Posted on 05/19/2026 2:34:32 AM PDT by RandFan
At a rally in a car park outside his campaign headquarters in Florence, Kentucky, on Saturday, congressman Thomas Massie said that the Republican politicians who joined him had made a brave choice.
"I'm sure they'll be punished for coming here today," he said.
It didn't take long for Massie's warning to prove prophetic, as Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make his displeasure known.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado, who had been barnstorming with Massie all weekend, and Rand Paul, the Kentucky senator who endorsed Massie and shares his unorthodox small-government libertarianism, were "parading around like fools for the worst Republican congressman in the history of our party".
The president called Boebert "weak-minded" and "dumb" and said that he would withdraw his endorsement of her if a Republican challenger came forward.
Trump's threats weren't exactly realistic.
Paul doesn't stand for re-election for another two years. The filing date to run against Boebert in the Colorado Republican primary has already passed. But Trump's animosity toward Massie is very real - and it has had real consequences.
Even as Trump was visiting China last week, he was firing off posts attacking the congressman, whose district stretches along the Ohio River from the suburbs of Louisville and Cincinnati to the foothills of Appalachia. He has called him a "moron", a "loser", a "lowlife" and a "major sleazebag".
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“Stop slinging mud”
Looks like Massie was wallowing in that mud.
Poor impulse control is his problem.
Foreign scum says what?
Conservatives will out vote the libertarians in KY.
Depends on how many nursing home residents are bussed to the polls.
Massie voted against a January 2026 DHS funding bill due to its funding for CISA, a cybersecurity agency he opposes as enabling censorship, not due to opposition to ICE funding.
The MDS (and BDS) at an all time high on FR.
Good morning, concerned British citizen so concerned with Thomas Massie and Rand Paul. How’s the weather over there in the UK? Funny how Paul and Massie’s biggest fans are foreigners.
So wish the death cult of pissant britain;-)
I hope you can take the loss with some decorum. I think you've been misled about him. As I've been saying, he talks a good game, but he's very simply put, a fraud.
I will of course either way show decorum. It would be a sad loss if that transpires
But let’s wait and see
Can’t wait for him to lose.
He’s a turd.
No, to your government it will be sad, but in our country it will good.
IN.YOUR.FACE.
TROLL
We may have our disagreements, but I think you are fair, and I don’t support the people here who are ganging up on you.
Unlike certain others, including one who finally got the Zot he so richly deserved.
Who got banned?
I have a sore head and keeping a low profile today
Don't know if it's temporary or permanent.
-PJ
Oh, I see.
If “low profile” is 10 posts already, hate to see what a busy day for you is, Britain resident.
At least Massie lost — in a landslide — by 10 points! So that is wonderful news!
“Feel me up at the movies”
Ahh, Free Republic! Where obfuscation thrives!
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