John McCain vs. Thomas Massie
- Fred
- 3 days ago
- 4 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Today, Donald Trump took another run at Thomas Massie:
Almost that whole post is wrong.
We are going to break it down, line by line.
Pam Bondi.....was Fantastic at yesterday's Hearing:
No, no she wasn't. Let's start with the very basic tenets of law. I never went to law school, but even I know that you redact the victims' names, which didn't always happen in the file dump, and don't redact your boss or his family's names just because you like them.
President Trump has been 100% Exonerated:
At one point, Donald Trump DID call the cops on Epstein and Maxwell....about a decade after he met them. There's a lot of time gaps between the time Trump met Virginia Giuffre and when Donald Trump finally became suspicious of Maxwell.
Democrats....have been proven guilty:
Oh, there's lots of Guilty Democrats, that's true. Did you see any Democrats led away in handcuffs after the hearing? You did not. Not one person was arrested after the hearing.
Sanctimonious, RINO Congressman, Thomas Massie, made a total fool of himself:
And this is going to take a few minutes to pull apart.
We try to give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt here at Beacon of Speech. Democrats think he's wrong 100% of the time and Republicans think he's right about 90% of the time. In reality, Donald Trump is probably right about a third of the time. Why such a low number? He flip flops his positions so frequently it's hard to pin down exactly what he stands for and when.
What does Thomas Massie stand for? That's easy, he's basically a Libertarian. What do they stand for? From the Cato Institute: (Abbreviated).
Individualism. Libertarians see the individual as the basic unit of social analysis. Only individuals make choices and are responsible for their actions.
Individual Rights. Because individuals are moral agents, they have a right to be secure in their life, liberty, and property. These rights are not granted by government or by society; they are inherent in the nature of human beings.
Spontaneous Order. The most important institutions in human society — language, law, money, and markets — all developed spontaneously, without central direction. Civil society — the complex network of associations and connections among people — is another example of spontaneous order; the associations within civil society are formed for a purpose, but civil society itself is not an organization and does not have a purpose of its own.
The Rule of Law. Libertarianism is not libertinism or hedonism. It is not a claim that “people can do anything they want to, and nobody else can say anything.” Rather, libertarianism proposes a society of liberty under law, in which individuals are free to pursue their own lives so long as they respect the equal rights of others.
Limited Government. To protect rights, individuals form governments. But government is a dangerous institution. Libertarians have a great antipathy to concentrated power, for as Lord Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Thus they want to divide and limit power, and that means especially to limit government, generally through a written constitution enumerating and limiting the powers that the people delegate to government.
Free Markets. To survive and to flourish, individuals need to engage in economic activity. The right to property entails the right to exchange property by mutual agreement. Free markets are the economic system of free individuals, and they are necessary to create wealth. Libertarians believe that people will be both freer and more prosperous if government intervention in people’s economic choices is minimized.
The Virtue of Production. Much of the impetus for libertarianism in the seventeenth century was a reaction against monarchs and aristocrats who lived off the productive labor of other people. Libertarians defended the right of people to keep the fruits of their labor.
Natural Harmony of Interests. Libertarians believe that there is a natural harmony of interests among peaceful, productive people in a just society.
Peace. Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class — which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.
Why am I quoting fundamentals of Libertarianism? Because Donald Trump showed up at the Libertarian Convention in 2024 and begged for those Libertarian votes. You can't beg for Libertarian votes, then pretend like you don't know what a Libertarian is.
John McCain was a war hero, but as a politician he was derided as a RINO, (Republican in Name Only.) McCain voted with the Democrats about half the time and voted with the Republicans about half the time. That's why the Liberals loved him, they said he reached across the aisle. And that's why the Conservatives hated him, because he was nothing but a wishy-washy Moderate.
But Thomas Massie stands for SOMETHING. Democrats hate Libertarians. And Republicans use Libertarians, then hate them when they don't agree. Massie is not a RINO, and he's not beloved by the Left.
He's not beloved by the Right either.
Massie has a cult following on nearly every Libertarian Website that I follow (including this one.)
Then why doesn't Massie run for President on the Libertarian Ticket?
That's a great question. In 2028, he should.
Is he using Donald Trump to bolster his platform?
I hope he is, just like Trump used Libertarians to get elected.