"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse (money/benefits) out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority will always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, which ultimately causes the democracy to collapse." - Alexander Fraser Tytler That sounds nice and all when @JeffBezos and @elonmusk support no taxes on the bottom half of income earners but once only the top 50% are paying taxes, what will keep the bottom half from voting in ever increasing taxes on the those that already would be caring 100% of the burden? This is how democracies crumble.

On this day in 1777, the United States chose its flag in one sentence, and the men who voted on it had no idea what they had just done. The timing could not have been worse. The country was barely a year removed from declaring independence and it was losing. The British had taken New York. Washington's army was battered and short on everything. Congress was drowning in crises: no money, restless officers, a war that might collapse at any moment. Survival, not symbolism, was the daily business. Yet on June 14, 1777, in the middle of all that, the Marine Committee tucked a brief resolution into the day's work. The full text was almost absurdly simple. "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." That was the entire thing. No record of debate. No designer credited. The popular story that Betsy Ross sewed the first one is a charming legend that appeared a full century later, told by her grandson, with no solid evidence behind it. The resolution did not even specify how the stars should be arranged, which is why early American flags came in wild variety, stars in circles, rows, and scattered patterns, each maker improvising. These exhausted men, fighting for their lives, voting between a dozen other emergencies, accidentally created one of the most recognized symbols on the planet. That flag would go on to survive a civil war, fly through two world wars, get planted on the summit of Mount Everest, and be driven into the gray dust of the moon, where it still stands today. 249 years ago it was a single afterthought in the minutes of a desperate Congress. That sentence is why we celebrate Flag Day. Happy Flag Day.

Elon Musk gagne dans presque tout ce qu'il touche depuis 20 ans. Les voitures, les fusées, les satellites, les paiements, l'IA. Ce n'est pas de la chance. Ce n'est même pas du génie au sens où on l'entend d'habitude. C'est un seul framework mental, et presque personne ne l'utilise. La plupart des gens pensent par analogie. On fait comme ça parce que c'est comme ça qu'on a toujours fait. On copie ce qui existe, on ajoute 10%, et on appelle ça de l'innovation. Musk fait l'exact inverse. Il pense en premiers principes. Un premier principe, c'est une vérité de base qu'on ne peut plus réduire. Quelque chose de quasi physique. Le terme vient d'Aristote : les archai, les propositions premières qu'on ne déduit de rien et à partir desquelles tout le reste se construit. La méthode est simple et brutale. Tu prends un problème et tu demandes pourquoi. Puis encore pourquoi. Puis encore. Jusqu'à toucher la couche où il ne reste que les lois de la physique et les faits bruts. À ce niveau, tu ne raisonnes plus sur des opinions héritées. Tu raisonnes sur le réel. Exemple concret. Quand il lance Tesla, tout le monde lui dit que les batteries coûtent 600 dollars le kWh, que c'est comme ça, et que ça ne baissera jamais. Lui décompose. De quoi est faite une batterie ? Du nickel, du cobalt, de l'aluminium, du carbone. Il regarde le prix de ces métaux au London Metal Exchange. Résultat : la matière première coûte une fraction du prix du marché. Tout le reste, c'est de l'organisation, des intermédiaires, des habitudes. Donc compressible. Même logique chez SpaceX. L'industrie spatiale achète chaque pièce à des sous-traitants, qui achètent eux-mêmes à d'autres sous-traitants. Des couches d'intermédiaires, chacun prenant sa marge. Musk pose la question interdite : pourquoi ces intermédiaires ? Et quand la seule réponse honnête est l'habitude, il les supprime. SpaceX fabrique en interne. Résultat : des coûts divisés par dix là où toute l'industrie jugeait le prix incompressible. Sur Tesla, c'est pareil jusque dans le câblage. Là où l'industrie auto empile des kilomètres de faisceaux pensés par tradition, ses équipes repartent de zéro : de quoi a-t-on réellement besoin pour faire passer le signal et l'énergie ? Les ingénieurs historiques sont souvent choqués. Pas parce que c'est faux, mais parce que ça viole des conventions que plus personne n'avait osé questionner depuis 50 ans. Maintenant, le vrai sujet. Le problème de la plupart des gens, ce n'est pas le manque d'idées. C'est que leurs idées sont figées. Héritées, jamais réexaminées. Ils n'ont jamais demandé : pourquoi est-ce que je pense ce que je pense ? Descartes appelait ça le doute méthodique. Tout remettre en question, ne garder que ce qui résiste vraiment, puis reconstruire à partir de là. Penser sa propre pensée. Et c'est là que tout se connecte. Les premiers principes, ce n'est pas réservé aux fusées. Ça marche aussi bien sur les idées. Tous mes posts sur le wokisme, sur l'état de l'Europe, sur l'économie, ce n'est pas de l'idéologie. C'est exactement la même méthode appliquée au réel social : descendre couche par couche jusqu'à ce qui ne se discute plus. Et aujourd'hui, l'IA est l'outil le plus puissant jamais inventé pour faire ça. Pour décomposer un sujet, traquer les intermédiaires intellectuels, confronter chaque croyance à la donnée brute. Tu connectes ça à ton parcours, à ce que tu as construit, à ce que tu as appris, et tu obtiens quelque chose de rare : une pensée qui n'appartient qu'à toi, parce que tu l'as reconstruite toi-même. Exemple sur moi. Pourquoi est-ce que je finis proche du libertarianisme ? Pas par tribu, pas par esthétique. Parce que quand je regarde les choses froidement, les faits sont têtus. Seul le capitalisme a sorti des milliards d'êtres humains de la pauvreté. Seuls des entrepreneurs créent réellement de la valeur. Et seule la création de valeur élève durablement les gens. Le reste, ce sont des promesses. C'est la conclusion qui dérange. Quelqu'un d'intellectuellement honnête, prisonnier d'aucun dogme, et qui cherche sincèrement la vérité, tend mécaniquement vers ces idées. Pas parce qu'on les lui a apprises. Parce qu'à force de demander pourquoi, encore et encore, c'est là qu'on tombe quand on touche le fond.

Absolutely phenomenal… Well done! 🇺🇸

My jaw literally dropped listening to this Homeless woman in Los Angeles says NGOs come to them and register them to vote 5 TIMES PER YEAR and pay them $25 Multiple people all confirm they register the homeless 4-5x A YEAR EACH and pay them This is why Democrats made ballot harvesting by 3rd party networks in California legal They are registering the homeless to vote 5x each, providing the fake name and address information, and then ballot harvesting hundreds of thousands of ballots

A rare Super Delta formation featuring the Thunderbirds and the @USNavy Blue Angels soared above @UFC fans to kick off #UFCWhiteHouse. #Freedom250 🎥 by @whitehouse

Legacy media is now pushing another narrative: “Virtually all of Elon Musk’s wealth came from government help.” This is completely false. Government contracts are not subsidies. SpaceX wins contracts because it offers the best product at the lowest price. NASA pays SpaceX for real launches, real cargo missions, and real astronaut transport, not charity. SpaceX is expected to get less than 5% of its revenue from NASA this year. Add up every government incentive Tesla and SpaceX have ever received, and it is still less than 2% of the value of Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla did not become the world’s most valuable car company because of tax credits. It became huge because it built better EVs, better software, better batteries, and the best charging network. And when the $7,500 EV tax credit was removed, Tesla sales increased. The real reason they’re obsessed with Elon Musk is that he exposed how irrelevant they have become. People no longer wait for newspaper editors, TV anchors, or corporate journalists to tell them the truth. Legacy media lost its monopoly on information. Now all they have left is clickbait, outrage, and anti-Elon narratives. And that’s exactly why the trust in media is at an all time low.

The article is totally false btw. You can add up every government incentive my companies have ever received and they amount to less than 2% of the value of SpaceX and Tesla! And many of these incentives actually helped our competitors disproportionately to Tesla or SpaceX. For example, when President Trump removed the $7500 tax credit for electric vehicles, Tesla sales actually INCREASED, because more buyers shifted from other EV makers to Tesla.

Interesting analysis

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history. The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet. Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention. He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette. He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents. A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

I am proud to be teaming up with Karen Bass' brother in suing his sister for her reckless negligence that led to the destruction of our homes. I hope their Thanksgiving dinner isn't too awks. I know ours hasn't been the same since last year...

我的偶像郭璨 27 岁，SpaceX 任务控制室核心工程师，火箭发动机参数实时监测她说了算，异常时直接下中止指令 最离谱的是，她 20 多岁写的代码还在优化发射控制逻辑，把流程自动化提了一大截 结果一查工资，年薪现金才 13 万美元，硅谷白菜价 但人家持股 8–15 万股，按 135 刀 IPO 价算，身价直接干到 1500 万刀 之前纪录片里那个“花臂 吊带”出圈的，就是她 难怪网友喊她星舰女王，这履历放硅谷随便哪家都是抢着要，她偏选 SpaceX 硬卷 偶像，实力真是藏不住的

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

You know what I’ve been thinking about? There are far more racist people in this country than I ever realized. I have been blown away watching people celebrate the death of a White teenage boy simply because the person who killed him was Black. This teenager was not on drugs. He was not a troublemaker. He had never committed a crime. He played sports, made good grades, respected his parents, and was loved by so many people. Yet some people have found joy in his death because they care more about race than right and wrong. That is not justice. That is racism, hatred, and pure evil. A teenage boy lost his life. Anyone celebrating that should be ashamed.

The revelations six years later are pouring out so quickly that it is impossible to keep up much less mentally process all this: * The Director of National Intelligence has documented 120 US-funded/owned biolabs in 30 countries many of which are manufacturing and manipulating infectious diseases. * Senator Rand Paul's committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part of this program. * Senator Johnson has produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the shot to everyone but said nothing. * Many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness. * Hardly any of this makes the national news and one wonders if the public mind has any awareness at all.

Happy Anniversary to our lovely Second Lady. 12 years and almost 4 kids later, and we're still going strong. Love you Usha!

They don’t care for the poor. They just envy the rich.

“Tax the rich” We already do. “Make the rich pay their fair share.” They already do. These slogans are catchy but inaccurate. They reveal that someone is misinformed on taxation in the United States.

Chris Nikic, the first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman, completes Ironman 70.3 Massachusetts. Shortly before the race, Nikic announced that he needed a guide to run alongside him for the race. That's when Dr. Tommy Martin decided to step up. ⁠ "I learned more in this race than almost any other I have competed in, and none of it was about race tactics or how to PR. It was about life, perspective, determination, and grit. I owe all of that to Chris," Martin said. "I hope every finish line Chris crosses serves as a reminder to the world: your diagnosis, your situation, your circumstances do not define your potential!" Congrats, Chris! Video: dr.tommymartin / ig.

WOW 🚨 United States Pardon Attorney confirms the ONLY pardon that was physically signed, not by autopen, was Hunter Biden’s pardon He says Anthony Fauci was very worried about getting a pardon and reached out to make sure he got one, he immediately officially accepted it to make it legal once he got it “The only signature on pardons that you see with a wet pen is Hunter Biden, which was signed at Thanksgiving. All the rest are auto pen, which begs another question But most importantly, you can see these are email exchanges where Fauci, Dr. Fauci's lawyer, is saying, will there be pardons for Fauci? And then in the morning of January 20th, and just in time for the change of the presidency, Fauci got his pardon. And you have to accept under American law, the one thing the Supreme Court has said is you have to accept the pardon. So Fauci immediately had his lawyer say, I accept the pardon, and sent that in. So they were very aware that they needed that and they wanted it.” Crimes Against Humanity can’t be pardoned Also according to everything I could find, the presidential pardon system was never meant to be used the way Biden used it. Every pardon should be thrown out