I guess I’ve always been in a bubble (genuinely surprised about massie)
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HotFoxedbuns@reddit
Wow you thought Kamala Harris would win?!? Hahahahahahahahahaha
Thomas Massie, I am genuinely surprised about though
cjr91@reddit
The polls were showing boomers preferring Massie's opponent by a large margin. Combine that with the fact that older people turn out to vote and I wasn't surprised unfortunately.
superviro@reddit
I hate to say it, but a lot of the problems we have now are a direct result of the selfish voting habits of Boomers.
Cyclonepride@reddit
That's it, though it also means that MAGA has a rapidly declining shelf life
RocksCanOnlyWait@reddit
MAGA / America First never coalesced into principles or policy. It's whatever Trump says at the current moment. It's value as a brand which could be broader than Trump died last summer when he bombed Iran. Massie being primaried is just confirmation.
hanvy82@reddit
The light at the end of the tunnel
OneBigOne@reddit
Good.
vanillaafro@reddit
Like massie said he can’t get on Fox News now since Trump started disliking him and what do republican boomers who vote watch?
rymden_viking@reddit
Also the fact that the polls closed at 5. The people who supported Massie were still at work.
Chemical-Canary2100@reddit
Conservative media is elder abuse.
RedPandaActual@reddit
What do you call cnn then?
Chemical-Canary2100@reddit
That's true, also elder abuse.
RedPandaActual@reddit
jeffh40@reddit
Old people vote. Reliably.
Young people do not vote reliably.
As strange as it sounds, the religious right are very powerful in the primarys and they are generally old people.
Embarrassed_Use6918@reddit
I have a hard time believing that strategy is going to continue to work after the boomers finally die off.
gswahhab@reddit
I'm trying to comprehend if it's a bubble, they cheated or people are really that stupid. I'm flabbergasted.
Embarrassed_Use6918@reddit
I don't think they cheated. I just think it's another reminder that people are dumb, lazy, and easily manipulated. Take a bunch of money from AIPAC and put out a couple of ads that tell your boomer demographic that the candidate is actually a secret democrat and they'll believe it.
I think it's that simple.
Parabellum12@reddit
People really are that dumb. Gallrien didn’t debate, barely answered questions, very few interviews, no policy or platform to speak of. I’m not sure how anybody could draw any conclusions for his campaign, because he barely had one.
Like Trump said, he ls literally just a warm body. A yes man now $15m indebted to Isreal and the neocons.
steester@reddit
Agree, so dumb. They saw thousands of commercials on tv saying how bad Massie is. AI slop of him canoodling with AOC and Ilhan Omar, voting against Big Beautiful Bill etc. they could have run a dog and won.
alienvalentine@reddit
D. All of the above
ForeverFlannel@reddit
I have been following this election pretty closely. I realize some of it’s an algorithm bubble. But there is no doubt in my mind that his seat was bought by foreign interests because he refused to play their game. And there very well may have been shenanigans behind the scenes. There are a lot of people on X talking about this specific primary and how insane the results actually are.
theQuandary@reddit
Setting aside the weird voting numbers, I hope Massie runs in the main election as an Independent.
Embarrassed_Use6918@reddit
IIRC there's a restriction in KY preventing him from doing that after losing a primary.
HijoDeBarahir@reddit
Can he file as an Independent after already filing as a Republican? I know in WA state, you can't win as a write-in candidate if you already lost in the primary, but that's my only experience
Celebrimbor96@reddit
I live in Maddie’s district but I couldn’t vote for him because it was a closed primary and I, like most Libertarians, am registered as independent.
Embarrassed_Use6918@reddit
Any libertarian candidate is doomed to fail with that kinda horseshit. Whatever. I'm not holding my nose and voting for any old-guard GOP anymore. I'm done with that shit.
They're certainly not the part of fiscal responsibility or individual liberty they've ever purported themselves to be, so why bother with the pretense anymore?
Exciting_Vast7739@reddit
That I was not aware of. I chipped in a little money to help him, and I would happily chip into his independent campaign. He represents me better than my rep, for sure.
dirtyyrandyy69@reddit
i can think of one reason…
rugbyfan72@reddit
This and you hear Massie talk about how much Isreal spent to get him out is ridiculous.
JnnyRuthless@reddit
There's so much to be upset about but Israel meddling in and pouring in money to defeat anti-zionist candidates makes me so sad. Like, we cannot get off this train ever. The propaganda is just too strong.
Comfortable_Mix_7445@reddit
And somehow worse when at the same time they have money poured into themselves from our own taxpayers. We are forced to fund people who pay off the government to get more funding from us.
JnnyRuthless@reddit
The circle is pretty crazy. Paying taxes this year I was like well I guess I'm funding pedos and Israel. Feels bad, man.
ballinb0ss@reddit
Trump was never a man. He was always a brand. It's the only thing he's good at. The truth is these forever trumpers ... they just trust the guy. Whatever the fuck that means they think he basically knows what he is doing and don't care about the details. They don't pay that much attention and they think things were better when he was in. Most people weren't voting for Trump in the middle is my bet. They were voting for 2019.
FloridaSalsa@reddit
Do you think a lot of moderate or non-affiliated voters kind of held their noses to vote against the D party in general? Voting against Harris rather than for Trump? Same could be said in reverse but the anti-liberal vote turned out more than anti-maga?
stray_leaf89@reddit
He was saying all the right things and had a bipartisan coalition around him supporting him. The Dems couldn't have handled it worse either
boogieboardbobby@reddit
Harris was such an unlikable trainwreck. She could not articulate any reason to vote for her...except if you just didn't wanted to vote for Trump. The democratic party did everyone a disservice by anointing her as the nominee instead of actually having some kind of primary. They just waited way too long to finally admit that Biden was in severe decline and painted themselves into a corner.
Exciting_Vast7739@reddit
He now joins Justin Amash in my hall of heroes.
What a guy. We'll miss him.
notorious_hdc@reddit
It's alright. Like Massie said, we've got the youth. What started out as an Election has turned into something bigger
Celebrimbor96@reddit
Well the same people that poured tens of millions of dollars into this election are also buying up social media. They clearly understand how to do propaganda effectively and they have set their sights on the youth.
cluskillz@reddit
Really...I live in CA as well and I knew Kamala was going to lose. Trump stands on street corners (I've never seen a GOP candidate hold booths on the street where I live)...even in San Francisco, I was shocked to see a Trump booth along the Embarcadero. Where I live, it should be 95-100% Kamala signs vs Trump signs, but while it was maybe still in favor of Kamala by percentage, it was not by much. And the news that the Kamala team was earnestly trying to get on JRE (with Kamala's personality, that was a moderate reward at best, HUGE risk), you knew they were getting desperate.
For Massie's race...that's more of a KY-04 bubble. I'd venture to say 0% of the people you listened to actually voted or lived in that election, not really because you live in a bubble, but just...by probability. I was pretty confident that Massie would win it as well, but it's tough for people outside the area to truly know. Even the betting markets were way on Massie's side until the last few days. There were a few posts around here talking about how they saw a lot of fucktwit's signs going up over Massie's and that's when I started to worry. The betting markets swinging wildly in the wrong direction and spending $32 million (which is what...like 60x the normal spending on a campaign in that district?) to buy the seat were also telling. But all those only happened in the final few days, and I held out hope until I saw the results. This was a black pill the size of which I really did not want to swallow. The people in KY-04 are not nearly as intelligent as I previously gave them credit for. Well, the boomers that live there, anyway (sorry if anyone in this sub is a boomer that lives there...I'm generalizing...but...YKIR).
Either way, we now know how much it costs to buy a US House seat in a rural district: $32million. Who here has that kind of money? Lessgo!
donkaronka@reddit
I don't think he's over for good, though. Never give up hope
RetreadRoadRocket@reddit
That's your bubble talking again. Massie lost by 10,000 votes, Gallerin won with 55%.
unfortunateavacado24@reddit
I wasn't sure how many conservatives were going to turn on Trump over the Iran war. Based on these past few primaries, unfortunately it wasn't very many.
The_Dying_Gaul323bc@reddit
Anyone seen the actual numbers on the vote?
Alpha_Hellhound@reddit
The voter numbers are very suspicious. 300% rise in voter turnout compared to 24. Massie got more votes than 24. An investigation is needed.
Ag5545@reddit
He fought against the occupying government force of Israel, of course he would lose. Legit or otherwise, he wasn't going to be part of the program anymore
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