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[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@boringcompany I bet they are so bored

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@indanow Americans from other states can’t believe it when they come to Fort Worth, Texas is what Texas is there - I’m a West Texan and love visiting there as it makes me feel at home on steroids.

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@ScottPresler @mousecrackers Let’s go!

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

Ok …Entschuldigung … I’m a born and bred Texan and I love Buc-ee’s … Rudy’s bbq “gas stations” … all the like but I’ve been to Deutschland … the bus drivers have to stop every two or four hours (2009) and after exiting the Autobahn we stopped at gas station on a beautiful green hill that had a McDonald’s “Castle” … it was not a football field but in my opinion equally awesome. Buc-ee’s is a cultural icon of the south so have fun visitors! Maybe you’ll find a top ten Texan bbq joint … get the burnt ends don’t skip on the sauce.

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@Codie_Sanchez Smb

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described how the entire government operates in a single sentence.

Musk: “Paying people to do nothing doesn’t make sense.”

Then he told a Milton Friedman story that should terrify every bureaucrat on the payroll.

Friedman watched workers digging ditches with shovels.

He suggested they use excavators instead.

Someone pushed back.

“But then we’re going to lose a lot of jobs.”

Musk: “Friedman says, well, in that case, why don’t you have them use teaspoons?”

One sentence.

That’s all it took to gut the entire logic of modern government.

The teaspoon is not a punchline.

It is the actual policy.

Every agency that would cease to exist if it actually solved the problem it was created for.

Every department that measures success by headcount instead of output.

Every approval that routes through nine desks before someone can say yes.

Teaspoons.

The system doesn’t want excavators.

Excavators finish the job.

And a finished job is the one thing the system can’t afford.

So it hands you a teaspoon. Calls it a career. Gives you a pension for never asking why the ditch took forty years.

But this isn’t about laziness.

It’s about control.

A person digging with a teaspoon doesn’t have time to build something better.

Doesn’t have the energy to question the plan.

Doesn’t have a thought left to ask if the ditch even needed digging.

Busy people don’t ask dangerous questions.

That’s the point.

The economy doesn’t run on productivity.

It runs on the appearance of productivity.

Millions of people sit at desks right now doing work a single script could replace by morning.

They know it.

Their managers know it.

The people who sign their budgets know it.

But the teaspoon stays in their hand.

Because the moment you hand someone an excavator, they finish by noon.

And a person with a free afternoon starts thinking. Starts building. Starts wondering why they needed permission to dig in the first place.

That’s the thing the system can’t survive.

Not unemployment.

Free time.

Musk didn’t tell a joke on Rogan.

He described the longest con in modern governance.

Keep them digging.

Keep them busy.

Keep the teaspoon in their hand so they never look up long enough to see the ditch was pointless from the start.

Friedman told that story sixty years ago.

He meant it as a warning.

The system heard every word.

It just made sure everyone kept calling it a joke so no one would recognize it as a confession.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

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.

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@grok @grok Still no Grok Computer / Grok Build installer link in my dashboard on SuperGrok. Account ID: 2c8515d7-0c4c-47d0-9ef3-9e152657ef75. Can you escalate? Thanks. I'm excited to use it!

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@Starlink About time humanity solves this problem

[JH @Hallgren_Joshua]

@motorcitymoth @luismbat 😆👏

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Watch NASA Launch Four Humans To The Moon | Artemis II Live Coverage https://t.co/97bMt48p7C

[Formula 1 @F1]

Watching an F1 race start will never get old 🤩

#F1 #JapaneseGP

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

A NEW STANDARD FOR AMERICAN MADE. 🥩🥚

The Trump Administration is launching a new "Product of USA" label reserved exclusively for meat, poultry, and egg products made right here in the USA.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

A mom uses AI to turn her children's messes look like they're on the news.

[Overton @overton_news]

Win or lose, these words will be remembered for generations.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth dedicated the final two minutes of his address to speak directly to the American warriors on the front lines in Iran — “This is your moment.”

HEGSETH: “Let me speak straight to you, the joint force, our warriors on the front line.”

“This is your moment, this is the generational turning point America has waited for since 1979 and since the rudderless wars of hubris my generation, our generation endured.”

“Don’t listen to the noise, just stay focused, our commander-in-chief is steady at the wheel.”

“We face a determined enemy. You are better.”

“But we must prove it every single day.”

“History doesn’t care if we’re tired, if we’re scared, or if the fight feels big. It demands warriors who rise anyway.”

“Peace through strength, the warrior ethos, lethality, unity of purpose — those are not slogans, they’re the beating heart of what it means to wear the uniform. That uniform.”

“You think clearly under fire, you act decisively in chaos, you uphold the Constitution, and you uphold our country without hesitation.”

“We are not defenders anymore; we are warriors trained to kill the enemy and break their will.”

“History is watching. Be the force you swore an oath to be: focused, disciplined, lethal, and unbreakable.”

“We will finish this on America-first conditions of President Trump’s choosing, nobody else’s, as it should be.”

“And know this above all: President Trump and I have your back. Always.”

“Through fire, through criticism, through fake news, through everything, we unleash you because you are the best, most powerful, most lethal fighting force the world has ever seen.”

“May Almighty God watch over you, and may His providential arms of protection extend over you.”

“Godspeed, warriors. Keep going.”