1145-Bet on America: The Storm Before the Calm

You had the SpaceX IPO where Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire in terms of measurable net worth with the SpaceX IPO, which is pretty cool, pretty exciting for last week.

Congratulations to him and the many thousands of other people who were able to recoup some of their gains or to recognize some of their gains in the SpaceX IPO.

The World Cup so far has been going really, really well.

Games played across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and that has been exciting to watch.

The United States won its first game, which is cool to see, and we'll see what happens in the World Cup.

And then, of course, you had the pretty remarkable events over the weekend.

The Trump administration, as well as the government of Iran and Pakistan, alleged that a deal of some kind has been reached to end hostilities between the United States and Iran.

We'll see what that looks like.

And then you had the big kind of spectacle at the White House over the weekend.

You had the giant dirt bike jumps.

Then you had the giant UFC fight set up.

And man, tell you what, the optics of that were pretty impressive.

I watched just a couple of clips online.

Didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw some of the clips, and it's hard to get more impressive than the vibe shift, just like the feels of that.

And that stuff is really important for Americans because it really comes – Americans are a very emotional people, and Americans like winning.

They don't do very well when they are – when they're losing.

It doesn't feel very good.

And I tell you what, even for me personally, it feels like, man, you know what? I wonder if we could actually be great again as a country.

You know, I'm 40 years old, and my entire lifetime of everything – the first presidential election that I remember was the election of President Clinton in 1994, and I was nine.

And passing forward, the first real president that I, you know, had much engagement with was President George W. Bush.

And then you had the attacks, the Muslim attacks on September 11, 2001.

You had the Great War on Terror.

You had just this constant thing.

And then we had a bunch of presidents who basically just seemed to go around spending all their time being embarrassed about the country.

And I tell you what, if you're my age, it's pretty much sucked, pretty hardcore sucked to be an American over the past few decades in a lot of different dimensions.