Thomas Massie's loss in the Kentucky Senate primary illustrates how online political movements that prioritize ideological purity over practical governance often fail to achieve their stated goals, as Massie's supporters were largely online-based and lacked real-world political impact despite his vocal opposition to Trump and Israel-related policies.
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Hello everybody and welcome back to a brand new live stream. It's been a while, but we have returned. So, make sure you guys like the stream down below. Uh sadly, we will not be able to use the face cam for this live stream.
Although, I hope to have it up and running for the next one because it's just for some reason not being recognized and we have technical difficulties to take care of. It's been a while. So, I guess it would make sense why the uh camera's not recognized by the uh computer because it's just been so long it forgot what the camera was, but regardless, it's good to be back and it's definitely a good time to be back because we're in full swing for the midterm election cycle and we have another primary night, which again wasn't able to stream the early onset of, but we have the results and we're going to get to super chats, you know, regular chats throughout the stream.
Probably go about an hour. Just to consider this getting back into the fold. So, um without further ado, let's take a look at the results so far out of the state of Kentucky because this was the primary. The polls closed very early today uh in the state of Kentucky, 5:00 Central technically for much of the state, and Mitch McConnell is done. He's no longer going to be in the Senate. He's retiring. To replace him, Andy Barr, uh Nate Morris was in the race, the best candidate, but also not polling very high despite a lot of money behind him. I think he might run again in 2028. Andy Barr, not the best senator, not the worst senator, probably the best of the bunch that was remaining when Morris uh dropped out to take a position in the Trump administration.
So, there is that. So, you have this primary, uh 60.5% to 30.8%, a 30-point victory for Andy Barr in the state of Kentucky. Democrat side, little bit more of a competitive primary between two people that constantly keep running for Senate or whatever, governor, you name it, and always end up losing, falling short. So, Charles Booker, the perennial candidate at this point, uh will be the one who will eventually lose to Andy Barr this November in the general election. No surprise there whatsoever. No surprises at all throughout the night, um although some people will say that anytime an incumbent loses, even if it's kind of favored or the writing's on the wall, that it's some sort of a surprise. But, here is the deal. We have to talk about it. It is the elephant in the room, and that is the Thomas Massie race. Now, I know there's a lot of people out there that like this guy for one reason or another. Personally, I don't really see why you you have this like cult following behind this guy.
Yes, he's like libertarian or whatever.
That kind of is why a lot of people look up to him or whatnot. But at the end of the day, he doesn't really do anything other than I don't know, virtue signal or grandstand.
And it's at a point where it becomes a liability. And if you're out there killing or trying to kill crucial bills, if you're out there with a 15% grade from NumbersUSA on immigration, well, that's a problem.
Um now, you have this strange uh dynamic in the discourse where everything is revolving around things that most ordinary people don't really care about.
And you kind of see this in in this primary. If Thomas Massie was a candidate who was just first coming on the scene and had a lot of the, you know, quotes or stances on certain things that he's had. In many cases, you'd look at at him as somebody who would be like another James Fishback type of candidate who wouldn't get donor backing. Uh also would get a lot of social media presence. But Thomas Massie's obviously been there for a while. He's more well-connected. He finished with 45% of the vote in a very expensive primary on both sides, uh to be fair.
But he's uh going to finish 10,000 votes short. And this is the same guy who has effectively spearheaded against Donald Trump. And this is why the left likes this guy. Spearheaded all these narratives about Trump and Epstein. And, you know, called them a member of the Epstein class. Basically insinuating that Donald Trump was involved with the most grotesque aspects of uh Epstein's dealings, even though all of the files that were released have pointed towards the opposite. Massie knew that he would dangle like a carrot in front of these people's faces. Oh, we have names. We have the names. There's no list of names that we know of, first of all. Second of all, you're lying.
Third of all, it's like actual victims.
Like that is far more grotesque of a thing to do than anything that that these people have actually proven Donald Trump to do in any circumstance. If we're going to be honest here, when you talk about who has the biggest ego, who's the biggest grandstander, all of that sort of thing, I I think the answer would be Massie.
Now, I don't know much about this Ed character.
I do know that he owes Trump a debt of gratitude for helping him get to Congress, and he will, as a result, not vote with Donald Trump a lower clip as of a percentage of the time that John McCain, before he passed away in Trump's first term, voted with Donald Trump. So, this is a guy who actively in the House, it matters less than the Senate, but he actively tries to grandstand. And again, if you can't come home at the end of the day because you want to virtue signal, you do you. But the bottom line here is this is a guy who is voting with the left for supposedly, quote unquote, base reasons.
But at the end of the day, the result's the same, and he's still one of these people who's going out there in his concession speech talking about, "Oh, Tel Aviv" and all this stuff and and how his seat was bought by the Israel lobby.
And it's like, you had one job. First of all, there's other people in Congress who don't really, I guess you would say, like AIPAC very much or don't take AIPAC money, even on the Republican side. Eli Crane comes to mind, but he's reasonable.
He understands how the political system works, whereas somebody like Thomas Massie wants to parade around with the likes of Candace Owens, who decides to go out there and just absolve the left of killing Charlie Kirk because she's blamed everybody except for them, and on top of that has attacked his widow relentlessly for I guess reasons. We don't even know the reason. There is no reason grounded in reality. It It's schizophrenia. I don't know if she's playing a character.
Regardless, she's a just an abysmal human being, and Thomas Massie decides to side with her over just I don't know reality, common sense, trying to make sure that we can get things that we want.
Because we have a lot of things that we want. We want to lower immigration. We want to have mass deportations. And if you want to say that Trump has not done as much as you would have liked on those particular issues, you have a right to say that. I don't think that that's primary worthy. But Thomas Massie is not somebody who has done that. In fact, what has he done? He tried to sabotage several bills that would have actually benefited you know, solving the problem because I don't know, something something about big government or or whatnot. That's the thing. And because you have a bill that's 97% good, 3% a little bit questionable, but again, you could debate it either way. And then take trying to take the entire bill when you basically had a limited period of time to get it done. That is unforgivable. That would have raised my taxes substantially. That would have basically, compared to the baseline now, defunded ICE. You have like welfare reform now in place. You have plenty of things that came from the big beautiful bill, no thanks to Thomas Massie. He could say he supported parts of it, but not It doesn't matter at the end of the day when you look at his voting record.
That's my view on Thomas Massie. I don't care what his stance is on Israel. I don't like like the the association with like the the more, you know, low IQ aspects of the um grifting class regarding the the issue of Israel. And Thomas Massie's embraced them, embraced the likes of Candace Owens and others wholeheartedly, um basically calling the the Carrie Prejean Boller woman, who is a complete and total lunatic and a grifter, an American hero, while he attacks the president of the United States and insinuates that he is some sort of pedophile who was involved with Epstein, who is owned by the state of Israel for one reason or another. So, it's not just he he disagrees in the war. You can critique the war. You want to talk about gas prices, we could talk about them all day. I'll talk about them with you, um even, but at the end of the day, when you talk about these issues and these topics, and you know, these people are dying on the hill of this guy being the hero, even though he sits there and doesn't do anything. Like, honestly, I think you can make a case that the Israel lobby or whoever is um you know, funneling donations to his challenger, which I appreciate and will will take that wholeheartedly, to be honest. Um you know, have at it, because this guy is working overtime to sabotage the the agenda that I want and I voted for. But, it's like, why even waste time doing that at the end of the Like, you understand when this guy doesn't do anything and you want to waste all this money funding a challenger, I mean, you do you, but you know, I'm not going to complain about it, but it's like, is this really going to move the needle in any meaningful way on that particular issue?
Not really. And that's the way it is.
So, regardless, Thomas Massie, he's done.
There's plenty of people that I'm sure in chat will be angry, will be probably even you'll have some people unsubscribing. That's fine if they can't handle a different opinion about some run-of-the-mill congressman, one out of 435, then you know, good luck. See you uh some other time, probably not. But either way, it's just like these people, they just don't get it and you can make a case. I'm not saying everybody who supported Massie in this primary is acting in bad faith or you know, they have their reasons. I just happen to disagree with those reasons in the first of all. And second of all, a lot of his supporters, much like what we saw in the Republican primary with the likes of Ron DeSantis for example in 2024, the supporters are by and large online unhinged lunatics.
Um and we saw we saw that uh although I think that it does reflect Massie a bit more than the likes of uh Ron DeSantis, who is a good governor, but he's not presidential material in my opinion and I think that uh his 2024 run proved that. Although the 2028, they're going to try to run Massie uh and it's like uh on the I don't know if he's going to run as an independent or if he'll run in the Republican primary and it's like, what is he even going to run on? Like, I tried to stop this bill by voting no, that was actually mostly a good bill. Have at it.
You're not going to go very far. The online support, a lot of which is propped up from Pakistan and and many other places, those uh you know, supporters or or what whatever you want to call them, bot supporters, um uh whatever, those people will be in his corner, but they don't have an impact in the real world. We saw this in Ohio. We saw this We're going to see this in Florida on steroids in multiple congressional districts along with the top of the uh ticket race there for the governor in that primary, where you have these people that are online candidates.
They're cornering a market. It's like they're angling for a Rumble podcast.
And it's like, who even who even watches this nonsense? I guess when you take into consideration the world population of of people with these, you know, specific ideologies in the third world, you have plenty of of um hundreds of millions to work with there when it comes down to the amount of people that you can have. And that's kind of I feel like why we see um people like Tucker Carlson and many other people decide to kind of pander to that specific type of audience. So, again, you'll have so many based people who are so based that they're to Trump's right that are going to support this like libertarian guy because I don't know, something to do with the state of Israel. Like, okay. Uh you want to be a be a That's why we call these people as a collective the quote and quote right. It doesn't mean everybody who voted for Massie or backed Massie fits into that category, but a lot of these like internet grifter types um are are the main the main culprits, the usual suspects here, uh if you will. So, we will have people uh complain, whine uh about the fact that I didn't support somebody who tried to tank the agenda that I voted for. And I think it's clear when you look at the results because as an election channel, that's what we do. You analyze the results here. Massie fell short by around 10 points, meaning that you you talk about the the gap of just a five 5,000 voters who who would have been on the fence going the other way. If you didn't try to tank Trump's entire agenda, you know, making it better is one thing. Andy Biggs held out. Ron Johnson held out. Plenty of people held out, and they got concessions, and that's one thing. But when it's time to go home and not make the perfect the enemy of the good, you look at somebody like a Thomas Massie, where was he? He was siding with one of these other rhino types in the Republican uh side of things and voting no.
Thankfully, we, by the skin of our teeth, were able to pass it last 4th of July. It was great.
Um and it definitely helped out a lot of people. It will continue to help out a lot of people. Um but according to Thomas Massie, that bill wasn't good enough because some obscure thing or provision about AI that these people will take and blow out of proportion and run with it because that's what they do.
Um many of these libertarians, they will also just try to straw man and say, "Well, actually, the real MAGA agenda is this." And it's like, "We're not libertarians here." Libertarians, everybody uh well, to a certain extent, there's some things that are libertarian that are good, but again, by the time you turn like 21, you should typically grow out of that mindset and start, you know, understanding the lay of the land in the political system and saying, "Okay, um we have plenty of things we need to take care of, plenty of things that we need to do.
Immigration's a top issue. That's the number one issue because it decides who's in the country. And if you're a libertarian, and you want to import a bunch of people who don't share libertarian values in the slightest regarding the economy, regarding anything else, how exactly uh are you going to be able to get away with convincing me that somebody with a 15% grade on NumbersUSA for the past Congress, which is worse than most Democrats by the way in Congress in terms of the House and the Senate, that that person is going to be the real base candidate, base one, the the one who we can never uh get rid of and who it's just evil shadowy Israel that's that's sitting there um that's dictating the elections because honestly, the way I view it, even if I was going to sit up here and act like I was coming from like an a critical of Israel perspective, um but like within reason, how exactly does this move the needle? Also, has Thomas Massie's presence in government changed the level of complaining that these people do about the state of Israel because if that is the number one issue, you're better off joining the opposition. You're better off joining the left. Ilhan Omar and plenty of these other characters on on the fringes of the left, those people are actually actively advancing that sort of ideology, uh whereas Thomas Massie is losing his primary not just because of that, but also because of plenty of other things. You know, again, I criticized and rightfully so AIPAC in 2024 when they tried to sabotage the primary challenge to Rhino Tony Gonzales. And as a result, uh it was like a few hundred votes and it wasn't just AIPAC to be fair that was the the you know, determining factor in that race. Plenty of people uh plenty of people that could have endorsed, even not named Trump, uh that didn't endorse, uh that you know, there's plenty of reasons for that primary, but AIPAC was one of them, and that's a legitimate gripe to have with big money in politics. You have these people that are, you know, taking one issue and saying this person's better on this issue that doesn't even revolve around, you know, America, and then they're going to donate money to to the challenger. Whatever, fine. There's there's legitimate criticism to be had about plenty of these groups. This is a case where I don't think that applies because you have somebody who is voting against Trump's agenda, and as a result, they're getting all this big money, and you know, they're actually backing a candidate that's going to make it easier for us to win.
So, again, congratulations. They actually they took a W today. They actually did something good. Um that doesn't mean they're always going to do something good. I would rather have big money in politics altogether out of it, but we don't sadly live in that reality.
It's impossible. And if you kind of got rid of that sphere, the Republican Party, given the way things are going, would really struggle to have a a sufficient uh donor base that would be able to allow them to compete. So, it's it's really no I guess you would say coincidence that the people that always complain about that first and foremost, that those are the same people that are always out there now saying because of things like this and many others, that they're going to vote for the Democrats in the midterms, which is the dumbest thing ever because you're not going to get anything you want. You're not going to punish the Republican Party who has never learned from a boycott before and will never learn from a boycott. In fact, they'll see you as the opposition.
They're going to they're going to view Trump as a problem, and then they're going to try to pivot to somebody far less MAGA aligned, far less America First aligned in 2028. Again, these people are delusional if they actually think they're going to go out there and um and win when their favorite candidates can't even get I 20% in a head-to-head in Ohio with somebody polarizing and had many statements that were actively insulting Ohioans and among other things when that individual kind of just seems like he's, you know, he's not actually carpetbagging, but you could make the case that um if if you would see this guy running for governor, you wouldn't think he's from Ohio because he barely is you know, spent time in Ohio, didn't make a name for himself in Ohio the same way that he made a name for himself nationally, which was actually in in the state of Iowa um in terms of 2024. We're obviously talking about Vivek Ramaswamy and and um his ascent to become the nominee for governor in Ohio, but you have like these people they they want to run candidates like that that again only get 17% of the vote because they're not the other guy and the other guy does indeed have issues, no doubt.
Not trying to downplay that.
But uh you know, anybody else who runs a any sort of serious campaign would have done better. So, again, that's kind of what the end game of this leads to, this terminally online stuff. I don't think everybody who's just like, you know, believes in some sort of less of a surveillance state is is bad or anything like that uh for sure, but I think immigration being the top issue and where Thomas Massie stood on that and everything else when push comes to shove. That's why he lost and I think he deserved to lose and his annoying backers online still are not going to live in reality and probably never will.
I don't think that um we're going to get through to a lot of these people and could that pose a an issue for Republicans in 2026, 2028 uh in terms of turnout with some of these people? It's around the margins for sure. A lot of them are low propensity anyways, but again, if Massie runs as a third party for president, could that possibly be an issue if he plays spoiler? It could, but again, he won't really crack a dent, but it it's not something that's ideal, for sure.
So, ideally, he wouldn't do that, but we'll see. He's He's a He's a spiteful guy, doesn't really have the biggest understanding of how to actually achieve power in politics, and a lot of libertarians don't. Ron Paul, you can love Ron Paul for some of his works, and the Fed, you name it. Definitely, he was a He was a big uh you know, thought leader in that in that realm 20 years ago or so, but now it's like the guy ran for president what, three times, didn't win anything. Uh the libertarian party, I don't think has ever really won an election, period, in a three-way race. It's like these people need to understand that if you actually, you know, look at what the end goals are, what do you want in a society, a society that can function with less government, that's more high trust. Okay, well, then you need to understand where we're at, because we're a step past that, and immigration is by far the number one issue. Obviously, not the biggest fan of everything to do with this conflict um that we have at, you know, in terms of what we're doing. I'm not against war on principle, obviously. I think that you very well can make the case that Iran does pose a legitimate threat to the United States. However, gas prices are high. What is the end game here? We don't know. I don't I don't know if Trump is button smashing, or if he has like a concrete plan behind the scenes. I know he's weakening the regime, but still, what is the end game that we can get to where gas prices can normalize to a certain degree before the midterms. We still don't have an answer on that and that's you know, a valid thing to sympathize with voters over. However, it's you know, when it comes to these people, it's more of just a principled non-interventionist stance that it again would not necessarily hold up to be the wisest thing across history whether you support the conflict in Iran or you don't. So, again, we see that. But, enough about Thomas Massie.
We'll get back to him in the super chats. We got to talk about Georgia cuz Mike Collins has won the first round or at least he'll advance to the second round.
He was the lead vote getter, 41%. So, he'll be facing either Derek Dooley who is performing very well in the suburban Atlanta area or Buddy Carter who's doing very well in the southeastern portion of the state. It's probably going to be Collins v. Dooley. And again, Collins is somebody who is the America First candidate in the race. Dooley is somebody who's the more establishment candidate in the race. Will either of them be able to beat Ossoff? I have my doubts to be honest, but it's worth putting up a fight, putting up a challenge or getting the primary settled.
Collins is the better pick, although Dooley, you know, he might do better in the suburbs, but you know, is is that going to be enough?
Um and by how much will it be? Those are also important questions to think about because a lot of the people that he might do well with in a primary might even still be voting for for Ossoff over him, especially in Georgia where you have a lot of these people in the suburban Atlanta that cross over.
Now, on the Democrat side, again, this is huge here. Uh, Keisha Lance Bottoms is going to win the primary. Everyone was talking about Jeff Duncan, who's this rhino former lieutenant governor running for Democrat uh, nomination for governor this time around. It's like this is a guy who is a you know, flip-flopper, flip-flopped on everything over the past 5 years. Uh, you know, former neocon establishment Republican turned Democrat. And they think he's going to win an electorate that's like 45% black women over Keisha Lance Bottoms, the mayor of Atlanta. You would have to be utterly delusional to think he would stand a chance. And that's kind of what we're seeing. And also, it does uh, kind of give us a glimpse into 2028 because in terms of the primary in Texas, Jasmine Crockett almost won but uh, against a far better funded challenger um, despite mounting a very late campaign for Senate because she got dictator margins among black voters, mainly black women. And you see the same thing with Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia. Uh, so again, do people really want to write off Kamala Harris uh, in terms of her being the favorite when she's A, leading the polls, B, you look at these tribal voting patterns, and then you look at South Carolina being the first state and a lot of these other primaries being early. And it's like Gavin Newsom, he is going to be at a massive disadvantage out of the gate. And I think a lot of people will.
Now, for the non-Kamala side, it's also true that Kamala Harris has fumbled the ball so many times with her campaigns where will she even make it to Iowa or I guess South Carolina if she runs? Well, if she's ahead in the polls, she's ahead in the polls. It would be a matter of just trying to weather the storm of any additional baggage that that she would get. I don't know if she really would get much of it at all. But on the Republican side, Burt Jones was down in the polls.
Doesn't matter. He faced Rick Jackson who is a total rhino, a total I guess you would say turncoat in disguise. This is a guy who is very liberal, ran a very liberal company that engaged in a ton of woke capitalism, you know, paying for abortions and transgender reassignment surgeries and all these different things, saying he was bragging about bringing in all sorts of health care workers from third world countries to essentially replace Americans and Georgians. That's not a victory. That's not a flex in any way, shape, or form.
But he was bragging about it. And this is the type of leadership that will get in power in the state of Georgia and allow it to continue to move to the left and just respond to the special interest. You should be trying to terraform it to be competitive at least despite these leftward shifts, leftward trends. Burt Jones, he's a a Trump loyalist, but you know, also a presentable candidate. He's not just like running as only a Trump loyalist cuz we understand candidates that just run on Trump likes me and nothing else don't do all that well in some of these primaries, but you see that he will advance to the to the runoff with Rick Jackson who we call Lion Dick Jackson cuz he lies a lot about a lot of things and pretends that he is some sort of like I don't know. Um you know, true MAGA guy even though Trump endorses Burt Jones and Rick Jackson was nowhere to be found over the past 8 years except when he was donating to Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley and all these other Republicans that were going against Donald Trump and going against just MAGA, America First, whatever you want to call it in general.
So, again, Burt Jones is the guy for Georgia. Now, I think this is interesting.
John F. Kennedy has won the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor. I assume that a lot of that is based on his name, but good for him there. And that's just about it. So, Trump's endorsement doing better than expected in round one in Georgia. There's not a lot in Pennsylvania. You have like the Lieutenant Governor primary, very low turnout, kind of abysmal.
Alabama, you have Barrymore winning in round one or advancing to round two.
Either Steve Marshall or Jared Hudson will win that race. Again, 58% of the vote is in. This primary is still ongoing. And then you have Idaho, which again, incumbent senator below 60%. That should tell you something. Because here here's kind of the deal here. Republicans as a whole are doing their job in primaries because they're A, rejecting, not just rejecting some of these bad faith actors, these grifters, these more fringe lunatics who would get decimated by any Democrats. They're also starting to reject the old guard establishment dinosaurs as well. And you saw this in Indiana down ballot, in Ohio down ballot, and plenty of other places down ballot. And you're seeing it again, and it's a good thing that we're going to continue seeing this here. I don't know if there's anything in an Oregon It doesn't Okay, we have a fair amount in. Doesn't really seem as if these races are going to be all that competitive with the exception of the governor's race, which again, Christine Drazan seems like she's going to end up winning the the primary again.
There's talks about a close general election. I think if it was a Republican favorable year, that would be on the table. Just doesn't seem like it is right now at the moment. So, again, a lot of stuff to cover, a lot of things to talk about, and we're going to get to the super chats, guys, cuz we've been going for a while.
And we have plenty of them. So, we will take a quick water break and get to the super chats here.
Dilly Bod for 10 says, "Mr. Metaphor was right. Libert suck. Chad buds rise up." Well, the problem is libertarians will sit there and fantasize about a fantasy world that doesn't exist, in part because they have been unwilling to be on board, in many cases, with policies that would help because of some, uh, you know, very strange, uh, position they'll take on use of the government to do anything. And it's like, the government is there.
It's not going anywhere. Whatever their strategy is is not doing anything to meaningfully decrease the size of it.
And it's like, I sympathize with some of these things. I would prefer to have a, uh, a more efficient government. I liked the fact that Trump at least tried with DOGE before the, the entirety of the world just freaked out over it because it was actually had the potential to be effective and then kind of just forced it to to stop and it's tracks, unfortunately. So, uh, again, these these people have some, I guess you would say, policies that are directionally correct.
And then they will take them and fail to, like, actually view a solution to them that's right in front of their face.
And as a result, they'll never get that society they want in any meaningful capacity. It's like, you talk about uh, what Donald Trump has done. Like, that bill that that Thomas Massie complained about, it actually did not really add much to the deficit according to the CBO's new reports. The CBO said it would add a ton. Now it's saying it's going to add very little. And eventually, given the baseline that they used for both, might actually end up reducing it.
Again, tariffs reducing that the deficit. They complain about that, but again, they they effectively did do something that they keep begging uh to happen. I don't know. Again, this is what happens when you prioritize these policies. And I'm not saying they're they're not important, but they don't actually look at the root cause of it. Maybe if you stop importing so many people who either use this country for their own benefit by sending money overseas or um it by just occupying certain, you know, low-end jobs and then getting on these welfare programs and taking money away that way.
If you actually found the solutions to the problem at hand that these people complain about, you would have a much better society as a result. But no, we don't see that, and that's an issue. So, Chris Chan 9318 says, "Can you do a compilation of the Groypers coping?"
Well, it's not just them. I mean, they're they're a faction of the the um the right, if you will. But it's not just them that are a part of it. I mean, you have plenty of other groups that I guess you would say fit into that, but they're like adjacent.
But I again, it's a lot of work. You can find plenty of of examples of people. I have people in my replies saying that the you know, Israel won, Epstein won.
It's like Epstein's dead.
I don't think Epstein cares who's in Congress in some congressional district right now. The guy's dead. Like I don't think he's winning, first of all.
Uh second of all, you know, who also won was um Donald Trump, you know, the the guy who actually used his Department of Justice in his first term to, I don't know, prosecute Epstein. Most people wouldn't even know who he was if it wasn't for Trump's DOJ actually, I don't know, finding the person that these people keep pointing to.
You know, Trump could have easily stepped in and said, "No, he didn't do that." That actually would be a scandal.
And you could say it the Epstein stuff was handled poorly, by all means, but it it has been transformed into this like Russia hoax 2.0, in part due to the likes of Thomas Massie running with that narrative and grifting off of it. And that's why I believe that Massie, whether you agree with certain obscure policy with with him or not, that's why I believe he deserved uh to lose. Whether the AIPAC or Israel lobby helped uh fund the challenger is irrelevant to me. If they're going to do if they're going to fund against somebody that then I think that that's an issue um as any group that funds against somebody that I like is an issue. But I'm not going to complain about this.
Again, I think you can make the case that Thomas Massie is not a threat in any meaningful way to the state of Israel because he just sits there and does nothing, and 90% of like his critiques of Israel over the years have come from like a financial responsibility perspective to the point where you could even make the case that he would be like controlled opposition.
But these people don't think that far.
And and I'm when I say these people, I'm not talking about the Israel side. I'm talking about the the um the people that are always out here whining about Israel side. So, MECD3LQ fortusus Barack Hussein Obama will take down Paxton. Well, I saw that Obama was out there in uh Texas, and he was campaigning with Talarico. It's not really a sign of confidence, first of all, when they send out Obama. Second of all, Obama lost Texas by double digits. I don't know and and twice by the way. I mean both performances were abysmal.
And that's with him posting good numbers among Hispanic voters like near record numbers by the way.
So again, I don't know why Obama would really be somebody that these people would want to send out to campaign when he was never really that popular in Texas first of all. Second of all, that's the other thing. Trump endorsed Ken Paxton today and that's a good thing.
In my opinion because John Cornyn, first of all, he's a rhino. He's vying for leadership. He's not changed his ways and the Republican Senate leadership has not changed their ways. Again, John Thune is somebody that needs to severely get on the 2028 primary list.
For all the people that talk about primaring out people or you know, focusing on the primaries. I think that that would be one to watch the way things are going because you have this filibuster. Democrats are salivating at the opportunity of getting rid of it.
They didn't last time, but they will this time.
So again, because you don't have the moderates in there and by the time they even have the opportunity to get the Senate in a meaningful way, John Fetterman will either A be a Republican or B will have lost his primary. So even if you want to count on him, even though he's signaled before he kind of got his brain back or whatever that he was anti-filibuster, I don't know if that would even be relevant to the people that want to point to that cuz I you know, I pointed back in 2021. Yeah, at least there's a chance that that people like Manchin and maybe even Cinema decide to to support the existence of the filibuster. Okay. I mean they they did, but now those people are gone. Both switched parties to independent and then didn't run for re-election. So, um that should tell you something. Even though both are very much on the left.
Still. Uh Christian 9318 says, "I think it's a massive mistake these grifter and candidates are calling average voters paid foreign voters. I think it'll backfire." Like look, there it is true that there are major donors that are very pro-Israel that did intervene in this race and helped Ed Galarneau.
Nobody's denying that. I don't mind it because that's the candidate that I look at the facts and say, "Okay, he's he he is going to at least help Trump more than the other guy."
Uh all this talk about he, you know, was registered independent for a few years.
I don't know what that means to me because a lot of people change registrations for plenty of different reasons.
Um so, I I wouldn't look at that and say that that's proof of anything.
And guess what? If Galarneau is so bad, then he'll lose his primary. That's the way I view it because there's no way he's going to get in there on the back of Donald Trump, not Israel, but Donald Trump, and then vote against Trump's agenda more than John McCain voted against Trump's agenda. So, that's the issue with the grand standards. I look at people like Andy Biggs, Eli Crane, you know, that crowd, uh Anna Luna, those people that are, you know, in in that Freedom Caucus, that also don't decide to, I don't know, completely just not understand politics because you have people that are willing to, you know, push for certain things until they get it, but also know when to come home.
And and I feel like that's the difference between the likes of a Thomas Massie and and the likes of somebody who's actually effective. You know, MTG, Lauren Boebert, I think she's now kind of going down that pathway. Like some of these other people have gone down like this grifter pathway and all that, and it's just like you know, it's not something that should be rewarded.
But you have so many people out there online that'll give these dopamine points. But again, the internet's not real life and we we also see that here because you'll be attacked relentlessly if you say anything about Thomas Massie that's remotely negative. Uh well, okay.
Uh you look at the results and what are they going to do? Blame the money, blame Israel, blame Donald Trump, blame whoever.
It's like the only reason why there was a market for a challenger in the first place was Thomas Massie.
And it's like if any Democrat bucked their party like at a triple the rate John Fetterman did, they'd be on a primary list. They would be. But apparently Massie's off limits for some reason.
You know, this is also why the right loses. It's both sides. There is a There is a problem on the right on the establishment right. There is a problem on the right on on the fringes with with the other side. And both of those sides don't know how to win. They don't want to win. They both serve the left.
And the Trump coalition in and of itself, yeah, it is is fractured to a certain extent. Republican voters themselves, it's one thing. Republican voters are clearly in Trump's corner.
Trump's approval rating in the Republican Party, even though it's tanked due to economic reasons mainly, um it's still in the 80s if not even low 90s.
Now independent voters are a different story. Although they hate both parties, many will side with the Dems in '26, but not a lot of them may even show up.
That's why we need to show up and overwhelm. So that's kind of that that's kind of where the state of affairs sits now.
But this primary, everybody's acting like it's the end of end of the world for one reason or another because the guy who voted against the bill that had like everything we voted for and wanted is losing. Like, okay, like that in and of itself is the reason. You people want to talk about it's because you actually don't like what he says about Israel. And I supported the primary and if not even led the charge to primary the likes of, you know, Dan Crenshaw for uh those who don't know, but I think many people will forget, is probably like the biggest die-hard. It's honestly to a point where it's like a caricature how much the guy is like over the years like gone and defended. It's become a meme before, by the way, like all this like anti-Israel like low-IQ sentiment started popping up after October 7th. Um but like that was kind of like one of the the things that people would think of the name Dan Crenshaw. It's not the only reason.
There's plenty of people that are very pro-Israel that we support, but the problem is Crenshaw, he's an old guard establishment uh rhino neo-conservative. And and I supported primarying him. I also happen to support primarying somebody else that uh votes with Trump even less than the the likes of of Crenshaw, but apparently that's where they draw the line and they say you're owned by Israel if you oppose Massie, but even if you opposed Crenshaw, these people didn't even talk about at all this cycle when he had a serious candidate for the first time ever facing him. No, these people just sat there and said nothing and pretended like it didn't even happen. It's like, okay.
And then they want to run I don't even know. Just random uh lunatics from Twitter for every office.
It's not going to pan out. It's not.
You know, I've taken a lot of heat for supporting candidates the people question the the electability of over the years and um you know, I stand by many of those primary decisions. Maybe not all of them, but many of them. But then I look at at what these people want and it's like you're kind of taking that and putting it on steroids and there's not really any meaningful pushback to them that the way that there was to to me back in the day on that issue alone. And people think about it like it's like Fishback if he's the guy the candidate in Florida, he's going to lose to a Democrat pretty handily. And that's what a lot of of people don't understand, but they're completely fine with Democrats winning cuz they're the same people saying, well, if if the if the Maga aligned Republican wins, that's not good enough for some obscure reason and then they want to vote Democrat to punish the administration or whatever even though um even though this administration has given us plenty of wins that we didn't even think were imaginable.
Like that's it that's the state of affairs right now.
And because they decide to sit there and you know, the whole thing is a mess.
Also, J.D. McSwag says your thoughts on Massie's the whole thing is cringeworthy.
You know, this whole sassy with Massie, the whole scandal about the pine cone thing is bizarre to me. Now, I don't think that I'm going to sit here and say the reason I oppose Massie is because of this news new alleged scandal. I don't know what's real. I don't know what's not real, but you have text messages with him and some woman that he was trying to get with around the time that his wife passed away which again, they'll give Eric Kirk a lot of trash for showing her face in public twice a year. But when it comes down to Thomas Massie remarrying after Um, his wife died within like 11 months and he knew her before and there's now these allegations of affairs during it's like that ended John Edwards career even on the Democrat side, but then we're supposed to like look at this and say this is like fine or whatever. I don't know. I mean these are the same people that also if in some cases mainly on the left will get, you know, mad at whatever Ken Paxton has going on.
So, the whole thing is is a is a mess, but this is the same guy who is taking Viagra allegedly and going through TSA trying to get felt up by the agents.
According to these messages. Now, I think that that's a little bit too obscure and strange for somebody to just like make up out of thin air. I don't know what you guys have to say about that. It's a bit It's a bit strange. But like this is what this guy's alleged of of doing and then more believably so now he's supposedly involved with Lauren Boebert in a sexual manner as are a lot of people and now she's going out there and is like crashing out truning out over this whole thing and it's like okay, you know, it's not like we lose much there by the way. She's an electoral liability.
You know, she engaged in unbecoming behavior publicly despite being in office holder. I said this at the time by the way. I said this back in 2024 on live stream. You know, we have to like have a little decorum.
Don't do that. Don't don't act like Nancy Mace or some of these other people. And definitely don't act like Thomas Massie.
That is that is I think that might even be the the the the top of the list there. Killer Fuzz Outdoors for one.
Thank you.
Jaco Maxx 408 says Massie's pine cone is is the best part of this.
Yeah, and I I guess when you're calling your thing a pine cone, it's usually I guess it wouldn't be an insinuation that it's very, uh, it's very large given the fact that pine cones are relatively small and kind of choad-esque, so I don't know. It's not It's not my business. I would I wouldn't want to know anything about that, so um, BBQ pork sandwich 3 for 5 says Fishback blocked me on Easter for calling out his stunt of attending a black church after his, uh, lynching remarks. Well, this is the reason why Fishback is not a serious candidate, but he also is in a strange bind because he will say the most outlandish things trying to get under people's skin, clearly, in a way that's forced, not natural. This isn't like Trump in 2016 where he's going to be just saying what's on his mind and it's genuine. No, there's nothing genuine about Fishback who's out there partying with Bari Weiss 2 years ago. There's nothing genuine about the guy.
Um, but when you look at what he's done, it's like he attacks his opponent, you know, he's the type of guy to basically stop short stop 1 ft short of calling his opponent the N-word and then go propose a a reparations um, project that's like inherently actually like anti-white in nature and then go out there and go to the hood and hug a bunch of black people with Sneako for some sort of publicity stunt or ritual.
He can't pick a lane. He he tries to act like he's being serious. He's actually liked a a fair amount of my tweets that have mocked him which might even pose the the It might actually lend a bit of credence to the to the fact that he's playing a character.
Although it is also true that people just sometimes do that to save even though they I guess haven't figured out that bookmark is is now a thing.
So, oh well. American Nerd 76 has heard Barnes and Baris are losing it. Yeah, and I think that it's like again, when you want to act like you're the arbiter of reality and that you can you control the you you control the the truth and the polling sphere because you had a few polls that you got right, which again, I give Baris his props and Barnes his props for for analysis, even though Barnes has had me blocked on X for no reason for the past 4 years. Um although he'll he would still like retweet my tweets from time to time. I don't know what's going on with him, what his deal is, but Baris in particular, seeing him just turn on a dime after the first Iran strikes, which were successful and you didn't really have a reason to oppose them. Um you know, I guess you could say it could have led to something like this, but this was on the table anyways to begin with, so I like I think if anything it kind of just staved it off for for a few months.
But to see them kind of just turn on on Trump is one thing, but if it you know, again, if if you see Trump is kind of going underwater with his approval, that's fine. If if you want to talk about that, clearly his approval rating is hovering around 40 41% right now. Uh it doesn't mean that it won't rebound or it can't recover, but what the likes of Baris are doing is they're trying to, you know, just contradict themselves to fit a narrative. I'm not going to do that. I believe the midterms are going to be very competitive regardless of whatever uh Trump's approval rating is for obvious reasons, and polarization's one of them. His approval's not going to go much below 40% just as Biden's didn't go uh far below 40% for the record.
So, Spring 91 Bear for Two says, "Colbert a week from now, would you like fries with that?" Yeah, I mean, he was taken off the air. All these like talentless hacks are being taken off the air. It's a good thing. But at the end of the day, it's not like people watch cable TV at the same uh rate that they did before, which is also why the GOP in general needs to I wouldn't say abandon it for their advertising, but find other ways to to reach voters who don't watch cable TV and tune your messaging to them.
Although, it's it's right now with like the economic stuff, um it is kind of I guess you would say hard to it kind of hard to get somebody out to vote right now given the state of affairs if they're like a low-prop independent who may not have even voted in 2024.
Although, at the same time, uh it's also true that Democrats don't really have a message other than we're not Trump, and that's not going to play out well in 2028 either.
Just as if you put up any random also-ran Republican, they probably would have not been able to to get over the hump and beat Kamala Harris, especially because they didn't really know which issues to properly, at least rhetorically, seed the way that Trump did. So, let's see. Commie Ryan for five says, "A leftist, a graper, and a libertarian walked into the bar." The bartender says, "We don't serve under 20." Well, there's plenty of of There's plenty of leftists that are over 21.
Um you know, I I I think that the the joke there would be of three people that are that are going to be voting Democrat or or serving the the other side and acting like that's going to get them what they want, and it's not. You're not going to vote Democrat your way out of this in any way. The GOP has problems, but guess what? We're actually fixing them, and it's slow, and it Again, if you want that cheap dopamine, that's one thing, but again, these people don't even know what they want anymore. They think that the the number one issue is the state of Israel, and that that's not true. It's not true with most voters in the real world over the age of of of 30, under the age of 30.
It's true that it's a social media phenomenon, although a lot of the people that that fit that bill when it comes down to Israel, they're on the left.
Like the left under 45, 99% of them are anti-Israel uh for the most part.
Whereas on the right, it's a bit more complicated, where it's like there's a lot of ambivalence, there's some skepticism, but it's not full-on, you know, schizophrenic uh you know, J-obsessed, J-sparging sort of stuff. Um although that does exist to an extent. I'm not saying it it it doesn't exist at all. It's mainly an online phenomenon. It's it's not um all that common. There's a lot of nuance to it nobody wants to talk about.
And that's the way it is. I mean, we've pulled this It's like Republicans 18 to 29 uh I think there was it was like a single-digits uh percentage that said they strongly oppose Israel, but you had like 15 to 20% that somewhat opposed.
Plenty of people were ambivalent, and obviously far less than in the older generations that were more like sycophantically in favor, like the strongly approve is was um was much lower than that for like 65 plus, which is true, but it's not like that uh this fixation is really all that like electorally healthy.
And even when it comes down to Fischbach in Florida, a lot of the support he has is because he's just very good with social media, and by social media, I mean Instagram. Because his his Instagram reels and his messaging there and the things that like he's actually like giving people reasons to show up for them even though he's fake, even though all that stuff is true. Like at least he's talking about specific issues and I feel like if there's anything to look at his campaign and say do that, it's find ways to campaign. Although he takes it a step further into slopulism where he's making promises that he won't be able to realistically keep. And that's that's not to say populism is the problem, it's slopulism is is a form of populism that is a bit more unfeasible, a bit more perverted, doesn't actually solve problems, just panders without an actual solution. It's like governors have a limited scope. You can't really run much on certain issues at the state level. It's mainly a local race. You got to you got to run a serious campaign first of all, second of all, like just don't do what he's doing. But again, you got to be good with social media if you want to reach voters under 30. And if he is actually doing well with them, it's not because even of some like Israel obsession more than it is just how he's effectively like, you know, being somebody that people see on Instagram reels and they talk about it cuz that's what normies do. And you kind of have to kind of have to work around that regardless of wherever you stand in the in the GOP. You know, Trump was good with social media. He went on these podcasts, whatever.
So it's like you kind of got to find a way to to be relevant if you want to have support.
Now, I don't think it's going to translate to many votes for Fishback's case, but let's see. Paula 554 says, "Who do you think will end up second in Georgia's Senate race?" Which again, I think it's almost certainly and they called it for for Derek Dooley is the I believe the son of the Dooley that was the head coach of Georgia, but Derek Dooley was I think a coach for a rival, which is interesting. Although the name itself does well and you can kind of see how that panned out in Athens where Dooley got 45% of the vote in Clark County there.
Video maker 2351 says happy Raffensperger lost tonight. Well, that was that was expected.
That was expected. Um update from Paula 554 says that um they meant Alabama. Uh yeah, we don't know. I mean this one's going back and forth. Hudson was surging in certain polling. I don't know if that really is going to translate, but when you have 24% of the vote left, it could go either way. You just don't know.
Spen M72645 says MAGA is alive, Nick's generational run is dead.
Yeah, I mean you can only go on so many podcasts. I wouldn't call it a generational run uh by any means.
Uh you know, I I I I I get I get I guess when it comes down to this generational run or or whatever, um you know, going on podcasts that I I guess you you say the same thing over and over again. There's only so much of that you can actually milk. And of course, the New York Times giving you front page, which is a bit strange because again, if you're like the most censored guy ever and now you're getting front page of the New York Times and all these liberal media outlets who um have written hit piece after hit piece about you in the years leading up to that, it's a bit strange. Maybe it's because they realize the left is not going to be able to defeat us unless they can uh throw the right off their game. You know, this is their last stand. Uh if you look at who the left is targeted, um when it comes down to like doxxing, it's not these anonymous clipper accounts that promote this guy that is supposed to be this quote and quote threat to the system, they're going after people like uh I don't know, like funny meme accounts that are mostly serious, that do a little bit of trolling, doxing them. That That's like that their number one targets are all those people at this point. Um maybe you could say it's these other people are like accounts that are based in Pakistan or something. I tend to believe in in some cases that's the case.
Although again, it's just a bit strange that the left is focusing all of their energy on people that are actually making a meaningful difference that's positive that will also work against them, not people that are telling people to vote Democrat even if they happen to I don't know say edgy things about Jews sometimes even though they're also endorsing the Democrat Jew uh nominee for governor of um Ohio at this point for some reason or another because they I don't know want to uh just cause Republicans to lose, which is what they want. I don't think it's really anything to do with um the certain things Vivek has said at the end of the day cuz if they actually cared, they would, you know, be focusing on the primary in Georgia against Rick Jackson who has said honestly worse things about the same topic that Vivek has said and actually could be leading a swing state.
So again, it's uh there's a lot to unpack, but these people that are out here that are always just attacking, they're just online, they don't really have any sort of pull in the real world. They pretend they do.
Like they pretend that they make up a share of Republican staffers, but then they tell people to vote Democrat. You can't have it both ways.
Like you you can't have it that you were taking over the party, but then you're getting embarrassed in primaries, and then everybody who's actually serious in the party either that I've met or or they hate you or maybe sometimes they will pay attention because they think it's funny, the same way that people slow down when they pass a car accident.
That's a good share of Candace Owens' viewership, by the way.
At this stage in the game.
Um Johnny Hot Dog 6220 for 5 says, "Hi, remember me? It's been a while. I've been very busy." Well, it's good to see you back. It's It's uh It's been a while, it has.
Um but I I obviously remember. We appreciate Johnny Hot Dog in his triumphant return being the same uh stream that I had my triumphant return, although uh my my face is not in the in the picture due to these technical difficulties, but we're going to get that squared away for for next stream. But, yeah, Bill Cassidy lost a primary. Like, things are good.
We're probably going to take out two RINOs. Other RINOs are failing to crack, you know, 50%. Even Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, he's going to have a rough night.
Probably. And Trump is going to be the one to single-handedly save his ass. I'm not really a big fan of that, to be fair. But, at the end of the day, I mean, I'm I'm not going to pretend like he's any worse than somebody who votes with Trump less than him, which again, apparently we have to support one of those, but not the other because of I don't know ver- They virtue signal about how they feel about the state of Israel in different ways.
It's like, okay.
I'm not really a fan of Lindsey Graham by any means, but he's probably going to win the primary, and it probably will be his last term.
And again, if he had a serious challenger, it'd be a different ballgame. So, Okay.
Um let's see. We have more super chats.
But, yeah, in terms of uh Bill Cassidy, he didn't even get in second place. He got third.
And he's an incumbent senator, and his speech was again, just uh taking shots at Trump. It's no surprise that he's this way. It's no surprise that he's doing that. But what can you say at this point? Um Sneed and Feed for five says um I I don't know if it's Massie shouldn't have helped Dems paint Trump as a pedophile and vote against things Trump campaigned on. He would have won on Yeah, I agree. It might have been contested cuz it is like there is a there is a truth to the fact that there are some like pro-Israel interest groups that want Thomas Massie to lose. I'm not going to deny that. But again, they're not going to be able to dictate the whole race. They're not. And that's the other thing because you look at it and and they were against him in 2024.
And they still were only able to get 25% even though there were two candidates that were running combined that that uh had a decent level of name rec. So BBJG for five says welcome back rep. I'll probably vote for Cornyn but Paxton's being underrated while Talarico's overrated. Paxton's actually a populist by Massie. Well, if you want to if you're I mean again, if you want to vote for for Cornyn cuz you think that that Paxton might lose and you you just really don't want to see Texas go to the other party especially to that freak, that lunatic, then again, I'm not going to hate you for it. I understand the argument. I just also think that that uh Paxton is the better option where if it's like you're going to have to spend an extra 50 million to get him across the finish line then I think it's probably worth it to take out Cornyn. And again, it sends a warning shot to other establishment Republicans that this is not the GOP of old and if you mess around you're going to lose the primary. That's it. And again, it's not just the um You know, people always talk about the boomers versus like the zoomers having power. They always forget Gen X. And Gen X is the largest Republican voting block. Gen X is probably, I guess, becoming more refined in the in their um approach to these primaries. And so are some like older millennials that don't really fit the millennial stereotype. And And again, that's kind of where the energy should be focused on as well. It's not on either sort of thing because you have a lot of boomers will vote in these primaries for just the incumbent. They're set in their ways. Whereas, zoomers don't vote in primaries much at all.
Which again, I think I probably have done a a fair amount to to help change that, but it's going to take a lot more than just one person to move that needle. So, but but again, a lot of people, if it wasn't for this channel, wouldn't even They don't even know what elections are going on at what time or whatever. And it's just a good thing we have this um this community here. So, let's see.
Someone in chat says it's all boomers.
It's not all boomers.
Like that's the thing because Gen Xers are a larger share of the electorate.
The The youngest boomer is like in their 60s. Whereas, Gen X represents people that are like aged 40-something to to age 60-something. So, Gen X is like the lion's share. I mean, I know there's more boomers that were, you know, in existence at one point than Gen Xers, but it's a it's a negligible difference.
And there's plenty of boomers on the left as well. All those no kings protesters all old people. It's why Democrats clean up in these like special elections with with minimal turnout.
It's because they're boomers.
Many of them.
Democrats are actually not doing well with with young voters um in in a weird way, even if uh Trump is losing approval for economic reasons or another, Democrats really aren't capitalizing on that either. So, Jeremy Greenberg for five says you should walk around wearing a sign on your chest saying, "I'm Israel's ex-pletive. Enjoy that $7,000." So, okay, let me get this straight. So, I'm getting paid $7,000 from the state of Israel um, to support a candidate who's going to vote more in line with the agenda that I voted for. Like, again, this is hysterical. You don't have to agree with me. You can like Thomas Massie even for one reason or another. Maybe you like the pine cone. I don't know. The bottom line is is that there's zero universe where that's a bad deal, period. And if Israel is truly doing that, they truly are indisputably the greatest ally of not just the United States, but any country.
Now, is that actually happening? No, it's not. I wish it was because 7,000 for just saying the truth is is a lot of money. So, we'll take it.
But, it's it's just not true. And again, I again, I there's things that I've said that have been critical of certain people that are pro-Israel even on that particular issue, whether it's their approach to it, which again is is partially the reason why Israel's lost support among younger right-wingers and many things. So, it's not like we aren't critical. We call balls and strikes. That's that's our job. We we try to stay grounded in reality. Um, try to just, I guess you would say, get the most America first candidate elected in every race that's possible, but these people have to be within reason. You're not going to put up these these characters and these caricatures um, and do well period.
I mean, even some of the most, uh, outlandish primary candidates from 2022 that I didn't support, uh, like the, you know, some of these candidates, like I believe, what was his name? Neil Kumar in, um, Arkansas, uh, who was like a a total meme, uh, but he was far more serious than a lot of these people that that are the the serious, like, schizoid candidates nowadays. So, when you think about that, it's like, yeah.
So, Multi Dryder 45 says, "How do you think, uh, Mr. Z doesn't support Trump anymore?" I don't know. Again, uh, for like, again, from what I could remember, Mr. Z was, uh, not even fully on board with Trump in the primary in 2024. Now, I think he might want to push back on that because I tweeted something about that where maybe I I used a term that was a bit harsh.
And and but he's he's It's not like he hasn't been willing to to criticize, uh, Trump before.
Um, that was the context of it, but now he's just, I don't know. Again, there there's a market for that stuff. I I'm not saying he's not being genuine. I don't really talk, uh, much to to Mr. Z.
I I've always gotten along with him.
Uh, I don't have any animosity towards him, but again, I I would probably just say that I disagree.
So, uh, John Waffle H2P70 says, "Need to fund against that disgusting disaster Murkowski next." Exactly. We we do. I mean, these people are not advancing the agenda we want. And it's the same thing with the Massie stuff. If you're a Republican, I don't care if you are Lindsey Graham, if you are Lisa Murkowski, if you are Thomas Massie, and you are not advancing the agenda that we voted for in Congress or the Senate, you need to go, period.
It's like you look you read the comments and these people are talking about AIPAC and all this stuff. It's not relevant.
AIPAC is is is a PAC. They're not the only PAC, first of all. Second of all, they in some cases can support bad candidates and they actually can in some cases support good candidates.
And if they're going to be supporting candidates that I view to be helpful, then I and I don't care about that and you're mad about that. I don't believe that you believe in anything. I think that you believe in um I don't know, virtue signaling about how much you are opposed to some foreign country cuz you think it's edgy even though it's not. It's not a It's not particularly an edgy position you hold, period. The entire left under 45 holds it.
Uh you know, plenty of people plenty of independents hold it.
Um you know, a very loud minority on on the right holds it.
So, you know, I view politics as what's going to advance my agenda, what's going to help me win. Some people even might call that Machiavellian or whatever.
It's It's not really a bad thing the way I see it.
But yeah, it's just the this whole thing is ridiculous. Russian Vodka for five says we might not keep the house, but if Dems aren't flipping Georgia and South Carolina seats, they probably aren't flipping Trump plus 11 to 13 states states in Senate races. Exactly.
Exactly.
And thank you for that. American Nerd 76 for 10.
Is apparently Massie a sore loser that is concession speech repeated the Israel thing of his opponent. It's pathetic and petty. Yeah, I mean, he had many opportunities to vote the right way on certain things and he chose not to. And that I think is the deal breaker here.
Whether the you know, Israel donors want to support him or not, it's not like he's done anything and Jared Hudson took the lead by the way, but it's not like he's done anything meaningful single-handedly to restrain Israel other than talk about things that um the left and Ilhan Omar have have talked about over the years. So, again, I'm not quite viewing him to be a threat to the system when he's the the every Democrat's favorite congressman.
But apparently having that opinion is invalid for some reason because you could just uh throw feces on the wall and whine about some foreign country halfway across the globe for one reason or another.
Guys got a 15% from NumbersUSA. That's the the most important issue of our time, the most important issue of our generation, not the state of Israel or whatever.
Um so, okay.
Commander John says Trump 28 voted Paxton today. Glad Massie lost. Thank you for the super chat. Linna RX52 for 10 says been a while. Good to see you.
Came in late. Sorry if already covered.
Thune, Cornyn, McConnell, Collins, etc. are going to make Trump's life hard out of spite. Yes or no? Well, McConnell is going to be going. Uh Cornyn is probably going to be going. Thune is an issue. I don't think Thune is trying to to make Trump he he's going to do this thing where he'll be nice to Trump and then when it comes to certain things, he's unwilling to push the boundaries that he needs. And the Democrats, if they get power, it's going to be in part because you know, I'm saying for 2026, which I think is a long shot in the Senate, but if they do get power there, it's going to be because of Thune. And they're going to abolish the filibuster.
And Thune could have done it to actually, I don't know, pass popular legislation that would not have that would have energized more base turnout that would have helped it in the in the midterms.
And he decided not to do that. So, that's a problem. Commander John Fortus says I'm Gen Z wanted Massie gone. He's America last.
Well, I I I what what he is is he's he's just everything last. He doesn't do anything. He doesn't want to do anything. The The This like libertarian principled stance on like the government is a bit strange. Like sure, I agree with him on like the Second Amendment. I agree on certain things. He's out there virtue signaling about Donald Trump using what he calls {quote} {unquote} racial tropes like he's some sort of you know, hit piece writer at the ADL or SPLC. Like this is your based guy? Like I'm not saying you you don't have to I'm not saying that you have to disagree with him on everything. I don't disagree with him on everything. But you know, people need to understand that this is a guy that Trump had every right to go after given the whole you know, making the Epstein stuff worse for Trump than it was.
Even though Massie got what he wanted which exonerated Trump.
He just wasted time. Just like the Russia stuff. This is the Trump was 100% vindicated when he said I said this is bad messaging at the time, but I mean hey, I'll I'll eat my words because it was right. And it's like maybe it's because I have you know, a lot of the times I have criticized Trump and always just objectively turns out that Trump was right. It's why I don't tend to do it. Like I There's some things I'll be skeptical over.
But it it doesn't warrant going full Massie.
Like the this notion that oh, Massie's like the best um congressman for one reason or another cuz he like opposes foreign aid. There's plenty of people Randy Fine opposes foreign aid to Israel now. Benjamin Netanyahu opposes foreign aid. I've always opposed foreign aid to Israel which is funny because you know, there there was a time when if you said anything mildly critical I wouldn't say mildly critical.
But I would say like saying that you just don't care about Israel back in the day 10 years ago you'd be dogpiled by you know these more neocon types these more establishment types saying that that's like anti-Semitic or something and then now you're just a you're shill if you have the same positions. I've never really changed my position on the topic over the past like 7 years I've had this channel I've had the same relatively the same position on the topic. So everybody else is moving and they expect me to move for like the grift and then they say like I'm the one that's like getting paid because I refuse to pander to like a bunch of like Islamic individuals living in the middle of of Pakistan who just got internet for the first time and are now entering the political conversation.
So Tyler Gruder for five says do you think the future of the GOP will be the No they're they're first of all they're two that movement in and of itself is not even well-liked within the likes of the more popular echelons of the right at this point. So it's it's not true. You have plenty of baggage on their leader that doesn't get talked about that we don't even need to cover because it would be a 30-hour live stream and again these are people that many of whom just haven't grown up yet period. Like a lot of them are under the age of like 20 or whatever.
So I I don't think they will be the future because these people are not presentable in many cases enough to obtain power.
And maybe you have some like adjacent people that will have more of a seat at the table in the long run is like their ceiling but it's not going to it's not going to end well because again how are you going to be the future of the GOP when you're saying I'm going to vote Democrat and I hate J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio and would never vote for either. How are you going to take over the Republican Party?
Like this is the thing. I actually really like Steven Crowder's interview uh or or debate that he did despite it being relatively friendly because it just exposed how dumb the idea is because it's just not going to work.
Like you've gotten all these wins on immigration.
Whether deportation numbers are as high as you would like or not, like there's a thing called the real world. It's harder to navigate than pushing a button. I'm sorry.
Like we'll make you dictator and see how many people you can deport. Probably less or the same at most.
Um yeah, in the current political system.
Ian Hawsho for five says it's ironic Massie supporters scream about AIPAC, yet policy-wise he's the same as Lindsey or Lindsey Graham and Randy Fine. Look it up. Well, I I think I wouldn't say that Fine and Graham are fully aligned either.
Um because again, there there is a little bit of a double standard there cuz it is true. Massie has gotten a lot of uh donations. I think his top donor is Jeff Yass, who's uh ironically enough very big Zionist.
Obviously, I don't think he donates to Massie for Zionist reasons, but when you have donors like that that are backing you up, how exactly do you have the right to like complain about AIPAC? And I'm not even going to say I'm I'm not the biggest fan of AIPAC or Jeff Yass.
But like how exactly are you going to try to claim that man? Until it it's it's hard.
It's hard.
Um let's see. Mr. Aerowan for five says Randy Fine's probably the best congressman right now. All the Israel brain rot makes me like Israel more.
Massie's got to be first, not AF. Well, a lot of these people are They're actually Israel first because all they do is obsess about Israel. And they don't like actually take a meaningful stance against like big money in politics or even foreign aid, which I think you could even argue for or against. You know, it is true, even as somebody who is relatively friendly to Israel myself to the point where I get accused of all sorts of things, I'm a little skeptical that Israel's now against foreign aid and then Trump is actually the one pro-foreign aid because maybe you can make an argument that you can control where the money goes or there is some sort of of a benefit there.
Cuz I don't want actually Israel to benefit more. I want the United States to um benefit more than Israel cuz I live in the United States. I've never been to Israel. Maybe would like to go one day, but probably not anytime soon when you have rockets flying all over the place.
But again, the the anti-Israel brain rot, I think, is is the number one issue, not necessarily any sort of criticism because it is true, Rand Paul Fine has has done more than Massie. He's proposed bills that actually, you know, on the issue of Israel, even when it comes to the dual citizens in general, getting them out of Congress, when it comes to foreign aid, when it comes to immigration. You could say it's all meaningless. Well, I mean, to be fair, so is everything Thomas Massie's proposed or talked about, except Rand Paul Fine doesn't tank good bills.
So, it's like Rand Paul Fine's looking at this and he's taking the the chess pieces off the board.
And it's hard to even oppose the guy at all, even as somebody who thinks maybe a couple of his old tweets might have been a bit uh iffy.
But I mean, everybody's had a few iffy old tweets if we're going to be completely honest. Like, nobody's perfect. And you look at his primary challenger and it's a cokehead um ironically enough, he's he's also an eighth Jewish.
And like, his own fan base is hating him on hating on him for it. And And Dan Bilzerian, who's a total disgrace to to the Armenian people, even far more so than all the Kardashians combined on steroids. And that's the guy who they want to put up against Randy Fine. Like he's not going to do well at all. And again, Fine, there were some issues with him on like certain things that he's rect- worked to rectify. Like on immigration, there were question marks going in. It's why I didn't really support him in the primary in in 2024, but he's he's proven me wrong. So, you know, a reasonable person would look at Randy Fine and say, you know, that that that's a solid congressman, if not even top five, top 10. But because he happens to like Israel and be an observant Jew, they want to like just look just look at him and say, "No, we're not going to accept any of this.
We got to attack him for it." Which is just ridiculous and completely unserious, by the way, if you want anything to get done. But it's like he just makes their narrative collapse that that they try to run with, which is just inherently incoherent, by the way. So, Commander John Fetterman says he supports Israel's 28.
Uh says that America is Christian, which is true.
Uh Mr. Airwan Fetterman says, "Can't wait for Fishback to get 4% and lose."
Yeah, any pollster that has him at 35 is on some variant of cocaine that I don't even believe they've discovered yet. I mean, you see some of these polls that that they drop out of nowhere with it's like I don't like how is this real?
Where are they polling? Instagram Reels comment sections? Like I'm not saying he doesn't have support anywhere, but a lot of his supporters aren't even registered Republican. I'm not supposed to say this because, you know, it's it's I don't want to give them ideas, but I I just will say this and hope they're not listening, that a lot of their supporters are like A, out of state, which they can't do anything about that, but B, not registered Republican in a closed primary. Similar thing with a lot of these people with Massie. And also, they're just lazy and don't show up in primaries. A lot of these young people or whatever that they try to bank on, which again, a lot of it is just fake or social media popularity. It's not real.
It's like even half the people that like an Instagram reel from him don't even know who the guy is, don't even know he's running for governor. So, oh well.
Josh Light for five says, "Rep, why not more bullish on Georgia Senate? I haven't seen the evidence Ossoff is that popular, seems winnable." Well, again, the national environment is not working in our favor according to most metrics.
Whether we like that or not is irrelevant. Now, it is true Georgia, given the fact that midterm years typically have lower black turnout, maybe you can make a case that Republicans will benefit due to the propensity shift, but I think that Ossoff has just done enough to pretend to be moderate in the home stretch where he'll probably survive and the Republicans don't have the money to counter cuz money goes a long way in these midterm years. We saw that in 2022.
Even if money mattered a lot less in 2024.
So, that's that's the deal with Georgia.
So, I'm not dooming on the midterms. I'm just trying to to stay measured and um just just try to kind of gauge where the public is because there's a lot of people out there with these narratives from all sides. Now, now you have it on the right, the the doomers on the right, and then the left is is already complaining about the house possibly they're, you know, using rhetoric that they would view to be justifiable for prosecution six years ago talking about it being stolen and all this other stuff.
It's like they did what they could do to constitutionally redistrict. You don't have to like it, but again, you lost.
Take the L. Again, we talk about what the left has done to change the country without consulting the voters.
I mean, immigration, massive changes to the country demographically speaking since 1965 and 1990, the American people were not directly asked about that either, and that gave the Democrats how many House seats on net?
I mean, let's be real here.
But, American Earth 76 says, "What are your thoughts on the Alabama primary? I voted for Moore for Senate. Hope he does good.
Why support Moore?"
Um and I think that it's evident that he's probably going to start off as the favorite, but we'll see. Hudson might come in second. Hudson's gained on Marshall, so there's that.
So, we can look in regular chat. We hit our goal. Hopefully next stream, we're going to um be able to have the face cam on.
So, yeah, I mean, the people wanting Democrats to win, like, do you not understand that the right's under attack by these people now?
They know their power is limited. They know their days are numbered because of things that we've talked about on this channel. Therefore, they're lashing out.
In many different ways, they're lashing out.
And you decide to fumble this coalition over lies more so than anything else because from my perspective, the way things have gone with this administration, massive wins on everything except for the economy and and gas prices. And the messaging has not been perfect by them either. I'm not saying it has. That the ship has been run more tightly. There's less leakers.
There's less people that you've had to like fire, but the messaging regarding certain things, whether it's like even the Epstein roll out or the the economy, which again, some of it is on Trump. Him saying that he doesn't care about the gas prices is not going to do him any favors, but what else is the administration doing?
When you have a lot of criticism of the administration that comes from the right in bad faith, the good faith any good faith criticism is just going to get drowned out. And what do you expect to happen?
Because, you know, they're not even going to be able to sift through it as easily to the point where they'll be able to course correct. So, again, you can you can debate the Iran stuff. I think you can make a case that this has to end sooner than later. I don't want to be over there forever. I'm not against using military force in Iran either. I've never really been opposed to just the mere use of force to accomplish something, especially against a a nation that you should be able to take on relatively easily, although what I don't want is another Iraq. Now, Iran now poses far more of a threat than Iraq posed then. It's not a one-to-one comparison, but you got to actually find a way to win effectively.
And and and that's true. That being said, the people rooting for Iran are are morons, and we don't have to give them any any attention, or at least at a minimum, we don't have to take them seriously.
Mitchell Ryan for five says, "Did you see that the Senate passed a War Powers Act against Trump?" I think they're trying to get him back for him removing set I'm sure they are, and you could see see with the with the vote that Bill Cassidy gave, cuz he usually hasn't been one. And it's like for all the people that say they want Trump to primary out every senator, I sympathize with that to an extent. Maybe he should give less endorsements at a minimum. Like we saw in West Virginia, if he stayed out, maybe there would have been more of a shot if if they made it a one V one or whatever. But like he can has limited room to work with to begin with. And if he's going to be endorsing against these people, pissing them off, then they're going to try to limit his power cuz they're petty. They say Trump has a has a fragile ego. These people have the most These people's egos are made out of I don't even know what they're made out of.
Like the thinnest crystal that you could ever find.
Because the way that these politicians operate, they have the audacity to attack Trump for I don't know, having a big ego as many New Yorkers do, and exaggerating certain things like many New Yorkers do.
Like whatever.
That's just how it works. Um let's see.
Trump was pro-trans in 2015. Not necessarily. I mean, he he on the bathroom thing, I feel like he he did some unnecessary pandering. He he didn't help the situation.
But I wouldn't say pro- trans in the the true sense. I don't think Trump cares about the issue as much as as much as his base does.
You know, he is vaguely supportive of gay marriage. Although to be fair, I mean, it's overstated for sure, but plenty of Republicans are are just ambivalent or okay with it.
At this point.
So.
let's see.
But, I I'm actually surprised that we had less pushback from the chat. I don't know I wasn't looking at it earlier cuz was going over the the results, but um but I would have expected a little bit more pushback over the whole Massie stuff than what we had.
So, I I guess that shows that at least our audience kind of gets it.
They don't have to You don't have to love the guy or even hate the guy to understand why Trump wants him gone, why voters want him gone. Again, Israel's going to pop Not Israel, but pro-Israel groups are going to pile on because they know it's an opportunity to take out somebody that I don't know they see as like uh an enabler of certain rhetoric they don't like, which I think is again it it's in my opinion it's it's not like it really helps them in their uh you know, case if they do that. It kind of does play in it. You could even make a case it plays into the narrative, takes out token opposition.
But, again, I'm I'm going to welcome it because it's clear to me that the guy is a net negative and I support the net negative being removed to get a net positive.
So, that that's where That's where I draw the line. I know I'll lose some people either way. I'm just going to take the stance that I want to take on it, which is I'm not a big I'm not the biggest fan of the guy.
And that's the way that's the way it goes. So, anyways, guys, do like and subscribe if you haven't subscribed yet to the channel.
Um it's good to have this conversation for sure.
It's better it's done in in good faith than not. A lot of these people don't argue in good faith at all. That's kind of the problem.
But again, like everyone wants to focus on a petty issue or or another, but immigration is is far more than that and plenty of other things were far more than that and it's clear. Massie was voting with the Republicans like 90 some percent of the time before this Congress. Now he's voting like 70 something. He is also spiteful and then the personal baggage, it doesn't matter that much, but it's it's not the best look, whether it's true or it's not. I think the whole wife thing is weird.
You know, the people that again, they want to talk all this talk about Erica Kirk and uh not grieving hard enough because she, you know, does a public appearance once a month.
But Thomas Massie after his his wife dies, now he has to, you know, he he not only has to go in Congress and like continue doing this bizarre uh shift to the do-nothing zone, but he kind of already was in.
But he takes it a step further and remarries and now there's all this other stuff coming out and it's not good, whether it's true or it's not.
And it's like these people say nothing about it and I don't know. Everyone just lost their minds, I feel like over the I mean, it was before Charlie Kirk, but the Charlie Kirk thing made it worse when if anything you could look at that and say maybe this could be an opportunity where it gets, you know, we can rectify this divide.
But no.
And you had plenty of bad faith actors that that maybe not immediately, but soon after worked to deepen that divide into insanity and I'm just sitting up here like, guys, we got we got to get to the, you know, we actually have to really get to the bottom of this like the real way, not like schizoid theories. But no.
Not at all.
And that's the thing about Charlie Kirk because you had somebody that truly got it and got it enough where he pissed off everybody and had critics on all sides um for sure.
But he also um was able to be one of the few people capable of keeping that Trump coalition together.
And you know, you look at Trump's coalition in 2024, a lot of the main people that were driving the narrative, Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk to a to a large extent. He's kind of taken a step back from politics and he did a lot of damage to Trump on his way out, too.
With just saying a nonsensical thing about Trump and the Epstein files even though when we actually got to the files, they virtually just exonerated Trump in any meaningful way despite the fact that you had plenty of people sharing fake files around that proved otherwise or you know, misinterpreting certain things like okay.
Like the left, the establishment as a whole, both parties even have been out to get Trump since 2015.
You think it's going to take year 10, year 11 to finally find this thing that's going to it's going to finally take him down?
Like okay. It's a little little delusional.
The the conspiracists, and I don't use the term lightly cuz there are plenty of conspiracy theories that we know have been proven true and the left is gaslit the right into um in into believing that they're like conspiracies and it's just like the truth hiding in plain sight. These people like invent things that don't even make sense and they will never question cuz you want to question everything, you should, but then also question the questions. And I don't know if it's the fact that a lot of these people aren't like intelligent enough to to process this information or or whatever it is, but I don't know.
All right. We'll we'll we'll do a last call for both super chat and regular chat. We'll go for another few minutes. It's been a It's been a good stream for not being able to show my face. I'm sure we'd have far more viewership if if we did, but that's all good.
Um stats are There's no There's no age stats, first of all. Second of all, I would have voted I'm not 65.
But apparently I'm I'm bought and paid for, so I don't count. But no, it's it's if anything, I think millennials are the strongest group cuz they're the most like libertarian. They got, you know, one-shotted on foreign policy by the Iraq war to the point where any form of intervention they're just going to not be a fan of.
So, Films of Greatness 23 says, "Thoughts on Georgia court races?"
Obviously, NPA helped. Let's see.
Yeah, there there was some there were some um Yeah, I mean I I don't the incumbents won, so I I assume that's probably a a good thing.
Cuz I don't think Democrats have any seats there, or at least not the majority of them.
BBJG for two says, "Math is America first numbers USA says no."
I agree.
Um and then that's the thing.
Immigration, that's the number one issue. Everything else is downstream from that.
When you talk about the social fabric of this country, when you talk about um even the economy of this country to a large extent. Like, it's not the only issue for sure, but it is one of the the top uh what what should be one of the top three issues for everybody.
And it's one that goes far deeper than just, you know, building a border wall or just illegal immigration or or or something like that. So, yeah, the the the the Massey people will crash out.
And we will see.
Uh BB for 2 says, "I hope you're right about Paxton." Well, we'll see. Again, like I said, people can vote the way they want in the primary. I'm not going to be mad at them for it, but I do think Paxton will win the general, and I I do think it's worth it to get rid of Cornyn and still have a very, very good shot at winning that Senate race.
Yeah, we'll have to spend more money on it, but it's not going to it's not going to change anything meaningfully. So, um All right, guys. We are going to wrap up the stream. Like the stream down below.
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