Trump’s “fake news” is like Biden’s “misinformation.”
In either case, the government can’t suppress it without gutting the First Amendment.
Free speech includes the freedom to say false things about public policy.
If the First Amendment doesn’t broadly protect lies, it can’t protect truths that officials call lies.
@DrJoelGator Liability laws need to be changed
School mandates need to be eliminated.
Having any Pharma product put in to your body should be a choice.
If a product is safe and effective it won't need to be mandated
Paul Volcker inflicted real pain on millions of Americans and was branded a hero for doing it.
The Federal Reserve spent the 1970s printing money to cover political promises. Nixon killed the gold standard in 1971, and every administration after him pressured the Fed to keep rates low. By 1980, CPI inflation hit 13.5 percent. You were watching your savings evaporate in real time.
Volcker became Fed chairman in August 1979 and jacked the federal funds rate to 20 percent by June 1981. Unemployment climbed to 10.8 percent in December 1982. Farmers drove tractors to Washington. Homebuilders mailed two-by-fours to the Fed as a protest. The howling was deafening.
Every critic demanding easier money in 1981 was demanding that you absorb more hidden taxation through continued inflation. The recession came due for a decade of monetary fraud.
Mises identified this mechanism precisely: credit expansion creates artificial booms that require liquidation. The bad investments made during the inflationary 1970s had to clear. Factories, farms, and businesses built on cheap-money illusions needed to fail so real capital could reallocate.
By 1983, inflation sat at 3.2 percent and real growth returned at 4.5 percent. The correction worked because Volcker held the line against enormous political pressure from Congress and the Reagan White House alike. Discipline cost two years of misery. Capitulation would have cost a generation.
Rep. Thomas Massie: “We didn’t get out of Covid because we have strong leaders.”
“We got out of Covid because some of you said: I’m not gonna comply.”
“If just like 5 or 10% of us do not comply … the system will fall apart.”
“Do that wherever you can.”
“Your finances.”
“How your kids get educated.”
“Where you buy your food.”
Non-compliance is one of the strongest tools that the health freedom movement has.
We’re winning huge victories and making historic progress at the state and local level in getting medical mandates outlawed.
In 2025, our Founder and President Leslie Manookian got almost all medical mandates banned in Idaho with the Idaho Medical Freedom Act.
Including vaccines.
Now, we’re leading the Medical Freedom Act Coalition alongside Stand for Health Freedom and over a dozen more MAHA/health freedom organizations to get that law passed in as many states as possible.
But tens of millions of Americans live under state governments that vehemently oppose your right to health freedom.
And as we saw during Covid, the federal government will do everything they can to scare you and push you into compliance.
Those who refused are the reason we finally ended the era of lockdowns and mandates.
@RepThomasMassie@RonPaulInstitut
@DrNice2026@bodytalkman Ok so when the package insert gives type 1 diabetes as a side effect and then my wife at 25 years old gets the disease 6 weeks following that shot, what conclusion should I reach?
If Trump would have partnered with Thomas Massie instead of Mike “Flaccid” Johnson the GOP would be adding additional seats in the midterms instead of losing them and Trump would have been on Rushmore.
We tried to warn people.
@DrNice2026@bodytalkman Not really; he does provide citations to CDC and FDA websites and pointers to relevant information on package inserts; I looked at them; they all check out.
@JeromeAdamsMD@NBSaphierMD Notice the statement contains the word believe: “I don’t believe…”. That’s all it can be since it hasn’t been shown otherwise. If it’s safe, then end legal immunity.
@Rach4Patriarchy Well, he voted with Joe Biden less than any other person in the entire Congress; not sure how you managed to miss that
And what Massie is complaining about is not "right-wing government." Massie is WELL to your right