fred morgenstern

monitoring the situation

[fred morgenstern @freddyml]

@eduardomenoni Millei 👑

[John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC]

I'd like to thank whoever factory-reset Trump back to "Bomb the shit out of Iran" mode.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

This is possibly the best example of guerrilla marketing by an airline all year - SAS - Scandinavian Airlines😍

[fred morgenstern @freddyml]

@agusantonetti @alcibiades500 Va ganando los buenos

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@JasonSilva BMW did a versión on this in the 90s

[Howard Lutnick @howardlutnick]

Today has special meaning for me and my family. On 9/11 my younger brother Gary was murdered by Jihadists simply for being American. He went to work that beautiful Tuesday morning pursuing the American dream. To succeed, and build his life in the greatest country on earth. Jealousy begets hatred and he was killed along with 657 other Cantor Fitzgerald employees for being American and working in the globally famous twin towers of the World Trade Center.

America deserves to be loved, she deserves to be protected and she deserves our appreciation because America is the world’s shining light. Imagine a world without America, it becomes very dark very quickly. America is the beacon of freedom beaming across the globe. This is who we are, and why we take the actions we do. There is only one nation that delivers on the American Dream. There is only one nation fighting for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There is only one America and today is her birthday. And I could not be more proud to be her son.

[fred morgenstern @freddyml]

On point

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

In a world of takers, be a maker. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

From a brainwashed Mao’s Little Red Guard to a free and proud U.S. citizen.

Thank you, America! 🇺🇸

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je suis Français.

Ma boîte est américaine.

Et aujourd'hui, 4 juillet, jour où l'Amérique fête ses 250 ans, je veux dire les choses simplement : j'aime les États-Unis.

Pas par posture. Par lucidité.

Parce que vous avez gardé ce que l'Occident a produit de meilleur, et que trop d'Européens ont oublié.
Vous respectez la création de valeur. Chez vous, réussir n'est pas un péché à expier mais une preuve qu'on a rendu service au monde. Votre rapport à l'argent est sain : ce n'est pas une honte, c'est de l'énergie qu'on remet en mouvement.

Vous êtes des joueurs, pas des victimes. Quand quelque chose casse, vous demandez « comment on répare » pas « qui est le coupable ». L'Europe, elle, a fait de la plainte un sport national et de la victimisation une identité. C'est notre vraie maladie.

Vous incarnez encore les valeurs de l'Occident. Le dépassement de soi. La liberté individuelle. Et qu'on l'oublie jamais le fun. Un peuple qui ne sait plus jouer, rêver grand et rire de lui-même est un peuple qui a déjà commencé à mourir.

Vous avez bâti les meilleures technologies des 40 dernières années. Internet, le mobile, le cloud, le spatial, l'IA. Pendant que d'autres écrivaient des rapports sur l'innovation, vous la livriez.
Maintenant, deux conseils. De quelqu'un qui vous aime.

Méfiez-vous du poison communiste qui s'infiltre chez vous. Il ne porte plus l'uniforme rouge. Il a muté. Décroissance, wokisme, globalisme : mille visages, une seule logique culpabiliser le fort, punir le créateur, dissoudre l'individu dans la masse. Ne le laissez pas entrer par la porte de derrière au nom de la vertu.

Continuez d'accélérer.

Vous n'êtes pas qu'un pays, vous êtes le dernier grand accélérateur de la civilisation. Créez les conditions pour que l'Occident finisse par se réunir autour de trois piliers : la propriété, la liberté individuelle, le capitalisme. Vous en êtes le moteur. Mais n'oubliez jamais que l'Europe reste votre socle culturel vos racines sont ici.

Alors joyeux anniversaire, l'Amérique. Restez joueurs. Restez libres. Restez debout.

Au travail. 🇺🇸

[鈴森はるか 『haruka suzumori』 🇯🇵 @harukaawake]

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Since it's Independence Day, the leftists and their third worldist friends are crying about Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

Here is what Hiroshima & Nagasaki look like today. Instead of being angry and resentful, try building something useful for once.

[fred morgenstern @freddyml]

@mayemusk Elon Powers ⚡️

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@ApexSeeker_ Classic

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@ArynneWexler @ZohranKMamdani ⚡️

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Russia repeatedly targets and bombs Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure and has done so for more than four years.

Where are the university and street protests?

Why does the UN not condemn them?

Where are the calls for a free Ukraine?

Why are there no Queers for Ukraine?

[Tanya Narbut🇮🇱🇺🇦 @NarbutTanya]

Оказывается величайший экономист, историк и интеллектуал современности Томас Соуэлл имел и имеет свою позицию по поводу Израиля и евреев.

Колонка The Middle East "Peace Process". 2002.
«Эвфемизм "земля в обмен на мир" на Ближнем Востоке на практике означает передачу земли в обмен на обещания. Проблема в том, что землю нельзя вернуть назад без новой войны, в то время как обещания можно нарушить вообще без каких-либо издержек».

Колонка The "Peace Process" Myth. 2005
«Самая фундаментальная ошибка западного мира — верить в то, что существует некая комбинация уступок, которая принесет мир. Но нет таких уступок, которые удовлетворят людей, желающих вашего полного исчезновения».
«Никакого "ближневосточного мирного процесса" не существует. Существует ближневосточный военный процесс, в который западные страны упорно пытаются внедрить идеи о мире, не имеющие никакого отношения к реальности в этой части планеты».

Колонка Cease-Fires Do Little To Halt Bloodshed. 2014
«Есть что-то гротескное в том, как люди, живущие за тысячи миль в безопасности и комфорте, высокомерно критикуют и пытаются микроменеджерить действия израильтян, находящихся под обстрелом ракет, запускаемых по их стране организацией ХАМАС».
«Для людей, находящихся на безопасном расстоянии, "прекращение огня" звучит как нечто прекрасное, но для людей под ракетным обстрелом это означает дать нападающим время на пополнение запасов и подготовку к последующим атакам».

Телепередача Uncommon Knowledge. 2005
«Я помню, как много лет назад разговаривал с человеком из еврейской организации, и он спросил, что можно сделать с антисемитизмом. И я сказал: "Ну, вы могли бы потерпеть неудачу". Потому что пока вы успешны, всегда будут люди, которые ненавидят вас за это».

Книга Black Rednecks and White Liberals. 2005
«Евреи не просто преуспевают, они преуспевают так, что это угрожает эго других людей. (...) Когда кто-то приезжает в страну без гроша в кармане, живет в трущобах, а всего через поколение его дети становятся врачами и учеными — это лишает окружающих любых оправданий для собственных неудач».

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

We have given Israel 174 billion dollars since 1948 (not adjusted for inflation I’m not good at that).

Of that 124 BILLION was given as a credit to be used in America on American weapons.

That money didn’t leave the country. It became contracts, payroll, and R&D at Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and hundreds of smaller suppliers. In effect, a large share of “aid to Israel” is a federal procurement program to fund American weapons production.

Defense spending sustains somewhere between 15,000-30,000 American jobs a year depending on which model you use.

And when the Pentagon then buys the same F-35s, interceptors, or munitions, the per-unit cost is lower because Israel’s orders helped spread the fixed costs and sustain the supply chain. So the aid functions as a subsidy to the US defense industrial base that lowers the price America pays for its own weapons.

So the real aide number is actually closer to like 47 billion dollars on actual money that leaves this county since 1948.

The total number of foreign aide, not adjusted for inflation since 1948 (a strong researched conservative estimate) is 1.6 trillion dollars.

So 3%.

That is why I don’t take the anti-Israel critics seriously when they start talking about our aid to Israel.

They don’t honestly analyze the situation and the reason they don’t honestly analyze the situation because they need it to be the only problem that matters and so it’s much cashier to throw out a number then explain it.

But that’s why I don’t take any of these liars seriously.

[fred morgenstern @freddyml]

@elonmusk Waiting game now

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@Tesla Ordered mine today eager to drive it across