Morning Update: Mid-Term Pro-Tip

Today, on the Morning Update, I’ve said it more than once and offered plenty of examples. Democrats destroy everything they touch. Today’s is just the latest example, and why you need to make sure everyone understands what it means before the November Mid-Terms.

  • Celebrate Barry’s Birthday with triggering style
  • Democrats destroy everything they touch
  • Y’all Street
  • Lessons from COVID and Floyd
  • How Not to Be like New York

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Ep 232 Links:

  • https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/yall-street-launches-texas-stock-exchange-goes-live-dallas
  • https://granitegrok.com/national/2026/03/macdonald-democrats-destroy-everything-they-touch
  • https://granitegrok.com/blog/2021/05/democrats-destroy-everything-they-touch-venice-beach-edition
  • https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/09/just-like-abortion-everything-the-dems-do-is-planned-destruction
  • https://therealnhsteve.substack.com/p/a-democrat-wouldnt-know-affordability

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Edited transcript:

Hey there, it’s Tuesday, August fourth, 2026. Welcome to the morning update. It’s President Obama’s birthday. I think you should celebrate by standing a cinder block in your yard in memory of his presidential lie-barry, anyway.

Democrats destroy everything they touch. Everything. Follow the links. There are plenty of examples. And today we bring you another one.

Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, Bank of America- they all have something in common. They have quietly or otherwise moved people and assets out of New York City, away from Wall Street, to Dallas, Texas. Why would they do that?

Democrats, the shift is tectonic. They have moved so far roughly a trillion dollars in value and assets from New York to Dallas. Tens of thousands of employees now live in Texas or will. The employees, their incomes, their assets, their purchasing power are lost.

They will now buy and rent homes, cars, furniture, everything, dinners, DoorDash, Amazon, drinks with friends, shopping. It’s all going to happen in Texas.

Democrats are responsible for the loss, and Republicans are responsible for the win.

While democrats have been working to ruin Texas for decades, it has become, like Florida, a sanctuary for people who create things, for free markets. Low taxes, a decreased regulatory burden, room to breathe and to decide for yourself how to invest the money that you earn and the value that you create.

And that trend just got a whole lot worse for New York and a whole lot better for Texas.

The Texas Stock Exchange, TXSE, or Tex-ee, is going to be open for business.

The Texas Stock Exchange, which is based in Dallas, is the first new major stock exchange to launch in the US in decades. The TXSE, called the Tex-ee, is looking to compete with the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Composite for listings.

The exchange boasts several prominent financial backers, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Charles Schwab, among others. It currently plans to be in corporate listings later this year and intends to facilitate initial public offerings starting in 2027. The TXSE sees the economic rise of Texas and a broader swath of the South that it’s calling the boom belt as being the center of gravity for American capitalism, in a market it can tap into for IPOs.

Democrats were killing New York City long before today, but they were doing it slowly. And then COVID happened. And then George Floyd happened. And Democrats said, We’re gonna defund the police.

They locked down law-abiding citizens and made them wear masks, but let looters, muggers, arsonists, murderers, and rapists roam free, sometimes mask-free. The message was clear. The tyrants were in fact exactly what we’ve been saying, and people began to flee. People who were told they had to work remotely decided they had no reason to go back to the city. And so did their employers. And they’re leaving en masse.

And they’re taking all their money and value and assets with them, their employees, everything.

The effect is that New York City, as it tries to tax more and spend more after making false promises, is going to have a problem.

They’re not going to be able to afford it. Somebody’s going to be suffering. And that’s going to be the New Yorkers who voted for people like Zorhan Mamdani.

This is your pro tip. The midterms are coming. Town elections, state elections, county elections. If you want to be New York, keep electing Democrats. If you want to be Texas, you need to elect Republicans.

Have a great day. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.

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