Brandon Emerson

[I love Tesla 🔋🚀 @JC70769]

"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...

I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.

That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

Chamath Palihapitiya just dropped truth bombs on CNBC 🔥

The wealthy aren’t giving their money away because politicians are “terrible at what they do.”
“The policies do not make any sense. They are totally ineffective. They’re about their own power and their own influence.”
— Chamath Palihapitiya
This is why the rich are done funding failure.

Who else is tired of politicians wasting money while pretending to solve problems? 👇
#ChamathPalihapitiya #CNBC #WealthyDontDonate #GovernmentWaste #PoliticalInefficiency #EconomicTruth #SquawkBox #MoneyTalks #EliteOpinion #TaxTheRichMyth

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

THE VIKING KING ERLING HAALAND LEADING THE VIKING ROW IS EVERYTHING 🇳🇴

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

WHAT A STRIKE 🔥🔥

HAALAND IS SUCH A FREAK

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Erling Haaland leads the Viking Row for Norway 🇳🇴

One of the greatest traditions continues on in this FIFA World Cup.

[Brandon Emerson @C4SPorsche]

Spot on!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The perfect argument for why socialism is bad for America.

Why are there no examples of someone trying to ‘escape’ from America to go to a socialist country?

Why have tens of millions of people left or tried to leave socialist countries to come to America?

QED

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Tesla just had its best Q2 ever for vehicle deliveries.

• Q2 2026: 480,122
• Q2 2025: 384,122
• Q2 2024: 443,996
• Q2 2023: 466,140
• Q2 2022: 254,695
• Q2 2021: 201,250
• Q2 2020: 90,650
• Q2 2019: 95,200
• Q2 2018: 40,740

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Peter Thiel just named the rule that decided if Elon Musk stayed or left. It has nothing to do with left or right.

Thiel: "I've known Elon since 2000. He was never doctrinaire, but for the first 20 years, he was left of center."

Tesla. Clean energy. Electric cars. About as left of center as it gets.

Then the terms changed.

Thiel: "This intellectual straitjacket where you're not allowed to have ideas. Even if you agree with 80%, it's never enough. You have to be 100%."

No idea on Earth requires 100% agreement. Only power does.

Thiel: "There's just no individuality left whatsoever."

Thiel: "The Democratic Party, it's like the Empire. They're all Imperial stormtroopers. We're the ragtag Rebel Alliance."

Not just him. Every institution that used to reward the odd ones now filters them out before they rise.

He didn't change. The room did.

Thiel: "It certainly seemed incredibly dangerous to me what he did, incredibly courageous."

Thiel: "Elon gave people a great deal of cover."

Not because he won the argument. Because he went first.

The straitjacket only holds you if you believe you need permission.

Everyone still wearing one is calling it a coat.

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on what customers actually want, the real business of frontier labs, and the importance of open source models:

“What the technical customers want is control over their compute, their models, their data stack, and their alpha. They want to know they own the means of production, and it's not being transferred to someone else.”

"Who owns the data? Are the prompts secure? Is this being transferred to you?"

"If it was so valuable, and I can make you a billion dollars, wouldn't I say I'll make you a billion dollars and I want 30%? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Palantir's CEO just exposed Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for robbing every Fortune 500 company.

Within two minutes, Alex Karp took the entire frontier AI industry apart on national television.

His exact words:

"Every single enterprise in this country, these people are LIVID. They are paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business."

He literally said the entire frontier AI business model is intellectual property extraction dressed up as a subscription.

Then he also destroyed the pricing model with a single question that Silicon Valley still refuses to answer:

"If it was so valuable, let's say I can make you $1 billion tomorrow. Wouldn't I say I'll make you $1 billion and I want 30 percent? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"

That question breaks the industry.

If OpenAI and Anthropic's models truly delivered the productivity gains the labs claim, they would take equity or a share of the profit they generate. They would not sell access by the million tokens.

Token pricing is itself the CONFESSION that the product cannot produce reliable value at scale. If it did, they would price for the value. But they price for the compute because that is what they are actually selling.

Karp went even further...

He called the entire arrangement "a wealth tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes."

American businesses are transferring the alpha of their operations, meaning the workflows, the customer data, the strategy memos, the internal models that make them competitive, directly into the training pipelines of a handful of Silicon Valley labs. Once those labs retrain, the customer's own edge becomes the next enterprise product sold back to their competitors.

And the part the AI industry does not want anyone thinking about:

Every enterprise running its confidential documents, its customer conversations, and its financial models through a frontier model is potentially teaching that model HOW to replace them.

The vendor collects the token fee AND the compounding intelligence about that customer's business. That is the mechanism. And that is why Karp used the word "stealing."

He claims this is why every executive he meets is furious in private and silent in public. Nobody wants to be the CEO who called out the labs and then discovered their next competitor was built on their own leaked workflows.

The entire AI industry has been priced for perfection on one assumption:

That frontier labs produce durable, defensible value that justifies infinite compute spend.

But Karp just told us that the customers do not believe that assumption anymore. They believe they are being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse.

The moment enterprises stop believing, the whole valuation stack shakes.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Ro Khanna strutted into this fight swinging a fucking flamethrower and somehow lit his own goddamn pants on fire. That’s the entire story in one sentence.

He thought he was dropping the perfect progressive nuke ... scream that Elon Musk was “possibly sentencing millions of children to death,” wave around USAID like it was sacred, drop the word “accountability” with that fake solemn preacher face, and let the media lapdogs bark on command.

The second he opened his mouth about accountability, the boomerang came back and cracked him right in the teeth.

Now we’re not just talking about Musk anymore. We’re talking about the entire rotten foreign-aid grift machine that nobody was ever supposed to touch.

We’re talking about the NGOs, the consultants, the DEI grifters, the gender ideology pet projects, the influence pipelines, the taxpayer-funded bullshit that suddenly turned into “dead children” the exact moment DOGE asked for basic fucking receipts.

And then there’s Ro himself.

The luxury-left hypocrite. The redistribution preacher who lives fat and happy off other people’s money while lecturing everyone else about fairness. The guy who wants to tax billionaires into the ground ... right up until the audit starts at his own front door. The moral scold who somehow never gets around to applying his own rules to his $232 million household fortune and 38,000-plus stock trades.

That’s why this exploded in his face.

He tried to paint Elon as the villain. Instead he handed the whole country a flashlight and pointed it straight at the basement where all the USAID corruption, waste, and ideological garbage was hiding. Now everyone’s asking the questions he never wanted answered: What the fuck was that money actually buying? Who was getting rich off it? Why did basic oversight cause such panic?

Ro wanted a trial. Fine.

But the first witness that showed up was the fucking boomerang ... and it came back loaded with evidence, trading records, and a big middle finger.
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[Brandon Emerson @C4SPorsche]

@mattvanswol @ClownWorld Best vehicle ever.

[Brandon Emerson @C4SPorsche]

@mehdirhasan You need help.

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

That funny moment when Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, asked Elon Musk if he plays League of Legends

His response: “If I play League, it will damage the space program” 😂

[Kari Lake @KariLake]

What Ro Khanna did — blaming @elonmusk for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children — was ludicrous, slanderous, & defamatory.

I worked with the @DOGE team. All they wanted was basic accountability: show us the ACTUAL recipients of the aid. USAID refused.

The agency may have had a noble mission, but it had become an instrument of international destruction.

Moving the funds to @SecRubio at State was the right call.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

I do not care how powerful you are. If you lied to Congress and helped cover up the origins of a pandemic, you will answer for it. Dr. Fauci is no exception.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla Model 3 and Model Y have the highest percentage of American-made content!

[Brandon Emerson @C4SPorsche]

@RoKhanna Prob shouldn’t have lied.