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The world wants Texas to stand tall in its legendary boots. It's drawn to our confident exceptionalism, larger-than-life mystique, and effortless, polite swagger. Texas is everybody's brand of cool.
And now the Texas Triangle is fast becoming the mightiest economic and technological region on the planet.
It's up to us, native and adopted Texans, to ensure that our culture doesn't get lost in all the progress. If we're successful, humanity's next round of great triumphs will be declared with a Texan twang.
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
I just had an insane conversation with a guy who moved from California to McKinney, TX because it’s so much cheaper, but is voting Democrat because he wants Texas to have California style public transportation.
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
"I worked hard for my nest egg, let them figure it out on their own like I did."
You inherited a high-trust, homogenous Christian society with clean streets, affordable homes, and intact factories.
You left your children a hyper-regulated, debt-burdened territory occupied by hostile foreign interests.
Refusing to admit you failed the stewardship test is pure cowardice.
Look at the young men in your pews struggling to buy a simple starter home in a safe neighborhood to raise a family.
Your hard work means nothing if the family splits, moves across the country for a better life, and grandchildren see you once or twice a year while you sit in your RV and plan your next cruise as you celebrate the arrival of your Social Security check.
Come back together as a unified family and use the resources God gave you to help your descendants with what they need to be producers, and teach them how to fight and build.
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so on…
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
A Christian man with three million dollars in index funds and two sons working retail has failed as an economic leader.
Capital without a meaningful vocation is a curse.
Your sons do not need your cash when you’re ninety. They need tools, equity, and responsibility while they are under 30..
Sell the paper assets if necessary, but buy the land, buy the business, buy the building. Put the tools and resources in their hands.
Lead the household and a true faithful patriarch.
If Talarico is suffering a mental break, it’s the Democrats who broke him. If they needed a moderate candidate to appeal to Texas voters, they should’ve run one. Trying to get one over on Texans has never been a winning move.
Example: Take an all-around classic son of Texas like Brandon Gill.
Imagine asking him to disavow steak while eating a salad on camera. Tell him he has to trade his F-150 for a Subaru. Tell him he needs to tone down his personal beliefs on his faith and family. Tell him that who he actually is isn’t what Texas voters want.
And tell him if he doesn’t do it, he’s let everyone down and failed the mission.
Would Brandon do it? No, highly unlikely. But if he did, he wouldn’t be able to keep it up for long. Either the false facade or his mind would break from the pressure of it.
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
The Texas Triangle will see the biggest economic expansion in the US over the next ten years.
Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio.
Nothing else groups like this:
- low cost of living
- high quality of life
- ample and relatively cheap land
- no state income tax
- central location
- good weather
- diverse economies
- business and regulatory friendly
- good education & healthcare
- Giga Texas + Terafab + Bastrop
The suburban and rural areas will also benefit massively from technological and cultural shifts:
- work from anywhere
- self driving cars, no traffic
- transportation: drones, flying cars
- food delivery improvements (not just TexMex and BBQ anymore)
- AR/VR/AI in education
- decreasing social isolation
- influx of talent and high-caliber people
- patriotic, pro-American, homogenous culture & values
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
Early takeaways from Austin Deep Tech Week:
1. Austin is a serious f*cking city.
SF is still the center of gravity.
LA has built an absolute monster around aerospace, defense and industrials.
But after spending a few days in Austin, I'm increasingly convinced this city has structural advantages that the coasts underestimate.
People I've met here seem to have one primary objective:
Build.
Heads down. Gas pedal pinned to the floor.
Noticeably less obsession with looking important and more obsession with actually making shit work.
Deep tech rewards exactly that mentality.
2. Texas being aggressively pro-business isn't some Twitter talking point. It's an actual competitive advantage.
Heard versions of this repeatedly from founders and investors this week.
Permitting. Regulation. Taxes. Energy. Land. Manufacturing. Expansion.
When you're building software, you can abstract yourself away from geography.
When you're building atoms, geography becomes part of your cap table.
Every additional month waiting on a facility, permit, power connection or expansion is effectively dilution.
Texas understand that speed matters.
3. The coastal migration isn't over.
SF and LA still have unbelievable technical talent density, particularly at the earliest stages.
But the requirements change when a deep tech company starts working.
Now you need 100,000 square feet.
Power.
Testing.
Manufacturing.
Suppliers.
Technicians.
Hundreds of employees.
Suddenly Texas starts looking a hell of a lot more attractive.
And founders here don't seem nearly as worried about convincing talent to follow them as outsiders assume.
4. The next chapter isn't companies moving to Texas. It's companies starting here.
Historically the playbook has often been:
Coast → prove technology → raise capital → expand into Texas.
I think that increasingly becomes:
Texas → Texas → Texas.
More technical founders will move here before starting the company.
More pre-seed and seed companies will originate here.
More headquarters will be planted here from Day 1.
And that's when the flywheel gets interesting:
Talent → startups → capital → exits → experienced operators → new startups.
Once that loop starts compounding, ecosystems become very difficult to stop.
5. Austin feels significantly less distracted.
There is obviously bullshit everywhere. Startups attract grift like flies to shit.
But there's noticeably less keeping-up-with-the-Joneses energy here.
Less worrying about who raised what round.
Less optimizing for appearances.
Less obsession with which VC follows you or which dinner you got invited to.
More:
Does the thing actually work?
That cultural difference matters more than people realize.
6. “But the capital is on the coasts” is becoming a lazy argument.
Have you ever heard of a f*cking airplane?
It's 2026.
If you're building a generational company in Austin and a great investor in SF wants into the round, they're getting on the plane.
Great companies don't travel to capital.
Capital travels to great companies.
Austin already has serious institutional capital on the ground alongside a growing ecosystem of smaller funds.
More capital will follow the companies.
It always does.
7. Austin increasingly looks built for where deep tech is going, not where venture has been.
Deep tech is becoming less about a handful of scientists sitting in a Bay Area lab and increasingly about deploying massive amounts of physical infrastructure.
Factories.
Energy.
Robotics.
Defense.
Space.
Advanced manufacturing.
Data centers.
Industrial systems.
Those businesses eventually collide with the physical world.
And the physical world cares about land, power, regulation, labor, logistics and speed.
Texas has a lot of all six.
SF still has the deepest venture ecosystem. LA has built an extraordinary deep tech machine.
But Austin doesn't need to become either of them.
It may be building something fundamentally different:
A startup ecosystem optimized not just for inventing hard technology — but for actually industrializing it.
That's a much more interesting proposition.
Came into Austin Deep Tech Week thinking this was an important emerging hard tech ecosystem.
Now thinking “emerging” might already be outdated.
Ingredients are here.
Talent is coming.
Capital will follow.
Unlike a lot of startup ecosystems I've visited, Austin feels like it actually wants you to build shit here.
That's a hell of a tailwind 🏭🇺🇸
Finally - mad props @Andercot, @CaitlinCloud9, @Jason_A_Scharf + many others for putting this together & making this a kickass week!
If any of our aging parents grossly mismanaged their money and were repeated victims of fraud and grift like the federal government, the likelihood of a court-appointed conservatorship to protect them from their own incompetence is 100%.
At this point, the federal government would be deemed fully senile and incapable of managing its own financial affairs.
This Guy Loves Texas retweeted
Contrast two kinds of men now arguing over America's future.
One looked at empty Texas scrubland and saw the largest building on Earth, then summoned $16.8 billion in capital, thousands of construction tradesmen, and 3,000 permanent minds to raise and run it. Before that he saw rockets landing upright when every expert called it fantasy, and electric cars people would line up to buy, and he materialized those too. His tools are reason, vision, and trade. Every dollar he commands was handed to him by a customer who got something better in return.
The other kind is the politician who could not pour one yard of that concrete. But he holds the one tool of his trade, the state's gun. He calls the building excess, drafts the wealth tax to seize its output, and names the seizure compassion and justice. Ask the senator demanding Musk's billions what he has ever built. His one skill is the forced transfer of what abler men have made.
When Terafab rises, understand what you are looking at. The unforced human mind, made visible at scale. The looters will still demand their cut, and the demand itself is the confession. Nobody loots an empty desert. Wealth must be created before it can be seized, and it is created by men like Musk.
Honestly, this is an unprecedented opportunity to court moderate Democrats, just in time for the critical midterms.
You know that meme @SwipeWright created that @elonmusk retweeted a few years back?
When that meme now legitimately applies to @billmaher (🤯), who says his vote is "in play", there are *many* others feeling just like him.
Maybe it's time to switch to carrot versus stick with the donkey. 🥕🫏
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Ultimately, your complaint is against tribalism.
A tribe is forever and always seeking to increase power, influence, and moral authority by force of numbers. Bad behavior within a tribe weakens all three. So it’s treated with grace and civility for those inside the tent, and magnified and villified for those outside the tent.
It’s all a performance to attract new tribe members and keep the ones they have. It’s all about strength in numbers, and anything that weakens this, especially airing the dirty laundry of the tribe, is a complete non-starter.
You’ll get private apologies and admittance of wrong or fault, but asking them to do so publicly weakens that person’s membership in their tribe, which is usually a big part of their identity.
You’re fighting a 10,000+ year human instinct towards tribalism, which is a very strong current to swim against.
The loudest, most public voice for maximum truth-seeking over tribalism I’ve seen is @elonmusk , and he’s been simultaneously claimed by and thrown out of tribes left and right. But he’s unquestionably advancing human civilization through maximum truth-seeking. Maybe it’s the beginning of a new, better tribe…