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Cynthia retweeted
2021: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
2022: Paid $139 for Prime. Packages late.
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2026:
Customer: "This package missed the guaranteed delivery date."
Amazon Bot: "We are so sorry for the delay! It is still in transit and should arrive tomorrow."
Customer: "I am not asking for a tracking update. Two-day Prime shipping is a paid retail contract. Since you missed the delivery window, apply the $15 monthly Prime fee credit to my account balance immediately."
48 hours later...
Cynthia retweeted
My yearly reminder to you of the greatest kids Halloween costume of all time, and it's not even close
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Today, two visions of the world are colliding. And Bill Gates is probably the clearest example.
On one side, the people who build. On the other, the people who manage.
For 30 years, Gates has presented himself as the man who wants to save the world. But look closely at how it actually works.
His philanthropy is first and foremost a reputation machine. Millions poured into media, massive funding for supranational organizations, a presence everywhere the narrative gets written. When you fund the people who write the story, the story is rarely hard on you.
Then there's the model itself. Foundations, NGOs, grants. A system where money flows, reports pile up, conferences follow one after another, but the problem never actually needs to be solved. Because a solved problem is a cause that disappears. Grants keep the problem alive. Entrepreneurs kill it.
The Elon Musk episode sums it all up.
In 2022, Gates reaches out to Musk to talk about philanthropy and climate. Musk asks him one question: do you still have a half-billion-dollar short position against Tesla? Gates replies: sorry to say I haven't closed it out.
Read that again. The man who wants to save the planet from climate change was betting hundreds of millions on the collapse of the company that did more than anyone to electrify global transportation. And he was asking its founder to back his climate vision.
Musk said no. Obviously.
Because underneath, these are two irreconcilable philosophies.
Musk believes we need more. More energy, more humans, more planets. Abundance as the answer.
Gates believes we need to manage. Consume less, emit less, have fewer children. Ration, regulate, control. It's Malthus for the modern age: the conviction that humanity is a problem to contain rather than a force to unleash.
Bill Gates is the pure, sick product of our era. A society that rewards the appearance of goodness over goodness itself. That prefers the press release to the result. The charity gala to the factory.
And deep down, I find this man profoundly sad. To have had so much money, so much power, and to choose to manage the world instead of building it.
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Cynthia retweeted
Everyone is furious at the prankster.
They are missing the real tragedy.
Man A wakes up at 5 AM, works 10 stores,
and misses his 4 kids' bedtimeā
yet still canāt afford his mortgage.
Boy B produces nothing, mocks working men
with a phone, and makes thousands in clout.
The problem isn't a pizza company.
Itās a broken system that punishes the Builder
and rewards the Parasite.
When a fatherās sweat buys less than
a clownās disrespect, a nation loses its soul.
Restore the dignity of honest work.
Atlas Shrugged needs to be required reading. The question: What was Franciscoās speech on money about? was an extra credit question on one of my Econ finals in college.
Francisco d'Anconia's speech on money in Atlas Shrugged is the most economically literate passage in twentieth-century fiction.
The speech runs about 2,000 words in the novel. Francisco delivers it at a party, surrounded by parasites who just declared money the root of all evil. He corrects them with surgical precision. Money is not the root of evil. It is the tool that makes voluntary exchange possible, the ledger of honest production, the only mechanism by which you trade your mind's output for someone else's.
The core claim is this: money requires production. You cannot print your way to wealth any more than you can vote yourself a harvest. Every dollar bill in your wallet represents a claim on someone's actual labor, actual material, actual time. The moment a government prints currency without corresponding production, it dilutes every existing claim. It robs you quietly, without a gun visible in the room.
Francisco puts it cleanly: "Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them." That sentence alone dismantles three centuries of mercantilist confusion. Wealth is production. Currency is merely the signal that coordinates its exchange.
The speech also destroys the "love of money is greed" clichƩ. Francisco distinguishes between those who earn money through trade and those who acquire it through force or fraud. A man who builds a railroad and charges willing passengers operates on an entirely different moral plane from a lobbyist who gets a competitor regulated out of existence. Rand drew that line in 1957. Washington D.C. has spent the intervening 69 years blurring it.
What the speech predicts is decay. When a society starts treating producers as servants of non-producers, capital goes quiet. Factories don't get built. Entrepreneurs stop announcing their plans. You see this in every hyperinflationary episode, from Weimar Germany in 1923 to Zimbabwe in 2008 to Argentina today, still fighting inflation. Production retreats when the rewards of production get expropriated.
Read the speech slowly. Exchange requires two parties who each gain something. Force produces one winner and one loser, and eventually the loser stops playing. The whole global economic order rests on which model you choose to enforce.
Cynthia retweeted
Whatās a polite way to tell someone, āIām not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birthā?
Cynthia retweeted
Christian Watson has popped back out of the ambulance after a trip to the hospital and is going to return tonight.
The closest thing to a WWE script Iāve ever seen in the NFL.
#Packers WR Christian Watson has been cleared after undergoing tests at the hospital and is now on his way back to the stadium, per @KayleeHartung.
He remains questionable and could potentially return to the game.
Cynthia retweeted
When I wake up on November 4th and donāt have to see any more political ads or text messages.
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The #Braves today exercised options for OF Ronald AcuƱa Jr. and INF Ozzie Albies for the 2027 season. Atlanta also reinstated RHPs Spencer Schwellenbach, Spencer Strider and Hurston Waldrep, as well as LHP Joey Wentz, from the 60-day injured list.
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You can dislike Pat, disagree with his opinions, or think his personality is too much. Thatās completely fair.
But weāve reached a dangerous/nasty point where people canāt separate disagreeing with someone from genuinely hating them. The fact that a guy whose job is to talk about sports needs FBI protection because of death threats is insane.
Social media has convinced people that because someone is famous, they are no longer human. You donāt have to like Pat to recognize how disturbing that is.
Sad, Sad, Sad world we live in today. What have we become? What do we aspire to be?
Keep being yourself, Pat. The people who appreciate what you bring to sports far outnumber the ones who want to tear you down.
@PatMcAfeeShow @BostonConnr and the whole Mcafee show.
Itās been a fun October.. excited to get to Halloween. Hereās a couple fun screenshots from this month.
I donāt know if Karey from Derry is real or not but, the picture on the left is from a very real man in Ohio.
Iāve stayed away from my mentions and DMās this month since these back to back days but.. Iām sure if I went in there now, Iād find some wishes for and threats of death for me.
āDonāt read them.ā Theyāre everywhere.
Annnd.. They still exist though right? I just donāt know the person is in Ohio then? Thatās where Iām at now. So I do get a bit fucked up when a couple days after The New York Times releases a āWE ARE ALLOWED TO AND SHOULD HATE THIS GUYā piece, a University puts a video out from their own page, indicating āwe think heās a corny creep here.ā Itās a weird time. The things that get said about what my daughter and son and wife deserve are all rather wild as well.
I havenāt talked to anybody about what the days were like leading up to Tennesseeās GameDay last year. Thereās been some misreporting but in the ball park articles. Everybody in the āsecurityā world was worried of a copycat incident potentially happening. GameDay was a few days out and we were the next huge gathering on a campus. The world, in front of the entire internet, just proved that we had gotten to a rather extreme place.
The FBI.. alongside, Disney security, Tennessee State Police, Knoxville PD, University Police, everybody in area, all had the very same goal to protect the shit out of the area. FBI snipers were sent down there, huge presence of police.. it was a surreal moment. The conversation about the death threats I had been receiving in life was definitely a huge topic. I donāt think it was the FBI that suggested the Bullet Proof Vest, but it was certainly an idea presented by one of the security groups. We had no idea what to expect. Nobody had been in that type of situation before. Everybody wanted the best for everybody. I never felt safer and never felt more appreciative of the people that were around me that morning including the students that came out and did WAY more than they couldāve ever imagined for my soul.
Howād we get here? I had to wrestle with that a bit. FBIās sending snipers so me and the lads donāt get shot. Thatās crazy. I donāt know if they teach how youāre supposed to handle these types of things in classes or something but, I was a bit rattled by the current reality of my World.
I think what I realized was, when I talked about the Algerian Olympic Gold Medal boxer, and then I was HEADLINE Quoted and Captioned by platforms with rather large influence over certain communities, they left out the massive empathy part of the conversation that I had about the entire subject. I was labeled and immediately targeted. Such is life I guess.. since then, every mistake, misstep or misquote relaunches A LOT of folks into a frenzy of me being the worst person on Earth who needs to be eliminated, and they gain more and more folks who want me unalived or as they actually say it āKirked.ā
I was created on the internet. Iāve been ācookedā and shit talked and criticized since I have memories. I am no where near perfect.. and thereās no way everybody is gonna agree with me but I had no idea that this is just what life would become.
Iām trying my best in real time but.. I am to talk about sports and care about the future of sports. I owe everything to sports. Iām grateful as hell to do what I do. I literally try to love every minute of the incredible opportunities I get to experience but.. itās certainly all a much different life than I couldāve ever expected.
I try to give everything I have, all the time.. I am very sorry to those that despise me.
The video is how I opened The Tennessee show.. I put on a USA Sports Coat and celebrated Ball. I love sports because itās unifying. Thatās all Iām ever trying to beā¦ actually.
& Connor.. I LOVE YOU BROTHER, Iām sorry Iāve brought you lads into all of this as well.
Pat is a sports personality. You need a lobotomy and a self hugging jacket if youāre threatening a guy, who takes his shirt off and barks at Nick Saban, over some words he said.
Good lord.
FBI reportedly advised Pat McAfee to wear bulletproof vest in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination trib.al/uotXADL
Cynthia retweeted
My mom was a hippie. My dad was a beatnik.
I was so poor that at one point I worked two jobs and shared a bed with a friend. I got home at 8 AM from a night shift at a bakery, got into his bed, and slept while he went to his day job.
I bought my first computer with my own credit card at age 20 and taught myself HTML. At the time, I worked nights in a giant, city block-sized printing plant in Queens, NY. I took the 7 train home at 2 AM most nights and was spit on and beaten up for being Irish on that train. Like GD Gangs of New York. I got up at 7 AM and coded websites until 11 AM and went to my printing plant job until the wee hours of the morning.
My first website was featured in a book from Japan in 1997 as one of the 100 best-designed websites in the world. That opened doors and eventually brought me to San Francisco in 2004. And you know the rest of the story. It's on my website.
I never begged for money, expected handouts, or called for government intervention in markets because of my difficult existence when I was young.
I worked so hard my eyeballs fell out. And then I worked even more.
And I succeeded well beyond anyoneās expectations because THIS IS AMERICA.
So yes, I have a problem with politicians looking at what someone earns today and deciding they deserve a bigger piece of it. They see a fattened pig ready for the slaughter. I see the decades of sacrifice it took to build it. Even if it's modest.
Calling it a so-called āmillionaires taxā doesn't settle the argument. They already admitted it will apply to everyone. But I want the person cleaning the bakery at 4 AM to build something worth a fortune and keep the rewards. That is what America is about.
Besides, we all pay plenty of tax as it is.
I am voting YES on Initiative 645 to repeal Washingtonās new income tax.
I will never apologize for believing everyone should keep more of what they worked for and earned
