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The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"āthe risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone elseās ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the houseās money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional touristāpaid an average of $350,000 a year.
Letās be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisisābloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale productāthey do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true ownersāthe shareholdersāare left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Ownerās Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, Iām releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing howĀ Dr.Ā FauciĀ provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked withĀ politicizedĀ elements within the Intelligence Community toĀ suppress the truth about his actions and hideĀ the virusā lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. Itās time you know the truth.
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A large tank at an aerospace factory in Garden Grove started leaking. The chemical inside - methyl methacrylate, or MMA - is a clear liquid used to make airplane canopies and strong glues for aircraft parts. When air got in through the leak, the chemical began to harden and turn solidā¦just like superglue or epoxy does when you leave the tube open. This hardening process creates a lot of heat. With thousands of gallons reacting at once, the heat keeps building and speeds up the reaction even more. This ārunawayā effect has raised the tankās temperature, damaged the tank walls, and is releasing toxic fumes.
Timeline
⢠May 21, 2026 (Thursday, ~3:40 p.m.): The 34,000-gallon tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove develops a leak. Air reaches the roughly 7,000 gallons of MMA inside, starting an exothermic curing reaction. Orange County Fire Authority responders arrive on scene on Western Avenue.
⢠May 21ā22, 2026: Heat from the reaction builds quickly. The temperature of the material rises from normal room temperature to about 90 °F. Toxic vapors begin venting from the tank and internal pressure starts to increase.
⢠May 22ā24, 2026: Evacuation orders are issued and expanded for safety. Approximately 40,000 residents in Garden Grove and nearby areas are told to leave. GKN Aerospace chemists and local hazmat teams monitor the tank around the clock and work on cooling and containment steps.
⢠As of May 25, 2026: The tank is still unstable. The runaway chemical reaction continues, and emergency crews remain on site performing damage-control operations.
The liquid MMA itself is highly toxic. If the tank fails completely, thousands of gallons could spill into storm drains and waterways, causing serious long-term environmental damage. At the same time, the ongoing heat and gas buildup raise the danger of a sudden pressure-related rupture or explosion that could send a large cloud of toxic vapors over this heavily populated part of Southern California. The situation has not been brought under control.
Updates on shelter locations and availability. The evacuation map remains the same.
For the latest updates, visit Garden Grove City website at: https://t.co/OlDOOGV78R
Make our House and Senate part time and cut their pay. They work for us and canāt pass budgets. They do t even put in a full days work. @secretserivceus is currently un-funded.
Hereās another idea to posit if the above logic with John Eastman is allowed. Any defense attorney who presents a case and loses is disbarred for defending a criminal. All laws enacted by Congress found to be unconstitutional should have those same politicians thrown in jail, disbarred if they are attorneys or both.
@SenWarren Maybe push for a type of flat tax for corporations and individuals so normal people who canāt pay top dollar for accountants to file taxes that take advantage of the tax laws you as a politician have created would be a better use of your time!!!
Unpopular opinion: Most āeconomic crisesā arenāt caused by too little regulation. Theyāre caused by bad incentives created by the regulations already in place. Fix the rules. Donāt add more layers on top of broken ones.
If we confiscated your salary and kicked you out of the Senate, the country could be spared from all your empty talk, and Marxist rhetoric. Maybe if you used your platform to advocate that people eat healthier we wouldnāt need to be buying insulin for everyone. P.S. It is free school lunches that are part of the problem of the obesity epidemic with our youth. Have you eaten a school lunch lately Senator?
Unpopular opinion: Most āeconomic crisesā arenāt caused by too little regulation. Theyāre caused by bad incentives created by the regulations already in place. Fix the rules. Donāt add more layers on top of broken ones.