re: Page 1 of this board is nothing but an anti-Massie circle jerk today.

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On consequential legislation/action:
• The 2025 Debt Limit extension votes - Massie successfully scuttled Debt Limit extension, which enabled Schumer and the Dems to shutdown the government during Trump's critical 1st 100 days. Dems were delighted. It was perhaps Massie's singular most ridiculous move. Especially as he'd supported the same measure in 2023 under Biden.
• The 2025 GOP budget resolution - Massie was the single GOP "No" vote joining every House Democrat
• The March 2025 continuing resolution (government funding bill) - Massie was the single GOP "No" vote joining every House Democrat
• The “One Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1) X 2 (May & July 2025) - Massie was one of two GOP "No" votes. There was no margin. 3 GOP "No's" would have sunk the bill, which gave other GOP'ers tremendous leverage to exact their own little goodies in the omnibus, or in future legislation.
• At a time when major foreign and domestic issues required focus (e.g., EU relationships, the economy, China, global trade relations, etc), and the Administration was trying to get unified messaging to break through MSM smokescreens, Massie turned into a distracting Epstein-file attention whore. He didn't give a Rat's arse about Epstein during the Biden Admin, but suddenly when Trump is trying to focus messaging, Massie was right there with Dems using the Epstein diversion, even after 100% of the files were made available to him.

Meanwhile, Massie's views of US foreign policy are not isolationist. They are cuckoldist. Massie sees nothing wrong with post-WWII international asymmetry in trade policy. He sees nothing wrong with offshoring critical US industry. He sees nothing wrong with asymmetric regulations disproportionately driving up domestic costs and domestic unemployment. He sees nothing wrong with US private industry directly competing with heavily subsidized state-owner enterprises abroad. He sees nothing wrong with patent infringement in those instances being the source of cheap imports and US job loss.

He sees nothing wrong with the US standing down while China or other countries expand international influence. In fact, he strongly supports such policy.
E.g., Despite Venezuelan prominence in the drug trade, in mass (criminal) illegal migrations to the US, in funding Cuba and anti-US Communism, in providing ports for Chinese and Russian Naval military assets, etc., Massey thought the incursion to take out Maduro was terrible. He presumed the Venezuelan affair was poorly planned, haphazard, doomed to failure, and unconstitutional. Basically, Massie thought the US should serve as Maduro's international cuckold. Whatever Maduro wanted to do in the hemisphere, and to whom he wanted to do it, was his business, and Uncle Sam should be relegated to a bedroom chair to quietly watch him enjoying the fruits of his efforts. The same was true of China's increased influence in Panama.

Now you can excuse Massie's voting alignment anyway you want. You can rationalize his cuckoldist foreign policy views, both economic and military. Perhaps you can even excuse him lying to KY-4 voters about his record. But as a result of his voting alignment, Dems endorsed him, as did their party mouthpiece, the NY Times.

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It's disconcerting, but he is just a speedbump anyway. D.C. is a cesspool of warmongering whores who will spend us into bankruptcy. Massie wasn't stopping any of that.

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Massie the individual isn't important, really.

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