This guy was sued by his own firm for falsely inflating his role as “Head of Macro,” misusing confidential information to promote his own fund, breaching debt obligations, and defaming the firm to investors.

Yes, it's unsurprising that Trump brought him into the party.

https://twitter.com/j_fishback/status/1975351463443394973

He eventually admitted sharing confidential information and paid the costs of the lawsuit.

How to explain Indian hate?

The truth is simpler than you think.

Many Americans dislike dark skin. But they make an exception if you're good at football, and Indians are bad at sports.

They'll make us a poorer country for that.

Yes, it's that stupid. richardhanania.com/p/indians-are-… There's a human preference for light skin. It shows up almost everywhere and predates colonialism. Indians and blacks are the darkest groups Americans are exposed to or interact with in any significant degree.

US-India relationship is being harmed because Pakistan is more willing to kiss up to Trump, and Modi has too much pride to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize when he didn’t do anything.

Modi is now going to meet Putin and Xi in China.

I can’t believe it’s this stupid. nytimes.com/2025/08/30/us/…

Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts released! See here for thread on the most interesting parts. 1/n Ghislaine is asked whether Epstein ever received money from any intelligence agency, including Mossad. She replies that not as far as she knows and she would be surprised if he did.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing? Depressing read. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/…

Earlier I discussed Casey Means, Trump's nominee for Surgeon General, and her mystical and quack beliefs.

I've looked into her story about how she left her residency. It's very strange, and indicates that there's something that we don't yet know. Means says she was in an otolaryngology residency and almost finished, but she instead decided to quit because her surgical residency didn't focus on nutrition enough. Isn't that something she would have known well before 4 years of residency, on top of medical school?

Trump just nominated Casey Means for Surgeon General.

This is a lunatic who will do serious damage to public health. Thread here, which will only be able to scratch the surface. She'll be the first occupant of the office to believe in using spiritual mediums, praying to ancestor shrines, doing full moon ceremonies to amplify her dreams, asking the trees in the forest to deliver her a hunky man, being a shroomhead, and praising indigenous wisdom.

I've written the Trump reckoning you've been waiting for.

I used to think Dems would turn us into Western Europe. That looks good now when the other side is offering third world levels of incompetence, corruption, and authoritarianism.

This is MAGA now. richardhanania.com/p/what-i-got-w… I convinced myself that the choice was between leftism and conservatism, but it's actually first world leftism versus third world authoritarianism.

I didn't want to believe it! It means I have to be much more pessimistic about the future of America.

Here is Vinod Balachandran, the lead researcher on a team that just created an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer, which has a 90% death rate.

His study showed that within five years, 75% of patients were both alive and cancer free, a miraculous result. mRNA technology for covid was of course pioneered by Katalin Karikó, a woman from rural Turkey.

We debate immigration and ideas, numbers and data. What gets me is the overwhelming gap between the accomplishments of scientists like this and the lives that they're saving on the one side, and the sense of mediocrity you get from immigration critics that is so overwhelming it's offensive. One guy is unlocking the mysteries of the cell and giving those who were doomed to a painful death more time on this earth with friends and family. The other is whining "I want whites to own the local 7/11."

For me, it's sometimes easier to be motivated by hate than a positive vision. Many people are like that. But if that's you, it's good to direct your hate at the right targets. Immigration restrictionists hate people because of what they look like or where they were born. That's wrong, and should be replaced by a feeling of hatred towards those who would deny humanity its ability to move forward because they need reasons to feel superior to others. One genius creates value that outweighs what thousands and thousands of less spectacular individuals cost. That's even granting the premise of restrictionists that the average immigrant is a cost, which is simply not true. richardhanania.com/p/exchange-wit…

Ayn Rand on racists as losers: “The overwhelming majority of racists are men who have earned no sense of personal identity, who can claim no individual achievement or distinction, and who seek the illusion of a ‘tribal self-esteem’ by alleging the inferiority of some other tribe” “Observe the hysterical intensity of the Southern racists; observe also that racism is much more prevalent among the poor white trash than among their intellectual betters.”

If you haven't looked into their claims, you are always going to underestimate just how much and how blatantly anti-vaxxers lie.

If you are on the right, I want you to open your mind and realize that no matter what problems you have with the left, Robert F Kennedy is a uniquely sinister figure who should have no role in public life. Here's just one example as to why.

RFK wrote the foreword for a book by an anti-vaxx organization he once led that claimed to list young people dropping dead from the covid vaccine. The 12-year-old boy on the cover hadn't even been vaccinated against covid. He was just a random kid who died for unrelated reasons, anti-vaxxers put him on the cover of a book, and RFK promoted it.

When the family tried to tell them about this, the publisher ignored them.

The AP reports:

When 12-year-old Braden Fahey collapsed during football practice and died, it was just the beginning of his parents’ nightmare.

Deep in their grief a few months later, Gina and Padrig Fahey received news that shocked them to their core: A favorite photo of their beloved son was plastered on the cover of a book that falsely argues COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike of sudden deaths among healthy young people.

The book, called “Cause Unknown,” was co-published by an anti-vaccine group led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, who is now running for president. Kennedy wrote the foreword and promoted the book, tweeting that it details data showing “ COVID shots are a crime against humanity.”

The Faheys couldn’t understand how Braden’s face appeared on the book’s cover, or why his name appeared inside it.

Braden never received the vaccine. His death in August 2022 was due to a malformed blood vessel in his brain. No one ever contacted them to ask about their son’s death, or for permission to use the photo. No one asked to confirm the date of his death — which the book misdated by a year. When the Faheys and residents of their town in California tried to contact the publisher and author to get Braden and his picture taken out of the book, no one responded.

They finally took the boy off the cover of the book after it became a story during Kennedy's 2024 run. Kennedy supporters have harassed the boy's parents, maybe because they believe they're lying about the covid vaccine and part of the conspiracy.

12-year-old Branden Fahey isn't the only person they were lying about. They were just taking random people who died and made a book about them. One even died in 2019, before covid vaccines were invented.

The AP found dozens of individuals included in the book died of known causes not related to vaccines, including suicide, choking while intoxicated, overdose and allergic reaction. One person died in 2019.

AP asked Kennedy’s campaign, CHD, Dowd and Skyhorse president Tony Lyons several questions about the book, including why they chose to feature Braden, why they didn’t speak to his family first and what steps they took to fact check.

Kennedy's former organization says that Fahey's obituary didn't list a cause of death, so they just decided to take his picture and put it on the cover of their anti-vaxx book. I'm serious. This is how anti-vaxxers reason. "Maybe your son who died in 2019 actually died because he was vaxxed? Just asking questions! Why are you afraid of debate? What are you hiding?"

In emails, Lyons did not address why Braden specifically was chosen for the cover but defended his inclusion by saying that news stories and his obituary did not mention his cause of death.

Hundreds of deaths are cited in the book, though Lyons said it only attributes nine of them to the vaccine. Lyons said Braden’s death and others are never explicitly attributed to the vaccine, and that the book explores many possible reasons for deaths that have appeared in headlines since 2021.

Still, the book several times refers to its “thesis” that mass administration of COVID-19 vaccines caused a spike in deaths. Braden’s parents said his appearance in the context of the book implies he died of the vaccine, putting his death in a false light.

Anti-vaxxers are very dedicated and put out a lot of material. People see this and assume that there must be something to what they're saying. How can they produce so many books, papers, and podcasts if vaccines are safe? What's wrong with opening up a debate?

You'll never have the time to go through all of their claims. The thing to realize is that these are some of the stupidest and most dishonest people in public life. They've been shunned from mainstream institutions for good reason, and it's a troubling sign that they're now being given political power.

If you think elites are the problem, know that they at least want nothing to do with anti-vaxxers. I consider this a litmus test. The degree to which institutions reject these people can be taken as a direct measure of how well they're functioning. Remember that RFK personally lobbied against vaccines in Samoa, where over 80 children died due to lowering rates.

Oh yeah, and here's the story about how he drove his wife to suicide after she found a notebook of all the women he cheated with.

https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1827882382843867483

Trump won 45% of Hispanics, a 25-point increase in vote share in one election cycle.

I explain why the main lesson of this election is that it is time to retire the "demographics is destiny" talking point on the right. It's been completely discredited. richardhanania.com/p/time-to-reti… Here's a poll on support for Trump and Harris across the world. I guess if demographics are what count the US needs more Turks, Nigerians, and Egyptians and fewer Northern Europeans. This would be a dumb argument. So is extrapolating a generation into the future based on race.

NYT on one of the first things Kamala Harris did after becoming vice president:

Paging through intelligence reports just weeks after she was sworn in as vice president, Kamala Harris was struck by the way two female foreign leaders were described. The reports used adjectives that, in her view, were rarely used to describe male leaders.

Ms. Harris, the first woman to hold her office, ordered up a review that scrutinized multiple years of briefing reports from various intelligence agencies, looking for possible gender bias.

The study found some questionable word choices but no widespread pattern, according to a senior intelligence official, one of five who requested anonymity to discuss the review. (None would disclose the words flagged by Ms. Harris because the reports were classified.)

Still, the exercise had an impact: Intelligence officials added a new training class for analysts on how to judge and assess female foreign leaders, according to another official.

Remember all the race craziness during covid? Guess who was the driving force behind it in the administration:

During the pandemic, she repeatedly asked her vice-presidential staff for demographic breakdowns on Covid vaccination recipients and pressed the administration’s health officials to address gaps, according to two former administration officials.

She pushed the federal bureaucracy to incorporate concerns about equity into routine business — so much so that her advisers seldom briefed her on domestic policies without having prepared a ready answer about their impact on women, Black and Hispanic people and other racial minorities.

When Trump says that these are stupid, unserious people, stories like this are what make his charges sound credible.
She doesn’t talk about it during the campaign. But this is where her heart is at. nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/…

The human capital problem on the right is bad and getting worse. Eating pets and imaginary whistleblowers today. What's next? Diagnosing it is easy. Finding solutions is hard.

I do have one though: conservatives should help abolish the electoral college.
richardhanania.com/p/the-conserva… My theory of our politics would suggest it's hopeless. There are lots of stupid people out there, and they used to be kept out by gatekeepers and distributed across the parties. Now they're increasingly in one party, and have the internet. A simple story of supply and demand.

Happy Labor Day.

To celebrate, I've written an article on why you should not support labor unions.

They are anti-meritocratic cartels that achieve gains by harming the rest of society. If you are concerned with poverty, there are better ways to help. richardhanania.com/p/unions-are-n… We can have reasonable debates about the size of government or how much it should distribute wealth. But the way to help the working class is not to favor one group of people and let them take from everyone else, lower economic efficiency, and harm consumers and other workers.

How to understand the RFK phenomenon? I explain Dale Gribble voters. The ultra paranoid have always been around, but before they were divided between the parties.

Now they've consolidated in the GOP, and they are making its human capital problem worse. 🧵richardhanania.com/p/the-rise-of-… Top two podcasts in the country are Rogan and Tucker. They're considered on the opposite sides of the political spectrum, but both are RFK fans. Other alt media personalities like Alex Jones and Bret Weinstein are also part of this group. It's not right/left, but something diff.

The selection of JD Vance can be seen as a triumph for the Tech Right. I explain where they came from and what makes them different from others in the GOP. They're socially liberal, anti-egalitarian, and ultimately for dynamism and progress. 🧵 richardhanania.com/p/understandin…
Ironically, there is a group of leftists who saw this coming. They came up with the acronym TESCREAL, which is so ugly that it's actually catchy. The leftists paying the most attention knew that tech elites were different from other elites in academia and journalism.

The time Israel sent a commando team into downtown Beirut that assassinated three high-ranking members of the PLO and got out. The team was led by Ehud Barak.

Westerners hate Israel because it fills them with a sense of inferiority by showing that heroism is still possible.

Stop and read about the Entebbe Raid, after a plane was hijacked and taken to Uganda. The Israelis secretly flew a team from Suez to Uganda, slaughtered the Palestinian terrorists, their German allies, and Idi Amin’s soldiers, bringing almost all of the hostages home alive.

Fascinating analysis of the trendiness of baby names.

Since the 1960s, the endings of names rise and fall together, especially for boys. The fates of Mason, Jackson, Grayson, etc are all linked.

What names sound good to parents depends on subtle signals they’re not aware of.





This is associated with the decline of traditional names. The lesson here is people really feel the need to conform on a very deep subconscious level! If they don’t conform to tradition, they’ll look for arbitrary signs of trendiness.

Time Magazine in 1958: Blacks are 10% of the population in 1,551 cities but commit 60% of violent crime. Northern mayors consider this their biggest problem and are afraid to talk about it. Black leaders blame racist law enforcement.

Black problems didn’t start with LBJ.



Time in 1958: NAACP tries to get people not to talk about black crime. Many whites are uncomfortable about the subject, and newspapers go out of their way not to mention a crime suspect’s race.

Academic who researches the right realizes he can’t get a job because he’s a white male.

He complains, gets laughed at by a woman at Yale. He accuses her of “punching down” at him, thinking lack of employment makes up for his race and sex.

Talk about a teachable moment.





Screenshots from @hradzka, as David Austin Walsh has locked his account.