No, no, Massie is totally bad because he keeps voting against bills Trump puts forward, despite most of the bills never being read by those voting, containing massive increases in spending that Massie is on record as being against over and over again, countless other addendums that have nothing to do with the actual rhetoric surrounding the bills, and other talking points simply because he won't jump on the bandwagon like a good tribalist and vote red no matter what.
despite most of the bills never being read by those voting, containing massive increases in spending
And that's why I don't vote anymore. It's just a scam to trick us into handing over the consent of the governed, while those of us who aren't rich enough to hire a lobbying firm to put a senator in our pocket have little to no say in our government. But if enough people withdraw their consent, it can collapse like Eastern European communist governments did at the end of the Cold War.
Massie is a strange character. On one hand, the anti-AIPAC stuff makes him seem genuine. On the other, he endorsed DeSantis (the ultra-neoconservative nevertrumper choice) in 2024's primary, and he eagerly played the heel by opposing the BBB on open borders grounds (even if he hated the bill, he'd have to know that they weren't going to let it pass anyways, so he was burning political capital for nothing). Even the most fanatical true believer libertarian would have to understand at this point that he can get his personal utopia except for open borders or he can get a generic socialist hellhole because the people he let in want and vote for that outcome, so it's hard to assume good faith.
My conspiratorial side feels like his career is set up to try to create a wedge between noninterventionists and immigration restrictionists, and try to associate opposing AIPAC with wanting to let in infinity Guatemalans when, in reality, it's the AIPAC darlings that have always pushed amnesty behind the scenes. If he's sincere individually, then I'd guess that whoever convinced him DeSantis was a good guy is also behind his recent unforced errors. Everything would be so much better for him if he hadn't gone out of his way to burn bridges with the voters most supportive of his message.
Oh, and I just noticed that retweet was today.
Absolute legend.
For the record: Thomas Massie did not kill himself.
This man is a patriot.
No, no, Massie is totally bad because he keeps voting against bills Trump puts forward, despite most of the bills never being read by those voting, containing massive increases in spending that Massie is on record as being against over and over again, countless other addendums that have nothing to do with the actual rhetoric surrounding the bills, and other talking points simply because he won't jump on the bandwagon like a good tribalist and vote red no matter what.
His wife, though...
And that's why I don't vote anymore. It's just a scam to trick us into handing over the consent of the governed, while those of us who aren't rich enough to hire a lobbying firm to put a senator in our pocket have little to no say in our government. But if enough people withdraw their consent, it can collapse like Eastern European communist governments did at the end of the Cold War.
Massie is a strange character. On one hand, the anti-AIPAC stuff makes him seem genuine. On the other, he endorsed DeSantis (the ultra-neoconservative nevertrumper choice) in 2024's primary, and he eagerly played the heel by opposing the BBB on open borders grounds (even if he hated the bill, he'd have to know that they weren't going to let it pass anyways, so he was burning political capital for nothing). Even the most fanatical true believer libertarian would have to understand at this point that he can get his personal utopia except for open borders or he can get a generic socialist hellhole because the people he let in want and vote for that outcome, so it's hard to assume good faith.
My conspiratorial side feels like his career is set up to try to create a wedge between noninterventionists and immigration restrictionists, and try to associate opposing AIPAC with wanting to let in infinity Guatemalans when, in reality, it's the AIPAC darlings that have always pushed amnesty behind the scenes. If he's sincere individually, then I'd guess that whoever convinced him DeSantis was a good guy is also behind his recent unforced errors. Everything would be so much better for him if he hadn't gone out of his way to burn bridges with the voters most supportive of his message.
He's not gonna kill himself, he's just going to get primaried.
Thomas Massie seems to be one of the good ones!