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What's the view on 'MAGA 2.0'?
FR ^ | Aug 9 | RF

Posted on 08/09/2026 2:45:45 AM PDT by RandFan

Reading FR then flicking to Twitter/X is sometimes like night and day. There's a lot of dissent there among those I happen to follow (NOT Lefitsts or anything like that) regarding: Israel, Iran War, foreign policy and the Administration generally.

A lot of hot topics that get discussed here all the time and former Representatives or officials are leading the charge: MTG, Kent, Tucker Carlson and Massie the most prominent with many large accounts echoing them.

It's clear to me this is more than just a few rebels who have no influence or standing in fact MTG says in one of her latest posts: "The Movement has begun".

She is referring to 'MAGA 2.0' and a split from the Trump admin who they accuse of breaking promises of no more foreign wars and for their handling of the Epstein saga.

This has implications I think for Vance or anyone else in the administration who might want to run for president in future.

This is just an observation. I'm no troll but feel hesitant to post (or re-post) some of their stuff because it might attract complaints.

Sometimes I feel like walking on egg shells especially with foreign policy posts which I think is the main fissure in play and where some of us naturally agree with them on.

Are Twitter/X ahead of the curve or out of order?


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To: Gen.Blather

Agreed emphatically.

My question is given regional history and general military history-science, how will OMB (~OMG) extract/remove the demonic pit of hell moon god worshippers sitting on the straits of a major chunk of world commerce.

I don’t know how he closes this deal but I speculate the “Art” is in the timing. I have a nephew in the 101st so I’m hoping it’s not our boots doing the evictions but to leave behind a working non-demonic structure...

Well that’s why he’s OMB—>OMG and I’m not.


161 posted on 08/10/2026 2:37:31 PM PDT by trfree98 (Daniel 12:4... It ain't over 'til its over.)
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To: Gen.Blather
Further, Iran wants the entire world to burn so The Mahdi can finally return, kill us all and someone lead to paradise and Islam (submission) for everyone.

You won't find very many experts or specialists who take that view, and the experts and specialists aren't always wrong. It sounds like some people have been looking for a reason for war with Iran at anytime and this theory seemed convenient.

162 posted on 08/10/2026 2:42:27 PM PDT by x
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To: x

“It sounds like some people have been looking for a reason for war with Iran at anytime and this theory seemed convenient.”

My mother gave some very good advice. “You listen to what people say. They’ll tell you how they’re going to treat you. It’s up to you to believe them and take the appropriate action.”

One of Iran’s former presidents, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, opened and closed every speech with a prayer for the return of The Mahdi. And I can’t count the number of times various leaders shouted, “Death to the great Satan!” That’s us, by-the-way. Add in countless acts of terrorism and I think it’s long past time to end this regime.


163 posted on 08/10/2026 3:07:14 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Oh, gosh! I said that out loud. I'm so sorry.)
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To: BroJoeK
THey can't touch this............and its driving them bonkers, almost as bad as the Dem lefty TDS idjits..

(*ucker Carlson, Margie Tailher Preen?BUahahahahahahaah!.......leeuwzers!)



164 posted on 08/11/2026 4:50:44 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: BroJoeK

Rock de Kazbah !

Amen.


165 posted on 08/11/2026 5:00:06 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: jimwatx
FR is primarily boomers with a large % of evangelicals which differs from the majority of posters on X. There’s a big generational gap between boomer conservatives and younger conservatives as you’ve probably noticed. I happen to agree with the younger conservatives and get attacked all the time when posting here, which is why I spend more time on X these days than here. Boomers are heavily indoctrinated compared to the younger generations that have been exposed to more alternative media with different viewpoints.

The "younger conservatives" you cite like Nick Fuentes are not conservatives at all. Never have been - never will be. Neither are you. In the least. Leftist views are not conservative, doing cocaine is not conservative, etc. Your fact-free analysis on all issues is irrelevant. Your "different viewpoints" are at odds with objective truths and objective reality. There's nothing to learn from that. Reality and truth matter.

166 posted on 08/13/2026 7:17:54 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: BroJoeK; Angelino97; RandFan
This is what they *literally* consider to be "MAGA" or "true conservative" agendas. This is what they are now claiming Trump promised to be and he supposedly didn't keep these promises. Of course no person in their right mind would believe that:

MTG Meets With CCP-Linked Group Code Pink On Way Out Door

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to be embracing a feminist left-wing activist group with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the final weeks of her House term.

Greene on Wednesday met with members of Code Pink, whose co-founder Medea Benjamin praised the outgoing congresswoman as a “strong anti war voice” in Congress. Benjamin’s group took credit for crashing a D.C. dinner in September where protestors got within feet of President Donald Trump and shouted he “is the Hitler of our time.”

“I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now even though politics says that’s not allowed,” Greene continued. “I’ve learned to find bridges with others and that’s how we all win and ultimately leads to peace.”

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Greene: Trump could use manufactured crisis to cancel midterms

Marjorie Taylor Greene says MAGA has been “mocking” rape victims [when did this happen?]

White House believed Marjorie Taylor Greene may have tipped off Code Pink ahead of DC Trump confrontation

Marjorie Taylor Greene Stands With Code Pink Traitors: “I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now”

MTG Trashes Republicans Once Again, Claims Critics Are Sexist

MTG stuns ‘The View’ hosts by breaking with Trump, calling for ‘women of maturity’ to unite

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Massie Enters Fight For Political Life Flanked By Islamists, Left-Wing Donors

Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) endorsed Thomas Massie, contributes to his primary campaign

Flashback: Thomas Massie receives and accepts Quincy Award from Iran lobbyist Rep Thomas Massie receiving the Quincy award from Trita Parsi, an actual Iranian lobbyist, alongside progressive Democrat Ro Khanna.
Trita Parsi (Persian: تریتا پارسی) is an Iranian-born Swedish writer and political analyst who is the co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also the founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council, which lobbies for stances on behalf of, and aligned with, Islamic Republic of Iran.

Thomas Massie calls Trump presidency the ‘Epstein administration’

(Massie) admitted in a recent interview that he once offered Republican leaders his vote IN EXCHANGE for a public expression of gratitude for his role in forcing the disclosure of the federal government’s Jeffrey Epstein files.

Massie’s vote was contingent on whether or not Speaker Mike Johnson would publicly praise him for releasing the Epstein files. “This is a literal quote from Thomas Massie’s interview with Politico. “Praise me publicly and I’ll vote the way you want.”

Politics Strange Bedfellows: Meet the PAC Working to Reelect Thomas Massie—And Partnering With the DSA to Fight ICE The embattled Kentucky congressman traveled to Pennsylvania to meet with IPAC around the time its founder wrote his campaign a check. Thomas Massie poses with IPAC chairman Rafed Aljoboury

Kentucky’s Massie joins Dems in refusing to vote to fund ICE as US House passes 4 spending bills

Lone Republican becomes only lawmaker to vote against crackdown on human organ trafficking (Massie)
A bill aimed at cracking down on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its practice of forced organ harvesting passed with overwhelming support on Wednesday – though one House lawmaker voted against it. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., was the lone Republican to oppose the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act, which passed 406-1. “It’s just another example of us trying to stick our nose in another country’s business and write their laws,” Massie told Fox News Digital after the vote. “And at the end of the day, they’re gonna do what they’re gonna do, and it’s just sort of a virtue signal over here.”
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But his pushback is also notable now given his status as an open critic of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and at times, of President Donald Trump. The bill was introduced by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and would authorize the Secretary of State to deny U.S. passports and visitor visas to people involved in organ trafficking circles. It would also call for sanctions on entities and individuals found to have participated in the gruesome illicit industry.

‘Mofo...in the White House’: Jasmine Crockett attacks Trump, praises Massie in anti-Iran strike rant ‘There’s only one Republican that I know I can count on for sure doing the right thing,’ Rep Crockett says in a new video
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, launched another tirade against President Donald Trump over the weekend, while offering rare praise for one of her House GOP colleagues who is currently at odds with the commander in chief. The Democratic firebrand took to Instagram Live late Saturday to criticize Trump’s strikes on Iran, while giving a “shout out” to Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., over his bipartisan resolution to rein in the president’s ability to conduct such operations. “So long story short, for those of you that are unaware, the mofo that resides in the White House has unilaterally, in my estimation, declared war,” Crockett said in the video.

Massie bucks GOP leadership again on Adam Schiff censure vote, draws conservative ire
Conservatives are conveying anger with northern Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie over his vote to oppose a resolution censuring California Rep. Adam Schiff, a favorite boogeyman of Republicans. Massie joined 19 other House Republicans in defecting from party leadership from condemning Schiff for championing the investigatory onslaught against former President Donald Trump. Combined with unanimous Democratic opposition, the measure failed, surprising even Schiff. The libertarian-leaning Massie claimed the resolution was unconstitutional for a clause that instructed Schiff should be fined $16 million if the House Ethics Committee found he “lied, made representations and abused sensitive information.” “Allowing a majority of Congress to take $16 million (92 years of pay) from any member of Congress is shortsighted,” Massie tweeted again of the Wednesday evening vote. “Can we not imagine a time when this precedent would be used against conservatives? Fortunately it failed.” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida freshman, said Massie was “making misrepresentations about the bill” she authored. A band of pro-Trump political figures went even further, casting doubts about Massie’s reasoning and calling for his defeat. Massie has endorsed Trump rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “Not only is he being duplicitous, partisan and moronic about his choice – he’s straight up lying about the Constitution to achieve his political end goals. Sick,” wrote Raheem Kassam, a British political activist and editor in chief of The National Pulse.

Thomas Massie seems to suggest action against Iran was to distract from Epstein

One of the least reliable Republican votes: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-mavericks-defied-own-parties-more-than-anyone-else-2025
“He has voted against a majority of Republicans on 73 occasions or 22.3% of the time in the 119th Congress and was just one of two Republicans to oppose the final passage of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Massie+voted+with+party+77%25+of+the+time+2025&t=h_&ia=web
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In 2025, Representative Thomas Massie voted with the majority of his party 77% of the time, indicating he often aligned with Republican positions but also broke ranks on several occasions. This voting pattern reflects his independent conservative stance within the party. Wikipedia Fox News
Thomas Massie’s Voting Record in 2025
Overview
In 2025, Representative Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, demonstrated a notable voting pattern in the U.S. House of Representatives. He voted with his party approximately 77% of the time.

Dissenting Votes Despite his overall alignment with the Republican Party, Massie was among a small group of lawmakers who frequently broke ranks. His dissent rate was significant

Massie on Tucker promoted another lie based on Pallywood [fake screenshot, messy m-falsehood]

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To: fruser1 <> This is more Tucker's speed - along with his segment on the "benefits" of tanning your testicles, which he aired 2 years ago.

He is way too **** retarded for anything serious, like foreign policy.

37 posted on 6/18/2025, 4:46:32 PM by montag813 [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse]

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Tucker Carlson claims Israel pushed Hunter Biden laptop story

Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural”

Tucker Carlson Wants Trump Tried for Treason

Three minutes of Tucker Carlson praising Islam.

Tucker Carlson is in free fall — promoting conspiracy theories, praising North Korea

Tucker Carlson is now shilling for jihadis

Tucker Carlson implores White House staffers to say no Trump’s orders

Tucker Carlson in a long “history lesson” to his viewers / listeners - advised that during WWII, Winston Churchill jailed “the leader of his opposition party” (false) and said they actually were patriotic and were falsely accused of disloyalty by Churchill (false). The person Tucker was defending was Oswald Mosely, who was literally married at the home of Goebbels and the wedding was attended by Adolf Hitler.

Insanity in Tehran: Regime Cuts Internet to 80 Million, Streams Tucker Carlson on Loop

Tucker Carlson announces plan to buy home in Qatar

Tucker Carlson is speaking at a conference in Doha ......sponsored in part by The Atlantic Council, who stand for the exact opposite of America First as he does podcast after podcast telling his audience this country is captured by Israel and every person in the conservative movement whose actually fighting for America First is your enemy.

A new edition of Tucker Carlson’s newsletter is drawing sharp backlash after he argued that an Iranian nuclear weapon could ultimately be a stabilizing force in the Middle East

Tucker Carlson Tells Forum in Doha That He’s Buying a House in Qatar to ‘Make a Statement That I’m an American and a Free Man’

‘Bulls***’: Tucker Carlson Mounts Full-Throated Defense of Mamdani From Anti-Semitism Charges and Slams ‘Ethno-Narcissist’ Jews

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4262726/posts Carlson’s interview on Tuesday with alleged historian Darryl Cooper — like his interview in April with Reverend Munther Isaac, referenced in today’s flashbacks — was so much worse than merely glib or incurious.

Carlson chose to interview Cooper, whom he endorsed as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States” to learn exactly how World War II didn’t happen. According to Cooper — and Carlson nodded along the entire time — Winston Churchill was perhaps “the chief villain of the Second World War” and “primarily responsible for that war becoming what it did.” It’s true that Hitler did not want or expect Britain to fight. He wanted Britain to acquiesce to German dominance of Europe from the Urals to Gibraltar and subsume the UK to Nazi interests. This is all a matter of historical record. Britain could fight or submit — that was Hitler’s choice, not Churchill’s.

FLASHBACK: Carlson chose to interview Isaac to find out how the Jewish State of Israel treats Christians. Isaac is a priest who neither lives nor works in Israel and who uses the loaded phrase “Occupied Palestine” as his location on his Twitter/X profile. He is a Palestinian Christian from Palestinian-controlled Bethlehem, where Christian ministers serve at the mercy of the Palestinian Authority.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4375244/posts Recently, Carlson has repeatedly taken to praising sharia law and suggesting Islam and its totalitarian legal code offer an inspiring moral clarity in contrast with today’s Western decadence. He has visited virtually seemingly every country in the Arab world, produced propaganda films for a few of them, and even announced his attention to buy a house a Qatar. He has called Hamas not a jihadist but a political organization, said he’d apologize to the family of Osama bin Laden, and has severely downplayed the Americans who have been killed in recent decades by Islamism. And earlier this week, the eponymous Tucker Carlson Network, in a seemingly earnest post better suited for a satirical Babylon Bee headline, offered this cherry on top: “Muslims love Jesus.”

“Count me as a Tucker fan. I think he’s brilliant.” - RandFan

167 posted on 08/13/2026 7:33:36 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: trebb

Post 167 is what they want us to embrace as “true MAGA” or “true conservatism.” They want us to believe that is the agenda we have supported and supposedly turned our back on and that is what Trump promised to be, and we just changed to follow Trump blindly. They apparently think we are actually going to buy that.


168 posted on 08/13/2026 7:58:42 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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It should also be noted in this post-mortem of the long overdue banning that RandFan had a history of multiple posts supporting the communist George Galloway: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4226455/posts#4


169 posted on 08/13/2026 8:03:07 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat; Angelino97; RandFan; trebb; adorno
Republican Wildcat: "This is what they *literally* consider to be "MAGA" or "true conservative" agendas.
This is what they are now claiming Trump promised to be and he supposedly didn't keep these promises.
Of course no person in their right mind would believe that"

Agreed.
To me it all sounds crazy and I have no idea what these people think they are doing, but I'm certain it's not MAGA, it's not Trumpian (if that's a word), it's not conservative and it's not Republican.

To my mind it's all just bullshiters howling at the moon over lunatic nonsense.

I doubt if they represent even 1% of Republicans and maybe they'll get 5% in the 2028 primaries.

Most important point: do not let these people do to us what the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have done to the Democrats, leading them them around by their nose-rings.

That is truly crazy.

170 posted on 08/13/2026 9:06:08 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK

171 posted on 08/13/2026 9:22:58 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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172 posted on 08/13/2026 2:47:33 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Finally at long last RandFag is toasted?

Better late then never I suppose.


173 posted on 08/13/2026 2:53:21 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Bullish

I imagine it will be another “time out”, unfortunately.


174 posted on 08/13/2026 2:56:04 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Thanks Bikkuri, I never knew the Rand drooler was from Britain. Nice to know.


175 posted on 08/13/2026 3:04:37 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: trebb
"Thank you - so many TDS morons here that it’s getting hard to stomach FR anymore."



👆👆👆 THIS 👆👆👆

176 posted on 08/13/2026 3:04:59 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Bikkuri

Lololol!

One down... about a dozen still to go, eh?


177 posted on 08/13/2026 3:10:11 PM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Vance for the GOP nomination and he’s clearly tied to the MAGA 2.0 lunatics I think your question has been answered.

VP Vance has not tied himself to crazed MTG Or Tucker Qatarlson. Quite the opposite.

178 posted on 08/13/2026 3:16:05 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: montag813
Excellent!!


179 posted on 08/13/2026 3:17:44 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: Danie_2023

You underestimate the American public.


180 posted on 08/13/2026 3:18:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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