The 2026 Kentucky congressional primary loss of Thomas Massie, a conservative who championed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, demonstrates how political figures who genuinely support transparency and accountability can become targets of coordinated opposition from both left and right, revealing that principled positions on issues like elite accountability may be strategically opposed regardless of ideological alignment.
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CNN, Gavin Newsom, Nick Fuentes and Alex Jones Are All Upset About Massie... Hmm...Added:
For those >> [laughter] >> watching last night, we had to check in on Robert Barnes and embarrassed. I just want to remind everybody again. Robert Barnes, the ultimate fraud, had to say, "To all those losers who want to doubt people's pundit Rich Baris poll on Kentucky 4 and think Massie has no chance, DM me and make a little wager." I really hope people DM'd him.
He wouldn't let me DM him because he blocked me a long time ago, even though I just was very nicely asking him a question, but it was a question he didn't agree with. So, Robert Barnes has blocked me, but so I couldn't DM him and make this bet cuz you guys know I would have. I would have easily, gladly put up 500 bucks on this. But, I I hope others did. And we'll see if he pays out. I'm sure nobody does because this guy is a total fraud. And and and the truth is is Baris knew what he was doing, which we're going to get to here in a minute.
But, let's just laugh at Barnes' fat face right here because one way or the other he he lost big, whether it was his reputation or his wallet or both. We have Caitlyn Collins and CNN. Well, CNN is very disappointed that Massie lost. So, you know, this kind of tells you all you need to know.
But, let's watch CNN and how they're feeling this morning. said the Epstein files, something that went from seeming like a far-fetched dream to a reality.
And he referenced that in his speech tonight. I want you to listen to to what he told his supporters.
We need basic decency.
That's what the Epstein Files Transparency Act was all about. By the way, today is the 6-month anniversary of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
We've taken out two dozen CEOs The Epstein files, the way they did it, not saying the Epstein files in general being released is a bad thing. We we all wanted that. But, the way he did it has nothing to do with truth.
Nothing to do with truth. It was all about grandstanding to make Trump look bad. That's the entire reason it was done the way it was, which we'll talk about more in detail later. But again, he's always got to come back to this because mhm principled principled mhm Massie.
An ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, >> [cheering] >> a minister of culture, >> [cheering] >> Thank you.
and that was just 6 months.
Did you hear that person yell thank you?
months left in Congress. Oh, okay. 7 months left.
I'm sure his record for the next 7 months will be right on par with his first uh 12 years, which is getting nothing done.
I [snorts] mean, first what do you make of of his loss tonight and and what's to come potentially?
Thomas is a good friend, so I'm saddened just in a personal level. I was very angered over the last couple days seeing the smears on his character.
>> Oh, poor >> good man. Uh he put This is coming from one of the host hardcore lefties in the entire Congress and all politics. Ro Khanna, okay? Total fraud, complete communist, and he is talking about what a good man Massie is.
So just just in case you forget who Ro Khanna is. put his career uh at risk to pass the most popular and consequential bipartisan legislation in the Epstein transparency I probably in modern history. It polls off the charts and it was to hold the elites accountable for treating young girls as dispensable. And he lost his seat because he stood up against the Iran war. And the lesson really is that people who are against the Epstein class and against this war don't have a place in the Trump coalition.
>> And look, that he was winning voters under 45 by 30%. If they don't have a place in a Trump coalition, there's a new movement that thinks this system is rotten and that wants to build Do you guys notice all the same stuff? So why would a Democrat be sad that the most principled conservative is gone? Because he's not a principled conservative.
Because they were using him to to ruin Trump, to slow Trump down. And again, it's always the same talking points.
Well, apparently the youths don't have any room in in in the Republican Party.
Oh, the youths, the youths. Uh listen, the youths are going to mostly vote Democrat as Roe well knows, and uh and they shouldn't be upset about that. The fact that like Roe Khanna is bemoaning the fact that this supposedly hurts uh this supposedly hurts Republicans is such a crock of I just, you know, this is insanity.
These people think we're so stupid.
Here's uh here's Chris Martenson, who uh you know, big personality on X here.
Here's my hypothesis. What we just witnessed in Kentucky with the Massie loss was a struggle session. It was designed to send a message. We're fully in control. You have no power. You might as well not even waste the time to vote.
Really. So, uh so there was no voting allowed? I What did What happened? I don't I don't understand. I thought Massie got tens of thousands of votes.
Is it This is the loser mentality? This is the This is what Democrats do all the time. Well, we lost a Democratic election, so democracy is dead.
Because we lost.
And whenever you vote and we lose, that's not democracy. Democracy is only when you vote Democrat. That's why we call ourselves Democrats. Cuz we are the only party of democracy. This guy is supposed to be a conservative. And for him to say something this [ __ ] tells you all you need to know. An operation designed to inflict demoralization. Same as not being allowed to be on the beach alone during COVID. What?
>> [laughter] >> Do these people even read about what they're writing like what they're writing before they blast it out there for the world to see. Do they Do they have any help? Does nobody just tell him like, "Dude, that is the stupidest thing. Why would you say that?
Why would you say that? What does last night's election have to do with not being alone on the beach during COVID?
I don't know. That seems like a quite quite the bridge.
>> [laughter] >> Like a bridge to nowhere right there.
That's That's pretty insane there. Same as publicly executing Charlie Kirk.
Really? So, Thomas Massie losing an election is the same as killing Charlie Kirk?
Wow.
Wow.
Same energy, same intention, same people. What?
We no longer need to wonder why Trump administration has zero interest in finding CK's actual killer. Except, what if it is Tyler Raggins and we don't even know that? Let's see that happens in the court like the case. Are Are you serious right now?
Is I mean, these people, man, they're crazy. And then at the end, that's what the Massie loss means to me.
Okay.
>> [laughter] >> Okay. But hey, this is a guy who cares so much about democracy. He follows it up with this. I'm now blocking all boomer Magaists without a second thought.
Okay.
You work cuz we're we're anti-American.
So, I guess you don't care about democracy, huh, Chris?
How about that discourse?
Gretchen Carlson, that famous Fox News host who left and is is was always a lefty, had to come out, "I'm begging Massie to go the House floor ASAP. Read all of the names in the Epstein files. You were a hero for survivors. You believed them and fought for them. Your actions were brave and heroic. Now blow the whole thing wide open. Thank you."
You want to Anybody want to take a guess what's going to happen?
How about How about Massie is is not going to do this at all because he doesn't have anything?
Cuz the last time he went, he blew open the names of guys who were not associated with Epstein at all because they were too stupid to do their research and read the next file.
You guys You want You guys want to bet his next 7 months that we never see this happen even though he has access to everything unredacted. He has full access and he can go on the house floor and say all of it without any uh any fears of being sued because he's not held liable for what you say on the house floor. You're protected. You want Anybody else want to take that bet?
Hey Barnes, can I bet you on this one?
Because I'll win.
I'll win. I want to guarantee you guys right now we're not going to see any of this. But hey, nice try. This is this I mean the cope is unbelievable. Now the question is is if Gretchen's actually stupid enough to believe this is possible but the truth is is Massie doesn't have any of this and that's why he hasn't done it yet. Nick Fuentes that bastion of truth. He's having his own crash out. Well, we'll give him a minute here to tell us what he thinks.
>> Neocons, these people, the Likudniks, they have been in control of the GOP and all I know is this apparatus needs to be shut down.
That's all I know.
This Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Trump, Ike Perlmutter, Paul Singer, Miriam Adelson, AIPAC, Trump thing needs to be [ __ ] destroyed and I don't care who does it. It can be James Fish You see how angry he is? The passion. This You guys got to understand last night.
They really thought Massie was going to win and they thought that today they'd be celebrating the fact that they are the true America First crowd, that people really listen to them, that that all these bots that you know, come over from from Pakistan that that, you know, that that blow smoke up their skirts.
They They're like, "Oh, man, we are really important.
We are really popular. Look at this.
Look at all this money I'm getting. Look at these super chats I'm getting. Look at this, you know, I I have 10,000 people watching my stream right now. I matter.
You know, I'm in the news.
Alex Jones has me on his show. I really matter. And, you know, I get I get retweeted by Candace Owens. I really matter. They all just They They all just circle jerk each other believing that it's it's real intimacy.
That they like something big is actually happening. And they I mean, I I honestly believe they buy their own lies. I do.
Because they're paid, you know, they they all have a purpose. They're all assets of one way in one way, shape, or form. These are not honest people. And we've that I mean, I That has been completely proven at this point. But, the one thing that is like honest about them sometimes is the fact that they actually think they matter.
Nick Fuentes actually thinks he matters.
Meanwhile, his entire coalition of followers is bots and like 23-year-old guys who haven't had a girlfriend yet.
And when they first get that girlfriend and they actually like, you know, have to like try to dig up some masculinity to keep her, they're going to realize like, "Oh, man, this guy's a loser."
>> [laughter] >> And they're going to grow out of it. And that's his entire base. That and a bunch of retards who've just never left their mom's basement.
You know, 35 and playing World of Warcraft with with him on the in the background. That's it. That's his real coalition other than the bots that are making sure he's getting his paycheck.
So, but he he doesn't know that. Like, he doesn't want to believe that. But, last night the fact that Massie didn't just lose, it had What exactly what we all hoped for happened. He got smashed.
Double digits or really close to double digits.
And because of that, they have to deal with the fact that nobody cares what these people say.
And that's why That's the real reason they're so angry today, guys. And so, what are they doing? They're ramping up the language, because that's what you do when you throw a little tantrum. I know I've raised six kids.
When the kids are being dumb or making terrible decisions and you got to discipline them or you got to put them in their place and they realize they have no real power in the household, Mom and Dad have all the power, they get really mad and they start saying terrible things and they get angry and they smash their feet and they cry.
The little ones do.
And this is what we're watching right now. We're watching a tantrum, people realizing they have no power.
>> It's fact. It can be Thomas Massie. It can be Steve Bannon. It can be the Democrats. It can be AOC. I don't care who does it. [ __ ] them.
>> [laughter] >> Randy Fine, Mark Levin, Laura Loomer. I don't know where I'm going to land. I am not going to land side by side with those sick and disgusting, vile traitors to the country.
>> [laughter] >> I love it so much. You know, I don't like Randy Fine. I don't even like Laura Loomer, even though I use her reporting sometimes. You know why? Because sometimes Loomer has her receipts. Just like I'll quote other people I don't like. I can't stand Mario Nawfal. Can't stand him. I use his stuff all the time, because he gets some good info and puts it out there.
And you know what? I'm going to use the real stuff. I'm just not going to share like the opinion stuff. Laura Loomer, I don't like her, but sometimes she had the receipts. She definitely had the receipts on Massie. She definitely exposed him. But, you know, so but of course he uses just those people. He doesn't say all the millions of good people or the tons of like Steven Crowder. Steven Crowder's had Nick on couple times now debated him.
Steven Crowder and Nick couldn't be more opposite in how they see things going.
And but he doesn't mention Steven Crowder. Steven Crowder has millions of fans. Steven Crowder is really mega. He doesn't mention that. No, he's only going to pick and choose as if like these people these this this little group of this coalition of the people that like sometimes are the ones we don't like. He's going to use them as as if they're the face of mega. That's why these guys keep losing. That's why these guys keep losing. Well, Gavin Newsom was really upset about Massie.
Gavin Newsom, governor of California, Commiefornia, the the the hardcore like worst governor in America.
The guy who literally no one can stand in his even in his own party, who uh is about as left as it gets.
Family with Nancy Pelosi.
Yeah, he's like true blue Democrat. Why is he so mad that Massie lost?
Trump just defeated the sole Republican who forced DOJ to start releasing the Epstein files. Tells you everything you know to know about Trump what's left of the feckless GOP. You know what this proves just over and over again, guys?
The entire method of how the Epstein files were handled was a gigantic psyop.
This proves it over and over and over again. We got millions of files released. It makes the Democrats look terrible. It makes Trump look pretty good. And yet, they just keep acting as if the Epstein files were going to be this gigantic end of end of the government thing. End of, you know, this whole world power. I I know what the I honestly I don't even know what they're trying to push out there cuz I don't think they even know. I think they just use the word Epstein to mean something that so that it can be whatever you want it to be.
And there but whatever it is, it's bad, okay?
And the fact that Gavin Newsom and Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur and CNN are the ones so upset about this when if Thomas Massie is the true blue actual conservative they want you to think he is, he would be the greatest threat to the Democrats.
And yet he's not a threat to any Democrats. They love him. They love him so much.
Kind of tells you all you need to know, right? Peter Schiff libertarian. The libertards are really exposing themselves on this one, too, uh as actually basically being lefties.
Um Peter Schiff, it's not Thomas Massie who lost today. It's the Republican Party that lost and more importantly the United States lost.
That's deep.
That's deep, Peter.
If we let Longo just said, "I'm pretty sure it was Thomas Massie."
>> [laughter] >> You got to call him out, guys. Got to call him out. Alex Jones, the storm is here. Israel scores a devastating victory against the American people and Massie in Kentucky.
But now the people know.
And he's just going to rant and rave.
And here's a little bit more.
My response to the historic foreign interference in the Kentucky congressional race tonight the Epstein class is celebrating their defeat of the populace. Well Well, hold on.
Populist, I thought he was a conservative.
You know you can't really be both.
You know that, right, Alex? Now Alex can't decide whether it's World War III or World War IV, so I really don't think he understands the difference between a populist and a conservative. But, uh I just want you guys to know you can't be both. You can't be a principled conservative and be a populist.
You You just can't.
>> [snorts] >> So, uh which is it, guys? You guys are getting your wires crossed, but let's leave it on the the true AJ face for this.
I guess the storm's here though.
Because, uh apparently Israel beat the American people last night despite it was all Americans in Kentucky.
Like the most American Midwest type people, you know, you can get.
It doesn't get much more American than Kentucky.
This isn't a uh uh uh a coastal city flooded with immigrants.
This isn't a urban center.
This is like Kentucky.
America.
And yet, they somehow uh decided to go for Israel. I I don't know. That's pretty crazy stuff. Uh
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