"You can start cutting off my fingers," Kentucky U.S. Rep Thomas Massie said. "I am not voting for Mike Johnson.”

"Almost all of my colleagues know that Mike Johnson is not equipped to be speaker, but nobody wants to say the emperor has no clothes," Massie said.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R, Ky.) has cast the first Republican vote against Mike Johnson. Massie said ahead of the session Friday that he planned to vote against the Louisiana Republican, instead voting for Rep.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said he would not vote for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) under any circumstances, even if his fingernails were pulled out. The post Thomas Massie Says He Won’t Vote for Mike Johnson No Matter What: ‘You Can Pull All My Fingernails Out’ and ‘Shove Bamboo Up in Them’ first appeared on Mediaite.

"I'd say there's a 70% chance Mike Johnson is going to be speaker ... because that's just the way the swamp works," Congressman Thomas Massie said.

"Even if Mike's entire goal is to do everything Trump wants...he's not going to be good at it," Thomas Massie wrote on X.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R., Ky.), the one Republican who has said he would definitely oppose Mike Johnson (R., La.) for speaker, vowed there is nothing that could change his mind. Asked on One America News—by former Rep.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only House Republican to vote against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) while two other GOP lawmakers ultimately flipped their votes after initially backing others,

Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was vocally critical of Mike Johnson ahead of Friday's vote to reelect him House speaker.

Northern Kentucky's representative to Congress, Thomas Massie, says that he will not support Mike Johnson for speaker on Friday when the 119th Congress convenes.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appears to be bucking President-elect Trump’s endorsement of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), whom he criticized in a social media post as a “potato” like

“You can pull all my fingernails out, you can shove bamboo up in them, you can start cutting off my finger, I am not voting for Mike Johnson,” Massie told former representative Matt Gaetz on his new primetime show on the conservative One America News Network (OAN).