FUN FACT: Do you know that Michael Jackson was initially hesitant to shoot this video because of his deep ties to the Jehovah’s Witnesses. He worried about how the church would react and even more, how his mother would feel about it.
In the end, he pushed past that fear… and it paid off. The video went on to become one of the most defining moments of his career.
This sums up why the blue/red button thing has caused such a ruckus. Like the white-gold/black-blue dress, it can be viewed through two different lenses, with each lens making one button seem obvious and the other seem unfathomable.
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
As you start today with all the motivation in the world, remember this: it won’t last.
Build a routine. Do it no matter what. When you really can’t, don’t quit or beat yourself up, just do it the next day. Show up, over and over.
It is the only thing that works.
Dear young, ambitious Brits,
If the UK government introduces an exit tax I would HIGHLY recommend you leave the UK to build your wealth elsewhere.
We live in a global economy and your best opportunities will probably take you far and wide. There will come a time when it makes sense to do a few years in the USA, you might want to head to the fast-growing UAE or have a chapter in Singapore. Life will dish out many opportunities that involve moving elsewhere for a time.
A wealth tax will pin you down. Imagine you launch and build a company in London, you raise £2M from investors at a £20M valuation, you then grow the business and on paper it’s worth £50M. If you then want to leave, the government will shake you down for 20% of your equity valuation before you can go.
Imagine you make great choices and sacrifices for your career, you start earning serious income and you buy a family home. Then you get an irresistible offer to work in Sydney. Now you have to pay exit taxes on the value of your home.
It’s not worth the risk. Not when the UK is such a small part of the global economy and not when the UK economy isn’t even growing faster than inflation.
You would be better to leave now while you have nothing, build abroad and then return home if and when it makes sense.
Right now every country is making a choice as to how they want to treat talented, successful and wealthy people. Some countries are saying they want to attract these types of people and some countries are saying they want to punish these types of people. Sadly the UK is heading towards the latter.
This isn’t your fault and it isn’t your responsibility to fix an incompetent government with an out of control spending problem. It’s your responsibility to make the most of your skills and ambition and go where the opportunities take you.
Explore your options and if a wealth tax is introduced, be sure to take that as a sign that your government is hostile towards your full potential and success.
This is the end result of the punch of a nazi movement and 24/7 fear porn from the media about conservatives. It's now ok in the minds of a lot of people to use political violence as a tool to push an agenda.
It's sad, tragic, and utterly beyond the bounds of a free society. If this continues, the bloodshed will fill rivers. We have to stop. We have to de-radicalize.
Over the weekend, “Superman” added $3.1 million overseas and $8.4 million globally. At this point, even with an impressive gross of $595 million, "Superman" is unlikely to surpass the haul of the character’s last solo outing, 2013’s “Man of Steel,” which flew to $670 million. https://t.co/T4U3uArVsL
So now the left is going with "if you allow free speech, everyone defaults to Nazi" narrative. Seriously grow up. Instead of focusing on how badly you want to take human rights away from people, learn to govern.
Basic stuff like drinking water without lead, safe cities, functioning government services, good education at the schools, and rule of law. Try it sometime. Maybe you'll win an election again.
USAID has been completely unaccountable for decades, run by bureaucrats with agendas who believed they answered to nobody.
Here are a few more of the ridiculous projects on which they spent YOUR money:
— $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”
— $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
— $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan
— $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”
— $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
— $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”
— $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”
— $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group
— $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia
— $6 million for tourism in Egypt
— $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam
— $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam
— ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab
— $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax
— $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”
— $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”
— $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers
— $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica
— $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem
— $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America
— $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)
— $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon
— $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans
— $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda
— $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”
— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa
— $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”
— USAID’s “climate strategy” outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-agency” approach to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”
For decades, USAID bureaucrats believed they were accountable to no one — but that era is over.
President Trump is STOPPING the waste, fraud, and abuse.
President Trump’s the Deep State BLOODBATH in the past 24 hours:
- All federal prosecutors handling January 6th cases fired, computers locked and marched out of their offices by security.
- David Sundberg, the FBI Assistant Director at the helm of the January 6th investigations, has been fired.
- 20 leaders of FBI field offices have been escorted out of FBI buildings around the country
- The 51 intelligence officers who spread misinformation about Hunter Biden's laptop and interfered in elections are now banned from entering federal properties.
- Federal employees are now required to return to the office, with non-compliance leading to termination.
- John Bolton and John Brennan have been permanently banned from government buildings.
- Jarold Harold Rogers has been indicted for compromising U.S. trade secrets to China
- Ban on all use of pronouns in government communications
- All 2 million Feds sent a resignation offer
This purge marks the beginning of the end for the corrupt tyrants in Washington.
11 days in and the swamp has been drained.