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@EricLDaugh Anyone who shows a capacity to think for themselves is unacceptable to Trump.

🚨 NOW: President Trump announces he's looking for a GOP primary challenger to Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado, because she's campaigning for Thomas Massie "Anybody who can be that dumb deserves a good Primary fight!" "Even though I long ago endorsed Boebert, if the right person came along, it would be my Honor to withdraw that Endorsement, and endorse a good and proper alternative. Just let me know, or announce your Candidacy, and I will be there for you!" "Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District? You remember Lauren moved to the District when it became obvious that she couldn’t win in her original Congressional District (The Third!) — A Carpetbagger, indeed!" "Boebert is campaigning for the Worst “Republican” Congressman in the History of our Country, Thomas Massie, of the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky."

@DeTocqueville14 That’s unfair to toddlers.

Donald J. Trump is intellectually and emotionally indistinguishable from a toddler.

@TaraBull It’s the duty of patriotic Americans to support Massie.

Given her recent actions campaigning for Rep. Thomas Massie against President Trump, do you still support Rep. Lauren Boebert?

@fl32092 @TaraBull Trump is a RINO.

@TaraBull Why won’t Trump go after the rhinos who are fucking everything up ….?

@robert71559 @Roughouser84681 @MurraySuggests So what’s your standard, 100% fealty to the president? Never think for yourself never ever work across the aside on those on issues on which you agree? Massie has, overall, the most conservative voting record in Congress. But you do you. Feel free to outsource all thinking.

Prominent liberals and Democrats who have praised or closely collaborated with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) include:Joy Behar (Co-host of ABC's The View) In September 2025, Behar explicitly called Massie "the one Republican you can respect right now." She praised him for challenging the Trump administration and pushing for the release of Jeffrey Epstein files.thehill.com Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA, progressive Democrat) Khanna has been Massie's most consistent Democratic partner, especially on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. They co-led the bipartisan effort (including discharge petition) to force the release of Epstein-related documents, reviewed unredacted files together, held joint press conferences, and appeared on shows like Face the Nation.politico.com Khanna has publicly called Massie an "incredible strategist," praised his courage and intellect, and sat with him during Trump's State of the Union. He has repeatedly highlighted their collaboration as a model for accountability beyond partisanship.theatlantic.com Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC, D-NY) and some progressive Democrats AOC and other progressives (e.g., Ilhan Omar) have aligned with Massie on specific votes, such as anti-war measures (e.g., War Powers Resolution regarding potential Iran involvement) and opposition to certain foreign aid or surveillance issues. AOC has signaled support ("signing on") for his initiatives.ivn.us Critics (often from the right) point to these cross-aisle votes and use them in attack ads against Massie, sometimes exaggerating alliances. AIPAC and others have criticized him for voting with "AOC and Ilhan Omar" on Israel-related matters.jewishinsider.com

If you support Thomas Massie, drop a comment below. I’m trying to make sure I’m following every liberty-minded American still standing on principle.

@BillKristol He had a $4B deficit, increased it to $12B, cut it back down to $4B where he started, then got a $4B bailout from the state and deferred payments to muni workers pension plans (kicked the can down the road). So when did you go full Marxist, Bill?

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, with level spending while closing a $12b deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

@robert71559 @Roughouser84681 @MurraySuggests Anyone who votes against the Constitution hates America. Massie votes with the Constitution consistently. Trump may not be as bad as most Democrats but like nearly all politicians is rather authoritarian. Trump’s much more of a leftist than Massie.

@Roughouser84681 @MurraySuggests any one who votes against funding the wall is the one who hates America.....don't worry...I won't call you any names

@adammocklerr The long term drivers of the deficit: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. All enacted by Democrats.

Which Political Party Grew the Debt More?

Newsom is not warning you. He is celebrating. This was the plan from the very beginning as both parties slowly destroyed the healthcare system in the United States. And Newsom is right about one thing. It is inevitable given the Altruist morality which glorifies Self Sacrifice as its highest virtue and which grips our entire culture and the world. Socialism only ever grows unless you reject it outright based on a proper moral framework. Virtually no one in Washington or anywhere else outside of Objectivism holds such a framework. Medicare in 1965 distorted prices. The HMO Act in 1973 restructured access. The ACA in 2010 mandated purchase. Each intervention broke the market further. Each broken market was used to justify the next intervention. Per capita spending went from $353 in 1970 to over $15,000 today. A 600% real increase. Not one politician will admit the government caused it because admitting the cause would mean surrendering the solution they have been selling for 60 years which is MORE government. Newsom and people like Obama and Sanders know the endgame. Break the system, blame capitalism, then offer the government as the only alternative. There was never a healthcare crisis under Capitalism. It is a manufactured crisis with a predetermined solution. And it works because Americans have accepted the premise that healthcare is a right, which means someone else's labor belongs to you because you need it.

@ewarren Pretty sure this is how it works!

@ewarren Let’s try free markets, far and away the best system to give ordinary people a fighting chance to attain health, prosperity and happiness.

Our government isn’t broken. It works great for billionaires. For Big Pharma. For Wall Street. For corporations that can hire lobbyists. It's rigged for the wealthy and well-connected. We need to build a better system—one that works for working people.

The only Republican in the House who actually cares about the Constitution, votes his conscience, wants to end undeclared wars, and stop the runaway deficit spending that is bankrupting our country is the one guy Trump wants to get rid of. What does that tell you about Trump?

@benryanwriter @JonHaidt Alternate headline: NYU Students Prove Their Generation Is Coddled”.

NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address. nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/…

@aaronsibarium @RandyEBarnett These people who create these courses are in fact, oppressors.

NEW: In a mandatory anti-racism class, Penn State told 1L law students they must "acknowledge the reality of systemic racism" and "dismantle systems that racialize, subordinate, and oppress." One student withdrew from the law school over the class. We obtained shocking audio.🧵

Sweden's socialist experiment collapsed spectacularly in the early 1990s, forcing politicians to abandon decades of central planning and embrace free markets. The results speak louder than any economic textbook ever could. By 1990, Sweden's government consumed 67% of GDP. The marginal tax rate hit 87%. Capital flight accelerated as entrepreneurs fled to countries that didn't punish success. The krona crashed. Banks failed. Unemployment spiked to 9.9% by 1997. Sweden's welfare state had priced itself out of reality, just as free market economists predicted it would. Then came the great reversal. Sweden privatized telecommunications, postal services, railways, and electricity. Politicians slashed the corporate tax rate from 57% to 22%. They introduced school vouchers, allowing parents to choose private schools with taxpayer funding. They partially privatized pensions, letting workers invest in individual accounts instead of relying solely on government promises. Most importantly, they eliminated wealth taxes and inheritance taxes that had driven capital overseas. The recovery was swift and decisive. GDP growth accelerated. Unemployment plummeted to 6.1% by 2007. Sweden became a tech powerhouse, producing global companies like Spotify and Skype. The Stockholm stock exchange outperformed most European markets. Foreign investment flowed back as Sweden transformed from socialist cautionary tale to Nordic success story. Today's American progressives love citing "Scandinavian socialism" while ignoring that Sweden's prosperity stems from abandoning socialism when it failed. They want the Sweden of 2023 while implementing the policies of 1975.

@ThomasEWoods Can’t hurt.

I am slightly neurotic about being in my 50s -- I still have so much I want to do, and I want to stay in the best health I can. I also don't want my brain capacity to deteriorate. So I ask you, dear X people, whether there's any scientific basis for what I'm doing for the ol' noggin. My approach is this: keep my brain active in a bunch of different ways. So not just in my daily reading and writing, but also in learning a musical instrument, studying great chess games (I'm working my way through what Bobby Fischer called his 60 memorable games), and learning a foreign language. Yes, of course a language has practical use, but just as important to me is that it gives my brain a different kind of workout from anything else I do. I have no ironclad proof that this will lower my chances of Alzheimer's. But it makes sense. Opinions?

This is interesting. How Claude Feels Being Used by US Millitary youtube.com/shorts/JqOENXF… via @YouTube

@JamieBonkiewicz If the amount of shit in a city was a positive, NYC would be paradise.

Zohran Mamdani is proof that politicians could get a lot of shit done if they actually cared about people

@BearCreekButte @RandPaul Dr. Paul has been trying to get the Justice Dept to prosecute this for years. They are, for some reason, protecting Fauci.

@RandPaul I just have one question though. Why in the hell did you wait till one f-ing day after the statute of limitations run out? Seriously! ffs

Fauci hand-picked the experts who told the intelligence community COVID was not a lab leak. Those same experts helped him rewrite gain-of-function definitions in 2015. They took his funding. They worked with his Chinese partners. This was not a coincidence. This was a system designed to produce a predetermined outcome.

@DannyNoonan007 @Holden_Culotta Massie is pro Constitution, pro America, and far more Republican than you or Trump will ever be.

@Holden_Culotta Massie is anti-Republican, there is no reason for any Republican to vote for Massie.

Thomas Massie: “There’s a reason I’m their number one target.” “It’s because I’m effective.” “I used a discharge petition to get the Epstein files bill passed.” “I stopped a bill two weeks ago that would’ve allowed data centers to bypass the environmental and judicial process for getting permits.” “I got my signature legislation, the PRIME Act, in the … Farm Bill.” “The PRIME Act would allow local farmers to sell to local consumers using the local health department instead of the USDA getting involved.” “They don’t spend nearly $10 million against somebody who’s a backbencher.” @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY @Local12