W. R. (Bill) Byrd

You cannot drive a car looking in the rear view mirror.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

“Don’t feed the poor yourselves. Get the Roman government or Herod to do it for you by raising taxes.”

- Things Jesus Never Said

[Cougar @Cougar_Laymon]

@pubity Wait! You are deviating from the script!

$26 Billion given away, but it would ONLY take $6.6 Billion to solve world hunger. Yet we still have world hunger? Where did all of those funds go?

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

@TRHLofficial Dissolved in a vat of lye would be appropriate.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

WNBA player Sophie Cunningham calls out WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert by name, rips the league for not protecting her teammate, Caitlin Clark.

"This type of sh*t happens every single game to her, and the league and the refs do absolutely nothing about it."

Cunningham and co-host West Wilson also discussed the possibility that Engelbert is jealous of Clark, which may be why Clark was snubbed from the WNBA 30th Anniversary Poster.

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

@adeoressi Too low

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

any partner at a public accounting firm would immediately be fired for this type of behavior.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

Aside from Iran, the biggest tragedy of the Carter administration!

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education.

46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Lmao. Whoever did this is plum genius. Never forget Bernie in 2020. 👇

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

It is impossible to overstate how little I care about what team won what championship. If you aren’t on the team, why do you care?

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

A tax on wealth is just a rebranding of confiscating the means of production. Ask anyone who knows how that worked for the communists. Would the world be better off with bureaucrats running spacex, or Elon? That is the question and the answer is obvious.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.

The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.

And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.

Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

[Bruno Souza @brunosouzasc]

Elon Musk criou, em um único dia, 4.400 novos milionários.

Quase 400 deles ultrapassaram os US$ 100 milhões.

Não são banqueiros nem investidores de risco. São funcionários da SpaceX: soldadores, técnicos, mecânicos e até funcionários da cantina. Durante vinte anos, a empresa pagou gente de todos os níveis com ações, não só com salário alto. Quem produziu colheu.

Juan Hernandez, imigrante mexicano, aceitou um emprego de soldador por US$ 28 a hora em 2015, sem nem saber direito o que era a SpaceX. Recebeu uma pequena participação de US$ 10 mil e pôde comprar mais por desconto em folha. Hoje sua fatia vale US$ 880 mil.

Trevor Hise ignorou os conselhos dos pais para pegar um emprego “seguro” na General Electric. Escolheu a SpaceX, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações. Ao preço da listagem, são US$ 13,5 milhões. Aos 37 anos, ele já pode se aposentar. Palavras dele: “A magnitude disso é ridícula.”

O detalhe mais eloquente veio antes mesmo da abertura de capital: mais de 100 funcionários se uniram discretamente para contratar uma gestora de fortunas capaz de cuidar de até US$ 5 bilhões. Muitos nunca tinham precisado de wealth manager na vida.

Há décadas os IPOs de empresas de tecnologia enriquecem programadores. Desta vez, o dinheiro chegou ao chão de fábrica. Isso é capitalismo de verdade: quem arrisca, quem trabalha e quem entrega valor colhe frutos proporcionais.

A esquerda odeia esse tipo de história. Porque ela prova que a verdadeira ascensão social não vem de dividir a miséria alheia, mas de criar riqueza que eleva quem tem coragem de construir.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Don't question it!

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

Get a reputable statistician to opine on this. Impossible.

[Joseph Robba @jrobba]

@KalshiPolitics We’re supposed to believe out of the gate, all the votes went to Pratt and Bass, and suddenly none of them did, and they all went to Raman? GTFO

[Luai Ahmed @JustLuai]

In honor of Pride month, here’s a list of countries in the Middle East that recognize same sex marriage:

1. Israel

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

I would like to personally apologize to Wesley Hunt. I met him as an untested candidate several years ago and was unimpressed. But I’m not a good judge of potential, because I’ve made that mistake before. He has far exceeded my expectations. I supported him then, and support him more now. Preach, Wesley Hunt!

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

2020 was the peak of woke insanity.

Statues were torn down.
History was erased.
The left convinced itself that destroying our past was somehow progress.

Six years later, America is rebuilding what was lost.

Here’s the lesson: if we erase our history, we erase the opportunity to learn from it. A nation without memory is a nation without identity.

Our history isn’t always perfect, but it is ours. The triumphs, the failures, the heroes, the flaws. That’s what shaped us into the United States of America.

Let’s never make that mistake again.

Preserve history.
Learn from it.
Build on it.
Move forward as ONE NATION. 🇺🇸

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

Such a surprise. Who could possibly have seen that adding lots of intermittent energy sources to an existing grid was only adding costs? Hmmm.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since 2020, Germany has added 14 gigawatts of wind capacity, but annual electricity output has stayed around 106 terawatt-hours.

More turbines, no more electricity.

Die Welt says the system is hitting reality: weak winds, grid bottlenecks, and poor inland sites, with some turbines actually shading (or blocking) others.

Then solar joins the mess.

On sunny days, solar floods the grid, so wind gets curtailed. At peak output, solar gets curtailed, too.

Too much power at the wrong time.

Then evening arrives, or thick cloud rolls in, and solar collapses. So gas and coal step back in to save the lights from going out.

Fossil fuels come to Germany's rescue every evening.

Billions of dollars spent on more hardware.

But output has remained flat.

[W. R. (Bill) Byrd @wrbillbyrd]

I have a similar experience but on a bike.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The chances of a deer taking you out at a crosswalk are slim. But never zero.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Whoopi Goldberg’s comments reveal everything wrong with identity politics.

I didn’t marry my wife because she’s white.

She didn’t marry me because I’m Black.

We got married because we share the same values, the same faith, and the same vision for raising a family.

At no point did marrying a white woman make me less Black.

At no point did marrying a Black man make my wife less white.

What it made us was a family.

The people obsessed with race can’t understand that most Americans don’t choose friends, spouses, or family based on skin color. We choose them based on character, values, and love.

The civil rights movement wasn’t about putting race at the center of everything. It was about moving beyond it.