In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.
He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.
Two years later, it was over. 🧵
Elon Musk just asked the question every wealthy member of Congress hopes nobody ever asks out loud.
$200,000 salary. $20 million net worth. Nobody has ever had to account for that gap.
Musk: “How’d they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year? Nobody can explain that.”
Not one committee. Not one hearing. Not once.
Here’s why. The people vote. The bureaucracy decides.
Musk: “We really have here rule of the bureaucracy as opposed to rule of the people.”
And bureaucracy protects itself. The money leaves the Treasury and lands in a nonprofit built the year before.
Musk: “If you have a government-funded nongovernmental organization, you’re simply a government-funded organization.”
Then it crosses a border. It moves through NGOs, other countries, other currencies.
Musk: “NGOs are a way to do things that would be illegal if they were the government, but are somehow made legal if it’s sent to a so-called nonprofit.”
A human tracing that chain gives up around the hundredth transfer.
A machine doesn’t stop at one hundred. Or one hundred thousand.
The Pentagon has failed every financial audit since 2018. Eight years straight. The budget went up anyway. Bureaucracy doesn’t get punished. It gets funded again.
Musk: “Normally, the bureaucracy eats revolutions for breakfast. This is the first time the revolution might actually succeed.”
Not because Washington got honest.
Because something showed up that doesn’t get tired, doesn’t get paid off, and doesn’t stop counting.
Complexity was never a hiding place. It just hadn’t been read yet.
Elon Musk just quietly launched a bank inside X.
6% APY on deposits.
3% cashback on purchases.
But almost no one understands what this actually means...
Here's what everyone is missing about the June 25 update, and why PayPal, Cash App, and Venmo just got put on notice:
X started rolling out X Money to a small group of U.S. Premium+ users.
This is the product Musk has been talking about since he bought Twitter:
The "everything app." Social, payments, transfers, eventually broader banking.
Peer-to-peer transfers powered by Visa Direct for near real-time settlement.
A metal Visa debit card.
For context, the national average savings rate in the U.S. is well below 1%.
The highest yield on the typical big-bank checking account is roughly 0%.
X is offering 6%.
That number alone is enough to make every consumer fintech CFO in America uncomfortable.
Now look at the regulatory groundwork most coverage skipped.
X has secured more than 25 money transmitter licenses across U.S. states.
That is the legal foundation for operating payments at national scale.
It takes years to assemble and millions in legal and compliance work.
Musk has been quietly doing that work for two years while critics insisted X was a dying ad business.
Here's what the media keeps missing:
X Money is designed to make X the place your money lives.
Once your paycheck lands in X Money, your savings earn 6%, your card lives in the app, and your transfers happen inside the same feed where you read the news, the math of leaving gets ugly.
PayPal doesn't have a feed.
Cash App doesn't have a social graph.
Venmo can't offer 6% APY without bleeding cash.
X is the only consumer platform on earth that can run a social network and a banking product through the same login.
For 20 years, you've logged into your bank, your brokerage, Venmo, and your social apps separately.
X is collapsing all of that into one login.
This is the WeChat playbook.
Payments, transfers, commerce, and social all inside one app. WeChat now processes trillions in payments annually inside China.
Musk has said publicly that WeChat is the model. Most people dismissed it as hype.
Retail investors look at headlines and react. The wealthy look at the rails and position.
A 6% APY launching inside a global social platform is a signal about where consumer finance is going.
You can scroll past it and assume it doesn't matter to your portfolio.
Or you can run a system that pays attention to structural shifts instead of headlines.
Surmount helps you automate your investments with rules-based strategies built on data, not narratives...
🚨🇪🇺 Elon Musk WARNS the EU:
“Without freedom of speech, you cannot have democracy. The public needs information to make an informed decision.”
The EU bans speech - and calls it “protection”.
Kako se izvleči zgodovinske travme NOB, partizani, domobranci?
Grok:
To ni enostavno, ker gre za kulturni in identitetni boj, ne samo za zgodovino. Možni koraki za spravo (ki so se v drugih državah delno izkazali):
1. Polna resnica brez relativizacije — Priznati vse zločine: okupatorske, partizanske med vojno in komunistične povojne. Brez »ampak oni so bili prvi« ali »to je bila nuja«. Komisija in zgodovinarji (Dežman, Ferenc ipd.) že delajo na tem, a potrebna je širša družbena podpora.
2. Dostojni pokop za vse žrtve — To je minimum človečnosti. Vsaka žrtev si zasluži grob, ne glede na uniformo. Blokada tega je moralni škandal.
3. Depolitizacija spomina — Odstraniti partizanske simbole iz državnih praznikov kot edini »sveti« spomin. Ponovno uvesti Dan spomina na žrtve komunizma (17. maj), ki so ga pred kratkim ukinili. Šolske programe, ki prikazujejo kompleksno resnico, ne le herojski NOB.
4. Javna soočitev in dialog — Ne sodni procesi (ti so že zastarani), ampak odprte razprave, spominske slovesnosti za vse mrtve, podpora svojcem. Primeri iz Španije, Nemčije ali Baltskih držav kažejo, da je mogoče, če je politična volja.
5. Čas in generacije — Najmočnejši »duh partizanov« živi v starejših generacijah in levi politiki. Mlajše generacije so manj ideološko obremenjene – zanje je to zgodovina, ne identiteta. A dokler se v medijih, šolah in kulturi še vedno goji črno-bela slika, se delitev ohranja.
Najbolj žalostno je, da navadni ljudje (kot vaški kmetje, o katerih sva prej govorila) niso hoteli nobene revolucije ali kolaboracije – hoteli so samo preživeti. Danes pa njihovi potomci še vedno plačujejo ceno te delitve.
Sprava ni pozabljanje ali enačenje zločinov. Je priznanje trpljenja na obeh straneh in skupna odločitev: nikoli več totalitarizma, nikoli več bratomora. Dokler tega ne sprejmemo vsi, bomo ostali ujeti v letu 1945.
George Soros has been using USAID money to fund protests specifically to keep NGO money laundering flowing
Mike Benz tells Tucker Carlson every time a nation tired to stop foreign money coming to NGOs they have been met with George Soros paid rent-a-riots
“The nation of El Salvador announced a 30% tax on all foreign funding of domestic NGOs within El Salvador”
“There have been many attempts by countries to contain the NGO plex. Most famously in Hungary, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia. Every time they've been confronted with street protests and attempts to pressure the parliament using civil disobedience and the same sort of State Department, usaid, Soros foundation type rent-a-riots. We saw that in Slovakia, Serbia.
In Hungary, when they passed their NGO transparency bill, it was blocked by the EU. The EU intervened and said that you cannot enforce this NGO transparency law
And they threatened to cut them off of EU funding. Hungarians aren't allowed to know where the money's coming from. Into their own country.”
He’s right, here is very real information on 3 examples countries trying to block George Soros money coming in
El Salvador’s Congress passed a law in May 2025 imposing a 30% tax on foreign donations, goods, or services to local organizations, plus requiring registration as “foreign agents.” President Nayib Bukele’s government pushed it to counter perceived foreign interference
They were met with protests
In 2017, Hungary passed a law requiring NGOs receiving over ~€21,000 annually from foreign sources to register as “organizations receiving support from abroad,” label themselves publicly, and face scrutiny. Viktor Orbán’s government framed it as protecting sovereignty against foreign ‘especially George Soros-linked’ influence
Protests erupted against the bill, with activists opposing it as stigmatizing civil society.
In 2025, Slovakia passed amendments imposing strict reporting on foreign-funded NGOs amid Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government. This triggered large protests
It’s all George Soros staging protests to keep the money laundering flowing
@peterjancic@KDanijel@MarkZalezina Samo v družbeno političnih medijih pri nas lahko bivši šef komunistov daje nauke o tem kako deluje demokracija. V vzhodni Nemčiji, na Češkem, Poljskem in drugih post komunističnih državah bivši šefi partije nimajo pravice soditi o demokraciji.