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Monster sense of humour.

[LCN @letitia_naude]

@Azanamania @PolyannaBrey Very true!

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked if he believes in God. His answer took longer than anyone expected and it didn't land where the audience thought it would.

Most billionaires dodge this question. They give a diplomatic answer to avoid conflict. Musk didn't dodge it.

He said he agrees with the idea of a creator. That when he looks at the physics of the universe, the precision of the constants, the mathematical elegance of how everything holds together, it seems unlikely that it's all random.

But he didn't stop there.

He said he wasn't sure the creator is the version described in any particular religious text. That the universe itself might be the closest thing to God that he can understand. That the act of making life multi-planetary is, in his view, a way of honoring whatever force created consciousness by making sure consciousness survives.

He basically described his life's work as a spiritual mission without ever using the word spiritual.

Building rockets to Mars isn't just engineering to him. It's an answer to a question about whether the universe created intelligent life only to watch it die on one planet. He said that felt like a waste. Like the universe wouldn't bother creating consciousness if it was meant to end on one rock.

So his answer to "do you believe in God" was essentially: I believe something created all of this. And I think the appropriate response to that creation is to protect it by spreading it as far as possible.

That's not atheism. It's not traditional religion. It's a man who looked at the stars and decided the most reverent thing he could do was make sure we reach them.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨This brave man faced six armed attackers with machetes completely alone to protect 37 children at an orphanage.

He risked his life — and bears the scars — to defend the innocent when no one else would.

True courage in the face of evil.

Stories like this remind us what real heroism looks like.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Amid all the predictable seething jealousy and bitter resentment to this news, I’d like to congratulate @elonmusk on an astounding achievement. He’s got there by being the most driven, creative, hard-working and ambitious business genius in history. Salut, Elon! 👏👏

[Gina Beana Fofina @Ginasassyass]

Scott Jennings nailed the liberal meltdown over Elon Musk, 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… to build companies, build technologies, go into space, aim to put a colony on Mars, give internet to half the world?”

The outrage isn’t about “fairness”, it’s envy dressed up as virtue.

Success that creates jobs, technology, and real progress threatens a worldview built on grievance and zero-sum thinking.

Elon Musk is the shining example of immigration done right.

A legal immigrant who came to America, worked relentlessly, took enormous risks, and built companies that deliver massive value to humanity.

Not by taking from others, but by creating wealth that didn’t exist before.

Success isn’t a crime.

It’s the American Dream in action.

Congratulations, @elonmusk, well earned. Keep building. 🚀

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

There are 2 types of people:

1. People who see a trillionaire and wonder how they can innovate and emulate such success

2. People who see a trillionaire and seethe with resentment

Do everything you can to ensure you're always around the first kind of person.

[Paula Breytenbach🇿🇦🇺🇸 @PolyannaBrey]

It's official.
The son of the soil has become the first trillionare in history.
Yet, Starlink is not allowed to operate in South Africa, because @elonmusk refuses to take the knee.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

The immigrant who used to shower at the YMCA to save money is now a trillionaire after making self-driving cars, reusable rockets, and worldwide internet access a thing.

Only in America! 🇺🇸

[The Nasty Italian🍷🇺🇸 🇮🇹 @sayitnspinit]

Don't get pissed off at Elon Musk because he got off his ass and made something of himself. He earned every fucking penny and I applaud him for it.

[Catherine Evermore™ @CatherineUSA1]

@elonmusk

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

A boy from Pretoria, South Africa, has become the world's first trillionaire.

Huge congratulations to him on making history! 🇿🇦🎉

Elon Musk is proof that brilliant minds can conquer the world.

[LCN @letitia_naude]

@hicasamadim 28

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

She lives in America, uses X daily, and gets paid her income in dollars.

Tells you not to allow Starlink in South Africa even though it will help improve the lives of the poor, because it's a "security risk". A person who has no experience in Cyber Security or Technology.

This is politically motivated, disguised as a sophisticated technical argument against Starlink. So much arrogance, hypocrisy, and pride all summarised into this woman.

[Dirk Hermann @SolidariDirk]

Dis ’n wen!!!!

‘n NGV-pilaar val in Grondwethof.

Solidariteit het pas die regering se gewraakte planne om vir dokters voor te skryf waar hulle mag praktiseer, in die Grondwethof, gestuit.

In ‘n eenparige uitspraak het die regters van die Grondwethof artikel 36 - 40 van die Gesondheidswet ongrondwetlik verklaar. Die regering moet Solidariteit se kostes dra.

’n Kernpilaar van die regering se beplande Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering (NGV) is só in die Grondwethof omvergewerp.

Die hart van die NGV is sentrale beplanning. Die regering wil besluit waarheen en na watter dokter jy mag gaan.

Sentraal daartoe is die regering se plan om vir dokters voor te skryf waar hulle mag praktiseer.

Die regering wil bepaal waar daar ’n behoefte is, en dan wil hulle aan ’n dokter ’n sertifikaat uitreik wat bepaal waar hy/sy mag praktiseer.

Dit is hierdie planne van die regering om vir dokters voor te skryf waar hulle mag praktiseer, wat Solidariteit suksesvol ongrondwetlik laat verklaar het.

Die stryd teen die NGV is nie verby nie, maar hierdie is ’n strategiese oorwinning!

Baie trots op Solidariteit se regs- en navorsingspan!!!

[LCN @letitia_naude]

@caraksha103 Very true!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

That Goodbye Meant Everything

[LCN @letitia_naude]

@TentinQuaranti4 @libriscent @Janabw81 Nailed it!

[LCN @letitia_naude]

@PolyannaBrey Nie seker of daar Engelse naam is nie. Vlapoeier word daarvoor gebruik.