This is the final straw.
Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.
Occasionally I get shit for being so pro-Elon.
3 big reasons why:
#1 He's done more for free speech than Congress who swore to defend it -- both parties.
This matters because America sets the global Overton. And without free speech humanity are sheep to the slaughter.
#2 He's our greatest innovator since Thomas Edison.
When I used to teach MBA Steve Jobs was the ultimate innovator. Jobs -- who invented nothing -- can't touch Elon.
#3 The problems Elon's tackling are among most important.
A lifeboat for humanity, existential risk from AI, the survival of truth, demographic collapse. This isn't colored Macs.
🚨 WOW! Spencer Pratt just dropped this after they stole the LA mayoral election from him — he’s about to drop BOMBSHELLS he was saving for the general election!
“We have some recordings of one of your insulting candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.” 🤯
“I was saving it for the general election. Go ahead and pick your demon, certify your choice, and then you get to see it.”
“You think you can get rid of me that easily?”
“Karen, Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?”
🔥🔥🔥
“I'm going to be lighting you up every single day and now I don't have to worry about offending CNN viewers.”
“I don't have campaign laws hamstringing me now. It's WAR. It's zero hour for Los Angeles!”
@japan_nobunaga I’m originally from South Dakota and many people from Northern Iowa went to college in Sioux Falls, SD. Just not my kind of people. All the surrounding states have more to offer than Iowa except maybe Nebraska
The only time I ever faced official harassment, not just from Twitter but from actual government officials, was when I wrote about the Ukraine biolabs. I’m a tiny fish, so I never imagined the powers that be were particularly concerned with what I had to say about this or that. But the Ukraine biolabs story hit differently, which is why I am particularly grateful that Tulsi has now exposed the truth.
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
Today, Neil deGrasse Tyson can go shit in his hat:
"The delusion is thinking that SpaceX is going to lead the space frontier. That's just not going to happen, and it’s not going to happen for three really good reasons: One, it is very expensive. Two, it is very dangerous to do it first. Three, there is essentially no return on that investment."
Fun fact: the asshole who played the BIGGEST ROLE in 'losing' all of those poor kids, including the ones who were raped, is now slated to become the next governor of California.
When the Senate Majority leader tells you he hasn’t seen the bill to stop giving the Taliban $40 million per week that’s been in his possession for 11 months it’s time to investigate. @LeaderJohnThune is in fact compromised
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