i grandstand with massie

America 1stmost of yall who love that slogan don’t believe in it! I mean get out of every war stop send anyone else money! learn to love Americans before others

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@atensnut Why?

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@IanJaeger29 Nope I’ll bet 100

[Amity @amitylee13]

I just received an email from my new Congressman, @RobWittman (having just moved from VA05 to VA01) regarding whether he would sign @RepThomasMassie’s discharge petition and support legislation to release the Epstein files.

His unwillingness to answer directly “yes or no” is disappointing.

I’ll be calling his office every day until I get him on the phone. I want an explanation. Unless he sees and responds here…🧐

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@Gritty20202 How so? How does holding money decrease the power of money? I think you have supply and demand backwards

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@AnaKasparian your next pod should be on @ComicDaveSmith show!

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@nosoup4knowles Why would anyone reference a specific year

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@CptAncapistan @lexfridman @ComicDaveSmith @scotthortonshow @MLiamMcCollum I think this sounds reasonable and will the AI the benefit of the doubt!

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

Thank you very much for the detailed response, Lex, and all of that sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

I am sorry that my post brought the wild accusations out of the woodwork. That was not my intent.

And just in case you didn't see it, I tried to make it clear in my follow-up post that these questions were coming from me and not Dave:
https://t.co/asNQEGj1sO

[Captain Ⓐncapistan @CptAncapistan]

@MLiamMcCollum @lexfridman @ComicDaveSmith @scotthortonshow yeah I can't believe he actually took the time for such a lengthy response to me. all sounded reasonable. I'm satisfied.

[Liam McCollum @MLiamMcCollum]

@lexfridman @CptAncapistan @ComicDaveSmith @scotthortonshow Props to you for responding in detail.

I'm looking forward to your episode with Scott!

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Lol. Drama on X is wild. Scott and I are doing a podcast later this week to dig into Scott's work a lot more, and expand on anything & everything from the Iran debate.

I might as well use this X drama as opportunity to celebrate Scott's work. I have huge respect for Scott and his anti-war writing over the years, and I was & am trying to do all I can to celebrate his ideas and him as a person, as I always do on the podcast. Moderating an intense debate like the Iran one is not easy. We were all severely sleep deprived due to travel & schedules. But, I wanted to do the Iran podcast urgently at that time because I was very worried that the war in Iran would escalate, and Scott is one of the best anti-war voices we have in America.

In general, I try hard to avoid editing. That's why I do 4, 5, 6, 7, 8+ hour podcasts. The part I cut in the Iran debate was where it went off the rails (after ~4 hours), not content-wise, but tone-wise: mockery, interruptions, yelling, etc. Both had very little sleep the night before and were tired and not their best selves as they both said. I cut not because of the content but the style. I try all I can to avoid having that kind of drama on the podcast. Instead, I thought the first 4 hours had a lot of strong rants.

I think people are (rightfully) paranoid about censorship of certain ideas, like criticism of Israel. I don't do that, and I'll never do that. I have criticized Israel a lot (and will continue to do so) and I've had a large number of guests on that criticize Israel for many, many hours.

I talk to people from all perspectives and all walks of life, and always with empathy and rigor. I interviewed people in the West Bank, and will try to talk to Gaza refugees.

People are also saying I edited Dave Smith convo (3.5 hours) down by a lot. I didn't. We had several bathroom breaks during which we just talked off-mic about life, family, friends, etc. I've been a fan of Dave for many years, and we have a lot of mutual friends, but we haven't hung out, so this was a chance to just chill and shoot the shit off-mic & get to know each other.

I'm sure I'll talk to Dave many more times on podcast & off. And, again, Scott and I are doing a solo podcast together later this week to lay it all out, including a lot of his work that we didn't cover.

The accusations against me continue to escalate & are wild (and hilarious). I've been regularly, at scale, accused of being CIA, Mossad, FSB, fascist, communist, Putin-shill, Zelenskyy-shill, Elon-shill, Obama-shill, Jew-shill, Muslim-shill, etc.

I'm none of those things, never will be. I'd rather die than be a shill for anyone. BUT I'm a flawed human being. And when I fuck up, I'll do better.

I look forward to internet's continued drama-farming about me 🍿

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

The first governor who ends property taxes will go down in history as the greatest governor ever.

@GregAbbott_TX, you ready?

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@JDunlap1974 Yet he won’t I’ll bet a years pay

[Amity @amitylee13]

The campaign trail is full of lies. Why do we keep falling for it?

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

My text response to Alex was:

“Alex, my response to all of this will be to tell you to go fuck yourself. I have nothing to prove to you and I won’t be participating in a struggle session.”

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@uninfite07199 @MaxNordau @ComicDaveSmith Again no war cuz Iran showed restraint. Also nothing you just said is an argument they had nukes or were even close to getting them!

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@uninfite07199 @MaxNordau @ComicDaveSmith lol no I don’t but again you have no proof for your assertions by your own logic

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

For years I’ve been demanding release of the Epstein files, and I was hopeful this administration would do it. When it recently became apparent that no one was seriously working on it, I moved to force a vote on legislation to release the files. Is your congressman on board?

[i grandstand with massie @riceman79]

@VividProwess Why is Trump ramping up aid then to fight the starvation?