We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
I grew up Republican. Still am in many ways. But MAGA pushed the party so far right that I get called a liberal now.
Let me explain the difference:
Traditional Republicans believe in:
⢠Fiscal responsibility (balanced budgets, not exploding deficits for tax cuts)
⢠Limited government (actual small government, not big government that punishes your enemies)
⢠Strong institutions (courts, elections, constitutional norms matter)
⢠Personal responsibility (your actions have consequences)
⢠Free markets (not tariffs and trade wars)
⢠Strong alliances (NATO, international partnerships)
⢠Rule of law (no one is above it, including the president)
MAGA Republicans believe in:
⢠Whatever Trump says today (even if it contradicts yesterday)
⢠Loyalty tests (agree 100% or you're a traitor/RINO)
⢠Conspiracy theories over facts (stolen election, deep state, QAnon adjacent stuff)
⢠Grievance politics (owning the libs > actual policy)
⢠Personality cult (Trump loyalty above party, above country, above truth)
⢠Performative outrage (culture war theater instead of governance)
⢠Ends justify means (storm the Capitol, ignore election results, whatever it takes)
I didn't move left. The party moved off a cliff.
I still believe in conservative principles. But when you say "maybe we should respect election results" or "fiscal responsibility matters" or "rule of law applies to everyone," you get called a liberal.
That's not conservatism. That's a cult.
Today, NASA is moving the rocket out to the launch pad for the Artemis II mission. Humans are going back to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, and I can't wait to see it!
Thomas Massie is going NUCLEAR on Trumpâs regime change war in Venezuela.
âHow did it work out in Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?â
âDo we want another Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?â
âThis is about oil and regime change.â
âPrevious presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, weapons of mass destruction, that did not exist.â
âNow itâs the same playbook, except weâre told that drugs are the WMDs.â
âJames Madison warned us that in no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislatureânot the executive.â
âThe framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves.â
âBy escalating toward war, we would predictably create countless refugees.â
âAre we prepared to receive swarms of the 25 million Venezuelans who will likely become refugees?â
@RepThomasMassie@MassieforKY
This cannot and will not continue. Something has to give and itâs going to be home values. The top is in. Sellers now also outnumber buyers by historic margins. I donât see a way home prices donât begin to fall off a cliff (and they should).
Iâm not a conspiracy theorist but I feel like if they are destroying economic data and then immediately rolling back tariffs, floating stimulus checks and proposing 50-year mortgages, the economic signals they are destroying must not be pretty
Dato alentador: la economia mundial hoy esta sostenida sobre la esperanza de este plan de dejarnos sin laburo a todos. Si falla, todo colapsa y nos quedamos sin laburo. Si tiene exito el plan, todos nos quedamos sin laburo.