Good Evening Congressman. Long-time fan of yours. Thank you for the numerous invitations to attend your fundraisers that we received on: June 5, June 4, June 3, June 1 and June 1 (again), May 29, May 26, May 11 and May 6. We disagree with your statement below and we will just have to agree to disagree. What we don't understand is if you don't like our industry - why do you keep asking us for money?

I’ve never seen a politician so upset at celebrating American success.

Thanks to socialism, the average Zimbabwean became a trillionaire before @elonmusk 💪

Flying today in @Delta’s oldest plane in their fleet. N649DL. 36 years old, and it feels like it. Seats are small. Dated interior. Technology is very outdated. Definitely not a premium experience. Time to retire this.

Lost in all envious attacks of Musk with SpaceX is the reality for employees. Juan Hernandez, a former SpaceX welder who took a $28/hour job with the company in 2015 after immigrating from Mexico, and who now is poised to rake in $880,000 from Friday’s IPO at $135 a share. In fact, it will transform more than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees into overnight millionaires, with about 400 expected to earn $100 million or more. This is the wealth we should be celebrating. Not the worthless trust fund kids, but the people who innovated and delivered what many people said was impossible. Good for them.

Trying to find Bernie’s opposition to media control over the past 30 years, where his allies have controlled 90% of the media. NYT, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and more. Everybody becomes a civil libertarian when their side loses power.

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time. The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules. So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

Musk is quite literally solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. He is the most efficient allocator of capital that we have seen in a long time. His businesses are generating immense value for humanity and, as a result, enriching the people who invest in those businesses. Musk isn’t driven by greed. He is driven by purpose.

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense. SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world. Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere. SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity. Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help. The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist. Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives. Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation. Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears. Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction. We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

The one where he: - electrified a heavily polluting car industry - saved the government billions by creating reusable rockets, and decreased dependency on Putin - created space based internet that has been used to provide access to people everywhere including those in disaster and war areas, - create a company that helps people with critical spine injuries to regain function, and - bought a social media network to preserve free speech. That Bond villain? I must have missed that one.

I agree with this perception. Sadly missing is the success rate. America is unbeaten in unleashing growth through investment of capital. And the recent examples of rampant fraud and wasteful spend show you how the government is doing.

Wealth is not taken. Wealth is created. And wealth <> income. The level of economic illiteracy amongst progressives is astounding.

Social Security is an insurance program designed to ensure the elderly have minimal income. Not as a replacement for retirement savings. Insurance is not income adjusted. And fair to say that Musk will pay far more into social security than he will ever receive, which is how insurance should work.

My European friends come to visit America, and yet they only go to NYC, Orlando or LA. Those aren’t real America. Those are tourist attractions that could be anywhere. Freddy is getting to see real America and he is loving it. We love this because he gets to see the parts of America that we know are amazing but that people overlook, and are 1000X better than NYC/LA/Orlando.

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates. Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone. So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans. But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming. Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline. He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse. And he loves it. That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.

The Globe is owned by Canada's richest oligarch, David Thomson, worth $82 billion. His source of wealth? He inherited it: archive.fo/20251215221049/bl… The Thomsons are grifters who take the government media subsidy. Oh -- and they think you should hate Elon Musk for being rich. 👇

The culture of envy and hate is disgusting. Musk founded multiple companies that employ hundreds of thousands of employees, which depend on hundreds of thousands of more employees in partner companies. He has brought high speed internet to the furthest reaches of the planet. Reduced the cost of space flight and unleashed a boom in the space economy. Ushered in the EV car boom. And is now helping people with traumatic brain injuries to live meaningful lives. For that he has rightly made a lot of money, which he reinvests in more businesses. But he has also made thousands of people wealthier. We should be thankful to have productive entrepreneurs like this. We should celebrate entrepreneurs of all sizes who make our lives better.

Painfully dishonest degrowth piece. Here's a teardown. 1. The headline promises maths that isn't there. "We've done the maths" but the piece contains no calculation. Just two borrowed statistics and a policy wishlist. 2. The 92% figure isn't a measurement, it's a definition. "Excess" emissions means anything above an equal per-person share of the carbon budget going back to 1850. Define the rules that way and the North is guilty by construction. Pick a different baseline year or allocation rule and the number changes completely. It's a moral framework dressed up as arithmetic. 3. "Growth has become decoupled from shared prosperity" is the opposite of the global record. Extreme poverty fell from roughly 38% of humanity in 1990 to under 9% before the pandemic, almost entirely through growth in China, India and East Asia. Not redistribution. Not aid. Growth. The claim is only half-true for median wages in some rich countries, and they quietly universalise it. 4. The headline contradicts the article's own sixth paragraph. Headline: growth is doomed. Paragraph six: low-income countries still need growth. So growth works precisely where the poor actually live. That's not a doomed strategy, that's the most successful anti-poverty mechanism in history with a footnote. 5. The decoupling double standard. This school insists GDP can never decouple from emissions (so growth must end), while claiming GDP has fully decoupled from wellbeing (so growth is pointless). Decoupling is impossible in one direction and total in the other, depending on which suits the argument. In reality 30-plus countries have cut emissions, including imported ones, while growing. 6. "Poverty is manufactured" is backwards. Poverty is the default condition of our species for all of history. Wealth is what had to be manufactured. Inequality is policy-shaped, fine, but treating destitution as something governments created implies it vanishes once they stop, which no historical evidence supports. 7. "Endless expansion on a finite planet" conflates money with stuff. GDP measures value, not tonnes. A therapy session, a software licence and a barrel of oil all count. Physical limits constrain material throughput, not value-added, and the two have been diverging for decades. The two claims that hold up: the top 10% producing nearly half of emissions (solid Chancel/Piketty data) and the debt-servicing figure. Everything structural around them is rhetoric wearing a lab coat. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

I’m proud to be American. I am fortunate to travel the world, experiencing dozens of different cultures each year. I have friends all over and love experiencing those cultures, but it also provides me with a honest perspective of how things are in those countries. The cynical extremists compare the US to fantasies they have imagined. “Why doesn’t America offer free X like Y does?” They hate on America because they don’t have any perspective based in reality. America is not perfect, but it is honest. And it has arguably done more to improve the lives of people around the world than any society in history.

The reflecting pool is nearly compete after less than 2 months and cost $13 million. High speed rail in California started in 2015, has spent $15B with nothing competed, and is now estimated to require $126B to compete just phase 1.