Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,that it may benefit who listen.
@theficouple I don’t figure net worth the traditional way. You need to have a roof over your head, and you need a car. Unless you want to get a home equity loan, which would cause more debt. Your 401k you can’t use until 59 1/2. Your net worth is $18k savings minus $6k credit card = $12,000
@brithume Happy birthday and many more. One of the most underrated players ever! I remember watching him play and thinking no one can take a hit like him. Helmet flying off his head, his body going head over heels, blood on his jersey, and he gets up off the ground and back to the huddle.
This is my absolute favorite CNBC moment of all time. He never gave a shit even when it wasn’t popular…
Absolute legend! Happy retirement .@RickSantelli 🐐
David Rubin served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022.
In 2020, under his leadership, the Academy launched the “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for Best Picture eligibility. These rules, still in effect, require films to meet at least 2 of 4 diversity criteria involving race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in on-screen roles, creative leadership, or crew.
Rubin publicly backed the changes and helped appoint the task force co-led by producer DeVon Franklin.
He shifted the Oscars from “best movie wins” to race/gender engineering. A film can now be ineligible for the top prize purely for failing demographic quotas, regardless of quality or audience impact.
Instead of focusing purely on talent and storytelling, the Academy under Rubin institutionalized identity preferences.
Oscars prestige and viewership have tanked. Many see it as performative politics over art. Classics with non-diverse casts would be disqualified.
He helped install the DEI machinery that turned awards into checkboxes and accelerated Hollywood’s quality decline.
Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
@statusisdown@MerrillLynch@MerrillEdge
Wow!
This is absolutely unbelievable!
The most important time period of the whole year and the system goes down.
Fed meeting
Earnings Reports
A 102-year-old woman who had been married for 78 years was asked on her deathbed what she wished she had done differently.
Her answer made her 80-year-old daughter weep.
Here is what she said…