Posted on 05/17/2026 7:29:28 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor for President Trump, is very confused about some of Thomas Massie's latest endorsements.
First there was the endorsement from radical Democrat Ro Khanna. "Khanna is among the most radically liberal anti-MAGA extremists to be found in all of Congress. This is the equivalent of being endorsed by Rachel Maddow."
"Mother Jones also endorsing Massie. This is like being endorsed by Pravda."
"Don’t forget CodePink!"
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trita_Parsi
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.
There was a time when Ro Khanna came across as one of the more sane Democrats - he represents a lot of Silicon Valley engineers and companies in his district and he seemed pro-business and less crazy than most in his party. But he wants to move on to bigger and better things and the only way to do that in today’s Democrat Party is to be batsh*t crazy. So that’s what Ro Khanna is these days - the fact that he backs Thomas Massie is confirmation for me that Massie is irredeemable.
SOROS funded a Massie Promo Video.
You have to be mentally impaired not to be able to figure this out.
Mother Jones, Joy Behar, Mehdia Benjamin ... all supporting “the only principled conservative remaining in Congress”. Go figure...
The Leftist media is fawning over Massie and are in overdrive to protect him.
Trying to play semantical games doesn’t change that. Mother Jones didn’t post that and highlight that to be unflattering to Massie. You are making a distinction without a difference...also conveniently ignoring everything else highlighted in this post.
He must be a hell of a conservative when Whoopi Goldberg wants him to win!
THEY CAN ALL GO PHU COUGH.
That was enough for Trump to unleash his usual brand of invective against Massie: a "major sleazebag", "Worst Republican Congressman in History", and so on. It's also why he had no issue endorsing an empty suit (skipped every debate, touts endorsements from unnamed military officers, declines to give details about his background because "it's classified", etcetera) like Ed Gallrein (who coincidentally seems to have scrubbed 3 years, and his time with an NGO in Bangladesh of all places from his LinkedIn profile), simply because Ed vowed loyalty to Trump.
Massie's long-standing isolationism has likewise manifested against our operations against Iran, which is yet another stick in Trump's craw.
Here's the thing though: Trump didn't have to try and gin up an opponent against Massie. He was a safe Republican district that votes Trump's way 9 times out of 10.
But now we have a situation where Trump has thrown chum into the water, because he could not countenance the wound on his ego. It's the most expensive House primary campaign in American history, and the pro-Israel lobby (which is another fraught topic, as geopolitical support for that country is waning amongst younger generations across both parties) senses that they can get a scalp by ousting Massie.
The Dems, sensing an opportunity, have decided to push for someone they otherwise ideologically and politically oppose solely because he's been cast as "anti-Trump". That's it.
Politics makes for strange bedfellows at times.
But who was the one that first decided that Massie was anti-Trump?
Why, that would be Trump himself.
If ANY of the people mentioned above endorsed me for a political office.... I’m pretty sure I would do my best to keep it a secret.
It seems that given enough time DC corrupts even the best. Maybe it’s the water. The endorsements are all you need to know about what has happened to Massie. Term limits would be good.
It seems that given enough time DC corrupts even the best. Maybe it’s the water.
“Always the dollars, always the f_____ dollars.”
Of course you are right, it is indeed about the money. I would also add that some deeply desire to be part of the "In" crowd and be seen in all the right parties with all the right people. It is not easy to be an honest conservative in that town and I am sure it would take a toll.
No, that is an editorial comment by Mother Jones; that is not reporting about the race.
Okay, okay. I did not know that Mother Jones was the hill you are prepared to die on. We are just terrible people.
You know what the funny thing is?
I actually took the time to read that whole article, and it’s a lot more fair and balanced about Massie than most of the Freeper commentary I see on FR about him these days.
Which is why I can categorically state that Stephen Miller knows better than to call it an endorsement, because it’s made abundantly clear in the article how much Massie’s politics aren’t in line with Democrats as a whole.
Heck, they even had to add the following little blurb at the bottom: “Correction, May 13: This story has been updated to reflect that Massie co-sponsored a bill to deny citizenship to people born to undocumented immigrants in 2026.”
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