Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.
He said pain tolerance.
The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.
He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.
He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.
Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.
Of course they made sure to make it harder to get the credit for a Tesla…
SB-168 specifically mentions the rebate only applies to new EVs that are under $50,000 and used ones under $25,000.
But when it comes to cars made by "California-headquartered zero-emission vehicles companies," whose corporate executive management and staff are located in California as of Jan. 1, 2026, there are no price limits.
That means Rivian and Lucia models are among those eligible for the rebate
In states like California where there is one party rule, the state government tries to dictate every aspect of our lives but can never do their jobs.
The highest taxes and most amount of regulations for the worst results!
Enough is enough!
President Trump called for SCOTUS to rehear the case on birthright citizenship.
This comes after billboards were spotted at the Southern border in Texas advertising baby deliveries.
“AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!”
🔥 STEPHEN MILLER IS ROASTING the justices who ruled for birthright citizenship
"Here's a pretty good clue your Constitutional interpretation is wrong: If your ruling requires you to SUlClDE YOUR CIVILIZATION, your reading of the constitution is WRONG."
"There is NO POSSIBLE READING of the 14th Amendment that applies to foreigners with foreign loyalties, foreign citizenship, foreign obligations, foreign everything."
— @StephenM
Relying on the courts to save our country is a fool's errand. Now is the time to do everything we can to stop illegal and legal immigration. Anybody not on board with reversing half a century of mass migration is telling you they don't believe America belongs to its people.
How to Kill a Country:
Open the border
Allow illegal aliens in by the millions
Give out visas
Don’t enforce overstayed visas
Pause deportations
Allow birthright citizenship
Demonize opposition
Provide free housing
Provide government benefits
Give illegal aliens Driver’s Licenses
Automate voter registration
Mail every voter a mail-in ballot
Install Secretaries of State
Refuse to clean the voter rolls
Install judges
Accept ballots after Election Day
Now that SCOTUS has opened the floodgates for foreign invaders to flock across our borders and spawn, the only choice we have is to triple down on immigration enforcement. Militarize the border. Mass deportations. Round every illegal up. Don’t pull back when the lesbian activists start screeching about it. Use whatever force is necessary. There is no other option.
It’s a perversion of self-government.
Judicially mandating that foreigners are entitled to birth US citizens against the wishes of the people as reflected in law means we cease to be our own rulers.
Immigration is the litmus test in our politics. You either want to stop robbing Americans of their birthright or believe that our nation is nothing more than the world's economic zone.