re: Why does this board hate Massie?

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Because MAGA hates him and they're engaging in relativism

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You have a silly habit of late, assuming superficiality in analyzing opposing arguments. Perhaps instead, you should assume "MAGA 'hates' him" for an actual reason, and try to sort it out. Because that reason, rather than relativism, is directly respondent to the OP.

So what is the reason Massie is disliked?

Obviously, none of this is new. You've simply dismissed it. But we can do it once again.

In a US House of Representatives where the majority is historically narrow, and one or two GOP defections can derail legislation if Democrats stay unified, Massie consistently defected. Defecting on an isolated occasion or two, or on a particularly egregious piece of legislation, would be one thing. Instead though, Massie did so on virtually every vote of major importance to Trump. Massie did not abstain from those votes. He fully abetted the other side. He voted with the Squad. He voted with Hakeem Jeffries He voted against the GOP and Trump.

He claimed he did so "on principle." Of course, his holding of "principle" was undercut significantly when he lied to his constituents, insisting he voted with Trump 91% of the time.
His record in the 119th Congress did not come anywhere close to that claim. In fact, on the biggest issues of budgeting and foreign policy, Massie's votes aligned far more closely to those of Ilhan Omar than to the GOP. A "principled" man would simply own that, state why he did it, and did it so often. Instead, he lied to his constituents; he denied he'd done what in fact he did during this entire term.

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.

To a non-TDS infested poster, those facts would form a basis of doubt about the dude. Yet, you register no doubts, and insinuate those who do are rote simpletons.

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He is pro Epstein list,

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Correction. Obsessed with the Epstein list.

What if your daughter was the woman who accused Massie or retaliation and payoff? She was dismissed by this board. She has came forward with her claims before any epstien victims.

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Because Trump hates him.

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This is correct.

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What if it was your daughter that was being used by those pedophile billionaires?

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I would want her to do whatever helped heal her.

If healing involved a large civil settlement and an agreement to remain silent, and never have the issue come up again, so be it.

If she decided to pursue criminal charges instead, I would do everything I could to support that, including supporting public testimony, etc.

It seems most of the victims elected to go the first route. Because certainly they could have otherwise testified before Congress and a national audience. There was a wide open invitation for that kind of testimony. Did a single victim come forward?

Further, the Epstein files, in their totality, were released for access by congress members. EpsteinEpsteinEpsteinMotorMouths like Massie promised to release names and evidence. Yet, after accessing ALL the files, they did nothing of the sort, which is perplexing. Nor did they claim that information was being withheld in those privately viewed files. Instead, EpsteinEpsteinEpsteinMotorMouths like Massie simply continued their EpsteinEpsteinEpsteinMotorMouthing.

At that point, any pretense of truth-seeking about an international pool of elite ephebophiles was officially ceded to simple grandstanding by a domestic pool of politicians, Massie chief amongst them.

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Someone please explain how I'm wrong.

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You're not wrong. These people think Trump plays 5D chess. There are reasons no other President went to war with Iran.

Which shows even more that Trump did it for Israel.

And the Trump brigade's only defense is "check gas prices under Biden" which is so lazy.

Because most on this board are FDR conservatives

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Look up a handful of the major NGO's that facilitate immigration into the US (including Muslim countries). Look at the names of the board members.

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I looked. So what’s your point?

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No one cares about Epstien

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You should have read this board when Trump was running for president.

Kind of crazy how quickly that priority flipped.