Thomas Sowell: ”Slavery was much bigger and involved infinitely more people than people have realized. It was not confined by race. It was not defined or created by race. It existed for thousands of years.
A history professor once had a student come up to him and ask, ‘When did slavery begin?’ The real question is: when did freedom begin? Cause slavery existed as long as we have any records. From archaeological findings, we know that people were enslaving other people before they could read or write. It has always existed and has existed all over the world.
The number of White people enslaved by pirates in North Africa was greater than the number of Africans brought to the United States.
And yet, that’s not even mentioned.”
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.
And the reason is worse than they think.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.
Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.
Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.
Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.
A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.
Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.
That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.
A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.
Je suis Français.
Ma boîte est américaine.
Et aujourd'hui, 4 juillet, jour où l'Amérique fête ses 250 ans, je veux dire les choses simplement : j'aime les États-Unis.
Pas par posture. Par lucidité.
Parce que vous avez gardé ce que l'Occident a produit de meilleur, et que trop d'Européens ont oublié.
Vous respectez la création de valeur. Chez vous, réussir n'est pas un péché à expier mais une preuve qu'on a rendu service au monde. Votre rapport à l'argent est sain : ce n'est pas une honte, c'est de l'énergie qu'on remet en mouvement.
Vous êtes des joueurs, pas des victimes. Quand quelque chose casse, vous demandez « comment on répare » pas « qui est le coupable ». L'Europe, elle, a fait de la plainte un sport national et de la victimisation une identité. C'est notre vraie maladie.
Vous incarnez encore les valeurs de l'Occident. Le dépassement de soi. La liberté individuelle. Et qu'on l'oublie jamais le fun. Un peuple qui ne sait plus jouer, rêver grand et rire de lui-même est un peuple qui a déjà commencé à mourir.
Vous avez bâti les meilleures technologies des 40 dernières années. Internet, le mobile, le cloud, le spatial, l'IA. Pendant que d'autres écrivaient des rapports sur l'innovation, vous la livriez.
Maintenant, deux conseils. De quelqu'un qui vous aime.
Méfiez-vous du poison communiste qui s'infiltre chez vous. Il ne porte plus l'uniforme rouge. Il a muté. Décroissance, wokisme, globalisme : mille visages, une seule logique culpabiliser le fort, punir le créateur, dissoudre l'individu dans la masse. Ne le laissez pas entrer par la porte de derrière au nom de la vertu.
Continuez d'accélérer.
Vous n'êtes pas qu'un pays, vous êtes le dernier grand accélérateur de la civilisation. Créez les conditions pour que l'Occident finisse par se réunir autour de trois piliers : la propriété, la liberté individuelle, le capitalisme. Vous en êtes le moteur. Mais n'oubliez jamais que l'Europe reste votre socle culturel vos racines sont ici.
Alors joyeux anniversaire, l'Amérique. Restez joueurs. Restez libres. Restez debout.
Au travail. 🇺🇸
Islamic Mayoral candidate running for office in Texas was looking for what they refer to as a “Texas tango”.
It looks like he got it.. he was basically surrounded and shouted down by patriotic Christians. That’s why you don’t mess with Texas.
He’ll probably still win though.. I’m sure they’ll find a few truckloads of absentee ballots for him in the back of a Buckey’s a week after Election Day .. 🤨
Japan will be lighting up the Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, and Tokyo Aqua Symphony in Red, White, and Blue for July 4th to help celebrate America’s Independence Day 🇺🇸
.@POTUS on the power of @TrumpAccounts: A child has no money, and when that baby becomes a man or a woman, that baby could have hundreds of thousands of dollars — because we're seeding it, and philanthropists like Michael Dell are donating billions of dollars.
🚨 BREAKING: The Deep State is scrambling after Obama DEA official gets criminally INDICTED for helping the cartels, agreeing to launder $12 MILLION dollars
Democrats support terrorists. It’s confirmed.
ROOT IT ALL OUT!
Every dollar stolen through fraud is a dollar taken away from a child, a senior, or a family relying on these critical services.
These individuals are profiting at the expense of hard-working taxpayers.
While Louisiana is not immune to these schemes—we are making it clear that we will not tolerate them. 👊🏻⚜️
I would like to inform the great citizens of Louisiana who care about the rule of law, that our fabulous @AGLizMurrill will not have to worry about having her reputation tarnished by this kangaroo grand jury or the Orleans Kangaroo court as I will pardon her as fast as the law allows. The criminal justice system is a circus at its finest in Orleans and we will not have any of that!
🚨 JUST NOW — PRESIDENT TRUMP: "GO OUT AND VOTE REPUBLICAN IN THE MIDTERMS, BECAUSE IF THE COMMUNISTS GET IN, YOU’LL NEVER FISH AGAIN!"
Trump announces he's ABOLISHING Democrats' restrictions on scallops fishing, and declaring "National Scallops Day"
"...that will open up the Northern Edge of Georges Bank to Scallops Fishing, fulfilling the dream to our Great Fishermen who were so badly treated by the Obama and Biden Administrations, and by the Country of Canada."
"That will mean millions more pounds of beautiful Wild Scallops a year on the kitchen table of Americans, and more Jobs in Norfolk, Virginia, Cape May, New Jersey, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and essentially all parts of the East Coast."
"This is in addition to freeing up a massive area off the East Coast for our Great Lobster Fishermen, and others (An Environmental Monument declared by Barack Hussein Obama and Sleepy Joe Biden, that I terminated!), and a half a million square miles of the beautiful Pacific Ocean, where every country was allowed to fish except for our Great American Fishermen!"
Awesome!
These eight illegal alien TDA gang members were ALLOWED into our nation by the Biden Administration.
Each of them committed HEINOUS crimes, including murdering a father in front of his daughter.
Under the leadership of @POTUS Trump, the Homeland Security Task Force will never stop hunting down, arresting, and removing these criminals from our streets.
🚨 AWESOME! The North Carolina Legislature has OVERRIDDEN the Democrat governor's veto, forcing a new law to take effect that BLOCKS taxpayer funds from going to illegal aliens in welfare and housing
It also requires state police to cooperate with ICE and help deportations 👏🏻
BIG WIN IN NC! Taxpayer dollars should NEVER have been helping illegals in the first place.
"Senate Bill 153, legislation that in part orders to agencies to ensure any and all beneficiaries of state services can prove citizenship."
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump calls on Congress to "start TODAY" to work on "ending expensive and unfair" birthright citizenship, after the Supreme Court struck down his executive order to limit the practice.
@HARRISFAULKNER
🚨 JUST IN: The Somali flag raised by traitors at City Hall in Buffalo NY HAS BEEN *STOLEN*
This comes after Buffalo canceled July 4 fireworks, then raised the Somali 3rd world trash flag
They reportedly BROKE the pole's access panel, cut a cable, and removed it overnight!
Police are now investigating.