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Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

800,000 gallons. That’s how much raw, untreated sewage just poured into the Providence River from a cracked pipe near the East Bay Bike Path. Rhode Islanders spent decades — and billions of dollars — cleaning up Narragansett Bay. This shellfishing area had only been reopened for four years after being closed for 75. Gone. In one pipe failure. 100 to 150 quahoggers work these beds every week. This is where they get the majority of their harvest. They can’t go back until at least May 18th. And here’s what makes it worse — This is the second sewage spill in two weeks. 5,000 gallons went into Mount Hope Bay just ten days ago. Two spills. Two weeks. One state that has been run by one party for decades. A bridge rated “poor” drops concrete onto Amtrak tracks. 800,000 gallons of sewage pours into our river. Our roads are ranked worst in the nation. This is not bad luck. This is what neglect looks like after years of leaders who collect your taxes, make promises, and answer to no one. Rhode Island’s quahoggers didn’t cause this. Rhode Island’s working families didn’t cause this. But they’re paying for it. One Big Audit. Every infrastructure dollar. Every maintenance contract. Every inspection report. Because until we find out where the money went — the pipes will keep breaking. Rhode Island First. 🇺🇸