Posted on 07/04/2026 5:05:06 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Elon Musk is a builder. He has helped build things that changed the world.
• Made EVs mainstream
• Built Tesla
• Built SpaceX
• Built Starlink
• Built Neuralink
• Built xAI
• Built The Boring Company
• Co-founded PayPal
• Co-founded Zip2
• 𝕏.com
• Built reusable rockets
• Landed orbital boosters
• Reused rockets at scale
• Cut launch costs
• Restored U.S. astronaut launches
• Sent astronauts to the ISS
• Helped bring astronauts home from space
• Built Dragon
• Built Falcon 9
• Built Falcon Heavy
• Built Starship
• Caught a Starship booster
• Working to make life multiplanetary
• Working to build a future on Mars
• Built global satellite internet
• Connected remote villages
• Connected schools
• Connected hospitals
• Helped disaster zones get internet
• Helped ships, planes, RVs and rural homes get high-speed internet
• Built the Supercharger network
• Built the world’s largest EV fast-charging network
• Built Megapacks
• Built Powerwall
• Made the Model Y the world’s best-selling car
• Built Cybertruck
• Built Tesla Semi
• Built America’s most productive automotive factory
• Built Optimus
• Built FSD
• Working on Robotaxi
• Built Neuralink brain implants
• Helped paralyzed people control computers with thought
• Working to restore vision for the blind
• Working to help people born blind see
• Working to help ALS patients communicate
• Working to help stroke survivors communicate
• Working to restore independence for quadriplegics
• Working to turn thoughts into speech/text
• Working to control phones with the mind
• Working to control robotic arms with the mind
• Built Grok
• Built World’s largest AI supercomputer
• Built underground tunnels
• Created hundreds of thousands of jobs
• Helped create 600,000+ direct and supply-chain jobs
• Paid billions in salaries
• Created trillions in value
• Accelerated sustainable energy
• Paid billions in taxes
• World's highest individual tax payer
• Inspired millions to build, invent and dream bigger
What has Zohran Mamdani built?
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Tax all builders and producers until no one advances society!
Think Musk will make any money off this stuff?
Which particular “stuff”?
He’s already worth a Trillion.
He’s going to be worth a heck of a lot more in 10 years time.
Elon has to be an alien.
In some circles they make the same analogies about that Hitler guy.
I wouldn't get too bent out of shape about anointing Musk's feet with oil until we've seen where this all takes us.
And before you go all “Godwin’s Law” on me, this degree of sycophancy is an unhealthy obsession and not likely to come to a healthy conclusion.
The core instruction that all liberals have hard coded in.
Not bad for a guy who smokes weed!
You cannot be serious!
We know where is taking us...including technology to let blind people see, cars that don’t burn gas and pollute, tunnels that vastly reduce traffic, internet to reach most remote corners on earth at low cost etc etc. I’d worry more about Mamdani if I were you.
“Musk is a maker. Mamdani is a taker”
You are correct, 100%
I thought it was pretty obvious that my comment was a joke. I guess not.
Applauding someone’s accomplishments is not sycophancy.
What an incredibly neurotic thing to say.
“In some circles they make the same analogies about that Hitler guy.”
Liberal circles. Couldn’t care less what the libtards think.
He's so amazing and so generous about using the gifts God has given him for the good and advancement of mankind.
If a trillionaire spent $1 million every month, his money would last for 83,333 years.
Musk ISN”T doing this for the money. He’s doing it for mankind.
Democrats only do things for ‘the money’... because they’re the scum of the earth. You’re confusing members of different political parties.
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