@WheelmanForHire It reminds me of The Untouchables in the excellent use of color.
It's enough to make one think prohibition was the most colorful times in history.
"Can we fix Social Security, a system that impacts every American and is about to be insolvent while still taking money from regular Americans?"
"Best we can do is fix college sports." - @SenTedCruz
NEW: Sens. Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell have introduced bipartisan legislation, The Protect College Sports Act:
• One-time transfer, 5-year eligibility
• "Lane Kiffin Rule" preventing coaches from leaving midseason
• Ban pro players, including international pro players
Details: https://t.co/79CojWQ7oQ
Your grandparents didn’t suffer through the Great Depression so that you could sit on your fat ass and have people bring you a chipotle burrito because you think you’re too good to slap bologna between two slices of bread.
@RNCResearch I ask again:
Why are we picking and choosing which income streams are tax exempt?
I guess those who don't get tips in their line of work or whose jobs don't offer overtime are just SOL.
Massie made two strategic mistakes.
1) He alienated a lot of Trump fans by going all-in over unevidenced Epstein conspiracies that he ultimately couldn't back up, apparently blinded by the seal-clapping from social media. The perception became that he was doubling down for clout and helping Democrats rather than sticking to what was actually true or not.
2) He alienated a lot of *non* Trump fans who liked his principled stands but simply couldn't swallow Massie's more recent alliance with anti-Semitic lunatics.
It was a double-whammy of too-online idiocy, and it cost him his seat. The rest is cope.
@RenoCiccotta I stay in because it's our best chance. Actual conservatives leaving gets us nothing. If we just let the New York Democrat go unopposed, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.
When I was at a Iowa Caucus in 2024 I literally heard a Trump cultist tell me in person this
God created Donald Trump to save not just America but the world. He is the only way the world can survive.
And now have a congressman say exactly the same.
Trump Machine Topples Thomas Massie
Massie is the latest incumbent to fall amid President Trump’s campaign to purge Republicans he views as disloyal to his agenda.
https://t.co/LLnXZZoWMS
Was it conservative when Trump added trillions to the debt with the BBB?
Said that a ballot initiative in Florida to protect life was too extreme?
Said we need to seize guns before due process?
You have to call me out?
Was it policy when Massie;
Refused to secure the border?
Refused to end tax on tips?
Refused to end Obamacare?
Allowed Biden’s IRA to pass?
There’s more …
If you want to argue policy, look it up, first.
Never forget how this all started last June.,,
Thomas Massie: "Over the first 4 years, the Big Beautiful Bill adds nearly $2 trillion to our deficit, beyond the deficit that would have been caused by Biden-level spending."
And the threats began...
@PolitiBunny@MassieforKY I have to call you out. Literally nothing listed here is policy based.
When it comes to conservative policies, you won't find better than Massie in government today.
The Lies About Rep. Thomas Massie - REFUTED!
Claim 1: Massie “opposed the SAVE Act,” requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Absurd — Massie has repeatedly supported the SAVE Act, He voted YES on the SAVE Act itself on the floor multiple times, and has publicly stated his support for voter ID/proof of citizenship to vote, and urged the Senate to pass the bill....
Claim 2: Massie “supported transgenders in women’s bathrooms.”
Utterly preposterous. Massie has NEVER supported any bill to allowing biological males in women’s bathrooms in schools, prisons, or federal buildings. ...
...
Claim 5: He hates Israel! (Also Ukraine, Taiwan, and other countries we’re lavishing with U.S. foreign aid.)
Massie votes against ALL foreign aid. It has nothing to do with hating other countries. Sixty-two percent of Republicans agree with him. ...
He cares more about our country than he does about other countries.
@mazemoore@PolitiBunny@Timcast Democrats are gonna Democrat.
When a Republican president is speaking in favor of more relaxed abortion laws, red flag laws, and spending like crazy, we as a nation have a SERIOUS problem.
The only thing that changed between Trump endorsing Massie then and attacking him now is Trump himself.
He backed Massie when “America First” was politically useful.
Politics is a dirty game — and too often, the only people who win are the politicians.