Michelle Smitherman

Catholic wife, mother of 7, grandmother of 7, Masters of Theological Studies. Problematic and Increasingly Troublesome

[Jimmy Failla @jimmyfailla]

Someone tell Hillary that putting a fight on the lawn is way classier than putting a cigar in the bush.

[The Original Lisa Vandercunt @robinwannabefly]

It’s funny the way some of these people visiting the U.S. from other countries are reacting to our bottom tier food chains. If Chipotle and Cheesecake Factory got you acting like that, I’d hate to see you at someone’s grandma house in South Carolina on a Sunday.

[Michelle Smitherman @MRSmitherman07]

@InezFeltscher Where are the other men who got this same tattoo? I guarantee other men were with him when he got inked. What’s their story?

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Jill Biden to CBS on the 2024 debate: “I was frightened because I had never seen Joe like that... I thought he was having a stroke."

Jill Biden immediately after the debate in 2024: "Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts!"

[Katie Prejean McGrady @KatiePMcGrady]

I've read through Magnifica Humanitas a few times in the past couple days, and something new stands out to me each time, so I'm sure I'll have to fairly regularly update any "think pieces" about it.

Even still, here are my first initial thoughts, what stood out and moved me first in @Pontifex's beautiful invitation to us all to build a civilization of love.

https://t.co/YmJsVlQ5NF

[The Old Curmudgeon @Pokeycorky]

Each time I see Jessica Tarlov appearing on #TheFive,
I will remind the Fox News viewers that on the 07/07/25 episode, Tarlov blatantly lied that ICE Agents were raping migrant women inside ICE Detention Centers.
I won’t stop until she apologizes on the air to those ICE Agents.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

When boys’ feelings matter more than girls’ rights. Choose Podi-him!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 NOW: LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt just dropped an absolute BANGER, drawn from the theme of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Pratt's ads are SO GOOD 🔥🔥

No wonder Karen Bass is terrified.

He's surging.

KEEP PUSHING, @spencerpratt 👏🏻

[Nati @burkeanorder]

Thomas Massie will lose by nearly double digits. The reason is simple: Kentucky’s primary is closed.

Massie’s ugly coalition of anti-war leftists, anti-Israel activists, anti-Trump contrarians, online libertarians, independents, and Epstein-file obsessives only matters if those people are registered Republicans in KY-04. They overwhelmingly are not. Their sympathy for Massie is politically useless unless it exists inside the actual electorate.

That is the entire problem Massie faces. His national coalition is broader than his district’s Republican primary electorate, and especially broader than the voters who actually show up in a low-turnout primary.

The people most invested in defending him are the least relevant to the mechanics of the race. They like Massie because he is disruptive, anti-war, “anti-establishment,” anti-Israel, anti-Trump, or simply useful against the Republican consensus.

But KY-04 Republican primary voters are not looking for a congressman who is useful to Code Pink, Ro Khanna, or the anti-Trump right. They are looking for a reliable right wing vote.

There’s a brutal irony here: Massie’s coalition of subversive leftists wearing the Right as a skin suit won’t be able to save him. They can amplify him nationally, but they cannot manufacture a Republican primary electorate out of thin air.

The voters who decide this race are older, higher-propensity Republicans who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to Trump, hostile to immigration, and uninterested in libertarian process objections when those objections interfere with MAGA priorities.

Massie’s libertarianism was tolerated only insofar as it could be understood as right wing dissent in service of right wing ends.

Once voters were told, repeatedly and relentlessly, that he was not merely independent but disloyal, that he was voting with Democrats, helping the non-interventionist left, undermining Trump, and refusing to deliver consistent Republican support, the old indulgence collapsed. In a deep red closed primary, “principled” very quickly becomes “disruptive crank.”

That is why his prior primary wins are not representative of the current Republican voting bloc. Those victories happened before his deviations became the central issue, before the electorate was saturated with the message that Massie is not a reliable Republican vote, and before Trump made the race a test of party loyalty. The same voters who once tolerated his eccentricity now have every reason to view it as sabotage.

Massie is about to discover that the Republican Party is not governed by his online coalition, his libertarian admirers, or the left wing activists who find him useful on foreign policy. It is governed by Republican primary voters. And in this race, those voters want MAGA victories, not Massie’s theatrical independence.

The conclusion? This is Trump’s party. This is MAGA. Fall in line or get crushed.

[The Old Curmudgeon @Pokeycorky]

Since 07/07/2025 I’ve been reminding #TheFive Viewers of Jessica Tarlov’s outrageous lie that ICE Agents were raping women detainees. 
I won’t give up reminding the Viewers and Fox News Executives until she publicly apologizes on air to ICE Agents and their families!
#Dumocrats

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In 2014, the New York Times had a Public Editor.
When Nicholas Kristof was caught platforming a serial fabricator, she made him answer for it in print.

In 2017, the Times eliminated the role.

This week, we found out what that means.
https://t.co/S2x3LRdOzZ

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

It was when the dog yelled “this is MAGA country” that I began to wonder if this had really happened

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Either Mark Kelly leaked classified information about our weapons stockpiles, which is illegal and should put him in a federal prison!

Or he lied about our weapons stockpiles in an effort to hurt our war efforts and help our enemy, which is treason!

Not sure which is worse!

[Michelle Smitherman @MRSmitherman07]

@briannalyman2 There isn’t enough Botox or filler to make that face palatable. If evil had a corporeal nature.

[Michelle Smitherman @MRSmitherman07]

@yemisi We saw that and thought they did you dirty! Way to handle it!

[Demian Bulwa @demianbulwa]

EXCLUSIVE:

Former staffer says Rep. Eric Swalwell, candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted her

By @akoseff and @SophiaBollag https://t.co/6cl3WRYSBg

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

The US has been engaged in active military operations against Iran for 38 days.

13 Americans have died.

During that same period, 40+ Americans have died by homicide in Chicago.

Media silence....

So spare me your fake fcking moral outrage!!

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

You're an Isolated American, in a foreign country, surrounded on all sides by people who want to kill you.

Who would you want as your President?

[Michelle Smitherman @MRSmitherman07]

@MissyIsMaga American Made!!

[Conservative War Machine @WarMachineRR]

.@DanaPerino torches Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger’s deadly sanctuary policies:

“She’s a gigantic disappointment... Just this week, there have been two additional illegal immigrant murders — one man was murdered in Falls Church, Virginia, with a machete, another murdered a 3-month-old baby with blunt force trauma — and neither should have been in the country.”