By Tom Woods
January 16, 2026
In general, I don't call people names. I can be tough on people, but I don't typically call them names.
I do call Laura Loomer a nutcase, but I can't imagine that's debatable.
She just released a 30-second video of a young person with a camera following Congressman Thomas Massie through the halls of Congress, and saying this:
"Congressman, in the last two weeks, you repeated AOC's talking points on Venezuela, and Jasmine Crockett has retweeted you. When will you change your party affiliation to Democrat?"
Massie replied, "I thought you knew: I vote with Republicans 91% of the time, and the 9% I don't, they're taking up for pedophiles, starting another war or bankrupting our country." Massie then headed into the Judiciary Committee room.
The kid didn't know that voting statistic (they never do), so he replied, "I don't know about that, Congressman, we'll see," whatever that means.
The video is so stupid that Massie's own supporters are happily passing it around.
Think whatever you want about Congressman Massie, but this juvenile nonsense - "duh, aren't you, duh, like, a Democrat" - is idiotic and embarrassing.
Were lots of Democrats dead-set against the Covid vax mandate?
Were they notorious opponents of Anthony Fauci and the entire lockdown regime?
Are a lot of them better on the Second Amendment than the president himself is?
Did a lot of Democrats grill Merrick Garland about how many FBI assets were present on January 6th?
Did a lot of Democrats oppose the new kill-switch requirement for cars - which you probably never heard about in the first place because Massie stood alone in debating the Democrats on it?
Did a lot of Democrats defend Donald Trump from the Russiagate charges?
Do a lot of Democrats favor the abolition of the Department of Education, the EPA, and the Fed?
We all know why Loomer hates Massie. Had Massie been bad on any of the issues I just listed, she'd overlook all that with no problem as long as he went along with what AIPAC wants.
So instead, she has to pretend that nonintervention is a leftist position, when in fact nonintervention was probably the distinguishing feature of the old right, and in fact the left-liberal Nation magazine smeared Robert Taft from the left for his non-interventionist views and his support for diplomacy.
Taft, you may recall, was known as "Mr. Republican," and it never occurred to anyone to ask when he was going to register Democrat. We had to wait for an anonymous 20-year-old in 2026 to come up with that one.
