Fredric Carman

I’m nuts

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

NVIDIA letting Jensen go is a huge mistake, for America and for humanity. It's Apple firing Steve Jobs all over again, but much bigger, given the role of AI in defining the future of our world.

I've been keeping quiet on this out of respect for Jensen's family and team, who I've met and who are amazing humans, and because I personally hate infidelity. So my heart goes out to them in this difficult personal family moment.

But I can also say that Jensen is human, and makes mistakes like all of us do. Not that I matter at all, but I've known Jensen for a long time and have gotten the chance to spend a lot of time with him, behind the scenes, away from mics and cameras. I have seen him show kindness, humility, care to everyone around him, including strangers, including from the poorest most struggling parts of society, treating all the same with the same thoughtfulness and attention, because they are fellow humans and not because he has something to gain from them. That shows rare character, to maintain humility and humanity through all of it.

Another data point is what people who know him well have said privately to me about Jensen over the years. I've never had anyone tell me anything but how awesome he is or how much they love him. Probably over a thousand people at this point. This includes hundreds of engineers, CEOs, colleagues, friends, etc.

Also, since there was some spy talk. Jensen is as proud an American as it gets. I'm in shock frankly at all of this, including the mass hysteria around it. I love America, and I think NVIDIA letting Jensen go is terrible for America.

I stand with Jensen.

Love you all ❤️

[Fredric Carman @fpcarma]

@elonmusk Or a stupid one

[Fredric Carman @fpcarma]

@wholemars Take their phones away and see how long they last without “data centers”

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Team Elon yesterday.
Team Elon today.
Team Elon all the way. 🦾

[Gali @Gfilche]

Great business leaders work with politicians from both sides

Elon, Tesla & SpaceX are so important for America, they should be championed by Democrats & Republicans

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

An employee who worked closely with Elon Musk for four years revealed that he had seen Elon working in the office countless times at 1, 2, even 3 a.m.

Elon works every waking hour. He doesn’t go out for lunch or dinner. He mostly has his food brought into meetings and eats while the meeting continues.

As the richest person on the planet, he could be anywhere in the world, relaxing on a yacht and enjoying his wealth. Instead, he keeps showing up at the office, working late, and giving his precious time to building a better future for humanity.

Huge respect for Elon. The dedication he puts into building a better future deserve far more recognition.

[We Heart Seattle @weheartseattle]

Mayor Wilson says the RV permit would hurt “traveling workers like nurses.”

We have spent six years and thousands of interactions with people living in RVs on Seattle streets. Not once has it been a traveling nurse. Not once.

Travel nurses have housing stipends. They’re not the ones parked for months in industrial zones with the trash, needles, and open drug use we clear every week.

The one-time census and permit is for the actual street population. Using traveling nurses as a reason to kill it is not serious.

People will do what they’re allowed to do. Right now Seattle is telling the region it’s fine to roll in and park an RV wherever you want. That has to stop.

We Heart Seattle is ready to run this as a private-public partnership. We’ve already shown what works: cleanups, direct intervention, and real pathways to recovery and self-sufficiency, without the city bureaucracy.
@MayorofSeattle the status quo is failing neighborhoods and at the worst children and women who are often trafficked in these dilapidated RVs. @SeattleCouncil

[Overton @overton_news]

Republican strategist David Urban just forced the Democrats on the CNN panel — including David Axelrod — to confront their own double standard on the Haley Stevens saga.

If a Republican had defected and endorsed a Democrat, like Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger, they would have been LIONIZED by the media.

But because a Democrat is crossing the aisle to support a Republican, she’s suddenly become a kook and a pariah.

URBAN: “When Republicans break with our party, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and others, you guys lionize them as being ‘courageous’ and so ‘brave.’”

“And now you guys are like, she’s lost her mind! She’s clearly wacky. But when it’s our team, you guys are like, look how brave, what a profile in courage.”

Urban is bang on here.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Hayley Stevens just won the hearts of tens of millions of Americans who believe in moderation over extremism.

Thank you Ms Stevens.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Party loyalty comes before country otherwise you are kicked out of the party. The Democratic Party hits new lows.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla and SpaceX have created meaningful wealth for hundreds of thousands of employees over time and improved the retirement savings of hundreds of millions of people

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Thank you @Gwynne_Shotwell and Robert for your extraordinary generosity! 🚀🇺🇸

And for the thoughtful approach you took to reach more than 2 million children.

Your gifts will expand opportunity, inspire dreams, and help strengthen America for generations to come! 🙏

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Cool ❤️

[Gwynne Shotwell @Gwynne_Shotwell]

Robert and I are thrilled that our gift of over 2 million shares of SpaceX stock will be distributed to children’s Trump accounts in December!

Our initial gift (shares transferring to escrow as we speak) will go to 11 to 17-year-olds who live in zip codes with median family income (MFI) of $57,000 or less, and to those who live in zip codes with too few residents for an MFI to be reported in the census. These families should receive a notice by Monday. 

In a few weeks, an additional gift will be finalized for eligible 11 to 17-year-old children in military families serving overseas, children in foster care, and more children whose MFI is $90,000 or less living in counties near our home in the great state of Texas.

Thank you to the incredible team @SpaceX, @Treasury, @IRS, @DellFdn, @GreaterHorizons, @InvestAmerica24, and the legal firms of Morgan Lewis and Gibson Dunn for working over the past few months to make this happen.

We are deeply grateful for the groundbreaking work that Brad Gerstner @altcap and @MichaelDell have done for the long-term financial security for millions of kids.

God Bless America!

[Ryan @tslryn]

The sheer fucking hypocrisy surrounding Elon Musk is breathtaking.

For decades, billionaire-funded foundations have financed advocacy groups, political campaigns, legal organizations, and efforts to reshape public policy.

George Soros is one of the most prominent examples.

And somehow that influence is routinely presented as enlightened philanthropy.

Then Elon Musk enters politics, spends openly, challenges powerful institutions, and suddenly the entire establishment discovers the dangers of billionaire influence.

Give me a fucking break.

The man has built companies that launch rockets, connect the world through satellites, manufacture vehicles, and advance technologies with enormous implications for humanity.

His long-term ambition is to make civilization multiplanetary.

He has a profound personal interest in a future where technological progress remains possible.

You can disagree with his politics.

But pretending he’s just another billionaire looking for influence ignores the extraordinary scale of what he’s actually trying to accomplish.

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Elon Musk called for Robert Reich to be jailed on Sunday after Reich called to seize Musk’s property. Musk is right. Reich said Democrats should start laying the groundwork to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX and turn them into a public corporation if they take the House or Senate. Musk responded: “Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich.”

More Democrats are openly embracing communism now, and it needs to be legally responded to seriously. Anyone promoting communism and the taking of private property from law-abiding citizens as a penalty for success should be jailed or lose their citizenship.

Reich is a former U.S. Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, a longtime Berkeley professor, and a frequent MSNBC commentator who has spent decades pushing higher taxes and expanded government control. He framed the nationalization call as a response to Musk supporting Trump and cutting into USAID spending. He also called for canceling federal contracts with Musk’s companies, breaking them up, and applying a wealth tax. That’s not regulation. That’s confiscation of private property because Musk backed the candidate Reich doesn’t like.

The same government that needed SpaceX to bring astronauts home is now being told to take the company. Reich has pushed this kind of economic intervention for years. This is the same playbook, just said out loud. Nationalizing private companies because of political disagreement is the core of how socialist and communist systems operate. They start with “public good” language, then move the assets under government control. Once the state owns the means of production in a sector, the owner loses the company and the public loses the competition that built it. Reich is treating Musk’s success as the problem and state ownership as the solution. Calling for the government to seize private companies over political disagreement is an attack on the right to own what you build.

Democrats used to at least pretend they supported private enterprise with rules around it. Reich is dropping the pretense. If taking Starlink and SpaceX is on the table for a midterm majority, every business owner who crosses them should expect the same treatment. That isn’t policy. It’s a direct threat to private ownership. Anyone who openly calls for seizing private companies over politics is an enemy of the country and should be legally treated as one.

[Fredric Carman @fpcarma]

@Ryan_Parkerrr YES

[Fredric Carman @fpcarma]

@wholemars Awesome - this was a clear hit job

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ThomasSowell She should sue her plastic surgeon

[Fredric Carman @fpcarma]

@RandyWKirk1 No