The Redskindian

from Redskindia

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The last time America fought a war with the goal of unconditional surrender of an objectively evil enemy was 1945.

Ever since we have never--not once, not even Gulf War I--fought a war with the goal of achieving total victory.

Until Donald Trump and Iran.

Americans used to understand that if you were going to fight, you fight to win.

But think about that year--1945.

That means that the only living Americans with a recollection of fighting to win are close to or over 100 years of age.

Victory is not understood by most Americans.

Couple that with our risk-averse, feminized, coddled contemporary society and it's easy to understand why soft men like this abhor victory over objective evil and the costs associated with it, and would rather tear down their own country and undermine the men and women fighting on his behalf.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

It’s not 1% a year for 5 years.

It’s a one time 5% tax on all assets and it will kill entrepreneurship in California.

Here is an example:

John Doe starts a company. He takes a nominal salary - say $150k for this example - and the rest in equity in the company. Let’s say he owns 20%. He raises VC capital in 2026 from someone that invests $100M into the company and values the company at $6B. This means his 20% is “worth” $1.2B.

I put it in quotes because he can’t actually sell. He has a paper value that putatively says he’s a billionaire. But he actually lives on $150k because that is what his income is. Just because someone decides to make a bet on the business does not mean some bank account in your name magically gets created with $1.2B in it.

Under the proposed tax, however, John Doe would now owe $60M in cash to California in 2027.

How will he pay it?

Is there some buyer you know of, that the rest of the market doesn’t, that will do a deal at the max value when there is a distressed seller like John Doe who needs money he doesn’t have to pay taxes on value he also doesn’t have!

Now imagine that after the tax is assessed, in early 2027, the company takes a write down to $200M. Now his share is $40M. But he still owes $60M. Again, there are no buyers for his shares per se.

He still only makes $150k/yr.

What is this person supposed to do? He now has a “worth” of $40M but owes California $60M.

Should he declare bankruptcy now because he tried to start a business but was retarded enough to do it in California?

So did you really get the billionaires??

No. Because the mega billionaires have already left or are tax structured to minimize the tax or will fight it.

You will, however, drag a bunch of young, energetic folks who want to make things and hire people into bankruptcy court.

Awesome work, Ro. You should be proud.

[BlackApple @BlackApple]

List of major companies fleeing California, taking well over $1.3 trillion of revenue with them. Great job Newsom!

• AECOM
• Align Technology, Inc.
• Amazing Magnets, LLC
• Amgen Inc.
• Anduril
• Anheuser-Busch
• Bed Bath & Beyond
• Blaze Pizza
• Blue Diamond
• CBRE Group, Inc.
• Charles Schwab Corp.
• Chevron
• Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
• Dropbox
• FICO
• First Foundation Inc.
• Forever 21
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
• HomeLight
• In-N-Out Burger
• Leprino Foods
• Lucas Oil
• McAfee
• McKesson Corporation
• Neutrogena (Johnson & Johnson)
• Oracle
• Pabst Brewing Company
• Palantir Technologies
• Realtor dot com
• Ruiz Foods
• Sendoso
• Skillz
• Snowflake
• SpaceX
• Symantec
• Tesla
• Unical Aviation, Inc.
• Valero
• Viavi Solutions Inc.
• X (formerly Twitter)
• ZP Better Together Unical Aviation

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@stephenasmith @ChicagoBears

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@MySportsUpdate Holding...?

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@p_maverick_b @StubHub Same issue at Nats park!

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

Having the same issue with @StubHub on customer support now doing their best...

[Chatterbox Sports @CBoxSports]

If you’re stuck outside the stadium because your MLB Ballpark app isn’t working, you’re not alone.

The MLB Ballpark app is down leaving fans all over the country unable to get in to stadiums.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Update on DOD’s cloud services

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

poor Shedeur from Australia joined Twitter in 2011, waited 6 years before asking Gordon Ramsay to rate his kangaroo meatball sub, never tweeted again, and suddenly finds himself embroiled in massive international controversy over a college player sliding a few rounds in a draft

[NFL Hate Memes @NFLHateMemes]

How Shedeur Sanders was pulling up to those pre draft meetings

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@adeziner1984 @RepMeuser @HouseSmallBiz Apple was also Government funded early on fwiw: https://t.co/WRdiorfgQS

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@adeziner1984 @RepMeuser @HouseSmallBiz Now do Boeing, QualComm, iRobot, Intel, Ford, General Motors, Amazon, SpaceX, and Tesla, etc. etc.

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@BarstoolBigCat Drown it out with U-S-A, U-S-A 🇺🇸

[The Redskindian @redskindian]

@elonmusk @DOGE - the Spy Museum is rife with investment ideas. How was this never fielded? #BigBallsMatter

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

"If American democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk."

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

This may be the most e/acc speech of all time... unfathomably based 🥹🇺🇸🚀

"The future is not going to be won by hand wringing about AI safety. It will be won by building." - @JDVance

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Frankly, they need better dirty tricks.

The “everyone is Hitler” attack is sooo tired 😴

[Ryan Fournier @RyanAFournier]

I don’t know who this man is, but he should be commissioned to paint a portrait of President Trump. 🙏🏼