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Deborah Barnum's avatar

Will, I can’t imagine how your very white skin can maintain itself after all that showering. You need a really good moisturizer. Glad you are immersing yourself in this swamp so we don’t have to! Brave, you are! 😇

Michael Lofgren's avatar

We need to recall that Massie was the Great White Hope not only of Never-Trumpers, but of mainstream Democrats who fantasized about a Republican Party that could resist Trump. JVL imagined that as well about Massie, never mind that Massie was to the right of Heinrich Himmler on everything except Epstein and Iran.

The results show three things:

1. The GOP voter base is so mentally zombie-fied that it makes an actual amok-running mob of zombies look like self-actualizing individualists. And the average Republican voter has no more sense of civic responsibility than a pack of hyenas. They want to destroy America as revenge for their own shitty lives.

2. I suspect that to be a Republican politician it really helps to be a perv, or at least have some sort of icky kink. All their moralizing and sermonizing is just psychological projection.

3. Multiply MMTLP by 10,000 and you have an accurate picture of the US equities market. Everyone from the billionaire tech mogul building data centers on borrowed money to the dumbest MAGA-ite investing his life savings in meme stocks is part of it, and Trump’s SEC will green-light all of it. America’s financial picture now resembles the Tulip Mania or John Law’s South Sea Bubble.

Natty Bumppo's avatar

The internet was a mistake

AnaR737's avatar

MAGA drama is a new genre in political commentary.

Patricia McKeown's avatar

It is impossible to even imagine how many people are going to apply for compensation for perceived wrongs by the government. It will take decades to sort the claims out. By the way, can I apply to be compensated by the State for the taxes I have paid that will be part of the $1.8 billion slush fund?

Mad City Mel's avatar

I don't understand why Massie's personal life is a story at all, or should matter to anyone. If he was doing whatever he did with consenting adults (or non-sentient sex toys), I don't give a hoot.

Still wouldn't vote for him but not due to that.

MAGA voters seem to love perverts so much that some kinks in his resume should be rather a selling point. Maybe he just wasn't predatory enough?

David Ehlinger's avatar

stories that rival those of Candace Owens

Jobu's avatar

Has anyone else noticed the common thread with these kooks: government preventing theft is somehow bad.

Glen Goodnough's avatar

Will, may you continue to maintain sanity. Not sure how you do it day in and day out.

Leros's avatar

Can't wait for the movie-will Brad Pitt play Massie and Angelina Jolie play West?

Different drummer's avatar

Once again the hypocrisy of these people is off the charts: yelling for the guvment to stay out of their lives on the one hand, but begging for a handout on the other when their stupidity costs them actual dollars.

Different drummer's avatar

When I read about Massie that he's *a libertarian once described as the “godfather of ‘dildonics’”* I can't help but shake my head and wonder if I've been drugged and now woken up in an alternative universe. This whole article makes my head spin. THIS is the U.S. now???

Midge's avatar

Following the link, Massie holds patents in haptics (technology interacting with our sense of touch) and VR. Tech that doesn’t have to be used, uh, dildonically, but could be.

Different drummer's avatar

Good for you for checking it out! The article was all I could manage; I just couldn't with the links.

TomD's avatar

MMTLP has the energy of a chain letter. "How would you like to meet the Pine Cone" is not the most satin-tongued of lines.

sue wickham's avatar

Two comments:

The only blame I can find for Massie is his choice in "companions."

Second, why would this possibly be an issue in an administration headed by a man who was successful sued for what was essentially rape?

MProvenza's avatar

Massie running for McConnell's seat in '28?

Martha's avatar

I telll you what...I couldn't finish this for thinking, 'dear lord...this internet/social media/podcast/etc. crap has dragged us so far down into the big black hole that we will never be able to crawl back out.' What the hail?????? When I think of the names that organ has been called in my 72 years (I'm a girl), 'pinecone' is really among the least offensive...next to 'peepee'.