FromCT

I am a motorcyclist (Ducati, GPZ900R, and BMW GS-Adv), HMMWV & Hellcat Widebody owner, F1/MotoGP (Ferrari/Ducati) fan, and all-around petrolhead.

[FromCT @dobberinct]

@DougDeMuro seeing the top view of the Luce explains a lot…

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@3c3p3d I had two Panameras and I remember the service department telling me to never get the active cruise control option in that car because it added a fortune in labor to some already expensive routine maintenance items.

[Warren Redlich - Chasing Dreams 🇺🇸 @WR4NYGov]

Since 2008, $15B taxpayer dollars have been invested in California High Speed Rail. There is no working track and zero passengers so far.

In the same time frame $12B in private funds were invested in SpaceX pre IPO.

SpaceX has 10,000 Starlink satellites serving 10 million customers and has taken 74 passengers into orbit.

Politicians tell you they’ll do better with Elon’s money than he does. California shows the truth.

[FromCT @dobberinct]

@ChrisMartzWX So if all the cave-men had voted for democrats, then the ice age never would have ended and New England would still be under a mile of ice! I wonder who they blamed for climate change back then?

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@adamcarolla @elonmusk They forgot PayPal

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Ned Middles @NedMiddles1]

Someone put the GOLDEN GIRLS theme to the PREDATOR credits. Play almost too well. 🤣🤣🤣

[FromCT @dobberinct]

@ChrisMartzWX “It’s not a lie … if you believe it.”
- Al Costanza

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@elonmusk Soon you won’t go to Netflix to choose a movie, you’ll go there (or elsewhere) to make a movie.

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@PatriciaHeaton @Buckeyes They used these to weld the doors shut in Aliens movie.

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@Gfilche 💯!!!!!!

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@Mrgunsngear 💯

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Imagine being mad about this

Sucks to be a leftist

[U.S. Air Force @usairforce]

What’s better than a rare Super Delta formation featuring the Thunderbirds and the @USNavy Blue Angels over Washington, D.C.?

Watching it from four different views for #UFCWhiteHouse as part of #Freedom250. 🇺🇸

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

[Mikale Olson @realmikolson]

A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.

These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸

[FromCT @dobberinct]

@TheBabylonBee Teddy Roosevelt not only hosted boxing matches at the White House, he participated in them. That is, until he suffered a detached retina during a match, costing him his sight in one eye. Roosevelt then retired himself from participating.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

The day Elon Musk told X advertisers to "go fck yourselves" he was worth $220 billion

Today he's worth $1.1 trillion

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

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.