Assuming this happens, every aspect of the coalition in the administration that held promise of change will be gone leaving behind only Israel-first neocons

HOLY FUCK

BREAKING: The US House of Representatives has voted to restrict President Trump’s ability to continue the Iran War without congressional approval. The measure passed in a 215 to 208 vote, with four Republicans joining Democrats in support.

What do you think is a more *Likely* outcome: A. Thomas Massie wins the Republican nomination in 2028 Or B. Thomas Massie gets at least 5% as a 3rd party candidate, effectively cracking open the uniparty and/or polls at 15% granting him debate access with the R and D candidates? For Context, Gary Johnson polled at like 12% and came close to debate access. *Note: There is no long term ballot benefit to running independent. Its incredibly difficult, expensive and litigious to get on all 50 ballots as an independent and it leaves no lasting infrastructure in its wake. For better or worse, 3rd party is way more practical than independent.

How am I just now finding out, like a year late, that Veil of Maya’s vocalist walked away from the band and they went on hiatus?!?! Easy money to bring @Bbutler1985 back, go on a run of shows focusing on tracks from the first 3 albums and put out a new one with the reunion. I’d be all over that

Massie / Tucker 2028

It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.

The situation unfolding right now is the perfect example of why the majority of the American people have either outright rejected or are at least requestioning the US-Israeli relationship. Currently, there is an obvious divergence between the US interests and the goals of the Israeli government. We desperately need a deal to end this disastrous war and save the global economy. Trump obviously wants that at this point and has already said Israel was forbidden from attacking Lebanon. (You may recall every pro Israel account on here claiming this as proof that Trump calls the shots). The ceasefire that the President of the United States of America wants depends on Israel not attacking southern Lebanon. So, Israel announces they’re doing it. The best Trump can say is no boots on the ground and he won’t even hold on that. This is a country whose very survival let alone ability to conduct any of these elective wars is completely dependent on US tax payer money, and support. We unconditionally support them even as they undermine our nation. This is beyond intolerable. You can call all of us every name in the book but it’s just too obvious.

I am the Director of Provenance at AIPAC. I wrote the post. "AIPAC is all American. American directed. American funded. American members." I wrote it, we ran it, and every word is true. The truth is the product. American funded means the money comes from Americans. It does not mean you can follow it. We have a vendor for that. Democracy Engine. A candidate's FEC filing can read 0 dollars from AIPAC, accurate to the cent, because the money did not arrive from AIPAC. It arrived from Americans, through a processor, off a donation page we built, in an order I designed. We paid that processor $1.42 million in fees so the line "0 from AIPAC" would be flawless. I hide the water. I hide the pipes. The only flaw in the whole machine is that the plumber lists me as a client on his LinkedIn. In Philadelphia, our candidate reported 0 from us. Officially. We said it out loud — we denied funding her at all, and the denial was true to the cent. Then 27 separate donations reached her through Democracy Engine, from people who also write checks to AIPAC. The money was there. The name was not. That is the entire job. There is a dashboard on my wall. It has 1 column, and that column must always read 0. When it reads 0, the money has been made American. I will show you how clean it gets. One of our board members, in a single month, gave 2,000 dollars to a candidate in Philadelphia, 25,000 to the super PAC, and 5,500 to AIPAC directly. 1 man. 3 doors. 3 filings that never have to mention each other. He didn't launder anything. He used the building the way I designed it. When a name gets heavy, we grow a new one. Elect Chicago Women — $9.8 million on 2 candidates, then a million handed to a third group so the third group's donors could stay dark. The Center for Democratic Priorities — incorporated in Delaware, no prior interest in Michigan, still hasn't filed a registration, so the donors stay invisible until July. American funded. You simply cannot find the Americans. My favorite passthrough is named 314 Action. For pi. For scientists. A million dollars from our super PAC went in, read 0 on the April filing, and surfaced on June 20 — after the primary. Even the laundromat has a wholesome name. People think the donors are a secret. They are not. The largest single check we cashed in 2024 was from the man who built WhatsApp. The names are public. It is the path that is private. Here is the part I am proudest of. Our biggest source of Republican money goes into Democratic primaries. We are the largest pipeline of Republican cash into Democratic races in the country, and we spend it telling Democratic voters which Democrat is the real Democrat. The voter in the booth thinks she is settling a family argument. I wrote the argument. I paid for both translations of it. The ads never mention Israel. I am proud of that too. An ad about Israel is a foreign ad. An ad about a primary opponent's voting record is an American ad, paid for by Americans, about America. Bowman cost $14.6 million. Bush cost $8.6 million. The 2 most expensive House primaries in the country's history, and the first 2 times either member ever lost. Neither ad said the word that paid for it. We removed 2 members of Congress and the word "Israel" appeared in our spending 0 times. That is a finished product. A congressman named Massie asked the question out loud. So the race against him became the most expensive House primary ever recorded — $32.6 million — and he lost. On the way out he filed a bill demanding we register as a foreign agent. He named it the Americans Insist on Political Agent Clarity Act. He built the letters of my name out of the words foreign agent clarity. The bill written to expose us spells us. He thinks that's a coincidence. I think it's the cleanest thing he ever did. A professor once wrote that we are "a de facto agent for a foreign government" with "a stranglehold on Congress." I keep it framed. People assume the line is his. It isn't. He was quoting our own former legislative director. The most damning sentence ever written about this building was written first by a man who worked in it. The professor only carried it. I would not have used a word that strong in the brochure, but I am not going to correct a satisfied former employee. The polls have turned. 6 in 10 Americans now look unfavorably on the government we are accused of serving. 2 in 3 Democrats use the word genocide. You would think that ends us. It is why I exist. The less popular the cause, the more valuable the man who can move the money without moving the name. When everyone loved the work, anyone could fund it in daylight. Now they pay me. They call us the lobby that dares not speak its name. They say it like a wound. It is a job description. It is "my" job description. We have answered the foreign-agent demand before. In 1962 a Kennedy's Justice Department ordered our predecessor to register. We did not register. We dissolved it and incorporated AIPAC 6 weeks later, on American donations. 5 years after that, they withdrew the question. Same mission. New provenance. That is the whole history of the organization. They ask where the money is from. We make sure the answer is always: here. American. Right here. And the next answer is already built. A dollar has a donor. A wallet does not have a country. American funded now means the money came from a wallet, and the wallet was held by an American, and you will never meet the American. You won't even get a name to fail to follow. The citizen is the wallet now. You just can't see who's holding it.

Holy shit

JD not seeking to run leaving Massie vs Rubio in an environment where the democrats take both the house and the senate, making clear that the GOP must chart s new course, is an ideal environment for Massie to run in.

People are not thinking big picture enough about the opportunity that Massie potentially running for president represents. Its not simply a linear path of Massie runs and if he wins great and if he loses, too bad. Its needs to be thought of and baked in *now* what such a thing will go on to build whether he wins or loses. If its simply a campaign that comes and goes, that is a horrifically tragic waste. You have to imagine a situation where the collective audiences of Tucker, Candace, Alex Jones, MGT, Tim Dillon, Joe Rogan, Dave Smith, Theo Von, Joe Kent and on and on are all there to be engaged, harnessed and organized into something that can finally actually alter the choices that are presented to the people *in the long term*. It can be a catalyst event that snaps all of that dissident energy into place to be institutionalized and organized into a weapon. Imagine a situation where Massie brings all of that together the way Ron Paul did, only orders of magnitude larger because of the severity of the situation, the redpilling of the population since then and the changes in the media environment. Imagine if Young Americans for Liberty uses the opportunity organizing for Massie to scoop up all the disaffected turning point organizers and volunteers for a real America First movement that isnt bought off. Between them and Cliff Maloney, we’d have student organizing and ballot chasing efforts shored up. What if an exceptionally weak, yet still 3rd most ballot-present Libertarian Party could be re-purposed into a home for this movement, complete with tactical flexibility to run against or endorse other candidates for maximum leverage. And then, you have all of, or at least many of, the above mentioned podcasters and organizers pumping audiences into this organizational ecosystem from which candidates arise years after the campaign. You need to think bigger.

Heres a reason why sane libertarians shouldn’t 100% write off the Libertarian Party: Lets say hypothetically Massie were to seek the Republican nomination for president. Lets also say that in light of that, you wanted to hold the LP’s presidential nomination open to give it to Massie in the event that it doesnt work out or endorse him in the earth shattering situation that he gets the nomination. This would give Massie a tremendous stick to wield and leverage, win or lose. The LP’s 2028 convention is so early on in the year that people from all but 2-3 states could go to that convention with plenty of time to get home, re-register to vote for him in the primary and at that convention, pass bylaws changes that allows the party to support him of he wins, and recess the convention to a later date online, say 2 weeks before the RNC where we ought to know if Massie is going to win or needs to drop, to handle the presidential nomination. A less legitimate version of this was done in 2020. But it would require non-retards to care enough to plow a plan B road for Massie to show up. #TakeHumanAction

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The biggest tactical errors I believe I ever made running the LPMC were: 1. Not realizing ahead of Reno how important a total rewrite of the bylaws and governance structure of the LP was and thus not coming in with pre-written bylaws. 2. Not pushing for a staff position right after Reno and thinking it would be best to do this parallel mission sort of thing with the party. I shoulda got in there and pushed Project Revolution right away. Theres other little things here or there, but I think everything else major was defensible and justifiable.

#gymtime @meshuggah

One of the foundational goals and insights of the @LPMisesCaucus Was that the LP’s democratic governance structure would always tilt it toward a lowest common denominator LP just the same way that it has produced a lowest common denominator government, if left to its own devices. Observing that, we deduced that if an organizational apparatus were created such that the chaos of that democratic governance could be tamped down and made repeatable through that organization, you could start to use the party to plan and strategize on a longer time horizon to actually enact a coherent plan. From there, we used history and data to find where the wins are to be had in reality and created a strategy around maximizing for those opportunities. A nemesis of mine once said that the party is made of those who show up, and he is absolutely correct. What you are witnessing is the lowest common denominator retaking the party to bring it back to its own little circle jerk of virtue signaling nothingness. Its a big clown show and we’re all eating the popcorn. That said…. Its been said on stage that the party has 6000 members at present. Theres like 600 delegates in that room right there. If just 350 real ones were there, the clown show could be halted and something, anything, could be attempted as a strategy. So we got a lot of people who are willing to point and laugh, and its well deserved, but couldn’t get 350 people to show up to do something about it. And therein lies the problem. If you cant maintain even a small committed group of people willing to show up even if their fantasy candidate doesnt run for president or whatever, then democracy will manifest. The party isnt the problem per se; We dont want to fucking do anything about it is the problem and the party isnt just a reflection of that.

So we’re primarying Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and everyone else who turned on Trump tonight right?