George Bekmezian (Rational Nuggets) (Noun - Man)

Passionate, family, liberty loving, trying to follow Jesus, sinful, Crossfit, principles matter

[Abhishek B R @abhitwt]

Every company’s AI workflow rn be like 😭💀

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran War assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on nothing but their own wishcasting. This whole shitshow has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we’ll know that it’s been achieved.

[George Bekmezian (Rational Nuggets) (Noun - Man) @afamilyguy]

@antiantimormon @SteveMc74806767 @justin_hart And all independently contributed portions would have had to somehow magically come together to form a completed cohesive story with references to one another tied in and a common narrator throughout. How plausible is that?

[Mary Talley Bowden MD @MaryBowdenMD]

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[Gerrit W. Gong @GerritWGong]

Can artificial intelligence replace God? That question may sound provocative, but in an age when we turn to algorithms for answers, guidance, and even comfort, it matters deeply.

I invite you to join me at https://t.co/DvO30jz9aP on June 7 as we discuss how to hear God's voice in an age of artificial intelligence.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

It’s Friday. Another week gone, and another 40 million of your hard earned tax dollars were sent to the Taliban.

In fact government does this every week.

Pass the no Tax Dollars for Terrorist Act, and end this humiliation ritual.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The man who won Trump the White House is a registered foreign agent for Israel.

He filed the paperwork himself, so this isn't a hit piece or a conspiracy theory, it's sitting in a federal database with his name on it.

Brad Parscale, the guy who built Trump's entire digital operation, quietly registered his firm Clock Tower X as a foreign agent for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 2025. The contract started at $6 million, grew to $9 million, and The Intercept revealed today he funneled $13 million in Israeli government money to Republican firms and his own political allies.

And here's where it gets interesting. The targets weren't random. Young conservatives and evangelicals, Gen Z specifically, the ones starting to drift away from supporting Israel, reached through social media, podcasts, and AI platforms, engineered so that when these kids go looking for information about Israel, what they find has already been shaped for them.

Now here's the part that should make people uncomfortable. One of the firms that received Israeli money was Salem Media, one of America's biggest conservative Christian networks, 200+ radio stations, RedState, the Hugh Hewitt Show. Parscale is Salem's own Chief Strategy Officer. The money came from Israel, passed through Parscale, and landed at a company Parscale works for.

Rep. Thomas Massie called it straight, an Israeli media operation profiting "useful idiots."

It's all legal under FARA as long as it's disclosed. It was disclosed, in filings buried so deep that almost nobody ever reads them. Which was always the point.

Source: The Intercept, The Hill, FARA filings

[George Bekmezian (Rational Nuggets) (Noun - Man) @afamilyguy]

@SawyerMerritt @MattMackowiak Did Claude write the code?

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@AlaskaBird__ @rittmeister_11 If you understand 4D chess, you know he never changed positions on starting no new wars, releasing the Epstein files, deporting illegal immigrants working on farms, cutting wasteful spending, and spying on Americans.

But some of us aren’t that good at understanding 4D chess.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The scientists who wrote the "lab leak is a conspiracy theory" letter? They organized it themselves then told each other they needed "the appearance of independence."

Both were paid intel informants. Both worked with the Wuhan lab.

One scientist called it genetically engineered. Days later he wrote the opposite. Then got a $9 million grant.

No conspiracy required. Just people covering their own tracks.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

Spencer Pratt has launched a campaign where filthy Los Angeles streets are power washed using a stencil reading “imagine if the streets were this clean.”

Imagine letting the streets get so dirty under your leadership that your opponent can use them as a billboard.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

When the swamp and Epstein class couldn’t buy my vote, they bought the most expensive congressional seat ever.

I joined @MeetThePress this morning to talk about putting people & principles over parties.

I’m optimistic because the younger generation understands what’s going on.

[End Tribalism in Politics @EndTribalism]

Thomas Massie says standing by his principles was worth losing his primary.

And he warns Republicans could face a bloodbath in November due to growing “Trump Disappointment Syndrome” among groups like MAHA and DOGE supporters.

“It was absolutely worth it for me.”

“There’s a growing number of people on the right who have a form of TDS called Trump Disappointment Syndrome.”

“They’ve alienated MAHA by kowtowing to the pesticide manufacturers and the pharmaceutical manufacturers.”

“They’ve alienated the fiscal hawks by running DOGE out of town.”

“They’ve alienated the people who don’t wanna fight another war for other countries.”

“I’m worried that in November this is gonna cost the party a lot.”

“But for me, it was completely worth it, and I've got 7 more months to keep going against the grain, which means voting for principles and for people over party.”

@RepThomasMassie

[George Bekmezian (Rational Nuggets) (Noun - Man) @afamilyguy]

@grok @Archer42069 @JamesOKeefeIII @RepThomasMassie Every one of these actions by Massie was the correct, principled choice.

[George Bekmezian (Rational Nuggets) (Noun - Man) @afamilyguy]

@grok @Archer42069 @JamesOKeefeIII @RepThomasMassie Every one of these actions by Massie was the correct, principled choice.

[George Bekmezian (Rational Nuggets) (Noun - Man) @afamilyguy]

@Archer42069 @JamesOKeefeIII @RepThomasMassie @grok fact check this list and provide context

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.

Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn't repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?

The Boomers -- with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda -- gave their answer.

Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.

Pat Buchanan had given them the example of the learned and articulate right-winger -- and Pat was well to the right of Hannity and Levin -- but they decided to go with Tomi Lahren and Dan Bongino instead.

Oh, Massie voted this way or that, people will say, and that's why he was targeted in this unprecedented way. Yet there's Donald Trump out there campaigning for pro-amnesty Mike Lawler. So I don't believe you that this is a question of Massie's voting record (which is stellar, by the way).

Even if Massie had had a handful of objectionable votes, a million times more important than any Massie vote is this principle:

A patriot who values his country's sovereignty cannot allow three socially leftist billionaires who represent a foreign interest to buy a congressional seat and place a ridiculous empty suit in it.

Even if for some reason you don't like Massie, you as a patriot would have to dislike THAT a hundred times more.

These three billionaires never once set foot in Kentucky -- Kentuckians, to them, are lower than dirt, and exist solely to have congressional seats bought from them.

Put up a nonentity like "Ed Gallrein" who refuses to debate (how can any voter reward that?), have him utter a few Boomer slogans to satisfy the rubes, and otherwise hide him away. That was the strategy. Boomers (yes, I know there are exceptions) are too morally and intellectually corrupt even to understand what just happened.

But the rest of us understand.

Can you imagine "Ed Gallrein" leading the charge against the Covid restrictions? He would have been first in line for the damn "vaccine"!

Remember, too, that the folks who voted for "Ed Gallrein" tonight are the kind of people who think Marco Rubio is an impressive person, so there was no reaching them.

But the younger generations, who don't get their information from the insulting caricature of conservatism that is FOX News, aren't going to fall for the nonsense that snookered the Boomers -- and therein lies hope.

Incidentally, the easiest thing in the world would have been for Massie to buckle. Nobody reading this has the remotest idea the pressure that was brought to bear against him. Not one of his detractors could have lasted a week in Massie's shoes.

If Trump can sup in happy concord with Zohran Mamdani, the radical leftist mayor of New York, you'd think he could have spared a meal with Massie, whose track record proved he was not Trump's enemy.

Not that you'd know it from the anti-Massie brigade (half of whom used to love Massie before they were instructed not to love him), Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, grilled Merrick Garland over FBI assets on January 6, and defended Trump during Russiagate. By contrast, "Ed Gallrein" left the GOP when Trump was elected, and came back only when Biden was in office.

But since we're not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.

As Glenn Greenwald put it, "If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.

"There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous."

I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.

The polls show that this situation won't exist forever. We will reach a point at which the foreign money (and that's obviously what it is) will at last be a mark of shame for the candidate receiving it. That will be a great day for American patriots everywhere.

Thomas Massie should hold his head high: he stood up against the machine time and again, knowing that it could one day lead to this.

Tonight we have to explain to our kids: in this world, the good guys don't always win. But you fight regardless of the prospects of winning. The fight for what is good and right is an end in itself.

For that reason, people will remember the Thomas Massies and the Ron Pauls. Nobody will remember "Ed Gallrein," not even as the answer to a trivia question.

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

Jewish/Israeli groups may openly cheer and boast that their money defeated a congressman, but YOU may not joke about it, because then you are an anti-Semite.

The policemen of thought and speech hated the beginning of Thomas Massie's concession speech.

He began by apologizing for being a little late: he had been trying to reach his opponent to concede the race but it was hard tracking him down in Tel Aviv.

Now if Chinese or Russian interests had poured tens of millions into someone's campaign, the very same people complaining about Massie would consider it a moral imperative to mock that money. Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say.

I've seen so many influencers on X claiming that Massie lost because he wasn't a team player, didn't vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill, etc., and that it had nothing at all to do with the tens of millions from a foreign interest. (Then why did those people spend the tens of millions?)

But Marjorie Taylor Greene did vote for the OBBB, and that didn't save her. Meanwhile, Mike Lawler, who is a disaster on Trump's signature issue, immigration, had Trump out campaigning for him!

So no, I don't believe that nonsense because it doesn't fit reality.

John Podhoretz openly boasted that "Jewish money" defeated Massie. "We have to use what means there are at our disposal, and…that is Jewish money!"

Ha'aretz just reported that "pro-Israel spending" indeed "achieved its goal in Kentucky."

AIPAC boasted that it filled Massie and Greene's seats with complaint congressmen.

Video from the "Ed Gallrein" victory party showed about two dozen people there. Yeah, this whole thing sure was an organic and spontaneous expression of the will of the people!

Since it's now obvious to everyone that a foreign country has veto power over who may represent us, I think we losers should at least be allowed to joke about it, as a consolation. Surely our overlords can deign to permit us at least that much.

David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, was even blunter than ol' Woods:

"In a peaceful, non-interventionist Republic, foreign countries would not spend tens of millions in one-off Congressional races because there would be no policy favors, fiscal lucre and military aids to lobby for. And AIPAC would not even exist, let alone be bragging about replacing the two greatest advocates of peace and liberty in the US Congress with two paid lackeys with their noses up the place in Bibi's anatomy where the sun don't shine. Bring the Empire Home. All of it."

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

If Massie loses tonight, he should run for President.

If Massie wins tonight, he should run for President.