I convinced Massie to endorse Trump. Our conversation had nothing to do with the Epstein files.

He said he wasn’t sure if he was gonna endorse, leaning towards not.

I said are you crazy?

Massie didn’t actually think Kennedy would be offered to lead the HHS.

Let alone that Massie himself would be seriously floated for secretary of Ag until his untrusting, undisciplined friends tried to spread the rumors in blog posts to put public pressure on the admin to lock in the position. The position Massie didn’t even ask for but they were offering! At least until that strong arm attempt.

This knee jerk untrusting and aggressive behavioral pattern tells you everything you need to know about libertarians btw.

Anyways we spoke for a long time about it the night before Massie changed his mind and endorsed. The conversation focused almost exclusively on the amount Trump could change through the Bureaucracy without relying on Congress. Including on the regulatory front where Trump has the power to enact the entire PRIME act trough USDA policy, and how getting the presidents ear would be a much easier way for Massie to advance this initiative than through his bills.

After the election, instead of helping fulfill the opportunity Massie knew existed he immediately started being oppositional with Trump in a cynical populist appeal. He never tried to explain to his fans the opportunities he knows exist. He only appealed to the hopelessness his fans already felt, feeding into what they believed for internet popularity. That is not leadership.

Currently the USDA is rewriting the entire animal protein regulatory landscape. Including many of the provisions of the PRIME act and additional changes on selling across state lines which is key for enabling local processes to compete with the big players who can sell out of state.

Massie is not at all a part of that effort. Instead of helping guide it he has resorted to misrepresenting and diminishing it from the sidelines. He can no longer be happy about his own baby. He has removed himself so far from the joys of success because he has to root against it to be vindicated.

He can only be vindicated by death, destruction and democrat victory. So that is the outcome he will nihilistically push now.

Massie knows Congress is useless. That’s why he IS the ultimate grandstander. In fact his stated reason for first running for office is literally grandstanding.

He said he didn’t think it was possible to turn around inflation or the debt. So his sole aim in Congress was to act as a canary in a coal mine, providing a historical record of dissent so that people in the future know not everyone supported the collapse.

Guess what genius? Nobody cares about you becoming the next futile, cautionary Catonian tale. We want to save America! And not all of us have given up yet.

Source: https://x.com/LudwigNverMises/status/2120198559177802227