvestor Nope. Won’t regret not investing in China.

[Mark Pratley @pratley_mark]

@TheLongInvest We are clear. We love it.
Some people are still confused about DJT mission. Making US strong again.