Hunter Bates

STL | God is good.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.

And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.

One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.

Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.

If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.

Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.

Alternatively

There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.

To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.

It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)

Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.

Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up

But

They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks

Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

[Hunter Bates @Hunterbatesss]

@battleangelviv Where is this?

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

Boardslide the whip

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

It’s going unnoticed because so much other news is happening, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers worry this is their last chance to get the white whale they’ve been chasing for thirty years, an all-out regime change war against Iran.

A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake. Our military stockpiles are depleted from three years of backing Ukraine. Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun and will take years to bear fruit. War would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.

Thanks to President Trump’s restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away from Middle East quagmires for good. We shouldn’t throw that opportunity away so that sone D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die yet again.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

CEO of World Economic Forum resigns.
You’re welcome.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US Pentagon has made a "final offer" to Anthropic seeking unrestricted military use of its AI capabilities ahead of a Friday deadline.

Details include:

1. Pete Hegseth threatening to label Anthropic as a "supply chain risk"

2. Anthropic is resisting use of its AI capabilities to surveil Americans

3. Anthropic is resisting use of its AI capabilities for lethal military missions

4. Anthropic was recently awarded a $200 million government contract

5. Anthropic now has just over 24 hours to respond

This is a pivotal moment for AI warfare and surveillance.

[Jack @jackunheard]

BREAKING: It is being reported that X is making people more Conservative over time.

Yes, that is what happens when narratives aren't controlled and the truth isn't censored.

People are realizing the Left has gone completely off the rails.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Already have thousands of times over. My “net worth” is almost entirely due to my ownership stakes in Tesla and SpaceX. I have <0.1% that is cash.

Tesla and SpaceX employees all receive stock/options and Tesla is >80% owned by retail investors and index/pension funds, so value increases apply >80% to them.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@HasanKhxnx I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

.@RepThomasMassie and I forced last night the DOJ to disclose the identities of 6 men:

Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, and billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner.

I share details of what more we learned to hold the Epstein class accountable.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

🚨JUST IN: Thomas Massie says he’s prepared to invoke the “nuclear option” if the DOJ won’t unredact Epstein client names.

He warns that if Pam Bondi’s Justice Department refuses to release them, he’ll read the names publicly himself.

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent says illegal immigrants are lowering American wages and driving up rent prices.

[Christine Yeargin @christineyeargs]

Average annual deaths as a result of:

ICE: 5

Medical Malpractice: 250,000

Abortion: 1,000,000+

Spare me the performative and selective outrage about ICE.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Within hours of the Epstein file release,

a superPAC funded by Israel-first billionaires Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson, who himself appears in Epstein’s black book,

bought another $800,000 of TV ads against me.

I’ll still win, but if I lose, it was worth it.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

It was not a hoax,

I cannot be bullied,

I am not done,

and this is why those in power are doing everything in their power to defeat me.

[Darth Powell @VladTheInflator]

“I’m sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to r*pe island.”

THE Thomas Massie

[Hunter Bates @Hunterbatesss]

@JesperHensgens Copy

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

This unbelievable clip drops the red-pill nuke on the Somali fraud scam!

She lays it out cold: "You can't afford another kid because childcare is so expensive - but Somali fraudsters got millions of your taxpayer dollars for child care centers that don’t exist."

"You can’t afford a home - but 100 Somalis spent millions of your taxpayer dollars on luxury properties."

"You’re paying $30K a year for terrible health care - while they got millions of your taxpayer dollars for health care centers they never opened."

That's the corrupt Dem elites exposed raw - putting unvetted migrants and grifters first while screwing over hardworking Americans. They robbed us blind for years and smeared anyone complaining as racist.

Everyday patriots finally shining the light forced the freezes and audits. Trump's team is cutting off the cash and cleaning house fast. Real Americans are taking our country back!

[Hunter Bates @Hunterbatesss]

@BeholdPaleH0rse 👀