Robert Hurst 🇺🇸

Reform attention economy.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

THANK YOU, @elonmusk!

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@SenJackReed That headline is more like Heaping Lies:
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federally funded U.S. program that helps low-income households pay for home heating and cooling bills, energy crises, and weatherization.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@cathamand @ScottJenningsKY Revisionist theory.
Grow up.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Bernie Sanders says the top 1% owns more than the bottom 93%, that fewer than a thousand billionaires got $2.2 trillion richer last year, and that it's "obscene."

It's the most seductive and most wrong economic argument of our time. Let me explain why.

First, wealth distribution follows a power law. Always. Everywhere. Books, music, startups, followers on X, goals in soccer. A small minority captures most of the value. That's not a bug of capitalism. It's the mathematical signature of every system where value gets created.

So the only question that matters isn't "how big is the rich's slice?" It's "is the cake growing, and is the slice of the poorest growing with it?"

And the answer is yes. In 1990, more than one human in three lived in extreme poverty. Today it's about one in ten. During exactly the period when billionaires multiplied.

Bernie shows you the slice. He never shows you the cake.

Second thing he won't tell you: past a certain level, wealth stops being consumption. It becomes capital allocation.

Elon Musk isn't sleeping on a pile of cash. He owns stakes in Tesla, SpaceX, xAI. Jeff Bezos owns Amazon stock. That "$2.2 trillion" isn't sitting in a checking account. It's factories, rockets, data centers, millions of jobs. Nobody can eat $100 billion. You can only decide where to invest it.

Once you understand that, the whole debate changes. The real question becomes: who allocates capital better?

The people who built Amazon, SpaceX and Nvidia? Or politicians?

A 5% wealth tax isn't "taking money from the rich." It's taking investment decisions away from people who proved they can create value and handing them to people who proved the opposite.

Because the fundamental difference between an entrepreneur and a politician is consequences.

The entrepreneur invests his own money. If he allocates badly, he loses everything. The market corrects him brutally, no appeal. That's why most startups die: the system kills bad decisions.

The politician invests other people's money. If he allocates badly, nothing happens. Worse, he gets a bigger budget to "fix the problem."

Milton Friedman put it better than anyone. There are four ways to spend money. Your money on yourself: you care about price and quality. Your money on others: you care about price. Others' money on yourself: you care about quality. Others' money on others: you care about nothing.

Government is the fourth box. By design.

Perfect example: California high-speed rail. Approved in 2008 for about $33 billion. Current estimated cost: over $100 billion. Passengers carried: zero. No entrepreneur would have survived that. The politicians who pushed it built careers on it.

And when allocation has no consequences, it eventually finds a buyer. A politician who controls billions without accountability becomes the most profitable target in the world for anyone who wants to steer that money.

The irony is that the left that rails against billionaires is itself funded by billionaires. George Soros is one of the biggest Democratic donors in history. The Gates Foundation shapes public health policy across the planet.

Politicians don't fight billionaires. They pick their own. The ones who fund the state over the ones who compete with it.

So if we actually want fewer poor people, we have to stop judging ideas by their intentions and start judging them by their results. And the results are brutally clear.

China, 1978: Deng Xiaoping opens the economy to markets. More than 800 million people escape extreme poverty. The largest retreat of misery in human history. Not through redistribution. Through the freedom to build.

India, 1991: liberalization. Same movie.

South Korea and North Korea: same people, same language, same starting point in 1953. One became one of the most advanced economies on earth. The other has famines.

Poland and Ukraine: comparable living standards in 1990. Today the average Pole is more than three times richer than the average Ukrainian.

Argentina: a year and a half of liberalization, and the poverty rate falls from over 50% to around 30%.

No country in history escaped poverty by punishing the people who build. Every single one did it by letting them build.

And if you want to see what Bernie's program looks like in real life, you don't have to imagine it. It exists. It's called France. We've been running it for 45 years.

Mass nationalizations in 1981. Two years later, Socialist president Mitterrand has to reverse course into austerity.

Retirement at 60. The 35-hour workweek.

A wealth tax for 35 years. Hundreds of wealthy households left every year for Belgium, Switzerland, London, taking their capital, their companies and their future taxes with them. Macron finally scrapped it in 2018.

Hollande's 75% tax: raised a few hundred million, drove talent out, abandoned after two years.

One of the highest tax burdens in the OECD. Public spending around 57% of GDP, a record in the developed world.

Last balanced budget: 1974. Public debt: over €3.4 trillion. Mass unemployment for four decades.

If taxing the rich and growing the state made people prosperous, France would be the richest country on the planet.

It isn't. GDP per capita in France is barely more than half of America's. It's lower than Mississippi, the poorest state in the US. Not a single global tech giant. Our best engineers build Silicon Valley instead. I've been going back and forth between Paris and San Francisco for years. I see it every week.

And California is about to replay the movie. Prop 40, on the ballot November 3rd, would take 5% of billionaires' net worth. Even Gavin Newsom, a Democratic governor, opposes it. The state's own nonpartisan budget analyst warns that income tax revenue could drop every year if the wealthy leave. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Peter Thiel have reportedly already started moving their assets out.

You don't fight poverty by shrinking the top. You fight it by growing the cake.

Bernie wants a society where nobody has too much. I want a society where nobody has too little.

The first has been tried everywhere and produces equality in stagnation. The second lifted a billion people out of misery.

Choose.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

"For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible."

Priceless.

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay £1.

The sixth would pay £3.

The seventh would pay £7.

The eighth would pay £12.

The ninth would pay £18.

And the tenth man (the richest) would pay £59.　

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every week and seemed quite happy with the arrangement until, one day, the owner caused them a little problem.

“Since you are all such good customers,” he said, “I’m going to reduce the cost of your weekly beer by £20.”

Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes.

So the first four men were unaffected.

They would still drink for free but what about the other six men?

The paying customers? How could they divide the £20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?

They realized that £20 divided by six is £3.33, but if they subtracted that from everybody’s share then not only would the first four men still be drinking for free but the fifth and sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.　

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fairer to reduce each man’s bill by a higher percentage.

They decided to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay.

And so, the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (a 100% saving).

The sixth man now paid £2 instead of £3 (a 33% saving).

The seventh man now paid £5 instead of £7 (a 28% saving).

The eighth man now paid £9 instead of £12 (a 25% saving).

The ninth man now paid £14 instead of £18 (a 22% saving).

And the tenth man now paid £49 instead of £59 (a 16% saving).　

Each of the last six was better off than before with the first four continuing to drink for free.　

But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. “I only got £1 out of the £20 saving,” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “but he got £10!“　

“Yeah, that’s right,” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a £1 too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!”　

“That’s true!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get £10 back, when I only got £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”　

“Wait a minute,” yelled the first four men in unison, “we didn’t get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.　

The next week the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him.

But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important – they didn’t have enough money between all of them to pay for even half of the bill!　

And that’s how it works.

Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy and they just might not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.　

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

[Danny Noonan @DannyNoonanGolf]

The tracer at Golf Galaxy when you're testing a new $600 driver. 🤔

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@GregABedard Maye is an indisputable talented athlete, moreso than Brady and the Mannings.
No one really knows if he's a franchise starting QB.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@N842076 @GregABedard Well, Tommy had a short confidence issue and went to wearing gloves. Later on, he just had the equipment bous deflate the QB footballs before the game.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@985TheSportsHub @FelgerAndMazz @TonyMassarotti Play calling is not the issue. The product, the decision-making, and the execution in the field are the issue.

[Justin Brave💡 @justinbrave21]

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Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖

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[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

More of that, please!

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO on https://t.co/pt9rQXC44r PASSPORTS: No printing forms, no drugstore hostage photo, no appointment, no line, no middleman that you're paying to do something that should be available to you.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@RamonaBessinger Why do all of those people look like that?

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

At least they're consistent.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

I was assured on CNN tonight that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and no oil is flowing 🤷

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

Imagine that! 🤠

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Woody shows Frazier how he got his headache. This was so funny I almost cried! 🤣😂 Where everybody Knows your name!

[NOD NARB @Nodnarbski]

@SecScottBessent @larry_kudlow @NewYorkSun This is what he’s saying:

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@cooterbfd @AshleyKalus Inaccurate. Scott Brown (I) taking Kennedy's seat "rose out of the Tea Party".

MAGA is not only proud to be center, it is also more genuinely cool.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@KaraKryptonite For the uninformed that cluck-cluck like a duck, here's 25 more:
https://t.co/qMVVcZgDgj

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

25 More Trump Achievements: The First List Was Just the Beginning

The Top 25 barely scratched the surface. Here are 25 more laws, victories, reforms, and measurable results from the most consequential Presidency of the modern era.

My original list of Trump’s Top 25 achievements was supposed to be a cheat sheet. Instead, it drew a million views on X, thousands of new followers, and coverage from Dan Bongino’s show to Roger Stone’s.

Why? Because millions know something extraordinary is happening, but almost no one gives them the receipts. The Enemedia buries every victory. Republicans announce today’s win and forget yesterday’s. Voters sense that Trump is transforming the country but can’t explain how.

So here's the sequel. These are achievements, not promises.

You don’t have to memorize all 25. Learn five. And when somebody says Trump “hasn’t done much,” show them how wrong they are.

Trump Restored Speech, Sovereignty, and Safety

1. He dismantled the federal censorship machine at home—and confronted government censorship abroad.

On his first day back in office, Trump prohibited federal employees and agencies from coercing or paying private companies to censor constitutionally protected speech. He ordered an investigation of the Biden Administration’s abuses, gutted CISA’s censorship apparatus, and made free speech a foreign-policy priority. He also imposed visa restrictions on foreign officials and NGO operatives who pressured American platforms to silence Americans.

2. He ended state-run “public” broadcasting.

Not only was government unconstitutionally censoring Americans’ free speech: it was subsidizing Democrats’ talking points. Republicans have talked for decades, but Trump delivered, cutting off funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Now PBS and NPR must compete for audiences and donors like everyone else.

3. He ended catch-and-release.

Sealing the border was No. 1 in my first list. But what happened after illegal aliens were caught deserves its own place. Under Biden, arrest often meant a bus ticket, a court date years away, and easy disappearance into the country.

Under Trump, it means detention and removal. The Border Patrol has now recorded 15 consecutive months without releasing a single apprehended illegal alien into America.

4. He helped drive fentanyl trafficking—and fentanyl deaths—sharply downward.

Under President Trump, fentanyl trafficking at the southern border fell 56 percent compared with the same period in 2024. CDC figures showed synthetic-opioid deaths falling from 48,913 in 2024 to 38,084 in 2025 — a 22 percent plunge.

5. He designated the cartels as terrorists—and took the counter-narcotics war to sea.

Trump designated eight cartels and transnational criminal organizations as terrorist groups, thus unlocking powerful sanctions, intelligence, and enforcement tools. He stopped treating them like ordinary criminals and started treating them as the government-sponsored paramilitary forces they actually are.

The Coast Guard also set an all-time record, seizing nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine across the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean in fiscal 2025, and blowing up even more.

6. He crushed Washington, D.C.’s violent-crime wave.

Trump refused to let America’s capital remain a cesspool of murders, rapes, carjackings, and municipal incompetence. He flooded Washington with federal law-enforcement resources and forced cooperation among police, prosecutors, and federal agencies. One year later, homicides are down 45 percent, carjackings 64 percent, and authorities have seized nearly 2,000 illegal guns.

Urban violence disproportionately victimizes the poor. Restoring order is not oppression: it’s liberation.

7. He restored Second Amendment rights.

Trump ordered the entire executive branch to identify and reverse policies that infringed the right to keep and bear arms. DOJ created a Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force. ATF repealed Biden’s punitive “Zero Tolerance” policy for gun dealers and other unreasonable restrictions on selling firearms.

Then Trump’s DOJ filed the first affirmative civil-rights lawsuit in Department history, forcing Los Angeles County to end nine-month delays for concealed-carry permits. It also restored the congressionally authorized process through which deserving Americans may regain federal firearms rights — and zeroed out the $200 federal tax on suppressors.

Trump Encouraged Work, Savings, and Ownership

8. He ended federal income tax on tips and overtime pay.

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill allows eligible workers to deduct up to $25,000 in qualified tips through 2028. It also created a deduction for the overtime premium — up to $12,500 for an individual or $25,000 for a married couple. It’s hard to think of a more pro-working-class reform than that.

9. He eliminated the tax on Social Security for nearly all seniors.

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill, seniors may deduct an additional $6,000 apiece or $12,000 for a qualifying married couple. For most seniors, that eliminates federal income tax on retirement income, including Social Security.

The fact that Democrats taxed Social Security in the first place is obscene. Trump reversed it.

10. He made Opportunity Zones permanent.

Trump’s Opportunity Zones steer private capital toward distressed communities by rewarding long-term investment. The One Big Beautiful Bill made them permanent and established recurring qualifying rounds, giving investors and local leaders the certainty to build for decades.

The Left’s answer to poverty is always another federal program. Trump’s is capital, ownership, businesses, homes, and jobs.

11. He protected farms and family businesses from the death tax.

The death tax can force a grieving family to sell family farms, homes, and businesses just to pay Washington. But Trump made it easier to pass a lifetime’s work and dreams on to the next generation. He increased the federal estate-and-gift-tax exclusion to $15 million per person in 2026, with inflation adjustments and no scheduled expiration — potentially $30 million for a married couple.

Trump Put Families and Good Health First

12. He expanded Health Savings Accounts — and created a $50 billion rural-health fund.

Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, millions more Americans can use Health Savings Accounts. The result? More personal control and fewer gatekeepers between doctor and patient.

Trump also created a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, reversing years of rural hospital closures under Biden.

13. He used TrumpRx and most-favored-nation agreements to force down drug prices.

For decades, Americans paid the world’s highest drug prices while socialist governments imposed price controls and freeloaded on American innovation. Trump turned that arrangement on its head, securing most-favored-nation agreements with 26 drugmakers covering 89 percent of the branded-drug market.

It’s not a price control: it’s the end of a free ride. Foreign governments must now pay more for American drugs so Americans can pay less.

Moreover, the President’s new TrumpRx program gives patients direct access to steep discounts. Patients have already saved more than $700 million, while the latest nine deals added $19.6 billion in American manufacturing commitments.

14. He turned MAHA from a slogan into reality.

Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and MAHA forced a reckoning. HHS and FDA began moving manufacturers away from petroleum-based dyes, approved natural alternatives, changed labeling rules, and created a public tracker of corporate promises.

For the first time in generations, Washington is asking why American children are fat and sick — and fixing the problem instead of prescribing another drug.

15. He prioritized adoption and family formation.

Trump made the adoption tax credit partly refundable, allowing eligible families to receive up to $5,000 per adopted child even when they owe less tax. He also raised tax-free dependent-care assistance from $5,000 to $7,500 in 2026. Trump is forcing government to stop making it harder to adopt, care for dependents, or build families.

16. He stood up for victims of revenge porn and sexual deepfakes.

The TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalized specified nonconsensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated sexual deepfakes. Covered platforms must now provide a reporting process and must remove all qualifying images within 48 hours. Perps go to prison.

17. He stopped federal support for dangerous gain-of-function research in sketchy foreign labs.

Wuhan should have ended this debate. Instead, the Fauci-led bureaucracy doubled down on reckless experimentation and dangerous gain-of-function research, not just in the United States but in sketchy foreign labs, even in China. Trump put a stop to it, terminating projects in countries of concern and suspending other high-risk programs.

Trump Built America’s Economic Future

18. He turned valuable access to the world’s largest consumer market into leverage and revenue.

Washington treated access to the richest consumer market on Earth into a global entitlement, while allowing them to maintain huge trade barriers against U.S. producers. Trump turned that on its head. By January 2026, the Administration reported $300 billion in gross tariff collections.

The President used those tariffs to negotiate new trade deals with countries representing two-thirds of the global economy. In the process, he opened their markets, increased their purchases of U.S. energy, farm produce, and goods, supported industries vital to national security, and made companies begin building factories here.

19. He began breaking China’s rare-earth chokehold.

China dominates the minerals and magnets inside everything from smartphones to submarines. It controls 92 percent of global rare-earths refining. That’s not free trade: It’s a strategic hostage situation.

Trump’s Pentagon partnered with MP Materials to expand American rare-earth separation and magnet production, backed by long-term purchases and a domestic price floor. He also made deals with allied nations to bring their own production and refining online.

20. He created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve — and made America the center of digital finance.

Trump created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve by ordering the government to keep, rather than auction off, Bitcoin forfeited in criminal and civil cases. He also championed and signed the GENIUS Act, America’s first national framework for dollar-backed stablecoins, replacing Biden’s war on crypto with rules establishing global leadership and dollar dominance.

A stablecoin is a digital dollar that anyone with a smartphone can hold and spend, anywhere on Earth, without all the expensive banking fees. Under Trump’s law, the companies issuing those coins must back them with safe dollar assets, especially short-term U.S. Treasuries. So as stablecoins spread, they expand the dollar’s reach and dominance, even in countries with strict currency controls.

In short: instead of depending on the goodwill of foreign central banks, America can distribute the dollar system directly to billions of people and businesses.

21. He launched the AI Action Plan and Genesis Mission.

Trump’s AI Action Plan attacks the energy, permitting, infrastructure, and regulatory bottlenecks that could hand this century’s most important technology to China. Genesis brings federal data, national labs, supercomputers, and private AI companies together to accelerate discovery. So far, the Energy Department has secured more than $800 million in partner commitments.

22. He restored the Moon to the center of American national strategy.

Trump ordered America back to the Moon by 2028, with initial elements of a permanent base at its strategically vital South Pole by 2030. He also directed development of space-based nuclear power and nuclear rockets, and greater use of America’s unmatched commercial-space industry.

The Moon is the high ground of twenty-first-century industry, science, logistics, and defense — the first great arena of Astropolitics. Trump gave America the means to beat China and make the future free.

Trump Reasserted American Power Around the World

23. He brought American hostages home.

By March 2026, the Administration had secured the release of 105 detained Americans. Marc Fogel came home after years in a Russian prison. George Glezmann came home after two years in Taliban captivity. So did prisoners held by Hamas, Belarus, Venezuela, and others.

24. He replaced foreign aid with investment and trade.

For a century, Washington measured compassion by how many dollars it spent, regardless of the often abysmal results. Trump put a stop to that: his “Trade Over Aid” doctrine offers not a handout but investment, markets, infrastructure, and partnership.

The December 2025 agreement with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a perfect example. It tied American investment to secure critical-mineral supply chains. This creates Congolese jobs and infrastructure while rewarding American investors and securing American supply chains. It also rescues impoverished Third World countries from Chinese Communist debt traps.

25. He launched a $76.6 billion American undersea buildup — and began rebuilding the shipyards to sustain it.

China is on track to outnumber the U.S. submarine fleet by 2030. Biden did nothing about it. But in July 2026, Trump’s Navy awarded contracts for five Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines and nine Block VI Virginia-class attack submarines. The package totals $76.6 billion — an historic contract allowing shipbuilders to expand production lines and train skilled workers.

The President also ordered plans for a fifth Navy shipyard — the first new one in more than 80 years — along with acquisition, workforce, and repair reforms.

Now Act Like It Matters

Trump produced all of these “25 more” accomplishments in just a year and a half, while also accumulating that earlier Top 25 achievements list, accomplishments so consequential that these didn’t make the original cut.

The Republican Party’s greatest political problem this fall is not a lack of victories. It’s that too many Republicans have no idea what — or how much — they’ve accomplished.

It’s up to each of us to tell our story. Donald Trump is delivering great things, whether or not heaven on earth has broken out quite yet. Do the work, send him the team he needs to finish the job, and then get ready for 2028.

Take the time to learn at least five of these victories. Share this list with someone who needs it. Take friends to the polls. And vote as though the most consequential Presidency in modern history depends on what you do.

Because it does.

[Robert Hurst 🇺🇸 @TheFlyingApe1]

@RhodyRedRooster @KaraKryptonite Wait, "A lot of this ...", wow, that's specific.
Then you cuck-a-doodle "war of choice" (wrong) and "tariffs" (executive tool) and play "duck".
Try this: https://t.co/UmujCi0Uji