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Helping land international corporate venture investment in the US. Amateur WW2/WW1 historian. Budding Rev. War historian. Spanning USA, Europe and Asia.

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My wife is European and we love traveling there. France is a jewel and has many beautiful places and amazing history. But on economic matters the US and Europe are diverging. Between 2010 and 2024 the US effectively added 1.5 times the entire EU to our GDP. Money doesn’t buy everything but it buys options and the future for its people. Hopefully the EU realizes that economic dynamism isn’t a luxury. It buys a country a place for its following generations.

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@MargoinWNC Many transplants have never lived in an honor based culture and are scared when they first encounter it. They make fun of it. The successful ones embrace it.

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@robbysoave @RonColeman Yet those same people will have no problem raising a few dogs or dozens of cats.

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@GrowingUpRetro I saw them in Connecticut at their first ever US concert in 1985. It was a small venue and I never felt that magic at any stadium concert ever after that.

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@churchill724 @HistoryWJacob And Cornwallis was to ashamed to surrender himself. He sent his deputy.

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@jeffreytucker For the share plans many have reduced payouts for pre existing conditions but after 36 months you earn back parity. It’s best to read the documents for each plan. Also many are affiliated with various faiths and those are worth looking into as well.

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I’ve come up with my own family solution. 1. Direct primary care. $ 400/month for family. 2. Indemnity plan that gives large lump sum payout for serious illness and covers hospital stays. 3. Share medical plan for the really big stuff with a high deductible. $ 600/month for the family.

All cheaper and better than Obamacare.

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@TimOnPoint @AJA_Cortes This is how the landing craft for D Day in WW2, the Higgins boats, were designed. Originally Louisiana swamp boats made for fishing/hunting/woking in swap country of the SE USA. Repurposed for war and turned out to be a game changer.

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@suekhim My son needs to learn about probability.

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@ThomasSowell By that logic, each time he dry cleans his suit, that money could have saved the life of two African kids. So his laundry murders kids.

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One of the best podcasts I have listened to. @DarrenFarber nails it. Most totalitarian regimes collapse within 70 years because of the internal conflict. In China’s case, you can’t have a country where you can criticize the president of your cell phone company all you want but doing so to the president of your country puts you in a gulag.

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@MarioNawfal When free markets fail, government needs to come in and take things over with taxpayer funds. When government fails, it just needs more government/taxpayer money and everything else is fine.

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Annually, extreme heat in Europe kills more people than firearms kill in the United States. Estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate extreme heat causes over 175,000 deaths across Europe every year. In contrast, U.S. gun-related fatalities total around 46,000 to 48,000 annually

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@SClark51032281 @MAXIMUM_ODEN That may only be part of the reason. As part of the August 1945 surrender the allies demanded that all Japanese aircraft have their propellers removed so that the risk of a lone wolf and/or reprisal attack was diminished.

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@WestHarlm @NYCMayor And Kansas City tried the unlimited budget approach and got zero good results.

https://t.co/nTD7mI8TQm

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@canedeeman Service Squadrons. Logistics win wars. Damaged ships could be patched up nearby and/or saved from total loss. Saved that huge trip to Pearl Harbor or the West Coast in critical condition.

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@CNLiberalism No authoritarian country has survived with one party rule while allowing economic liberty for their people.

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Great to meet @RobertBurns82 at a fundraiser for Stacie McGinn. We discussed an amazing Division I athlete competing with a prosthetic leg at Eastern Carolina University Baseball, Parker Byrd. He’s on instagram @parkerbrydd

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@Osint613 I had college professors telling me they did this on visits to China back in the 1990s! I'm sure there is protocol to do this for a range of countries.

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@Osint613 How can anyone take them seriously after all their promises to the world about keeping Hong Kong free for 50 years. “One country, two systems?” Riiiigghht….