Fafnir Sleeps - 🇺🇸🐉

Dwarf, but I identify as a dragon.

[America @america]

Happy Flag Day 🇺🇸

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"Ironically, people who see themselves as victims often feel entitled to mistreat others. The implicit moral logic seems to be 'because I’ve been wronged, I can do no wrong.'"

https://t.co/F4bTXnnZtx

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

“Are we the baddies?” That line from a comedy sketch came to mind this week as Democrats struggled to embrace Graham Platner, the Nazi-tattooed, Hamas-praising, veteran-bashing, sex-texting, self-described Communist as the next senator from Maine... https://t.co/cqBMpc24yY

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

All the stuff about Zucman, Piketty et al. makes me scream that I didnt finish my book earlier. It is, without making it about them or their work, a strong alternative.

Its a simple pitch: markets are egalitarian forces that improve living standards really fast. Markets minimize the need for the state to do things, complement some of its (the state) good things, and can offset some of the bad things it does.

The proof is the extended gilded age (gilded age + progressive era) when the top 10% got richer nearly 1.2 percentage points slower per year than bottom 90%. For the top 1%, the pace was as fast as the bottom 90%.

[Dave Collum @DavidBCollum]

8% yoy growth in healthcare costs. They will add this to decidedly sketchy GDP estimates. More rationally, it is a tax of a rapidly depreciating asset--the Boomers--on society...

https://t.co/IEYXJ36eEH

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The article is totally false btw. You can add up every government incentive my companies have ever received and they amount to less than 2% of the value of SpaceX and Tesla!

And many of these incentives actually helped our competitors disproportionately to Tesla or SpaceX.

For example, when President Trump removed the $7500 tax credit for electric vehicles, Tesla sales actually INCREASED, because more buyers shifted from other EV makers to Tesla.

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.

Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.

The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Elon could liquidate every company he owns - SpaceX, Tesla, X, Neuralink, Boring, xAI - and give the proceeds to SNAP recipients as free soda and Doritos for roughly 10 years.

Or... he could cover about one year of interest on the national debt.

This is the level of economic understanding behind “Elon should just pay his fair share.”

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Bob Greene is the Board Chair for Rocky Mountain PBS

He says he hopes Trump has a stroke for his birthday leaving him unable to walk or speak

Any comment @PBS?

[TMK @themagaking]

Elon Musk's companies employ roughly 170,000 people.

AOC drove Amazon out of New York, killing 40,000 jobs.

One creates. The other destroys.

They are not the same.

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu complains that Trump is doing renovations in DC over funding s*x change surgeries and p**n books for kids

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

This whole thing was completely useless and a total waste of lives and resources on an epic scale with absolutely no upside whatsoever except for the fact that we'll get to watch hawks melt down about how their magnificent war didn't turn out as they expected.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

To sell statins, we're told cholesterol damages arteries—in reality, it repairs arterial injury. Statins hence don't prevent death and give 20% of users muscle, liver or nerve damage

Here I show what doctors never tell you about statins and heart disease
https://t.co/I1oBgpyi4p

[T @walterwhitepill]

Biggest ipo of all time, stocks soaring, fuel dropping, war over, deportation all time highs, legal immigration gutted, foreigners fleeing the country, fights on the whitehouse lawn. Imagine insisting on negativity right now (I can’t) it is quite literally white boy summer.

[Mann Made Cinema @Hotshot_Movie]

Spencer forced the El Segundo Times to finally report on it, like recalcitrant cucks, and this is how they frame it. What losers.

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

During the Irish war of independence the Bishops also came out to denounce the independence fighters as murderers.

The Catholic church has always been an institution of counter-national treason, buggery, cowardice, and hypocrisy.

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

Hobbes claimed that without government life was "Nasty brutish and short" "a war of all against all"

Little did he realize that with government none of that changes

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Two-Tier Keir

Now sending Starm Troopers after conservative social media

The stated reason: "safety"

So, X is banned, while left-wing extremist Bluesky is not

This is not about child safety

It is about safety to left-wing extremist Starmer regime

@Keir_Starmer should resign

[Connor Tomlinson @Con_Tomlinson]

The Daily Mail has reported the Home Office uses psychological manipulation tactics to coerce families like Henry Nowak's to give statements that denounce division and preserve "community cohesion".

I've been reporting on RICU for years. It is the nerve centre of two-tier policing.

It controls newspaper front pages in the aftermath of terror attacks. It planned the "spontaneous" vigil after the Manchester Arena bombing.

Here's everything you need to know about the British government's "Don't Look Back in Anger" department.

You should be angry about what is being done to us.
https://t.co/hwBRfLz8zB