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This is the kind of post that gets Rep. Massie in trouble with his colleagues. He tells the truth. It's disgusting what's going on.

Why do some excuse the Congressmen and the majority for breaking their repeated promises?

1 posted on 12/02/2025 1:21:03 AM PST by RandFan
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This will not go down well with voters - especially independents - next year


2 posted on 12/02/2025 1:25:09 AM PST by RandFan
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Massie supports the use of baseline budgeting.


6 posted on 12/02/2025 2:45:53 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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This I can get behind you on. Your narco thereoist support needs a lot of work.


9 posted on 12/02/2025 3:32:41 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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“Republicans campaigned on reducing spending, but after the election almost all Congressmen voted to spend hundreds of billions more in 2025 and 2026 than in 2024.”

Where are the receipts?


10 posted on 12/02/2025 4:36:41 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Quiet! Quiet Piggy!)
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Massie ran on cutting taxes then voted to raise them. I’d be pissed if I voted for that fraud.


11 posted on 12/02/2025 4:41:18 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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Putting Massie aside for the moment to state the obvious, the GOPe/congress/uniparty/dems collectively the last couple of generations has put us where we are today on most topics.

Watch the federal debt ceiling limit raising as ‘fake fights’ with the pretend parties soon as this is a commensurate perfect example.


12 posted on 12/02/2025 4:52:58 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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“Republicans campaigned on reducing spending, but after the election almost all Congressmen voted to spend hundreds of billions more”

They talk the talk to get elected, but they don’t walk the walk once elected.


13 posted on 12/02/2025 6:03:54 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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Andrew Jackson. The only President that had zero federal debt. The problem is systemic. Congressmen have little incentive to cut and plenty of incentives to spend. A Balanced Budget Amendment could work. An Article V Convention Of States was close to calling a Convention for such an amendment. Congress responded with a fake cure: Graham Rudman. The plot worked . The effort was effectively killed.
14 posted on 12/02/2025 6:14:40 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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This is true. And we've all accepted it. It's time, as Bill Buckley put it in the first issue of National Review, "to stand athwart the tide of progress crying stop."
15 posted on 12/02/2025 6:19:19 AM PST by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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He didn’t vote for the CRs under Biden?


38 posted on 12/02/2025 2:20:37 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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FBI Deputy Director Bongino Has Had Enough of the Thomas Massie Nonsense

November 13, 2025 | Sundance 

Representative Thomas Massie is one of the primary Alligator Emoji antagonists.  His intended mission is always to undermine efforts by any MAGA policy or objective, and to sow division in order to maintain his purpose on behalf of people who do not have America’s interests in mind.

Thomas Massie has been bad news for a long time and is ABSOLUTELY, UNDENIABLY a walking visible representation of the attitude, disposition and intents of the narrow-minded tribe that travels under the DeSantis banner.

Yesterday, in his latest operation to divide the MAGA base, which is his primary mission – and has been for a long time, Thomas Massie used the background sentiment of distrust in the FBI, which is valid – but in this example also serves his purpose, to claim the FBI was targeting ‘whistleblowers’ who have grifted themselves into optimal financial position around the issue of the J6 pipe bomber.

[SOURCE]

At a certain point, everyone eventually gets sick of the Massie operation.  FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has reached that point.

[BONGINO – X] “Congressman Massie, When Director Patel and I entered on duty in our leadership positions in the FBI we had our hands full, but we were happy to be part of the President’s team, and we still are.

Despite the multitude of challenges we faced, one of our first initiatives was to aggressively pursue a new strategy to investigate the January 6 pipe bomb, terror attack. We brought in new personnel to take a look at the case, we flew in police officers and detectives working as TFOs (task force officers) to review FBI work, we conducted multiple internal reviews, held countless in person and SVTC meetings with investigative team members, we dramatically increased investigative resources, and we increased the public award for information in the case to utilize crowd-sourcing leads.”

“This is only a small sample of the work the FBI personnel and leadership team have put into this critical investigation.

When I spoke with you yesterday a little after 8am ET (screenshots attached), I offered you an in-person brief on our work. We spoke for ten minutes.

I called you back a bit after 7:30pm ET to again make that offer. You didn’t answer and have yet to call me back.
Despite this, you continue to imply that the Director and I are targeting investigators in the case. This is disgusting, even by the low standards many have for politicians. You know my number, and you’re free to call me anytime. But it’s easier to tweet and throw BS bombs.

Yes, our leadership team will be meeting with FBI team members today, and we will avail them of all the whistleblower resources they need to disclose ANY evidence of malfeasance in the prior administration. And we will ask about threads that may have gone un-pulled under prior leadership, because we are passionate about solving this case.

But a week of near 24-hour work on RECENT open-source leads in the case has yet to produce a breakthrough, and some of the media reporting regarding prior persons of interest is grossly inaccurate and serves only to mislead the public.

I proudly serve in this administration, and I proudly work with Director Patel to reform and advance the crime fighting and national security missions of the FBI. We would love to have you as a partner in this mission, rather than a dog barking behind a fence.” {SOURCE}

While I have my differences with positions and actions of the FBI for a long time, what Massie is trying to do with this pre-existing, background sentiment deserves the full pushback he is receiving from Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

Massie has been playing a game for a long time.  It is a toxic and divisive game, and he deserves full dispatch.


39 posted on 12/02/2025 2:21:30 PM PST by Bratch
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"(Thomas Massie's) the one Republican that you can respect right now." - Joy Behar, The View
40 posted on 12/02/2025 2:24:10 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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This is the kind of post that gets Rep. Massie in trouble with his colleagues.

Gets him in plenty of trouble here too. Trouble is no matter how much fraud DOGE rooted out congress hasn't defunded a single USAID criminal NGO.

41 posted on 12/02/2025 2:24:26 PM PST by itsahoot
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I see the low intellect keyword spammers are at it again.

What a bunch of cowards.


53 posted on 12/03/2025 2:10:53 PM PST by Fury
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