Voluntaryist Minister

Nobody is good at running other people's lives. The role of politicians is to run other people's lives. Democracy selects the best, most shameless liars and puts them in charge of our lives.

There’s a higher power.

@raefejenkins The only thing that is clear is that voting solves nothing.

If I vote Libertarian, it’s a lost cause If I vote Republican, they’ll only get us in a war If I vote Democrats, this weird LGBT agenda will get pushed on kids and things will get dangerous when men aka “trans women” go into women’s restrooms So what the freak is the solution !!?

@JackPosobiec The people lose every election.

What is your take on tonight’s results?

@willchamberlain Congress doesn’t do good things. Gridlock is the best we can hope for.

Thomas Massie may have lost, but he can console himself with the knowledge that in 12 years he never passed a single bill or accomplished anything of note in Congress

The Ron Paul folks right now

@DecampDave @TheWizardOz39 Massie isn’t even that great and he’s still too good for the ‘publicans.

I am more pissed off about Massie losing than I expected. The one freakin guy.

@AaronRDay Warren Davidson is the best of what’s left, but what happened to Massie is probably gonna keep him quiet and docile.

Ron Paul lost. Then came Rand Paul, Justin Amash, and Thomas Massie. Now Massie and Amash are gone, and Rand is a shell of his father. Yet there's a wave of political newcomers who've convinced themselves, and worse, convinced others, that the only way forward is grinding through the Republican Party to "own the libs." I'd bet money these are the same people who grew up Democrat and just discovered politics five minutes ago. They can't function without an authoritarian to worship. The team changed; the mindset didn't.

@WarrenDavidson Thank you for having the guts to speak in support of him in light of what happened to Boebert. Have you spoken to Ed about ending the income tax?

I’m thankful for Thomas Massie’s service to our country and his fidelity to our Constitution. With this contentious primary ended, I hope Republicans can once again unite the fragile coalition that has given us the opportunity to save America with a very narrow majority. Ground we have fought to gain will not be held unless we work together. Now, more than ever, we must keep calm and #DefendFreedom.

@seanmdav He should have played to his strengths and introduced legislation to repeal the income tax. Nobody else is doing much to move forward on that part of Trump’s agenda, it’s the one thing they might have agreed on.

Why did Massie lose tonight? Massie went from principled libertarian during COVID, to GOP leadership lapdog under McCarthy, to anti-Trump Epstein obsessive in 2025 after tweeting about that issue a whopping three (3) times in the decade prior. The nail in the coffin for him was voting against OBBB in 2025 because, according to Massie, it did too much to secure the border. Trump mercilessly trashed Massie in 2020–calling him a “disaster” for America and Kentucky and saying he should be thrown out of the GOP entirely—but Massie easily swatted that away and won 81-19, so you can’t say he only lost because of Trump. He went toe-to-toe with Trump on COVID in 2020 and won overwhelmingly. Massie lost because he went from being perceived as a quirky but lovable nerd who seemed to genuinely believe everything he said, to looking like a clout-chasing influencer who cared more about getting TV time with Democrats on an issue he clearly never cared about until five minutes ago than he did about representing his voters. We’ll never know what caused the apparent personality change—maybe it was the death of his wife, maybe it was the McCarthy race followed by McCarthy’s ouster, or maybe it was a desire for notoriety or media acclaim and a lucrative podcasting career outside of Congress—but the drastic change was undeniable, as was the seeming lack of interest in much of anything happening in Kentucky. Blame Trump, blame Israel, blame Epstein, blame the tragic death of a spouse, I don’t care. But you cannot just wave away 2020 Massie going face-to-face with the Trump machine and winning in a rout only to get smoked six years later. Massie’s voters didn’t really change all that much, but he did, and they noticed.

Called it.

@AP4Liberty To find and build better options and maybe prevent folks from putting too much hope in the ballot box.

@GodIsVoluntary And you're not shooting your way out so why are you here?

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IF ANYTHING LIBERTARIANS?

Horrible Congressman Thomas Massie put out an old Endorsement, from many years ago, of him by me long before I found out that he was the Worst Congressman in the History of our Country. I endorsed Ed Gallrein, a true American Patriot, which Massie knows full well, so the statement that he put out is fraudulent, just like HE is fraudulent. WITHDRAW YOUR FAKE STATEMENT, MASSIE, RIGHT NOW! President DONALD J. TRUMP

@RpsAgainstTrump Gallrein, because democracy is a competition of bads.

Who wins tonight in Kentucky: Thomas Massie or Ed Gallrein, and why?

@RepMarkPocan You could like, stop taxing us?

Trump is spending your hard-earned tax dollars on a $1.7 billion slush fund for his supporters who terrorized our Capitol and beat cops on January 6th, claiming “persecution” by Democrats. I introduced an amendment in the Appropriations Committee to block this from happening, but Republicans blocked it. When we’re back in the majority, we're going to shut it down!

@RepCasar Not if you stop taxing us.

Trump just got $1.7 billion of your tax dollars for January 6th rioters and MAGA insiders. Here's how👇🏽

@SenRandPaul @OANN

Under my leadership, Republicans have taken another major step toward reaffirming President Trump’s mission to secure the border & enforce our laws. Let’s see if the Democrats have another tantrum in the form of a vote-a-rama when this bill reaches the Senate floor. @OANN

@RepJasmine You do realize Trump would have to sign that bill right? Might I suggest an alternative approach that has a chance in hell (aka DC)?

Working families are struggling to afford groceries, gas, rent, and healthcare — taxpayers should not be forced to bankroll political revenge tours and payouts for Donald Trump and his cronies. That’s why I introduced the STOP TRUMP Act — to make it clear that taxpayer dollars are not a personal slush fund for presidents, political loyalists, or extremists who participated in an attack on our democracy.