Bo Baker

[🅱️ete oaks @b0newalljackson]

250 years ago our greatest grandfathers beat the dogshit out of the most powerful military on the planet over a 3% tax and now we can’t deport 100 million immigrants that hate us because women and gays think it would be mean

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

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.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

I wanted to sit with the Mamdani July 4th comments for a while before reacting to them.

I think here is my ultimate problem: (And it's not a perfect metaphor, but I think it's a basically accurate one) An immigrant-- especially one who comes from neither a European nor a Christian background like Mamdani, has to come to America like a new Christian comes to Christ.

You make your spiritual breakthrough when you understand that you are bringing nothing to the party. It's not "Jesus+my awesome works"-- it's just Jesus-- he already did everything. You just need to show up and honor him.

Nothing in the background of someone like Mamdani contributed in a meaningful way to the building of America from a small set of colonies hugging the Eastern seaboard to the greatest and most powerful nation the world has ever seen. That's not a moral or personal flaw of Mamdani's. But it is what it is.

My family has been here since the mid-to-late 19th century-- far less time than some and with far less distinguished contributions than others-- but enough time to have contributed to a meaningful way to the building of modern America.

I still absolutely "didn't build that" myself but I'm the rightful inheritor of some of those who did. Mamdani is demanding to share in and even define my inheritance--an inheritance that just doesn't belong to him.

Mamdani's been a citizen for less than a decade. He has nothing to add to the understanding of America. His job right now is just to show up and honor it-- not to formulate new doctrines about it's meaning.

In a few generations, his story and the story of his family may well be part of a new American story-- but he's not there yet, and there are no shortcuts to getting there. That's hard-- personally and on the ego. And not too many immigrants are capable of it-- which is why we need a closed border right now. But in theory, I can welcome someone from any background capable of accomplishing that very difficult task.

As Stephen Tonsor once memorably said in a different context:

"It is splendid when the town whore gets religion and joins the church. Now and then she makes a good choir director, but when she begins to tell the minister what he ought to say in his Sunday sermons, matters have been carried too far.”

Mamdani hasn't even joined the church yet.

And he's trying to tell the pastor what to say in his Sunday sermons.

And that rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

[Bo Baker @bobakeresq]

@KILLTOPARTY @stephanicci I will always be grateful for his work with Johnny Cash. Those albums were 🔥

[Peter Schweizer @peterschweizer]

There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?

[Max @minordissent]

Europoors: if we stop using AC we will solve climate change

China: 1M sq ft indoor ski resort that has 10 MW of refrigeration running 365 days a year

[VintageCountryMusic @realcountry1953]

Speaking of legendary Americans!

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

Happy 250th Anniversary to the greatest country in the world. Lest we forget, without America’s Veterans, America simply wouldn’t exist. All gave some. Some, gave all. God Bless America.

[Philadelphia Athletics @AthleticsPhilly]

1910 World Series Champion Philadelphia A's! Let's bring them home!

[Joel Embiid @JoelEmbiid]

@KingJames hey bro hope you're having a good day...... Want to join us in philly?? Peace

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Moses didn't get the promised land. he walked forty years for it, he lost his family for it, he stood in front of God for it, his face melted for it, and at the end God said you can see it from here but you're not going in. and he died on the mountain looking at it. God's favorite guy, the one who actually talked to him face to face, died in the desert looking at the thing he never got. now tell again how you deserved that promotion and God isn't answering your prayers. moses entire function was the walking, not the arriving. the forty years of shut up and move your feet when nobody believes you, including most mornings yourself. the promised land was always the desert. the desert is where he talks, the desert is where he needs you. and you hate that. i do too

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @CorpBarnaby]

🇺🇸 Gettysburg 163 Live: July 1st, 12:30 PM

Gettysburg resident John Burns decides he is not hiding in his cellar.

The 69-year-old civilian walks directly onto the active battlefield wearing a blue swallowtail coat and a top hat.

Armed with a personal rifle, the elderly constable reports straight to the front line and demands a place in the ranks.

Sent over to fight alongside the fierce Midwesterners of the Iron Brigade, Burns settles into the woods and opens fire.

He spends the afternoon calmly picking off targets from behind a tree, refusing to yield an inch of ground.

Despite taking three bullet wounds, the old veteran survives the onslaught to become an absolute national legend.

[Smash Baals @smashbaals]

Taps the sign

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

You’re ~2x more likely to die from heat in Europe than from guns in America.

They lecture us on “gun violence” while their elderly cook to death without AC.

Europe: ~175k annual heat deaths
US: ~44k gun deaths, mostly suicide and targeted urban violence

[Bo Baker @bobakeresq]

@TerapinSedation @Mrstanleycup Don’t sleep on Hartley’s!!!!

[Penny2x @imPenny2x]

Elon is basically my business partner now.

We own Tesla and SpaceX together.

But I make him do all the hard work.

[Aetius @AetiusRF]

Elon Musk is hording a trillion dollars in a giant looney toons vault instead of doing something useful with all that money. He could be funding my trans communist poetry slam or my furry porn drawings. BUT NO!

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

@SenWarren You could give “the typical American” 11 MILLION years and they still would not create PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, Neuralink, Boring Company, Ad Astra, all while single-handedly saving free speech for all mankind.

[Bo Baker @bobakeresq]

@TeslaBoomerMama Robinhood 100% happy

[Bo Baker @bobakeresq]

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