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So far in 2026: We’ve had TEAM USA win Gold in hockey. We’ve had astronauts circling the moon. We’ve got the World Cup here. We have UFC at the White House. Everyone is getting skinny. We’re curing pancreatic cancer. It’s America’s 250th. AND YOU’RE BLACKPILLING?

I've been using baby gates wrong my entire life.

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named. The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river. The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn. Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound. "Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever. It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin. "Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather. I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet. In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair. And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge. You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain. The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste. I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind. Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again. "Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up. Discipline is a journey.

I think this is a good example of someone thinking that the way it works in movies is the way it works in real life. Michael Bloomberg spent hundreds of millions to be president. He won the American Somoa primary. Tom Steyer just came in third in the California primary. Jeffrey Epstein died in jail. Money can buy a lot. It doesn’t make you Lex Luther or Blofeld.

Majestic

I am fully aware that most of this is engagement farming/bots. But I don’t care, cause it’s reminding me of a lot of the things that I* love about this country that I take for granted.

This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful

I don’t mean to be callous. But if the IPO fizzled yesterday, would your situation be any different today? Are you worse off because he’s a trillionaire? Were you better off on Thursday when he wasn’t?

With $1 trillion in net worth, Musk could give everyone on earth around 125 bucks and thereby solve all problems forever.

What 2024 would have looked like if everyone had voted for Harris

The amount of money in Elon Musk’s bank account has no bearing on the amount of money in my bank account.

It is if nothing else refreshing to see someone be open and honest about it.

Just think how many lives we could change if we took all of Elon’s wealth and gave each American …. $303 in SpaceX and Tesla stock. Which would quickly be worth $0 since the vast majority of us, myself included, know nothing about running a space company or a car company.

RT @JessicaBRiedl: Musk's Social Security contributions are capped because his benefits are also capped. I thought Social Security's point…

Just saying… No Democrat has won the White House this century without a Biden on the ticket.

FDRs plan didn’t end the Lochner Court. The votes were in well before FDR announced his packing plan.