Jim Edsel (@EdselJim) profile picture

Texan; 4 decade Oil & Gas industry

Austin, TX
Joined November 2014
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Just two supportive parents still supporting their benchwarming son! Attn @AbdulElSayed Happy Halloween 🎃
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A great host, but I’m not sure everyone knows what an amazing person Ernie Johnson is. Ernie and his wife Cheryl adopted 4 children, including his son Michael who had an incurable disease, Duchenne Muscular dystrophy. They brought Michael home from Romania after being told nobody wanted him. The Johnsons gave Michael the best life, he sadly passed in 2021. Ernie has also fought cancer twice and championed many great causes. Truly the goat.
It’s time. 🤟🤟🏾🤟🏻🤟🏽
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It’s time. 🤟🤟🏾🤟🏻🤟🏽
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The biggest stories don’t always make the news. 🤔 Susan and I gave $6.25 billion to help 25 million American children build brighter futures. These handwritten thank-you notes mean more than any headline ever could. 25 million children. 25 million futures. Endless possibilities. ❤️🇺🇸
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Hey kids… an NBC “investigative” reporter says the most amazing gift of all time sucks because you have to hold onto the stock for the long term. What a clown.
My latest for @CNBC: If Elon Musk gifts SpaceX stock through Trump Accounts, it will come with a catch. Treasury’s new rules generally prevent children from selling donated stock for 5 years even if the company runs into financial trouble 🧵1/4 cnbc.com/2026/10/20/musk-spa…
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This is tremendous news for America's children. An entire generation will grow up as SpaceX owners. Well done @elonmusk! 🇺🇸
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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Absolutely incredible… Elon once again showing the Billionaire class how it’s done. Bypassing the state completely, the fraud, the waste of tax dollars, the NGOs, and giving capital directly to American children. They will directly own a piece of American exceptionalism.
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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We are past warnings. Cities are burning. More will follow. This will come to the United States IMO. This is an attack on western societies and values. Yes, there are many root causes. Uncontrolled migration without assimilation. International funding of protest for violent purposes. Issues of affordability. Education. Housing shortages. Employment opportunities, etc. They started with issues but then are quickly hijacked by ultra-left radicals, islamist, the red-green alliance, opportunists, and those brainwashed by victimhood. Why? Lack of values, purpose, and identity. With eroded traditional sources of identity and purpose (family, nation, vocation, faith), huge groups fill the void by claiming victim status or becoming advocates for other designated supposed victims. Responsibility is externalized: the system - capitalism, democracy, natives, “the West,” or some oppressor always explains their personal or collective shortfalls. This produces victimhood culture, beliefs of shared grievance, and alliances with radicals who offer belonging through struggle rather than responsibility, competence, or reform. The leftists/Marxist, the Islamists, and those thirsting for purpose don’t want reforms. They want to destroy society. They want identity through victimhood and destruction. They take no responsibility for their own status, there is always an oppressor to blame, always someone else’s fight. So they burn what they won’t fix. Step one is law and order. Reinforce the police. Enforce the law. Arrest, track, and if applicable deport every single person who commits violence or crimes. These won’t be the last protests or cities to burn if "let's address their grievances," suicidal empathy, victimhood culture, political cowardliness continues.
France 2026… We don’t have to live this way
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Europe is part of our civilization; and it shows the future of the US, if we vote as they did. For the future of the women you love, vote to be less like Europe.
One in five Norwegian women have been raped. Every night of the year a Norwegian woman is raped in Oslo. The police in Oslo have now confirmed every single woman raped in the city over the last three years was raped by a migrant. Is diversity still our strength?
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Macron’s and Merkel’s legacy ! They cared more about staying in power Than for their country and citizens - Look now ! How is the assimilation going - Why do @TheDemocrats @DNC their communist DSA want open borders after seeing this ? One good reason ? THERE IS NOT ONE !
I feel terrible for this woman, not just because she was the victim of a violent crime and was shoved aside by looters who mock her as they were destroying her business and taking away her livelihood. I mainly feel sorry for her for becoming the face of the naive thinking of French citizens who allowed their country to be overrun by people who don't share their values. France and other European countries chose this, and are now shocked that giving them free healthcare and recognizing a Palestinian State wasn't enough to appease the angry mob. The saddest part of it all is watching her plead with them to stop, saying, "This is not your cause," when in fact, the destruction of Western civilization is precisely their cause.
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If you care, you could not be more wrong. Elon has most of his wealth in the many businesses he has created. The businesses that employ over 150,000 people. Tens of thousands of families - many more if you count the hundreds of businesses (industries) and millions of workers who use and rely on the products his businesses creates. There is a gross misconception that “millionaires and billionaires” have that in money, in cash. They don’t. They have their money - and time and effort - in their businesses. Oftentimes they are less liquid than you. They don’t work for money. They work out of a passion to create, to build and to employ. It’s a virtue. Sure, there is some corruption in values. But it’s a minority. The very existence of the things we like about this country exist because of the sacrifices of many. I wouldn’t be so quick to judge the makers. You should be more critical of the takers - those who add little value but expect much. Start with the political grifters.
Elon is hoarding trillions while they cut social programs up and down. Disgusting. We need to end billionaires and maybe even millionaires. No one needs that much money. Full stop.
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This isn’t just a war on France and its history. It’s a war on Western values. And it doesn’t stop in France or Europe. This is what open, unchecked borders invites.
🇫🇷 Gli agenti di polizia di stanza vicino al Palazzo dell'Eliseo riferiscono che i manifestanti hanno fatto irruzione nei giardini della residenza ufficiale del presidente francese Emmanuel Macron, in un contesto di violenti disordini nel centro di Parigi. Altre fonti sostengono che le forze dell'ordine abbiano aperto il fuoco contro gli intrusi e che siano stati dispiegati cecchini sui tetti circostanti per proteggere il presidente e il complesso presidenziale.
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Wall Street to Y’all Street
The world’s most consequential region of the next 20 years.
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French men built this in the 1800s and it has been carefully maintained for 150+ years… It survived both World Wars. The far-left and their imported migrants just destroyed it.
Absolute savages… The historic town hall in Limoges, France is gone. The steeple just collapsed.
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My politics are whatever punishes this with force
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Dear Western Civilization, You MORONS. Your history, your culture is being DESTROYED. You let intolerant unassimilated Islamists into your country out of suicidal empathy. Israel tried to warn EVERYONE. EVERY. DAY. the last line of defense for the West against Barbarians. Every LIE of 'genocide' 'apartheid' 'colonialism' 'zionism is racism' 'islamophobia' lulled you into this
Des milliers de projectiles ont été lancés contre les forces de l'ordre Place de la République à Paris. #17octobre #Paris
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No justification. We enforce laws or we invite here what we are seeing in Europe. And those who think it stops there are wrong or naive. This is a cancer that is spreading and there are only two choices, fight it with all your might or give in. Europe’s weak, woke leaders invited this and, so far, they haven’t met the challenge to fight it. This is not a compromise outcome. It’s win or lose. And the loss is of much more than statues and buildings. It’s an entire culture, religious artifacts and symbols. It’s freedom versus anarchy. Can Macron muster the strength to fight it?
HONEST QUESTION In what way can destruction of property be justified in ANY act of protest? Where is the moral authority to destroy? And what benefits come from destruction? I just don't see it
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Agreed, but these are historical artifacts and structures that are irreplaceable and of such cultural significance that they must be preserved at all cost. Is the French govt up to the task?
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Maybe you have to lose it to appreciate it
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The free world cannot allow this to stand. We banded together and fought this 80+ years ago and we preserved history and its art and artifacts. We must do the same now.
“Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...”
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I don’t understand how you get all of those top recruits and don’t win…
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