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@thevivafrei @RepShriThanedar x.com/i/status/20579…

@RepShriThanedar You actually not only thought this, but then decided to publish it? Absolute moron.

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning. Good riddance. The Iran war has been the biggest display of intelligence incompetence in decades.

Crazy idea to bring Massie supporters back to the fold... Massie to replace Tulsi

@patriotgirl776 I am confident the Republicans would have never instituted vaccine mandates

What makes the Republican Party different than the Democrat party currently?

@thevivafrei Now that Democrats can no longer use him to thwart trump he will be discarded overnight You think Ro Khana will help him cut spending? You think hakeem Jeffries will help him pass food or medical freedom legislation, or end CISA? Massie got used and it's over now.

Legitimate criticism of Massie’s campaign is that it focused on national / international issues, not Kentucky state issues, and appealed to a national audience, not necessarily Kentucky state audience. That’s fair criticism. This glorious defeat might very well thrust Massie into the national political conversation in a war that a silent victory would not never have brought about. As they say, be careful what you wish for.

One big reason, for me, is free trade. I am very in favor of tariffs he directly opposed them citing "free trade principles" Except, America is already not a free trade system and the globe certainly is not so it's just a handicapping principle that hurts American workers over importers It's like telling the coach you refuse to run a 2-point conversion because "principled football" didn't allow it in 1996 The rules have changed. We are in an economic war and I want the executive to have weapons for the American People's behalf

Most of MAGA despises Massie. Seems hard for some to accept

@_basicbeach_ x.com/i/status/20223…

Why do you dislike Thomas Massie?? Other than you’re in idiot IMO, but I have yet to hear a real reason.

I have a rebuttal id like to talk to you about after you finish sucking a dick. Oh it was a joke I'm not anti-homosexual! That works once or twice but "Israel" is ALL I HEAR To say "anti-Israel" is not "anti-semite" when you then go on to just name a bunch of American Jews kinda gets lost in translation

I'll never get over how the primary grievance of the American Right for the last decade at least was that liberals go around screaming RACIST and BIGOT at everyone who disagrees with them or even makes a joke: all to shut down debate, get people fired, destroy their reputation, etc. Now that the pro-Israel faction of the Right is in power, that's transformed from their primary grievance to their primary tactic. They spend all day screaming RACIST and BIGOT at anyone who disagrees with US financing of Israel and Middle East wars or the excessive influence of Israel loyalists in US politics. Screaming ANTI-SEMITE, trying to get people fired, branding them as bigots for a joke (se the meltdown over Massie's "Tel Aviv" line) dominates their discourse. Just all day long, every day: accusing everyone of being a bigot. Just bizarre.

@Notwokenow Thune is not up for reelection or else I'm confident he would.

Why hasn’t Trump gone after Thune?

As a reluctant Republican there is a mismatch of priorities Every thing you said is a priority of mine But ending illegal (and most legal) immigration is my highest priority. I'll sacrifice debt, and even surveillance to end it. We have a difference of priority. Second, bringing manufacturing back to America, which may mean protectionist tariffs. I support those over most of your priorities. A balanced budget is irrelevant if my kids have no jobs. But I question your principles more generally. Since, with the Dems, it's not even a question of mismatched priorities, they legitimately have no problem with tax, regulation and debt, not any of your other concerns. So throwing in the towel as you say seems counterproductive. But don't let logic stand in the way of your enotions

Thomas Massie’s primary defeat is more than a political upset. It is the clearest signal yet that the Republican Party has no room left for libertarians, no matter how principled, how consistent, or how loyal they’ve been to the Constitution. I say this not as a lifelong outsider, but as someone who once believed the GOP could be a home for liberty-minded Americans. I spent years trying to “work within the party,” convincing myself that if we just elected enough Massies, enough Amashes, enough Ron or Rand Pauls, we could steer the Republican ship back toward limited government, civil liberties, and fiscal restraint. But Massie’s loss makes the truth impossible to ignore: the GOP does not want libertarians. It wants obedience. They did this to the Tea Party, Massie is just the latest scalp. Massie wasn’t defeated because he betrayed so-called Republican values. He was defeated because he actually upheld them. He voted against bloated spending. He opposed unconstitutional surveillance. He challenged executive overreach, no matter which president was in office. He refused to trade principle for party loyalty. And for that, the GOP establishment (and a sizable portion of its base) decided he had to go. When a party that professes liberty as a core principle punishes its most consistent constitutionalist, it tells you everything about what it has become. For decades, libertarians were asked to carve out space inside the Republican Party. We were told: “We need your votes.” “We need your energy.” “We need your ideas.” But the moment we challenge the party’s sacred cows of militarism, surveillance, central planning, or corporate welfare, we’re labeled traitors. This only proves the GOP wants libertarian votes, not libertarian principles. Massie’s defeat is not an anomaly. It is the logical outcome of a party that has spent years purging dissenters and elevating those who treat government power as a weapon rather than a responsibility. Political parties respond to incentives, and the GOP’s incentives are now crystal clear: • Reward loyalty to the leader, not loyalty to the Constitution. • Reward spending when it benefits your faction, punish restraint when it doesn’t. • Reward those who expand state power in the name of “security” or “order.” • Punish anyone who questions the party line, even if they’re right. Libertarians cannot thrive in a party whose incentives run directly counter to liberty. If Thomas Massie, arguably the most intellectually consistent, policy-savvy, and constitutionally grounded member of Congress, cannot survive a Republican primary, then no libertarian can. Not one. Massie was the test case. The GOP failed the test. For years, libertarians were told to “be realistic,” to accept that the Republican Party was the only viable vehicle for liberty. But what’s realistic about staying in a party that openly rejects you? What’s pragmatic about tying yourself to a machine that punishes your principles? What’s strategic about being a permanent minority faction inside a party that sees you as a nuisance and scapegoat? Libertarians don’t need to be the GOP’s conscience. We don’t need to be their think tank. We don’t need to be their scapegoats. The Libertarian Party is not perfect. No party is. But it is the only national political organization that: • Opposes government surveillance without exception • Opposes endless war without apology • Opposes corporate welfare without loopholes • Defends civil liberties without picking favorites • Defends economic freedom without selling out to donors • Defends personal freedom without moralizing If you believe in liberty, you deserve a party that believes in it too, not one that uses the word as a slogan while governing like the opposite. I left the GOP almost ten years ago now. The future of liberty will not be built inside a party that rejects it. It will be built by those willing to stand outside it, and stand firm. I hope you will join us. -Chair

@MisesChair @ArchdukeAsuka Same to you. In fact they will come for you first most likely because it's the pacifists first, Everytime.

@ArchdukeAsuka Enjoy democrat rule.

All the people dunking on America First, MAHA and libertarians for taking out Massie will be the first ones to come back begging and bargaining right around November. Let em hang.

How many Chinese people do you know? How many follow you? How many are on twitter at all? They may accuse you of being anti-chinese if they actually heard the things you say about China The Jews are mixed with us. Pejoratives towards Israel is pejoratives towards their families abroad. I can understand them taking offense. If we legitimately cheered on as china bombed Canada, endangering your family still in Canada, would you not get offended? I can imagine that's how Jews feel, as it seems the whole world is wishing success to hamas and iran

It’s interesting… I tend to focus with great emphasis on China as a country that exercises nefarious influence in Canadian politics. I would say that I focus on China more than any other country. I talk about it often. I condemn what I believe to be its nefarious involvement / influence in Canadian politics. Why is it that nobody calls me “anti-Chinese” but if someone has a similar focus on Israeli / AIPAC influence in American politics, they are reflexively called “antisemitic”? I focus on China. Others focus on Russia. And others, for whatever the reason, focus on Israel. Why is it that the first two are not called “Anti-Chinese” or “anti-Russian”, but the third is written off as “antisemitic”? This is a serious question @CynicalPublius

@emilyjashinsky @psocal2 I agree with @psocal2 . Massie has changed. I think it's losing his wife. Single guys act different than married men. It's called peacocking and I've been observing it in Massie

@psocal2 no, as someone who first met him a decade ago, he's pretty much always been the same

A couple of headlines I think explain KY-4. Massie easily won his prior primaries, even after bucking Trump on a major COVID bill and earning a presidential rebuke. Smaller margins amounted to higher stakes in big votes, and the movement to promote our alliance with Israel is panicking about trends in public opinion. So MAGA had more reasons to ditch him, and donors who support Israel had more reasons to help. Without the cash infusion that nationalized the race — asking GOP voters to choose between Massie and Trump (Trump will always win) — he'd likely have been fine.

@themagaking Yes, in many ways fetterman is a better Republican than massie

I don’t care what the Liberty score says about Thomas Massie. If you abandon Republicans on the biggest fights, the other 90% means nothing. I’d rather have a Democrat who stands with us 10% of the time on critical issues than a Republican who’s reliable only when it doesn’t matter.

Marc Andreesen on Rogan mentioned "Can you build in America anymore" Do you think the California coastal commission will let you build islands off the coast? Do you think oregon or Washington would? Perhaps texas, and the gulf states, but that land is already cheap because no one wants to live there This concept that if labor is zero cost we can have everything will not apply to preferred real estate

Real estate is going to plummet and land is going to skyrocket.

@nicksortor Unfortunately thune is not up for reelection he is pretty much invincible

Please, PLEASE, President Trump: go after John Thune with the same viciousness you just went after Thomas Massie with FORCE him to pass the SAVE America Act. Sincerely, We The People.

@Sassafrass_84 Politics is about results Massie got none. He got in the way I was done with him. Same goes for thune. Unfortunately he's not up for reelection

Don't get it twisted. None of us want Lindsey Graham in the republican party either. We just dont.

@ksorbs Politics is about results That's where Massie lost me Accomplished nothing for himself and fought trump every way he could Same for thune

Now Thune.

@NobleOne "politics is about results" Exactly Im glad Massie lost, but I'm equally hoping thune is primaries as well Fighting trump, when seems to be the only guy trying to do anything pissed me off to no end

I like Thomas Massie, and I love our President. That said, I backed Massie in this race. But it wasn’t my call. It was the people of Kentucky’s 4th District who decided. And tonight, President Trump once again showed just how tight his grip is on this party. That’s exactly why I never would’ve bet against him. Strategically, Massie should’ve been a better team player. Not on every single vote, but on the ones that truly matter. I respect him standing on principle. I’ll never knock a man for that. But politics is about results, not just posture. Campaigns come down to turnout. Getting elected by your district is what gives you real power to drive change. Step one is winning. Everything else is just noise. Objectively, Massie’s fatal mistake wasn’t pushing for the Epstein files. It was turning on the President over it. Like it or not, this is a team sport. You don’t go after the coach. He’ll bench you every time. Massie, sorry to see you go, brother. I know you’ll land on your feet and do big things ahead. As for me? I’m riding with the man who gave me a second chance at life. President Donald J. Trump all the way. 🇺🇸

@Systemreset9 @ClaytonMorris You mean the illegal immigrants who were sex trafficking kids? Yes, that was a dark day

@wasso_sasso @ClaytonMorris And when they raped 100s of kids in an island?

The Epstein class wins again. This is a dark day for America.