Billy Ray Valantine

CIO, Duke & Duke Commodities

Strong opinions, weakly held

Viva La Libertad Carajo!!

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Don’t worry.

Not everyone is suffering.

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@LWinthorpe Turned into a global monetary freebasing trade

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This is what the older generations should try and do more often

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A dog failed his service dog exam, and was later seen at a train station carrying the reason why.

People at the station couldn’t stop staring when the dog walked onto the train with a stuffed elephant held proudly in his mouth.

At first, everyone thought it was part of his training.
But his owner started laughing and explained the truth.

The dog had been training to become a service dog, but during one of his final tests, he kept getting distracted by an elephant plushie nearby. Instead of staying focused, he tried to steal it like it was the only thing in the room that mattered.

That was the moment he failed.

But his owner said he couldn’t be mad. The dog had tried his best, and even if he wasn’t meant to be a service dog, he was still loyal, gentle, and full of love.

So before they left, he bought him the elephant toy.

That night, the dog didn’t pass the exam, but he still went home with the person who chose him anyway.

[Mr Wizard @The_Mr_Wizard]

@elonmusk AI man down 🤣

@ 2:12 mins my guy gets sucked under and never reappears.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Spencer Pratt hits it out of the park.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

Here's a highlight reel of Lee Zeldin making Stupid people in Congress look stupid.

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@johnkonrad If EVER there was a clear cut use case for AI it 💯 its for legislative drafting.

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@CinemaTweets1 And one for which he was never originally cast for. Supposed to have been Sly

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@FDSportsbook @spida2Ybanana Make him throw lefty and I'll take the pitches

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@DavidBCollum Perhaps you meant the Dow Jones? S&P started in 1957

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

New Jersey Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia LOSES IT on Democrats passing illegal immigration laws

“For the love of God and all that is good. Can you differentiate between the fact that we don't make laws that control the federal government? My God, what are we doing here? I'm not a lawyer. I was an English teacher and I comprehend that my fifth grade middle school English students would understand it.

I am coming to you not from a point of ideology because I know in the minority party, we already lost that argument. You guys are way, way out in the ether with that. I'm not even hoping to win the ideology. I'm hoping to win the logical argument to say, why do we keep passing laws that are gonna end up in court? We lose and the taxpayer gets shafted over and over and over.

You cannot vote yes for a law that controls local, county, state, and federal. No, Federal has gotta come off for this to count, but the only reason why you're passing it is to affect federal agents — Don't a room full of lawyers understand. Ludicrous. Oh my goodness”

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@junkbondinvest Oh 💯 % a fair mark given their repayment scheme: 🤣🤣🤣

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@conksresearch I'll see your Malacca and raise a Dardanelles

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@TMTLongShort Dont forget Europe and NATO 😉

[Jack Kevorkian @kevorkian82]

this is possibly THE MOST Australian interview ever

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@GaryHaubold @HayekAndKeynes Excellent analysis. Think that Trumps' real deadline is to end this by May to start moving gas prices down before driving season. Assuming no change in allies or Iran position, he let's military targeting package play out then begins to unwind
Israel ofc remains X factor

[Billy Ray Valantine @speedcycle]

@TMTLongShort $120 WTI is my base case

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@BickerinBrattle *Wag