@CaptainCons You prefer tradition and decorum? Like trannies going topless wandering around on the White House lawn? Crackheads leaving their cocaine laying around? Sex with interns and god knows who else? Gangster Rap concerts ?
We joke about winning the life lottery, because we were born in the USA, but it’s not far from the truth.
These visitors here for the World Cup are getting to experience what we often take for granted.
I live in Alabama. I can start in Mobile and drive north for 5 hours, and still be in Alabama.
My state has beautiful sandy beaches, and also has the foothills of the Appalachians. In between, we have a super speedway that pushes the limits of American muscle. Talladega.
NASA is here. The Army’s rotary wing flight school is here.
We have a festival every year to celebrate peanuts. We celebrate the harvest of a crop with funnel cakes and music.
2 teams from my state are currently in the College World Series, and that isn’t even our most popular sport.
Don’t even get me started on football Saturdays in the fall. It’s something else entirely.
My state is just 1 of 50 states that are all equally wonderful.
This country is awesome, and I do love it so. 🇺🇸
@BillKristol Is it as vulgar as man boobs on the White House lawn? As vulgar as cocaine in the White House? Is it as vulgar as a 22 year old intern on her knees under the Resolute desk? Is it as vulgar as gay sex in the senate? You make me sick.
Remember, during today's literal cage match on the White House grounds:
No matter what, it's not his house. It's our house.
Get a hat, coaster, or sticker to support groups and candidates who will respect the form AND the function of the people's house. https://t.co/yGDgJciDQZ
Karmelo supporters are starting to set up fraudulent LLCs under the guise of helping families who have endured domestic violence in order to funnel money to the Anthony family.
Full report, with receipts, coming tomorrow.
@TheBradSherwood Did you enjoy the topless trannies on the White House lawn or nah. How about cocaine found in the White House? This is part of the 250th celebration. Calm down.
Wear the hat! Bake the cake! Let the boy undress in your daughter’s locker room!
You can try and pretend this is about “existence,” but more and more of us know this is an authoritarian movement. Lots of gay people just want to live and let live. The TQ+ movement doesn’t represent their interests. They don’t want people punished for not wanting to wear a hat or not wanting their daughter competing against a boy.
We are a grassroots group of women founded in SF, nearly half lesbian/bisexual & we stand opposed to forcing people to bend the knee to some ideology they disagree with.
@TJStats How is declining to wear a hat representing any group threaten that group’s existence. Stop forcing people to celebrate you. You’re not special.
A welder took a $28 an hour job in 2015 at a company he had never heard of.
On Friday, Juan Hernandez became a millionaire.
He spent ten years building the structures that lifted rockets onto the launch pad. SpaceX paid him partly in stock, the way it paid its cooks, machinists, technicians and cafeteria staff, equity instead of bigger salaries. His $10,000 grant grew into $880,000 at the IPO price. The first day pop carried it past a million. He is 42, an immigrant from Mexico, married, three kids. He says he is keeping the job.
He is not the outlier. He is the pattern.
4,400 current and former SpaceX employees became millionaires on Friday. One in five people who ever badged into the company. About 400 of them are walking away with $100 million or more. One employee took every cash bonus in stock instead of money. He is sitting on 50,000 shares, worth more than $8 million at Friday's prices.
And then there is the other side of the cafeteria.
Some employees sold their shares years ago, certain the company would never go public because Musk said he hated public markets. A few traded their stock for restaurant gift cards. The New York Times says they are consumed by regret. Same grant, same building, same years. One group held the claim. The other ate it.
None of the winners can touch the money yet. The first selling window opens after the August earnings report, and the rest unlocks in waves through December.
Underneath all of it sits the only lesson the market ever teaches. The welder and the gift card came from the same place. The difference was never the work. It was the ownership. Salary pays for the month. Equity pays for the era.
A cook in Brownsville just answered the question every buyer of SPCX is asking at $170: what is a claim on this company actually worth?
The piece prices that exact question at $2.2 trillion.
@ClimateWarrior7 Because it’s his company, his money and he gives plenty back. And it’s none of your business what other people do with their own money. Are you insane or is this parody?