Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the

elites don't want you to know. You're listening to the Tom Woods here, here. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here, episode 2,5003, delighted to be joined by congressman Thomas Massey

a Republican from Kentucky

congressman Massey there is so much one could talk about with you because you've

been at the center of pretty much every modern controversy

exists in America today but welcome back to the show. I don't invite

controversy but when I run into it I don't look the other way.

Yeah, that's I think that's how we all feel we're all just trying to live and the controversies keep coming to us.

Right. You know I watched your interview with Tucker Carlson and one thing you said really stuck out to me and

it resonated with me which is Tucker was asking you do you think members of

Congress are being blackmailed and that accounts for why they have no spine or why their opinions

change on a dime or whatever and you were suggesting that the answer may actually

be more mundane than that it could simply be that they crave, they want to be loved, they want to be liked by people and by people that also includes the establishment. It's much easier to live your life if you're more or less going

along with at least a bare minimum of what they want. You get invited to the parties,

you don't get denounced all the time. It would be tempting for anybody to soften a little bit in exchange

for recognition and and the reason that that resonated with me so much is that one of the things

I've written about about you in my email newsletter is that

you seem impervious to this so that on the one hand you get Trump angry but on the

other hand you will be the one who defends him the most against the

Russia gate claims or the crazy convictions or whatever and then the left doesn't like you

because of January 6th even though they're supposed to like you for anti-war and then if you could just

soften a little bit maybe a pack would get off your back so all this time you're

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