Six 🇺🇸

Believer. Husband (1). Dad (4). Vet. Nuke.

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

I appreciate everything you're doing to protect liberty. However, until it is a crime to infringe on liberty these laws will never stop. Law gets challenged in court...4 years later it's recognized as clearly unconsiti. New law is passed...get challenged in court and overturned years later. Rinse and repeat...meanwhile citizens in those states/localities are perpetually stripped of rights.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this day in 1779, an American captain stood on the deck of a ship that was literally sinking under his feet, on fire, riddled with holes, half his crew dead or wounded, and when the enemy shouted across the water asking if he surrendered, he roared back a line that the United States Navy has never forgotten: "I have not yet begun to fight!" His name was John Paul Jones, and what he did that night made him the founding legend of the American navy.

Understand how insane the setting was. Jones was not defending American waters. He had taken the fight to the enemy's home, cruising in a small squadron right off the coast of England itself, terrorizing British shipping in their own front yard. His flagship was an old, worn-out French merchant vessel he had converted into a warship and renamed the Bonhomme Richard, in honor of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard." It was slow, tired, and outgunned.

Off Flamborough Head, Jones ran into a British convoy escorted by a brand-new, faster, more powerful Royal Navy frigate called the Serapis. By every rational measure, Jones should have run. The Serapis was a better ship with heavier guns. Instead, Jones attacked.

The battle that followed, fought into the night under a rising moon, was one of the most savage ship-to-ship duels of the entire age of sail. Early on, disaster struck the Americans: two of the Bonhomme Richard's big old cannon burst when fired, blowing apart their own gun crews and leaving Jones dangerously short of firepower. The Serapis hammered the Richard mercilessly, its heavier guns tearing the American ship to splinters, opening holes below the waterline, setting fires. The Richard was being destroyed.

So Jones did the only thing that could save him. If he could not win a gunnery duel, he would not fight one. He drove his ship straight into the Serapis and lashed the two vessels together, hull against hull, muzzle to muzzle, so close the gun crews were practically fighting through each other's ports. Now it was not a naval battle so much as a brawl, and Jones's American and French sailors and marines could rake the enemy's decks with musket fire and grenades from the rigging.

It was in the middle of this hell, with his ship clearly sinking and afire, that the British captain called over, reasonably, to ask if the Americans had had enough and wished to strike their colors. And Jones, standing on a doomed deck, gave the answer that became immortal: he had not yet begun to fight. And he meant it.

The turning point came from above. One of Jones's men climbed out on a yardarm over the enemy ship and dropped a grenade down through an open hatch into the Serapis, where it touched off a chain of gunpowder charges. The explosion ripped through the British gun deck, killing and maiming dozens of men in an instant. The fight went out of the Serapis. Its captain, his own ship now wrecked and burning, finally surrendered.

And here is the almost unbelievable ending. John Paul Jones had won, but his own ship was beyond saving. The Bonhomme Richard was so shattered that it slowly sank over the next day, and Jones had to move his victorious crew onto the captured Serapis and sail away in the enemy's ship, because his own had gone to the bottom. He won the battle and lost his vessel, all at once.

The victory made him a hero on both sides of the Atlantic, a symbol that the infant United States could carry the war to the mightiest navy on earth and win. To this day, the Navy calls John Paul Jones its father, and it teaches new sailors his answer from that burning deck. Remember September 23, 1779, and the man who was sinking, and on fire, and outgunned, and answered a demand for his surrender by saying he had not yet begun to fight, and then proved it.

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@johnrich @SecRollins Wait...farmers aren't "allowed" to process their own meat? Let them compete.

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Matching the payload capacity of ONE Starship V3 flight would take 200+ Falcon 1 launches

That’s hundreds of rockets, hundreds of separate launches and an enormous amount of time just to move what one Starship is designed to carry

Orbital AI at serious scale needs a vehicle like Starship
And SpaceX now has exactly that

Starship V3 is designed to carry 100+ tons to orbit per flight with full reusability

That means:
• Huge batches of compute satellites launched at once
• Massive power and networking hardware deployed in a single mission
• Starlink connectivity + laser links for moving massive amounts of high-bandwidth data across the orbital network and back to Earth
• Rapid reuse for continuous scaling
• Direct access to enormous amounts of solar energy in orbit
• Orbital infrastructure expanding launch after launch

This is where Starship changes everything

Orbital AI stops being limited by how little mass we can get to space and starts becoming infrastructure humanity can build at enormous scale

And it’s happening much sooner than most people realize

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@swainer23 @FrediThePizzamn Always perfect!

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@Met_Ed 66 hours without power and still no assessment of our neighborhood power outage.

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

Greatest breakup letter of all time!

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Moments ago, Valar Atomics took Ward 250 critical for the first time. This fulfills President Trump’s EO 14301, which called for 3 advanced reactors to go critical by July 4th.

This is our second criticality as a company, and an important step toward our goal of power by July 4.

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@TeamsterSOB I like the way you roll. 👍👍

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@TeslaNewswire I love my 2025 Tesla Model S and FSD. With that said the fact it hits every pot hole is a fatal flaw. In 15k miles I've had 3 flat tires while in fsd.

[Taylor Lewan @TaylorLewan77]

Let’s not over react to this clip, but at minimum we’re making the playoffs this year.

Go Blue

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@alppouch Joe wins

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@AAGDhillon @Cernovich @TheJusticeDept @CivilRights If only crimes against liberty were treated as severely as crimes against government.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

Today’s Terafab announcement reminded me of when I first met Elon:

I watched him do 10 hours of xAI reviews without a break—and then he ate a $9 Doordash burrito and kept going until 2am.

He could do anything right now, but instead he spends every waking minute earnestly working on the most ambitious project imaginable to advance humanity.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Self driving Tesla has replaced the iPhone for me as the most transformative technology of the 21st century. The iPhone has had far more impact so far, but I think the self driving Tesla is the most impressive tech creation of the 21st century.

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

Whittingham off to a great start. Go Blue.

[Rivals @Rivals]

Teams with the most 5-star signees in the final 2026 Rivals300⭐️

https://t.co/0Idi5Iwx0D

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@FrediThePizzamn Rick Leach....Michigan

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@piersmorgan The US paid to rebuild and defend post WW2 Europe... at great expense. For 28 years we've had trade deficits with Europe totalling $3.3 trillion dollars. Now, when we need support for our own security, Europe rallies against us.

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

Incredible...

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

>be Palmer Luckey
>born 1992, Long Beach, California
>homeschooled by mom, dad's a car salesman
>build railguns, Tesla coils, lasers in the garage as a teenager
>electrocute yourself, burn a gray spot into your own vision cleaning a laser
>no regrets
>start college courses at 14
>build a six-monitor gaming rig worth tens of thousands of dollars
>collect 43 VR headsets by the time you're 18
>largest private collection in the world

2009:
>found ModRetro Forums at 17
>turn old game consoles into portable units for fun
>work part-time at USC's Mixed Reality Lab designing VR for veterans with PTSD

2012:
>build the Oculus Rift prototype in your parents' garage at 19
>drop out of college
>John Carmack (Doom creator) demos your headset at E3
>Gabe Newell endorses it
>launch Kickstarter asking for $250K
>raise $2.4 million

2014:
>Mark Zuckerberg shows up
>Facebook acquires Oculus for $2 billion
>you're 21 years old
>Forbes estimates your net worth at $700 million
>described as "the face of virtual reality"

2016:
>donate $10K to a pro-Trump group
>post anti-Hillary memes on Reddit under a pseudonym
>get exposed
>game developers boycott Oculus
>Facebook pressures you to publicly endorse Gary Johnson instead
>refuse

2017:
>get fired from your own company
>Zuckerberg won't say why
>negotiate $100 million+ payout for wrongful termination
>immediately found Anduril Industries
>name it after Aragorn's sword from Lord of the Rings
>partner with Peter Thiel
>start building autonomous weapons and AI defense systems

2020-2024:
>win $1 billion contract with U.S. Special Operations Command
>drones deployed to Ukraine
>revenue doubles to $1 billion
>take over Microsoft's $22 billion military headset contract
>Pentagon can't stop writing you checks

2022:
>build a VR headset that literally kills you if you die in-game
>inspired by Sword Art Online
>three explosive charges aimed at your forehead
>call it "office art"
>"it won't be the last"

2025:
>Anduril valued at $30.5 billion
>announce plans to build Arsenal-1
>5 million square foot weapons factory in Ohio
>autonomous fighter jets, missiles, torpedoes
>China sanctions you personally
>net worth hits $3.5 billion
>pay yourself $100K salary
>still wearing Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops to Pentagon meetings
>own a submarine, helicopters, and a PT boat
>keep one of the world's largest video game collections underground
>married a woman who sews historically accurate Tudor costumes
>won first place at Texas Renaissance Festival dressed as Henry VIII
>Sword Art Online author drew your wedding gift

from garage tinkerer to youngest self-made billionaire to America's most important defense contractor

all while looking like he's headed to a beach party

[Six 🇺🇸 @clintsix]

@WallStreetApes @SharylAttkisson Social Security costs have ballooned because of improvements in life expectancy...people on the program much longer. Program as established doesn't work today. Needs overhaul.