Ken Griffin's Escape from New York

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They all want to be Luigi Mangione. So many want to achieve fame and infamy by killing for the Democrat Party. This week we learned that was the reason for the Palisades fire.
That's why the suspect Jonathan Rindernecht set the fire to begin with. He was fixated on Luigi Mangione, obsessed with him, prosecutors said.
And Rindernecht even told them that he started the fire because of resentment of the rich.
Folks, that fire killed 12 people, destroyed 7,000 homes and businesses, and did $150 billion in damages. And never forget, not a single Democrat in leadership, not one condemned Luigi Mangione. That is not an accident. Before he went downstairs from his hotel room in DC to attempt to kill Trump and his entire cabinet, Cole Allen stopped to get the perfect selfie. That's why that selfie of him is so jarring. He's wearing all his weapons. He's taking the photo from multiple angles, trying to catch the one in which he looks the most handsome.
Why?
Because women are obsessed on the Democrat side with Luigi Mangione. Whole crowds of them stand outside the courtroom trying to get in when he's tried. On CNN, they have on people like Taylor Lorenz to fawn over him and wish that they could find a man as, her words, not mine, moral as Luigi Mangione to date. Cole Allen was a nobody and a nothing, and he wanted to be a sex symbol. And the fastest way to do that is to kill for the Democrat Party.
I bring that up because of the news this morning that financial powerhouse, Citadel, appears to be getting ready to move in its entirety out of New York City to the red state of Florida. You may wonder how those two things are related. They're related because our side, our media, is not listening to Citadel CEO, Ken Griffith. Everybody went and did the predictable piece. Oh, Citadel is fleeing New York. Looky there, that was the big business use yesterday for Miami because taxes and Zoran Mamdani, the mayor announcing more taxes. And yeah, look, see, Republican business climate is so much better. But they're not listening to Ken Griffith, who did not cite taxes as the reason he's fleeing New York for Florida and taking a lot of the Citadel employee base with him. This story sure is about billionaires and their corporations fleeing to Florida. I've been on that for a while. But it's also about how Democrats are now using the implied threat of violence, including against the most powerful CEOs in this country. To understand what's actually going on here, you've got to go back to the beginning of the story, back to 2022 when Ken Griffin, who's been a long time uniparty donor, moved, and I say uniparty, he donates mostly to open borders squish Bush League Republicans and some Democrats, particularly when those Democrats are running against conservative Republicans. But mostly he donates to Republicans, but he's been a big donor to Mitt Romney, so you see what that gets you. Anyway, Griffin personally moved to Florida from Chicago in 2022, relocated his family and shifted the headquarters of his hedge fund, Citadel, to Miami. But at least to date, that move has largely been symbolic since a large portion of the employees remained in New York. And Citadel continued with its plans for a $6 billion expansion at 350 Park Avenue in New York, an expansion so massive that it would have taken 6,000 construction jobs to build and eventually would have been home for 15,000 Citadel employees. That's in addition to the 2,500 there now. Well, Griffin's become such a big fan of Florida that he became kind of the official ambassador for billionaires, personally calling them, courting them, everyone from Palantir to Jeff Bezos, Amazon's relocated there, Zuckerberg, and he's been kind of open about that. Well, it wasn't long before all these defections, particularly the Silicon Valley ones that Griffin had been courting, began to really embarrass the Democrat Party.
I mean, when the founders of major companies like Netflix, WhatsApp, the payment system Stripe, Google co-founder Larry Page, all begin to relocate to the same area in Florida, folks, think about all these people. They've all either been Democrats, openly Democrats, or they've done the bidding of the Democrat Party. Look at this, like Larry Page and Google, absolutely they censored for the Democrat Party. In fact, they announced it in a meeting. They're still censoring for the EU.
Look at Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Remember, he's hosted the server space for Parler, and when the Democrats demanded it, and Parler had become the most downloaded app and the most temporarily popular social media site by hits and clicks, it was the only one at the time that wasn't censoring for the Democrats. Bezos wiped it off the server, completely destroying it. Today, it's just a one-page blog style website. Zuckerberg's moved too, and he's admitted he censored things he knew were true for the Democrat Party. All of these people, in other words, thugged out for the Democrat Party, thinking they'd get protection. And in previous podcasts, I've described it this way. They're now all hiding behind the wall in Florida. What is the wall? The wall in Florida is the federal court system. It is the most constitutional, some call it conservative, of all of our court systems. In other words, the one place would be impossible for Democrats to kangaroo court you the way that CEOs watched Trump get kangaroo courted in New York. Because remember what they did to Trump. They couldn't find any actual laws that he had violated, so the legislature passed a law, made it retroactive, and then used that to prosecute Trump. CEOs listened, learned, and went, dude, if they can do this to the former president at the time of the United States of America, who's also a billionaire, they can get me too. And they all began moving behind the wall, especially people who had business with the Trump administration, like Palantir. Our side botched this story badly, saying it was about taxes and Democrat areas being expensive and the coming billionaire tax in California. But as I pointed out to you before, it's not. Because a lot of these defections were announced before the billionaire tax. They're afraid, and I'm telling you, they're moving behind the wall. Because I know exactly the kind of conversations that are going on behind closed doors, maybe not even directly, but passed on, with Democrats saying, you move to Florida, you leave Silicon Valley, you don't censor for us, you step outside of the family, we're going to kangaroo court you. You'll be in the cell next to Elon Musk, who the Biden Justice Department tried to put in prison twice on trumped up charges. And that's the problem. No one is listening to Ken Griffin. Yesterday, he rocked the financial world by saying he was done. He's going to direct that expansion, the $6 billion one, to Miami, not New York.