A wise man once said, if you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it.
These European World Cup tourists are experiencing the REAL America for the first time: not New York City or LA, but middle America and all its hospitality. 🇺🇸
@mazemoore I'd much rather Elon Musk have a trillion dollars than George and Alex Soros.
What have they ever created? (mayhem)
What have they ever produced? (sorrow)
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
@SenWarren Why don't you go get yourself...ummm...a beer.
And then sit down and,
in the words of Al Green,
(the bad congressman, not the good singer)
SHUT UP!
@SenWarren You could give “the typical American” 11 MILLION years and they still would not create PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, xAI, Neuralink, Boring Company, Ad Astra, all while single-handedly saving free speech for all mankind.
@theblaze A rainbow nation???
No.
We want to go back to being a red, white, and blue nation. 🇺🇸
Stop trying to balkanize America.
ONE nation, under God.
With Liberty and JUSTICE for ALL!
There’s a new disturbing social media trend of BLM activists posting edited images of themselves urinating on Austin’s grave
You can’t get much lower than this.
Make these POS scum famous