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re: Massie voted with Dems today to defund ICE.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:51 am to Messedup
Posted on 1/23/26 at 1:51 am to Messedup
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I thought this guy was one of the good guys. Now he is just grandstanding with nothing to show. Weak sauce. Kentucky, please do better.
Yup, he knew the bill was going to pass regardless of how he voted. He chose to vote against Trump to gain attention, gain Trump opposition credit, and to please his handlers.
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Posted on 1/23/26 at 2:01 am to Victor R Franko
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Yup, he knew the bill was going to pass regardless of how he voted. He chose to vote against Trump to gain attention, gain Trump opposition credit, and to please his handlers.
He’s taking advantage of it too if you follow his Twitter he’s bringing in 2-10k each time.
I asked grok: Thomas Massie has been thanking his supporters for donating. I see at times he’s getting 2-10k. How much does Massie average daily in donations
Grok reply:
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Thomas Massie's campaign fundraising for the 2025-2026 election cycle (covering his reelection to KY-04) shows strong grassroots support, primarily from individual small-to-medium donors rather than large PACs or corporate interests—he has emphasized rejecting corporate PAC money.
According to the latest available FEC data (as of September 30, 2025, via sources like FEC.gov and Ballotpedia/OpenSecrets cross-references):
- Total receipts: **$1,813,513**
- This covers January 1, 2025, to September 30, 2025 (approximately 273 days, from Jan 1 to Sep 30).
To calculate the average daily donations:
$1,813,513 ÷ 273 days ˜ **$6,642 per day** on average over that period.
This is an overall average and includes some spikes from high-profile events (e.g., fundraising surges in response to political controversies or attacks, where he's reported hauls like $261,000 in under 3 days or $768,000 in a single quarter). More recent quarterly reports (e.g., July-September 2025) showed peaks like his best-ever quarter at $768,000, but no full Q4 2025 or early 2026 data is detailed in public summaries yet.
Libertarians, democrats are funding your boy with every Trump tweet which is everyday.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 3:31 am to Jugbow
quote:Has it ever occurred to you that maybe Donald Trump is the one who shouldn’t be in the party?
I continue to say they shouldn’t be in this party they obviously aren’t aligned with the party leader Donald Trump.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 4:04 am to BCreed1
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Education time....
Libertarian Party (USA) National Platform:
Libertarianism can be viewed from the left and from the right. The views of people like Milei/Rand Paul/Thomas Massie are different than those of the Libertarian Party.
You should know this. Educate yourself.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 4:05 am to Beef Supreme
That is the issue with Massie, he wants the perfect world, and the world of politics does not work that way.
Now he has become just belligerent because he cant get his way, and he is now destroying himself.
Now he has become just belligerent because he cant get his way, and he is now destroying himself.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 4:05 am to frogtown
The thread title is false. I don’t think he cares.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 5:00 am to Beef Supreme
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This is what Massie is pointing to for his no vote.
Whatever “principle” Massie thinks he’s upholding, when one’s principles have become a reliable ally for Hakeem and the Socialists…..it might be time for one to look inward and those principles.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 5:14 am to Great Plains Drifter
What percentage of votes against whatever would be considered a reliable ally of Hakeem?
Posted on 1/23/26 at 5:16 am to Great Plains Drifter
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Whatever “principle” Massie thinks he’s upholding
The principle is government policing the internet like they did during the 2020 election. There was no free speech at that time. Do you agree with that?
Posted on 1/23/26 at 5:22 am to Great Plains Drifter
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Whatever “principle” Massie thinks he’s upholding
Truth Cops
Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.
Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
Key Takeaways
Though DHS shuttered its controversial Disinformation Governance Board, a strategic document reveals the underlying work is ongoing.
DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
Facebook created a special portal for DHS and government partners to report disinformation directly.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
“We do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions, and we independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules,” a spokesperson for Twitter wrote in a statement to The Intercept.
There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
DHS’s mission to fight disinformation, stemming from concerns around Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, began taking shape during the 2020 election and over efforts to shape discussions around vaccine policy during the coronavirus pandemic. Documents collected by The Intercept from a variety of sources, including current officials and publicly available reports, reveal the evolution of more active measures by DHS.
According to a draft copy of DHS’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review, DHS’s capstone report outlining the department’s strategy and priorities in the coming years, the department plans to target “inaccurate information” on a wide range of topics, including “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”
“The challenge is particularly acute in marginalized communities,” the report states, “which are often the targets of false or misleading information, such as false information on voting procedures targeting people of color.”
The inclusion of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is particularly noteworthy, given that House Republicans, should they take the majority in the midterms, have vowed to investigate. “This makes Benghazi look like a much smaller issue,” said Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., a member of the Armed Services Committee, adding that finding answers “will be a top priority.”
How disinformation is defined by the government has not been clearly articulated, and the inherently subjective nature of what constitutes disinformation provides a broad opening for DHS officials to make politically motivated determinations about what constitutes dangerous speech.
The extent to which the DHS initiatives affect Americans’ daily social feeds is unclear. During the 2020 election, the government flagged numerous posts as suspicious, many of which were then taken down, documents cited in the Missouri attorney general’s lawsuit disclosed. And a 2021 report by the Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University found that of nearly 4,800 flagged items, technology platforms took action on 35 percent — either removing, labeling, or soft-blocking speech, meaning the users were only able to view content after bypassing a warning screen. The research was done “in consultation with CISA,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Prior to the 2020 election, tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media met on a monthly basis with the FBI, CISA, and other government representatives. According to NBC News, the meetings were part of an initiative, still ongoing, between the private sector and government to discuss how firms would handle misinformation during the election.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 5:31 am to frogtown
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:07 am to frogtown
I understand it, a libertarian believes the govt should not be monitoring the internet. But it might be wise considering terrorists and all sorts of criminals use it as a tool.
The problem with this thought process is to believe anything will be used for evil by the government.
Nuclear power can be used for clean energy in abundance.....or nuclear weapons.
Vaccines have ridded the world of horrible diseases....and they have been used as a tool by the government in modern times.
You cant just look at the "downside" of all legislature all the time. Its akin to the adage......well if we do this imagine what they will do if they get in power....news flash they already did it, makes no difference if we do it or not.
The problem with this thought process is to believe anything will be used for evil by the government.
Nuclear power can be used for clean energy in abundance.....or nuclear weapons.
Vaccines have ridded the world of horrible diseases....and they have been used as a tool by the government in modern times.
You cant just look at the "downside" of all legislature all the time. Its akin to the adage......well if we do this imagine what they will do if they get in power....news flash they already did it, makes no difference if we do it or not.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 6:13 am to trinidadtiger
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I understand it, a libertarian believes the govt should not be monitoring the internet. But it might be wise considering terrorists and all sorts of criminals use it as a tool.
DHS used CISA to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 election. That is the example you should use.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:16 am to BCreed1
Mods please sticky thread
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:20 am to BCreed1
Lawmakers rejecting funding for the enforcement agency of a core tenet of the Peace of Westphalia is a hysterical indictment of intelligence of elected officials in the US.
Oof
Oof
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:35 am to Jugbow
quote:You are the number one Massbot.
the massbots
Say hi to Miriam for me.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:42 am to blueboy
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Say hi to Miriam for me.
From a Ronbot who said high heels was the better choice for prez in 24
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:47 am to KCT
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What Republican would be against deporting illegal aliens?
Massie.
He has always voted against border security. Always votes against a border wall. Always votes against Trump's agenda. Always votes against MAGA.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:48 am to SDVTiger
quote:S'cuse me? So you're just making up total bullshite now?
Ronbot who said high heels was the better choice for prez in 24
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Say hi to Miriam for me.
Posted on 1/23/26 at 7:54 am to blueboy
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S'cuse me? So you're just making up total bullshite now?
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Here you are
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can't do another 4 years of Obama puppet dictatorship. We cannot afford to lose and DeSantis has a way better chance of being elected.
And yet you complain about Miriam. Hypocrite
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