Rep. Thomas Massie announces the passing of his wife, Rhonda: 'The smartest kindest woman I ever knew'



Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky announced on Friday that his wife Rhonda passed away on Thursday.

"Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time," the lawmaker tweeted.

'His beloved wife Rhonda was a shining light, a brilliant, kind and wonderful woman.'

"She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family," he added. "We spent last week touring Mt Rainier with our grandson - she was the best mammaw ever! We love you Rhonda," Massie wrote.

Back in late August 2022, the congressman posted about their 29th anniversary, writing, "Happy 29th Anniversary today to my high school sweetheart & lovely wife. Who else could be valedictorian of her high school class, solve differential equations at MIT, run a farm, can green beans, bake apple pies, set tobacco, rake hay, raise 4 perfect kids, and tolerate me?!"

Condolences have been pouring in on social media.

"I was in Massie's office just yesterday afternoon," Blaze Media's Steve Baker noted. "I had a scheduled appointment with him and other members of his staff. His chief of staff messaged me just before I arrived and said his boss had to go to Kentucky for a 'family emergency.' The meeting went on with the staffers, and they showed no sign of this tragedy. (They may not have even known.) I even joked with them that Massie needed to clean his desk - which was piled high with papers and books and other junk. One staffer said, 'We always make him clean it before the August recess.' My gut aches right now. Prayers up for Thomas Massie and his family."

"Absolutely crushed beyond belief. May God give you and the kids the comfort you need in this challenging time and the strength to go forward," Blaze Media's Daniel Horowitz tweeted.

"Words of sorrow feel utterly insufficient," BlazeTV host Matt Kibbe noted.

"Kelley and I are praying for our friend @RepThomasMassie. His beloved wife Rhonda was a shining light, a brilliant, kind and wonderful woman. We are heartbroken at her passing and feel truly honored to have known her and called her a friend. We are praying for strength and comfort for Thomas and the Massie family at this time of deep sorrow," Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said in a post.

"I know of no finer human being than Thomas Massie. My heart breaks for him and his family. I pray for them, asking that they be comforted at this time of unbearable sorrow," GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah tweeted.

"Casey and I are heartbroken for your loss," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis noted. "We are praying for you and your family."

"May you find peace, strength, and comfort in the Lord. You and your family are in our prayers, @RepThomasMassie," Florida first lady Casey DeSantis tweeted.

GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas tweeted, "Praying for my dear friend and his family. I love them & am heartbroken. RIP."

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Federal Reserve 'acts like firefighters' but 'they are the arsonists'



The Federal Reserve may be the central bank of the United States — but it’s a private corporation that actually has nothing to do with the federal government.

Not only is it a private corporation, but Thomas Massie believes it’s what’s causing America’s skyrocketing inflation.

“What they did during COVID is they created trillions of dollars out of thin air,” Massie explains to Glenn Beck. “Congress spent those trillions of dollars, but it’s the Fed that enables it and it’s the Fed that pulls it off.”

“The Fed acts like they’re the firefighters, but they are the arsonists,” he continues, adding, “The Fed starts out as the arsonist, then they come in and they do the firefighting by raising interest rates, and then they go in and bail out the couple of banks last year. So, they’re causing the problems that they come in and allegedly solve.”

While inflation impacts millions of Americans negatively, the Fed doesn’t care — because it’s only the rich who matter to them.

“They make sure that the rich people can survive through inflation. The poor people can’t, or even the middle class can’t,” Massie explains, telling Glenn that while the U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency, it may not be for long.

“No politician in any other country is going to take responsibility for their own fiscal madness. Everybody’s going to blame it on the United States because we were greedy, grotesque, and took on so much debt that we devalued the dollar, and it’s going to affect the entire world,” Glenn agrees.

This is why Massie believes it's time to end the Federal Reserve.

“They’ve been asking me, ‘What if you get rid of the Fed? What do you replace it with?’ That’s like saying if you take out a tumor, what do you replace the tumor with,” he says, adding, “The serious answer is we go back to stable currency that the government can’t manipulate.”


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How Speaker Mike Johnson BETRAYED Republicans — Rep. Massie SOUNDS OFF



Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has joined Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in seeking to oust Speaker of the House Mike Johnson before the election — and Glenn Beck is wondering how it got to this point.

“I don’t understand this whole Mike Johnson thing, as speaker of the House, I don’t understand what happened to him, how we went so wrong,” Glenn says to Massie.

Massie has his reasons and lays out three times Johnson not only betrayed his own party but the American people as well.

“He did an omnibus bill that spends more than Nancy Pelosi’s omnibus bills did, and he gave the FBI a brand-new building in that omnibus bill, and he didn’t give us time to read it,” Massie explains, adding, “that was the first betrayal.”

“Second betrayal: FISA. This is the spying program that’s been used to surveil Americans without a warrant. He cast the deciding vote on whether to have warrants or not, and he voted against warrants,” Massie continues.

Lastly, Massie lays out the third betrayal, which happened when every Democrat in the house voted to send more money to Ukraine, before waving Ukrainian flags.

“I think Speaker Johnson, if capable of having shame at this point, should have been humiliated by that display as well. I put the video of that on Twitter and the sergeant at arms told me it would fine me $500 if I didn’t take it down, so I reposted it,” Massie laughs.

“Third betrayal was that Ukrainian vote,” he says. “We gave up all leverage on any border security.”


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Rep. Thomas Massie has the perfect plan to put food production back in the hands of the people



As our federal government cracks down on food production in ways that will make it harder to grow and purchase food, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is leading the fight to stop them.

Massie came up with a solution: a simple amendment to the Constitution that will add the “right to grow food and purchase food from the sources that you want,” he tells Glenn Beck.

“Right now, we’ve descended into this corporatocracy where four companies control all the meat, a few cooperatives control all the milk,” Massie says, noting that Amish farmers are now going to jail for refusing to fall in line.

One Amish farmer in particular is being harassed over his milk and beef production. Massie believes his amendment can stop it.

“The right of the people to grow food and to purchase food from the source of their choice shall not be infringed, and Congress shall make no law regulating the production and distribution of food products, which do not move across state lines,” Massie says, reading his amendment.

“It’s a very tight and compact amendment, but it covers a lot of things in there,” he says.

“No, no, I disagree with you,” Glenn jokes. “To purchase food, you can have just a contract with one human adult to another human adult? That’s ridiculous. We need to start mutilating our children without parental consent.”

“I’m sorry, I forgot,” Massie fires back. “The key to good health is always multiple vaccines and mind-controlling drugs.”

To learn more about Massie's proposal, watch the clip below.


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Thomas Massie continues advocating for US to leave NATO



Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky is advocating for the U.S. to sever ties with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

"Hawaii is not covered by the NATO treaty. Some experts say that needs to change. I say, let's get the other 49 states out," Massie tweeted when sharing a CNN article titled, "This US state is not covered by the NATO treaty. Some experts say that needs to change."

GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah retweeted Massie and posed the question, "If NATO won't cover all of America, why should America cover all of NATO?"

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Massie has previously advocated for the U.S. to leave the NATO alliance.

"I would withdraw us from NATO," Massie said, according to a 2022 Washington Post article. "It's a Cold War relic. Our involvement should have ceased when the [Berlin] wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed."

CNN reported that a State Department spokesperson suggested that while Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty does not extend to Hawaii, Article 4 should cover any scenario that could impact that state.

Article 5 reads, in part, "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."

Article 4 states, "The Parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened."

Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin has said that NATO is critical to U.S. security.

"NATO is the strongest military alliance in history, and it is crucial for America's continued security," Austin claimed in a statement. "A secure America is impossible without a strong NATO."

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Did REPUBLICANS just vote to 'THROW AWAY the 4th Amendment'?!



The House of Representatives recently voted for an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Section 702, which allows the warrantless surveillance of American citizens in certain cases.

However, this wasn’t just a Democrat effort.

147 Republicans voted for the extension, along with a majority of the Democrats.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is in shock, saying the vote “just threw away the Fourth Amendment to our Constitution.”

73 Republicans and 45 Democrats voted against the extension.

Glenn Beck calls it “insanity,” asking Massie what those who voted for it were thinking.

“Well, Glenn, they put you in a SCIF here, one of these secret rooms without your phone, and they try to convince you the world’s going to end if you don’t allow them to reauthorize this, but that’s a false choice,” Massie explains.

While what has happened is far from good, there’s still a sliver of hope.

“People ask me ‘Is there any hope?’” Massie says, saying there’s a “5% chance we can fix it” and a “30% chance that it all goes to hell.”

But he plans on sticking it out through that “hell.”

“I can be here to try to put it back together,” he tells a somber Glenn.

Massie doesn’t want to defend them, but he doesn’t completely blame the 147 Republicans who “voted the wrong way,” either.

“They were given a false choice. They were saying, ‘If you don’t fund this program then we won’t be able to spy on terrorists, and oh, by the way, we’ve attached it to the military funding bill and the soldiers won’t get paid,’” Massie explains.

Glenn disagrees with Massie, in that those who voted poorly should be blamed.

“You’re being much too kind. I’m sorry, if you’re in Congress and you fall into that trap, which has been used over and over and over again by both sides, you’re a moron and not smart enough to be in Washington, D.C.,” Glenn says.


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Dems pass new law requiring a 'kill switch' in all new vehicles sold after 2026



Hidden within a 1,039-page law that passed when the Democrats had the majority in the House of Representatives is a provision for a “kill switch” in all new vehicles after 2026.

Democrats seemed unaware that they had passed this new provision, so Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) had to read the law directly to them.

The provision states that it will “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired and prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”

“In other words, they have mandated that there be technology in every new vehicle sold after 2026 that evaluates your driving performance, gives you a scorecard while you’re driving, and if you fail, it will disable the vehicle and put you on the side of the road,” Massie tells Glenn Beck.

Massie believes that this technology is going to create thousands of false positives.

“Let’s say you’re a mom and you’ve got kids in the car, and you’ve pulled over twice onto the shoulder to let emergency vehicles go by, and then you swerved once for a deer, and now you make your final, you know, correction, and boom, the car says, ‘Okay, we’re the judge and the jury.’”

Glenn notes that even OnStar, whose facility he toured once, also had the technology to disable a car.

“I talked to the head of OnStar, and he said ‘Yeah, we can pretty much disable your car,” Glenn tells Massie.

“That doesn’t sound like a good thing.”

This law would allow the car's technology to decide whether you have the right to travel or not, which is why Massie offered an amendment to this law.

“I offered an amendment to defund this rule, this law, and you know, I’ve been here 11 years. I lower my expectations for my colleagues every year. And it’s still not low enough, because my amendment did not pass,” Massie says.

Massie believes that the most insidious problem with this technology is that it will have “far more false positives, and it will crush your liberties.”

“My only hope here, Glenn, is that this technology they want is so ridiculous that they will put off the mandate once they realize they can’t do it. That’s my hope,” he adds.


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Conservative and progressive House members vote to withdraw US troops from Somalia, but majorities in both parties shoot measure down



Majorities of House lawmakers in both political parties shot down a measure that would have compelled President Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Somalia, other than troops protecting the American embassy.

The text of the measure would have instructed "the President to remove all United States Armed Forces, other than United States Armed Forces assigned to protect the United States Embassy, from Somalia by not later than the date that is 365 days after the date of the adoption of this resolution."

Minorities from both parties voted in favor of the measure, with leftist lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) joining with conservative legislators like Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to support the concurrent resolution.

Overall, 52 Republicans and 50 Democrats voted to yank U.S. troops out of Somalia, while a whopping 165 Republicans and 156 Democrats voted against the measure.

"By a large margin Congress supports keeping US troops in Somalia. I do not. Most voters probably don't either," GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted.

"I just voted for @RepMattGaetz's resolution to bring our troops home from Somalia. There are currently no vital U.S. interests in having a presence there," Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado tweeted.

Last month, majorities of House members in each party rejected a concurrent resolution that would have directed the president to pull U.S. forces out of Syria. Only 47 Republicans and 56 Democrats backed that measure, while 171 Republicans and 150 Democrats voted against it.

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