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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.

She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.

Not as praise. As a pattern.

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.”

The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.

Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.

The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.

Start with Tesla.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.

Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.

Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.

Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.

Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.

A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.

Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.

SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.

Which is exactly what the press counts on.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

Mars was never the exit.

It is the lab.

Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.

You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.

Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.

He is not running from the cradle.

He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.

But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.

Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.

Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.

That is what terrifies the establishment.

Not that he might fail.

That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.

A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.

So they do the only thing they have left.

They send the media after him.

Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.

It has worked on every builder before him.

It will not work on this one.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.

The stones always come from inside the walls.

[Steve Ryan @MsideFball]

Proud of ⁦@LandryPhipps⁩ for building goalpost for children in Honduras and showing them how to kick. #RAREBREED

[Jay Schlichte @j_schlichte]

War Hogs had a day!!

[Briar Cliff @briar_cliff]

🏆 Congratulations to our Chargers!

Briar Cliff University is proud to announce that 302 students have been named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2024-25 semester, including 91 students who achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA!

See Full List https://t.co/BlduimM0Rt

[Briar Cliff Athletics @bcuchargers]

Briar Cliff Volleyball: Season in Review

#BattleOn

https://t.co/WL51tjZYFw

[Jay Schlichte @j_schlichte]

I could not be more blessed or thankful to coach this group of men! Thanksgiving Football is special, and this group is ready for a playoff run. Happy Thanksgiving from the War Hogs!! #Stangsgiving2024 #rarebreed

[Briar Cliff Women’s Volleyball @Cliff_WVB]

GAMEDAY!!

🆚 Dordt
📍Sioux Center, IA.
⏰ 6:00pm & 7:30pm
📸 Photo Credits: Tim Tushla
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[Briar Cliff Women’s Volleyball @Cliff_WVB]

HOME OPENER GDAY!!

🆚 Dordt
📍Newman Flanagan
⏰ 6:00pm & 7:30pm
📸 Kiersten Baker, Avery Beller & Taryn Nothem
🖥️ https://t.co/eE6lWM0EQ4

[Briar Cliff Women’s Volleyball @Cliff_WVB]

GPAC OPENER!!

🆚 Northwestern College
📍Orange City, IA
⏰ 6:00pm & 7:30pm
📸 Aubrey Hoeft & Kiersten Baker
🖥️ https://t.co/amYdkh7ZLQ

[Briar Cliff Athletics @bcuchargers]

RECAP | Baker earns All-Tournament Honors

📰 : https://t.co/Dkig7g7kuK

#BattleOn

[Great Plains Athletic Conference @GPACSports]

NAIA Football Preview: Great Plains Athletic Conference https://t.co/IR8AVssUHm via @teamvsn

[Morningside University Football @MsideFootball]

Mark your calendars! We are 100 days away from our first contest of the season!The Mustangs open up with a night game against Benedictine! #RollStangs

[Morningside University Football @MsideFootball]

The guys have been working hard this week down in the Sip! What an opportunity our players have to serve others!

#RAREbreed #BADmen

[Briar Cliff @briar_cliff]

Nothing better than meeting future Chargers 💙 #VisitDay

[Urbandale J-Hawks @UrbandaleJHawks]

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐀𝐂𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑

Congratulations to Urbandale Head Football Coach Sam Anderson for winning the 2024 Character Counts Coach of the Year!

We appreciate your dedication to our students, program, and community!

@IHSAA @TheRayCenter

[Briar Cliff Women’s Volleyball @Cliff_WVB]

ICYMI: Briar Cliff University started second semester classes yesterday, but the BCU Volleyball team storms into second semester with a red hot academic start! 🔥

Hats off to this team for killing it on the court, and in the classroom! 🤓 📚 💪🏻

#battleon #team55

[Kai Baker @KaiBBaker]

Extremely happy to announce that I’ve received an offer to play football for @MsideMustangs! Thanks @CoachCSilva @j_schlichte!

[Kai Baker @KaiBBaker]

Had a great visit over at Central today! Thanks for having me out @DrewSikkink @coachmaiuri!

[Kai Baker @KaiBBaker]

Thanks for having me down @CoachCSilva @j_schlichte! Loved getting to see the facilities!

[Kai Baker @KaiBBaker]

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⚖️ 250LB
🏈 LT POS
✈️ 1.07s 10y split
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