Posted on 08/22/2020 12:29:06 PM PDT by RandFan
@RepThomasMassie
Speaker Pelosi said we'd probably be back in August to vote on a PPP bill. What she didn't say is that PPP would stand for "Pelosi's Political Posturing."
Here's the two-minute floor speech I delivered today debunking the Post Office conspiracy theory the Democrats cooked up.
Video...
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Take note, leadership...
Massie is an attention whore. But we love our ultra conservative attention whore here in the 4th District.
Nice!!!
On Capitol Hill, Democrat congressman John Yarmuth from the Covington students home state of Kentucky called for a complete shutdown of teenagers wearing MAGA hats, then claimed he was joking........after the fake medias narrative fell apart.
These kids got a lesson in social media mobs, Massie said, and the mob that forms in social media forms quickly, and it is there to bully anybody from saying what they really think and what they believe, particularly if its a conservative viewpoint.
Several boys from Covington Catholic became the object of press and social media scorn after video clips emerged of their interaction with a Native American man named Nathan Phillips last Friday at the March for Life in Washington D.C.
Shortened clips showed Nick Sandmann, a student at the school who was wearing a #MAGA hat, smirking at Phillips as Phillips beat his drum in Sandmanns face. The press narrative, which has now been thoroughly debunked as full videos of the interaction have emerged, was that the students were bullying Phillips.
In reality, Phillips and a few other Native men approached the boys first, in a clear attempt at provocation.
The social media mob is a left-wing mob. Massie said, The right does not do this. Its considered harassment if it comes from the right, and if it comes from the left, its just free speech and theres your double standard.
Massie also admonished the left for moving their social media efforts into the real world, attempting to destroy the personal lives of the objects of their ridicule.
What happens with the left, though, is they cross over into reality, he said. They migrate off of social media and they start calling the city of Covington to get tax records and figure out where people live. They go to their houses, and figure out where they work, and try and get the parents fired. Thats the difference.
I mean, we all know Twitters a dumpster fire, but they try and take that fire and spread it into real life. Thats what this is. This is bullying.
Massie said that a prosecutor in northern Kentucky named Rob Sanders has already publicly warned the political left that it is against Kentucky law to threaten schools, and that there will be prosecutions for such actions. He described Sanders efforts in pushing back against the hate-filled mob as admirable.
Massie, who reserved judgment about the students until all of the facts came to light, also cautioned against jumping to conclusions when the mainstream press makes these types of accusations.
Its almost like this was a big psychology experiment like freshman psychology 101, he said. You were told, before you saw the video, what you were watching so that when you watched the video, you completely fell for it. So, for instance, you were told before you watched this video that these kids were chanting build the wall, and you cant make out the words. You assume, yeah, theyre chanting build the wall.
In fact, they were not. You were told this kid was smirking, and that he had gotten in the face of this Native American. But thats not the case. This kid was smiling he was trying to diffuse the situation and broadcast to his friends that he wasnt feeling threatened, so they didnt need to feel threatened either. And then you were told that these kids surrounded that older man, and that was not the case.
But if you were told all these things, and then you watched the video, it was hard not to fall for it, Massie continued. But after watching the longer videos I know that Nick Sandmann didnt do anything wrong. He did what most 16-year-olds dont have the composure to do, which is to diffuse the situation that was not of his own making and was a situation hed never been in before. Everything hed been taught in his life prepared him to do the right thing, and thats what he did.
Theyre raising our future leaders at Covington Catholic, Massie finished. These are kids of very high character. Many of them are going places. So I guess my main takeaway is to admonish, not just the left, because there are always going to be people on the left pandering to their base, but to admonish the Democrats who I know are reasonable, and the people in the middle who dont associate with either party but form their own opinion, and even the people on the right who got spoofed by this, to just take a step back and wait a day before they form opinions next time, based on something in social media.
I wish he mentioned the biggest lie of them all, that people wont get social security checks on time. They stopped sending them match 1, 2013! Obama law of course thats conveniently forgotten. I hate them!
WOW! Love an R with nads!
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