Carey

11:11. Music ❤️'r. Empathic. 🏈 fan. Intuitive. Mom. ❤️ to laugh. Traveler. Willing to listen, but not compromise. Heterosexual. Female since day one.

[Bruno Souza @brunosouzasc]

Elon Musk criou, em um único dia, 4.400 novos milionários.

Quase 400 deles ultrapassaram os US$ 100 milhões.

Não são banqueiros nem investidores de risco. São funcionários da SpaceX: soldadores, técnicos, mecânicos e até funcionários da cantina. Durante vinte anos, a empresa pagou gente de todos os níveis com ações, não só com salário alto. Quem produziu colheu.

Juan Hernandez, imigrante mexicano, aceitou um emprego de soldador por US$ 28 a hora em 2015, sem nem saber direito o que era a SpaceX. Recebeu uma pequena participação de US$ 10 mil e pôde comprar mais por desconto em folha. Hoje sua fatia vale US$ 880 mil.

Trevor Hise ignorou os conselhos dos pais para pegar um emprego “seguro” na General Electric. Escolheu a SpaceX, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações. Ao preço da listagem, são US$ 13,5 milhões. Aos 37 anos, ele já pode se aposentar. Palavras dele: “A magnitude disso é ridícula.”

O detalhe mais eloquente veio antes mesmo da abertura de capital: mais de 100 funcionários se uniram discretamente para contratar uma gestora de fortunas capaz de cuidar de até US$ 5 bilhões. Muitos nunca tinham precisado de wealth manager na vida.

Há décadas os IPOs de empresas de tecnologia enriquecem programadores. Desta vez, o dinheiro chegou ao chão de fábrica. Isso é capitalismo de verdade: quem arrisca, quem trabalha e quem entrega valor colhe frutos proporcionais.

A esquerda odeia esse tipo de história. Porque ela prova que a verdadeira ascensão social não vem de dividir a miséria alheia, mas de criar riqueza que eleva quem tem coragem de construir.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Austin Metcalf is dead.

Let’s stop dancing around the obvious.

Austin Metcalf received the death penalty.

Karmelo Anthony received 35 years.

One of them lives.
One of them gets a gravestone.

Save the faux outrage.

The real victim in this case is NOT the convicted killer.

The real victim is the young man who will never come home again and the family that will spend the rest of their lives grieving a loss that can never be undone.

This was a track meet.

A place for competition, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

NOT violence.
NOT murder.

And spare us the racial narratives.

Murder is wrong regardless of the race of the victim or the perpetrator. Any decent society should be able to agree on that.

Austin Metcalf lost everything.

His family got a life sentence of grief.

And while some are busy turning this tragedy into a racial debate, the Metcalf family is looking at the empty chair at the dinner table and remembering who actually paid the highest price.

Austin Metcalf got the death penalty.

Never forget that.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

COVID VACCINES KILL!

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

David Sedaris tells Bill Maher a drug addict’s dog bit a hole in his leg while he was walking in Portland.

He wrote an essay, thinking the story would spark outrage.

But he got a rude awakening when liberals blamed him and defended the addict.

He couldn’t figure it out until Maher bluntly told him why:

SEDARIS: “Nobody said how awful that you got bitten by a dog. They said, ‘What kind of a dog was it?’”

[Maher laughs]

SEDARIS: “One person said, ‘Did you get the names?’ And I said, ‘Oh, they’re fentanyl addicts… weren’t going to give me their names.’ ‘No, of the dogs, it would help to rescue them.’”

“But if I had said, if I had said I was walking down the street and these tech bros… they’d be incensed.”

“But because they were drug addicts, then everybody took their side. They felt like they couldn’t say that it was, they treated me like it was my fault. Or you just, ‘well, that’s the way it goes. You’re better off than they are.’”

MAHER: “You get to, I think, what is just the heart of so much of our f*cked up politics.”

“You say, ‘why is it so hard for people like me to say that it’s wrong for a drug addict’s dog to bite you?’”

“And your answer is because then, oh, then you’re a Republican. Which is crazy because then it puts the Democrats in the position of the pro-drug addict dog biters.”

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Piers Morgan asks a therapist to explain the gender pronouns he is defending.

The therapist cannot do it.

When Piers Morgan starts naming “official” gender identities, the therapist accuses him of making it up.

MORGAN: “When one human being says to me, ‘Call me they/them,’ I laugh. It’s absurd!”

THERAPIST: “And that shows that you’re not empathic.”

MORGAN: “How many pronouns are there?”

THERAPIST: “Multiple.”

MORGAN: “How many?”

THERAPIST: “I don’t know. I’m not an expert in that.”

MORGAN: “The last count is there are 74 official ones. Do you know [them]?”

THERAPIST: “Okay, you’re gonna say, ‘Cat’ and ‘dog.’ ‘I’m a cat. I’m a cat.’”

[Room laughs]

MORGAN: “No, no, no, no. Talking about gender pronouns. There are 74. One of them is astral gender — an affinity with space.”

THERAPIST: “Where are you getting this information?!”

MORGAN: “Google it! Literally Google it.”

THERAPIST: “Have you had someone on your show who said, ‘I’m an astral whatever’?”

MORGAN: “Yes, I actually got one on.”

THERAPIST: “And did you pay that person to go on? … That does not happen.”

MORGAN: “It does happen… There was a phenomenon called the furries. You know what it is?”

THERAPIST: “I know what furries are. Furries are not a gender. That’s its own kind of lifestyle.”

MORGAN: “With all due respect, this is where limitless self-identity takes you. It takes you to the absurd. Do you believe that you can identify as anything you like?”

THERAPIST: “No.”

MORGAN: “Oh. What are the exceptions?”

THERAPIST: “I think that most people, when they think about their gender identity, it’s he, him, she, her, they, ze. Those are the ones that people are [identifying as].”

MORGAN: “What’s ze?”

THERAPIST: “Ze is… Oh, God. Now, I can’t explain it. No, but ze…”

MORGAN: “You’ve no idea, have you?! It’s all complete baloney. What’s ze? ‘I have no idea.’ And you’re the guy trying to defend this nonsense!”

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“If you’re married but won’t give your spouse the code to your phone… that’s madness.”

Dr. John Delony said it straight up on Chris Williamson’s podcast. He argues that privacy and secrecy aren’t the same thing. If you can create a human being with someone but won’t let them see your phone, something’s seriously off. Secrets, he says, are gasoline for every major relationship problem.

This one cuts through the usual “my phone is my private space” talk. In a marriage, radical transparency isn’t about control, it’s about safety and trust.

Real intimacy can’t survive when there are hidden corners. The moment you need a secret vault, the foundation is already cracking.

Do you agree that spouses should have full access to each other’s phones and accounts, or is that crossing a line?

[Jum @JesterJum]

How do I know the media is brainwashing people?

Obama's ICE Chief received the Presidential Award for Distinguished Service for removing over 900,000 illegal aliens.

Trump's ICE Chief is called a Nazi.

It is the same person.....Tom Homan....

The only difference? The narrative.

[Matthew Coast @MatthewCoast]

The same woman that is the easiest to take for granted, is the hardest to replace.

[Matthew Coast @MatthewCoast]

A woman who stays silent after being disrespected is not weak. She's just done.

She realized that the love she's been giving isn't being valued.

She's not waiting for an apology. She's detaching herself from you. She's learned that not every disrespect needs a reaction.

Some just need a goodbye. When a woman goes quiet, she's not ignoring you. She’s protecting her peace.

[Libriscent @libriscent]

A huge sign you’re healing is when you stop feeling responsible for fixing people who are committed to staying dysfunctional.
You can see the manipulation. The chaos. The emotional immaturity. The constant self destruction. The excuses. The cycles. And instead of abandoning yourself trying to save them, you finally realize some people are drowning because they refuse to let go of what’s pulling them under.
Healing is realizing not every problem is yours to carry. Not every broken person is yours to heal. Not every toxic situation deserves one more conversation, one more chance, or one more ounce of your energy.

A healed version of you stops trying to force accountability into people who fight it with their entire soul.
You stop overexplaining.
You stop begging for basic decency.
You stop trying to prove your worth to people who benefit from misunderstanding you.
And the craziest part is once you finally let go, you realize how exhausted you were from trying to save people who were perfectly comfortable draining you dry.

[Matthew Coast @MatthewCoast]

In a relationship, you can't just do whatever you want.

You have to always think about the other person.

And that's what a lot of people don't understand.

Too many people want the benefits of partnership without the responsibility.

They want someone to come home to but freedom to do whatever.
They want loyalty but refuse to be accountable.
They want commitment but don't want to compromise.

That's not a relationship, that's selfishness.

Being in a relationship means your decisions affect someone else now.

Before you go out all night, consider how they might feel.
Before you make big decisions, include them in the conversation.
Before you prioritize others, remember who should come first.

It's not about losing yourself.
It's about considering someone else while being yourself.

A real partnership requires:

Communication before making moves.
Consideration before taking action.
Respect for how your choices impact them.

You can't demand loyalty while living like you're single.
You can't expect them to consider you while you do whatever you want.
You can't have a healthy relationship with a selfish mindset.

If you're not ready to think about someone else, you're not ready for a relationship.

Stay single until you understand what partnership actually requires.

[Carey @44FallinOne]

@JollyGoodSoda Fruit Punch= Greatly missed and beloved.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk said five words on Joe Rogan that explain everything wrong with your life right now.

Musk: “Happiness is reality minus expectations.”

Five words.

And it explains why the most comfortable generation in human history can’t stop feeling empty.

Musk: “If you just go try living in the woods by yourself for a while, you’ll learn that civilization is quite great.”

He’s right.

On Naked and Afraid, people tap out in days. Sometimes hours. They crawl back to the same civilization they spent years resenting.

Because comfort is invisible until you’re sleeping in the dirt.

But the formula has a second variable.

It’s the one destroying you.

Reality didn’t get worse. By every measure, it’s the best it’s ever been.

Expectations did.

Your grandparents compared themselves to their neighbor. Maybe a cousin. That was the whole universe.

You compare yourself to 10,000 strangers before your first cup of coffee. Curated. Filtered. Showing you a life that doesn’t exist.

Theodore Roosevelt said it a century before any of this was built.

Roosevelt: “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

No Instagram. No TikTok. No algorithm designed by the smartest engineers on the planet to show you precisely what you don’t have.

And he still called it.

Now run the equation.

Reality holds steady. Expectations spike every time you unlock your phone. The distance between them stretches. And happiness doesn’t fade.

It collapses.

Not because your life got worse.

Because your reference point moved.

We built the greatest civilization in human history.

Then we built the perfect machine to make sure nobody enjoys it.

Every scroll. Every notification. Every “suggested for you.” None of it connects you. It’s recalibrating what you think you need. Upward. Constantly. Without your consent.

And you wonder why you feel behind.

You’re not behind.

You’re running toward a finish line that moves every time you look up.

The most dangerous lie of this generation isn’t that life is hard.

It’s that everyone else figured it out. And you’re the only one who didn’t.

Nobody figured it out.

The formula doesn’t negotiate. It just runs.

Raise expectations faster than reality improves and you will be miserable inside a paradise you built with your own hands.

That’s not philosophy.

That’s arithmetic.

And the calculator is in your pocket right now.

[Carey @44FallinOne]

@elonmusk The academy itself. The board who oversees it felt it wasn't diverse enough. So crappy movies get nominated . Actually I rely more on " Rotten Tomatoes " site for better movies to see. 😎

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher on liberals and Islam:

“It’s so funny, everything Israel does is the worst thing anybody ever did in the history of the world. And yet when it comes to Islam, it’s like they can kind of do no wrong.”

“I mean, how else do you get kids who are supposed to be super liberal chanting for Hamas? A terrorist organization and a mafia… who treat their own people as human shields… and yet they’re on their side, or even Iran now.”

“There were protests at Columbia. One of them, the guy said something like, ‘We cheer for every American casket that comes home from this.’”

“They’re literally sometimes chanting, ‘Death to America’ in America. It is crazy what that far, far left is up to.”

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Today, a CIA whistleblower sat before my committee and confirmed what I've said for years: government officials, including Dr. Fauci, deliberately misled the American people about the origins of COVID-19. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is sworn testimony. 🧵

[Matthew Coast @MatthewCoast]

Stop making her the villain for having standards.

Her boundaries came from pain.

Every standard she has was earned through betrayal.

Every boundary she set was built from broken trust.

Every requirement she has came from being disappointed.

Every expectation was created by being let down.

Respect the lessons she learned the hard way.

Honor the wisdom she gained through suffering.

Appreciate the strength she built through struggle.

Value the clarity she achieved through confusion.

Don't punish her for protecting herself.

Don't shame her for knowing what she won't tolerate.

Don't criticize her for demanding what she deserves.

Don't make her feel guilty for having non-negotiables.

High standards protect high value.

Strong boundaries protect precious hearts.

Clear expectations prevent future disappointment.

Firm requirements filter out the wrong people.

She's not asking for too much, she's asking for enough.

She's not being difficult, she's being selective.

She's not being picky, she's being protective.

Her standards aren't punishment for good men.

They're protection from bad ones.

The right man will meet her standards gladly.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Huge MAHA win! We are raising the bar on food safety. Just because a chemical is widely used doesn’t mean it’s safe.

@US_FDA will now continuously review chemicals in our food — and act faster when risks appear.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

RFK Jr. told Tucker Carlson the CDC buried its own internal study showing a 1135% INCREASE in autism risk from hepatitis B vaccination.

The researchers were shocked.

So they covered it up.

How?

“They got rid of all the older children essentially and just had younger children who are TOO YOUNG TO BE DIAGNOSED [with autism],” Kennedy explained.

Imagine discovering evidence of catastrophic harm and making sure no one ever found out.

Then, telling everyone it’s “safe.”

If health authorities are willing to keep a signal this alarming hidden from you, what else are they not telling you about vaccines?

Is it possible that your child’s allergies or chronic immune issues didn’t appear organically, but were triggered by vaccination instead? 🧵