Braden Drown

Jesus freak. Married to @Caitydrown. Dad. Worship leader @muncielife. Small business owner.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@CNN Did you only ask Democrats? Because very few conservatives think favorably of Obama.

[Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy]

@nypost Without 18-year-olds with guns, you'd be British.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@IanJaeger29 Only those who shouldn’t vote in the first place would lose their “right” to vote.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Harvesting just one kidney from 20% of America’s politicians would give a new kidney to EVERY SINGLE PERSON currently on the transplant waiting list.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@SenWarren We don’t need more quality learing centers. I want government less involved with daycare, education, healthcare, and pretty much everything else.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@AmazonMGMStudio Ronon of course.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@AmazonMGMStudio You’re joking, right?

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Don’t worry about Elon becoming rich with his own money.

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Today I learned $1 Trillion in wealth is excessive but $40 Trillion in debt is totally cool… 💁‍♂️

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

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.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@RoKhanna Government doesn’t “invest” the same way private citizens do. Whatever the government has to “invest”, it takes forcibly from citizens in the form of taxes. Whatever citizens invest, they do so from the products or services they create.

[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.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@JohnCornyn This is why your were primaries. And why @LeaderJohnThune will be primaried in 2028.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@JohnCornyn @LeaderJohnThune Also, why does @LeaderJohnThune keep having someone gavel in while the Senate is on vacation to keep President Trump from making recess appointments. It’s almost as if he’s actively trying to undermine the President’s agenda.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@JohnCornyn @LeaderJohnThune Actually he can insist on a talking filibuster, which would give you the votes. But for some reason he won’t do that. The SAVE America Act must pass. It’s the single most important piece of legislation this session.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@AmazonMGMStudio I haven’t read a single comment yet that didn’t say Stargate. I wonder if @AmazonMGMStudio actually reads these comments.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

This is the correct take.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Christians have not recently been adept political thinkers. So, 2 things on this…

1) We should respect Mormons enough to be honest with them that, by their own self-identification, they are “not creedal Christians” (what Mormons THEMSELVES will say, bc they understand they disagree with many/most of the core doctrines of Christianity that are expressed in the earliest creeds)

2) Christians need to develop the ability to understand there are two overlapping but distinct realms: the church and the state (Jesus, 1 Peter, Augustine)

Therefore, there will be some people that are on a DIFFERENT TEAM spiritually (not Christians), but on the SAME TEAM culturally (aligned in almost all political / cultural goals).

If you don’t understand this, you will oppose people you should befriend in the political/cultural realm, and you will befriend people you should differentiate from in the church/spiritual realm.

[Braden Drown @bradendrown]

@SenJohnCurtis The majority of Christian denominations reject LDS as a form of Christianity. This is an internal theological matter, not something for government to intervene in.

[Ben Zeisloft @BenZeisloft]

There is zero moral difference between the Aztec who murders a born child to make the sun rise and the American who murders a preborn child because they hate responsibility.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

So he threw him in a medical waste bin instead.