Rich

Boston sports, Liverpool FC, and liberty.

[Empire of the Kop @empireofthekop]

Mo Salah's Liverpool career comes to a close as he's substituted for Jeremie Frimpong. What a journey it's been. Thank you Mo, you're one of the all-time greats ❤️

[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.

[Jim @JSurago]

@stoolpresidente

[Rich @rwgrant603]

@BrilynHollyhand The problem with little boys like you is you’ve never so much as been in a fist fight. You yearn for that sense of masculinity you’ve never had, while watching braver men fight. You’ll never volunteer because deep down you are a coward. You’re of age. Prove us wrong (you won’t).

[Rich @rwgrant603]

@BrilynHollyhand I’m assuming you’re headed to the recruiter right now to enlist, right?

[Gran McKerlie, Esq. @gran90]

Why is it always weak mean, who’ve never even been in a fist fight, (Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Seth Dillon etc) always advocate for war? It’s like they can’t execute masculinity themselves bc they’re physically weak, old or fat. So they get off when the US govt bombs another country. It makes them feel powerful bc they’d never be able to hurt anyone themselves.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can you, the people, “vote your way out of this?”

Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks.

The swamp has tricks for deceiving the public, and most even work on congressmen. Here’s an example of how Laura and Greg played along as happy tools of the swamp.

Please ask yourself why your own congressman has never talked about this. He either hasn’t gotten this far in the game (80% chance), or he likes the way the swamp obscures what’s going on (10% chance), or he dislikes the system but the price he’d pay for telling you is too high (10% chance). If a congressman sees this post and wants to debate me, I accept!

The House has rules we adopt at the beginning of each Congress. Honestly we should just use those - some go all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Some are like Robert’s Rules of Order which branched from House rules a century ago. But we have a rules committee that modifies the rules every week. I served on the rules committee for two years. When I was on the committee, I refused to vote for rules changes if the purpose was to mislead or obscure. Every week, the rules committee bends the rules to suit the Speaker, but you can’t place the blame just on the committee or the Speaker. Every rules change must be approved by the whole House with a majority vote.

Rank and file congressmen are told to vote for these rules modifications each week for the sake of party loyalty because the rules are temporarily modified by the majority to keep the minority from using the permanent rules against us. This is partly true, so most congressmen never question beyond this.

Typically, every week the rules committee meets before other committees and writes a rules package to protect bills that will come to the floor that week. Then the whole house votes on this rules package early in the week before significant legislation comes to the floor. The vote is typically on party lines. Sometimes a block of congressmen in the majority will take the rules package hostage and withhold their vote to get something else that has nothing to do with the rules. I’m not a big fan of this, but after 13 years, my hands aren’t completely clean of this tactic.

The high-road position that I try to maintain is that if the rules package is bad, you shouldn’t vote for the rules package, and in general you shouldn’t withhold your vote from a rules package if there’s nothing wrong with the rules package… even if you disagree with the policy that is enabled to come to the floor by the rules package.

There are more details, but that’s all you need to know to understand what I’m going to explain next.

This week the Speaker wanted to do two things outside of our base rules, so he put those inside of the rules package that also had the rules for bringing bills like the popular SAVE Act to the floor, knowing members would be afraid to vote against something associated with SAVE. THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

The Speaker wanted to circumvent the National Emergencies Act of 1976 to avoid voting on tariffs and he wanted to turn off the ban on bringing a spending bill to the floor the same day it’s introduced.

The first rules package that came to the floor this week failed because myself and other republicans objected to it. The rules committee met again, wrote a new rules package without the tariff-trick, and we voted on the second rules package. I voted no but internet goons, like clockwork, characterized this as a vote against the SAVE Act.

The swamp used that second rules package to give them authority to pass a bill before anyone could read it. They hid that authority inside the rule for the SAVE act because they knew people like Laura and Greg would help them disparage anyone who didn’t go along.

If you fell for Laura and Greg’s slop you were cheering for the Pelosi doctrine that we should pass bills to see what’s in them. If the rules package had failed, the rules committee would have written a better one and SAVE Act would have still come to the floor.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

How MAGA started: “We have to support Trump in order to advance our principles”

How MAGA’s going: “We have to abandon our principles in order to support Trump”

The personality cult hates @RepThomasMassie because his loyalty to principle highlights their cowardice and betrayal.

[An0maly @LegendaryEnergy]

If you show most baby boomers a fact that they can’t comprehend because their brain is fully rotted from television news, they automatically think you’re the “other side” of politics.

They have baby brains and the critical thinking skills of a mentally challenged animal.

[Steve @special__steve]

Thinking about Drake Maye

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

@RonDeSantis @Chafuen Conservatives who say World War II ended the Depression are conceding the whole argument to the left. They're saying that if the government spends a huge amount, it can create prosperity. That's not true, and conservatives shouldn't say it

https://t.co/cIaX0JbV36

[Brandon Walker @BFW]

Billy Napier should be fired on the field. Enough is enough, Florida.

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

Unbelievable words from Andy Robbo ❤️

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool Football Club are devastated by the tragic passing of Diogo Jota.

[Dave DeCamp @DecampDave]

Mark Levin and Tom Cotton are enemies of humanity

[Bryce M. Lipscomb @BryceMLipscomb]

MAGA suffers severely from MDS (Massie Derangement Syndrome).

Which is why we should make @RepThomasMassie Speaker of the House. The MAGA meltdown would be EPIC to watch.

[Florida Gators Men’s Basketball @GatorsMBK]

YOUR 2025 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS.

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

This is incredible! @calleymeans is a national treasure!

[Rich @rwgrant603]

@StokasticHOF Took down the PGA $25k Short Game 20-max using the sims. These tools completely change the game! Thanks to the whole @StokasticGolf and data team for making it happen!

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

The biggest political disappointment of my life is by far Bernie Sanders.

He had 10’s of millions of people in his movement in 2016.

Instead of using that immense leverage to challenge power & extract concessions from the Dem party, he abandoned them & sided WITH power while telling them to support a corrupt WallSt puppet & warmonger, while asking for NOTHING in return.

He did the exact same thing in 2020.

And this week was possibly his most disgusting display of subservience to corrupt corporate power when he attacked the one person who has spent his entire adult life suing Big Pharma & giant corrupt corporations chemical companies who are poisoning our food & water.

It was truly stomach churning.

.@ComicDaveSmith Is spot on.