John McGuire

Tech Finance Guy; Family Man; I like distance running!

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

This speech from Zohran Mamdani on America’s 250th changed my politics.

I’ve never seen a more pompous individual whose life has been void of any sacrifice or hard work confidently lecture as if people like him hold the key to human prosperity.

Here’s a guy who had never held a job until he found the angle to satisfy his thirst for attention through politics at age 30, sit behind George Washington’s desk and give us a lecture on what is supposed to be a day of celebration.

Instead of celebrating what this country built, prosperity and human rights that spread across the globe from basically nothing, he turns the moment into a lecture about how America is this flawed project desperately in need of topdown change from useless academics and politicians who’ve never built anything of value for anybody.

As I get older, I have started wrestling with my own ridiculous and undeserved comforts, and the massive sacrifices of generations that made them possible. We should be expressing sheer gratitude for the families who crossed this country in covered wagons chasing a future, for the young men who died in muddy fields and frozen trenches defending it. At some point we let the children forget about this, and it's going to be a tragedy.

Our ancestors didn’t sacrifice so we could sit around demanding more redistribution while building nothing of value ourselves and living in opulence kings couldn't have dreamed of. They built something exceptional through risk, and relentless work.

Watching someone like Mamdani use the 250th as an opportunity to lecture us about what’s wrong with America, it just flips a switch for me. I’m done with the ingratitude.

We need to defend America from those that leech off it's greatness and attempt to redefine it.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Joe Rogan: "Find the clip where Hillary is more MAGA than Trump."

[John McGuire @runjohnca]

Karen Bass?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Los Angeles International Airport railway is now $1 billion over budget and years delayed

The contractor is now SUING the city for blaming them for the delays and claims the delays were actually the city’s fault

Another Newscum failure reeking of corruption

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Fact Check: True

[NizNellie3 @NizNellie3]

🚨 Wanna throw up?

Over 40,000 university professors are here on H-1B visas. Not 400. Not 4,000. Over 40,000.

That's over 40,000 American academics who are out of a job. Roughly 72–73% of those are from India.

Professor Shayoni Mitra of Barnard/Columbia University is one of these so-called "geniuses" from India.

She's a professor of theater. Apparently, no American can handle this job.

After the October 7 massacres by Hamas, she donned a mask and a security vest, then watched as students violently hijacked Hamilton Hall on the campus of Barnard.

Students draped in keffiyehs destroyed the building in support of "Palestine." The graffiti they left behind on the walls revealed "Death to America" and support for Hamas.

They held some of the maintenance workers hostage.

Police were called and arrests were made.

After the event, Profesor Mitra held a pretend graduation ceremony for the jihadist students who were arrested/expelled for rioting.

She's attended multiple anti-Israel protests and publicly supported former students/non-citizens like Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi, who have fomented hatred of America and Israel, rioted on campus, and spread terrorist propaganda.

Our Department of Education is about to hand Columbia university over $1 BILLION in federal funding.

Let me say that again: This campus is about to have over $1 BILLION American tax dollars shoved into their sweaty hands.

@SpeakerJohnson @EDSecMcMahon

[Mike Crispi @MikeCrispi]

Zohran Mamdani said he’d freeze the rent…

NYC Rent just hit an all time high.

Zohran said he’d tax the rich…

The rich simply left (11 billion in tax revenue gone).

Zohran said the transportation would be free…

Subway fares just increased by 20% last week.

Imagine being the IDIOTS who voted for this.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

DSA Co-Chair: We Want To Abolish The Senate

"We don't think that's extreme."

This is now part of the Democrat party 'Big Tent.'

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is shocking

Los Angeles residents came and made their voices heard over a proposed Data Center near LAX Airport

The developer listened to them and decided to pull out saying he understands their concerns and will respect their wishes and pull the project

“After hours of public comment, the community convinced the developer to back out”

The developer “They've made their voice very present here, and my intention isn't to put anybody through any mental or physical harm. And I just want to save everybody the, you know, the rest of the night. We're going to be withdrawing the application”

The developer behind the withdrawn El Segundo data center project was primarily associated with:

Welcome LAX LLC who was the property owner and holding entity. This is a subsidiary or entity tied to Welcome Group, an El Segundo-based hotel investment and development firm. They purchased the Hyatt Place site in 2022 for approximately $49 million

And Eight Form, was the development firm involved in the proposal

This is so crazy to see them actually listen and be respectful

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️ This healthcare admin chart is a photograph of something nobody will name.

America built a welfare state in disguise, and the disguise is what the chart measures.

The purple line grew because the country refuses socialized medicine by name and refuses industrial policy by name, so it runs both through one sector.

Healthcare is where America hides its safety net, its jobs program, and its regional stabilization policy, denominated as private employment so nobody has to vote for any of it.

A German sees the welfare state on his pay stub. An American sees a hospital chargemaster, because the design objective is to not be seen.

Look at what those millions of admin jobs are: mid-skill, credentialed, geographically distributed, cannot be offshored. The same profile as the manufacturing jobs America lost to China in the 2000s, and the same role in the economy. One anchor employer per region, except the new anchor produces paperwork about sickness instead of goods. Healthcare quietly became the top employer in 40 states as the factories left. The strangulation and the safety net are the same object. That is why every reform attempt dies: both parties periodically aim at the waste, discover the waste is payroll in every district, and re-aim at the other party's donors.

The second hidden function is darker. Every rich country rations care openly. A national body says no, this treatment, this queue, this budget. America outsources the no to a diffuse private bureaucracy so denial arrives as administrative failure instead of political decision. The prior-auth maze isthe rationing mechanism. Friction does the job a public "no" would do, at ten times the cost, with responsibility atomized across a million cubicles where nobody ever decides anything. The cruelty is a design requirement. Nobody voted for the death panel, so the country bought a deniable one and staffed it with 3 million people.

Now ask what those 3 million people do all day. Prior authorizations. Claims coding. Denials. Appeals. Eligibility checks. Reading documents, applying rulebooks, generating paperwork. That task profile is precisely what AI language models do, and it is the single largest white-collar automation target in the American economy. Insurers are already deploying it: automated claims review is live, and the lawsuits over algorithmic denials have already been filed. The machine aimed at this chart is not hypothetical. It is in production.

And it deletes something bigger than jobs. It deletes the deniability. An algorithm that says no is a policy that says no. The moment adjudication is automated, denial stops being weather and becomes a decision someone owns, subpoenaable, benchmarkable, litigable. America's entire healthcare settlement rests on nobody owning that decision. Those early lawsuits are the leading edge of a forced confession.

Step back and the collision is between two versions of the same strategy. AI investment now drives over a quarter of US GDP growth: it is the country's current attempt to manufacture prosperity without voting for industrial policy. Healthcare administration was the previous attempt.

The new hidden-policy machine is pointed at the old one.

If it fires, America deletes its disguised welfare state and its disguised rationing system simultaneously, in the top employer of 40 states, with no political vocabulary for what replaces them.

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

Mark Zuckerberg, an outspoken critic of "man-made climate change", shows off his new $300,000,000, 287-foot mega yacht, powered by four gigantic diesel engines.

Yet another stark reminder that Net Zero is only for the peasants

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Defund the grifters who created the SF Doom Loop

[John McGuire @runjohnca]

@SamaHoole In 2026 they sell you ozempic!

[John McGuire @runjohnca]

@aisarcore I grew up in Washington DC and I find the attitude on the part of the judge to be very typical of the lawyering class of people. They think they can manipulate the law to an absurd end with no limit. That “knowing” the law gives the right to abuse others.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

22 years ago, Gavin Newsom launched his "10 Year Plan To Abolish Homelessness".

Today, there will be a parade to celebrate Gavin's big victory, on 6th & San Pedro. Bring the kids!

[STORM NEWS 📰🗞️ @storm1news]

Dan Bongino mentioned this video on his Rumble podcast today. He says this was one of the best videos on X this weekend

Karine Jean - Pierre in 2022, admitting FEMA was giving our money to Illegals then saying they didn't

So you folks know what to do

[John McGuire @runjohnca]

@dogeofficialceo A 10 year old knows to make that pass even to the worst player on the team much less to the worlds best striker! WTF!?

[The Utah Nationalist @UtahNationalist]

"25% of all Mexicans live in the US. 70% rely on welfare. ~10% of Guatemalans live here. 77% are on welfare 12% of Nicaraguans live here. 75% rely on welfare 12% of Haitians live here. 53% rely on welfare"

Muh "based hard-working Hispanic immigrant coming to America for a better life"

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

AOC: "If you're in this country and you aren't black, you benefit from a system of white supremacy."