Elon Musk is a masterclass in resilience. Even when he was hit down to rock bottom, he refused to give up
In late 2008, he was on the absolute verge of total bankruptcy:
• SpaceX had suffered three failed launches in a row, with only enough capital left for one final roll of the dice.
• Tesla was bleeding cash and days away from shutting down completely.
• He was personally down to his last dollars….borrowing money from friends just to pay rent and keep the payroll from bouncing
Most people would have broken under that level of pressure. Most people would have taken the loss and walked away
But he didn’t
He went completely all in, worked insane 120-hour weeks, bet his entire life's fortune on the fourth rocket launch, and turned a near-death experience into the foundation of a $3+ Trillion empire.
this is the greatest comeback story in modern history
Elon Musk: “The reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could feel the walls closing in. It was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president
And I think it was only a matter of time before they suspended my account.
Twitter and, well, pretty much all the social media companies, and Google and everyone, are controlled by far-left activists. That’s the truth of it.
How do you know what’s real when it’s all filtered through a far-left San Francisco Berkeley lens?
They just manipulate the truth constantly."
November 2023. The most powerful companies on Earth lined up to make him kneel.
Disney. Apple. IBM. Comcast. They pulled their money and waited for the apology.
The whole press corps wanted one word out of him. Sorry.
Sorkin leaned in and offered him the exit. Just walk it back.
Musk: “If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”
No retraction. No cleanup post at 2am. No quiet calls begging the brands back.
They wrote that it was over. That he’d finally buried his own company.
He was worth around $230 billion that night.
This week SpaceX went public.
He became the first trillionaire who has ever lived.
Forbes puts him at $1.1 trillion. Almost four times the next richest person alive.
This was never about him.
The people threatening you only hold the power you agree to hand them.
Every time you apologized to keep the peace, you taught them the price was you.
He refused to pay it once, in front of the entire world.
The world blinked first.
The crowd never remembers who knelt. It remembers who refused to flinch.
The only person who can ever make you beg is you.
Elon Musk: At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.
There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.
At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.
And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”
New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023
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🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk speaks from Starbase as SpaceX goes public, with the largest IPO EVER
"If people had told me this was going to happen [years ago], I would be like, man, you must be smoking some REALLY good crack because I think this company is going to fail!" 🤣
"I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all, to be clear. In fact, I told people this: I said, 'look, we're probably going to fail, but, you know, we should give it a try because if we don't, if if there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly spacefaring civilization.'" 💯
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WHISTLEBLOWER Gail Macrae: "I am a registered nurse with years on the front lines...ZERO patients died FROM COVID.
They were KILLED by Remdesivir and ventilators.
Hospitals were half-empty the entire time.
But the deadly protocols, forced isolation from family, and experimental drugs kept rolling — because every “COVID label” meant massive government bonuses.
This wasn’t medicine.
This was MURDER FOR MONEY.
Patients came in with the flu or pneumonia. They left in body bags after being poisoned and suffocated by hospital policy.
I saw it with my own eyes.
I watched it happen day after day.
Demand justice.
Demand the truth.
Demand the names of every administrator, doctor, and politician who profited while our loved ones were slaughtered.
The COVID hospital scam was one of the greatest crimes in history.
🚨🇪🇺REMEMBER : Elon Musk just put the EU chief back in her place!
Von der Leyen was preaching about "democracy" until Musk hit her with a truth bomb:
"If democracy is the foundation of freedom, surely your position as leader of the EU should be elected directly by the people?"
Elon Musk almost died twice in the same year and most people have no idea it ever happened.
In 2000, right after selling his first company, he went on vacation to Africa and South America. He came back with something far worse than a tan.
He had contracted falciparum malaria. The deadliest kind. The kind that kills you.
He was misdiagnosed at first. By the time doctors figured out what was actually attacking his body, he was close to death. He spent ten days in intensive care. He lost nearly 45 pounds. A doctor reportedly told him that if he had come in a day later, he would have died.
The same year, the company he had just helped build voted him out as CEO while he was traveling.
Near death in a hospital bed. Pushed out of his own company. One year.
He later joked that vacations will kill you.
But the real lesson is darker and more useful. The year that nearly ended him became the foundation of everything. He recovered, took the capital, and built SpaceX and Tesla.
The years that almost destroy you are sometimes the ones that set up everything that follows.
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Elon Musk defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.
Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.
Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.
Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.
They conquered until they collapsed.
America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.
And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Almost unprecedented?
It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.
The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.
It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.
America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.
That’s not policy.
That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.
You’re being told a story right now.
That America is the villain of history.
You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.
The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.
And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”
Probably right.
China has historically built walls, not fleets.
But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.
We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.
AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.
If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?
The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?
Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.
Billions lifted out of poverty.
All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.
And carries no guarantee of being repeated.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was what it didn’t do after.
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When asked "Do you think that there are aliens here?"
Spielberg replied: "Based on the circumstantial evidence of everything that I've gathered throughout my whole life and all the testimonies uh in Congress that I've heard, um I absolutely think that they have been here and uh they are here and who knows maybe they've always been here."
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