The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. 🦋
Okay this is genuinely insane.
SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.
It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.
AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.
They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.
So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.
In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.
And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."
One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.
AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.
And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.
The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.
@SpaceX
Did you hear what The View's Sunny Hostin just said? She called Maine's Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner "a cheater, an antisemite, a liar, a racist, and a homophobe."
Then she paused and said something very telling: “BUT...” the Democrats need "to win that seat in Maine" to stop Trump.
This once again proves that the Left has no moral code and will do anything to seize back power.
Here's something we all need to remember: Everything before you say “but” is what you actually believe. Everything after is what you’re willing to trade it for.
The Left is willing to trade exactly what they’ve been claiming to fight just to regain a little bit of power. All the harping about racism, sexism, and homophobia means nothing if they’ll compromise their beliefs for 'the collective good.'
Bo Jackson’s best throw. Maybe the best throw by anyone. Harold Reynolds can’t fathom he’s out and the Mariners coaching staff reacts like the other team after Roy Hobbs knocked the cover off the ball. Unbelievable.
Bill Maher asks how Mississippi is kicking California’s ass in education, and Texas is “blowing them away” in green energy for “way less money.”
“Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times as likely to be proficient in math and reading as one in California? Mississippi is kicking our ass in education and for way less money. We’re 37th in fourth-grade reading, they’re ninth.”
“Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months. About 1,000 days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to get my solar hooked up? It would have been quicker to build a windmill.”
“Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes to wind and energy storage. How does a state with no pro-climate policies produce better climate results than a state where here, even though we have so much better bumper stickers on our Priuses?”
“I’ll tell you why. Because you’re allowed to build there because every third person in Texas isn’t someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done.”
“Democrats, these are your issues: education, race, the environment.”
“And I say this with love: you’re losing to the Waffle House, car-on-the-lawn states.”
When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…
𝐀 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐇 𝐖𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐒: 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐔𝐏 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐆𝐔𝐍𝐒 — 𝐖𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍’𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐏𝐄𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘
A French woman just delivered the shortest, most efficient warning to American gun owners I have heard in months. Twenty-seven seconds. No theatrics. No politics. Just lived experience.
Her direct message: 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴. 𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦. 𝘐𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺. 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺.
Read the last two sentences twice. 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲. The state that promised to protect them in exchange for their weapons has 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 and then made it illegal for them to carry 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡.
This is what comes after gun confiscation. Not utopia. Not safety. A government that increments the rules until you are defenseless and politely told to wait for the police.
She does not need to give the long argument. She lives in the country that already lost it.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺
I am a J6er.
I protested a stolen election. Walked right past the police through an open door, and the police let me in.
My father's step son turned me into the FBI. My house was raided.
They branded me a traitor, and insurrectionist, slapped me on a terrorist watchlist.
I plead guilty to illegal picketing, a Class B petty offense misdemeanor with the same sentencing guidelines as walking your dog off leash on a National Park .
They swore no prison time. They lied. Judge Hogan sentenced me to 30 days for “not being remorseful enough” and three years’ probation to tie me up through elections.
An unconstitutional "split" sentence. My Judge, Judge Hogan called J6 worse than the war of 1812.
All I did was chant "Stop the Steal!" inside the Capitol and wear the wrong Tshirt.
God Bless the J6ers!
🚨 WOW! Rep. Wesley Hunt just made the Democrats SPEECHLESS after dropping straight truth nukes
"My own father, who grew up in a segregated South, had to walk around to the back of a restaurant just to order a sandwich because of the color of his skin."
"THAT was Jim Crow, and THAT is precisely why it is so offensive to compare that era of legalized discrimination and racial terror to showing a PHOTO ID in a voting booth!"
"And it's just as offensive when groups and organizations like these manufacture faux hate and racial tension, requiring identification of vote."
"It's not oppression. It is not segregation. It is not racism."
"It is a basic standard that applies equally to every single American citizen, regardless of what you look like. You need an ID to board a plane. You need an ID to cash a check."
"You need an ID to buy alcohol. You need an ID to enter these very federal buildings. And by the way, attaining an ID in this country is an extremely low bar."
"But somehow showing an ID to vote in America is now considered to be Jim Crow 2.0. This is NOT about civil rights. This is about political theater. And the Democrat Party survives on manufacturing grievance."
🫳🏻🎤
𝐌𝐎𝐌: 𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐃𝐎 𝐀𝐍 ‘𝐋𝐆𝐁𝐓 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓’ 𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐍-𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒-𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 — 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐒𝐔𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆
“𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘. 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘔𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵. 𝘋𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵. 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘥.” — 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰
The structural tell in this assignment:
— The book report was 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 ‘𝐢𝐧-𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲’. Translation: the child could not bring the assigned book home. Translation: the parents were specifically engineered out of the loop.
— Two parents — the mother and the 𝐬𝐨𝐧’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 — both confirm they did not know the assignment was being administered until after the fact.
— The “in-class only” format is not pedagogical. It is the 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫. The pattern is now common enough to have a name in homeschool circles: “closet curriculum.”
— The mother’s response is not a complaint to the principal. It is 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜, 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. She has been advised, on the record, that the district’s exposure under state parental-notification law is real.
The thing is, the “in-class only” workaround is the single cleanest evidence that the district knows what it is doing. If the curriculum was defensible, the book goes home in the backpack like every other book. The fact that it doesn’t is the case. The mother just filmed the discovery of it. The judge will see the video.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲.
The strongest red flag was when leftists lost the ability to be funny. Comedy relies on subverting expectations to expose truth. Leftism subverts the truth to peddle lies. That’s why they can’t be funny, they can’t reveal the truth, their entire politics depends on concealing it.
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.
@Justinjpearson look at yourself acting like some ghetto trash blaming White people for all your problems. When white people voted your ugly ass in.
Nobody is taking anything away from anyone. Seriously you literally raise the black liberal fatigue we all have.
Shave that Afro dude. Your hair looks like a graveyard for Combs.
Idiot.