Classic American parade magic right here!๐บ๐ธ
Shriners from Anah Temple in Bangor, ME rolling through with their killer GMC Suburban go-kart ramp, dudes driving those little carts right up, over the roof, and down the other side while the truck cruises. Pure fun, skill, and small-town pride that never gets old. Respect to the guys keeping this tradition alive! ๐๐จ
Comparing the California High Speed Rail to Elon Muskโs SpaceX
This is how criminally inefficient California's bureaucracy has become
- The California High-Speed Rail Authority is 6 years older than SpaceX
- Total private funding for SpaceX was $12 billion, whereas California's high-speed rail is projected to cost $231 billion by the time it's completed (That's 2,000% more funding than SpaceX had)
In the same amount of time, California has laid zero miles of high-speed rails while SpaceX has developed a reusable rocket, delivered astronauts and saved astronauts from the International Space Station, and as of today has a $2.5 trillion market cap
Elon Musk will literally have been able to send people to Mars at a fraction of the cost and at a fraction of the amount of time that it's taken Gavin Newsom just to send Californians up the coast
๐จ: Anyone 2,000 light-years away with a big enough telescope on us tonight isn't seeing now. they're seeing Rome at its peak.
from where they sit, Jesus hasn't died yet.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. And when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back." I think Nietzsche just perfectly summed up today's news cycle:
A top SPLC official was accused of funneling $1.2M to her neo-Nazi lover. You gaze long enough into the abyss and it turns out, the abyss has your routing number
A University of Illinois Chicago student admitted to lighting a cross on fire to smear Trump supporters. To fight "the Klan," he became the Klan.
We now have the memos proving that former AG Merrick Garland's own people warned him against directing the FBI to treat concerned parents like domestic terrorists. The agency built to protect citizens turned against them.
The 5 Americans arrested for plotting an attack on UFC Freedom 250 believed the only way to stop America from being destroyed by Epstein protectors and Israel was to destroy it themselves. They became the monsters and called it heroism.
A horrific report from UK MP Rupert Lowe revealed that a quarter of a million young British girls were systematically exploited and abused while authorities looked away. They were too terrified of being labeled "racist" or "bigoted" that they let the actual monsters have free reign.
When you stare too long into the abyss, you don't just lose yourself. You end up catching the very disease you tried to cure. The Founders didn't hand us a political jersey. They handed us principles. If we hold to them, the abyss can gaze at us all day long. It won't find anything looking back.
I appreciate the direct response, Congressman @RoKhanna. You've raised a real question, so let me answer it seriously.
You're partly right, and I'll grant it fully: the Founders who established a government to protect individual rights performed an achievement no inventor can match, because they built the precondition for every other achievement. Jefferson and the framers created the framework of liberty. Lincoln preserved it and extended its promise to those wrongly denied it. On that we agree. The statesman who secures freedom is a hero of the highest order.
But notice the distinction that matters. Those men are great precisely to the degree they protected liberty, not to the degree they exercised power. The Founders' greatness was in handing power back. Lincoln's was in ending a violation of rights, slavery, the gravest in our history.
That is why FDR doesn't belong with them. He did the opposite. He expanded the state at the expense of the freedom the Founders secured: seizing gold under threat of prison, attempting to pack the Court, building the apparatus that treats your earnings as the government's to allocate. He used power; he didn't restrain it.
And here is the deeper point. You frame it as Rockefeller and Musk versus the statesmen, as if they compete. They don't. The statesman's whole purpose is to protect the conditions, namely individual rights, in which the producer can create.
The Founders, along with Locke and Aristotle, built the house. Musk, Rockefeller, Bezos, and Vanderbilt are examples of what free men do inside it.
If you fully understood the principle of individual rights, you would be fighting against men and women like Warren, AOC, Sanders, and the rest of these collectivist statists in both parties, instead of advocating ideas that deprive individuals of the very rights you claim to honor.
While I definitely thought it was funny at the time, and will defend his right to say it, I really do wish Josh Hokit had not said what he said last night about Michelle Obama.
Without that one tiny sound bite of the entire event, the left wouldnโt have had much to cry about beyond their โwhite trashโ denigrating of Conservatives.
Instead of that one thing dominating the news and social media feeds today, we might have actually seen some positive take away from the event, possibly encouraging a little more patriotism from the left to stop being so partisan and join in on the rest of the 250th celebrations.
Itโs really kind of a shame that one snippet has been the biggest takeaway of the Freedom 250 event.