Of course!

I have about 40% range of motion in my thumb. It is heavily scarred on top, but I’m thankful it’s all there! The nail is coming back slowly and weird, but I’m told it will become more normal over time. My hand modeling days are over. 😂 Thank you for asking.

Congressman Massie is committing the cardinal sin of the Swamp: he is proposing a transparent and logical solution to a crisis that the uniparty leadership finds immensely profitable. The shutdown/Omnibus cycle is a feature, not a bug. It is a biennial ritual of fiscal blackmail designed to consolidate power in the hands of a few leaders and their lobbyist benefactors. The thousand-page monstrosity is the point: a vehicle for poison pills and pork that could never survive the scrutiny of individual debate. They have no interest in governing. They are interested in ruling by emergency.

Here's my solution to the shutdown: Keep it shutdown

I say create a legislation that says everytime a shutdown happens, all members are ineligible of returning to office. It sparks a new election immediately.

They’re too busy taking money from their donors. They don’t have time to help Americans.💯

Here's an excerpt from when I interviewed @RepThomasMassie for Townhall in 2018: Rep. Massie said the government should spend less and explained that to achieve reductions Congress should return “to a regular appropriations process.” Congress should vote on 12 individual appropriations bills instead of one massive omnibus bill, he explained. “Congress is more broken than it’s ever been,” Rep. Massie declared.

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Concurred. Side note: Look at that baby face! You look completely different with your beard. 😂😂 Its like looking at a Jr. Massie.

Baby Thomas 👶

2018 feels like it was hundreds of years ago lol

Makes perfect sense. 12 bills instead of one consolidated one.... 👍

Need to establish presidential limits on senate and house, so these bickering beeshes can’t stay long enough to hold 40 year long grudges and sheet, also would be petty democracy like to do that

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Such a simple solution. What I don't quite understand is how they get by with breaking the law requiring separate spending bills.

It’s such a simple solution, but no one in Congress seems to want to fix it

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Welcome to Thomas Massie’s TED Talk.💥

This will never change unless we the people change it. If you're on the wrong side of history, I feel bad for you. I'm praying for us all.

Leave it to you to make this shutdown all about yourself. Is there anything you haven't shifted the attention onto yourself? Dennis Jackson is going to defeat you next year! 🔥

But then people could hold their elected officials accountable for single item bills. That would directly go against their policy of blaming the other side while collecting "lobbying" money from corporations to vote against the interest of the majority of their constituents.

That would put a spotlight on one particular vote - an important vote.

@RepThomasMassie can we add a single bill that ends all surveillance programs, and also bans the collection of Consumer Data, metadata data, etc that can be held and or sold to third party advertisers and go back to actually having a 4th amendment again? I would ask my congressman @RepRutherfordFL but the guy hasn’t held a town hall since he won in 2016. So I’m assuming he is hiding in his mom’s basement during the government shutdown. It’s quite obvious if the government is spying on itself, it’s spying on us. Seems to be an easy solution to a problem that government created. If we are so worried about privacy, we could just idk, focus on making Privacy great again.

The video is still extremely accurate! It makes too much sense to do 12 seperate appropriations bills, so Congress sadly won't do it

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We should pass another law that says for everyday past Sept 30th that the 12 appropriations bills are NOT passed, both houses of congress shall be fined $250/day to be deducted from their pay. This money shall go directly to the debt.

Yet people think YOU’RE the problem. No. You are the solution. Everyone needs to be more like you.

Please, for the love of God and all that is holy, LISTEN TO THIS MAN.

Please do this, because "the other side sucks" isn't a good enough excuse when our government fails us over and over and over and over.... By the time enough Americans realize that red vs blue is the biggest scam ever pulled on them, it will be too late. Everything will have been stolen from us by then. You, sir, are one of the few who actually stand on principle, and for ordinary Americans, without fail. Thank you!

Massie you're my bro but here's a better solution: Keep the shutdown going indefinitely, eventually leading the states to address their budgets themselves, leading to the federal government remaining locked into an even messier debate, eroding party politics from every angle for as long as possible, until most of you all give up, just as the Founders intended.