Reminds me a lot of this congressman...
...who went to prison...
;^)
Posted on 04/26/2026 4:06:08 AM PDT by RandFan
Rep. Thomas Massie, the renegade Kentucky Republican who fiercely guards his political independence, doesn’t love being on President Trump’s bad side. He would prefer not to have the president’s allies spend millions to defeat him in a primary. In fact, if Massie had his way, he’d be working for Trump right now.
In his telling, in the weeks after the 2024 presidential election, the two men talked about Massie, a farmer who champions raw milk, becoming Trump’s agriculture secretary. Massie had formally endorsed Trump late in the campaign, offering to help him win over libertarians who might be tempted to stay home or vote third party in key battlegrounds. Trump had been appreciative, and the two had chatted by phone to hash out the timing of the endorsement announcement. “Just tweet it. I’ll retweet you,” Trump had told him.
The rollout went smoothly, but Massie’s endorsement didn’t get him the job in Trump’s Cabinet. He was recounting this to me in, of all places, a bridal suite inside a converted barn in his northern-Kentucky district. Massie had just delivered remarks to a friendly crowd in the wedding hall downstairs, part of an acrimonious campaign that, if Trump gets his way, will be Massie’s last. The president’s allies are spending big to defeat Massie in a May 19 primary and prop up Ed Gallrein, a Navy SEAL and a political novice whom Trump personally recruited as a challenger. Massie first won election to the House during the pre-Trump Tea Party era and has handily prevailed in competitive primaries before. But he is also aware of Trump’s unique hold on the GOP: When the president decides he wants a Republican out of Congress, he usually gets his wish. Polls have given Massie a lead over Gallrein
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Hate to edify you - but Massie ain’t smarter than Trump - his votes are for sale - or graft, if you prefer...
You remind me of how Dems operate - they choose a bad egg as their hero and then tirelessly push him as “one of the finest human beings I know”...
Do you think we’re all so brain-fried on your digital fentanyl that we can’t smell the foreign stink wafting off your posts?
It’s a permitted source Lake so please calm down.
You really need a ZOT!
The President and First Lady were almost killed last nite.
Your Foreign Trump hating ass posts
drags out a FARRRR Left Wing Rag Hit piece promoting a
Fellow Trump Hating Dem operative.
YOU Foreign lefties post radical Left wing Trump hit pieces
which promote these crooks shooting at Him.
Its time for you to move elsewhere .
For posting an article?
“but Massie’s endorsement didn’t get him the job in Trump’s Cabinet.”
I think this part is quite telling, concerning Massie’s stances.
He’s a petulant child who didn’t “get” what he was promised by a politician.
I wonder what his plans were for DoAg?
Kickbacks?
Was he counting on USAID to continue to operate under the radar?
For having the incredibly bad taste of posting anti-Trump drivel from leftist sources about an absolute idiot masshole within hours of an assassination attempt if the most conservative President perhaps ever.
You are a horrible.
LEAVE.
The Atlantic? FOAD you limey piece of sh*t.
The article is from a permitted source and verbatim (not edited by me ).
Your editorial choice of articles sucks harder than Monica.
That’s your own judgement but you’re calling to ban a user when no rules have been broken.
He didn’t “outsmart” President Trump. He is just another example of why “Libertarians” are NOT Conservatives.
He and his libertarian collegue Paul, are two idiots.
You’re a tasteless leftist horrible person.
Lower than spit.
Go crawl under a really big rock and get crushed.
Thet permitted source is one of the most virulent anti Western anti American propaganda rags ever.
Nobody made you post this the morning after another assassination attempt.
You’re just an awfl human. Divisive. Leftist under the pretense of being libertarian. Ruined her own country. Posts leftist tripe like this all day long.
Just because I’m pointing all that out doesn’t mean I’m not calm. I just like outing you when I see your ugly posts.
I just dont like it when people call for users to be banned based on nothing but a disagreement
That’s no better than the twitter censorship that went on and which you probably - and rightly - condemned at the time
Then lobby for the management to ban the source don’t aim your bile at me because I never edited it
Reminds me a lot of this congressman...
...who went to prison...
;^)
YOU posted it.
Willfully.
You’re a sick awfl excuse for a human being. Go back to ruining your own country.
Please.
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