@gee_grown@DRJWheeler27045 The French revolution started in 1789, and was itself partially inspired by the American revolution a decade earlier. Don’t keep dumping on the U.S. we took it from political philosophy to an actual country.
@DeanMThomson@jmilei_english Wrong. The $40B (not $20B) currency swap was just a facility made available by the U.S. if needed for liquidity. They only used $2.5B and repaid it in 3 months. Do your research.
@David_Khait I agree that ballots shouldn’t be sent to such addresses, etc. but the real question is “did anyone actually vote those ballots”? Not hard to determine. If not, a waste to send those ballots out, and creates an opportunity for fraud, but not proof of ACTUAL fraud.
Cathie Wood just named the contradiction nobody wants to touch.
She compared Elon Musk to Thomas Edison.
Not as praise. As a pattern.
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.”
The media sees a reckless billionaire setting fires.
Wood sees the only person in the room building anything at all.
The gap between those two readings tells you everything about who controls the narrative.
Start with Tesla.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
He built the exact machine environmentalists spent thirty years begging for.
Didn’t lobby for it. Didn’t write a whitepaper. Built it.
Forced every major automaker on Earth to abandon the combustion engine.
Then the second he won, the same movement made him the enemy.
Because the establishment never wanted the problem solved. They wanted the problem funded. And those are two very different things.
A solved problem kills the committee. Kills the nonprofit. Kills the careers built on managing the crisis instead of ending it.
Musk ended it. And they have never forgiven him.
SpaceX looks like an escape hatch if you never read past the headline.
Which is exactly what the press counts on.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
Mars was never the exit.
It is the lab.
Build under conditions so brutal that every breakthrough changes what is possible back home.
You learn to keep a human alive in a frozen irradiated vacuum.
Fixing an energy grid on a temperate planet becomes arithmetic.
He is not running from the cradle.
He is stress-testing the technology that preserves it.
But that story doesn’t sell ads. Doesn’t move polling numbers. So they bury it under hit pieces and congressional theater and call it journalism.
Most people who reach his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
They buy senators. They buy newspapers. They buy silence.
Musk keeps picking the hardest unsolved problems on the planet and running straight at them.
That is what terrifies the establishment.
Not that he might fail.
That he might succeed without them. Without their funding. Without their approval. Without anything they can hold over his head.
A man they cannot buy is a man they cannot control.
So they do the only thing they have left.
They send the media after him.
Every legacy outlet runs the same playbook. Strip the context. Clip the quote. Frame the motive. Let the algorithm do the rest.
It has worked on every builder before him.
It will not work on this one.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
He will spend his building the thing that saves them anyway.
The stones always come from inside the walls.
@Itsam4d@TaraBull He is the government official who would know if any of the hospices called and said “we‘ve got 10 dying patients here that we can’t feed today because you cut off our funding.” Zero calls like that. He IS the credible source!
@MikeVogelius@TheFP@DanielDiMartino Challenges and Operational Details
•Funding & Subsidies: While successful in providing value, the system operates with a roughly $1.5 billion annual subsidy.
So much for their being an example of successful operation of grocery stores.
@rumham1986@TheFP@DanielDiMartino Challenges and Operational Details
•Funding & Subsidies: While successful in providing value, the military stores system operates with a roughly $1.5 billion annual subsidy.
So the military store system isn’t at all an example of successful government-run stores.
@mindsetmachine I don’t know of any family patriarch that wouldn’t encourage his sons to cooperate and support each other in their careers. What is the big deal?
@Simon_Ingari This is some of the stupidist advice I’ve ever heard. If someone can’t answer a friendly question without turning it into a struggle-session, they are not going to be a good fit.
@KingMilkFarts@christopherrufo This is one of the stupidest arguments ever. States do not subsidize other states. States don’t pay taxes to the Federal government at all. Individual taxpayers in some states are on average higher income and in other states are on average lower income.
🚨 BREAKING: In response to my wrongful arrest in Portland, President Trump has ORDERED his staff to review federal aid to be CUT in the city, per Karoline Leavitt
“We will NOT fund states that allow anarchy!”
This arrest is going to cost Portland leftists DEARLY!
So exactly how do you “balance differing views” on this funding? Reduce the LBGTQ advocacy funding in Uganda to $3m? Devote the other 2.5M for advocating traditional family values in Uganda? This is NGO money laundering and a complete waste of taxpayer money. 95%+ of the voters would agree. There is no “balancing” needed.