During COVID, everyday Americans had to live under rules made by Congress that didn’t apply to Congress

But everyday Americans live under rules made by Congress that don’t apply to Congress… https://t.co/ei62chqzAA

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 4, 2023

The government wants you to trust them with your 'digital ID'

And the government actually wants you to trust them with your "digital ID" and all of your vital information in one database.#RESIST https://t.co/FuUnTeQGBI

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) February 4, 2023

Massie's lapel debt clock: I wanted to 'instill anxiety among my colleagues. It’s hit the mark'

Roll Call reports, “It’s not a doomsday clock or a pedometer, though it’s been confused for both.

The copper-cased ticker affixed to Rep. Thomas Massie’s lapel is a debt clock, tracking the country’s debt in real time using a complicated algorithm of the Kentucky Republican’s design — and raising eyebrows in the process.

Best article on my wearable debt clock so far…https://t.co/iGFoyDEUCO

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 3, 2023

Since Massie, who has voiced reservations about hiking the debt ceiling, debuted the device in late January, he’s worn it around the halls of Congress, to votes and at an event in his home district…

Massie, who studied electrical and mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first got the idea around Christmas and decided to order the parts. They include an Arduino ESP32, an advanced microcontroller that he programmed to scrub current and historic debt totals posted on the U.S. Treasury’s website to approximate the real-time debt, which exceeds $31.5 trillion and has hit the country’s statutory borrowing cap.

One of the reasons I built a wearable debt clock was to induce anxiety and a sense of urgency among my colleagues regarding the $31 trillion national debt. @KennedyNation pic.twitter.com/8Z07lYaDMq

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 27, 2023

The difficult part of the process, Massie said, was writing the roughly 500 lines of code that feed the ticker — including programming that gives the steadily growing number a blurred effect, to hammer home the growth of the country’s mounting debt. ‘My design specification was to instill anxiety among my colleagues,’ Massie said. ‘And it’s hit the mark.’

With or without his debt clock, there’s anxiety enough to go around the Capitol regarding the debt ceiling.”

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We need to target all wasteful government spending and end it for good

.@RandPaul goes off on wasteful government spending 👇 "They hired a guy, gave him metal gloves to see if he could snap his fingers. That was $118k to see if we could recreate or simulate a Marvel comics villain!" pic.twitter.com/hLlMhfcemV

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) February 2, 2023

The more we learn about Covid vaccines in young healthy people, there more concern there is

The more we learn about Covid vaccines in young healthy people, there more concern there is: https://t.co/Y5wfv0gMBL

— Marty Makary MD, MPH (@MartyMakary) February 1, 2023

End the COVID emergency now

Why does Biden want to delay ending the COVID emergency for another 100 days? Because he wants to use emergency authorities to shove more money out of the door. It’s been 1000+ days to slow the spread. End the COVID emergency NOW.

H.J. Res. 7 passed 229-197. pic.twitter.com/BzNOmOzXAZ — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 1, 2023

What the 2nd Amendment is for

He understood the assignment. #2A #ShallNotBeInfringed pic.twitter.com/GdnXok02AI

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) February 1, 2023

Marxist ideas are undermining our kids' belief in the greatness of this country

⚠️ MARXIST ideas are undermining our kids' belief in the greatness of this country. ⚠️ "Education is a state issue. Why are we borrowing more money to go meddle with what states and local governments are best capable of doing for their kids." #ampFW https://t.co/kka2TPA7R8

— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) February 1, 2023

Government is the problem

Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown writes, "What's worse than inflation? The government trying to help with inflation… or trying to help with anything, really. You know it. I know it. And a whole lot of other Americans may know it, too. In the latest Gallup poll, more than one-fifth of respondents—21 percent—cited the government and/or poor leadership as the nation's top problem.

Poll: One-Fifth of Americans Say Government Is Our Nation's Top Problemhttps://t.co/jttyBcJiAK

— RLC (@RLibertyCaucus) February 1, 2023

When it comes to perceived problems, the government and poor leadership beat out inflation (cited by 15 percent of respondents), immigration (11 percent), the economy in general (10 percent), racism/race relations (5 percent), and crime/violence (4 percent).

Viewing government as problematic was a bipartisan affair, too. Government was cited as the most important problem by 24 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in the poll and by 18 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents."

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Adam Schiff is the king of misinformation

Adam Schiff, who hates ‘misinformation,’ still believes ‘Russian Collusion’ happened

These are not serious people.@jackhunter74:https://t.co/cva0MPnzLI — Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) January 31, 2023