Why does Israel historically get more foreign aid than any other country? Because they have the most aggressive lobbyists working for them. I voted NOT to send another $14.3 billion overseas, so now they’re running ads on radio, TV, and facebook. I won’t vote to give them your $.
Today, @judiciarygop conducted an oversight hearing for the @DHSgov Secretary Mayorkas who came prepared not to answer any Republican questions with a smirky smile on his face.
Core inflation remains above 5%, directly impacting the affordability of food for the lower and middle classes. It hinders their ability to purchase homes and leads to rising rental costs. Under your leadership, Americans have experienced significant financial strain, with no tangible solutions offered, only empty promises. This approach mirrors the nonsensical strategies observed during your 50+ years in office.
Joe Rogan asked RFK Jr. how it feels to be treated like a conspiracy theorist by his own family, and his response was to give a short lesson on Albert Camus’s The Plague, the Myth of Sisyphus, and the Stoics.
I think the reason people are drawn to RFK Jr. is because he's a breath of fresh air.
Compared to the routine bureaucrats you expect to run for president, he's actually an impressive person, with an impressive mind, that seems earnestly interested in ideas and the truth. He doesn't have to be your preferred candidate to see that.
We have such unimpressive fiat elites, and it wears on people, so people like RFK Jr., whether they're good on policy and should be president, just sound better. We need a higher standard for these people.
There are significant issues I disagree with RFK about, but this was a cool moment nonetheless. A major litmus test for any presidential candidate should be whether they are willing to talk with @joerogan for hours.
Senator Kennedy: "You didn't have hedges, did you?"
Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank: "There were hedges in place... but I don't know the details."
Kennedy: "You were the CEO... and you do not know if you were hedged or not?"
Mark Zuckerberg says it was challenging to censor COVID misinformation because the scientific establishment was frequently wrong, which ultimately undermined public trust:
"Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn't been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the kind of establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true. That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust."
"If the federal gas tax was suspended for the rest of the summer, someone who drives 12,000 miles a year in a car that averages 22.8 miles per gallon would save about $20." - JPM
The price of gas is up by almost $2 a gallon since Putin accelerated his military build-up, and those high prices pose a challenge for working families.
Today, I'm calling on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months to provide Americans some much-needed relief.