Everything that directly impacts your life— affordability, safety, cultural stability— all of it is downstream from immigration. The choice to vote for a Democrat Party committed to opening our borders to the world is a choice to commit civilizational suicide.
I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
People sometimes ask me why I believe mass migration threatens to fundamentally transform American culture. And this is a really good example. Hemant’s parents arrived here from India before he was born.
And now, he insists that we may not teach the foundational texts of western civilization and our culture to American students because he objects to it. So he demands that we not teach them about the most important work to influence our nation’s founding.
And that is why I say mass migration without assimilation threatens to fundamentally transform our country.
And that is the same culture that up to this point has made the United States the greatest nation on Earth and is why so many immigrants from other cultures like India want to come here.
Christianity is the reason women are treated as equally valuable in our society instead of subjugated.
Christianity is the reason that slavery was ended in our society.
Christianity is the reason we allow other religions to exist in our society.
Christianity is the reason we have laws that declare the accused as innocent until proven guilty.
Christianity is the reason we care for the elderly, handicapped, and poor instead of disposing of them.
Christianity is the reason we sacrifice for the good of future generations.
So yah, teaching the Bible in public schools is probably a good idea.
No, you don't get it.
He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.
To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.
Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".
$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12
If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.
But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.
I’m not trying to be some kind of lifestyle account, but I have a pretty large sample size of rich people as patients and can tell you the single common factor of those that are happy:
They have a family, religion and a dozen great friends they spend time with.
That’s it.
Here is Corrie Ten Boom describing the miracle of smuggling her Bible into a concentration camp, and the demonic presence she felt in the Nazis who tormented her.
She’s a solemn reminder that the Nazis hated, persecuted, and murdered Christians, too.