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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.

Lex Luthor was the hero.

The monumentally stupid response 👇

Why we need the data centers 👇 Saving people’s lives

I cannot argue with this analysis.

For some reason, the fact “if billionaires didn’t exist” a lot of people would be unemployed and have $0 in their bank accounts, pisses people off.

Five and a half years later—with new revelations related to what happened before and on January 6—the regime media absolutely refuses to consider that the Biden DOJ/Wray FBI abused their power to investigate, prosecute, and help convict more than 1,000 Americans for their participation in the protest that day. Welker, like all other “journalists” and reporters of her ilk, actually think the unprecedented number of plea deals is the result of legitimate prosecutions rather than abuse of authority—particularly threats to turn misdemeanor cases into felonies—to extract plea deals. They don’t entertain for a SECOND that perhaps something is off with a 100 PERCENT CONVICTION RATE before DC juries. Or question how the Biden DOJ got away with for years bringing the felony 1512c2 charge against 300 J6ers (and the president) before SCOTUS determined the statute had been unlawfully applied. The single minded focus on those charged/convicted of “assault” on police—when the 18 USC 111 statute also applies to “interfering” or “impeding” federal officers—allows the media to ignore the hundreds of other low level misdemeanor cases that nonetheless resulted in torturous investigations and prosecutions, rigged trials, and time in federal prison. Corporate media is as responsible as the Biden DOJ, J6 committee, and federal judges in continuing to perpetuate lies about J6 and intentionally misleading the public about what happened in the largest criminal investigation in US history. Good for the president for pushing back and for his justified anger here:

As a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq I find this self-aggrandizing “journalist” to be highly objectionable. He is narcissistic filth with a grotesquely ridiculous sense of unwarranted self importance. People talk about “stolen valor.” THIS is stolen valor.

FRAUD ALERT! What's remarkable is that despite the fact that Karen Bass is the clear frontrunner and Raman is in third, Raman is getting the lion's share of the new votes! That's statistically impossible. Karen Bass should be getting most of the new votes as the clear frontunner assuming these new votes coming in are largely Democrat. Clearly they're cheating. They need Raman to get the new votes so that she can pass Pratt.

Sending ballots in the mail to people who moved out of California years ago is corrupt. Sending ballots in the mail to people who didn’t request one is corrupt. Sending ballots in the mail to every address someone has lived in for the past 10 years is corrupt. Letting activists sign up mentally unstable people for a ballot by using phony addresses is corrupt. Not letting third party law enforcement officials check the voter rolls is corrupt. Letting one political party control the entire process for decades leads to corruption.

I’m not walking away from the Utah project, but I also understand why President Adams sent the letter demanding major changes. A 75% reduction simply isn’t realistic for a project of this scale, but that doesn’t mean the concerns should be ignored. My team is working around the clock to address every issue raised, from water usage and environmental impact to power generation and community benefits. What’s become clear to me is that much of the public debate has been fueled by outdated information and, in some cases, coordinated misinformation campaigns. Claims that we’ll drain the Great Salt Lake, consume Utah’s power, or create massive environmental damage simply don’t reflect the reality of what we’re building. This project will create thousands of construction jobs, thousands of long term high paying jobs, and billions of dollars of investment in Utah. At the same time, I’ve been investigating who is funding some of the opposition campaigns and have turned evidence over to federal authorities regarding organizations and funding networks that appear linked to Chinese backed interests. My focus now is simple, address the concerns honestly, provide the facts, and show the people of Utah exactly what this project is and what it isn’t.

We’ve got your back, Cheryle. Healthcare costs are going down in Ohio after we win & I’ll start by prosecuting the fraudsters who are raising prices for everyone else.

The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 is unconstitutional and arbitrary, and it must be repealed. Please consider the following arguments: 1. The NFA clearly and directly infringes upon the 2nd amendment right to keep and bear arms: The primary purpose of the 2nd amendment is not protect the right to keep and bear firearms for hunting, or competitive target shooting. The primary purpose is to ensure that the populous of our nation is armed so that they can defend themselves, their communities, and their nation from foreign and domestic enemies, up to and including foreign governments or even their own government. Therefore, the types of arms protected by the 2nd amendment specifically include what we might call "weapons of war," such as fully-automatic heavy machineguns. As a corollary, private citizens and businesses owned canons at the time the Bill of Rights was written. This precedent should not be ignored. 2. The "tax" the NFA is no longer a tax, which means it's just an unconstitutional registry and legal hurdle: When the NFA was passed, one of the requirements was that a $200 tax be paid on regulated items including automatic weapons (machineguns), suppressors (aka silencers), short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), any other weapons (AOWs), and destructive devices (explosives, improvised devices, large-bore weapons, and parts needed to make them). Even though it's absurd, the argument was always made that it wasn't a registry, or even an infringement, but a tax, and that the government has the right to tax. Well, as of January 1, 2026 the $200 tax was reduced to $0 per item for suppressors, SBRs, SBSs, and AOWs, while it remains at $200 for machineguns and destructive devices. So it's a tax, but it's not a tax. Also, the fee remains for some items, and not for others - it is quite arbitrary. 3. A major objective of the NFA was to combat organized crime: This hasn't worked at all. Firstly, violent crime rates have fallen and risen back and forth over the decades, seemingly unmoved one way or the other by the 1934 NFA. In 1958 they were down to 4.5/100,000, then they jumped up to 10.2 in 1980. In 2025 they were 4.0, the lowest it has been since at least 1900. But organized crime, especially in the form of corruption and fraud, has reached astounding levels, amounting to billions and billions of dollars fleeced from the public annually. The NFA does not serve the people of our nation in any way. 4. The specific rules created by the NFA are totally arbitrary, and massively ineffective: Newer technology and innovation has poked many holes in the NFA, which I will specifically address: - Short barreled rifles (SBRs) include any rifle with a barrel under 16 inches in length. Such a rifle requires the $200 tax stamp. However, with the introduction of pistol braces to the market, which may be used instead of a buttstock, the user is functionally able to produce the same outcome. - Automatic weapons include any firearm that will fire more than one round in succession with one trigger pull. The development of Forced Reset Triggers (FRT) and Super Safeties (SS) technically does not violate the rule, while still achieving the same rate of fire. Same outcome. - Putting a vertical foregrip on a handgun technically turns it into an any other weapon (AOW). However, if you cant the direction of the foregrip 10% in one direction or the other it is no longer perpendicular to the firearm, and is no longer considered a vertical foregrip, therefore no longer turning the firearm into an AOW, while still achieving the same outcome. Individually, these developments each demonstrate the arbitrary, flawed nature of the NFA. Collectively, they should be devastating. Furthermore, because of the clearly arbitrary nature of the rules, more and more honest, productive, law-abiding American citizens are placed at legal risk of violating a law they know nothing about due to clearly arbitrary distinctions in the code, the results of which have no impact on the outcome of the use of the firearms. 5. Safety First - If the writers of the NFA were truly concerned with the safety of law abiding Americans, then why would they restrict suppressors? They don't make firearms quiet to the extent that movies would have us believe, but they make them quiet enough to protect the hearing of millions of Americans who use their firearms safely and legally. It's one thing to go to the range where you are ready to shoot, and you know exactly when, how, and where you'll be shooting. But many other scenarios exist where the shooter may not have the luxury of donning the right ear protection prior to firing. Take self-defense situations, for instance. If you defend your family in your own home, you will probably not have time to put on ear protection prior to using a firearm. Shooting a firearm indoors without ear protection can be devastating for your hearing, possibly producing life-long hearing loss. 6. Unconstitutional economic discrimination: The truth is, many items regulated under the NFA can still be acquired in the United States... if you're rich. Even though the tax is no longer a tax for many items, the price of NFA items is still higher than it otherwise would be because of the restricted market that the regulation produces. Speaking again about suppressors, these incredibly simple items could be produced and sold for a fraction of their current price, and could even be integrated into many firearm designs without substantively increasing their cost if the NFA did not regulate them. Even though the $200 tax stamp is gone, many law-abiding American citizens are priced out of protecting their own hearing because of this arbitrary, unconstitutional law. And don't even get me started on machineguns. Because of the Hughes Amendment (1986), no new machineguns may be manufactured for civilian purchase in the US, so the supply of machineguns is artificially restricted such that a fully automatic AR-15 can costs tens of thousands of dollars or more. Many machineguns sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. So it's the right to keep and bear arms... if you're rich. How American is that? 7. US National Defense Readiness: One of the reasons Japan saw the invasion of the US as a non-starter was because they knew so many Americans owned firearms. The armed state of American citizens is a real deterrent to attack by our enemies, and in the event of an attack, our readiness as a nation is improved with a better armed citizenry. For small arms units, access to light and heavy machineguns is a massive force multiplier. The NFA literally hurts the readiness of our nation to defend itself from foreign adversaries. On this 250th Anniversary of the United States of America, I propose we do the right thing, and protect the God-given rights of our people to truly keep and bear arms. Repeal the NFA in its entirety. Do away with these arbitrary, unconstitutional restrictions. There's no good reason not to. @SCOTUSblog @realDonaldTrump @TheJusticeDept @DAGToddBlanche @gunrights @TXGunRights @gunpolicy @GunOwners @2AFDN @SecWar @PeteHegseth @DeptofWar

Kevin O’Leary: Foreign powers are trying to halt U.S. progress with AI, using the Marxist playbook If true—and O’Leary seems confident it is—this is incredibly disturbing And it speaks volumes about the organizations they use to manipulate Americans

Marcia Lucas was spot on with this take about Disney Star Wars. She was probably trying to be polite too. RIP Marcia Lucas. You are 💯 correct.

I believe what Jonathan says below is true. The corruption of the FBI and DOJ related to J6 seems to have no end, even in something as simple as going out of their way to notify local newspapers of arrests to ensure maximum damage to defendants. J6 had nothing to do with "criminal justice" and instead was an effort to use every tool available to the federal government to destroy their political opponents.

Every country on planet Earth is built on conquest. Every “indigenous” tribe claimed its land by conquest. Every line on the map, across every continent and every ethnic group, was drawn by conquest. Apologizing for this is like apologizing for gravity.

I'm in my very early 60s. The best President of my lifetime is Donald Trump. The best Vice President of my lifetime is JD Vance. The best SecDef/War of my lifetime is Pete Hegseth. The best SecState of my lifetime is Marco Rubio. The best SecTreasury of my lifetime is Scott Bessent. The best entrepreneur of my lifetime is Elon Musk. We truly live in a Golden Age.

Peak stupid 👇

You’ve always been a woke Lefty.