Thomas Massie Exposes What “Dis-, Mis-, and Malinformation” Really Means to DHS

Oh look! Thomas Massie being an absolute BOSS again!

This time it was in questioning Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas about the DHS’s role in censoring speech on social media, specifically about the COVID-19 pandemic. Spoiler alert, Mayorkas couldn’t– or at best, wouldn’t– answer his queries.

I have a very limited capacity for watching these sorts of hearings, because witnessing people repeatedly fail to answer a yes-or-no question causes my blood pressure to spike. (Once I went back and forth for EIGHT EMAILS trying to get a yes or no answer with someone in a government role. I never did.) But this is worth the hypertension.

Massie (my personal hero and one of my Twitter followers) begins by addressing the absolute hokum term “malinformation,” requesting that Mayorkas define it before clarifying, “Isn’t ‘malinformation’ actually true information that may be inconvenient to the establishment orthodoxy?”

Of course, Mayorkas denies this blatantly obvious fact. So Massie went on to quote the secretary to himself: “You said that ‘the proliferation of false or misleading narratives sow discord and undermine public trust in US government institutions.’ Is it illegal to undermine public trust in US government institutions?”

WHOOP, there it is.

But the most incredible part of the video is when Mayorkas says, verbatim, not only “We [the DHS] believe in the first amendment right,” but also “We are ideology neutral,” and doesn’t immediately combust in a burst of white hot flame. Who. Does. This. MF. Actually. Think. He’s. Fooling???

Not Thomas Massie, in any case.

Sassy Massie points out that what they are doing in the hearing that very day is, in fact, undermining public trust in US government institutions (the DHS), and it’s actually HEALTHY to do so in the pursuit of truth. He then pivots to the COVID-19 issue and peppers Mayorkas with a series of pointed questions:

“I need to ask you another question, since you haven’t answered any of these yet. You say that there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding COVID-19. Is the claim that natural immunity is real, is that a false or misleading online narrative?

“How about the claim that vaccines don’t stop the spread of the virus? Is that a false or misleading COVID narrative?

“How about– I’m not talking about ideology, I’m talking about COVID-19. Is the notion that masks were ineffective in stopping transmission, is that a false or misleading narrative?”

Each of these questions were answered with nonsensical prattle about how the DHS doesn’t get involved in assessing ideologies, they only get involved when there is a threat of violence. Mmkay. So Massie asked him for an example, and the secretary proudly related information about the horrendous violence and damage that occurred as the direct result of dis-, mis-, and malinformation when. . .

. . . some crackpot tried to knock down a 5G tower, believing 5G to be a cause of COVID-19?

Thank GOD the cell towers were safe while people’s businesses were destroyed, children’s education was disrupted in a way that will negatively impact them for the REST OF THEIR LIVES, and cities were burned and looted in “mostly peaceful protests.”

Secretary Mayorkas, everybody. A true American hero.

God bless Thomas Massie for exposing him as the absolute muppet he is.