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[@rossiadam](/creator/twitter/rossiadam)
""Put your sword back in its place for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." - Matthew 26:52 This has been popularized as: "Live by the sword die by the sword." Which mean those that rely on aggression violence ruthlessness will fall victim to it. It seems true to me but I have always wondered why Is it because becoming successful through these methods creates so many enemies Or because it is inherently risky and you will never know when to stop and eventually you will get into a situation you can't get out of Or is it just karma (painting by George Vogel 1841 "The Swiss With the Dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980657549469970717) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-21T15:28Z 22.1K followers, 14.6K engagements


"I love the fact that LimeWire bought Fyre Festival for $245k. Its like DeLorean Motor Company buying the assets of Nikola"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1968298894816866384) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-09-17T13:00Z 22.1K followers, 5424 engagements


"VC fund math can be brutal when you strip away the prestige and status. Here's my post-investment ritual: When a venture deal finally pays off (say 3x after a decade sounds great) I immediately compare it to what that same money would have earned sitting in an S&P XXX index fund with dividends reinvested. The results are consistently sobering. The standard VC Fund "2 and 20" model works like this: Day 1: X% of your capital disappears forever the minute you invest Years 1-15: Another 2-2.5% vanishes annually in management fees Exit Day: XX% of any gross returns go to fund managers This is the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1968641587480547710) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-09-18T11:41Z 22.1K followers, 19.7K engagements


"1999 was the peak of modern culture and progress. This clip from the Matrix explains: Why was 1999 selected as the peak of your civilization Because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization. A thread written by a GenX'er 🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1977369437402501403) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-12T13:43Z 22.1K followers, 63.5K engagements


"Have you ever had this little voice in your head warn you that something was off about a person but you ignored it and they turned out to be great Yeah me neither"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980685472251686994) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-21T17:19Z 22.1K followers, 14.3K engagements


"We just ordered extruded steel at my company @totalshield_llc and the cost was LOWER than our last order. High fives 🙌 When was the last time our healthcare renewal came in lower than the previous year Never. Its never ever happened. Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980995234139078779) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-22T13:50Z 22.1K followers, 2926 engagements


"GE Appliances is XXX% owned by Haier Group Corporation a Chinese multinational. Haier acquired GE Appliances from General Electric in 2016 for $XXX billion. I cant find a breakdown of mfg capacity in USA vs China but it appears the majority of production remained in the XX US plants. Haier is now moving more production from China to USA. Tariffs working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1955969339422560358) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-08-14T12:26Z 21.9K followers, 4199 engagements


"Do we buy the American robot that is 4x more expensive but is made in the USA and with local support Or do we buy the Chinese robot and save a bunch of money but total dice roll on support and longevity This is the question. What do you all think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1971276190599299502) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-09-25T18:10Z 22K followers, 89.3K engagements


"I am hearing from so many young people that are really struggling to find their first professional entry level job. Send them this article. I guarantee that if they follow this plan they will have a much higher chance of landing a job"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1976638585161031701) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-10T13:18Z 21.9K followers, 14.9K engagements


"We peaked in making original movies in 1999. The Matrix Fight Club Eyes Wide Shut The Sixth Sense Gladiator Movies for the most part that were not overly reliant on CGI based on original content not sequels. We still dared to create new art not derivatives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1977369443186430147) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-12T13:43Z 22K followers, 2433 engagements


"Music similarly reached a zenith. Pre-autotune. We had a diverse mix of rock grunge rap techno pop and metal. This was before everything got smeared into the same formulaic stuff you hear on TikTok today. Rage Metallica Eminem Lauryn Hill Red Hot Chili Peppers Jay-Z"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1977369446340583583) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-12T13:43Z 22K followers, 2340 engagements


"Anyone who even mentions the carbon footprint of agriculture needs to tarred feathered and run out on a rail. We need to eat. I dont care if agriculture is a X% or XXX% contributor of atmospheric carbon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1978421958006980905) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-15T11:25Z 21.9K followers, 13.2K engagements


"This week millions of Americans are frantically scrambling to gather missing K-1s writing big checks to accountants and signing 100-page returns they dont understand Today October XX is the final deadline for taxpayers who filed for a six-month extension to submit their 2024 federal income tax return. The trillions of dollars of human potential Americans waste on tax paperwork annually could have established a permanent moon base already. Across America 840000 tax professionals spend millions of hours annually calculating XX different state filing thresholds chasing missing K-1s and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1978468926301335576) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-15T14:32Z 21.9K followers, 25.4K engagements


"The elderly are suffering from loneliness and a sedentary lifestyle. If this gets them outside walking and some fellowship then its a good thing. Have a No Kings once a week. When a dem is president keep it going with No Socialists. They need community"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979668648764875146) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-18T21:59Z 21.9K followers, 12.1K engagements


"@ken_wheeler 👊🏼"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979953402676121926) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-19T16:50Z 21.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Rather than calling them rare earth minerals can we just call it spice And rather than saying we need to diversify our spice supply chains can we just insist that the spice must flow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1977749608710180978) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-13T14:53Z 22.1K followers, 73.6K engagements


"Passive income content online suffers a serious case of what I call the "Smaug Syndrome". Everyone shows the dragon atop the gold pile - not the 100s of raids it took to capture that hoard in the first place. X in XX of: Bitcoin millionaires Earned their first $100k somewhere else Real Estate moguls Started with one nightmare fixer-upper property Dividend investors Built capital through years of active sweat Here's what bugs me here on X: Someone with $X million in Bitcoin tells someone making $50000 a year to "just stack coins. "Buy the dip" With what "Dollar cost average" With what dollars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979169983855816940) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-17T12:57Z 22.1K followers, 71.8K engagements


"This one hurts. I have taken my kids to family-owned Merrifield Garden Center since they were babies. Have bought $$$ of garden plants trees mulch gravel over the years. Another victim of the insatiable data center demand. At $4M - $6M / acre cant say no. cc @usafiore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979298248419611017) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-17T21:27Z 22.1K followers, 86.7K engagements


"Where am I gonna pee The closure of REIs public toilets is devastating. So we have a shortage of public toilets in NYC. What is always the solution Free market capitalism. Except pay toilets have not been allowed since the 80s. Governments banned them and promised taxpayer-subsidized free public toilets that never materialized. The ban did not lead to a widespread increase in free well-maintained public restrooms as the cities and states that banned them often lacked the funding to build and maintain them. This has contributed to the current shortage of public restrooms in the U.S. Another"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979522923556659289) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-18T12:20Z 22.1K followers, 8675 engagements


"For those of you that are new to following me my goal is to become the best 50+ Caucasian nunchucker in the state of Virginia. I may at this point be the best in my town"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979908100158025991) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-19T13:50Z 22.1K followers, 142K engagements


"In XX years we flipped the US map from manufacturing being the largest employer in most states to healthcare being the largest employer. Absolute shit trade. We need to flip the map back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980590538886881641) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-21T11:02Z 22.1K followers, 856.7K engagements


"@moneyfumbler Thanks so much man. Very nice of you to say. I have been writing a long book for my kids for years and sometimes I think why not just publish it But it never feels done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1981000904200671257) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-22T14:13Z 22.1K followers, XXX engagements


"I am no prude but VC pouring money into both gambling platforms AND problem gambling treatments is beyond the pale. Absolute predation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1944006399035417041) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-07-12T12:10Z 22.1K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Watching my gold holdings hit new ATH every day and understanding what it really means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1972669081858740573) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-09-29T14:25Z 22K followers, 19.1K engagements


"4.6 months of paid leave a year enforced by the State. Hear that sound Thats small business owners across the state of Minnesota calling a broker looking to sell their business or move across state lines. Marxist madness. Collectivist confusion. Socialist suicide"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1975936872443781412) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-08T14:50Z 22.1K followers, 71.1K engagements


"Epic fail in South Korea. Government employees each store data on a "G-drive" with data physically resident in one data center. They don't back it up to another location because its too much data. Then the data center burns down and 858TB of government data is gone forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1975974640154538445) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-08T17:20Z 22K followers, 16.7K engagements


"Growing up in southwest Virginia working on farms for $XXXX an hour we always made jokes about people buying bales of straw to just use as decorations. City folk in Northern Virginia with more dollars than sense. Well your boy just spent $XXX on this stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1977476493052612866) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-12T20:48Z 22K followers, 35.1K engagements


"I posted yesterday a rejection of carbon accounting for agriculture. I dont think its helpful. If agriculture increases atmospheric carbon then so be it. We need to eat. The information does us no good even if its true. If atmospheric carbon is truly what you are concerned about then just go all-in on advocating for nuclear or natgas replacing coal for baseload power. Just keep working on that. Grind away. It will take decades. Leave the farmers alone. They have a hard enough job as it is. They dont need a bunch of soft-handed intellectuals who have never picked up a shovel lecturing them on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1978788537433473230) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-16T11:42Z 22K followers, 10.2K engagements


"The US healthcare system provides the most generous no cost services in the world for those below income threshold/elderly. Question for fully socialized / taxpayer subsidized healthcare systems like Canada or Europe: would a repeat drug user like this be cutoff at some point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979962100219850920) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-19T17:25Z 22.1K followers, 9396 engagements


"@EddiesMind Quote from the vendor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980296299984687496) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-20T15:33Z 22K followers, XX engagements


"@KPRunion Hear hear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980617608517804291) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-21T12:50Z 22.1K followers, XX engagements


"LIQUIDITY. It is becoming more and more important to me. I am seeing WAY too many people tie up their money in deals that lack liquidity. They are locking up their money for a decade or more. I know people that "made it" with a big exit and are now worried on a DAILY basis because they have a high net worth on paper but can't come up with the money they need for normal purchases or to pay taxes. One of my friends locked all of his money up in very illiquid real estate (an island property) and says he often wakes up and throws up into a trash can due to stress. From most liquid to least liquid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1927461079606509874) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-05-27T20:25Z 22.1K followers, 115.9K engagements


"Wood burning fire makes everything better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1977400979935940839) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-12T15:48Z 22.1K followers, 6821 engagements


"Anthem healthcare plan for my company just came in at a XXXXX% increase. I feel like they could have put some lipstick on this pig by keeping it at a XXXXX% increase in premiums. But no. Honestly impressed at what a power move this is. Serve em the dogfood theyll eat it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1978843575296160183) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-16T15:20Z 22.1K followers, 135.7K engagements


"Local NBC Channel X news here in the DC area just provided locations and times for No Kings protests tomorrow in VA MD DC. During the segment footage showed people holding up Trump Must Go signs. Protests are now media sponsored sporting events for retired people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1979150576010121397) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-17T11:40Z 22.1K followers, 4342 engagements


"American made robot will cost $300k. Lead time is XX months 🤯 Re industrializing is neither cheap nor quick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980294663732085094) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-20T15:26Z 22.1K followers, 3738 engagements


"@TexasOncologist I cant tell you how many once-thriving cities with diverse employment I now see dominated by a big healthcare system or government employment. That is a death spiral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980592175282024483) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-21T11:09Z 22.1K followers, 5723 engagements


"PART X of my "Smaug Series" on Passive Income Tune out all of the screenshots being posted to X of multi-million dollar stock portfolios. Most fortunes begin with "Grindstone Cash" which is capital sharpened into existence through repetition and diligence. This is what a typical 20-something is facing currently: Bills eating any potential investment capital. Rent takes 40-50% of income. Car payment groceries inflation After necessities maybe a couple hundred bucks left per month. It can be brutal for young folks at the moment. And heres what theyre absorbing scrolling timelines: Just buy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980598104614162608) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-21T11:32Z 22.1K followers, 7721 engagements


"Find the right woman and everything else is easy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1980792274209378747) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-22T00:24Z 22.1K followers, 5764 engagements


"I have become comfortably numb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/rossiadam/status/1981154237179711727) [@rossiadam](/creator/x/rossiadam) 2025-10-23T00:22Z 22.1K followers, 20.1K engagements