Richard Phelps

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@JohnLeFevre Sorkin?

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@realalexclark Not true at all; in fact it’s the contrary. The risk of exposure to “sewage” is much greater farming organically, due to composted manures and organic derived fertilizers used. From someone who has farmed both conventionally and organically

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@marklevinshow Why now on the precipice of peace is it important to know the details??? When the war was started we were told to trust the information and the president didn’t need congressional approval. Interesting how that’s changed @RepThomasMassie

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@JPATrades

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@RyanShead And Ukraine used to belong to Russia

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@creMBP There’s a guy that constantly low balls RV’s on our lot and similarly makes snide remarks about the appraiser (JD Power) buying the unit.
My favorite thing to do is inform when those RV’s sale at asking price and offer to find him an RV more aligned with his budget

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Happy Pride Month to those who celebrate.

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

So devastated by the Elon / Trump breakup 😢

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

I thought this clown left X 🤦‍♂️

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

As I migrate my social media feed to Big Blue - just look for my last name - if I unfollow you here it's just a means of keeping track of who I have followed over there

The account will remain open to promote the podcast, though one recent episode had an audience of 153,000 and 22 of them came to the show from Twitter-X

Also, fuck you @elonmusk

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

You’re way better off buying American olive oil. As an ex farmer and someone who did a ton of research on olives (oil). The European olive oil market is fraught with fraud. They will mix olive oil with vegetable oil and dye it with chlorophyll to give it the same color. Because vegetable oil is cheaper to produce. Not saying they all do it but American product is as good or better than European oil

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@ClayTravis Have you heard of Kyler Murray?

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@davidrkadler Whose side are you on?

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@NicoleShanahan Dept of Ag?

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@VivekGRamaswamy Congrats man!

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@2a_kihn @joncoopertweets This guys obviously so full of shit

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

I can’t imagine the vindication Trump and his family are feeling

You were at the highest high: POTUS

To the lowest low

Losing the 2020 election, dozens of criminal charges, a $450m fee—humiliation

Back to the highest high

A crushing victory and POTUS again

It’s mythology

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@realalexclark You should cancel and go on a date with me 😃

[Richard Phelps @richardmphelps]

@Scaramucci you alright 👀