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Tim Locum retweeted
🚨INCREDIBLE: A 3-year-old was kidnapped from a public library. 48 minutes later, he was on a city bus crying next to his kidnapper — and no one knew.
No one except the bus driver.
In Milpitas, California, driver Tim Watson had heard the police alert earlier that day: Missing 3-year-old boy, city-wide search underway.
Then a man boarded his bus with a small boy who wouldn't stop crying. Something felt wrong.
Tim looked closer. The face. The clothes. The description. It was him.
But he couldn't scream. He couldn't confront him. One wrong move and that little boy could be in even more danger.
So Tim came up with a plan.
He got on the intercom and told passengers: "Someone reported a missing green backpack, I'm going to take a quick look."
He started walking the aisle, pretending to search for a backpack — but he was really getting a close look at the child.
It was the missing boy.
Tim quietly radioed dispatch, alerted police, and then did the hardest thing of all — he sat back down, stayed calm, and kept driving like nothing happened, with the alleged kidnapper sitting just feet behind him.
He kept that bus rolling until police intercepted it. Officers swarmed the bus, arrested the man, and scooped that terrified little boy into safety.
That child is home with his family tonight because one bus driver trusted his gut and stayed cool under pressure.
He's not a cop. He's not a hero who was supposed to be there.
He's Tim Watson — a bus driver who saw a child in danger and refused to look away.
This man deserves to be recognized.🙏
Tim Locum retweeted
Oklahoma St @ Wisconsin Thoughts:
- No Clary, Bogavac, Fallah, Ragland. No Garlock for Wisconsin
- You could see the coaches working on stuff in this game. Both teams giving zone looks in the last few minutes of the 1H. Both teams full court pressing etc.
- Nolan Winter looks All Big Ten 1st team worthy, best athlete on the team.
- Eian Elmer reminds me of Bonzi Wells. It’s the shooting plus his ability to go play bully ball when you need a bucket. Maybe it’s also the head band and the frame. He’s a great pick up bc he replaces some of the scoring but without sacrificing anything defensively.
- Tough to gauge OK St without 3 starters, Walker played well and certainly looks like he can be instant offense off the bench to spell Clary. Quick and nice pull up game, hit several middys, doing his best Kemba impersonation.
- Foxwell is the best PG at creating for others that the Badgers have had since Hepburn. Super quick, loved seeing the hesy cross step back, cross again, just an example of the nice bag he has. Boyd and Blackwell were great but much better at creating for themselves and scoring. They have surrounded him with shooters and said “This is your playground, go to work.” But you can’t leave him open either bc he’s deadly accurate. Did not expect him to be this good if I’m being honest.
- Natt struggled offensively but started getting to the line better in 2H and got into the paint to start creating for others. Former NAIA POTY’s translate really well and I expect him to figure things out and be a really good piece for this team. Turnovers and Shooting %s will improve. Rebounds really well for a guard, and some of Wisconsin’s spacing with how many shooters they have is just really difficult to guard.
- Onuetu is a solid rim protecting anchor that this defense hasn’t had in recent years. Think the defense will be improved this year w/ him and Elmer. He’s not the best finisher on offense but he can crash the offensive glass and rim run. Will make life hard in the paint for opponents on D. Doesn’t have much of a low post game, so you are relying on his verticality to help on offense.
- Halaifonua continues his rise as a strong big man. Could push Fallah to start. Him and Walker carried the team today when they couldn’t find any easy buckets. He’s big strong physical, with some nice low post moves and can finish. Nice stroke for a big.
- Rapp and Onuetu will form a good duo. Rapp on the floor when you need to space the floor and need more offense, doesn't move feet quickly enough if he is pulled out on the perimeter defensively.
- Allmond looked like he struggled with Wisconsin’s size, they really frustrated him. I still believe he can be one of the top freshman but at least from this small one game sample size, he was struggling to get himself open, they were daring him to put the ball on the floor. Rought night but Freshman can look terrible and then superb from one game to the next.
- Carrington always such a solid producer. Can he pick up some of the scoring gone from B&B leaving. More minutes is better for him and the team.
- Burks like Carrington, we know what he can do. First game action I think after being eligible, so will take him a few to get back into game shape. But we know he’s a guy that can go off in a game and get hot. Looked like he didn’t have his legs under him tonight.
- Kinziger looks improved. Think he is ready to help, and this team is going to hit 3s and he can help there too, but it’s more about giving Wisconsin a backup PG who can organize and things don’t go off the rails, which was an issue last year when Boyd came out.
- Felesi is going to push for a starting role pretty quickly. Feel pretty good about this back court when at full strength. He brings a good slashing ability and finished strong against contact. And he was doing it while that side of the floor felt condensed. They really need Bogavac’s shooting to space the floor out and give these slashers more room to operate.
- Autry another 3 point specialist. They must have like 45 of these guys.
- I’m not sure why the coaches love Janicki so much, every time I watch him he’s just out there. Must be a culture guy.
- Ball looks like he has ability, the game looks too fast for him right now though. Once it slows down he’s going to be a pretty good piece. Will it be this year? Or will it be next year? One to watch and see how he improves with more game reps. He can do more with the ball than a lot of the other players, so an early rise could lift this team’s ceiling.
- Robinson just looks like he’s trying to do way too much out there. Didn’t have any fear and was getting lots of shots up. Maybe those will fall? But the shot diet was poor, timing of when he shot the ball in the offense was poor decision making. Things that are coachable. On the plus side he was able to get his own shot.
- Crotty looked like he did not belong out there on either end of the floor.
- Montonati only played 3 minutes but had a strong take. Let’s give him some more minutes and see what he can do. Some guys are better when the lights are on. Thought he deserved more of Crotty/Robinson’s minutes in this game.
Hate to admit when I’m wrong, especially before the season even starts, but I think Wisconsin will be better than I originally thought. I’m very interested to see this style against other teams. When they are shooting well they could blitz teams. On the flip side, I think there will be games where they could get suffocated by a more athletic squad. Last year Boyd and Blackwell could take over in those spots. That bucket getter type, when everything breaks down, is the one thing I think they are missing this year.
Oklahoma st had a tough preseason. Loss to New Mexico, Loss to Wisconsin. Important to note they haven’t been at full strength for any of these games which makes it tough to tell if their issues defensively are real or not. Also it’s already really hard to get in a rhythm in preseason anyway, makes it even more impossible when you have different guys in and out of the lineup every night. I’m not making excuses for them, just saying I would take their preseason with a grain of salt. One thing that does concern me though is the amount of shooters on the team. Really need Bogavac, the other shooters seem like they are too much of a defensive liability to play often (Robinson, Crotty, Grbovic)
Tim Locum retweeted
Dana White: "I Will NEVER Talk To A Doctor About My General Health Ever Again."
"Never again, none of them know what they're talking about. They're all full of sh*t. All they know is to put you on pills & put you on medicine. That's all they know."
In 1910, The Rockefeller Foundation, along with the Carnegie Foundation funded the Flexner Report.
The goal was to shift all medical schools & all teaching hospitals away from natural traditional root cause medicine & shift towards petroleum based medications & allopathic medicine for profit.
During this time, therapies such as homeopathy, herbal medicine, essential oils, chiropractic & naturopathy were commonplace.
The 1910 Flexner report concluded that these natural healing modalities were “unscientific quackery.”
This report also concluded that there were too many medical schools as well as too many doctors in America & called for the standardization of medical education.
Of course, this was with underlying intentions being that the American Medical Association would be the only entity that could approve medical school licensure in America.
Rockefeller worked with Andrew Carnegie to provide funding for medical schools across the country. This was with the condition, of course, that they only taught allopathic medicine & they were offered grants of significant proportions in order to adhere to these conditions.
Through these grants, primarily fueled by Rockefeller’s petroleum monopoly, helped to systematically remove any mention of plant-based natural treatments along with teachings on nutrition & diet from medical education curricula.
Supported by Rockefeller’s influence on the media of the time, homeopathic & natural medicines were quickly discredited & demonized through targeted media campaigns.
Tim Locum retweeted
Nick Saban to @PatMcAfeeShow: "I talked to a college coach this week who has a bye week next week, and all he's doing is meeting with agents. It's the middle of the season! Guys are worried about how much playing time am I getting, what I'm going to do if I don't get enough playing time. I'm playing well, so how much money am I going to make next year there or someplace else?"
"The reason we're seeing a lot of these inconsistencies in performance is people are struggling to sustain their intensity week in and week out. Maybe it's people are more conditionally committed to their team because the circumstances we're putting these players in. ... If you can't sustain intensity, you can't sustain the level of performance you want to sustain, you can't play smart, you can't play with intelligence. It all starts with your mental energy, and that starts with your commitment to your team and to your development as a player."
Tim Locum retweeted
I mean, just an all-time TV segment. Making Chuck do Who He Play For multiple times in a row with the same players is a brilliant idea and I was legit crying laughing by the end, my god.
Tim Locum retweeted
Worth two minutes of your time to hear Jimmy Rogers lay bare one of the main ills facing big-time college sports and the athletes themselves.
Iowa State Daily's @henry_annen asked Rogers what he needs from new AD Jared Benko to elevate Iowa State football.
Good stuff.
Tim Locum retweeted
In 2021, the head of the UN World Food Programme said $6 billion from Elon Musk could solve world hunger.
Elon replied: publish the plan, right here, publicly, and I'll sell Tesla stock on the spot.
The plan came out. And when you read it, it wasn't a plan to solve hunger. It was one year of food for 42 million people. A twelve-month subscription. And the year after? Start over.
A few months later, Elon summed up his view: if you care about the reality of goodness rather than the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.
"Reality of goodness over perception of goodness."
That line stuck with me for weeks. Does philanthropy actually work?
Gates-style philanthropy is first and foremost institutional capture. Foundations funding NGOs, funding governments, funding programs, producing reports, producing photos. Everyone's happy, and the aid machine keeps itself alive. Sixty years and hundreds of billions later, much of Africa is still dependent on aid. Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo laid it out in Dead Aid: aid breeds dependency, feeds corruption, and short-circuits the only mechanism that has ever lifted a country out of poverty.
So what actually works?
It's been tested. In Kenya, Berkeley researchers working with GiveDirectly randomly selected villages and gave every poor household about $1,000 in cash. No program. No training. No conditions. Just cash.
The result: people bought metal roofs, livestock, started small businesses. Barely any inflation. And every dollar injected generated around $2.50 of economic activity locally, including for neighbors who received nothing.
Why? Because you didn't give them charity. You gave them capital. You primed the pump.
And that's where everything hinges: ownership. Hernando de Soto showed that the world's poor hold trillions of dollars in assets, but without recognized property titles, it's dead capital. You can't borrow against it, pass it on, or grow it. Where property rights are respected, the system starts running. Where they aren't, no amount of aid will ever be enough.
Now reread Elon's post.
"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many."
That's not a meal. That's not a handout. That's a property title. A piece of the company building the infrastructure of a multiplanetary civilization, owned directly by millions of kids.
A kid who gets a handout depends on the state. A kid who owns a share of SpaceX owns a piece of the future. He learns what an asset is, he has a stake in the economy working, and one day he'll vote as an owner, not as a client of the state.
Gates buys perception. Musk distributes ownership.
The reality of goodness versus its perception. And it's absolutely brilliant.
Tim Locum retweeted
🚨STEPHEN MILLER drops a TRUTH NUKE on the entire Democrat Party
"I get death threats every day. My wife gets death threats every day. We've had to deal with pretty extensive doxing campaigns!"
"The Democrat Party has become dangerously, violently RADICALIZED."
"But the truth is, people across the country, across the government, across law enforcement, who are fighting for safety, security, prosperity, are dealing with radical left communist threats and attacks all day long."
"We are dealing with a party that is so extreme that considers its opponents to be its mortal enemies, that dehumanizes its opposition, that justifies violent attacks against federal law enforcement, assaults against ICE and Border Patrol, that sides over and over again with criminal aliens, MS-13 gang bangers."
"Look at how they venerated and WORSHIPPED and PRAISED the MS-13 child smuggler that they dubbed the 'Maryland dad,' somebody who beat his wife and smuggled children, and was a member of a terrorist organization - and they held them up as their HERO."
"This is a dangerous party. This is a dangerous movement!" @StephenM
Tim Locum retweeted
My dear American friends, yesterday I showed you an email. Today I want to show you what comes after, because history has already written this chapter many times, and every time in blood.
Every Marxist revolution goes after the same first target. Not the army, and not the rich. It goes after the people who think.
Lenin understood it early. In 1922 he put Russia's leading philosophers, scientists and writers on ships and expelled them. Many of those who stayed were shot or sent to the camps. In 1940, in the forest of Katyn, Stalin's secret police executed around 22,000 Polish prisoners: officers, but also doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers and priests. A nation's educated class was killed one by one, each with a bullet in the back of the head.
Mao perfected the method.
In 1956 he launched the Hundred Flowers campaign. "Let a hundred flowers bloom." He invited China's intellectuals to speak freely and to criticize the Party. They believed him, and they spoke. A year later the trap closed. The Anti-Rightist Campaign branded more than half a million people as enemies. Professors, writers, engineers and doctors lost their careers and their families, and many were sent to labor camps they never left.
Mao was proud of it. In 1958 he compared himself to the First Emperor of China, who was infamous for burying 460 scholars alive. Mao boasted that the Communists had buried 46,000.
His masterpiece came in 1966, with the Cultural Revolution. This time he didn't need the police. He used children.
Schools were closed and students became Red Guards. Their teachers were dragged onto stages for "struggle sessions." Their heads were shaved, placards were hung around their necks, and they were forced to kneel while crowds beat and spat on them. In August 1966 Lao She, one of the greatest writers in modern Chinese literature, was beaten by Red Guards. The next day he was found drowned in a lake in Beijing. That same month, at a girls' school in Beijing, students beat their vice principal Bian Zhongyun to death.
Then the revolution entered the home. Children learned a slogan: "Father and mother are dear, but not as dear as Chairman Mao." Sons denounced fathers and daughters denounced mothers. Zhang Hongbing was 16 when he reported his own mother, and she was executed. A child turning on his parents was celebrated as the highest form of virtue.
Once the Red Guards had done the dirty work, Mao discarded them too. From 1968 on, around 17 million young people were sent to the countryside to "learn from the peasants." A whole generation lost its education, its youth and often its sanity. The revolution devours its own children, every single time.
Cambodia, 1975. The Khmer Rouge emptied the cities in days. Glasses, soft hands, speaking French: any of these could mark you as an intellectual, and being an intellectual could get you killed. In four years roughly a quarter of the population was dead.
Look at the pattern, because it never changes. First, convince the young that the world is rotten and the old are guilty. Second, silence or destroy the people who could contradict the story. Third, break the family so that the only loyalty left is to the cause. Fourth, give the young power. Fifth, when they've finished the dirty work, throw them away.
I am not telling you America is China in 1966. I'm telling you the first steps look familiar. Careers are destroyed over a single opinion. Professors sign ideological pledges just to get hired. Children are taught to see their parents as bigots and their country's history as nothing but a list of crimes. Political violence is excused online, and sometimes even celebrated. Every year it gets a little more radical, and every year the people who warn about it are called alarmists.
This is not a left versus right debate. Reasonable people can disagree about tax rates, healthcare or trade, and that's politics. What I'm describing is something else. It's an ideology that has killed tens of millions of people in the last century, and it always starts by promising justice to the young. We should call it what it is: evil.
You fight evil by refusing to become it. Teach real history. Defend free speech, especially for the people you disagree with. Protect the teachers and parents who refuse to bow. Above all, give young people something to own, build and defend, so that no one can sell them the fire.
I come from a continent that has already lived this story. Please don't let your children write the next chapter.
My dear American friends, I've shown you where the disease came from and who sells it. Now I want you to look at this email.
January 5, 2020, 2:44 in the morning. Peter Thiel writes to Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Andreessen. It became public years later, in a lawsuit between the state of Tennessee and Meta. The subject line is one word: Millennials.
Thiel starts from a number: 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist.
Read that again. Seven out of ten young adults in the richest, freest, most innovative country in human history say they want the system that ruined every country that tried it.
And Thiel, one of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley, says something important. Don't just dismiss them as stupid or brainwashed. Understand why. His answer: when you're crushed by student debt and housing is unaffordable, you have no capital and no way to build any. And if you have no stake in capitalism, you turn against it.
He's right. But follow the thread one step further, because that's where it gets interesting.
Who made college unaffordable? Washington flooded universities with easy federal loans, and universities raised their prices year after year, because they could. The same universities that then taught those students, for four years, that capitalism is the problem.
Who made housing unaffordable? Zoning rules, permits, environmental reviews, endless regulation that makes it nearly illegal to build. Remember Piketty's famous rise of capital? It was mostly housing. Scarcity created by the state.
So here's the full picture. The state creates the scarcity. The universities teach that capitalism caused it. The politicians sell socialism as the cure. The arsonist is selling fire insurance.
That's why 70% is not a natural opinion. No generation wakes up one morning wanting central planning. It takes decades of teaching, a captured culture, and an economy rigged to give young people no stake in it. In a healthy country, that number would trigger a serious public investigation into what American universities have been teaching for fifty years. This is not a debate. It's the result of a long, patient operation, exactly the war of position Gramsci described from his prison cell.
Now let me tell you what history says happens when an ideology captures a generation and turns it against everything that came before.
China, 1966. Mao unleashes the Cultural Revolution and hands it to the youth. Students become Red Guards. Their mission: destroy the "Four Olds," old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas. Temples, books, art, centuries of history, smashed.
In August 1966, at a girls' school in Beijing, students beat their vice principal, Bian Zhongyun, to death. She was one of the first. Teachers across the country were humiliated, tortured, killed by the children they had taught.
In 1970, a 16-year-old boy named Zhang Hongbing denounced his own mother for criticizing Mao. She was executed. He spent the rest of his life trying to apologize for it.
Children were taught that loyalty to the Party came before loyalty to their parents. Historians estimate the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of people.
The Soviet Union did it first. It turned a boy named Pavlik Morozov into a national hero for denouncing his father. Generations of Soviet children were raised on his story.
Cambodia, 1975. The Khmer Rouge declare Year Zero. Teenagers with rifles empty the cities. Wearing glasses was enough to mark you as an intellectual. In four years, roughly a quarter of the population was dead.
Every time, the same pattern. Take the young. Teach them that the past is guilty. Teach them that their parents, their teachers, their history are the enemy. Then give them power.
So when you see statues pulled down, words banned, books rewritten, and parents treated as obstacles in their own children's schools, understand what you're looking at. It's not the end of the story. It's the opening act. It always starts with the young, and it always starts with good intentions.
If the West ever gets its Marxist youth revolution, it won't end in Scandinavia. It will end the way it has ended every single time it was tried for real. And we will have learned nothing.
Thiel saw the number. I'm telling you where it leads.
The answer is not to hate the young. It's to give them back a stake in the system. Let them build. Let them buy a home. Make college worth its price or skip it. Let them start companies instead of drowning in debt. A generation that owns something defends it. A generation that owns nothing will burn it down.
I come from your future. Don't let your children write the next chapter of this story.
Tim Locum retweeted
“Ask yourself a simple question. Why is almost every celebrity on the same side?
“Actors, singers, late-night hosts, award-show presenters. Thousands of people with different backgrounds, different lives, different temperaments. And somehow, on every major issue, they land on the exact same opinion, at the exact same moment, with the exact same hashtags. Free minds don't behave like that. An ecosystem does.
“Now ask a second question. Elon Musk is landing rockets on their own tails. He's bringing internet to villages that never had a phone line. He's building cars that drive themselves and implants that let paralyzed people move a cursor with their thoughts. Artists are supposed to be the ones who dream about the future. Here is a man actually building it. How many of them stand next to him? A handful. Why?
“Because Hollywood is not a free market of talent. It's a royal court.
“A young actor doesn't make it because he's good. Hundreds are good. He makes it because someone lets him in: an agent, a casting director, a producer, a studio, an awards committee. Every step is a gate, and every gate has a keeper. When your whole career depends on a few rooms, you learn very quickly what can be said in those rooms and what can't.
“This is how it works. First you stay silent. Then you nod. Then you repeat. Then you believe. Compromise never arrives all at once. It arrives one dinner, one role, one red carpet at a time. And once you've given up enough, you need the system to stay in place, because the system is the only thing that makes the sacrifice worth it.
“Want to see the whole mechanism in a single story? For decades, one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood was the subject of accusations from dozens of women, and much of the industry treated it as an open secret. A host even joked about it at an Oscar nominations announcement, and the room laughed. Speaking up seriously meant losing everything. When the truth finally broke, the same industry dressed in black and applauded its own courage. Silence while it pays. Virtue once it's safe. That's the system.
“And that's the real lie. Not that these people are monsters. Most aren't. The lie is calling it courage. Real courage costs you something. Saying what every room in town already applauds costs nothing. Saying the opposite is what costs. That's why so few artists stand with Elon. Not because they've studied his ideas and rejected them, but because standing there is a career risk they can't afford.
“Look at what happened to him when he left the consensus. Advertisers fled. Friends disappeared. Invitations stopped. He could afford it. Almost nobody else can. That tells you exactly how free that world really is.
“So wake up. Stop taking your political cues from people whose paycheck depends on agreeing. A celebrity endorsement is not an argument. It's a loyalty signal. Your vote, your convictions, your children's future: don't outsource them to people who are paid to recite lines someone else wrote.
“The people who build the future rarely get applause from the people who perform it.
“Think for yourself. It's the most American thing you can do.”
—Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael), translated from French
Tim Locum retweeted
My origin story of how I went from a “trust the science” RN to telling people to use alternative & natural medicine whenever possible.
Before March 2020, I had never once seen a patient get intubated just because their oxygen number looked bad. We treated the person in front of us - if they were walking, talking, and not in distress, we didn’t sedate them and shove a tube down their throat to breathe for them.
Numbers were one piece of the picture, not the whole thing.
Then COVID hit and everything flipped overnight.
Suddenly we were intubating people who walked into the ER on their own, could hold a conversation, and weren’t gasping for air. The doctors said their low sats meant they were about to crash. It went against everything I’d been taught- treat the patient, not the numbers.
Visitors weren’t allowed, so we let them FaceTime their families right before we did it. I looked them in the eyes and told them it was temporary- we’d wake them in a few days and they’d be home in no time.
Right after the tube went in, we started Remdesivir.
For the first couple days it felt like we were doing something heroic.
Then the patients started dying. Multi-organ failure. The same people I’d joked with and reassured hours or days earlier were gone. I kept thinking, “How is this virus killing relatively young, healthy people this fast even with the best treatment we have?”
By day six I noticed something that made my stomach drop: the COVID patients who refused intubation, including elderly ones with a list of comorbidities, were doing fine. Not one of them died.
I started pointing it out to every doctor and nurse I worked with. They looked at me like I was crazy.
By day nine the picture got worse. Patients who refused the tube but still got Remdesivir were dying at roughly 50%. The explanation I kept hearing was “only the sickest get the drug.”
But that didn’t match what I was watching, what I was trained to see.
By day ten I was not so quietly telling every person I knew: if you end up in the hospital with COVID, do not consent to intubation or Remdesivir. Do not allow them to do that to your loved ones.
My ER kept doing both anyway. Even after the pattern was obvious to anyone who was actually in the rooms.
Later I found out hospitals were getting paid extra for COVID patients who were intubated, more if they got Remdesivir, and still more for every day spent in an ICU bed. Once you see the incentives, the refusal to change course stops looking like pure science.
I still can’t fully wrap my head around how fast the rules changed and how hard it was to get anyone to look at the actual results in front of us. I went from “trust the experts” to “watch what happens to the patients and decide for yourself.”
If you were on the front lines and saw something different, say so. If you weren’t, this is why a lot of us stopped automatically trusting the system and have dropped out of it.
I’m the villain and the hero of my own story and it’s hard to reconcile with either.
Tim Locum retweeted
Mike Ditka was one of the only people in sports in 2016 who had the balls to call out Collin Kaepernick for being an anti-American fraud.
And his comments definitely aged well.
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Super Sky Point to Mike Ditka. I moved to Chicago in 2003, over a decade after “Da Coach” prowled the sidelines at Soldier Field for the final time. Yet his presence has always felt current. He arrived in 1961, a crew cut chunk of granite who hauled in a dozen touchdowns as a Pro Bowl rookie tight end. A quarter of a century later, he was carried off the field in glory at Super Bowl XX. Four decades later, his shadow casts large as ever over the banks of Lake Michigan as the only Bears head coach to ever hoist that precious Lombardi.
He’s beloved in this town for many reasons. Because he always said what he meant and meant what he said - even if sometimes he shouldn’t have said it. Because he loved the common man. Because even when he was an asshole, he was OUR asshole. Walter Payton is the greatest Bear. Dick Butkus is the most violent. George Halas will always be Papa Bear. But no one, and I mean no one, better represents what it means to be a Chicago Bear, or a Chicago Bears fan, than Mike Fucking Ditka. St. Peter, grab a helmet, because today he’s young again. #RIP
Tim Locum retweeted
Mike Ditka was scheduled to sing the seventh inning stretch on July 5th, 1998. This was the year that Harry Caray died and the “guest conductor” was new at Wrigley Field. Ditka got stuck in traffic and was running late. By the time the top of the seventh ended, Ditka was still not there and Steve Stone and Chip Caray stalled for time. Finally Ditka busts into the press box, grabs the mic, and screams Take Me Out To The Ball Game in twenty two seconds! Organist Gary Pressy could barely keep up! The crowd roared with approval! R.I.P. Mike Ditka
Tim Locum retweeted
It’s with a heavy heart that I’m sharing the Ditka family has announced the passing of Mike Ditka this morning.
Da Coach. Hall of Famer. The heartbeat of the ’85 Bears and a Super Bowl champion. Chicago won’t be the same.
Prayers to Diana and the family.
RIP, Coach. 🐻⬇️
Here’s a statement from the family:
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and friend, Mike Ditka. While the world knew Mike as a Hall of Fame football player, legendary coach, and leader of the Chicago Bears’ Super Bowl XX championship team, we knew him as the heart of our family. Mike will be missed beyond measure and remembered forever.
With love and gratitude, The Ditka Family
Tim Locum retweeted
Elon Musk hasn't sold a Tesla share in years and lives off $1 billion in personal loans
His Tesla stock keeps appreciating
The loans charge him 2-3% interest
The IRS never sees a single dollar of capital gains tax
This is exactly how the wealthiest people in America accumulate wealth without paying taxes
When you SELL an asset that has appreciated, you owe capital gains tax. For someone like Elon selling $1B in Tesla stock:
Federal capital gains at 20%: $200M
Net investment income tax at 3.8%: $38M
Texas state tax: $0 (this is why Elon moved there)
Total tax bill on selling $1B: $238M
When you BORROW against appreciated assets, you owe ZERO tax. Loan proceeds are not income. They never appear on your tax return
Sell $1B in Tesla stock: $762M after tax
Borrow $1B against it at 2-3% interest: $1B tax-free, and he still owns the stock
Tax planners call it "buy, borrow, die":
Borrow against appreciated stock
Use the loan for homes, cars, business operations
Never sell the underlying stock
Refinance when the stock goes up
Pass everything to heirs at a stepped-up basis
Heirs sell with $0 in capital gains tax owed
The regular person version:
If you have $100K+ in stocks at Schwab or Fidelity, you can open a pledged asset line. Borrow up to 50% of the portfolio at roughly 6-8%. No fixed monthly principal payments
$200K in stocks:
Borrow $100K at 6.5%
Annual interest cost: $6,500
Tax you didn't pay by not selling: 20,000-30,000
And if you don't have $100K in stocks, you have the other thing banks lend against. A 700 credit score borrows $100,000 to $250,000 at 0% for 12 months on business credit cards. Elon pays 2-3%. You'd pay nothing for the first year
Most middle-class Americans never do any of this because they follow advice that says "live within your means and don't borrow"
The wealthiest Americans borrow constantly
Elon never sells Tesla. He never pays capital gains tax. The strategy is legal and it's been in the tax code since before any of us were born
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Musk has no current personal loans against Tesla stock per his statement and company filings. He hasn't sold shares openly recently but has previously and paid large taxes e.g. $11B+ in 2021.
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