Honestly, I’d not mind if Pulisic announced that he retired from international soccer and left the USMNT 🇺🇸 alone.
It would be better for the team and himself.
He’d also get to rest a lot more, that’s a bonus.
Tucker: How many people live in Iran?
Cruz: I don’t know the population
Tucker: You don’t know the population of the country you seek to topple?
Cruz: How many people live in Iran?
Tucker: 92 million. How could you not know that?
What Elon Musk is doing is genuinely heroic.
He will win no friends in politics and will be ostracised by the current administration. But he is totally right.
We (the entire Western world) simply cannot go on pretending our way of life is sustainable.
Historically, countries build up surpluses in peace time and then go into debt to fight wars. We are going into more and more debt during peace time.
Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable. It is not. And someone has to do something about it.
If a $5,000 iPhone means that every 10 yr old doesn’t have one, count me in.
If a $5,000 iPhone means people can pull away from a green light in a timely manner, count me in.
If a $5,000 iPhone means that I don’t have to scan a QR code every 15 minutes, count me in.
If a $5,000 iPhone means my son will be able to go on a date and get to look his date in the eye, count me in.
If a $5,000 iPhone means my battery doesn’t crap out every time a new model drops, count me in.
I witnessed entire American towns economically destroyed over decades because they couldn't compete with child labor and dollar wages.
My empathy meter is negative.