Bill

economist, engineer, musician, occasional sailor, veteran. Some fool said that this site would be a worthwhile use of my remaining time.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport Which end will rip your face off?

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport Extensive personal consumption often works better.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport After years of service in the left seat Robert is finally in position to enjoy his retirement. Au revoir Bob!

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport Congratulations to your LBS marketing team. The school certainly deserves it’s number one ranking.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport Nothing a little Penicillin won’t cure.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport I ate at McDonald’s once and must admit that I felt the same way.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport American Airlines considered the same solution.

[Bill @wsines1]

@atrupar The perfect definition of inflation.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport What’s the antonym of mistake?

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport Given passenger reaction, it was possibly the most entertaining spectacle they had seen all week. Keep up the good work!

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport I have to admit that it was one hell of an air show. Worth the price of admission.

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport I thought it was an incorrect response to “Does this dress make me look fat”. Be careful my friend ... very careful.

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Bill @wsines1]

@EdKrassen @WhiteHouse I wonder what Trump thought of Charles’ address to Congress?

[Bill @wsines1]

@StansaidAirport Trump is sending escorts to get through the Strait of Hormuz.

[Bill @wsines1]

Insider Trading is theft from the average middle class investor.

[Rep. Steven Horsford @RepHorsford]

18 minutes before last year’s tariff pause, traders placed massive bets the market would surge. And 47 minutes before the President’s announcement on Iran negotiations, someone shorted the oil market by hundreds of millions.

That’s not a coincidence. It points to market manipulation and insider trading. It doesn’t pass the smell test. That’s why I, along with more than 130 Democrats, demanded answers and Ambassador Greer still hasn’t provided them.

[Bill @wsines1]

@NoContextBrits An atorvastatin.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Michael Wolff (August, 2025): “A new book was published yesterday called ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.’ It contains a passage in which Epstein is quoted where he says he had sex with Melania a full year before Donald Trump commenced his relationship with Melania”

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Been saying this for a while, but will repeat it for emphasis: “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.