The first trillionaire in human history - Elon Musk - Born in South Africa - Bullied relentlessly as a kid - Immigrated to North America - Arrived with a backpack and a dream - Built Zip2 with his brother - Sold it 4 years later for $300 million - Co-founded PayPal with the profits - Revolutionised digital payments - Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion - Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX - Got mocked for electric cars - Got laughed at for reusable rockets - Nearly went bankrupt in 2008 - Kept building anyway - Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker - Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry - Made reusable rockets a reality - Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95% - Sparked the modern commercial space race - Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet - Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history - Bought Twitter for $44 billion - The world said he overpaid - He was called reckless, stupid & crazy - Advertisers fled, media declared it dead - Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history - Renamed it 𝕏 - Rebuilt the platform anyway - Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth - Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race - Sent astronauts to space - Is trying to get humans to mars - Created millions of jobs - Generated hundreds of billions in value - Inspired an entire generation of builders Before: - Failed repeatedly - Worked insane hours - Slept in factories and offices - Got bullied, laughed at and mocked - Constantly told “it’s impossible” - Kept building anyway - Made it possible Today: - Richest person on Earth - First trillionaire in human history - Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion Most people quit when the world laughs at them. Elon Musk built the future instead. Love him or hate him… Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime. Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI. History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done. It will remember the people who did it anyway. Congratulations Elon. The first trillionaire. 🚀

🏛️ USGLC Recruited Hunter Biden... before Burisma 🏛️ Credit to @MarcoPolo501c3 for assistance with emails. In 2012, two years before Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Liz Schrayer, CEO of the Gates/Soros-backed US Global Leadership Corporation (USGLC), personally recruited him to their board. ❓If not for influence peddling, why was the sitting Vice President's son such a priority? Here’s the timeline: 👉 June 25, 2012: Schrayer invites Hunter to be a special guest at a USGLC gala honoring Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy (with Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell in attendance). 👉 July 17, 2012: Hunter attends the event. 👉 July 26, 2012: Schrayer schedules a call with Hunter to discuss a "C-3 Board" position. 👉 August 21, 2012: Schrayer sends a formal letter: Hunter is unanimously nominated to the board, despite USGLC typically filling seats with CEOs and former senior officials. Again, all of this happened before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014. 📌 It looks like strategic access to influence peddling while his father, the Vice President, held office.

As a conservative living in one of the most liberal towns, here’s what Americans actually agree (at least in private): Taxes are too high. Tariffs are confusing but probably better than taxes. Battleships are awesome. The Bill of Rights. Wokeness has become exhausting. Congress is broken. Canadians are no longer nice. Criminals must be deported. Mentally ill don’t belong on the streets. Crackheads don’t belong on the streets. Taxes are worse than tariffs. All women’s HR departments are exhausting. Veterans are awesome. Veterans with Nazi tattoos are not. DC shouldn’t be the wealthiest city. The American flag is cool. Fewer abortions are a worthwhile goal. Genital mutilation of kids is not. Low IQ people should not be in positions of authority. A full half of the nation has a below-median IQ. Anti-Americanism from Europeans is exhausting. Techbros aren’t as smart as they think they are. Elon probably is. There is a higher power. The Bible is worth reading. True evil exists in this world. Normal white dads are pretty cool if you think about it. Too many people go to college. Too many Chinese go to our colleges. Communism is bad. We should not subsidize NATO (including Canada’s) defense. America is the greatest nation on Earth. Mexico is a cartel state. Legal immigration is good in moderation, but we probably need to pause and reassess. Endless wars are stupid. The Iran war has only lasted a few months. Fraud is out of control. Biden was not mentally fit to be President. Men should not be allowed in women’s sports. Girls should not be allowed in the Boy Scouts. We don’t really care about Hormuz. Karl Marx is responsible for more misery and death than Hitler. Muslim nations don’t have LGBTQ rights. Former CIA officers, admirals, and generals shouldn’t be in politics. Military standards matter. Pornography has gone too far. Venezuela and Cuba are failed states. Naval officers should not wear camouflage. This is a republic, not a direct democracy. Voter ID isn’t a bad idea. Freedom of speech is good. Trump isn’t actually a Nazi. The NYTimes and WAPO are biased. Journalists shouldn’t be biased. Pete Buttigieg should have spent more time on roads and less on politics. Foreign lobbyists should be kicked out of congress starting with China but yes also Israel. The Trump 1.0 and Biden presidencies were disappointing. The SHIPs Act. DC is cleaner and safer today. Pentagon journalists are crybabies. The environmentalists went too far. Nobody cares about the three-fingered toad that’s delaying construction projects. Teachers should be paid more. Teacher unions suck. Reshoring manufacturing is a good thing. Japan and South Korea are better allies than the EU. The vast majority of Americans are not racist. We should do more than build casinos to help Native American tribes succeed. Land acknowledgments are a waste of time. Many PhDs are clueless… especially Tom Nicholas. The healthcare system needs to be radically simplified. This nation has too many dumb laws. Kids should spend more time outdoors and less time on social media. Trade schools are good. Epstein didn’t kill himself. The EU is in no position to give us morality lessons. We have no idea if AI will be good or bad but probably both. The Yankees are the best team in sports history. But mostly… taxes are too high because Congress and the media are broken and corrupt. Jesus Christ loves Hunter Biden.

🚨 WOW! Sen. Eric Schmitt looks Sen. Mazie Hirono (D) in the EYES and GOES BALLISTIC after she defended fraudsters and r*pists "YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WE'RE DEPORTING YOU! 🔥 "No, no, no, it's MY TIME now. BIZARRE is the idea you'd be here in this committee DEFENDING VIOLENT MURDERERS from being deported. That you would be defending violent r*pists from being deported!" "To the American taxpayer that's been RIPPED OFF by people who came to this country. That's HORRIFIC—" "That you would defend people who took advantage of the good people of this country, their taxpayer dollars. That is bizarre. A terrorist who kills American citizens!" "You know what's bizarre is YOUR defense of THAT!" "So FORGIVE ME if you're 24 million Americans should be, our naturalized citizens should be afraid. That's ridiculous." "You have nothing but fearmongering here! What I'm saying in this bill is if you do those things to the American people, if you take advantage of taxpayers, you're not recognized." "If you commit a terrorist act, if you commit wholesale welfare fraud, within 10 years, you're damn right we're deporting you." "If you're convicted, it's not being accused of anything. If you are convicted in a court of law of these crimes, absolutely we should not only convict you, but we should deport you. Gone." "And if you think that's some sort of negative assertion towards me, I'll take it. I love it!" "That's what we should be doing more of in this country, because people are coming here in the ripping off taxpayers." "And I, for one, don't want to see it anymore." @Eric_Schmitt 🔥🔥🔥

ICYMI: Trump is using money from National Park entrances for his vanity projects in DC. Instead of repairs and investments at some of our nation's treasures, we're getting tacky "beautification" projects being handed out in overpaid, no-bid contracts. washingtonpost.com/climate-e…

As a lesbian woman, I fucking hate Pride Month with every fiber of my being. It makes us look like absolute shit. The entire LGB has been hijacked by groomers, men in cheap wigs with toilet-paper tits, freaks duct-taping their peanuts to their asses, pedophiles, fetish weirdos and every other kind of gross filth parading down the street. Real gay, lesbian, and bisexual people want NOTHING to do with this circus. We just want to be left the fuck alone.The LGB community condemns these degenerates and every organization pandering to them. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. 🖕

LIAR!!! RACIST!!! I genuinely do not know which label fits you more, Gavin, so I went with both. Congratulations -- that is a rare achievement even by California standards. You think you can actually be President of the United States of America? YOU? The man who inherited one of the highest GDPs in the entire world -- a state so blessed by geography, climate, and natural resources that it practically sells itself -- and somehow, SOMEHOW, turned it into a bankrupt, needle-carpeted, feces-adorned open-air disaster zone that people are FLEEING at a rate of 229,000 per year? The climate sold California for you, Gavin. You just covered it in human waste and used syringes and then had the audacity to call it governance. I would not allow you to run my kids' lemonade stand so they could take a break. They would come back to find a sugar tax, a $20 minimum wage for the 8-year-old pouring the lemonade, and the stand on fire while you held a press conference explaining how it was someone else's fault. You are the human version of period cramps, and I mean that with the full clinical precision of a man who has a science degree. Now. You want to talk Jim Crow 2.0? Oh, I am SO glad you brought this up. LIAR. HISTORICAL LIAR. Here is a fact that is going to get your two brain cells arguing with each other: MAJORITY-BLACK CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS WERE BORN FROM JIM CROW. Not created to help Black Americans. Created to CONTAIN them. Packing and cracking -- look it up, or have someone read it to you slowly, with pictures, maybe even use cryons. After Reconstruction ended, Black Republicans -- and yes, I said REPUBLICANS, Gavin, because that is what they were -- had been elected to Congress in real, significant numbers. Sixteen Black Republicans served in Congress between 1870 and 1901 alone. So what did the WHITE SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS do when they regained power? They drew the infamous "Boa Constrictor" district in South Carolina in 1882 -- a snake-shaped, gerrymandered monstrosity specifically designed to pack every Black voter into ONE box so the other six districts stayed lily-white and Democratic. Mississippi's "Shoestring" district did the exact same thing along the river. Virginia rewrote city charters in 1883 to eliminate Black representation on city councils entirely. The whole point -- and I am typing this slowly for you (I know, that went over his head too), Gavin, trying to reason with some folks really is like trying to baptize a cat -- was: give them ONE seat, lock them all in it, and make sure they cannot win ANYTHING ELSE. That is your party's legacy. That is the system you are now defending as sacred. And now you have the nerve, the absolute weapons-grade audacity, to stand in 2026 and accuse Louisiana of Jim Crow for undoing a race-based district when THE ORIGINAL JIM CROW WAS YOUR PARTY INVENTING RACE-BASED DISTRICTS IN THE FIRST PLACE. You have delusions of adequacy, Governor. That is being generous. Let us talk about YOUR California, since you seem to have developed a spectacular case of selective amnesia about your own house: MINIMUM WAGE -- YOUR FAVORITE RACIAL JUSTICE POLICY: In the early 1900s, progressive economists -- YOUR intellectual ancestors, Gavin -- advocated for minimum wage laws SPECIFICALLY as a mechanism to price Black workers and immigrants out of the labor market. Princeton economist Thomas Leonard documented this extensively. White unions raised wage floors not to help workers, but to protect white union jobs from Black laborers willing to work for less. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 was pushed by Southern Democrats and northern union bosses SPECIFICALLY to wall off Black construction workers from federal projects. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman in 1966 called minimum wage "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books." And here you are, championing California's $20 minimum wage as a civil rights achievement. I'm not saying I hate you, what I'm saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life -- every single day. EXCLUSIONARY ZONING -- YOUR ACTUAL HOUSING POLICY: California's zoning laws price Black and Brown families out of neighborhoods. Lakewood, California was 99% white in 1960. That was not an accident. The minimum lot sizes and single-family zoning requirements were DESIGNED -- explicitly -- to set a price floor that kept minority families out. Today your housing policies continue to produce the same result with different paperwork. You have a 3.8 million unit housing shortfall in California. First-time homebuyer median age is now 40. In CA, most working families could not buy a tent under a bridge! And the people locked out of homeownership -- the single greatest wealth-building tool in American history -- are disproportionately young, Black, and Brown. That is YOUR legacy. That is your Jim Crow 2.0, dressed up in environmental regulations and CEQA review requirements. I think you might actually be the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle. I genuinely do. HOMELESSNESS -- YOUR HUMANITARIAN ACHIEVEMENT: Homelessness in California rose 31.6% under your tenure, while the national rate DECLINED 10%. Your state, 12% of the national population, now houses ONE THIRD of all homeless Americans. These are disproportionately Black Americans, Gavin. But sure -- tell me more about how Louisiana is the problem. EDUCATION -- THE CLEAREST PLANTATION POLICY: California public schools are in measurable decline in reading and math. Declining performance, declining enrollment. The children receiving the worst education in your state are overwhelmingly Black and Brown kids in urban districts that your party has run for decades. You are the reason those children cannot compete. You pull up the ladder, call it progressivism, and then point fingers at the people who are trying to fix the system you broke. Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen for you. You owe it an apology. THE GREAT SOCIETY CONNECTION -- BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT: In 1965, roughly 80-85% of Black children were raised in two-parent households. Then the Democratic Party's welfare architecture arrived -- designed not to lift people out of poverty but to replace the father with a government check, ensure permanent dependency, and secure a reliable voting bloc. Within a generation, that figure collapsed. The Democratic Party has always needed an underclass. In the antebellum South, it was slaves. During Jim Crow, it was segregated Black populations denied economic mobility. Today it is poorly educated, welfare-dependent families who have been told for sixty years that Republicans are the enemy while Democrats keep cashing their votes and delivering nothing. Quinn's Law #2: what liberals ACCUSE conservatives of doing is EXACTLY what they are doing. And then there is the Greg Abbott comment. I heard you say Greg Abbott "doesn't have the backbone." You know -- the Governor. The one in a wheelchair. Due to a severed spine. I'm amazed YOU found your way out of the birth canal, I really am. You're the reason God created the middle finger, Gavin. And I say that as someone who spent a career studying anatomy and can tell you precisely which one. Here is the bottom line: You did not just fail California. You failed California's Black community specifically, with policies that trace directly back to the same racist architecture your party invented a century and a half ago. Minimum wage to price out Black workers. Zoning to price out Black families. Under-resourced schools to keep Black children underprepared. Welfare dependency to keep Black votes on the Democratic plantation. And then the cherry on top -- you stand up and call SOMEONE ELSE Jim Crow. Quinn's Law #1: Liberalism always generates the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent. --- If you are still reading this, WHICH INSULT FITS GAVIN NEWSOM BEST? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this -- every share is a history lesson delivered to someone who needs it. COMMENT below -- tell me: name ONE California policy that has improved Black wealth-building under Newsom. Just one. I will wait. JOIN Bski's Classroom on X communities or YouTube for more. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and high school science teacher who actually reads history books instead of rewriting them to hide which party built the plantation, burned it down when it became inconvenient, and then rebuilt it with welfare checks and zoning regulations.

I know many North Carolinians know me, but to those I haven’t met yet: Hi. I’m Roy Cooper, husband, father and former Governor and Attorney General of North Carolina, and now I’m running for Senate to bring some North Carolina common sense to DC.

Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI. The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace. They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up: Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it. Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived. Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead. The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much. Uber's story is even worse... Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April. Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems. Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session. The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money. Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans. Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative. Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing: AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs. The stock market rewarded every company that said it. Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up. But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools. Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible. Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone. And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control. The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP. This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in. $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work. What do you think?