@ChrisJBakke These people are batshit crazy... and completely unaware of it. Senator Warren is part of an intellectual class that is so far removed from the reality of creating value in a society to lift everyone. Do some become rich? Yes. Do a vast number of people benefit? Yes.
@RightScopee Hell no. Elon has created wealth and value for society that has helped thousands. Remove your head from your ass and realize that innovators and creators provide wealth and opportunities for society. Wealth is not zero sum - his wealth has taken nothing from you.
@SenWarren Bad news, you dishonest senator. You would waste it by laundering through NGOs and directing in other ways that wouldn't help a bit. If you waste the first five trillion you collect, we don't give you more. Stop being such a disingenuous person.
When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!
They didn’t just fuck this up. They deliberately worked to destroy anyone who tried to talk about it.
For four goddamn years the corporate media, their intelligence lapdogs, and every activist shitbag with a press pass treated the biolab story like it was radioactive. They didn’t argue facts. They went straight for the throat.
Some nobody posts a map in February 2022 and within a day his account gets nuked, he gets doxxed as a “wine bar manager,” and the usual scum at Vice and the ADL slap the “extremist” label on him like it’s a fucking target.
Tulsi mentions it as a private citizen and these pricks immediately start screaming treason. Then they slap her on the Quad-S watchlist so she can enjoy getting groped at every airport like a criminal. Russia brings actual evidence to the UN and the media calls it crude disinformation designed to justify the war. That was the approved script. Loud. Coordinated. And completely full of shit.
Now Tulsi drops the declassified receipts showing over 120 U.S.-funded biolabs stuffed with dangerous pathogens and gain-of-function work, and at the same time the U.S. is pulling real military assets out of Europe. And look at these motherfuckers.
Suddenly real quiet. No big investigations. No apologies. No reckoning. Just radio silence while the story they spent years burying starts walking itself back through official channels and force posture changes.
These assholes spent four years running cover for a lie, smearing anyone who got too close, and now they’re hoping nobody notices they were wrong the entire fucking time.
This is the slow, ugly exposure of a coordinated effort to shut people up. And the people who spent years calling themselves the last line of defense against disinformation just got caught running interference for one of the biggest bullshit narratives of the decade.
(article below)
Elizabeth Warren and Elon's haters say Elon is rich because of government contracts. Wrong.
70% of SpaceX's revenue comes from Starlink, Elon's satellite Internet service.
It is true NASA subcontracts with SpaceX for its rocket launches because Elon can launch rockets into space for one-quarter of the cost of anyone else . . . because Elon and his team invented reusable rockets.
The Biden Regime decided not to use SpaceX for political reasons -- decided to use Boeing to carry astronauts to the space station. But Boeing was unable to get the astronauts back to earth.
The astronauts were stranded at the space station for nearly a year.
Elon had to rescue the astronauts.
Because Elon is able to put up satellites so cheaply, 70% of the working satellites currently orbiting earth are from SpaceX.
Jeff Bezos is also trying to launch rockets into space.
His rockets mostly just blow up on the launch pad -- because launching rockets into space is hard.
America's space program was dead -- until Elon came along and built his own space program at his risk.
Elon also pioneered solar powered energy storage for electric power grids -- because the sun provides limitless, free, clean energy. This is a Tesla product that is primarily purchased by governments.
Elon also has the Boring Company, which aims to solve the urban traffic congestion problem by boring earthquake-proof flexible tunnels under cities.
Obviously, these can only be purchased by governments.
So, yes, some of Elon's business (a small fraction) has come from government contracts.
But Elon is rich because he focuses on solving the world's most important problems.
Elon's company Tesla is dedicated to transitioning the world to unlimited, free, clean, sustainable energy primarily by using the nuclear reactor in the sky called the Sun that is a source of unlimited free energy.
The sun provides the power, the batteries the storage. That's Elon's vision.
Also, Elon is not trying to transition the world away from fossil fuel use by force of government.
He is doing it by creating better products. Teslas are objectively superior and more cost-effective cars -- which is why the Tesla Model Y is now the bestselling car in the world.
Liberals used to love Elon because of Tesla's mission -- to transition the world to clean energy.
But now they hate Elon because he moved from being a Democrat to being a Republican. So Democrats organized terrorist attacks on Tesla dealerships and on Tesla owners.
Elon also has a company called Neuralink, which is solving wiring problems in the brain so that blind people can see, paraplegics can walk, and mental illness (such as bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia) can be solved.
Elon lives very modestly. He doesn't have a mansion.
The rumor is he doesn't even have a home.
All of his capital is tied up in his companies. His trillion-dollar net worth is only on paper, in the form of the stock he owns in his companies.
He's only worth $1.2 TRILLION on paper because his investors say he's worth this. The market says he's worth this.
In all, Elon's companies provide jobs to more than 160,000 people.
If you count all the companies that do business with Elon's companies (battery makers, chip makers, etc), Elon provides exponentially more jobs than this.
On the day SpaceX went public, 4,400 SpaceX employees became millionaires because of stock they owned in SpaceX. These new millionaire SpaceX employees include janitors, cafeteria workers, groundskeepers.
Elizabeth Warren and Democrats think this is horrible -- because Elon is showing that the American Dream is still alive and well in America.
Elizabeth Warren and today's Democrat Party openly hate America -- openly hope America loses to Iran.
Elon arrived here as an immigrant from Africa with nothing -- a few dollars in his pocket -- and then built all this.
In 1995, he created Zip2, which was an early online mapping company and city guide. When he and his partners/investors sold this to Compaq in 1999, Elon got $22 Million.
He then co-founded PayPal in 1999-2000. He and his partners/investors sold PayPal to eBay in 2004 for $1.5 BILLION. Elon's share from the sale was $180 MILLION.
He then found SpaceX in 2002, investing $100 MILLION of his own money -- pretty much risked his entire fortune on this enterprise. When I read about this, I thought this project had a near-zero chance of success. Who starts their own space exploration company?
Two years later, he also acquired a small company called Tesla in 2004. He invested $70 MILLION of his own money in this. Who in their right might decides to try to replace the existing fossil-fuel auto industry with battery-powered cars when the battery technology did even yet exist?
But almost every venture Elon tries works, spectacularly.
People invest in Elon because he makes money for those who invest in Elon over the long-term.
Would you rather invest your money in Elon, who will multiply your money because he knows how to use capital productively and efficiently . . . or in government, which will just use your money to finance more Somali fraud and more corruption?
Elon does not wake up each day and think: "How big of a yacht can I buy? How big of a mansion can I buy?"
Elon works 100 hours a week.
He thinks about increasing his rocket launch schedule so that he can colonize Mars in his lifetime . . . because his #1 goal in life is to transform humans into an interplanetary species . . . so that human consciousness can be extended beyond the lifespan of the earth.
This sure doesn't sound selfish to me.
Elon does not think about making money. He thinks about solving problems.
The money then just arrives because he's very good at solving problems. So investors voluntarily throw their hard-earned money at Elon.
He doesn't steal money like the government does.
He takes people's money, multiplies it, and returns it to investors -- at multiples of 10x, 20x, 100x.
Thomas Edison also got rich. He gave us the incandescent light bulb, the electric power grid, the phonograph, motion pictures, and more.
Elizabeth Warren thinks it's just horrible for inventors to get rich.
But how many trillions and trillions of dollars in wealth for others did Edison's inventions create?
How many jobs?
Thomas Edison created America's industrial revolution with his inventions.
Elon is today's Thomas Edison.
Elon is also saving America.
Elon saved free speech through his purchase of Twitter for $44 BILLION.
If Elon had not done this, free speech in America would be over. And it's highly doubtful Donald Trump would have won back the Presidency in 2024.
So Elon saved America with his purchase of Twitter.
Elizabeth Warren says Elon should have to pay a 5% wealth tax every year -- which shows how ignorant she is about how economics works.
Elon has almost no liquid cash sitting around.
His money is tied up in his companies.
If he had to sell 5% of his stock holdings every year to pay this tax, the stock market would crash.
He would have to fire his employees and downsize his businesses.
Why would anyone invest in his businesses or in any enterprise if the government is just going to come in and take 5% of it every year?
But this is how socialists think.
They think economics is a "zero sum" game.
They think Elon's money comes from someone else.
No.
Elon is literally creating wealth for all with his inventions. Elon creates wealth out of his brain.
Elon is now creating an army of AI humanoid robots that he says will take over most manual tasks.
He says that we are reaching a point when work will be optional, and when everyone will have a high income and nice life without working at all.
He calls this Minimum Basic Income -- but at a high level.
People will then be free to work on things they want to work on.
Sounds pretty good to me.
Elon also overcame horrific bullying when he was a kid. He overcame this without harboring resentment toward humanity.
In fact, it appears his primary motivation is to help humanity survive and prosper.
How many jobs has Elizabeth Warren created?
Zero.
How many of the world's most pressing problems has Elizabeth Warren solved?
Zero.
What of value has Elizabeth Warren delivered to the world?
Zero.
What Elizabeth Warren specializes in is stoking ENVY -- which is one of the seven deadly sins.
ENVY is a powerful and highly destructive force.
ENVY powered Communism and the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people during the 20th Century.
ENVY is what powers today's Democrat Party.
This is a fact. The hatred of Musk and his new net worth is a function of mostly three things beyond our outmoded base animal intuitions about a zero sum world in the juggle where someone with too many berries reduced how many the rest of us can have.
1. Complete failure of our “education” system to produce a polis with even rudimentary economic or financial literacy. I can forgive and deal with ignorance if it’s not combined with the next two malicious elements…
2. Envy / communist ideology, which are two sides of the same coin given that the theory of communism was fully debunked on arrival.
3. Mindless, tribal partisan politics. He was loved as a climate Democrat, and then suddenly Hitler of the month. This is pure empty-skull Aspen Ideas Fest Fuckery. Democracy Dies in Delusion.
Want to criticize his use of taxpayer subsidies for Tesla? Fine. I’m with you. But he played by the rules, so blame the rule makers.
Want to bash him for SpaceX being a government contractor? You better explain how driving down the cost of rocket launches 100x is bad for anyone from any framework. Libertarians and commies should both like our government/taxpayers getting more for less.
Elon Musk is not stealing from you.
Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.
Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.
The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.
@EdMarkey As if the first $4 trillion in taxes weren't enough. You people are insatiable and wrong. Let the creators create. You take enough revenue for your redistribution already.
@SenWarren Go climb under a rock, Senator Warren. Elon Musk is creating real wealth and value for society. You are nothing but a consumer of other people's resources.