The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏
Today the U.S. national debt surpassed $39 Trillion, inflation is rising, gas is over $4.50, and we are in another foreign war.
Nothing changed.
Literally nothing.
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.
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.
Right. It's not just that Massie is a leader in the fight against forcing Americans to fund foreign wars (in Israel, Ukraine, etc). He's also a vehement free speech defender and long-time leader against warrantless domestic surveillance.
But since these are issues most people pretend to care about only when their party is out of power, institutionalized MAGA is devoted to his destruction.
This should be the end of @JDVance@VP’s presidential ambitions right here - he’s really exposed himself as a fake conservative by making a classic Stalinist argument that if to go against ‘the party’ then you will be ‘in trouble’. Vance was ordered by Trump & handlers to trash brave rep @MassieforKY. Unbelievably corrupt statement by the 41 year-old Vance, devoid of any true Constitutional principles, but it revealed how Vance has become another puppet of the Israel Lobby and the Glyphosate mafia. Too young, very pliable, an ideal tool of the Wall Street Establishment & the deep state - which essentially makes Vance a slightly different shade of Obama…
There is only one thing you need to know about @RepThomasMassie campaign and it’s not even that he’s the best congressman in the country with a voting record second to none.
It’s that the Israel lobby is attempting to unseat a congressman for the crime of exposing them and their disastrous war.
No self respecting nation can allow that to happen.
Don’t believe the bs last minute accusations and betting market shifts. These are obvious signs of a concerted effort.
Just double down, send him money if you can, call whoever you know in his district, share his videos or posts.
We need to win this one.
Tucker Carlson asked Joe Kent why the Thomas Crooks surveillance tapes haven’t been released.
Kent’s answer blew him away.
He explained the government deliberately withholds information to create noise with conspiracy theories, so the “actual question never gets answered.”
TUCKER: “The current president was the subject of a near-successful assassination attempt.”
“And we’re just not going to look into very obviously or divulge information that everyone knows they have.”
“For example, the surveillance tape from the shooting range at which Thomas Crooks trained, because it would answer the question, was he training with somebody?”
“And if so, who? They have that footage, and they won’t release it. What could possibly be the explanation for that?”
KENT: “I know what the result is. The result is people come to their own conclusions. And this is where crazy conspiracy theories come from.”
“And then those conspiracy theories usually are easy to ‘debunk’ or make the people saying them sound crazy. So then the actual question never gets answered.”
[Tucker laughs in awe]
TUCKER: “Sorry. Can you say that for people who haven’t lived in Washington?”
“I try to explain this to people all the time because this has been ongoing since at least the Kennedy assassination.”
“But this is a very serious and recurring thing. It’s a tactic. And you just explained it better than anyone I’ve ever heard. Can you just do that again?”
KENT: “So basically, you give no information whatsoever on something that’s obvious, that there should be information.”
“You outlined there’s potentially footage of Crooks at the shooting range. Again, police, 101, go get the tapes. Let’s figure it out.”
“If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent. You say, ‘you can’t ask that question,’ which then creates people who come out of kind of nowhere, and they start drawing their own conclusions.”
“Knowing the way the internet works, half of them, if not more, are probably going to be so far off in left field... that then you can just be like, Oh, these people asking these questions about that tape at the video range. Crazy conspiracy theorists.’”
“And so then you’ve just diverted all attention away from the thing that you’re trying to conceal. And now everyone’s focused on the crazies.”
TUCKER: “Man.”
KENT: “And then the second someone asks a legitimate question, they’re ‘crazy.’”