RULES FOR SONS:
1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs.
3. The man at the BBQ Grill is the closest thing to a king.
4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
5. Request the late check-out.
6. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
7. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.
8. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.
9. Play with passion or not at all…
10. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.
11. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.
12. If you need music on the beach, you’re missing the point.
13. Carry two handkerchiefs. The one in your back pocket is for you. The one in your breast pocket is for her.
14. You marry the girl, you marry her family.
15. Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.
16. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.
17. Never be afraid to ask out the best looking girl in the room.
18. Never turn down a breath mint.
19. A sport coat is worth 1000 words.
20. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.
21. Thank a veteran. Then make it up to him.
22. Eat lunch with the new kid.
23. After writing an angry email, read it carefully. Then delete it.
24. Ask your mom to play. She won’t let you win.
25. Manners maketh the man.
26. Give credit. Take the blame.
27. Stand up to Bullies. Protect those bullied.
28. Write down your dreams.
29. Always protect your siblings (and teammates).
30. Be confident and humble at the same time.
31. Call and visit your parents often. They miss you.
32. The healthiest relationships are those where you’re a team; where you respect, protect, and stand up for each other.
In 2015 I began to shout from every platform I could that Democrats were now a new age socialist party that would turn to communism.
Many laughed and dismissed my warnings.
Today 66% of Democrats have a favorable view of socialism while only 42% have a favorable view of capitalism. Sadly I was right.
And things will get worse with them (and more violent) before they get any better.
My new warning is this: This ends in a very, very dark place if we don’t stop them now. Communism is the greatest threat to the human race and communism is the inevitable next stage when socialism fails. And it will fail.
"But what about Norway?!? Let’s do socialism like them!"
Norway relies entirely on capitalism and a sovereign wealth fund that makes its money via early investments in American businesses. Many of which are fossil fuel companies by the way, which American leftists demonize. Their fund is the largest in the world from those early investments.
For America to operate like Norway, we’d need to discover a planet just now getting deep into fossil fuels, invest in it early and profit. Oh and their money would have to be validated as exchangeable with earth’s money. That’s the scale at which we’d need to do things for the US to operate like Norway’s model. But American leftists are functionally retarded so they don’t understand this.
They think you can tax @elonmusk and @JeffBezos and it’ll pay for everything to be free. They have no idea how monetary policy or how an economy really works. Punitive taxes on Elon and Jeff + other billionaires would only force stock sales that kill investment into new companies, start a recession and throw our markets into turmoil… which means pensions, retirements and savings of average workers all get blown up. Oh and people get fired. Lots of them.
So once that fails and they run out of other people’s money: They turn to communism. That’s when people start dying in large numbers, getting thrown in gulags for wrongthink, etc.
Bottom line: Stupid people can be deadly. Try to wake up as many people as you can so we can avoid the darkness that will follow. And modern Democrat politicians deserve our contempt. They know exactly what they’re doing.
Obama gave Iran $2B in cash to Iran.
Trump is unfreezing $24B in assets for Iran.
Liberals are claiming this means Trump gave Iran $22B more and therefore it's much better for Iran
Here's the part of the math they are intentionally leaving out:
Obama did no damage to Iran.
Trump blew up $325B in Iran's infrastructure which could become a TRILLION in total economic damage to Iran.
With Obama they GAINED wealth.
With Trump they are hundreds of billions of dollars underwater and are facing decades to rebuild.
JD Vance just gave the clearest breakdown of the Trump vs. Obama Iran deal distinction I've heard.
Here it is — the Gulf State test:
The Gulf Coast Coalition loves this deal.
They hated the Obama deal.
Why?
They thought Obama made Iran stronger.
They think Trump makes Iran weaker.
Vance: "They know more about this, and they have more to lose than anybody, including the USA. So I trust their judgment."
The negotiating position:
Obama in 2015: Iran has a sophisticated nuclear program. Let's bribe them with American money to stop it.
Trump in 2026: We already destroyed your nuclear program. Promise not to rebuild it, and you get some sanctions relief.
One is negotiating from fear.
The other is negotiating from rubble.
The substance:
"The Obama nuclear deal allowed enrichment, ours will not."
"The Obama deal allowed the accumulation of stockpiled weapons-grade material, ours is actually leading to the destruction of that stockpile of enriched material."
"The Obama deal gave them over a billion dollars of American money. This deal gives them $0 of American money."
Bottom line from @JDVance:
"We're coming at it from a position of strength, and the fact that our gulf coast partners love this deal."
Trump killed 50 of Iran's top leaders, did at least $1 trillion worth of damage to their military equipment and infrastructure, totally wiped out their naval fleet and air fleets, put their government in a state of endemic internal conflict, and left them totally incapable of meaningfully attacking their neighbors in the region any time soon. By the end of it, all Iran could do is rig the strait with mines and take pop shots at passing ships.
The loss of insurance coverage had more of an impact on the flow of marine traffic than Iran did.
I personally would have preferred the total destruction of the IRGC (which technically isn't off the table if they decide to FAFO) but it would have been difficult to accomplish without more civilian casualties -- something third worldist leftoids were already complaining (and campaigning) about.
In the meantime, consider the following:
No boots on the ground. No prolonged conflict. No permanent occupation. No military draft. No lasting impact on energy prices. No multi-trillion dollar boondoggle. None of the things anti-war retards with Israel tunnel vision like Dave Smith and Candace Owens predicted would happen.
In addition:
- Oil and gas prices are falling in time for summer and the midterms.
- "Free Palestine" third worldists like Graham Platner have less ammo on which to campaign for Congress.
- Russia is bringing in less revenue.
- The U.S. got a foot in the door to block China's Belt and Road projects.
- Trump has greater latitude to tighten sanctions on Russia without exacerbating supply shocks to energy markets.
- Europe and America have agreed to increase cooperation in providing for the national defense of Ukraine.
- Israel isn't a signatory to the MOU and isn't bound by its terms, leaving it free to independently defend itself from threats if necessary.
- America isn't creating a power vacuum for China and Russia to fill by absconding and surrendering its own influence over the region.
The people who say this is a "humiliating defeat" for Trump?
- Russia
- China
- Iran
- Democrats
- The leftist Drudge-led media establishment
All the worst people you know have joined arms and are pretending like Iran pulled one over on the Bad Orange Man in hopes that it will piss off Republicans and Israelis enough to get them to kill the deal themselves.
It's very transparent. Don't let your enemies control you with such a stupid and obvious Reflexive Control op.
Iran Is Returning to Nuclear Talks No Longer Afraid of America
.@yarotrof#fakenews
Iran knows we can kill their leaders at will, & we strangled their economy w/ Hormuz blockade. Post midterms they know the U.S./Israel won’t hesitate to obliterate them. https://t.co/bzlIALeiDn
The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
$UBER :
- $10B+ in free cash flow
- 50M+ paying Uber One members
- Revenue compounding 24.5% a year
- Revenue up 340% since 2019, stock up just 69%
The business keeps compounding. The price keeps lagging.
When does the market start seeing the value?
The refs continue to make bogus calls vs. the Knicks. Both Towns’ fouls were bs. Barely touched the guy on the 1st and he didn’t hook Wemby’s arm. Every call in Spurs’ favor. Awful. #Knicks
“…A woman from Orange County, Calif., was charged last fall with illegally registering her dog to vote and submitting ballots on the canine’s behalf…” #passtheSaveAct https://t.co/KoLEOaoHyV