Monday, June 15, 2026
“The Private Life is Dead”
When Hollywood was less enamoured with socialism.
Just so you know…
(This is speculation, of course).
Iran will break from the looming agreement and resume hostilities and non-cooperation a few months before the midterms, thus raising the cost of oil/gasoline, and attempting to sway American elections in their favor (since Democrats' position is always beneficial to them).
The “1%”
The collectivists are having a fit. One of us (Elon Musk) has reached the trillion dollar mark. Not because he has a trillion dollars in a Swiss bank account or buried in his backyard. He’s achieved this monumental amount in wealth in assets — owning shares of companies in some of the most advanced technologies of our time. After years of risk, achievement, failure, and uncertainty, Elon Musk has reached a pinnacle. Miraculously, I awoke the next day with the same amount of wealth. If we believed the nonsense that socialists are now spewing, you’d think that Musk was hitting people over the head and taking their wallets. Instead, a lot of people associated with him are richer as well. So…
Among some, attaining success and financial reward is “greedy” while wanting to steal another’s’ wealth is somehow an act of altruism. The state has squandered trillions yet one never hears establishment journalists and college professors decrying government’s pervasive “greed” in wanting more from everyone.
Money is a symbol. A symbol of energy/power. The effort and thought expended and transferred in daily transactions. Directed energy, when not impeded, channels into diverse locations and inevitably increases wealth.
The state is a parasite. Aside from some futile attempts to produce stated goals of value, it merely siphons and redistributes. While ideologues can conjure a million reasons to steal based on moral sentiments, their house is glass and their rocks have no intention of “helping” anyone.
Already, the luminaries of American socialism (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, “AOC,” et al. ) are calling for “justice” (seizure of a portion Elon Musk’s assets. Of course, that portion would increase over time. There are some -- particularly in Europe -- calling for his arrest).
Again, we hear the stupid argument meant to impress the economically illiterate that, “no one needs a trillion dollars.” Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren used to say this about millions — until they became owners of millions. Of course, most billionaires don’t just sit on a pile of cash. They invest their wealth. A good portion of Musk’s trillion will directly and indirectly finance human expansion to the planets. Bernie Sanders and AOC will not be helping humans to establish colonies on Mars. Socialists can’t even raise homeless drug addicts off the streets of Los Angeles. Socialists simply command. Command and “plan.”
This issue isn’t about percentages and “fairness.” It’s about an archaic and primal sentiment that codifies envy and rage. The left’s irritations aren’t just about envy of wealth but envy of success and productivity.
Cuba and Venezuela are examples of socialism “working.” The state and ruling one-party ideologues suck the economic vitality of their nations dry. When the successful hosts have had their assets seized, laws are passed making it illegal to produce more “obscene” wealth. From there, a nations vitality spirals downward into destitution.
After other people’s money dries up, laws are enforced forbidding criticism of the parasitic class and for those who get in the communists way, the final road to “justice” leads to the guillotine and gulag.
