Jim Edsel

Texan; 4 decade Oil & Gas industry

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

The biggest stories don’t always make the news. 🤔

Susan and I gave $6.25 billion to help 25 million American children build brighter futures.

These handwritten thank-you notes mean more than any headline ever could.

25 million children. 25 million futures. Endless possibilities. ❤️🇺🇸

[A Crude Awakening @allengilmer]

Hey kids… an NBC “investigative” reporter says the most amazing gift of all time sucks because you have to hold onto the stock for the long term. What a clown.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

This is tremendous news for America's children. An entire generation will grow up as SpaceX owners. Well done @elonmusk! 🇺🇸

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Absolutely incredible…

Elon once again showing the Billionaire class how it’s done. Bypassing the state completely, the fraud, the waste of tax dollars, the NGOs, and giving capital directly to American children. They will directly own a piece of American exceptionalism.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

We are past warnings. Cities are burning. More will follow. This will come to the United States IMO. This is an attack on western societies and values. Yes, there are many root causes. Uncontrolled migration without assimilation. International funding of protest for violent purposes. Issues of affordability. Education. Housing shortages. Employment opportunities, etc.

They started with issues but then are quickly hijacked by ultra-left radicals, islamist, the red-green alliance, opportunists, and those brainwashed by victimhood.

Why? Lack of values, purpose, and identity. With eroded traditional sources of identity and purpose (family, nation, vocation, faith), huge groups fill the void by claiming victim status or becoming advocates for other designated supposed victims. Responsibility is externalized: the system - capitalism, democracy, natives, “the West,” or some oppressor always explains their personal or collective shortfalls. This produces victimhood culture, beliefs of shared grievance, and alliances with radicals who offer belonging through struggle rather than responsibility, competence, or reform.

The leftists/Marxist, the Islamists, and those thirsting for purpose don’t want reforms. They want to destroy society. They want identity through victimhood and destruction. They take no responsibility for their own status, there is always an oppressor to blame, always someone else’s fight. So they burn what they won’t fix.

Step one is law and order. Reinforce the police. Enforce the law. Arrest, track, and if applicable deport every single person who commits violence or crimes.

These won’t be the last protests or cities to burn if "let's address their grievances," suicidal empathy, victimhood culture, political cowardliness continues.

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Europe is part of our civilization; and it shows the future of the US, if we vote as they did.

For the future of the women you love, vote to be less like Europe.

[Eladio Santiago @EladioSantiag14]

Macron’s and Merkel’s legacy !
They cared more about staying in power
Than for their country and citizens - Look now !

How is the assimilation going -

Why do @TheDemocrats @DNC their communist DSA want open borders after seeing this ?

One good reason ? THERE IS NOT ONE !

[Jim Edsel @EdselJim]

If you care, you could not be more wrong. Elon has most of his wealth in the many businesses he has created. The businesses that employ over 150,000 people. Tens of thousands of families - many more if you count the hundreds of businesses (industries) and millions of workers who use and rely on the products his businesses creates.

There is a gross misconception that “millionaires and billionaires” have that in money, in cash. They don’t. They have their money - and time and effort - in their businesses. Oftentimes they are less liquid than you. They don’t work for money. They work out of a passion to create, to build and to employ. It’s a virtue. Sure, there is some corruption in values. But it’s a minority.

The very existence of the things we like about this country exist because of the sacrifices of many. I wouldn’t be so quick to judge the makers. You should be more critical of the takers - those who add little value but expect much. Start with the political grifters.

[NursePatsy @PatsyDiabetes]

Elon is hoarding trillions while they cut social programs up and down. Disgusting.

We need to end billionaires and maybe even millionaires. No one needs that much money. Full stop.

[Jim Edsel @EdselJim]

This isn’t just a war on France and its history. It’s a war on Western values. And it doesn’t stop in France or Europe. This is what open, unchecked borders invites.

[@dessere88fenice @dessere88fenice]

🇫🇷 Gli agenti di polizia di stanza vicino al Palazzo dell'Eliseo riferiscono che i manifestanti hanno fatto irruzione nei giardini della residenza ufficiale del presidente francese Emmanuel Macron, in un contesto di violenti disordini nel centro di Parigi.

Altre fonti sostengono che le forze dell'ordine abbiano aperto il fuoco contro gli intrusi e che siano stati dispiegati cecchini sui tetti circostanti per proteggere il presidente e il complesso presidenziale.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

Wall Street to Y’all Street

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

French men built this in the 1800s and it has been carefully maintained for 150+ years…

It survived both World Wars. The far-left and their imported migrants just destroyed it.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

My politics are whatever punishes this with force

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Dear Western Civilization,

You MORONS. Your history, your culture is being DESTROYED. You let intolerant unassimilated Islamists into your country out of suicidal empathy.

Israel tried to warn EVERYONE. EVERY. DAY. the last line of defense for the West against Barbarians. Every LIE of 'genocide' 'apartheid' 'colonialism' 'zionism is racism' 'islamophobia' lulled you into this

[Jim Edsel @EdselJim]

No justification. We enforce laws or we invite here what we are seeing in Europe. And those who think it stops there are wrong or naive. This is a cancer that is spreading and there are only two choices, fight it with all your might or give in. Europe’s weak, woke leaders invited this and, so far, they haven’t met the challenge to fight it. This is not a compromise outcome. It’s win or lose. And the loss is of much more than statues and buildings. It’s an entire culture, religious artifacts and symbols. It’s freedom versus anarchy. Can Macron muster the strength to fight it?

[Adam Taggart @adamtaggart]

HONEST QUESTION

In what way can destruction of property be justified in ANY act of protest?

Where is the moral authority to destroy?

And what benefits come from destruction?

I just don't see it

[Jim Edsel @EdselJim]

Agreed, but these are historical artifacts and structures that are irreplaceable and of such cultural significance that they must be preserved at all cost. Is the French govt up to the task?

[Ridersfan🍎🍁🍏🇨🇦✈️ @Ridersfan34]

@EdselJim Maybe you have to lose it to appreciate it

[Jim Edsel @EdselJim]

The free world cannot allow this to stand. We banded together and fought this 80+ years ago and we preserved history and its art and artifacts. We must do the same now.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...”

[Dez Bryant @DezBryant]

I don’t understand how you get all of those top recruits and don’t win…

[Chris Powers @fortworthchris]

The world’s most consequential region of the next 20 years.

[Jim Edsel @EdselJim]

This is a hero. An everyday American father who acted to protect others. This is the America we love. And this is the American we love. Puts family first and instinctively protects others.

[A Gene Robinson @AlGeneRobi96834]

AN AMERICAN HERO EMERGES IN DEMOCRAT-GOVERNED OREGON, AND HIS ACTIONS RAISE A QUESTION POLITICIANS CANNOT IGNORE!

Yesterday, October 15, 2026, something horrific happened at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon.

A 16-year-old armed with a shotgun forced his way into an elementary school, where children should have been learning, laughing, and preparing to return home to their families.

Three innocent children, ages 5, 8, and 11, and a 54-year-old teacher lost their lives. Another child and teacher were critically injured.

And then an ordinary American citizen did something extraordinary.

He saw the armed attacker enter the school. Rather than retreat, he followed him inside, confronted him, and stopped the attack with his own firearm before police could intervene.

That is not political conjecture. That is what authorities reported.

Consider the sheer temerity of that decision.

He had no guarantee he would survive. He had no certainty about what awaited him beyond those doors. But he recognized that defenseless children were in immediate danger.

And he acted.

That is courage. That is selflessness. That is an American hero.

Now consider the political implications.

Oregon has a Democratic governor and a Democratic-controlled state legislature. Its elected leadership has supported additional firearm restrictions in the name of public safety.

Yet when this particular emergency unfolded, it was an armed civilian who ended the attack.

That fact deserves serious examination, not partisan evasion.

The question is not whether every firearm regulation is ineffective. The question is whether lawmakers are adequately accounting for the ability of law-abiding citizens to intervene when innocent people face an immediate threat.

Because yesterday, that ability mattered.

The social media post identifies this hero as Kaylub Giamanco. However, as of this morning, major news reports have not independently confirmed his identity. His actions are verified, but the name attached to these photographs should be treated as unconfirmed.

Governor Tina Kotek, herself a Democrat, publicly praised the citizen who intervened. That acknowledgment matters because protecting children should transcend political affiliation.

We can mourn these precious children, pray for their families, honor the teacher, and recognize the extraordinary bravery of the citizen who intervened without surrendering our responsibility to scrutinize public policy.

May God comfort these grieving families and strengthen the survivors.

And may this courageous American receive the recognition he deserves.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[Dan O'Donnell @DanODonnellShow]

Brewers 1B Jake Bauers decided to retire two years ago. His wife was going to go back to work as a teacher and he would be a stay-at-home-dad. Three weeks later, though, she found out she was pregnant with their second child.

Bauers decided to return to baseball only because his family needed health insurance. Tonight he was named MVP of the National League Championship Series.