History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
@dpshow one of the best sounds in baseball is the pop of the catchers mitt from the bullpen at Dodgers stadium. The high walls concentrate the sound into a frighteningly explosive crack.
The moment was Covid. It happened. Almost every journalist in the nation failed to relay reliable information, instead succumbing to panic and the widest-spread daily curtailment of civil liberties in my lifetime. The rare figures who didn't were silenced or stifled or removed.
Not only is it remarkable that she said this, it’s also remarkable that everyone stood up.
I was there - it was the longest standing ovation of the day.
A movement that reacts to murder with truth and forgiveness is a healthy movement.
“There are some moments in history when a sudden act of opportune ruthlessness readjusts the world toward a safer path….
Benjamin Netanyahu certainly feels the weight of history on his shoulders. The son of a distinguished historian and an avid reader of books by and about Churchill, he said three days ago, ‘Generations from now, history will record our generation stood its ground, acted in time, and secured our common future.’
He is right. And history could record that about President Trump too if he acts decisively.
If Trump has before him the Churchillian option, it is not hard to see who represents Neville Chamberlain in all of this. President Obama’s adamant and repeated refusal to help the Iranian opposition—either overtly or covertly—during his eight years in office wrecked its brave efforts to replace the regime, and gave the lie to his pretensions to be a new John F. Kennedy. His cringing, appeasing Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) utterly failed to stop the sinister, inexorable spinning of the centrifuges, and came at the cost of lifting key sanctions and unfreezing assets.” —Lord @aroberts_andrew in @TheFP https://t.co/QbnRc5NX5m
Lord Roberts is very qualified to make Churchill and Chamberlain analogies and his framing of the choice before President Trump is exactly right.
“Opportune ruthlessness” is a fine phrase and an even finer description of a statesman’s move to end a war via a crushing blow or series of blows. President Trump’s “masterly ambiguity” has given the generals in Iran an opportunity to take power from Khamenei and his subordinate mullahs and dismantle Fordow immediately with IAEA eyes on the blow-up. I believe @ksadjadpour is right in his assessment to @dansenor this week on the “Call Me Back” podcast that there is “zero chance” Khamenei agrees to dismantling the nuclear/ballistic missiles program. So if anyone in Iran’s military wants to stops the piece-by-piece destruction of their military and its leadership, the remaining leadership has to act against Khamenei.
This partnership, especially when it explicitly expands to include Israel, will indeed be a “masterstroke” and let’s hope that is very soon indeed. (And FYI, @DavidSacks has a second account which I didn’t know until this AM.)
Finally, someone connects the dots.
“In 2014, after 3 of Fauci’s bugs escaped, 300 scientists asked Obama to shut him down. Obama declared a moratorium—but Fauci moved the experiments offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab. Now our own government—CIA, FBI, State, DOE—all say those experiments likely sparked the COVID pandemic. And it all started as bioweapons research in 1947. President Trump just moved to shut it down—for good.”
— HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.