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https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1986120515472228783

@RepThomasMassie
Nov 5

To avoid a repeat of last night’s shellacking in the 2026 midterms, Republicans should:

quit covering for pedophiles

put America before Israel

put farmers before corporations

quit funding wars abroad

reduce spending to control inflation

quit attacking independent voices

Dunno what he means with the farmer comment, but I agree 100% on the other issues.

Patrick says

To avoid a repeat of last night’s shellacking in the 2026 midterms, Republicans should:

Stop talking about abortion. Women carried the Dems over the line and from the massively blasted campaign propagandas claiming Republicans would ban abortion, this was women's main issue.

Patrick says

To avoid a repeat of last night’s shellacking in the 2026 midterms, Republicans should:

There was no shellacking. Blue voters in blue states with blue majorities voted blue.

(It's why they're blue states)

All three of the highest office candidates in each state (two govs, one mayoral) were not Trump endorsed or anti-Trump:
Winsome, Jack C., and Sliwa. Jack C. actually performed well, better than Murphy, but the Dems flipped out early and brought Obama out to the campaign and had to spend effort on turnout (if not darker methods) to defend a Blue candidate in a Blue State.

The lesson is don't run boring ass candidates that don't have the MAGA endorsement.

Patrick says

quit covering for pedophiles

put America before Israel

put farmers before corporations

quit funding wars abroad

reduce spending to control inflation

quit attacking independent voices

Where is IMMIGRATION and OPEN BORDERS, Massie?
A large fraction of Democrats rate out-of-control immirgation as a priority, even Matt Yglesias recognizes this:
https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-biggest-immigration-dilemma

None of these were the blue majority in blue states' priorities. The only one you might say was "Inflation", but Dem voters DEFINITELY don't want to cut spending to do it.

https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/1986931723469307923

Ed Gallrein

BONGINO replies to Massie:

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 break through, 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.

https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1988956947190616397?s=20

Receipts of the two phone calls yesterday to Massie by Bongino provided at the link.

Wtf, nice infighting by the president. Are there recent advisor changes? He’s been off since August, when he declined to prosecute the Epstein files further. Island attendees were a viper’s den of Democrats, a no brainer for a Republican. Protecting mossad? With friendly, flattering advisors to encourage that, weak H1B policy, and this Venezuela boondoggle (which should be against Mexican cartels)?

Nah, Massie's been a problem since he voted against America First, against using already-allocated Dept of Defense money to build the Wall back in 2019 - THREE TIMES!

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

"he always votes against the Republican Party"

Massie votes with Republicans 91% of the time.

Patrick says

"he always votes against the Republican Party"

Massie votes with Republicans 91% of the time.

Well his wife died, but did anybody see the Autopsy?

When did Massie last see his wife alive?

Where was Massie's Dem Wife at the time?

What time and where was the body discovered?

Who did Massie call in the first minutes? Did he call 911 immediately?

How much insurance did Massie have on Rhonda?

I think we should be able to ask Questions of America's leaders.

We need to see the Massie Files!

Patrick says

Massie votes with Republicans 91% of the time.

The Walls, Immigration, Tariffs. Kentucky needs a MAGA, not a RINO.

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

Patrick says

Massie votes with Republicans 91% of the time.

The Walls, Immigration, Tariffs. Kentucky needs a MAGA, not a RINO.

MAGA should mean MAGA. Not Trumps MIGA, not prop up hedge fund buddies real estate investors, not bigger government spend, not supporting Ramswamy who openly hates America, not 50 year loans debt slavery.

Trump isn’t one to complain about remarrying. Bro married someone half his age. Is that why Epstein files are hidden? Let’s not go there…

My point is Trump needs to listen to his base more, and not fight with people who want MAGA.

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

MAGA should mean MAGA. Not Trumps MIGA,

Nope, I'm MAGA, not MIBA (Malicious Israel Blaming Always).

No Tucker Party will ever win. MAGA gets Independents to win.

I will never vote for a SocCon version of BLM: "America Only".

Oil is a priced as an international commodity. Either we control it or somebody else will. China, probably, but it will never be neutral and open to free and fair bidding, that's Glibertarian naive nonsense on one hand, and "Multipolar" propaganda pushed by China and other rivals on the other hand.

Massie refuses to discuss disciplinary action for Plaskett (D-USVI) for colluding with a convicted sex offender, Epstein and asking questions he provided in Congress.

Alison Steinberg @alisonintheknow
of Lindell TV asked Thomas Massie if the house should vote to censure her after it was revealed by the Washington Post that Stacey Plaskett was texting with Jeffrey Epstein to influence her questions during 2019 hearings investigating Trump.

His answer was, “feels like a distraction.”

Massie just gave away the game:

This was never about the truth. This was always about finding an attack vector against Trump and Massie, as well as Marjorie Traitor Brown, either naively or intentionally went along with perpetuating this hoax that Trump is a p*do.

Primary them both.

https://x.com/jacktronprime/status/1990850575534072183?s=20

OK, now I'm getting pissed at Massie.

"Classified" means "fuck you, peasants."

Another heavily bot-propped account

Massie flip flops on Promise to release names of "Traffickers" affiliated with Epstein

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Yawn: this will free up measly $750 million. Peanuts. Much ado about nothing.

RWSGFY says

MolotovCocktail says

MolotovCocktail says

Yawn: this will free up measly $750 million. Peanuts. Much ado about nothing.

This fussing about sofa cushion change is the most annoying trait of some of the "conservatives". It's like a dad running around the house and switching off LED lights pulling whopping 10 watts each.

RWSGFY says

this will free up measly $750 million

How did you determine that number? I suspect it cost more than that just to maintain the base housing and schools.

RWSGFY says

MolotovCocktail says

MolotovCocktail says

Yawn: this will free up measly $750 million. Peanuts. Much ado about nothing.

??? What fucked up Alternate Reality do you live on?

The total comes to approximately $1.47 trillion, with the US accounting for about two-thirds. Note that these were mid-year estimates for 2024; actual final spending for that year (now available in 2025) ended up slightly higher overall due to adjustments in some countries, but the chart faithfully reflects the data as released at the time

Estimated Total for NATO Operations in Europe

Combining the above, the direct US spending attributable to military presence and NATO-related operations in Europe is approximately $19.3 billion for FY2024 ($14.6B basing + $3.6B EDI + $1.1B common contributions). This represents about 2% of the US's total $968 billion defense spending (as per NATO estimates, which include broader categories like veterans' benefits and pensions not in the core DoD budget).Note that this is a conservative estimate focused on direct costs—additional indirect spending (e.g., global R&D, procurement of equipment deployable to Europe, or portions of the $25.7 billion in total Overseas Operations Costs that support EUCOM) could push the figure higher, potentially to $20-30 billion when accounting for shared overhead. However, the DoD does not provide a fully itemized regional total, and much of US defense spending benefits NATO globally rather than being Europe-specific.

$20-30 BILLION

Stop taking fentanyl while posting on PatNet.