NCRiley

Christian, Capitalist, Conservative

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

CNN's Dana Bash was texting Fauci words of encouragement after he clashed with Jim Jordan, all while presenting herself to viewers as a neutral journalist covering him.

We know this because Fauci wrote it down in his diary, and Rand Paul just released it.

First Megyn Kelly played a supercut of the national media praising Fauci as a hero. Then she read what was really happening off camera.

DANA BASH (text quoted in Fauci's diary, April 2021): "I just watched the whole Jordan thing again. You're a better man than I. As our friend Wolf Blitzer said to me yesterday, no one would have blamed you if you said simply, Mr. Jordan, go f yourself."

KELLY: "So this is Dana Bash, who's still interviewing him on her show as though she's an objective news person, texting him this behind the scenes."

Is there anyone at CNN who isn't "friends" with Anthony Fauci?

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

U.S. data centers require:

30x less water than U.S. golf courses.
100x less than California almonds.
200x less than U.S. home lawns.
2,500x less than U.S. crop irrigation.

Who is protesting almonds? Golf courses? Lawns? Nobody.

China does not feel threatened by your lawn.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

SOCIALIST ACTIVIST: "These people have to have multiple jobs in order to sustain a lifestyle!"

CALEB HAMMER: "Not the median American... What percent of the American population is relying on federal minimum wage?"

ACTIVIST: "I don't know... I've met people across—"

HAMMER: "It doesn't matter who you've met... Your anecdotal collection... is not the real world. What percent do you think makes the federal minimum wage in the United States?"

[Activist stalls]

HAMMER: "Answer the question or I am ending this podcast."

ACTIVIST: "I don't know."

HAMMER: "Answer what you think."

ACTIVIST: "30%."

HAMMER: "It's less than 1%. You know nothing."

[Pete Kaliner @PeteKaliner]

I've been assured that requiring photo ID is racist.

Marc Elias has been alerted to this pasta suppression.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie.

Let me get this straight, because I want to make sure I am reading your economics homework correctly, and I did not eat a bowl of alphabet soup this morning so bear with me. You just listed UnitedHealth's $5.48 billion quarterly profit as proof of corporate greed. Cute. Except that profit happened WHILE the Affordable Care Act — the law that guarantees these insurers a captive, subsidized, taxpayer-fed customer base — has been the law of the land for fifteen years. You are not exposing corporate greed, Senator. You are reading me the receipt for your own bill. The ACA did not shrink the insurance industry. It turned it into a government-guaranteed cash cow, and now you are shocked, SHOCKED, that the cow got fat. Eats soup with a fork, this one.

And here is the part that should really sting. Your own party just finished a 43-day shutdown demanding MORE money be poured into that exact system, because the temporary COVID subsidies YOUR PARTY wrote into the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 — zero Republican votes on either bill, by the way — expired right on schedule, exactly as YOU designed them to. Not a single Republican voted to end those subsidies. You did. Then you shut down the government to admit, out loud, on the record, that a law literally named the AFFORDABLE Care Act cannot survive without emergency pandemic cash. That is not an insult from me. That is a confession from you.

So now the solution is Medicare for All. Naturally. Because when a fifteen-year-old government program made the insurance companies richer, the answer is obviously MORE government program, just bigger. If ignorance is bliss you must be the happiest man in the Senate. Independent estimates put full single-payer implementation at somewhere between forty and sixty percent of the ENTIRE federal budget. Forty to sixty percent, Senator. Larger than Social Security. Larger than defense. You want me to hand over half the country's checkbook to the same apparatus that just admitted its last healthcare experiment doesn't work without a subsidy IV drip.

Let's talk about who's asking. You have served in the United States government for something like forty years between the House and Senate, and by my count the bills you personally got across the finish line as lead sponsor could be counted on one hand, mostly involving the naming of federal buildings. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you, Senator, and it owes itself an apology for the return on investment. This is also the same man who, as a young idealist, tried out communal living on a hippie commune and did not exactly stick around long enough to collect a pension from it. Now you want the reins to fifty percent of the national budget. I keep hearing "tax the rich" out of a man worth several million dollars who charters private jets on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour because, in his own words, he isn't waiting in line at United with the rest of us peasants. Bless your heart. That is rich even by Congressional standards. Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel, but sure, hand him the checkbook.

And before you tell me capitalism failed and it's finally socialism's turn — how's that working out for your ideological younger brother in New York? Zohran Mamdani just announced a THIRTY MILLION DOLLAR government grocery store in a city his own comptroller says is worse than broke. Kansas City tried this. Erie, Kansas tried this. That is not a hunch, Senator, that is a lab result, and I am a science teacher, so let me walk you through the peer review.

An experiment only counts as science if it has been REPLICATED. Not run once. Run again. And again. Under different conditions, different continents, different decades, different "well THIS time we'll do it right" true believers standing at the podium. So let's replicate it together, shall we, because apparently nobody handed you the lab notes.

Trial one: the USSR, 1920s and 1930s. Stalin seized the farms, collectivized the kulaks, and centrally planned the harvest. Result: the Holodomor, a man-made famine in Ukraine that starved somewhere between five and ten million people to death while grain was actively being EXPORTED past their starving bodies. That is not a rounding error. That is a control group that died.

Trial two: Cuba, 1959 onward. Castro nationalized every business, every farm, every bank on the island. Sugar production, once the envy of the hemisphere, collapsed. The economy shrank thirty-five percent in a single decade when the Soviet training wheels came off. Extreme poverty today sits near eighty-eight percent. Same experiment. Same result.

Trial three: Venezuela, sitting on some of the largest oil reserves on the PLANET, nationalized its oil industry and ran the socialist playbook to the letter. Production collapsed from three and a half million barrels a day to under one million. Hyperinflation peaked past sixty-three THOUSAND percent. Nine million people fled. You cannot bribe your way out of the results with oil money. We tried. It's in the data.

Trial four, and this one should make every teacher in America wince: China's Great Leap Forward, 1958 to 1962. Mao abolished private farming, herded peasants into communes, melted down their pots and pans for backyard steel that was too low-grade to use for anything. Somewhere between fifteen and forty-five million people starved. Some regions saw cannibalism. That is not a typo. That is what happens when central planners replace the price system with a five-year plan and a slogan.

Trial five: North Korea, present day, running the same command economy with the Juche twist. Famine in the 1990s killed hundreds of thousands to over a million. Markets are technically illegal and thrive anyway in the shadows, because human beings will trade even when their government threatens to shoot them for it.

Trial six is my personal favorite because it is the cleanest natural experiment in the history of economics: East versus West Germany. Same people. Same language. Same culture. Same starting point in 1945. One half got markets, one half got the Stasi and collectivized industry. East German productivity settled at roughly thirty to seventy-five percent of the West's, and the population had to build a WALL to stop its own citizens from swimming, tunneling, and hot-air-ballooning their way out. Nobody builds a wall to keep people from fleeing prosperity, Senator.

Trial seven: Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975 to 1979. They abolished money entirely. No markets. No private property. Total state control, straight out of the textbook you apparently keep on your nightstand. One point seven to three million people, roughly a quarter of the country, died of starvation, overwork, and execution in FOUR YEARS.

And for the extra credit column: Ethiopia's Derg collectivization, Tanzania's Ujamaa villages, Yugoslavia's market-socialism ceiling, Vietnam before it finally abandoned the model, India's decades of License Raj stagnation, and Poland and the rest of the Eastern Bloc running factories that burned three times the steel per unit of output compared to the free market next door. Every single trial, same hypothesis, same result. I have seen middle schoolers design better controlled experiments during a volcano science fair.

That is not one anecdote, Bernie. That is a stack of peer-reviewed, historically documented, independently verified trials spanning four continents and a full century, and the conclusion section reads the same every time: shortages, queues, corruption, and a body count north of a hundred million people once you tally every collectivized farm, every purged kulak, and every commune that ran out of rice. If an experiment fails this many times in this many labs, a real scientist stops blaming the equipment and starts questioning the hypothesis. You, apparently, would rather run trial number eight on 340 million Americans and call it "finally getting it right." Trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You want cheaper healthcare, you get record insurer profits. You want affordable food, you get a thirty-million-dollar failed grocery store. You want to fight the oligarchy, you fly private. Every single time. Set your watch by it.

I keep asking Democrats this question and I never get an answer: what have YOU actually done to help people, versus just handing out someone else's money? Because handouts without a ladder out is not compassion. It is a leash. And I think deep down you know that, Senator, or you wouldn't need the private jet to get away from the people you claim to be fighting for. You're about as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually running anything, but boy can you point fingers.

You are the human version of period cramps on this topic, Bernie, and I mean that with the utmost respect for a man who has spent forty years discovering new ways to spend money he didn't earn. Has a leak in the think tank if he genuinely believes THIS is the moment socialism finally works. Unless your name is Google, Senator, you need to stop acting like you know everything about running an economy you have personally never had to run.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and a science teacher who actually reads the Congressional Budget Office numbers before I open my mouth about a trillion-dollar healthcare takeover.

@JoJoFromJerz @atrupar @TheYoungTurks #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Well said

[Pete Kaliner @PeteKaliner]

I for one would be shocked to find out that the DSA would have any kind of connections to communist China. I mean... they're such totally different philosophies and goals!

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The Democratic establishment deserves a slow clap here.

Really. Bravo.

They spent years building the perfect little political terrarium: NGOs, activist salaries, university grievance factories, donor cash, media protection, blue-city patronage, “equity” rackets, and taxpayer-funded do-gooder laundromats all humming along under the sacred banner of “Our Democracy.”

Then they looked at the radicals crawling around inside and said, “Surely these people will remain manageable.”

Absolutely brilliant, guys.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot. The donors are sweating through their custom suits. The consultants are pretending this is just a “messaging challenge.” The media is polishing the same old turd and calling it “youth energy.”

No, champ. This is not youth energy.

This is the bill.

You told them America was evil.
You told them capitalism was theft.
You told them police were the enemy.
You told them borders were immoral.
You told them every institution had to be “decolonized,” “reimagined,” or burned down and rebuilt by people with sociology degrees and untreated rage.

Now they believe you.

And worse, they want promotions.

That is the humiliation. The party bosses thought they were renting radicals by the hour. Turns out the radicals thought they were being trained to run the place.

Democrats built the hive, fed the hive, defended the hive, and called anyone who noticed a conspiracy theorist.

Now the hive has the keys.

Enjoy the buzzing.
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[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands

He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments

Sound familiar?

Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I'm simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House:

— USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”

He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments)

“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it's it's bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it's coming from the Cubans if you're going to do this operation

— We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID

The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”

“You're using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You're saying it's, you're earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation

All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE

[🇺🇸SassySouthernPatriot🇺🇸 @SassySouthern2U]

North Carolina’s own Ralph Baric at UNC-Chapel Hill — top coronavirus researcher — teamed up for years with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology ‘Bat Woman’ Zhengli Shi.

In 2015, they created chimeric (hybrid) SARS-like viruses that could infect human cells: https://t.co/IQ3fPvlkkc

He was key on the 2018 DEFUSE proposal to engineer furin cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses (that ring a bell?): https://t.co/g8bxPPXEdS

Baric himself flagged their risky BSL-2 safety practices in China but the collaborations rolled on — all funded by U.S. taxpayers via Fauci’s NIAID.

Then COVID hits… and Baric’s lab work on these exact threats helped fast-track remdesivir and contributed to the Moderna vaccine.

He says natural origin, denies any role in creating/leaking anything. But with congressional probes, FOIA emails, his own biosafety warnings, and now HHS suspending his federal funding over a ‘pattern of deception’ in past experiments: https://t.co/KikTshCOlO

What were the real intentions here? Straight-up pandemic preparedness… or research that played with fire and backfired on America & NC?

We deserve full transparency, not more questions. #Baric #WuhanLab #COVIDOrigins #LabLeak #NorthCarolina

[Handre @Handre]

They told you Obamacare would discipline the insurance giants. Force them to compete. Drive down premiums through the magic of an online marketplace with a clean government website.

Then you watched the website crash in October 2013, and you watched UnitedHealth, Aetna, and Anthem post record profits while your deductible climbed past $6,000.

Here is what the exchanges actually built. The law forced you to buy a product under penalty of the individual mandate, then handed the insurers a fountain of taxpayer cash to make the product look affordable. Premium tax credits flowed straight to the carriers, not to you. In 2017 the federal government paid roughly $42 billion in subsidies, and that money landed in corporate accounts. The cost-sharing reduction payments did the same thing. The risk corridor program promised to backstop insurer losses outright, which is to say it socialized the downside while the executives kept the upside. Guaranteed customers. Guaranteed revenue. A captive market created by statute. Any cartel in history would have killed for terms like that.

Free market economists have a plain name for this arrangement: rent-seeking. When a firm earns its money by extracting subsidies through political channels instead of by serving customers who choose freely, it stops being a business and becomes a tax farmer. The insurers lobbied for the mandate because they understood the arithmetic better than the voters did. America's Health Insurance Plans spent millions backing the bill, then acted shocked when premiums on the individual market more than doubled between 2013 and 2017 in many states. They were not the victims of the law. They wrote the parts that mattered.

Strip away the subsidy and the whole structure collapses, because the prices were never real prices. A real price emerges when a buyer who can walk away meets a seller who can lose the sale. The exchange killed both conditions. You could not walk away without a penalty, and the seller could not lose because Washington covered the gap. This is not a market. The people who keep calling it one are counting on you not noticing who cashes the check.

[Overton @overton_news]

Scott Jennings just humiliated Robert De Niro for saying he can’t love a country led by “tyrant” Trump.

Jennings pointed out that only loving your country when your team wins the last election is becoming the majority ethos among Democrats.

JENNINGS: “I think you have to love your country whether or not you lost the last election.”

“I love America and, you know, according to some polling that came out this week, and most Republicans love America, 90% are very proud to be Americans.”

“They’re proud of living in this country.”

“Unfortunately, I think Mr. De Niro’s comments are pretty indicative of a majority of Democrats who can’t seem to find that attitude...inside them.”

“To love your country, even though you lost the last election.”

“And, you know, loving America, being a patriot for America, feeling good about America shouldn’t be dictated by whether you won or lost.”

“When I hear De Niro, I hear him saying, I can only love America if we win every election from here on out.”

“That’s a rather fascist statement.”

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

November 2023. The most powerful companies on Earth lined up to make him kneel.

Disney. Apple. IBM. Comcast. They pulled their money and waited for the apology.

The whole press corps wanted one word out of him. Sorry.

Sorkin leaned in and offered him the exit. Just walk it back.

Musk: “If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”

No retraction. No cleanup post at 2am. No quiet calls begging the brands back.

They wrote that it was over. That he’d finally buried his own company.

He was worth around $230 billion that night.

This week SpaceX went public.

He became the first trillionaire who has ever lived.

Forbes puts him at $1.1 trillion. Almost four times the next richest person alive.

This was never about him.

The people threatening you only hold the power you agree to hand them.

Every time you apologized to keep the peace, you taught them the price was you.

He refused to pay it once, in front of the entire world.

The world blinked first.

The crowd never remembers who knelt. It remembers who refused to flinch.

The only person who can ever make you beg is you.

[Ben Hart @BenHart_Freedom]

Elizabeth Warren and Elon's haters say Elon is rich because of government contracts. Wrong.

70% of SpaceX's revenue comes from Starlink, Elon's satellite Internet service.

It is true NASA subcontracts with SpaceX for its rocket launches because Elon can launch rockets into space for one-quarter of the cost of anyone else . . . because Elon and his team invented reusable rockets.

The Biden Regime decided not to use SpaceX for political reasons -- decided to use Boeing to carry astronauts to the space station. But Boeing was unable to get the astronauts back to earth.

The astronauts were stranded at the space station for nearly a year.

Elon had to rescue the astronauts.

Because Elon is able to put up satellites so cheaply, 70% of the working satellites currently orbiting earth are from SpaceX.

Jeff Bezos is also trying to launch rockets into space.

His rockets mostly just blow up on the launch pad -- because launching rockets into space is hard.

America's space program was dead -- until Elon came along and built his own space program at his risk.

Elon also pioneered solar powered energy storage for electric power grids -- because the sun provides limitless, free, clean energy. This is a Tesla product that is primarily purchased by governments.

Elon also has the Boring Company, which aims to solve the urban traffic congestion problem by boring earthquake-proof flexible tunnels under cities.

Obviously, these can only be purchased by governments.

So, yes, some of Elon's business (a small fraction) has come from government contracts.

But Elon is rich because he focuses on solving the world's most important problems.

Elon's company Tesla is dedicated to transitioning the world to unlimited, free, clean, sustainable energy primarily by using the nuclear reactor in the sky called the Sun that is a source of unlimited free energy.

The sun provides the power, the batteries the storage. That's Elon's vision.

Also, Elon is not trying to transition the world away from fossil fuel use by force of government.

He is doing it by creating better products. Teslas are objectively superior and more cost-effective cars -- which is why the Tesla Model Y is now the bestselling car in the world.

Liberals used to love Elon because of Tesla's mission -- to transition the world to clean energy.

But now they hate Elon because he moved from being a Democrat to being a Republican. So Democrats organized terrorist attacks on Tesla dealerships and on Tesla owners.

Elon also has a company called Neuralink, which is solving wiring problems in the brain so that blind people can see, paraplegics can walk, and mental illness (such as bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia) can be solved.

Elon lives very modestly. He doesn't have a mansion.

The rumor is he doesn't even have a home.

All of his capital is tied up in his companies. His trillion-dollar net worth is only on paper, in the form of the stock he owns in his companies.

He's only worth $1.2 TRILLION on paper because his investors say he's worth this. The market says he's worth this.

In all, Elon's companies provide jobs to more than 160,000 people.

If you count all the companies that do business with Elon's companies (battery makers, chip makers, etc), Elon provides exponentially more jobs than this.

On the day SpaceX went public, 4,400 SpaceX employees became millionaires because of stock they owned in SpaceX. These new millionaire SpaceX employees include janitors, cafeteria workers, groundskeepers.

Elizabeth Warren and Democrats think this is horrible -- because Elon is showing that the American Dream is still alive and well in America.

Elizabeth Warren and today's Democrat Party openly hate America -- openly hope America loses to Iran.

Elon arrived here as an immigrant from Africa with nothing -- a few dollars in his pocket -- and then built all this.

In 1995, he created Zip2, which was an early online mapping company and city guide. When he and his partners/investors sold this to Compaq in 1999, Elon got $22 Million.

He then co-founded PayPal in 1999-2000. He and his partners/investors sold PayPal to eBay in 2004 for $1.5 BILLION. Elon's share from the sale was $180 MILLION.

He then found SpaceX in 2002, investing $100 MILLION of his own money -- pretty much risked his entire fortune on this enterprise. When I read about this, I thought this project had a near-zero chance of success. Who starts their own space exploration company?

Two years later, he also acquired a small company called Tesla in 2004. He invested $70 MILLION of his own money in this. Who in their right might decides to try to replace the existing fossil-fuel auto industry with battery-powered cars when the battery technology did even yet exist?

But almost every venture Elon tries works, spectacularly.

People invest in Elon because he makes money for those who invest in Elon over the long-term.

Would you rather invest your money in Elon, who will multiply your money because he knows how to use capital productively and efficiently . . . or in government, which will just use your money to finance more Somali fraud and more corruption?

Elon does not wake up each day and think: "How big of a yacht can I buy? How big of a mansion can I buy?"

Elon works 100 hours a week.

He thinks about increasing his rocket launch schedule so that he can colonize Mars in his lifetime . . . because his #1 goal in life is to transform humans into an interplanetary species . . . so that human consciousness can be extended beyond the lifespan of the earth.

This sure doesn't sound selfish to me.

Elon does not think about making money. He thinks about solving problems.

The money then just arrives because he's very good at solving problems. So investors voluntarily throw their hard-earned money at Elon.

He doesn't steal money like the government does.

He takes people's money, multiplies it, and returns it to investors -- at multiples of 10x, 20x, 100x.

Thomas Edison also got rich. He gave us the incandescent light bulb, the electric power grid, the phonograph, motion pictures, and more.

Elizabeth Warren thinks it's just horrible for inventors to get rich.

But how many trillions and trillions of dollars in wealth for others did Edison's inventions create?

How many jobs?

Thomas Edison created America's industrial revolution with his inventions.

Elon is today's Thomas Edison.

Elon is also saving America.

Elon saved free speech through his purchase of Twitter for $44 BILLION.

If Elon had not done this, free speech in America would be over. And it's highly doubtful Donald Trump would have won back the Presidency in 2024.

So Elon saved America with his purchase of Twitter.

Elizabeth Warren says Elon should have to pay a 5% wealth tax every year -- which shows how ignorant she is about how economics works.

Elon has almost no liquid cash sitting around.

His money is tied up in his companies.

If he had to sell 5% of his stock holdings every year to pay this tax, the stock market would crash.

He would have to fire his employees and downsize his businesses.

Why would anyone invest in his businesses or in any enterprise if the government is just going to come in and take 5% of it every year?

But this is how socialists think.

They think economics is a "zero sum" game.

They think Elon's money comes from someone else.

No.

Elon is literally creating wealth for all with his inventions. Elon creates wealth out of his brain.

Elon is now creating an army of AI humanoid robots that he says will take over most manual tasks.

He says that we are reaching a point when work will be optional, and when everyone will have a high income and nice life without working at all.

He calls this Minimum Basic Income -- but at a high level.

People will then be free to work on things they want to work on.

Sounds pretty good to me.

Elon also overcame horrific bullying when he was a kid. He overcame this without harboring resentment toward humanity.

In fact, it appears his primary motivation is to help humanity survive and prosper.

How many jobs has Elizabeth Warren created?

Zero.

How many of the world's most pressing problems has Elizabeth Warren solved?

Zero.

What of value has Elizabeth Warren delivered to the world?

Zero.

What Elizabeth Warren specializes in is stoking ENVY -- which is one of the seven deadly sins.

ENVY is a powerful and highly destructive force.

ENVY powered Communism and the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people during the 20th Century.

ENVY is what powers today's Democrat Party.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

.@ScottJenningsKY just torched the liberal meltdown over Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire:

“All day long, I've been listening to liberals, count and spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success. Why is it immoral? Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our capitalist system, in the greatest nation on earth, to go out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars, give internet to half the world, all the things he's doing? Why is any of this wrong or bad? Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we want to discourage anybody building anything?”

Exactly. Success isn't a crime.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[Bruno Souza @brunosouzasc]

Elon Musk criou, em um único dia, 4.400 novos milionários.

Quase 400 deles ultrapassaram os US$ 100 milhões.

Não são banqueiros nem investidores de risco. São funcionários da SpaceX: soldadores, técnicos, mecânicos e até funcionários da cantina. Durante vinte anos, a empresa pagou gente de todos os níveis com ações, não só com salário alto. Quem produziu colheu.

Juan Hernandez, imigrante mexicano, aceitou um emprego de soldador por US$ 28 a hora em 2015, sem nem saber direito o que era a SpaceX. Recebeu uma pequena participação de US$ 10 mil e pôde comprar mais por desconto em folha. Hoje sua fatia vale US$ 880 mil.

Trevor Hise ignorou os conselhos dos pais para pegar um emprego “seguro” na General Electric. Escolheu a SpaceX, ficou 12 anos e acumulou mais de 100 mil ações. Ao preço da listagem, são US$ 13,5 milhões. Aos 37 anos, ele já pode se aposentar. Palavras dele: “A magnitude disso é ridícula.”

O detalhe mais eloquente veio antes mesmo da abertura de capital: mais de 100 funcionários se uniram discretamente para contratar uma gestora de fortunas capaz de cuidar de até US$ 5 bilhões. Muitos nunca tinham precisado de wealth manager na vida.

Há décadas os IPOs de empresas de tecnologia enriquecem programadores. Desta vez, o dinheiro chegou ao chão de fábrica. Isso é capitalismo de verdade: quem arrisca, quem trabalha e quem entrega valor colhe frutos proporcionais.

A esquerda odeia esse tipo de história. Porque ela prova que a verdadeira ascensão social não vem de dividir a miséria alheia, mas de criar riqueza que eleva quem tem coragem de construir.

[Nate Friedman @NateFriedman97]

I exposed Kei Pritzker for being a paid protestor. He stops my interview, has nothing to say and has to go back and google an argument.

He works for Breakthrough News which is funded by Neville Roy Singham which just HAPPENS to share the SAME address as the People's Forum, his paid protesting office here in New York City.

Soros also funds Breakthrough News through the Progress Unity Fund, Singham and Soros are employing fake journalists to pose as protestors to sow division in the west.

The expose portion begins at 1:45.

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 A JOURNALIST JUST FILMED INSIDE THE NEWARK ICE PROTEST CAMP. READ THAT AGAIN:

Nick Sortor went in with a hidden camera. What he found wasn't a spontaneous protest.

It was a fully operational logistics base.

– Tens of THOUSANDS of dollars in equipment already on site

– Riot gear. Not signs. Not banners. RIOT EQUIPMENT.

– Hot food delivered every single hour, on schedule

– Medical sections, expensive tents, organized supply chains

– This is outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, NJ

– Protests have been running for over a week — round the clock

– Andy Ngo documented week-long violence by Antifa at the same facility

– State police had to intervene just to restore basic order

– Nobody is asking who is paying for hourly catered deliveries to a protest camp

– Nobody is asking who sourced the riot equipment

– Nobody is asking who coordinates the resupply logistics for a week-long operation

This is not a group of angry citizens who showed up with signs.

This is a funded, staffed, continuously resupplied operation with riot capability.

Someone is writing checks for this. Someone is organizing the deliveries. Someone made sure the equipment arrived.

The protesters didn't just open a door that CANNOT be closed.

The funders did. And nobody is looking for them.

Follow and turn on notifications before it's too late.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

Ready to have your mind blown?

Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:

- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal

“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”