u/FlaSnatch

Trump's political war chest and AIPAC circled the money wagon's the unseat Thomas Massie in Kentucky. They did it for one reason: Because Massie co-authored the The Epstein Transparency Act (along with Democrat Ro Khanna). Massie has been one of, if not *the*, central voice of criticism within the Republican party regarding Trump's deep ties to Jeffrey Epstein. He's on the record and been very vocal in his belief Trump is compromised by foreign intelligence services via Epstein.

But you'd never know that reading the Times. No no no. According to today's Times article on Massie's loss to a nobody Republican suddenly propped up by the forces of super PAC money, Massie is framed as a "wayward" Republican... an "outspoken critic" of Trump... someone who "breaks" against Trump's policies.

How soothingly generic.

The Times references a couple of specific issues — like Massie's criticism of gas prices and the gaudy new White House Ballroom, but nary a quote about Epstein.

In fact Epstein is only mentioned one single time in the entire piece. It's within a quote from Republican strategist Mike Madrid, who says "There is this resilience with the base — it’s nothing short of remarkable. Through pandemic, through recession, through war, through the Epstein files.”

That's it. One mention of Epstein in an entire New York Times article ostensibly intended to inform the brightest and best minds of *what's really going on* with this Massie mess.

Here's a Massie quote the Times maybe shoulda considered including in their PAPER OF RECORD coverage of Thomas Massie's loss last night. From a convo he had with former AG Pam Bondi: "I asked Pam Bondi that, in person, very politely. She basically said, there's nothing but child porn left — nothing, it's disgusting — and nobody would want to see it. And at that point, I realized that the Trump administration had undertaken a cover-up and that they had no intention of releasing these files."

The European "mystery drone" flap of late 2025 started in Belgium before spreading to other parts of Western Europe. I stopped keeping count after 30 or so highly sensitive military bases and public airports were shut down between September - December 2025.

Belgian authorities were so rattled by unexplained "drones" appearing over their most sensitive installations they rushed an approval to acquire $50M worth of state of the art anti-drone tech. Yet, all these months later, they have nothing to show for this investment.

Not a single take down of a drone, no successful tracking of their origin/return points, and not even a single high res photo has been produced.

Now a corruption investigation is underway. Naturally Belgians want answers why $50M was spent on anti-drone tech to combat the "Russian asymmetric warfare!" that journalists and politicians breathlessly claimed were the cause of the drones.

But just like in New Jersey the year before... or Langley AFB, or Wright-Patterson, or Camp Pendleton, or the Arizona AF training ranges and on and on and on... the anomalous pattern remains the same:

• These drones are never shot down
• They're never tracked
• They "go dark" anytime we're just about to get a clear picture of one.
• Zero trace of forensic evidence

The "drone" and "asymmetric warfare" narrative is falling apart. Belgium is finding out that they simply called them "drones" because... well, familiarity is comforting, no?