🧵Juneteenth: No, America Wasn’t Built by Slaves—Slavery Held Us Back

Let’s talk about what really made America rich, and why the Left keeps lying about it.

Hint: it wasn’t forced labor. It was freedom. 2/ Today, we rightly celebrate Juneteenth: the day in 1865 when Texas slaves learned they were free.

That freedom was secured by Republicans, at gunpoint, from the same Democrats who enslaved them in the first place.

The narrative needs a correction.

🧵We could have had cell phones 40 years sooner.

The technology existed by the 1940s. The holdup wasn’t engineering — it was government regulation, spectrum hoarding, and cronyism.

What else are we missing today because of Washington? 🧵 2/ In 1945, the head of the FCC promised Americans would soon have “handie-talkies.”

But the FCC prioritized broadcast TV over mobile phones. They gave TV massive needless spectrum — most of it left unused — while starving “land mobile” services.

Cellular networks were proposed in 1947. Approved? Not until the 1980s.

🧵The SpaceX IPO isn’t overpriced. The future is underpriced.

Fourteen years ago, Facebook’s IPO was mocked as a failure. I called it a Strong Buy. Those who listened made a fortune.

SpaceX is the same story — only much, much bigger. It's the East India Company all over again.🧵 2/ Facebook dominated the social graph. SpaceX is organizing the economic graph of a multiplanetary civilization, and remaking intercontinental transport at the same time.

It launches ~85%+ of the whole world's payload mass to orbit. Starlink connects the planet. Starship slashes costs 95% and enables orbital data centers, lunar industry, Martian cities, point-to-point Earth transport, and military logistics at unprecedented speed.

🧵The USS Nimitz — America’s oldest aircraft carrier, laid down in 1968 and scheduled for decommissioning this month — just showed up off Cuba’s coast instead.

Raul Castro better watch out. There's a cell beside Maduro's!

Trump isn’t letting old ships rust. He’s using them to project power. 🧵 2/ The Navy extended the Nimitz’s service life by ~10 months.

Now the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is in the Caribbean, sending a clear message to Havana.

“Welcome to the Caribbean, Nimitz!” — U.S. Southern Command.

https://x.com/Southcom/status/2057131106005090406?s=20

🧵 "Horse paste" wins again!

The New World screwworm — a flesh-eating parasite eradicated from the U.S. in 1966 — is back.

Confirmed cases now in Texas and New Mexico. It burrows into open wounds and consumes living tissue.

But the good news is, Ivermectin is proving highly effective against it in both animals and humans. 🧵 2/ The USDA confirmed the first U.S. case in decades on June 3, 2026, in a Texas calf. More cases followed in Texas counties and a dog in New Mexico.

This parasite has been marching north from Central America. Unlike regular flies, screwworm larvae are obligate parasites that destroy living flesh.

🧵Calling Israel a “European colonial project” may sometimes be ignorance. But it’s a lie.

Mizrahi Jews — who never lived anywhere but the Middle East for 2,500+ years — are the largest group in Israel (between half and ~61%).

They weren’t colonizers. They were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands in the 20th Century.

The colonial myth requires erasing them. 🧵 2/ These communities predated Islam by 1,500 years. They wrote the Talmud in Iraq. Maintained ancient traditions in Yemen. Formed a third of Baghdad’s population.

In 1948, nearly 900,000 Jews lived across the Arab world.

Today? Fewer than 10 remain in Iraq, Yemen, or Libya.

🧵A single uranium pellet the size of a gummy bear equals the energy of 140 barrels of oil.

Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy source on Earth. And now, it can be produced with zero chance of meltdown or radiation leaks.

So why isn’t it powering everything? We buried a miracle under 50 years of regulation. That’s changing fast. 🧵 2/ From 1974 to 2025, the NRC approved zero new reactor designs.

Only two reactors came online in that entire period.

Trump’s executive orders are blowing this open: goal to quadruple America’s nuclear fleet by 2050, 18-month licensing timelines, and three new microreactors online by July 4, 2026.

Nuclear entrepreneurs say regulation is finally becoming a solved problem.

🧵 China’s population collapse is now mathematically irreversible.

There simply aren’t enough women left of childbearing age.

Even if the fertility rate magically returned to replacement level (2.1 children per woman) tomorrow, the country would still lose more than 40% of its population by 2100.

It won't. The real number is 75%. There's nothing like it in history. 🧵 2/ Official estimates say China has only ~190 million women of childbearing age. That number is much higher than reality.

The One Child Policy (1980–2016) and its echoes slashed entire generations. Sex-selective abortions made it worse.

The cohorts now entering prime childbearing years are themselves the children of the one-child policy — already a drastically smaller group.

Each generation compounds the previous deficit.

🧵84 years ago this week, the Battle of Midway changed history.

But what if America had lost — as it very nearly did?

People have no idea how close we came to a Japanese victory that would have cost the Allies both the Pacific and Europe.

It was that close. 🧵 2/ Had Japan won at Midway, they would have destroyed three U.S. carriers while keeping their fleet intact.

Nothing could have stopped them from seizing key South Pacific islands, building airfields, and creating an impregnable defensive perimeter from Samoa to Midway to the Aleutians.

U.S. supply lines to Australia would have been severed. A Pacific offensive delayed until mid-1943 or later.

But that's just the beginning....

🧵The EU is finally waking up: Donald Trump was right about China.

Europe’s industrial base could be obliterated in less than a decade by China’s predatory export machine.

Brussels ignored the warnings. Now they’re facing the consequences. 🧵 2/ China is doubling down on massive over-investment and dumping excess capacity on the world while pursuing autarky at home.

Effect: it's exporting deflation and unemployment as a means to stay in power by destroying your job.

The Rhodium Group warns this “China Shock 2.0” is bigger and more sophisticated than the first one that hollowed out America’s Rust Belt.

🧵Leftist, progressive lawyers are fleeing the Trump administration in large numbers.

According to the NYT, more than 10,000 have left federal agencies since the beginning of 2025, according to a New York Times analysis.

The federal government has lost an incredible 17% of its civilian lawyers in just 15 months. Bwuhahahahahaha!

This isn’t random attrition. It’s a self-revelation. 🧵 2/ The numbers are stark.

The Department of Education lost more than half its lawyers. The Departments of Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Energy, and Agriculture all saw steep declines. DOJ is down 24%.

The Deep State saboteurs are leaving. Trump is getting to replace them. But he's hiring fewer.

Despite agencies hiring about 3,200 lawyers during this period, departures still vastly outpaced recruitment.

🧵Is Scott Bessent working to crash the yuan?

He helped break the Bank of England in 1992. Now Trump’s Treasury Secretary is using that experience against China — and Beijing should be terrified.

THREAD🧵 2/ In 1992, Scott Bessent was part of the Soros team that broke the pound.

Britain was defending an exchange rate reality no longer supported. The speculators attacked. The Bank of England lost.

Trump watched. He learned the lesson.

Governments don’t lose currencies because traders are clever. They lose them because they defend lies too long.

🧵New Orleans just proved failing schools can be fixed at scale.

It became America’s first all-charter school district.

The results are staggering:

• 99th percentile nationally in reading growth
• 98th percentile in math growth
• The only state in America beating pre-pandemic levels in both subjects

This is what real reform looks like. THREAD 🧵 2/ Before Hurricane Katrina, the system was a disaster.

Over 60% of New Orleans public schools were rated failing. Kids attended chaotic, dangerous schools where constant disruptions made real learning almost impossible.

A generation was being failed by design.

Then the storm hit — and everything changed.

🚨 A generational Republican majority just became possible.

The Supreme Court ended racial gerrymandering, throwing dozens of artificial Democrat House seats into play.

But the 2030 Census is the real hammer — and it could lock in Republican control of the map for decades.

The structural advantage Democrats built for years is collapsing. 🧵 2/ Democrats built their power on three structural frauds:

• A rigged 2020 Census that stole House seats and electoral votes from red states.
• Counting illegal aliens for congressional apportionment and electoral votes.
• Racial gerrymandering that guaranteed them extra safe seats.

The Court just eliminated #3. The other two are on borrowed time. And the American people are already finishing the job by voting with their feet.

🧵@GovRonDeSantis just called a special session to abolish property taxes on Florida homes

If you must pay the state every year just to stay in the house you own outright…

You don’t own it. You rent it.

Florida is beginning the end of feudalism in America. 🧵 2/ An 91-year-old widow paid off her house 40 years ago.

All across America, one missed property tax payment and the state can take her home and put her on the street.

Her home — the one she owns free and clear — can be taken because she “owes rent” to the government.

That’s not ownership. That’s serfdom. It’s immoral.

🧵Democrats still cite Sweden as proof socialism works.

They’re lying.

The real Sweden survived by rejecting socialism — abolishing wealth taxes, protecting capital, expanding school choice, and becoming one of the world’s great startup nations.

Here’s the story they hope you never hear. 🧵 2/ By 1990, Sweden was a warning, not a model.

Bloated government. Banking collapse. Currency crisis. Public debt nearing 80% of GDP.

Socialism had run out of other people’s money.

Sweden hit the wall — then chose to change course instead of digging deeper.

🧵Justice Clarence Thomas just explained why Progressivism is collapsing — and why the only fight that now matters is what will replace it.

One of the rare speeches that's truly important.

This thread breaks it down. 🧵 2/ The core message: Progressivism is dying because it is fundamentally opposed to the American idea.

The Declaration of Independence did not create government. It stated its purpose: to protect God-given inalienable rights that all individuals equally possess.

Those ideas were powerful enough to end slavery and segregation. They cannot coexist forever with Progressivism.

🧵On paper, America has 11 aircraft carriers.

Trump has used American naval power more effectively in recent months than we’ve seen in decades.

But these successes reveal a deeper problem.

America needs 16 carriers — not 11. Here's why, and how.🧵 2/ Federal law requires “not less than 11 operational carriers.”

But the law counts carriers in a multi-year overhaul as “operational.” That can be six YEARS offline.

At any given moment, only about half our carriers are actually available for deployment.

🧵 Xi Jinping just invoked the Thucydides Trap with Trump.

Most assume this is a threat. But what if Xi is signaling something else — that he recognizes China is now in a weakened position against the United States and thus needs to avoid a war?

The historical record and current realities both suggest he has reason to worry.

Thread 🧵 2/ So what is "Thucydides Trap"?

Graham Allison documented 16 cases of rising powers challenging established ones.

Four ended in peace. But in the twelve that led to war, the established power defeated the rising power 7-5.

If Xi knows this history, he understands the odds are stacked against China — especially right now.

🧵Europe’s Green Deal is unraveling.

Centrally planned climate targets have delivered higher energy costs, industrial decline, and political revolt instead of the promised green utopia.

While Europe stagnates under mandates, America shows what market-driven progress looks like.

Thread 🧵 2/ Electricity in Europe now costs two to three times more than in the U.S. or China.

Taxes make up nearly a quarter of the bill. Binding net-zero rules, nuclear phase-outs, and unreliable renewables have created volatility and strangled industry.

Energy can be 30% of production costs. The result: deindustrialization.

🧵Cuba is America’s Taiwan.

CIA Director Ratcliffe flew to Havana yesterday and laid out Trump’s terms: $100M in immediate aid, embargo relief, and massive U.S. investment — but only if Cuba accepts real democratic reforms and boots China, Russia, and Iran off the island.

While the world watches Iran, this is happening 90 miles from Florida. 🧵 2/ Trump’s Western Hemisphere doctrine is already working.

Gulf of America. China squeezed in Panama. Maduro removed from Venezuela with zero American casualties.

Cuba is the last major hostile foothold on America’s doorstep — perfectly positioned to threaten the Gulf and Panama Canal approaches.

That changes now.