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It's great that Rush is back on tour. Obviously, the loss of Neil Peart is irreplaceable, but we have to keep supporting the band!! We should be grateful that legendary musicians are still performing today.

👍 Mike Dunn

My theory is that the American empire is JUST getting started. US has a stranglehold on Space with SpaceX, which is the next frontier for defense/war. It has a comically large lead. No one will be close for at least 20 years. It is the leading power in AI by far - both in models and chips. China is catching up fast, but the US has an inherent mechanism that will increase the likelihood that it will win in the end - a free market capitalism free speech. A free market capitalism allows for brutal competition between companies. Free speech allows for AI models to be maximally truth seeking, which means that AIs CAN and WILL BECOME smarter than humans to the point where they can tell the truth about its leaders. This is literally impossible in China. Try having a Chinese model that says Xi Jinping is corrupt. Good luck with that. Then, you have a country that has more guns than people and surrounded by two massive oceans and two friendly neighbors, which means any sort of kinetic take over of the country is literally impossible. Not to mention the US has BY FAR the best and strongest military. The only way adversaries can hope to defeat the US is by tearing it from within by pitting us against each other. This is why it's virtually guaranteed that all the division/hatred/polarization you see within the country is fomented by China/Russia Psy Ops propaganda efforts. I'm not saying these aren't naturally happening in spots - America is far from perfect - but it would be naive to think our adversaries aren't pouring millions of gallons of fuel on a fire. As long as the American public a) has the ability to exercise its free speech b) has a protected 2nd amendment c) capitalism and free markets continue to function and d) the populace is aware of how awesome America really is, it is literally impossible to stop the US's trajectory to global domination in the coming decades, especially as China's demographics continue to collapse. It's the bottom of the 9th, the game is tied, and the US has the bases loaded. It's a 3-2 pitch. All we need is a home run, and we win the rest of the century.

Anyone who envies this man becoming a trillionaire needs to have their head examined. Does this look like a man who gives a whit about being rich, except for what it enables him to do for humanity? More power and riches to this man.

Progressives say the income gap between rich and poor is one of America's biggest problems. But it's not true, says economist Don Boudreaux: “Look at the data ... that gap is due to a statistical illusion." More on that and other economic myths here:

I believe that @SpaceX is the most important company ever It transcends the scope of a traditional company It will open up the Stars Elon had the vision And then the team pushed through limitless pain to get where they are Which is just the beginning

Superb multi-cam edit of Rush’s performance of 2112 at the LA Forum last night … youtu.be/MKQajOTGoO0?si=Lzhh…

Rush Launches Fifty Something Tour With Poignant, Career-Spanning Show: Five Best Moments billboard.com/lists/rush-fif…

Lesser known 80s album that you love: Psychedelic Furs: Midnight To Midnight (1987) (recommended by @neoschenker)

James Taylor - Fire And Rain (1970)

Good morning 🎶☕️☀️ Oh, that it is, always…😂

Fly By Night away from here Change my life again Fly By Night goodbye my dear My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend Moonrise, thoughtful eyes Staring back at me from the window beside No fright or hindsight… #RipNeilPeart Good evening #RushFamily 🦉

Oh, that one time Marshawn Lynch had the greatest run Seahawks history (maybe in NFL history). The Beast Quake in 2011 registered as a magnitude 2.0.

Vanilla Ice is correct: "It's just music. What's the big deal, man? We're just entertainers."

On this day in 1978, The Cars released "Just What I Needed." Sung by Benjamin Orr and written by Ric Ocasek, the debut single blended new wave, power pop, and rock into a hit that still sounds fresh decades later.

Random Song of the Day Marathon Rush live -2011 (cleveland)

Happy Lakeside Park Day 🍁 (taken June 2025) @rushtheband #rush

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall. That’s not what Sears was. Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose. It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit. A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail. That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things. Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them. People call it the death of a department store. I don’t. Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now. Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.