“Higher taxes will not reduce the deficit, except for a brief interval. They will simply increase government spending. That is the lesson taught by past experiences.”
— Milton Friedman
On Wednesday, I traveled to the Pnyx, a hillside overlooking the towering columns of the Acropolis in Athens.
There, I delivered a simple message: The West is at a crossroads. The decisions we make in the next decade will define the next century.
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JUST IN: British man who set out to walk around the entire world in 1998 finally returns home after 28 years, covering over 31,000 miles across 29 countries without transportation.
Be Joe Rogan:
> Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1967
> Parents divorce when you’re five
> Lose contact with your father at seven
> Move from New Jersey to California to Florida to Massachusetts
> Grow up scared of getting beaten up and terrified of becoming a loser
> Find martial arts
> Discover something you can get good at by putting in the work
> Become a four-time Massachusetts taekwondo champion
> Your friends think you’re funny
> They tell you to try stand-up
> Spend six months preparing for your first set
> Finally get onstage at a Boston open mic in 1988
> Nearly chicken out
> You can fight people, but telling jokes in front of them is apparently terrifying
> Start chasing comedy anyway
> Deliver newspapers
> Drive a limousine
> Work construction
> Teach martial arts
> Keep working on the act
> Head to New York in 1990
> Stay with your grandfather in Newark for the first six months while scraping together money
> Move to Los Angeles in 1994
> Land a sitcom called Hardball
> It gets canceled
> Land NewsRadio
> Finally have a steady television paycheck
> Keep doing stand-up
> Get hired to host Fear Factor
> Become nationally recognizable for watching people make terrible dietary decisions
> Turn your love of martial arts into a UFC commentary career
> Comedy, fighting, television
> A pretty good career already
> Then, at 42, start a podcast
> Christmas Eve, 2009
> Sit down with Brian Redban and start broadcasting online
> Spend part of the first episode figuring out the equipment
> There are animated snowflakes on the screen
> This is the beginning of your future media empire
> Keep talking
> Bring on comedians, fighters, scientists and people with very elaborate theories about aliens
> Let conversations run for hours
> Build an audience that comes back for the next one
> Sign with Spotify in 2020
> Renew in 2024 and expand distribution back across other platforms
> Presidential candidates start showing up for interviews
> The guy from Fear Factor has become a campaign stop
> October 2026
> Renew your Spotify partnership on terms reportedly worth around $250 million
> Keep the show available on competing platforms
> Keep editorial control
> More than 18 million followers on Spotify
> More than 21 million on YouTube
> Thirty-eight years after nearly backing out of your first open mic
Hell of an overnight success!
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I wish for myself that I had 0,001 % the Intelligence of Elon !
But I’m very thankful to be a living witness.
Long overdue to recognize and appreciate his genius.
I believe that Elon’s biggest accomplishment is speeding up time for all of humanity !
Off to the new frontier we go !
Thank you Elon ❤️
I wish for myself that I had 0,001 % the Intelligence of Elon !
But I’m very thankful to be a living witness.
Long overdue to recognize and appreciate his genius.
I believe that Elon’s biggest accomplishment is speeding up time for all of humanity !
Off to the new frontier we go !
Thank you Elon ❤️
BREAKING: President Trump on Elon Musk today:
“First, we honor an industrial titan, a brilliant engineer, and one of the greatest technology founders to ever live. His name is Elon Musk. Quite honestly, there’s nobody like him.
Few Americans in history have done more to advance America’s national interest than Elon. In one field after another, his genius and determination have made science fiction into reality. And that is so true.
Elon founded SpaceX with his life savings in 2002 and created the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit in the face of vanishingly impossible odds. Nobody thought it was possible to do the things he’s doing, and in so many different ways. SpaceX saved NASA from relying on foreign nations to send our astronauts into space.
And I want to congratulate SpaceX on the safe return of Crew-12 from the International Space Station just a few hours ago. Congratulations. Well, we wanted to make sure.
Could you imagine if things didn’t work out so well? It would be not a very happy moment. I wonder if he’d be here. I think he might not be here.
But it always works out well for Elon, right? We’re proud of you. Very proud of you. National treasure.
Under Elon’s leadership, SpaceX has also developed Starship, the largest rocket in history, which is caught out of thin air for rapid reuse. And it’s the first time anyone has ever seen anything quite like it. They also created the largest-ever communication satellite network, Starlink.
And in North Carolina, I will tell you personally, because I was involved, we had a hurricane, one of the great water hurricanes of all time. Delivered more water than at any time that we can remember on record. It saved hundreds of lives by calling Elon.
I remember the governor said, ‘Sir, is there any way… do you know a man named Elon Musk?’ I said, ‘I happen to know him, yes.’
‘We need Starlink because the water was so deep that many islands were created and the people had no way of getting off those islands, and they had no communication.’ And they said, ‘We cannot get anybody to help us.’
And I called up Elon, and it was like impossible to get this equipment. And he had it there in a matter of hours and saved hundreds of lives. Saved hundreds of lives in North Carolina.
So, I never forgot that experience. It was a terrible time and the job he did. And he acted so fast. Everybody said they were impossible to get. So, thank you, Elon, for that very special moment.
In addition, Elon created Tesla, the first successful new car manufacturer in over 75 years, producing the first commercially viable electric cars with the first consumer self-driving technology.
And interestingly, when you mentioned Tesla, my uncle, Dr. John Trump, was commissioned by the United States government to do a report on Nikola Tesla. They wanted to know: was he real or not real? Was he a true genius or not?
My uncle, after a fairly short period of time, determined that he was a true and great genius and that he was real in every single way. Otherwise, you’d have to change the name of the car company.
You wouldn’t want to be a… See, now, if I did the report, Elon, I might say, ‘He wasn’t that good.’ But my uncle was a different kind of a person than I am.
And he gave Tesla the highest report. He said he was a true, great genius. So, very nice.
Through Neuralink, Elon is also restoring sight, speech, and motion to those who cannot see, talk, or move. And he turned SpaceX AI into one of the world’s leaders in superintelligence.
Elon is our modern-day Thomas Edison.
And, Elon, I want to congratulate you. You’re my friend in all of that, but you are a very, very special guy. Thank you very much, and congratulations, Elon.
Great. Great job.”
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump will award Elon Musk the National Medal of Science tomorrow, the nation's HIGHEST honor for scientific achievement — Fox
Well-deserved for Elon! 👏🏻
He'll will be honored at the White House "Science: A New Golden Age" Summit alongside Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su
Reusable rockets, Starlink, Tesla and FSD — practically NOBODY has pushed American innovation like Elon in our age!
It's the first time Trump has EVER presented the medal, and his uncle John G. Trump won it under Reagan
47 was seen with Elon mere days ago, and they're meeting up again! LOVE IT!
🚨 BREAKING: CNN is now OFFICIALLY under the corporate ownership of TRUMP ALLIES
LMAO!!
Paramount just CLOSED its $81 BILLION purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming Skydance
David Ellison is chairman and CEO — his family and RedBird hold 100% of the voting shares.
CNN, CBS, HBO, Warner Bros, all under one roof.
Imagine that. After all these years, CNN has Trump-aligned leadership! The fake news reporters are fuming!
Dana White responds to his mother’s book, where she accuses him of cheating on his wife with his sister-in-law and UFC ring girls, physically abusing his wife, and abandoning his sick grandmother 😳