SarahJ 🕯️

Wife. Mother. Bookworm. Anglophile.
🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇮🇱

'Aim high but don't invade Russia in winter.'

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

@miroirdufou @jk_rowling @HJoyceGender Actually Ms. Rowling is working hard to support vulnerable groups - women and girls, which you seem to have missed entirely.

Of course you are pro-Pali as well. Totally consistent with your pattern of moral inversion.

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

OK but Mrs Thatcher worked long hours during her twins' entire childhood and was often absent. It's not like she was a SAHM in her late 20s/early 30s. Rising to PM is a long road. She prioritized her career for decades, as both she and her husband acknowledged.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

@Porkchop_EXP Margaret Thatcher had her twins at age 27 & she became leader of the Tory party at age 49, when they were 22 & out of the home. Seems like a good strategy to me.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

“Land of the free and the home of the brave.” 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Just 250 years ago, America didn’t exist. Let that sink in.

Within three generations of people, this country has accomplished the impossible

> first country to send human to the moon

> invented the internet and core infrastructure behind it (ARPANET, TCP/IP)

> invented airplanes

> invented the telephone

> invented electricity distribution

> invented reusable rockets

> invented the polio vaccine and mRNA technology

> invented the GPS

> built the deepest capital markets in history

> won 34% of all nobel prize awards, more than the next two countries combined

> annually spend a third of the world’s entire R&D budget

> led the Genome project that sequenced human DNA

> hold just 4% of the population but contribute 25% to the world’s GDP

> hold the oldest written national constitution that still remains in force

The birth of America was not just a win for Americans. It was a win for the entire world.

God bless America. Greatest country on the planet.

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
250 years of courage, freedom and opportunity

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

A lot of parallels between @Louise_m_perry's story and my own recent experience leaving Canada with my husband and two boys. Been in Australia 2 weeks now.

[Free Expression @WSJFreeEx]

As we said goodbye to the country of my birth, I felt bitter and heartbroken. Not because I don’t want to live in Australia—a beautiful country, and my other home—but because I never planned on leaving Britain, writes @Louise_m_perry
https://t.co/nSvO4LEWFP

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

1,000 days ago, at 6:29 a.m., Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, massacred over 1,200 people and abducted hundreds into Gaza. They thought they could break Israel.

They were wrong.

Israelis rebuilt communities, replanted fields, reopened schools, launched new businesses, revived tourism, advanced science, treated patients, created art, celebrated weddings, and brought life back where terror tried to erase it.

Israel answered hatred with resilience, destruction with rebuilding, and terror with life.

Despite every challenge, Israel rises. 🇮🇱

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

@IonaItalia @Romy_Holland Appreciate your honesty and vulnerability on this forum, Iona. It's a rare quality. 💪

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer the negative elements in your life, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

— Dale Carnegie

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

Appalling lack of coverage in what passes for Canadian media these days

I read this excellent book cover to cover and highly recommend, especially to all the Jew haters out there 👍

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

My new book has received zero mentions on CBC, CTV, Globe, Star et al. Zero.

It's been a bestseller for two months and is now in its second printing, despite that.

Actually, not "despite that." *Because* of that, I now think.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[Quinten | 048.eth @QuintenFrancois]

Congrats to @elonmusk for becoming earth’s first trillionaire

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

America: we have a record breaking IPO that created hundreds of millionaires and pioneering a new trillion dollar industry.

Canada: here is how to hate success and entrepreneurs.

😮‍💨

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

@ronmortgageguy Leaving Canada for good on Sunday 👍
And why yes, I WILL make sure the door doesn't hit me or my children on the way out 🎉

[homans top guy @passcoderonald]

Northern Ireland to the rest of the West

[Some Welder 🇺🇸 @SomeWelder]

Just a little American advice to all my friends in the UK:

It's only treason if you lose.

Godspeed.

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

Love this. I think it was Ann Landers who described love as "friendship that has caught fire"

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

How many romantic couples start out as friends first? @CostelloWilliam

[SarahJ 🕯️ @vanderwolf10]

@AnitaAnandMP Your opinion on this conflict is uninformed, hypocritical and most of all, irrelevant

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Eighty-two years ago today, freedom stood on the edge of extinction, and Allied forces stormed into hell to help save the world.

We will never forget the courage, the sacrifice, and the blood spilled on that fateful day.