He is the richest man in the world and does not own a house. He also has the biggest robot company in the world. He drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver. He is the man behind SpaceX and dreams of Mars.
He`s a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate, brain-computer implants to stave off the menace of artificial intelligence, and underground tunnels to move people and freight at super speeds.
He is criticized by socialists and especially Elizabeth Warren who tweeted this on December 13; «Let`s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.»
Musk tweeted this on Wednesday; «And if you opened your eyes for 2 seconds, you would realize I will pay more taxes than any American in history this year.» The fact is that Musk must pay a record-breaking $15 billion tax bill.
This is money that goes straight into the pocket of the Socialists who very often claim to «take the bill.» for something. But as you clearly can see, the money comes from entrepreneurs like Elon Musk.
The tax bill is probably the real reason he`s selling a large chunk of Tesla shares. But he can afford to do it because $15 billion in taxes is just a small part of his wealth. According to Bloomberg Billionaire Index, his net worth is $255 billion. In other words; he is on top of that list.
Elon Musk is the man who aspires to save our planet and get us a new one to inhabit; clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman, cad; a madcap hybrid of Thomas Edison, P.T. Barnum, Andrew Carnegie, and Watchmen`s Doctor Manhattan, the brooding, blue-skinned man-god who invents electric cars and moves to Mars.
Tesla controls two-thirds of the multibillion-dollar electric vehicle market it pioneered and is valued at a cool $1 trillion. That has made Musk the richest private citizen in history, at least on paper.
The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed earlier this year that he has Asperger`s syndrome while appearing on the US comedy sketch series Saturday Night Live (SNL). But Musk has spent a lifetime defying the haters, now, it seems, he`s finally in a position to put them in their place.
Many people are described as larger than life, but few deserve it.
How many of us truly exceed our life span? How many will make it into the digital textbooks our spacefaring descendants will study?
As Shakespeare observed in Julius Caesar, it`s far easier to be remembered for doing evil than doing good. How many will leave a mark on the world – much less the universe – for their contributions rather than their crimes?
A few short years ago, Musk was roundly mocked as a crazy con artist on the verge of going broke. Now, this shy South African with Asperger`s syndrome, who escaped a brutal childhood and overcome personal tragedy bends governments and industry to the force of his ambition.
To Musk, his vast fortune is a mere side effect of his ability not just to see but to do things others cannot, in arenas where the stakes are existential. «He was raised in a tough environment and born with a very special brain,» says Antonio Gracias, Musk`s close friend of two decades, who have held seats on the boards of Tesla and Space X.
99% of people in that situation don`t come out of it. Some small percentage come out of it with the ability he has to make great decisions under extraordinary pressure and the never-ending drive to change the course of humanity.
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The times we are living in are far from «normal.» But we cannot blame an invisible virus for all that is happening right now. The question for retailers now is how this holiday season will look like?
Online spending on Black Friday 2021 decreased for the first time ever. According to Adobe Analytics, online shoppers spent a total of $8,9 billion, and that is down a little bit from last year’s $9 billion.
It can be many reasons for the dip, but Adobe believes it can be caused by an uptick in early spending, as some stores started sales and promotions as early as October. Shoppers are also being strategic in their gift shopping, buying much earlier in the season and being flexible about when they shop to make sure they get the best deals.
Black Friday traffic in stores also dropped -28,3% from pre-pandemic levels. Cyber Monday did also have a bad day and dropped for the first time ever. Cyber Monday online sales drop -1,4% from last year to $10,7 billion.
Adobe expects the entire holiday season will see record-breaking e-commerce activity, as shoppers spread out their dollars over more days. Adobe anticipates digital sales from November 1st, to December 31st will hit $207 billion which would represent record gains of 10%.
FedEx forecasts Monday will be one of the highest volume e-commerce days of the 2021 holiday season as it prepares to deliver an estimated 100 million more packages than it did from Black Friday to Christmas in 2019.
According to National Retail Federation, the holiday season will be fine. Spending in November and December could grow as much as 11,5% compared with the same period a year ago. This is much higher than many retail analysts themselves had predicted.
Sales in November and December can hit an all-time high of between $834,4 billion and $859 billion. In other words; we`re on the path for a record holiday season. Omicron can destroy the holiday season, but it can also help.
Instead of taking a trip by plane to other places, consumers will spend their money on Target or Macy`s. That will boost consumer demand, helped by higher wages and inflation. A lockdown will increase online sales and put more pressure on FedEx. People want packages no matter what.
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People around the world talked much about a new Trump Media Company since he left the oval office, but even more people said it was a conspiricy theory. We all know that MSM hated Trump because he launched a war on FAKE NEWS.
But now it is real. And it is true. Trump will start a new Media company, and the new company is called Trump Media & Technology Grouip. This company is the one to start a brand new social media company called «TRUTH Social,» as well as a subscription video-on-demand service that features «non-woke» entertainment programming, news and podcasts.
The company will go public via a SPAC merger with Miami-based Digital World Acquisition, which surged more than 50% premarket to $15 a share.
«I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up the the tyranny of Big Tech,» Trump wrote in a press release. What Trump and his supporters don`t like is to see that Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, while former president Trump was silenced.
This is unacceptable, according to Trump Media & Technology Group. Their mission is to create a rival to the liberal media consortium and fight back against the «Big tech» companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America.
TRUTH Social is set for a beta launch next month and a full rollout in the first quarter of 2022.
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President Trump lost the election in his second term. He lost because president Biden got far more votes than Trump. Not only that. Biden is the most popular president in the United States ever. No one is even near. Not Obama. Nor Clinton. Nobody.
But how is it possible? Biden was just sitting in his own basement during the pandemic, while Trump talket to 80,000 live on a football-stadium and had a tremendous rally. People were enthusiastic about Trump and bought flags and hats, but nobody cared about Biden. It doesn`t make sence. What in the world happened?
The Deep State fixed it. The establishment was in a big war against Trump, and we all know it. Trump is one of the few presidents who didn`t do everything the establishment said to him. He did what he thought was the right thing to do.
In other words; the president is a puppet. And that can be a huge problem. One of the biggest puppets today is president Joe Biden. As we can see, the deep state is giving him a lot of notes that he has in his pocket when he talk to MSM (mainstreem media). This is the opposite of Trump.
One good example of this is when president Bush said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction right after 9/11. The United States went to war on that information, but it was all a big lie. But where did it come from? The establishment of course. The deep state.
The same thing can be said about Afghanistan, and Hillary Clinton told you all the pure truth about the war in Afghanistan live on Fox News, July 18, 2010. She said that the United States created the problems in Afghanistan. They created a monster.
They went to Pakistan and supported Mujaheeden with guns. They trained them to fight against the communists Soviet Union. And they won. But it didn`t stop there. A new problem rose, and the next problem was those the U.S has trained in Pakistan which is Taliban today.
So what are we gonna do in this world if presidents, prime ministers and politicians are powerless? What are we gonna do in this world if ordinary people are powerless? You`re vote doesn`t matter. The establishment does. The Deep state does.
We all know that the establishment was in war against Trump, and MSM was on the same team. They made the false narrative about the Russia-gate. Made a lot of lies about Trump and started a character murder campaign.
But now, it seems like the MSM is turning their back on president Biden. They are beginning to understand that they have been in bed with the Deep State. They lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they lied about the war in Afghanistan for about two decades too. What a shame.
I have talked about this for years, and John F. Kennedy warned you about the intel and the military industrial complex in the early 60`s. We all know that he wanted to crush CIA and he didn`t feel good about the military. Trump was in the same boat and was in a war against the establishment.
The establishment said they wanted to go to war against Trump right after the election in 2017, and we all know the rest of that story. We also know that Trump lost to a much «better» candidate in 2020.
But everything is controled by the Deep State with unelected generals, intel operations and MSM on top of that. This is extremely dangerous for a democracy, because it isn`t the people`s will anymore. It is something above the people. In other words; it`s not a democracy anymore.
Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. It is a system where people can change their rulers in a peaceful manner and the government is given the right to rule because the people say it may.
The people. Not the Deep State. Not the establishment.
Attorney Sidney Powell said she wanted to release the Kraken during the election earlier this year, but instead a lot of extremists stormed Capital Hill and tried to overthrow the governement. We all know that the police helped them.
I think Powell will be back and last word isn`t said in this case. It`s about the U.S democracy, and Trump was the one to fix it. To save America and make it great again.
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