Con Ruane retweeted
If a billionaire figures out how to build houses for half the price, I want him building millions of them.
If your first concern is how rich that would make him or how much inequality that would create, then we have very different housing priorities.
Con Ruane retweeted
🚨OVERRATED LIBERAL DIVA BETTE MIDLER SAYS SHE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO LIVE IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN AFTER RECEIVING HER 2027 TAX BILL FROM MAMDANI’S CITY HALL!
“This isn’t my second home,” said Midler. “I shouldn’t have to give him 20 percent of my net worth just because I have many homes. Only four of them are even in New York.”
Midler says she campaigned vigorously for Zohran Mamdani, thinking he’d go after billionaires.
“I have about $900 million to go.”
One by one, they’re finding out the true meaning of communism.
This is what you voted for.
Share this everywhere so they keep finding out what they voted for!
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Con Ruane retweeted
Aber wir wollten doch laut @SteffenBilger und dem @BMV hier Vorreiter sein und nun sind wir in Europa bestenfalls 12er!
Ach ja, ich vergaß, da war noch was, Mercedes und BMW brauchen noch ein paar Monate.
heise.de/news/Tesla-FSD-Verk…
Con Ruane retweeted
In February 2004 Elon Musk wrote the check that put Tesla Motors on the road: $6.5 million of a $7.5 million Series A, plus the chairman's seat.
He led the next round in February 2005. He co-led the $40 million round in May 2006 that brought in Larry Page and Sergey Brin. That August he published The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan on the company blog, a sports car to pay for an affordable car, and so on down to the mass market. He pushed for the Roadster's carbon fiber body. By January 2009, Bloomberg reported, he had put $70 million of his own money into the company.
CNBC still wrote this on September 10, 2018: "Though Musk didn't found Tesla, his DNA is very much a part of the company."
Read the very next sentence of the same article: "He was one of its original investors and chairman of the board in 2004 before becoming CEO in 2008."
Original investor. Chairman in 2004. CNBC typed both facts and still filed him under "didn't found."
That question had been settled nine years earlier, in court and in writing. In 2009 Martin Eberhard sued, and one of the things he asked a San Mateo County judge for was a declaration that he and Marc Tarpenning were the only two founders. In July the judge struck that request. In September the case was settled and Tesla named five co-founders: Eberhard, Tarpenning, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright.
Eberhard's own statement that day: "As a co-founder of the company, Elon's contributions to Tesla have been extraordinary."
The man who went to court over the title called Elon Musk a co-founder in his own words. A business network still decided it knew better.
Elon Musk has told his side too. In April 2022 he wrote that the Tesla he walked into was "a shell corp" with "literally nothing but a biz plan to commercialize AC Propulsion's Tzero car, which was introduced to me by JB Straubel, *not* Eberhard." Then: "If filing a shell corp constitutes 'founding a company', then I'd be the only founder of PayPal, since I filed the original incorporation docs for X.com (later renamed PayPal), but that's not what founding means."
And the line that says the most: "I put in all I had, whereas Eberhard, who was worth over $10M at the time, refused to invest a penny to help Tesla."
So why slip a false founder line into a 2018 piece? Look at the headline it sat under: "Musk's defiant, rebel CEO persona is putting his company and its investors at risk, say management experts." The article argued Tesla needed "someone to help keep Musk in line." Shrink his role at the birth of the company and it gets much easier to argue he is replaceable at the top of it. Legacy media has been running that play on Elon Musk for years.
Tesla closed at $19.03 a share, split-adjusted, the day that story ran. On November 9, 2026 it closed at $378.05. The investors CNBC's experts were so worried about made nearly twenty times their money by keeping him exactly where he was.
Con Ruane retweeted
Elon has nearly 160,000 direct employees throughout his companies and supports almost 870,000 jobs.
Over five years, based on conservative estimates, @elonmusk’s companies have injected $338 billion into the US economy.
@Tesla makes the first and second most American made cars.
@SpaceX made the first fully reusable rocket and the world’s largest satellite internet constellation.
As Axios says: his “companies are central to America's technological and military power.”
In the end, the only people the Democrats will hurt are the American people.
Elon Musk's empire braces for Democratic crackdown axios.com/2026/11/09/elon-mu…
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🚨HOLY COW: @ElonMusk has announced his support for Warren Buffett’s plan to eliminate the deficit in 5 minutes:
“Just pass a law that says, ‘Anytime there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for reelection.’”
Do you support this?
Con Ruane retweeted
Lady, this is the man that made electric cars real, reusable rockets, satellite internet good, nueralink, self driving cars with only cameras, the largest rocket ever made with best rocket engines ever, and is about to make space datacenters, and be the primary manufacturer of human robots. He is also trying to restart solar manufacturing, chip manufacturing and colonize the moon and mars. You have the nerve to act like he has accomplished nothing when the truth is he has probably accomplished more than any other human that has lived.
Con Ruane retweeted
Ich bin der Auffassung, dass das Demonstrationsrecht für Ausländer und Migranten eingeschränkt bzw. komplett abgeschafft werden muss.
Wenn die irgendwo demonstrieren wollen, dann doch bitte in ihren Heimatländern.
Con Ruane retweeted
This is f*cking insane. Elon Musk was asked what happens if nobody does anything about AI.
Then he dropped the line that matters:
"if one agrees that AI is a potential risk to the public, then there should be some regulatory body"
His own words on what that body does:
"like a referee essentially, making sure companies don't cut corners"
So what does he compare it to? Things that can hurt people.
Aircraft → Cars → Food and Drug → AI
On the timeline, he points at Ray Kurzweil:
"Kurzweil's prediction for artificial super intelligence is 2029. He's not far wrong"
Kurzweil doesn't see it as a problem. Musk's read on why:
some people want to live forever, and digital super intelligence is the only thing that can figure out longevity.
His take on the technology itself: the internet works like a nervous system. A Starlink terminal in the Amazon jungle gets more information than the president had in 1980.
Not a ban. Not a pause. A referee.
In this 21-minute interview, Elon explains why AI needs rules, where he thinks super intelligence lands, and why he built what he built
Worth more than any AI regulation hot take on your feed
Bookmark and watch it today
Then read the article below ↓
Con Ruane retweeted
It's appalling that the victory of one party or another means that a private citizen and his businesses, none of which have been accused of breaking the law, would suddenly be targeted by the government. That's pure Third World and should outrage everyone. latimes.com/business/story/2…
