Last night we saw the best of American leadership.
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Elon Musk:
You get taxed on what you earn
You get taxed on what you buy
You get taxed on what you own
Taxes, taxes, taxes…
“It’s pretty wild that a tiny tax on tea started the Revolution, and now we get the living daylights taxed out of us and there’s no revolution”
Elon Musk: "We don't want German culture… French culture… Korean culture, Japanese culture, or American culture to disappear, or any culture anywhere."
Elon Musk just told you the real cost of going first.
It isn’t capital.
It isn’t physics.
It’s permission.
Musk: “It is actually quite difficult to get all the permits, and it requires a lot of effort and a lot of close cooperation with the authorities.”
That is the part everyone already knows.
What they miss is the sentence that follows.
Musk: “One of the approaches we did take was to proceed at risk with temporary permits.”
He is pouring hundreds of millions in concrete before the government signs off.
Knowing that a bureaucrat he will never meet can deny the long-term permit tomorrow.
Knowing exactly what that means.
Musk: “Your long-term permit could be denied, in which case you have to stop everything.”
And tear it down.
Every wall. Every pad. Every foundation.
Back to dirt.
Most companies have a word for that scenario.
They call it unacceptable.
Musk calls it acceptable.
Musk: “Most companies are not willing to take the risk of the temporary permit, and then the risk of having to stop and tear down.”
That is the only sentence you need to understand why the West forgot how to build.
We did not run out of engineers.
We did not run out of capital.
We ran out of people willing to move before the system gave them permission.
The regulatory apparatus was not designed to stop you.
It was designed to make you wait long enough that you stop yourself.
Delays compound. Capital gets redeployed. The team loses faith. The quarterly call happens. The board gets nervous.
The project quietly dies in a conference room on a Tuesday afternoon.
Nobody writes a press release about it.
That is the mechanism.
It does not need to say no.
It just needs you to believe that waiting is the responsible thing to do.
Musk proceeds at risk.
Not because he is reckless.
Because he understands that time is the one resource you cannot raise in a Series B.
You can find more money. You cannot buy back a year. Momentum, once dead, stays dead.
The men who built the Hoover Dam did not have a decade-long permitting process.
They had a deadline.
And a consequence if they missed it.
We replaced consequence with compliance.
Then we stood in the wreckage of our own caution and called it prudence.
Musk is not a rogue operator.
He is the last man in the Western world operating by the original terms.
You decide. You pour. You absorb the downside. You keep moving.
Everyone else is waiting for a signature from a man who has never built anything.
The signature never comes on time.
It never has.
It never will.
Elon Musk on SpaceX's Raptor 3
— No basic heat shield needed, which saves mass and boosts reliability
— Small fuel leaks aren’t dangerous — they burn off safely in open plasma
— Huge improvements in payload, efficiency, and reliability
— Simplified design with integrated electronics and fluid systems
— So advanced, even experts thought it was not complete
ELON MUSK: "I really haven't been involved in politics until recently, I really just wanted to build technology.
But I came to the conclusion that we're really at a fork in the road of destiny of America and the western world, perhaps of civilization as a whole."
🚨ELON MUSK: "It's disadvantageous for me to be in the govt, not advantageous. If I wasn't in the govt, I could push for things that are advantageous to my company.
Everything I do is under extreme scrutiny. Every DOGE action is public. It's most amount of transparency ever"
BREAKING: Elon Musk will hold a Town Hall in Green Bay, Wisconsin on Sunday at 6:30pm CT. Entrance is limited to those who have signed the petition in opposition to activist judges. It will be livestreamed on 𝕏.