Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.
At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.
He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.
He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.
His first child died at 10 weeks old.
His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.
His second rocket exploded.
His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.
Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.
Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.
He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.
His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.
The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.
He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.
He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.
He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.
He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.
He is the richest man in the history of the world.
The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.
@HillaryClinton
Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years.
While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable.
You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off.
And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.”
The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls.
Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.
@DonnaLeeThomps8@anonyme21331@LMunane You keep making up your own rules. You're changing God's Word to say what you want it to say based on your political ideology, not what it actually says.
@igotthatjuice@JaredB_BSBL There's no way I would let my kid play for a coach who treats 12-year-old baseball like it's the World Series. When I played we had fun but we played seriously too. You can do both.
@DonnaLeeThomps8@anonyme21331@LMunane That verse doesn't then say "and cheer on the sin of others unrepentantly", does it? Here's the test, do you admit acting on homosexuality, trans (the mental illness gender dysphoria), etc is sinful behavior? If you can't admit it is sin, then John 3:16 isn't going to save you.
@BrentAsbrock@JaredB_BSBL We swam at every tournament we went to and we kicked the shit out of teams. This myth that if kids swim they'll have no energy is hilarious. Have you ever spent time with 12-13 year old boys? They have energy for days. Idiot parents and coaches take shit way too seriously.
@Martin9703@JaredB_BSBL We swam all the time and we kicked the shit out of plenty of teams whose coaches banned the team from swimming. Sucks to be them.