Ted Hollen III

Husband. Dad. Golfer and Real Estate investor. MHP and RV parks.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

California Governor candidate Chad Bianco vows to completely eliminate the income tax if he’s elected

“I'm going to eliminate state income tax. We're not going to pay California state income tax anymore”

He says just by cutting out Democrats secret deals with offshore oil companies, he can make up the revenue

“We're the second largest consumer of oil in the country. 80% of the oil that we use, we buy from other countries and other states. When you do that, it's 5x more expensive than if we took it from our own ground.

If we were oil independent, if we used 100% of the oil that we needed from California. That alone completely funds state government. Just that one move. Just that one move”

Democrats have been pushing regulations to make it more expensive or impossible to drill in the state, this forces offshore buying

They’re getting rich from doing this

In 2024 alone, the oil and gas industry spent a record $38 million on lobbying in California

Oil interests donated millions directly to candidates and committees. In recent cycles, Democrats received significant portions, sometimes more total than Republicans

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just revealed what’s actually holding AI back.

It’s not chips. Not models. Not data.

It’s concrete.

Someone asked him the obvious question. Why not just build private power plants next to data centers? Bypass the grid entirely.

His answer was four words.

Musk: “The power plant makers.”

There aren’t enough of them.

You can design the best chip on earth. Train a frontier model. Raise $10 billion for a hyperscale data center.

None of it matters if you can’t power it.

Musk: “You can drill down a level further.”

GPUs need power. Power needs turbines. Turbines need factories. Factories need permits. Permits need a government that hasn’t paralyzed itself.

Every link in the chain is physical. And every one of them is breaking.

We can train a frontier model in weeks. We can’t permit a power plant in under five years.

The country that invented the assembly line now needs 40 agencies to approve a gas turbine.

China doesn’t have this problem. They don’t run 7-year environmental reviews on infrastructure they need tomorrow. They break ground while America requests approval to break ground.

The AI race won’t be decided by whoever writes the best algorithm.

It’ll be decided by whoever can still build in the physical world.

We spent 30 years getting faster in software and slower in steel. Outsourcing manufacturing. Hollowing out supply chains. Treating builders like liabilities instead of assets.

Now the bill is due.

Every breakthrough in AI is gated by atoms. Steel. Concrete. Turbines that take years to manufacture and decades to approve.

The smartest code on earth is worthless without electricity.

Musk didn’t give a speech about this. He didn’t need to. He answered one question and the whole infrastructure myth collapsed.

“Where do you get the power plants from?”

Follow that thread far enough and you stop finding a technology problem.

You find a civilization that mastered thinking and forgot how to build.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

Why is voting not done on the block chain with real time counting.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@ScottChoppin Is the property have multiple APNs? I thought ADUs were capped at 8 units per parcel assuming you have at least 8 multi family units.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@katieporterca The answer is not more money. The answer is responsible spending. Before you ask for more, figure out how to spend what you have without fraud, corruption, and waste.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@MetamateDaz Billionaires are better allocators of capital than the government. They will create more business, hire more people, which intern create more taxable revenue. If you give it to the government, they light it on fire and just create more problems than they solve.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@SpaceCoastCRE What is your aversion to efficiency?

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@realEstateTrent Just call it a wellness center.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@sweatystartup You know they can just build more power plants.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@jmoserr The house was never really worth 939k.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I don’t think people realize how much healthcare costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire.

It costs them $30k per family, per year for premiums and care. Most of that goes to the massive, vertically integrated insurance companies that send weekly bills that no one reviews in details. And it doesn’t include the company overhead to deal with it all. It’s usually the 2nd largest expense after payroll. Which is insane

It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame Healthcare costs.

Want to increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for every American ?

Break up the biggest insurance companies. Make divest non insurance companies. They don’t need thousands of subsidiaries. That’s how they game and abuse the system and increase costs for all of us.

Call your senator and tell them to support the BreakUp Big Medicine Bill by @HawleyMO and @SenWarren.

[Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy]

We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds.

We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers.

We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate.

The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best.

That's not education. That's sabotage.

The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying.

Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.

[Shannon Jean @ShannonJean]

Service businesses are safe!

Ruh Roh.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@JakehellerAI How long before robots can go execute the vision?

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@JulieChangRE Robots will solve this problem , senior care will be virtually free.

[Hunter Buck @istayhooping]

I love when people move to the west coast and realize you don’t have to suffer

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@GerberKawasaki Doesn't the economy benefit from the spending? Giving more money to the government is a net negative.

[Ted Hollen III @tbearthethird]

@JulieChangRE What are your solutions?