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Rep. Thomas Massie Lays Down Some "Hard Truths" About January 6
Red State ^ | | Jan 05, 2021 3:45 PM ET | By Becca Lower

Posted on 01/05/2021 4:31:12 PM PST by RandFan

On Tuesday morning, Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and his administration, took to Twitter to impart what he calls some “hard truths” to the American people, especially supporters of the president currently in high anticipation of the objection by at least 100 Republican members and like-minded senators in the House of Representatives on January 6 to the electoral college votes for last November’s presidential election.

Massie began by saying that these facts are something “few want to acknowledge publicly”:

@RepThomasMassie

Some hard truths that few want to acknowledge publicly:

(1) If every Republican votes to disallow every Biden elector on January 6th, Biden will still be declared the winner by Congress. This is simple math, Democrats are in the majority and will vote to keep the Biden electors.

(2) No state has sent a competing set of electors. Each state has sent only one slate of electors. No state legislature has asked Congress to reject its state’s electors.

(3) Trump’s new AG, the replacement for Bill Barr, took office on December 24th and (as far as we can tell) has done nothing to investigate this election. I don’t know him, he might be a great person and very qualified, but Trump hired him and he doesn’t seem to be investigating.

One thing that’s important to note in Massie’s statement: there’s no admonishment for GOP senators and congressmen leading the fight against potential election fraud, just facts. That’s in stark contrast to other Republicans, like Sen. Tom Cotton, or Sen. Mitt Romney, whom I wrote about taking to, of all places, CNN to rip up his own party’s members as a “danger” to democracy. Which is, obviously, ridiculous on its face.

In the same vein as Massie, another ally of Pres. Trump, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) had this to say Tuesday about the steep hill facing the completely earnest, but ultimately doomed efforts of his Conservative colleagues:

Voter fraud, whether done by individuals or corrupt government officials, is not okay. It needs to be rooted out, and the administrators and other elected officials who implicitly or explicitly allow it should be voted out. But those on our side leading the base to hope against hope that something radical will change tomorrow to usher Pres. Trump back into the White House for four more years are doing everyone a disservice.

Here’s another hard truth: People say they want politicians to tell them the truth, to be transparent, but sometimes, that truth isn’t what we want to hear. There’s also this truth, which Jon Gabriel, the editor of Ricochet, wrote in his new op-ed piece published in USA Today over the weekend titled, “We went through hell in 2020 and came out stronger. Why 2021 will be better.”

Jon wrote that “false hope is worse than steely-eyed realism.”

You can’t say it any better than that.


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To: jstolzen

Great post!

Unfortunately, it’s true.


41 posted on 01/05/2021 5:41:34 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump.....one of the BEST presidents in American history!)
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To: gundog

Zippo


42 posted on 01/05/2021 5:44:22 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: lodi90

Most of the Republicans are the same way. Another party is what we need. Not lipstick on the pig or trying to reform those who are some of the most corrupt people on the planet.


43 posted on 01/05/2021 5:46:15 PM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: jstolzen

You are 100% correct. But, people don’t want to hear the truth.

Massie is 100% correct. All he is saying is the TRUTH. And yet, some on here are already threatening him and his family.

Massie is explaining exactly what MUST happen, legally, as things stand now. He’s not saying everyone will accept it, of that this is the END of the story.

He is saying, what is certain to happen, unless a few State Legislatures take immediate action.


44 posted on 01/05/2021 5:48:45 PM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: RandFan
"Voter fraud, whether done by individuals or corrupt government officials, is not okay. It needs to be rooted out, and the administrators and other elected officials who implicitly or explicitly allow it should be voted out.'

'Not Okay'

'Voted Out'

Are you f'ing kidding me?

The Republicans make me sick to my stomach.

45 posted on 01/05/2021 6:17:20 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: RedStateRocker

With each succession of Democrat presidents, the left has gained more control. This isn’t those times and these aren’t those Democrats.


46 posted on 01/05/2021 7:13:01 PM PST by Jvette (America was built on freedom not freebies)
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To: DesertRhino

Red State = DEEP STATE


47 posted on 01/06/2021 12:13:28 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: RedStateRocker

RedStateRocker = DEEP STATE


48 posted on 01/06/2021 12:18:25 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: RedStateRocker

If Biden is seated on Inauguration Day, the enemy will have proven he can get away with anything. In this case, the enemy is a proxy for a Communist regime with 5 times our population. So yes, it would be the end of the world as we know it.


49 posted on 01/06/2021 1:55:00 AM PST by ClarityGuy
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To: MarvinStinson

Take off the tinfoil hat, moron.


50 posted on 01/06/2021 6:07:43 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: RedStateRocker

Take off the antifa hat, moron


51 posted on 01/07/2021 7:23:49 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

Take your meds, retard.


52 posted on 01/07/2021 7:43:54 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: RedStateRocker

It’s you antifa boys who love your drugs.


53 posted on 01/07/2021 8:39:31 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson; RedStateRocker
"Take your meds, retard."

Ignore RedStateRocker, he is a NeverTrumper of the worst sort. The little prick has been posting since yesterday that all of the capital protesters should be shot. He went so far as to accuse me of the following: "You are nothing but the brainwashed follower of a cult leader."

Here is the link to his post outing himself https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3922168/posts?page=138#143

54 posted on 01/07/2021 9:04:04 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Godamned right, anyone breaking into any building should be dealt with harshly. I don’t care the reason, mobs should be eliminated.

I’m a Republican, not a follower of any one person. You, however are a mindless sheep following what is now a cult of personality. You are as much of a threat to, and a stain upon the Republic - as was everyone breaking into the Capitol building - as any Antifa.


55 posted on 01/07/2021 9:42:44 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: RedStateRocker
"Godamned right, anyone breaking into any building should be dealt with harshly. I don't care the reason, mobs should be eliminated.

I'm a Republican, not a follower of any one person. You, however are a mindless sheep following what is now a cult of personality. You are as much of a threat to, and a stain upon the Republic - as was everyone breaking into the Capitol building - as any Antifa."

You have outed yourself as a rabid NeverTrumper, you have disparaged anyone who voted for himeTrumo and wants to stop the election fraud, and you have called for protesting American's to be shot en masse by military troops. You are exactly the type of GOPe Swamp Republican that has ruined the GOP. You are an elitist, totalitarian scumbag who hates Americas in general and, nearly everyone on this forum.

The only reason you are posting here is to sow discord and defeatism. Begone your DeceptiCon trash!

56 posted on 01/07/2021 10:01:53 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: wildcard_redneck

You are a moron. You keep whining like a little bitch that I’m a ‘Never Trumper’, as if anyone cares what a choad smoking idiot like you think.

You are exactly the type of inbred toothless jerkoff that makes a mockery of any real conservativism.

Some mythical ‘right to protest’ (you really ought to look at this thing we call the Constitution instead of wiping your ass with it) is a right to PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLE. Nowhere, and at no time, does anyone have the right to break through windows and doors, steal, and trash the People’s house.


57 posted on 01/07/2021 10:28:31 AM PST by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: RedStateRocker

RestStateRocker is a totalitarian, leftist garbage.


58 posted on 01/07/2021 10:44:50 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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