Today Republicans and Democrats tried to use “unanimous consent” to pass a 45-day extension of warrantless spying on Americans without voting.

I did not consent.

I was able to force a vote and a debate. I used a rare parliamentary procedure to control half the time. Watch here: pic.twitter.com/rP5njeHNLF

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 30, 2026

So because Biden's DOJ abused the system for querying the FISA 702 data on Americans (which is collected, but access is to be restricted), then Massie wants to put the whole program at risk because this is the new #1 most importantest issue? Whilst we are engaged in a conflict with jihadists who hate us?

Dude is nothing but a clickbait antagonist and the fact people lift him up is just bizarre.

Lockdown access to any information collected on naturally-born US citizens(incidentally or as part of authorized surveillance) and require a warrant to access what is locked down.

My understanding is that many improvements have been made to clean up the access.

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I just donated to Massie's re-election campaign.

If we had 534 more members like Massie, America would actually be Great Again.

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The empty suit he's running against was too cowardly to show up to any debates, he must have Joe Biden's old campaign manager

This is an actual photo from today of @MassieforKY shaking Ed Gallrein’s hand at a local library event before their debate. Massie took dozens of questions for 90 minutes. I'm disappointed that Ed didn't show up and that imaginary Ed didn't even stand up to shake Massie’s hand.… pic.twitter.com/aWqNAuhBjb

— Katie (@KazooKatherine) April 19, 2026

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A lot of folks clearly don't remember how terrible a person John McCain really was.

Military career, political career (russiagate, obamacare, Ukraine-forever wars, Keating 5, just to name a few), his whole life was a farcical, spiteful parody of patriotism/honor.

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He had some flaws. Yet when compared to most modern day Trump Republican officeholders, McCain ranks far above them in most good character traits.

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nortex97 said:

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A lot of folks clearly don't remember how terrible a person John McCain really was.

Military career, political career (russiagate, obamacare, Ukraine-forever wars, Keating 5, just to name a few), his whole life was a farcical, spiteful parody of patriotism/honor.

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He had some flaws. Yet when compared to most modern day Trump Republican officeholders, McCain ranks far above them in most good character traits.

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One of McCain's last actions was teaming up with Murkowski and Susan Collins to vote against ending Obamacare despite campaigning that he would end it, only to spite Trump. He was a swamp rat.

Whether you believe the Trump is covering up some of the Epstein files or not, what Massie said wasn't a principled stand. A principled stand would be to vote yes or no based on if the bill did good for the American people, especially his constituents.

What he blatantly said was that he would give his vote for an 'atta boy and a stroke to the ego. Not a very principled stance.

Well said. He is principled in focusing on Thomas Massie and keeping Thomas Massie's name in the headlines. And he does so by aligning with the Dems to antagonize the slim majorities and subvert the leader of the party he purportedly belongs to.

So principled!

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Well said. He is principled in focusing on Thomas Massie and keeping Thomas Massie's name in the headlines. And he does so by aligning with the Dems to antagonize the slim majorities and subvert the leader of the party he purportedly belongs to.

So principled!

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And what are those things? Exposing pedophiles, opposing spying on American Citizens by the government, and no wars all things MAGA used to champion and all things that were part of the 2024 Trump Campaign.

Unfortunately in MAGA land subservience is all that counts.

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There's no problem with any of those as long as you don't align with the degenerate Democrats. They have no pure motivations, EVERYTHING they do is self serving and never for the right reasons. We should hold Republicans to a higher standard, but never ever team up with that worthless morally/ethically repugnant steaming pile of dung known as the Democrat party and/or their propagandists. A Republican calling out other Republicans while ignoring the transgressions of Democrat vermin, proves that they are hypocrites that hold no moral high ground and have purely self serving motivations like their Democrat allies.

Dipshat meets dingaling.

Tucker Carlson and Thomas Massie, Wednesday, live at 6 PM ET only on https://t.co/czOhKmdlbW. pic.twitter.com/fy4BEfVHZy

— TCN (@TCNetwork) May 5, 2026

I just saw that primetime Tucker event announcement.

Think I will go the intellectual enlightenment route and watch two ******ed Mexican midgets wrastle in the mud.

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Living on left-wing media outlets and their welcoming him tells you all you need to know

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Yep, he should be treating them with max hostility. Anyone who gets in bed with these leftists and acts cordial...major red flag. You can criticize Trump and think he is botching things, without yucking it up with the number one enemy and threat to this nation.

maybe some of the fanboys of Massie can explain WHY if he is so great-

why do Trump and the GOP hate him so much?

hmm... it's almost as if Massie does whatever is best for Massie and not the conservative movement!

I understand being resolutely principled but in the real world, you can resolutely principle the plane of state into the side of a Mountain if you refuse to bank the plane at some point.

The problem is always that there are lots of other players and powers and interests and they don't care at all about your principles, but will gladly exploit them if achieve their own ends. What then if your principled stance results in avoidable harm?

The real world is tradeoffs, deals, compromises, because the opposition also has agency and goals and plans. Resolute uncompromising will makes you something everyone can ignore, an irrelevant factor to the negotiations going on around you. It's admirable if morally principled but that fades when in a pragmatic sense you end up failing to prevent harm being done when you may have had the opportunity to compromise to prevent the worst excesses of it. We don't live in any person's ideal world.

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nortex97 said:

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A lot of folks clearly don't remember how terrible a person John McCain really was.

Military career, political career (russiagate, obamacare, Ukraine-forever wars, Keating 5, just to name a few), his whole life was a farcical, spiteful parody of patriotism/honor.

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He had some flaws. Yet when compared to most modern day Trump Republican officeholders, McCain ranks far above them in most good character traits.

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He was more me-first than any current republican political figure. But he ****ed over America, so I can see what you like about him.

He was a sorry POS.

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If I had been inclined to give Massie the slightest benefit of the doubt, going on Tucker just erased that.

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Their purpose is to sow discord and division on the right so democrats can win again. They are the opposite of America First.

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If the President had only released the files like he promised to, we'd never be hearing about Massie again.

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Yep, I wonder why he didn't? What ever could the reason possibly be?

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maybe some of the fanboys of Massie can explain WHY if he is so great-

why do Trump and the GOP hate him so much?

hmm... it's almost as if Massie does whatever is best for Massie and not the conservative movement!

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Donald Trump killed the conservative movement. Reagan/Goldwater Republicans like me no longer have conservatives to vote for, which is why I'll be staying home in 2026 and, probably, in 2028.

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Well said. He is principled in focusing on Thomas Massie and keeping Thomas Massie's name in the headlines. And he does so by aligning with the Dems to antagonize the slim majorities and subvert the leader of the party he purportedly belongs to.

So principled!

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Did he swear an oath to his party or to the Constitution?

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flown-the-coop said:

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Well said. He is principled in focusing on Thomas Massie and keeping Thomas Massie's name in the headlines. And he does so by aligning with the Dems to antagonize the slim majorities and subvert the leader of the party he purportedly belongs to.

So principled!

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Did he swear an oath to his party or to the Constitution?

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He owes allegiance to both.

Did he accept ANY funding EVER from the RNC?

And do you apply this same analysis to Trump and Iran? Did Trump swear an oath to low gas prices or to the Constitution? Epstein files to Constitution? To no forever wars or the Constitution?

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hmm... it's almost as if Massie does whatever is best for Massie and not the conservative movement!

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Donald Trump killed the conservative movement. Reagan/Goldwater Republicans like me

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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

How is Massie coming on the Save America Act? Confirming judges?

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maybe some of the fanboys of Massie can explain WHY if he is so great-

why do Trump and the GOP hate him so much?

hmm... it's almost as if Massie does whatever is best for Massie and not the conservative movement!

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Or maybe he does what he thinks is best for his constituents and the country (and the Constitution) whether you agree with it or not. One thing for sure, he is not a Trump boot-licking lapdog (unlike many on this board) and that is definitely a positive in his favor.

And Massie is WAY more conservative than Trump has ever been.

It seems the only things Massie isn't conservative on are unlimited executive power to wage war, Epstein coverup and blind support for Trump. The first two are directly related to the last one. Therefore Massie isn't conservative because he's not lockstep with Trump.

Massie

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LMCane said:

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maybe some of the fanboys of Massie can explain WHY if he is so great-

why do Trump and the GOP hate him so much?

hmm... it's almost as if Massie does whatever is best for Massie and not the conservative movement!

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Or maybe he does what he thinks is best for his constituents and the country (and the Constitution) whether you agree with it or not. One thing for sure, he is not a Trump boot-licking lapdog (unlike many on this board) and that is definitely a positive in his favor.

And Massie is WAY more conservative than Trump has ever been.

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Aligning with Dems to subvert conservative oriented legislation does not make one a conservative. HTH.

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What then if your principled stance results in avoidable harm?

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Examples?

Compromise is why we are pushing $40T in debt - that our posterity will have to deal with. But you keep compromising with the left and the Trumpsters we'll see where that takes us.

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Donald Trump killed the conservative movement. Reagan/Goldwater Republicans like me no longer have conservatives to vote for, which is why I'll be staying home in 2026 and, probably, in 2028.

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Reagan/Goldwater Republicans could never win a general election today. (Not that Goldwater wasn't completely wiped out by LBJ in 1964. He was.)

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Today Republicans and Democrats tried to use “unanimous consent” to pass a 45-day extension of warrantless spying on Americans without voting.

I did not consent.

I was able to force a vote and a debate. I used a rare parliamentary procedure to control half the time. Watch here: pic.twitter.com/rP5njeHNLF

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 30, 2026

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Waiting for MAGA to tell me why this is a bad thing...