1999. ELON MUSK GETS HIS FIRST MILLIONS AND A $1M SUPERCAR... BUT HIS BIGGEST FEAR THAT DAY WASN'T LOSING THE MONEY 7am. a truck stops outside a small apartment and a 27-year-old Musk watches a McLaren F1 roll off the back "there are 62 McLarens in the world and i will own one of them" "it's a million dollars for a car. it's decadent" he'd just sold Zip2 to Compaq for ~$307M. his cut: ~$22M then he says the line that tells you who he is: "just 3 years ago i was showering at the Y and sleeping on the office floor" his fiancée Justine is standing right next to him. a new millionaire with a new supercar. and this is what he's worried about: "my fear is that we become spoiled brats. that we lose a sense of appreciation and perspective" he knew exactly what the money could buy: "i could go and buy one of the islands in the bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom" "i'm much more interested in trying to build and create a new company" and he meant it. he put "the great majority" of his net worth into x.com, an online bank almost nobody believed in his own words: "it's sort of like a series of poker games" "i haven't gone and taken my winnings... i've just put almost all of it back into the new game" x.com became paypal. paypal turned into ~$180M. the $180M went into spacex and tesla. you know the rest and the car? a year later, Peter Thiel in the passenger seat, on the way to pitch Sequoia. Musk floors it. the F1 spins and goes airborne. no insurance. both walk away napkin math: the toy: $1M in 1999. F1s now sell for $20M+. ~20x the chips he pushed back on the table: ~$22M. today: hundreds of billions. four more zeros the island: still just an island the only time he ever cashed out, he bought a car. everything else went back into the game 26 years later the richest man alive sleeps in an airstream. the 27-year-old who was scared of becoming a spoiled brat never let it happen

Once you see that the people dismissing Tesla are the same kinds of people running our cultural institutions, the decline of those institutions over the past 10 years makes a lot more sense.

What I've seen these past 24 hours is that people have become so blinded by hatred that they can't even celebrate the fact someone made a flying car Elon Musk could invent teleportation tomorrow and they would still complain

Canada’s space program is now being outperformed by American cars

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WOW … Socrates described @TheDemocrats and @DemSocialists from the grave!😳🤔

Further confirmation the Biden regime wanted to turn America into one-party state.

Ready to have your mind blown? Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered: - The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan - He found that we are giving money to Yemen - He found that we are giving money to Syria - He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion - He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money - He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that” - He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities” - They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world - They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations - According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas - He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala - He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq - He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan - He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front - Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language) - USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica - They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem - They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus - Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia - $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal “I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”

Marco Rubio is one of the most intelligent, articulate and important figures in American politics today. A man who understands the importance of history, the values of Western civilisation and what is at stake for its future. I genuinely believe Marco Rubio will one day become President of the United States, and I sincerely hope that day comes in 2028. America needs more statesmen like him.

Just absolutely brilliant and more to the point than anything I’ve read this year about the communist mania.

Die EU, die wirklich nichts auf die Kette bekommt, verhöhnt also den amerikanischen Präsidenten Trump auf eine untergriffige Art und Weise, die ihresgleichen sucht. Das ist nicht nur ein diplomatischer Fauxpas, sondern offenbart zudem die völlige Verblödung in dem Laden.

From the “too ridiculous to be true but is” files

BREAKING - KISS cofounder Gene Simmons says it is time for celebrities like Ben Stiller and Mark Ruffalo to “shut the f*ck up.” “People work hard for a living, and they don’t want to be lectured by people who live in mansions and drive Rolls-Royces. It’s time to shut up.”

This is why I said the Democrat and Republican Party switch is the greatest lie in America.

🇺🇸Let’s remember this pathetic display come the midterms.🇺🇸

We must stop Islamophobia France needs a two-state solution now. The Free Palestine movement and the Global Intifada demands justice. Free Paris. End the aprtheid.

This video of Hillary Clinton saying the quiet part out loud about Christians is going viral again for some reason. This stuff is only going to grow more prevalent in our culture. Stand firm, Christian.

The Islamic male ego becomes so bloated by its lack of restraint that it believes any criticism is blasphemy I look forward to being arrested

They say keeping CNN out is “viewpoint discrimination.” In 2020, DOJ told them inviting me — even based on viewpoint — is not a First Amendment violation. I am the OAN reporter in this letter. WHCA kicked OAN out of the rotation. Roped off my chair. Made me stand in the back. Then Brian Karem’s lawyer screamed that Stephanie Grisham inviting me as her guest was unconstitutional. DOJ’s answer, on White House letterhead: - The briefing room is White House property. - The club’s seating chart is a practice the Press Secretary “merely acquiesced” in. - Special access to a particular reporter is not a First Amendment violation. - “That is true whether or not such an invitation is based on viewpoint.” So which is it, WHCA? When the club locks the conservative out, it’s “safety.” When the White House locks the network out, it’s the death of the Republic. The chairs were never yours.