2014 clip shows how much Elon Musk appreciates taxpayers.
Host: Taxpayers essentially loaned you, Tesla, almost 500 million dollars. How much of that do you still owe?
Elon Musk: We paid the whole loan back with interest and a prepayment penalty last year.
Host: Did you have to do that? It wasn’t due, was it?
Elon Musk: I know it was not due for another ten years or something.
Host: Why did you pay it off early?
Elon Musk: The taxpayers supported Tesla. We ought to repay them as soon as we can. And since we had the ability to do it and the stock markets were good, we thought, “Well, let’s pay it back with interest and a thank you note, by the way,” which said, you know, “I really, really appreciate it. Thank you.”
The entire “White Supremacy” narrative was a Democrat and Legacy Media creation.
From 2010-2020:
LA Times: 9749%
New York Times: 2969%
Washington Post: 6778%
Wall Street Journal: 1691%
None of it was organic.
It was all manufactured.
All to push anti-white racism and divide.
Confidence in our elections shouldn't be too much to ask. The SAVE America Act simply requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
It’s time to bring the SAVE America Act to the Senate floor for a vote.
In a special broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word” honoring the 250th anniversary of the United States, Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid encouraged Americans to embrace unity, respect and the enduring truths of the Declaration of Independence.
President Dallin H. Oaks and many other leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints listened to the Choir and Coach Reid celebrate this historic milestone for the United States of America.
Learn more on Church Newsroom.
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To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
🇬🇧 A man got arrested in the UK for publicly calling Prophet Mohammed a "rapist and a killer."
Sadly, the British police no longer understand that the right to free speech includes the right to say offensive things.
Writer: Mhedi
Teslas vs legacy ICE vehicle fleets:
• Most American-made
• Cheaper to operate
• Faster & more powerful
• Safer
• Better tech
• Better for environment
• Can drive themselves
It's a no-brainer.
I love everything about the 4th of July, and the 250th anniversary is especially great for me because I am joining with family and friends for a reading of the Declaration of Independence, a BBQ, and fireworks.
As I reflect on what has happened over the 250 years that followed July 4th, 1776, it seems like an impossible dream come true. Think about it. Imagine that at the outset on July 4th, 1776, you were asked what odds for success a country would have if it would be mostly made up of poor immigrants coming from all different countries with very different cultures and religions and it would be governed by a political system in which the leaders reported to these people who themselves had to vote, compromise, and submit to life-changing decisions that many disagreed with. Would you bet that it would do exceptionally well and improve for 250 years? I would have thought that virtually impossible, yet America has been exceptional for 250 years.
I also see that it was shockingly terrific and lucky for me to have lived through the best part of those 250 years because I was born four years after the 1945 post-World War II beginning of the new American world order, which gave me the best time in history in the best place in the world.
These reflections give me a deep appreciation for the principles and practices—the secret sauce—that created and sustained this remarkable American story, a fear that we are losing sight of them, and a sense of responsibility to contribute to sustaining them.
Patriotism is love for your country’s culture and people. It is defensive.
Nationalism is love for your country’s state. It is power-based.
This is the essence of the distinction Orwell drew between the two terms.
Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.
And the reason is worse than they think.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.
Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.
Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.
Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.
A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.
Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.
That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.
A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.
To our Founding Fathers, thank you for creating heaven on earth 250 years ago.
America has given so many of us everything we have. I, personally, owe her everything in return.
Happy 4th!
🚨 President Trump is DIRECTLY countering Zohran Mamdani's anti-American speech today
"We are an INCREDIBLY good, kind, and generous people, always ready to help a friend or a neighbor in need.
No one has EVER given more to charity, ended more hunger, cured more disease, or done more to uplift humanity than AMERICANS, and no country EVER will be able to match it."
SPOT ON! 🇺🇸
All I want is the SAVE America Act. Then, I’ll let up, stop the peaceful pressure campaign, & focus solely on November. What our elected officials must understand is the American people demand some sort of election integrity going into the midterm elections. Whether it’s requiring photo ID or proof of citizenship to vote or banning ballot harvesting, voters want assurance that our Republican majorities are implementing the very legislative policies they were elected to enact.
Chris Pratt: “GET OFF YOUR A** TO SEE YOUNG WASHINGTON! Go see it! Celebrate America’s 250th birthday the right way!”
Premiering in theaters this weekend!
America is so back!! 🇺🇸💪