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#tesla #spacex 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇨🇦

[Mike @mk_mkxm]

The Future of Design https://t.co/6v7gz96pDX via @YouTube

[David Moss @DavidMoss]

I ended up seeing 31 by the end of the night

I found another lot nearby

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Microsoft had the money.

Motorola had the patents.

Neither owned the only thing that mattered.

Gates went first. Teamed up with Craig McCaw. Built Teledesic.

Andreessen: “Complete catastrophe, total bankruptcy, complete disaster.”

Motorola went next. The company that invented the cell phone. Built Iridium.

Andreessen: “Classic business school case study of just complete disaster, capital destruction.”

Same vision. Unlimited capital. The best engineers alive.

Zero. Twice.

Then Musk picked up the same idea like it cost him nothing.

Andreessen: “Elon’s like, ‘I know, I’m going to do number three of those.’ Starlink. As a side project at the rocket ship company.”

Gates rented a rocket. Motorola rented a rocket. Every launch was a bill from someone else, on someone else’s schedule, at someone else’s price.

Musk owned his.

Andreessen: “If the rockets are reusable, we’re going to be launching them all the time. And then the question becomes, what’s going to go in the rockets?”

Nobody could throttle him. Nobody could price him out. Nobody could make him wait for permission.

Starlink was never really the business.

It was cargo. Invented so an owned machine never ran empty.

Andreessen: “It’s a formula that captures both sides of it, and it may be like the least studied and understood thing I know of in the world right now.”

Gates and Motorola were right about the future and still lost, because the future ran through somebody else’s gate.

Musk just made sure he’d never need anyone’s gate again.

That’s not a satellite story.

That’s the blueprint behind everything he’s built since.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Hey, Wiener guy! Remember when you called me a "McBigot"? How does it feel now that the Frankenstein you created is coming for you? Every stupid communist learns this history lesson the hard way. Enjoy!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@EchoesofWarYT All true

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Ne_pas_couvrir True

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@beffjezos Yes

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

This is why Democrats are so interested in taxing unrealized gains all of a sudden.

It’s not about fairness. It’s not about funding programs. It’s about silencing political dissent.

After Democrats went after Silicon Valley, many Silicon Valley leaders flipped to the other team. So now Democrats are threatening to force them to sell their companies.

The purpose of taxation is to raise revenue. Not to target and punish political opponents.

We cannot let Gavin Newsom become President. At least when he fucked up California, companies like Tesla and SpaceX could move to Texas. If Newsom becomes president, there will be nowhere left to run.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Bill Maher to JD Vance: "I’m just glad you're talking to me, you know? I say it every time, the Republicans come here and they take their beating like a man. It’s the people I vote for, they’re the ones who won't talk to me! That’s odd, isn’t it?"

[Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber]

Benzstradamus strikes again 🔮

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Today was the day that Gavin Newsom was supposed to save the tech industry by cutting a deal to kill the Billionaire Tax Act. Instead he came out as DSA-adjacent, and BTA will be on the ballot in November. See y’all in Texas!

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

🎯🤣🤣

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[DJ @congressdj]

So this just happened. Tesla Cybercabs are about to invade the Washington DC area and I was given a chance to see it up close. Longer video coming shortly. But for now. Holy crap! 🤯 🤩 Ask questions in the comments.

Buy your $TSLA now, folks. 🔥

[Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles]

My Remigration Act would retroactively denaturalize anyone who lied on their N-400 immigration forms in the last decade.

Zohran Mamdani may have done this in 2018.

You're welcome, New York.

[Leave Delaware @LeaveDelaware]

Reasons include:

- Operational alignment (headquarters in Dallas, TX)
- Benefits from "local decision-making"
- More predictability
- Reduce the potential for opportunistic and frivolous litigation
- Cost savings (No more DE franchise tax: $200,000)

[Leave Delaware @LeaveDelaware]

🚨BREAKING: Granite Ridge (NYSE: $GRNT) has filed to leave Delaware for Texas

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Dana White reveals people with money tried to get Joe Rogan fired

“In Rogan’s rise, he’s gone through some stuff personally too. I’ve had people call and say you gotta do this to Rogan”

“I’m like, don’t ever call me. Who the hell are you to call me and tell me who I’m going to fire?”

“Joe Rogan did the first 12 fights for us for free”

“When we bought this company, the only two who were any good on radio were me and Joe Rogan but nobody knew who I was”

“We’d get up at 3:00 in the morning, get dropped into East Coast markets, and do the same interviews over and over. Rogan and I did this for years”

“He’s been a key, instrumental part of this company. And for anybody, I don’t give a damn how much money you have, or sponsor, or whatever”

“Nothing’s happening to Joe Rogan. Loyalty. It’s the most important thing in the world to me”

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Homan: If you look at the last 10 years of data, nearly 9/10 people who claim asylum end up with an order of removal because they don’t qualify for asylum.

They’re not escaping fear of persecution... they’re coming here for a job.

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

For decades, Democrats ran a backdoor amnesty scheme that put foreign nationals ahead of American citizens.

When they couldn’t win legislatively, activist judges ran interference for them.

That ends today.