David

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Members of Congress don’t swear an oath to a political party.

They swear to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Two hundred seven Republicans betrayed their oath.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

The situation unfolding right now is the perfect example of why the majority of the American people have either outright rejected or are at least requestioning the US-Israeli relationship.

Currently, there is an obvious divergence between the US interests and the goals of the Israeli government.

We desperately need a deal to end this disastrous war and save the global economy. Trump obviously wants that at this point and has already said Israel was forbidden from attacking Lebanon. (You may recall every pro Israel account on here claiming this as proof that Trump calls the shots). The ceasefire that the President of the United States of America wants depends on Israel not attacking southern Lebanon.

So, Israel announces they’re doing it. The best Trump can say is no boots on the ground and he won’t even hold on that.

This is a country whose very survival let alone ability to conduct any of these elective wars is completely dependent on US tax payer money, and support. We unconditionally support them even as they undermine our nation.

This is beyond intolerable. You can call all of us every name in the book but it’s just too obvious.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

List of American politicians that flipped out today at the possibility of ending the Iran war
-Ted Cruz (TX): $1,872,592
-Lindsey Graham (SC): $999,580
-Roger Wicker (MS): $737,000
-Cory Booker (NJ): $1M

Those $ amounts are how much each of them received from the Israel lobby

[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."

[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.

[David @d_harryman]

@LibertyLockPod @RepAndyBarr ☝️

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Yes, @RepThomasMassie voted with Democrats to oppose Trump's Iran war. But had Biden started the same war, Massie would've voted with Republicans to oppose it. The difference is Massie votes his conscience and honors his oath to support the Constitution. The rest are party hacks.

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

The jokes write themselves 🤣 @catturd2

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

19 years ago yesterday, the ‘Giuliani Moment’ sparked the Ron Paul Revolution

[Scott Horton @scotthortonshow]

@grey4626 It's the tens of thousand of civilian corpses, dragging us into war after war and taxing the money right out of our paychecks that has turned the American people against Israel, and it's partisans, not podcasters who simply reflect that reality.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

@marklevinshow He'll be just another rubber stamp for big government, massive deficit spending, and more inflation. If you are against those things then vote for Massie.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

Fuck your bullshit Israel lobby op. This is still America and we love the America First @RepThomasMassie

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

@DineshDSouza You absolute soulless traitorous goon. You post paid propaganda for foreign nations and gambling websites and larp as an intellectual. You are a fraud.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

@WellsJorda89710 those are lies you were paid by the Zionist lobby to post.

https://t.co/plsUSCpFg0

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

It’s truly unbelievable that the State Department put this clip out.

So, Iran can’t be allowed to have a nuke (which they don’t) or they would be able to close the strait (which they already did) because we wouldn’t be able to stop them (which we currently can’t).

[Harrison H. Smith ✞ @HarrisonHSmith]

Ive watched this like 10 times now.

She’s like a total psychopath.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

@BasedMikeLee @Ialibertybelle 👍Let’s end all foreign aid.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

It would be nicer if we could say goodbye to the IRS.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Don’t forget what they did to us. I stood alone in the House of Representatives against this.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I think we’re gonna need a bigger truck.