Jul 1, 2025
Musk BITES BACK With Support Of Trump RIVAL
Rep. Thomas Massie may be getting a big check from Elon Musk.
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Congressman Thomas Massie, a libertarian,
and Elon Musk are now joining forces in
their feud against President Donald Trump
and his massive tax cut and spending bill,
otherwise known
as the so-called Big beautiful bill.
Now, yesterday, Elon Musk pledged to
support Massie, who also has a big problem
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with the spending that's associated
with the big beautiful bill.
Both men say they're worried about how
much the bill adds to the national debt,
and Musk suggested that he would donate
to Massie's reelection campaign
in order to help him beat
a Trump endorsed primary challenger.
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Now, here's how Massie responded.
He says, you're too kind, but thank you.
A large part of my job is to keep
government from screwing things up.
For the engineers and entrepreneurs
who do make this world a better place.
I don't think enough people appreciate
the contributions you and your team
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have made to civilization.
I like Thomas Massie Even though I
disagree with him on probably most
policies, and the reason why I like him
is because he is principled.
He actually seems to be the only lawmaker
who is concerned about the national debt.
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And you don't see principled
politicians in Congress.
So that's why I like him.
I don't know how I feel
about this alliance, because I don't see
Elon Musk as a genuine person,
and I don't want him to, like,
muck up massie, if you know what I mean.
I do.
So, look, I don't particularly care
where Massie gets his money.
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Meaning, like, I'm not like, yay,
Musk is going to give him money.
Or he doesn't have money. Whatever.
Do I want him to win over a Trump backed,
ass kissing Republican?
Of course.
- On honesty alone.
- Exactly.
Like, even if I. Even if the Trump ass
kisser that's going to run against him.
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We should have a good acronym
for that tack.
Trump ass kisser. Right.
So. So even if the tech agrees with us
on policies more than Massey does,
I still rather have Massey.
Massey is at least honest and not corrupt.
Right?
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And you, you know that he's going to vote
on principle and he's going to speak out
and he's not going to be a little bitch.
- Yes.
- Right.
Yeah. He's a huge, huge part of it.
That's the thing that, you know what?
You just helped crystallize
what it is about Massey.
That kind of puts him
in top tier mode for me, right?
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It's the fact that he is willing
to say out loud what he knows is going to
draw the ire of members of his own party
and, more importantly, Donald Trump.
That fearlessness really speaks to me
and I, and I always appreciate that.
Now, Massey also posted
a lengthy statement on X, saying that
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Elon's purchase of Twitter and cultivation
of the X platform for free speech has
already helped me help my cause immensely.
It's allowed me to bypass conventional
media to refute the lies of both political
parties, and to provide transparency
about how Congress works and what's
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actually inside of the bills we vote on.
Exposing the worst parts
of the big, beautiful bill and reasserting
congressional war powers has
recently earned me the ire of the swamp
and a fight for my reelection.
But my reelection isn't really
about either of those issues.
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Specifically, it's a referendum
on whether members of Congress
can think and act independently
based on what's best for the country,
or whether all members of Congress
must be reduced to rubber stamps
for their respective political parties
and swampy special interests.
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So, look, Trump hasn't weighed in
on the new alliance
between Thomas Massie and Elon Musk yet.
I'm sure he will eventually.
But as we speak, he hasn't yet.
But the president has continued
attacking Massie today, writing
that new poll anybody I endorse beats
Thomas Massie of Kentucky by 25 points.
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Get ready. Massie is a very bad guy.
Massie is not a very bad guy.
You are a very bad guy
and you can't handle anyone
disagreeing with you on anything.
I mean, the threats toward anyone
who slightly disagrees with Trump.
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Insane.
So, by the way, our research did
not turn up that exact, 25 point number
that was referenced by Trump.
But there was a poll conducted by Kaplan
Strategies, which surveyed approximately
a big sample size here,
370 likely Republican primary voters
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in Massie's district.
And here's what they found
in this one poll.
So currently, Massie faces a declared
challenger, registered nurse
Nicole Lee Ethington, who leads him
in a head to head matchup 31% to 19%,
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with a majority of voters still undecided.
Massie's favorability is also
alarmingly low among the Republican base.
So 23% view him favorably,
62% view him unfavorably.
Donald Trump enjoys 89% favorability
among the same group.
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I don't believe that poll at all.
Now, 72% say they are less likely
to vote for Thomas Massie because of his
opposition to Trump's tax cuts and budget,
58% are less likely to support him
after learning he voted
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against Trump's Israel policy.
No polls. Total garbage.
So the poll.
Okay, let me just give you some more.
And then we have one other poll
that we can kind of, you know,
judge this one up against.
Okay.
This but this Kaplan poll also revealed
that Massie's district thinks,
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the following about foreign policy.
So only 6% support staying out of
the Iran-israel conflict. 52% favor.
By the way, again, this is
a poll of like 360 people in Kentucky
in his specific district.
In Kentucky, 52% favored
targeted action against Iran's
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nuclear program, 31% support active U.S.
Involvement
to pursue regime change in Iran.
No, this is total junk poll.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Yeah.
So here's how Massie
responded to the poll.
You're going to love this.
Perhaps some of you have seen
a fake poll of my race
floating around on the internet.
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The pollster looks like a homeless person
broadcasting from a stairwell
in a crack house.
He includes a photo of said pollster.
They just interviewed him on Newsmax.
I wonder what the host was thinking
during the interview.
Look, I will admit that is not an
appealing shot or angle for the pollster.
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The lighting is also terrible,
nonetheless.
No. Harry Enten reported
on some relevant data when it comes
to Trump's primary endorsements.
So the enten data is real.
So let me just dismiss
the total junk poll.
This is done by one
of the apparatchiks on Trump's side.
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And it's so hilariously,
Obviously driven by special interests.
That's why the reason why I say it's junk
is it doesn't match any of the other
polling I've seen, and it's off by a lot.
Okay.
And Massey has survived
other challenges easily.
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So this is a different ballgame.
And overall,
MAGA supports Trump over Massey.
But his district has
been super loyal to him.
So I'm very I don't know
which way it's going to go.
I'd bet on Massey to win that election.
But I'm not like saying,
oh, I'm sure Massey is going to win.
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But this poll that has
him only at 19% approval?
No. It's not even close. Right.
But the one that's a hilarious and is
a dead giveaway
is only 6% of the people in that
very conservative district in Kentucky
supports staying out of the Iran-israel
conflict. 94% want
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to get right in the middle of it
and put boots on the ground in Iran.
Who knows? Maybe.
- Sure.
- Come on.
Maybe that one district in Kentucky
is, like, full of neocons.
Yeah, yeah.
All the neocons moved
to Thomas Massie's district.
Yeah. No, it's.
This is a joke.
So. But the next poll
is real and disconcerting.
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So let's go to Harry Enten,
who specifically addresses
Trump endorsed primary challengers.
We actually have the data to show that
the Republican base is with Donald Trump.
The times Trump endorsed Endorsees
won the GOP primary
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for governor and congressional races.
Look at this 2024 96% 2022 95% 2020 98%.
The bottom line is this 95% plus of
the time, the Trump endorsed candidate
wins in GOP primaries.
And even in the cases where Donald Trump
endorses a challenger to an incumbent,
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the majority of time that challenger wins.
So Donald Trump is a winner
in Republican primaries.
You go against Donald Trump to quote the
movie Good Burger, you go in the grinder.
I got I would like to look into
the methodology of that data,
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how they gather that data.
Because 2022, there were a ton of people
that Trump endorsed that didn't make it.
Yeah. No, no.
It's misleading. So it's true.
Overall, the number is not
I don't think the number is wrong.
- Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, doctor oz.
- No no, no.
But it's misleading is Trump endorses
like the overwhelming majority
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of incumbents and they all win.
So it pumps up his numbers, right.
And in fact, sometimes right wingers
will get mad at Trump.
They're like, why are you endorsing
this total uniparty establishment
neocon Republican?
Because Trump wants that number to be big.
So he just does blanket endorsements on
the if you notice, Harry Enten said there
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at the end, you might have missed it.
He said when Trump backs a challenger
to an incumbent,
he still wins a majority of the time.
Okay.
Got it. Okay.
Not 95% of the time. Barely a majority.
And a lot of times he's lost spectacularly
with Herschel Walker, Kari Lake
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and the Lunatic in Pennsylvania,
and the list goes on and on.
So that's why it's a misleading number.
But overall I see why.
Of course people are concerned.
So and they got to make that calculation.
And Massey's got a set on him
to say, you know what?
No, I'm not going to bend
to a Democrat and I'm not going to bend
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to a Republican president.
And I like that. I like that.
Again, someone who's actually guided
by his principles,
his values, even if I disagree.
And that's that's the kind of country I
want to live in where you have good faith,
actors who actually have values,
you know, and aren't easily corrupted.
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You know, we need a lot more of that
in the Democratic Party.
- Yes.
- To say no.
No. Why aren't you introducing
the public option?
Why aren't we voting on paid family leave?
Why did you take $15 minimum wage out?
Instead, all we had in the Democrats is,
oh, Joe Biden, trust Biden, trust Biden.
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Well, that was a disaster.
It ran us straight into an iceberg.
I wish a thousand times more
Democrats had challenged Biden.
By the way,
this ass kisser happens on both sides.
That's why, like Dean Phillips
and Thomas Massie are such, you know.
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Like odd characters
from Washington's perspective, right.
Massie challenged the Republican
president, as you're seeing here,
Dean Phillips obviously challenged
Joe Biden in the primaries
in the last time around, and they both got
the same reaction from their sides.
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I've seen MAGA say to Massie like,
oh, he's kind of an oddball.
He's he votes no on everything.
Well, you guys used to love that.
But now that he votes no on Trump's bill,
they're like, no,
you have to kiss daddy's ass.
And on the Democratic side, Dean Phillips,
how dare you challenge Joe Biden,
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who's the youngest person to ever live
and who's the most dynamic,
greatest Democratic president ever.
Dean Phillips, you're bad.
Terrible. Disloyal, right?
Yeah.
No, those are the people that ruin the
party because you need internal criticism
to make the party better.
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Look.
Look at what we say on the left about
America because we criticize America.
America doesn't mean we hate America.
It means we want America to be better.
Right.
So the same thing goes for your party,
whether you're Republican or Democrat.
You don't criticize Democratic Party
because you hate it.
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You criticize them because you love it
and you want to make it better.
Right?
Love. It is a bit strong.
Okay.
But you want to make the party better.
And that's how if you if you just go,
oh, okay, let's just do nothing
like James Carville saying,
well, that's a recipe for disaster.
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And that's why they're sitting at 26%.
And eventually look, the Republicans.
- You're being look.
- Yeah.
I think you're being super unfair
to Democratic leadership.
In fact, I've been unfair
because I was under the assumption
that they weren't fighting back
against the so-called big beautiful bill.
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But Ken Klippenstein, one of the best
journalists in the country,
really did correct the record here.
So, Senator Chuck Schumer,
Senate Minority Leader,
did do something really important today.
I hope it's a strongly worded letter.
He no even more important than that,
he rebranded the bill.
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He tweeted today I just forced Republicans
to delete their ridiculous bill name.
It's no longer named
the one Big beautiful Bill.
Nothing about this bill is beautiful.
It's a betrayal to American families, and
it's undeserving of such a stupid name.
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Thank you, Senator Schumer. Thank you.
So that's how he stopped the bill?
Oh, no. The bill.
- He just renamed.
- It. Yeah.
Okay. In his mind, he renamed it.
It's actually what Democrats
are really good at.
They love renaming things
and rebranding things without actually
doing anything about the underlying issue.
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You know, don't call it homelessness,
call it unhoused,
but don't actually address the issue.
Yeah.
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