David Wayne Shoots ⚡️

Oilfield HSE Consultant, photographer, Bitcoin stacker, immature idiot & once opened a comedy show for Doug Stanhope. Life goal met!
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[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@Oilfield_Rando As a safety man, I can agree with this post.

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@Jon_Finkel Love this! I believe I've read it before. Definitely put that old knot in the back of my throat as I read the last few sentences.

[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. 🚀

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@Jon_Finkel G n R!!!

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@JordanHallWX wow! Incredible!

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

You aren’t ready. You think you are, but you’re not.

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@tatumturnup ?????

[Aron Fromm @aronfromm]

A little short I made about Norm.

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@aronfromm Loved this!! Thanks for taking the time to create it! Would love to see more!

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

Incredible and LMAO!

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

This fake bully protection movie trailer with John Cena, Alan Ritchson, and not Channing Tatum is the best fucking movie trailer I’ve seen in at least two years!

Holy shit 😂🤣😅😂🤣😅

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.

On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.

Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Vast technology differences simultaneously

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

Wow

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

This is incredibly well done.

[you already know @DrinkingDad_2]

We’re the last generation to have learned grammar from Conjunction Junction and it shows.

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@DanKelley66 @KingJames Fans should get up and walk out when he does that. I would.

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

When I get something stuck in my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver.

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@Jon_Finkel We are there now.

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

@Jon_Finkel 100%!!

[David Wayne Shoots ⚡️ @DudeOfDave]

This is insane!

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.