Brett Richards

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Fifteen years ago, I founded the @GarySiniseFound with a simple mission: to serve and honor our nation's defenders, veterans, first responders, and their families.

And the incredible impact we've made together over the last decade and a half has been remarkable. From specially adapted smart homes and support for families of fallen heroes to programs serving our wounded heroes and first responders, our ever expanding reach, touching more and more lives in such a positive way would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people.

As we celebrate this milestone, I'm deeply grateful to everyone who has joined us on this journey. And thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the McBunch family, every gift made during our 15th Anniversary celebration will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $250,000.

Thank you for helping us serve those who sacrifice so much for our country. Here's to the next 15 years. Donate today at https://t.co/u7xo8O8mJd

[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.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

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

Worry about politicians becoming rich with your money.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

No, you don't get it.

He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.

To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.

Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".

$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12

If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.

But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

[Szymanski @Szymansk_ii]

Next time you think of giving up, remember this photo of Elon in 2008.

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Thank you to all who fought and sacrificed in freedoms defense all those years ago. Incredible footage here. Blessed that both my uncles survived and will never forget the over 400,000 who did not come home.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

Today in American History: June 6th, 1944

D-Day!

American lead Allied forces launch the largest amphibious assault in world history in an attempt to establish a beachhead in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord.

Read more here about this monumental day in American history🧵

[Lou Diamond Phillips @LouDPhillips]

Proud to be in DC tonight. Honored to be the Grand Marshall for the Memorial Day Parade tomorrow. Here to give Respect and Gratitude to our Fallen. Remember them on #MemorialDay.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

The story behind Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t Cry” begins in 1985, when Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin wrote their first song together for the band, even before Slash, Duff, and Steven Adler had fully joined the group.

It all stemmed from a real-life love triangle. Izzy had been dating a girl named Monique Lewis. When they broke up, Axl began an intense relationship with her. One night, outside The Roxy club on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, she decided to break up with Axl. He sat down on the sidewalk and began crying inconsolably. She kept repeating to him over and over, “Don’t cry.”

The next day, Axl, still heartbroken, went to Izzy’s house (with whom he had been feuding for months over the same girl). Instead of fighting, they sat down and in just five minutes wrote the song: Axl had the sad lyrics and Izzy a guitar melody just as melancholic.

Although it was written very early on, the band didn’t include it on *Appetite for Destruction* because they couldn’t get the right sound. It was finally released in 1991, on the albums *Use Your Illusion I* and *Use Your Illusion II*, with two slightly different versions. It became one of their biggest hits and is part of the famous ballad trilogy alongside “November Rain” and “Estranged.”

Axl was so affected by that relationship that he got Monique’s name tattooed on his arm and dedicated another song to her: “Rocket Queen.”
The music video, filled with surreal images, pain, and symbolism, features Stephanie Seymour (Axl’s girlfriend at the time) and has a curious detail: Izzy no longer appears because he was about to leave the band. They even put up a sign that read “Where’s Izzy?” as an inside joke.

“Don’t Cry” was literally born from real tears on the sidewalk in Los Angeles and became an anthem of heartbreak and comfort for millions of people. A classic 90s rock power ballad.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The people who just killed an airline by blocking capitalism and free markets, also want to "fix" our healthcare and housing in the same way.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is under fire after Spirit Airlines abruptly shut down, two years after she praised a blocked merger between Spirit and JetBlue as a "Biden win for flyers."

Spirit has ceased operations immediately, leaving many travelers stranded after all flights were canceled and reigniting debate over whether federal regulators got it wrong in blocking the merger.

The Democrat defended her position following Spirit’s collapse, arguing that rising oil prices due to the Iran conflict was "the nail in the coffin" for the doomed airline.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

[PolyBackTest @PolyBackTest]

Bill Maher fires back at Billie Eilish and leftist “kids” who “don’t know what the f*ck” America is about.

“I want to… say something about Western civilization. Kids, you don’t know what the f*ck it is.”

“They think Western means white—and white means bad. First of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it, too. The Japanese before World War II and during World War II. And Genghis Khan, and I could go on and on.”

“The left is very down on America, very down on the West. And it’s ironic because the West has also given us everything that makes your life good here. Don’t ask Billie Eilish or Chappell Roan about what the Western values are, because they’ll just say it’s about oppression.”

“But it’s not about oppression. It’s about rule of law. It’s about respect for minorities. It’s about democracy. It’s about scientific inquiry. These are all good things that came from the Western world. I wish that schools would teach that again.”

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

August 2025: “I have no plans to redistrict Virginia”

GETS ELECTED: Immediately tries to redistrict Virginia.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Never trust what a Democrat says when
trying to get elected.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

5 districts in Virginia now start in this circle…

Tentacles from DC reaching across the state.

[Lisa McClain @LisaForCongress]

Virginia tonight proved one thing:
When Democrats can’t win fairly, they change the rules. That’s not democracy. That’s a power grab. Shameful.

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

My brothers, Rob O Neill and Marcus Capone! Amazing day!