Dr. Rhodes

Computer Science Professor at RRCC || #LoveMyTesla and Elon Musk || Proud Navy Mom || Dog & Cat Lover || MAGA proud

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

There are no coincidences.

God bless Secretary Turner.

[@jason @Jason]

Spencer Pratt is a beast!

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

We need to work on a plan to get more Elon Musks and fewer Elizabeth Warrens in our country.

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

If you're angry that Elon Musk is now a Trillionaire, you have the wrong mindset.

Elon becoming a Trillionaire literally has nothing to do with you.

The global economy is worth roughly $100 trillion per year.

There's roughly $1 QUADRILLION in global assets. That's 1,000 trillion.

Elon's net worth is equivalent to 0.1% of the world's total asset base.

The other 99.9% exists with or without Elon.

If you're actually angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, what's really happening is that you've either:

a) have lost hope in having a good future because of circumstances in your life

b) you're wasting too much time ingesting garbage information, which is taking time away from materially improving your life's circumstance or

c) you're a jealous person that needs a lot of introspection.

For example - there are literally thousands of people who have worked at SpaceX that are now officially MILLIONAIRES because of the work they've put in.

They didn't steal it from anyway. They literally created this value out of thin air by working EXTREMELY HARD and making EXTREMELY USEFUL technology - reusable rockets.

So instead of being angry that Elon is now a Trillionaire, instead channel that energy into building something that you would be proud of and society can massively benefit from.

You can actually do it. There's literally nothing stopping you but yourself. Set aside your fear, anger, or whatever other block you have, and FORCE YOURSELF to do something big.

As you can very clearly see, you will be rewarded for it MASSIVELY.

There's no better time than now.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Remember when Tim Walz celebrated Tesla’s stock going down?

Elon just became the world’s first trillionaire

Fuck you @Tim_Walz

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Elizabeth Warren is a parasite on the American taxpayer.

Elon Musk has made thousands of new millionaires - and more coming.

Elizabeth Warren is everything that’s wrong with America.

[Planet Tyrus @PlanetTyrusPod]

"After the first few weeks or months, maybe it was no longer fun." @KenRideout_

Ken Rideout gets honest with Tyrus about addiction, withdrawal, and the fear of getting sick

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

What a day!

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

Unfollow me if you have a problem with me being Black and not supporting Karmelo Anthony.

I will not be intimidated by the threats I’ve been receiving from Karmelo Anthony supporters.

He took someone else’s life. Austin Metcalf is never coming back. His family will never get to hug him again. His parents have to wake up every single day knowing their son is gone forever.

I am not standing with someone based on skin color.

I am a human being first. And one human being wrongly killed another human being.

If you think Austin’s killing was no big deal because he was white, then you are straight-up racist.

Wrong is wrong.

I don’t care if the victim is white, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or anything else. A life was taken, and I will never celebrate that. I will never excuse that. And I will never be bullied into defending it.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Dear Senator Cornyn,

I approached you respectfully at the airport, extending my hand & introducing myself.

We were at the ticket gate with literally dozens of witnesses — passengers inches away.

Despite a quib reply back from you, I kept things professional & focused on the SAVE America Act.

While I respect that you say you want to ensure wins this November, I speak for millions when I say that voters will be more likely to vote upon the passage of the SAVE America Act.

Voters see what’s happening in California & wonder why our Senate isn’t doing everything in its power to secure our elections.

Did you know that former Congresswoman Michelle Steel (R-CA) lost by 653 votes in 2024? Did you know that former Congressman John Duarte (R-CA) lost by 187 votes?

I have no doubt that the SAVE America Act would have prevented these losses.

Why are we normalizing an expectation for California to count votes for weeks after Election Day — like Spencer Pratt’s election.

In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections found 34,000 dead voters on the voter rolls — fact-check me. (CC: Senator Tillis)

How can Americans have confidence in our elections & how are Americans going to be inspired to vote if you don’t legislate as the majority?

Last — & I mean this with the utmost of respect — for the $150 million that was spent on the Texas Senate primary/runoff,

we could have built massive voter registration/get out the vote operations in every single swing state.

While I understand it might be difficult to contemplate an American citizen doing this work because it’s the right thing to do, I’m proud to say that I don’t take PAC $ — not even from my own organization.

I can’t be bought, which frustrates the political establishment.

My one singular mission is doing right by the American people and delivering legislative wins that the popular vote delivered in 2024.

I’m on the way to the Texas GOP Convention to help ensure all of our Republican candidates win this November — I hope you’ll do the same.

I hope you’ll do the right thing & encourage your colleagues to pass the SAVE America Act — let’s win big.

[MaryAnn Martinez @MaryAnnreports]

"You may have just been given a sentence of 35 years behind bars. You can consider yourself lucky because I've been sentenced to a lifetime without my son,' Austin Metcalf's mother speaks directly to Karmelo Anthony during the victim impact statements.

[Dr. Rhodes @CSProfessor1]

@KatTimpf That was a hilarious segment on #Gutfeld tonight about Love Island!

[Mark Cook @PatriotMarkCook]

YES YES YES!!!!!

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Scott Adams was a great admirer of @elonmusk. He's the one person Scott asked me to contact for the biography for whom I have no contact information.

So... Mr. Musk, if you're able to see this, kindly reach out?

Many thanks.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[Congressman Gabe Evans @repgabeevans]

Last year in the Sanctuary City Oversight hearing, @denversmayor blatantly admitted that officers in Denver aren’t allowed to fully fill out the FBI fingerprint card.

Why? So people illegally present in the country and committing crimes don’t face immigration enforcement.

The fact of the matter is, Democrats continually put ideology head of public safety, and it’s law abiding Americans who are forced to deal with the consequences.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The car that used to be in my garage is currently in an Earth-Mars elliptical orbit and will be there for at least 10 million years

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Visiting mommy in the hospital.. 😊

[Mike O'Donnell @modonnell]

You seem to have forgotten that Illegal aliens have torn so many American families apart. You obviously don't care. Democrats don't care.
Colorado has become the 6th worst state for per capita violent crime and the 3rd worst state for property crime on your watch. It is sad you never did the job you were elected to do.