4th generation Oklahoman. Former NSC Chief of Staff under President Trump. Former U.S. Senate candidate. Always OSU Cowboys. RTs not endorsements.
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Alex Gray retweeted
TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF OKLAHOMA, MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE FOR:
– Kevin Hern for U.S. Senate
– Mike Mazzei for Governor
– T.W. Shannon for Lieutenant Governor
– Cindy Byrd for State Treasurer
– Mark Tedford for U.S. Congress (OK-01)
– Josh Brecheen for U.S. Congress (OK-02)
– Frank Lucas for U.S. Congress (OK-03)
– Tom Cole for U.S. Congress (OK-04)
– Stephanie Bice for U.S. Congress (OK-05)
These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Alex Gray retweeted
A master class in citizenship and economic development. Oklahoma will be an indirect beneficiary of everything he’s talking about. #citizencapital
Today I sit down with Ross Perot Jr., Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group. Ross founded Hillwood in 1988 and built Alliance Texas, his masterpiece, a 1 of 1 27,000-acre development.
We discuss:
• Why Trammell Crow told him to just build warehouses
• How Hillwood developed Alliance Texas
• How a rare earth company got its air permit in three weeks
• How President Bush helped close Scotiabank's move to Texas
• What the 1992 campaign looked like from inside the family
• The Iran War and why cheap oil prices are on the way
• Why every community should want a data center
• How to keep China from taking Taiwan
• Why he expects markets to boom after the midterms
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:42) Why Texas Is Winning the Data Center Boom
(06:20) The Facts Behind the Data Center Backlash
(11:49) Why California, Illinois, and New York Are Losing to Texas
(18:12) How Fort Worth Landed Elon Musk, MP Materials, and Taylor Sheridan
(23:39) Building Alliance for Flying Taxis and Drone Delivery
(27:47) Fighter Pilot Heroes and the First Helicopter Flight Around the World
(34:29) Why EDS Left Dallas and Hillwood Became a Developer
(38:31) Why the Rail Yard Matters More Than the Runway
(44:51) Tariffs and How to Deal with China
(50:35) Deterring a War over Taiwan by 2027
(55:32) The Iran War and the Coming Oil Glut
(59:10) The Case for a Post-Midterm Market Boom
(1:04:34) Smart AI Regulation and the Quantum Encryption Threat
(1:09:24) Buying Land After the S&L Crisis and Trammell Crow's Advice
(1:12:31) Why Circle T Ranch Has Been Replanned 30 Times
(1:17:43) How George W. Bush Closed the Scotiabank Deal
(1:19:11) Inside the 1992 Perot Presidential Campaign
(1:24:34) How Hillwood Runs as a Company of Entrepreneurs
(1:32:04) Why Finding Talent Is the Hardest Part of the Business
Alex Gray retweeted
Beyond reckless. Governors need to think strategically. This is the opposite of that. Cheap political grandstanding. @MazzeiMike took the right stand even when politically difficult
I oppose the Inola smelter. As governor, I’ll use every tool available to me to stop this project and protect the Oklahomans who would have to live with its consequences.
Thank you to @FOX23 and Rick Maranon for having me on In Depth and for the great conversation. Be sure to check the rest out.
Beyond reckless. Governors need to think strategically. This is the opposite of that. Cheap political grandstanding. @MazzeiMike took the right stand even when politically difficult
I oppose the Inola smelter. As governor, I’ll use every tool available to me to stop this project and protect the Oklahomans who would have to live with its consequences.
Thank you to @FOX23 and Rick Maranon for having me on In Depth and for the great conversation. Be sure to check the rest out.
Alex Gray retweeted
Hard to overstate how big of a deal this is. Working for @RealPNavarro on January 20, 2017 and looking around to find very few colleagues who shared the President’s trade and foreign policy agenda was a lonely feeling. It should never be that way for a President or other elected official. Thanks to @americanmoment and others, that’s changed.
“A few thousand experienced and competent staffers are the bedrock of any political movement.”
Ten years ago, MAGA had no one in Washington D.C. except President Trump. Today, there are thousands. Ten years from now there will be thousands more. Will you be one of them?
semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
Hard to overstate how big of a deal this is. Working for @RealPNavarro on January 20, 2017 and looking around to find very few colleagues who shared the President’s trade and foreign policy agenda was a lonely feeling. It should never be that way for a President or other elected official. Thanks to @americanmoment and others, that’s changed.
“A few thousand experienced and competent staffers are the bedrock of any political movement.”
Ten years ago, MAGA had no one in Washington D.C. except President Trump. Today, there are thousands. Ten years from now there will be thousands more. Will you be one of them?
semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
Alex Gray retweeted
Half the town is trying to smear every GOP hill staffer as a groyper and the other half is trying to put them in jail.
The kids, though? They're doing just fine.
“A few thousand experienced and competent staffers are the bedrock of any political movement.”
Ten years ago, MAGA had no one in Washington D.C. except President Trump. Today, there are thousands. Ten years from now there will be thousands more. Will you be one of them?
semafor.com/article/10/21/20…
Alex Gray retweeted
This is a false equivalence.
Slotkin, a sitting U.S. senator, openly said she wants “signature cases” against Trump’s “enablers” specifically to deter people from considering jobs in his administration.
I’m not aware of any Republican in office who has advocated the mirror-image approach—using the threat of prosecutions to deter people from serving in a Democratic administration.
Whatever one thinks about broader claims of retaliation, they’re not equivalent to Slotkin’s statement and its unambiguously stated goal.
My thoughts on Senator Slotkin’s U of C remarks and Republicans’ hypocritical reactions. "Trump won the election and could have stopped the cycle. But that was contrary to his vengeful nature and, in any event, would have been seen by his side as unilateral disarmament. And so he engaged in astonishingly harsh and broad retaliation for what the Biden administration did, in order to deter rivals on many dimensions. The Democrats are now contemplating whether and how to respond when they gain power. The incentive for brutal retaliation will be overwhelming, especially since it will be argued, just as Vance argued, that the other side has already done it, will do it again if possible, and thus must be maximally deterred.
And so on.
It’s a bleak future."
execfunctions.org/p/senator-…
Alex Gray retweeted
Do any of the people with strong opinions on the Republican staffer class have something to say about this?
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
Alex Gray retweeted
Senator Slotkin understands something too many politicians even on the Right still don’t: young conservatives are clear-eyed about the threat posed by the American Left. They are under no illusion that leftists play fair, or that they ultimately want the same things but prefer different ways of getting there. That makes them fearless and effective. But to leftists like Slotkin, it also makes them a threat.
Young conservatives like those at American Moment understand the sorts of policies necessary to dismantle the Left’s death grip on so many of our public and private institutions, protect the good life for everyday Americans, and preserve our republic for future generations. Just as importantly, they do not care whose delusional sensibilities they offend in the process—a quality that has been missing from far too many politicians on the Right for generations.
That is why people like Slotkin are so desperate to sideline them before they ever set foot in the arena. Unfortunately for her, the brazen lawlessness of the Left is outmatched by the bold conservatism of young Americans whose fight has only just begun.
Our response to @ElissaSlotkin's threat to conservative staffers:
“We are going to help them get jobs, we are going to put them to work, and if anyone comes after them—they’ll have a fight on their hands.”
Alex Gray retweeted
France is not the future of America. America is the future of France. Globally conservatives will usher in a new age of human flourishing.
Alex Gray retweeted
Not on American Moment’s watch.
Only way out is through.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
Alex Gray retweeted
Christopher Columbus embodied the best of the Western spirit. His faith, courage, and grit led to the discovery of a new world and brought Christianity and Western civilization to a new hemisphere. From the hulls of his ships, he set in motion waves that, centuries later, would culminate in the founding of the greatest nation the world has ever known: the United States of America. His enduring legacy of excellence should serve as an inspiration for Americans to boldly defend the greatness of our civilization.
Happy Columbus Day!
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By the way, for those who really want to understand the broad scope of American diplomatic history (and not just the midwit version that starts with WWII), an excellent book is “We May Dominate the World” by my friend Sean Mirski. It focuses on the period from the Civil War to WWII, where—for better or worse—Latin America was unquestionably the main focus. I generally find those who decry our Administration’s priorities shockingly ignorant of this history and of the Western Hemisphere more generally.
Alex Gray retweeted
The leadership of Daughters of the American Revolution is so focused on transing the formerly female organization that they just disbanded the chapter leading efforts against the transing of DAR.
Alex Gray retweeted
At first I thought this was a parody. Denigrating the countries of our hemisphere as only worthy of visits by mere assistant secretaries. Presumably the Secretary should be in Paris, Brussels and Berlin talking about the rules based international order? The below is everything that has been wrong with the U.S. foreign policy establishment since the end of the Cold War.
Secretaries of State travel the world, to our biggest allies and to address the most pressing issues. But Marco Rubio does neither. His solo travels take him where assistant secretaries go. Rarely the boss. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaa…
At first I thought this was a parody. Denigrating the countries of our hemisphere as only worthy of visits by mere assistant secretaries. Presumably the Secretary should be in Paris, Brussels and Berlin talking about the rules based international order? The below is everything that has been wrong with the U.S. foreign policy establishment since the end of the Cold War.
Secretaries of State travel the world, to our biggest allies and to address the most pressing issues. But Marco Rubio does neither. His solo travels take him where assistant secretaries go. Rarely the boss. open.substack.com/pub/ivodaa…