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Charles Barkley says LeBron practicing his golf swing during the national anthem was very disrespectful, says we live in the greatest country in the world. Amen.
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Kinalbo ang isang bundok sa Sierra Madre at pinutol ang 12,000 na puno. 😭 Maraming environmental consequences ito, @DENROfficial Bakit ito pinapayagan?
#NoToMining
#SaveOurTrees
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People who have never lived through a catastrophe love to ask why America spends billions of dollars building giant nuclear aircraft carriers.
Tell them to ask the mothers of Banda Aceh, Indonesia what they saw on the ocean horizon in January 2005.
When the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than two hundred thousand people, the entire coast of Sumatra was erased. Every bridge, road, and water pipe was gone. Tens of thousands of children were dying of thirst in the mud, and no truck on earth could reach them.
Two thousand miles away in Hong Kong, the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was on holiday port call.
Within hours of the news, young American sailors walked out of restaurants and hotels, left their vacation behind, ran back up the gangway, and pushed the ship's two nuclear reactors to flank speed.
When the Abraham Lincoln dropped anchor off the shattered coast of Aceh, it did not launch a single fighter jet.
Instead, the American sailors turned their nuclear warship into the largest floating water factory on earth.
Using the ship's four massive steam distillation plants, the crew purified nearly 100,000 gallons of fresh drinking water from the sea every single day. For weeks without sleep, young sailors stood on the hangar deck filling five-gallon plastic jugs by hand, while seventeen Seahawk helicopters flew nonstop from sunrise to sunset.
They flew more than 1,500 missions into jungle clearings, delivering over 400,000 gallons of pure water and nearly six million pounds of food and medicine to people of a different faith who had been taught for years to fear the United States.
America did not ask for one barrel of oil or one dollar in return. When the local hospitals were running again, the giant gray ship quietly raised its anchor and sailed away.
A small mind looks at an American aircraft carrier and sees only a weapon. A survivor looks at that flat gray deck and sees five thousand young Americans bringing water from the sea.
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It takes thirty minutes to load live missiles onto an F-16 fighter jet. On the morning of September 11, 2001, America did not have thirty minutes.
After the Twin Towers and the Pentagon were hit, a fourth hijacked airliner, United Flight 93, turned and raced toward Washington, D.C. at five hundred miles per hour.
At Andrews Air Force Base, Colonel Marc Sasseville and twenty-six-year-old First Lieutenant Heather Penney sprinted out to two F-16 jets that had just returned from training. Their wings had zero missiles. Their guns had only dummy practice rounds.
They knew there was only one way to stop that plane from hitting the Capitol. They were going to use their own bodies and their own aircraft as the weapon.
As they ran up the boarding ladders without even finishing their pre-flight checks, Colonel Sasseville looked across at twenty-six-year-old Heather Penney.
"I'm going to go for the cockpit," he told her.
She did not blink. She did not hesitate for half a second.
"I'll take the tail," she answered.
Think about that courage. A twenty-six-year-old woman strapped herself into an unarmed jet, pushed the throttle to full afterburner, and roared into a clear blue sky praying only that she would not miss the tail of the airliner when she rammed it at supersonic speed.
Yet she and Colonel Sasseville never had to crash their planes that morning.
Why? Because forty ordinary American citizens sitting in the back of Flight 93 had already taken a vote in the aisle, whispered one last prayer to their families over the airphones, and charged the cockpit doors behind Todd Beamer's two immortal words: "Let's roll."
Those forty unarmed citizens on Flight 93 did not just save the United States Capitol. They saved the lives of the two fighter pilots flying out to die for them.
A nation where pilots fly into the sky with no weapons and citizens charge the cockpit with bare hands can never be conquered.
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Giorgia Meloni has deployed the Italian Army in Milan against the barbaric foreign horde.
FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT. 🇮🇹
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Chloé, Parisienne, après que des casseurs ont forcé la porte de son immeuble.
« Non, on ne va pas tous nous enfermer avec un couvre-feu. Ce sont des animaux. Ils entrent chez nous. J’étais avec ma voisine de 80 ans, on a cru mourir. Il faut leur tirer dessus. » nitter.cf/BFMTV/status/211214722…
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This is tremendous news for America's children. An entire generation will grow up as SpaceX owners. Well done @elonmusk! 🇺🇸
Musk shows how useless non creators are
In 1957, a Russian immigrant published a novel of more than a thousand pages built around one question: what happens if the people who make the world run simply stop?
Its title is Atlas Shrugged. In France it's called La Grève, The Strike. It wasn't even translated into French until 2011. That tells you something.
This morning, I think Elon Musk wrote the sequel.
A. Where the book comes from.
Ayn Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg in 1905. As a teenager, she watched Bolshevik soldiers walk into her father's pharmacy and seize it in the name of the people. Her family lost everything. Not to a competitor. To a committee.
She fled to America in 1926 and spent the rest of her life writing about one distinction: those who create, and those who seize.
B. The story.
In Atlas Shrugged, America is sliding into decline. Not because of war. Because of rules. Year after year, a growing class of bureaucrats, regulators and planners decides that production must be controlled, shared "fairly," frozen. They never build anything. They issue directives. The worst one freezes every worker in his job and forces every inventor to hand over his patents for the public good.
And one by one, the people who make the country run start disappearing. The best engineers. The industrialists. The inventors. An oil man sets his own wells on fire before vanishing. The whole country keeps repeating a question it doesn't understand: "Who is John Galt?"
John Galt is the man behind the disappearances. He has convinced the creators to go on strike. They withdraw to a hidden valley in the Colorado mountains, where everyone keeps what they make and trades freely. And they let the world find out what it looks like without them.
The lights go out in New York. The grey men are left alone with their directives, and discover that a directive has never produced a single kilowatt.
C. The core idea.
The strike isn't about money. It's about consent.
Rand's insight is that the system that captures the creators runs on their cooperation. It needs them to keep producing so it has something to redistribute. The bureaucrat is a parasite who needs a host. Remove the host, and he's exposed as what he always was: useless.
D. What Musk just did.
This morning, Musk announced that next year he will give one of his own SpaceX shares to every kid in America. "The first of many."
Here's what's fascinating. It's the strike, run in reverse.
Rand's creators withdrew. Musk stays. He keeps building rockets, satellites, AI. But instead of walking away from the system, he walks around it. The value goes straight from the builder to the citizen. No ministry, no agency, no committee in the middle.
Rand had to make the creators disappear to prove the bureaucrats were useless. Musk doesn't need to disappear. He just needs to stop routing value through them. Same result. The grey men are left standing in the middle of a pipe nobody uses anymore.
E. The difference that changes everything.
Rand's strike has a flaw her critics never stopped pointing out: ordinary people are left behind. The creators retreat to their valley. The rest of the country sits in the dark.
Musk's version fixes that. He isn't taking the creators out of the world. He's bringing the world into the valley. Every kid in America becomes a shareholder in the machine. Not a spectator of the strike. A participant.
That's the alliance being formed right now: builders and citizens, directly, with nothing in between. And the only people who lose that deal are the ones who never built anything.
F. Why now, and not in 1957.
In Rand's time, the strike was a fantasy. You couldn't produce at scale without the state's permission, and you couldn't reach every citizen without its pipes.
In 2026, one founder can build rockets, run a global network from orbit, and pledge equity to 73 million children in a single post. AI will soon do in seconds what a ministry does in years. The tools of the strike finally exist. And they don't require anyone to leave.
G. The ending.
For seventy years, "Who is John Galt?" was a shrug. A way of saying nothing can be done.
In the book, the strike ends when the creators decide the road is clear and walk back into the world to rebuild it.
That's the scene we're watching. Not a man leaving. A man coming back, with a gift for every child.
The grey men are about to discover what Rand promised them seventy years ago: a world that no longer needs them.
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Toute la France regarde, sidérée, les mêmes images : vitrines éventrées, magasins pillés, mairies qui brûlent, voitures en feu, le RAID déployé à Bordeaux.
Ils détruisent en quelques heures ce que des commerçants ont mis des années à bâtir. Et c'est le peuple qui devrait payer ?
Soutien à nos forces de l'ordre. Nous sommes tous sidérés par la réaction d’@emmanuellacron, sa mollesse et sa lâcheté.
Nous savons que cela recommencera tant que casser restera sans conséquence.
Il n'y a qu'une façon d'arrêter des pillards.
Les étrangers, on les expulse.
Les casseurs, on les enferme.
Les dégâts, on les leur fait payer jusqu'au dernier centime.
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Contre les émeutiers, j'ai un plan simple en 4 mesures.
1️⃣ Je rétablis la loi anti-casseurs, que François Mitterrand a abrogée.
2️⃣ Je rétablis les peines planchers, pour que les juges prononcent un minimum de sanctions.
3️⃣ Je fais payer les dégâts aux coupables et à leurs familles.
4️⃣ J'expulse d'emblée les étrangers et les sans-papiers arrêtés. Les binationaux condamnés seront déchus de la nationalité française et renvoyés dans le pays qu'ils disent aimer.
Ce sont les seules solutions pour ramener la paix dans les rues de France.
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Peace IS possible.
When leaders put their own citizens FIRST👇
Hero.
This guy embodies one of the most popular archetypes used to bully white men throughout the world. Yet after being attacked, he gets back up, stands his ground, and faces his attackers to defend whatever remains of his store.
His attackers, meanwhile, behave like a pack of hyenas. Whatever bravery they have is only because of their numbers and their de facto anonymity — police wouldn’t arrest them anyway.
So, the guy who looks like the punchline of a thousand jokes actually displays more honor in a single moment than literally the entire recorded history of his attackers.
He has no crowd to hide behind, no numerical advantage, and seemingly very little left to protect. What has happened to him will either be ignored or excused as having been caused by some kind of socio-economic problem which is ultimately his fault anyway. Nevertheless, he stands there.
I would take one thousand Jacques Blacks before taking a single refugee.
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I just got back from seeing "Forgotten Island" and people it is a @Dreamworks masterpiece! Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado delivered another emotional,visually stunning and overall just phenomenal movie. All the love put into this movie is evident. Please don't let it bomb
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J'ai vu une Tesla décoller. Et j'ai entendu beaucoup de bêtises.
« Ça ne sert à rien. » « Gadget de milliardaire. » « Qui a besoin d'une voiture qui vole ? »
Personne. Et c'est exactement pour ça que c'est important.
En 1978, Brabham a aligné en Formule 1 une voiture équipée d'un ventilateur géant à l'arrière. Il aspirait l'air sous le châssis et plaquait la voiture au sol. Elle a gagné sa première course avec une avance insolente. Elle a été interdite immédiatement.
Quarante-huit ans plus tard, on y revient. Un système de succion qui colle la voiture à la route et lui permet de passer sous la seconde au 0 à 100.
Personne n'a « besoin » de faire le 0 à 100 en moins d'une seconde. Comme personne n'a besoin d'une Formule 1. Et pourtant : les freins carbone de votre berline, l'hybridation de votre moteur, l'aérodynamique de votre SUV, les palettes au volant — tout ça vient de voitures de course que personne n'utilisera jamais pour aller au travail.
La Formule 1 ne sert à rien. Pourtant elle sert à tout.
En 1973, quand la France a lancé Ariane, l'Europe sortait de onze échecs consécutifs du programme Europa. La presse parlait d'argent jeté dans l'espace. Vingt ans plus tard, Ariane détenait la moitié du marché mondial des lancements commerciaux, et chaque satellite de télévision, de météo ou de GPS que vous utilisez a bénéficié de cette obstination.
Le progrès a toujours la même tête au début : un truc inutile, cher, ridicule, construit par des gens qu'on prend pour des fous.
Ce que j'ai vu à Dallas, ce n'est pas une voiture volante. C'est un châssis, une gestion de l'énergie et une maîtrise des flux d'air que l'industrie automobile mettra dix ans à digérer.
Les applications viendront : sécurité, freinage, stabilité, consommation. Elles finiront dans des voitures ordinaires conduites par des gens qui expliqueront, en 2036, que tout ça était évident.
La question n'est jamais « à quoi ça sert ».
La question est : qui ose encore construire des choses qui ne servent à rien ?
Il y a cinquante ans, c'était nous. La fusée, le TGV, le Concorde, le Minitel.
L'Europe construisait des choses absurdes et magnifiques.
Aujourd'hui, on commente depuis le siège arrière car nous sommes hors course.
Merci @elonmusk de nous faire rêver
