Benny Seattle

I'm into cybersecurity and AI. Fitness enthusiast. Skeptic.

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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

59 years ago today, Israel attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. 34 crew members were killed and 174 were wounded by the IDF.

Today, I spoke on the House floor to honor the fallen and to recognize the survivors who were present in the gallery.

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

Here's my hypothesis.

What we just witnessed in KY with the Massie loss was a 'struggle session.' It was designed to send one message: "We're fully in control, you have no power, and you might as well not even waste the time to vote."

It was an operation designed to inflict demoralization. Same as not being allowed to be on the beach alone during 'Covid.' That's it's complete nonsense **IS** the point.

Same as publicly executing Charlie Kirk. Same energy, same intention, & the same people. The point is to demonstrate their power, with the target being your sense of agency and control.

We no longer need to wonder why the Trump administration has zero interest in finding CK's actual killer. It's the same people.

Who was that figure in white seen leaving the roof of the Sorenson building at UVU that fateful day? That nobody cares on Tyler's 'defense team' or with any investigative authority is meant to be both obvious to the thinking person, as well as demoralizing.

That's the play; fracture and divide us. Demoralize people to the point of giving up before they can even begin to organize, let alone fight. It's a form of cognitive warfare, and it's been running non-stop since Covid first appeared in 2020.

Why? Because someone hates America and its people and wishes to see us taken down.

The Barbarians are inside the gates.

That's what the Massie loss means to me.

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

It has nothing to do with Thomas Massie losing, It has everything to do with a foreign government and it's supporters lobbying 30 million to protect its interest of a foreign government.

This isnt America first. Im more committed to never vote for an aipac candidate again.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

God bless Thomas Massie.

He walks out of this with his honor intact. He’s a patriot & kept his integrity.

As long as the voters give their votes to whoever can run the most ads we will have politicians who are purchased by foreign governments & corporate interests.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

@tedcruz You wish I hadn’t pointed out that 95+% of my opponent’s funding came from the Israeli lobby, and millions of that came from a woman who has Israeli citizenship and served in the IDF?

Sorry for your feels Ted.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. should NOT use propaganda on our citizens, but that prohibition was lifted in 2013!

Thank you @RepDavidRouzer for cosponsoring HR 5704 to repeal the 2013 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I lost the election but we started a revolution. Keep the flame of LIBERTY burning my friends! I will continue to put People and Principles before Party. America First! 🇺🇸

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs.

1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702.

2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law.

The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Last night between midnight and 2am, they tried to pass two bad versions of FISA…

Both would have allowed Feds to unconstitutionally spy on Americans.

We stopped both versions, but the fight isn’t over. Eventually, it was decided to give them two more weeks to fix FISA.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

“Whatever you think of Massie’s libertarian-leaning conservative politics, his defeat would send a chill through Congress. He’s one of a few Republican members who has taken his oath of office seriously”
https://t.co/vcz5HeUYsZ

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country.

Thank you @RepRalphNorman for cosponsoring HR 645, the National Constitutional Carry Act.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

You can carry a handgun in 29 states without a permit. Do you support my National Constitutional Carry Act which would extend permitless carry to all 50 states and U.S. territories? @BasedMikeLee has introduced companion legislation in the Senate.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

.@RepThomasMassie & I called on DOJ to stop protecting this man & underact his name. They relented. Then I took to the House floor to name names. Today, he resigns.

We will not rest until there is elite accountability for the Epstein class.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

DOJ redacted information necessary to identify who sent Epstein the “torture video email.”

@RepRoKhanna and I first discovered his name and released it Monday.

Today he resigns.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

First page of article beyond the paywall.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I appeared with @SchmittNYC on @NEWSMAX to discuss AG Bondi’s Judiciary testimony and the improper redactions in the Epstein files.

Accountability starts at the top, but it’s important to know who in Bondi’s office is making these mistakes.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If you’re viewing Epstein files, you can thank @RepRoKhanna , @FmrRepMTG , @RepNancyMace , and @RepBoebert .

And don’t forget those who vehemently tried, and are still trying, to keep you from knowing what’s in them.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I joined @kaitlancollins this week to provide an update on the unredacted Epstein files.

The files reveal Secretary of Commerce Lutnick lied about his associations with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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