Scones and mushrooms for breakfast? 🤯

Yes, who would have ever anticipated the American South is welcoming and friendly.

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics. this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

It’s been a terrific week of Europeans experiencing and opining on all the great things in America. I’ve been talking up hot American breakfast and black coffee for a while. But this gentleman absolutely nails why we’re doing temperature right

CNN did a segment on Freddy, the German soccer tourist, and sports analyst Christine Brennan claimed "I saw some conversation, Wolf and Pamela, about how the rest of the world is looking at the United States and feeling that we are—it's a foreboding image and that we are inhospitable...But how wonderful again, that sports can bring people here and show people that the United States and you know, the South is welcoming a German tourist in a way we would never have anticipated" Who is "we"?

My 84 year old Dad became a Republican as soon as the party started competing in the South in the 1960s, and he's still upset Bo Callaway didn't win the 1966 governor race in Georgia, even though he won the most votes. I hear a Callaway reference at least once a week.

Chris, this is the American cabal myth in its cleanest form. “Elon became a trillionaire because he solved important problems.” No. SpaceX solved real engineering problems. That part is true. But Elon becoming a trillionaire is not merely the reward for problem-solving. It is the result of financial engineering, state sponsorship, public procurement, national-security dependency, monopoly positioning, capital-market mania, index inclusion, narrative control, and an ownership structure that converts collective and state-backed achievement into private personal wealth. That is the distinction you are missing. Reusable rockets are real. Starlink is real. The engineering is real. But the trillionaire outcome is not just engineering. It is political economy. SpaceX was not built in a free-market vacuum. It was built through NASA contracts, defense demand, Space Force contracts, launch regulation, public space infrastructure, government procurement, taxpayer-backed demand, capital-market liquidity, and the strategic decision to make one private company into national infrastructure. That is not ordinary capitalism. That is corporate fascism: private ownership fused with state objectives. The state needs SpaceX for launch capacity, military communications, satellite infrastructure, geopolitical competition, and national-champion strategy. Wall Street then takes that state-backed strategic position and capitalizes it into a speculative valuation. Musk’s ownership stake converts that valuation into personal wealth. So when you say, “He solved important problems,” you are describing only the visible heroic layer. You are not describing the machine underneath. The machine is this: public demand, public contracts, public infrastructure, public risk, private ownership, private upside. That is how the national-champion model works. The billionaire founder becomes the mascot of a state-capital project. Then the public is told to see his wealth as proof of genius instead of proof that public power and private capital have fused. Nobody serious has to deny SpaceX’s engineering achievements. The point is that engineering achievement does not explain trillionaire wealth by itself. Ownership explains it. State backing explains it. Capital markets explain it. Political protection explains it. The myth exists to collapse all of that into one sentence: “He solved problems.” That is not analysis. That is propaganda.