Herman Schüller

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

This legend got roasted by the French newspaper Le Monde

Then instead of putting his head down as most European elites have typically done

He penned a masterpiece articulating his heroic contributions to France

THIS IS HOW YOU SAVE EUROPE

Bravo @BernardArnault

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

David Sacks just delivered an economics masterclass on Elon becoming the world’s first trillionaire.

@davidsacks: “People see the headline and imagine Elon suddenly has a trillion dollars in the bank. That’s not how it works. His balance sheet didn’t change overnight.”

Why?

The real point is deeper. Wealth isn’t in the “stuff” we consume. Food, shelter, clothes. Things that depreciate and disappear. It’s in the machines that create stuff for decades: tools, workflows, and corporations.
These are the true engines of human progress.

“If you create a machine that makes more stuff, then there’s a discounted present value for all the stuff in the future that machine might create. That’s where the wealth comes from.”

Elon started with nothing. An immigrant who slept on the floor building Zip2. He created these machines from vision and relentless effort. Thousands joined him, including a SpaceX welder who turned his labor into a million dollars in stock.

That’s the magic of tech and free markets: labor can become capital. It’s fluid.

The outrage misses this entirely. The people building machines that deliver medicines, energy, and abundance are creating lasting prosperity for everyone.

What do you think? Does viewing wealth as future productivity change how you see stories like this?

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.

https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4

[Fredrik Hjelm 🇸🇪 @FredrikHjelm4]

The govt showing up for the tech community means more than people think.

Simplified, a startup nation needs 3 things:

1. Culture. Encourage success, allow for failure and mistakes, cheer successful entrepreneurs the way we cheer sports and music stars.

In Sweden we let people become hugely successful, from Zlatan to Zara Larsson to Daniel Ek.

Most cultures look down on business success. Sweden doesn't. As long as you don't flash it.

2. Talent & capital. Swedes work hard, we have a strong engineering culture, and we have Europe's best capital market per capita, from early-stage angels to the best functioning stock exchange outside the US.

3. Regulations. Lots to fix, which I am vocal about, but overall a decent regulatory regime.

Having our Deputy PM @BuschEbba and civil minister @ErikSlottner show up, spending time with builders, listening, asking for input, sends a strong signal:

Tech and entrepreneurship matters, is the future of Sweden, and we got your back.

And most builders in Sweden I know are happy to pay it back, create jobs, and contribute to the Swedish model.

[Ebba Busch @BuschEbba]

AW: TECHBROS AND TECHGIRLS

Välkommen på AW med mig på TAK i Stockholm på måndag för att prata om hur Sverige kan bli mer techvänligt land.

Sverige är riktigt bra på mycket, men vi ska bli ännu starkare. Därför vill jag ha dina pitchar! Har du en one-pager, lovar jag att läsa den personligen. Skicka in den via länken eller ta med den på plats.

Vi hoppas samla några av landets mest intressanta entreprenörer. Väl mött! 🍻

📍 TAK Stockholm | 🗓️ Måndag 4 maj | 🕕 17.30
🔗 https://t.co/AVk4jkpyED

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren

She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.

Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.

JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.

The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.

For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.

Warren said no.

She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.

Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.

Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.

510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.

14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.

And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.

Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.

40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.

And the math ain’t mathing.

Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.

That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”

So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?

Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.

Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.

Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”

A win.

14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.

And she’s taking credit.

This is socialism in 2026.

A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.

She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.

She cost you ten times that in real life.

She didn’t protect consumers from anything.

14,000+ will go from working to welfare.

She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.

Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.

She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

[Trond Bie @trondbie]

dette er det beste jeg har sett i år

dette er alle norske patrioters største fantasi å vinne valget, være "gjest" hos NRK og legge ned skjiten

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨JAVIER MILEI DROPPED ONE OF THE GREATEST LINES EVER

"The Left can't applaud me, because their hands are in other people's pockets"

BRILLIANT 🤣👏

AFUERA ‼️

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW. Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei SLASHED his country's debts by -$54B, carried out the largest peacetime spending cut in history, purged DEI and fraud, and got 12 MILLION off poverty

What a success story! 🇺🇸🇦🇷

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

Before Elon bought Twitter, Trump was banned from posting for "being a threat to democracy," but the ayatollah of Iran could tweet all day long.

A strange place it was.

[Sindre Wiig Nordby @sindrewino]

Denne ble plutselig aktuell igjen

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Why is the UK government so fascist?

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

I will never forget average Caucasian cisgender dude Tim Walz calling himself the "permission structure" for white guys to vote for Harris because he "could code talk" about "watching football, fixing their truck." One of the worst VP picks in American history.

[Amy Reichert @amyforsandiego]

This did not age well.

[Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra]

"The Warmth of Collectivism"

[Nils Littorin @Nils_Littorin]

George Orwells 1984 är här. Ursula von der Leyen, EU bossen, verkar hävda att yttrandefrihet är ett virus och censur är ett vaccin.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Holy crap… Trump might've pulled it off

GDP just hit 4.3% (expectation: 3.3%)
Strongest quarter since 2023

Inflation hit 2.7% (expectation: 3.1%)
Lowest rate since March 2021

High growth, low inflation

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

"if you leave your door open and let thieves in, there will be no home invasions" levels of logic