Brian Vest

Husband & Daddy that's always striving to be better than the previous day. Work I improve comfort at your workstation in office or at home!

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@BrysonLegion @NUCLRGOLF @brysondech Beautiful Alister McKenzie course!!! The trees are amazing

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

.@RoKhanna, the public deserves answers—not carefully worded talking points.

The alleged incident occurred on July 8. You gave an interview to Reuters on July 9. The story was published on July 11, followed by your social media campaign and national TV appearances.

A few straightforward questions:

Why wasn’t this trip publicized in advance? For a politician as media-focused as you, the silence before the trip—and the publicity afterward—deserves an explanation.

You say this was a serious 90-minute detention. Why did you say nothing about it on your own X account for approximately three days, even though you had already given Reuters an interview the next day? What changed between July 9 and July 11?

When reports emerged that you allegedly declined requests to meet with former hostages and hostage families during this trip, you responded, “I have met with Israeli hostages.” That does not answer whether you met with any of them during this visit. Which hostages were you referring to? When and where did those meetings occur? Did you meet with any hostages or hostage families during this trip? If not, why didn’t you answer the actual allegation directly?

You have publicly said you were detained by armed settlers and the IDF. What specific actions by the IDF constituted your detention? Who physically blocked the road? Did Israeli soldiers order you to remain, or otherwise prevent you from leaving? The IDF disputes that account. Will you release the complete, unedited video so the public can see the sequence for itself?

Your delegation reportedly remained at the scene for roughly 90 minutes. How much contemporaneous video and photographic evidence was recorded? Will you release all of it—not selected clips, but the complete record?

Who paid for this trip: your congressional office, your campaign, another organization, or someone else? Will you release the travel and funding disclosures so the public can verify the answer?

Finally, will you release the contemporaneous text messages, emails, photographs and videos generated by your delegation during those 90 minutes? If your account is accurate, full transparency should only strengthen your credibility.

These aren’t partisan questions. They’re the questions any member of Congress should be prepared to answer after making serious public allegations involving a foreign government.

Transparency shouldn’t require this many questions.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

This is how the NYC Adult Daycare scam works:
- Daycare is funded by Medicaid
- The more patients=more money
- Patients receive kickbacks for attending daycare and bringing friends (referral program)
- Our taxes pay for elderly Koreans to play ping pong & tai chi

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[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@DjokerNole @janniksin @Wimbledon Novak!!! Thank you. You are a joy to watch compete!

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@piersmorgan Players on both sides haven't said a word. By all accounts Balogun has handled this exceptional well. The US team hasn't cheated and don't deserve your disrespect. You are a bluthering idiot seeking attention.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@NUCLRGOLF Big fan of Straight Down.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@FAmmiranteTFJ It's not terrible. This is how you hold FIFA to a higher standard. They must be better and be more consistent. They created this controversy and no one else.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@SamMonsonNFL and that's fine, FIFA needs to be better and certainly more consistent.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@FIFAcom be better when using VAR. the world knows that’s not a red card. This process failed the fans. It’s embarrassing.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@stoolpresidente next Austin trip I recommend this new spot Outlaw Pizza. https://t.co/0LYjjFxeB0

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

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[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

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[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@GavinNewsom He's got one thing right! The system is broken. Government agencies should stop taking our money and wasting it. Be more transparent but most importantly SPEND LESS.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@elonmusk @Tesla driving CT with tonneau closed, when I hit my turn indicator it would be great if we could keep a rear view angle on the screen too. Not just the turn signal view

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@EdBaker97 This is great, really glad you had an awesome visit! Safe travels on your next adventure! Cheers from Texas!

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@RoKhanna How are you giving any money away when the country is in debt? Stop it!

[The Rational Animal 🤔 @theobjectivist]

I appreciate the direct response, Congressman @RoKhanna. You've raised a real question, so let me answer it seriously.

You're partly right, and I'll grant it fully: the Founders who established a government to protect individual rights performed an achievement no inventor can match, because they built the precondition for every other achievement. Jefferson and the framers created the framework of liberty. Lincoln preserved it and extended its promise to those wrongly denied it. On that we agree. The statesman who secures freedom is a hero of the highest order.

But notice the distinction that matters. Those men are great precisely to the degree they protected liberty, not to the degree they exercised power. The Founders' greatness was in handing power back. Lincoln's was in ending a violation of rights, slavery, the gravest in our history.

That is why FDR doesn't belong with them. He did the opposite. He expanded the state at the expense of the freedom the Founders secured: seizing gold under threat of prison, attempting to pack the Court, building the apparatus that treats your earnings as the government's to allocate. He used power; he didn't restrain it.

And here is the deeper point. You frame it as Rockefeller and Musk versus the statesmen, as if they compete. They don't. The statesman's whole purpose is to protect the conditions, namely individual rights, in which the producer can create.

The Founders, along with Locke and Aristotle, built the house. Musk, Rockefeller, Bezos, and Vanderbilt are examples of what free men do inside it.

If you fully understood the principle of individual rights, you would be fighting against men and women like Warren, AOC, Sanders, and the rest of these collectivist statists in both parties, instead of advocating ideas that deprive individuals of the very rights you claim to honor.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@GavinNewsom It's amusing to watch these walls close in on one of the worst politicians ever.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden Government doesn’t create jobs. This is a known fact.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@JustinThomas34 Oh yeah definitely…. It’s a regular hobby for me.

[Brian Vest @BrianVest23]

@RoKhanna The federal government doesn’t invest. It has to take first, then they think they’re smarter with our money than we are.