The American dream isn't dying because of Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. It's dying because we elect incompetent morons into government that have a huge spending problem.
Can someone please explain it to me like I'm five, why members of Congress are more upset that Elon became a trillionaire than they are that Somalis have defrauded our government out of hundreds of billions of dollars?
Logging onto the website that makes the trillionaire money, to get retweets that make the trillionaire money, to complain about the trillionaire having money.
It is 2026 and we are celebrating America’s 250th by having motorcycles do jumps and flips in front of the White House instead of troons ripping their shirts off like Biden
History will remember Elon Musk alongside DaVinci, Gutenberg, Fulton, Pasteur, Edison, Ford and Jobs.
History will have no recollection of any kind of Ro Khanna.
Elon Musk's companies employ roughly 170,000 people.
AOC drove Amazon out of New York, killing 40,000 jobs.
One creates. The other destroys.
They are not the same.
We are each this autonomous biomechanical miracle running around. You feed us cheeseburgers and french fries and we keep going for 85 years.
And yet nothing in nature's wonder that exists would matter were we not here to perceive it.
OH MY GOSH!
This is amazing.
There was a HUGE line for the Republican tent for Garrison Day in Beaver, PA, while democrats were looking rather lonely.
Great job to the Republican Committee of Beaver County!
Please connect w/ @_Sir_Willie.
📍Beaver, Pennsylvania
July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian.
If Melania wasn’t married to Trump, she’d be on every magazine cover as the most elegant, dignified First Lady in modern history.
If Gwynne Shotwell didn’t work for Elon, she’d be universally celebrated as one of the greatest executives alive.
The same people who worship “strong women” suddenly go blind when she stands next to the wrong man.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan convincingly won the presidency against Jimmy Carter, and also tipped the Senate. But the democrats maintained control of the House and Tip O’Neill remained speaker. That meant a lot of people voted for Reagan, but then voted democratic down ballot. They could do this knowing bipartisanship was possible - that the country had a coherent population, and differences were not so wide that people would refuse to work together.
Reagan was able to push his tax reduction plan through Congress. Tip O’Neill basically said ‘this is what the people voted for, so we will work with you.’ That could not happen today.
The US electorate is balkanizing because of too much immigration too fast - which is exploited by unscrupulous politicians. We will probably not see the kind of bipartisanship of the early 1980s again in our lifetimes - if ever. And this is why a 1924 style moratorium on immigration is necessary, coupled with aggressive assimilation policies and deportations of those who don’t really want to be American. And it’s why birthright citizenship is a disaster in present circumstances.