We all accept that John Thune is a Trojan Horse for the Uniparty. What is most discouraging is the utter contempt the Republicans have for their 77,000,000 supporters who voted for President Trump’s agenda. Not even five Senators will honor the will of their own people.
🤮the GOP
@realLegendAfg We don't need congress in DC anymore with advanced technology. Congress doesn't do anything anyway. Send them home, make it a voluntary job, like in the beginning of our country and make the capital a museum. America will safe billions. Aren't you tired of all this crap?
The Senate is blocking legislation that would stop $40 million per week from going to the Taliban. It has not even scheduled a vote. Why would any Senator oppose defunding the Taliban?
It’s still unconscionable that foreign real estate agents were allowed to sell new American homes to visa workers in a foreign tongue, financed by government-backed loans paid for by our taxpayers.
This is how our towns and suburbs were destroyed. The traitors who who enabled this deserve treason charges.
John Thune took the floor in the Senate today to read another speech someone wrote for him and to waste yet another day without doing whatever it takes to pass the Save America Act.
Nothing is more important yet he refuses to act.
Thune is compromised.
@LeaderJohnThune In the last month, 2 of your Republican Senate colleagues have lost re-election — in part — because you refuse to pass the SAVE America Act.
How many more Senators will it take in order to get you to listen to us?
Peacefully.
Donald Trump is the only President in history to have recess appointments blocked by his own party.
The McConnell and Thune Senate Majorities.
Republican voters deserve to know the names of each Senator who gaveled in for the 1 minute pro forma sessions to block him.
Traitors.
🚨 JUST IN: Scott Presler has formally requested a MEETING with Majority Leader John Thune after his allies Bill Cassidy and John Cornyn were voted out of office, because the SAVE America Act has NOT passed
LFG! Scott played hardball! Come to the table and listen to the people, Thune!
"With the recent elections in Louisiana and Texas, I hope Leader Thune is amendable to a thoughtful, peaceful, and productive discussion."
"I'll also be returning to South Dakota soon to do events across the state."
Presler previously went RIGHT OUTSIDE Thune's office to pressure passage of SAVE America, or face primary challenges
KEEP PUSHING, @ScottPresler!
The Senate GOP should learn to listen to the base 🇺🇸
Speculation is mounting that Senators are joining together to oust disastrous Senate Leader Thune. We the people want him gone and these Senators need to expedite this process.
Fun fact: NYC spends over $42,000 per student each year—roughly 4x the average in-state tuition at a public college. Yet only about 28% of the city’s 4th graders read proficiently.
And people like Zohran Mamdani want you to believe Jeff Bezos is the one failing the public.
Don’t be crying, @hasanthehun.
You’re a self-avowed jihadist.
Nobody who supports Muslim terrorists and aids dictators should be able to walk freely in America.
I’m glad the Trump administration is focused on holding you accountable for your despicable actions.
Enjoy your time in prison!
President Trump has only been in office for a little over 5 years combined.
So let me ask this:
If President Trump is supposedly the cause of America’s economic problems, endless wars, border issues, corruption, debt, broken infrastructure, declining education, and political division…
Then what exactly have these people been doing for the last 20, 30, 40, and even 50 YEARS in Washington?
• Sen. Chuck Grassley — in Congress since 1975 (~50+ years)
• Sen. Ed Markey — since 1977 (~48 years)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer — since 1981 (~44 years)
• Sen. Ron Wyden — since 1981 (~44 years)
• Rep. Hal Rogers — since 1981 (~44 years)
• Rep. Chris Smith — since 1981 (~44 years)
• Rep. Steny Hoyer — since 1981 (~44 years)
• Sen. Dick Durbin — since 1983 (~42 years)
• Rep. Marcy Kaptur — since 1983 (~42 years)
• Sen. Mitch McConnell — since 1985 (~40 years)
And that’s just scratching the surface.
The average Senator in Congress today has served OVER 11 YEARS.
The average House member nearly 9 YEARS.
Many of these politicians have been in Washington longer than millions of Americans have been alive.
Presidents come and go.
Congress remains.
Congress controls spending.
Congress writes laws.
Congress funds wars.
Congress regulates industries.
Congress oversees agencies.
Congress approves budgets.
Congress holds the real long-term institutional power.
Yet somehow, the guy who spent 4 years in office and just returned is blamed for problems built over HALF A CENTURY?
That math doesn’t add up.
America’s problems weren’t created overnight.
They were accumulated through decades of bipartisan political decisions, bureaucracy, lobbying, corruption, bad trade deals, reckless spending, foreign interventions, and career politicians protecting the system that keeps them in power.
At some point, Americans need to stop blaming symptoms and start looking at the machine itself.
On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places.
At one point near the House Chambers I was walking downstairs when a trio of some special section, secret service looking men started pointing guns in my direction.
Confused and annoyed, I walked the other way and when I saw a normal police officer asked him why they were doing that.
He informed me a protestor (Ashli Babbit) had been killed, and advised me to leave the building.
I walked towards the exit and after a short rest on the bench I left.
I harmed nobody and damaged no property that day and complied with all police orders.
What I received for that was a pre-dawn raid at my parents house, where my 1 month post-partum wife and I were staying, on Biden's first day in office. His DOJ had signed the order to arrest me 3 hours after his inauguration.
In the subsequent weeks I received death threats online and harassing phone calls, something that would be ongoing for the next few years.
I was banned from Meta and Paypal. My wife and I were both debanked by PNC and banned from Airbnb. My wife was detained at the airport for hours with our newborn daughter.
I was charged with 4 misdemeanors and the 1512 unconstitutional felony. The government offered to drop the misdemeanors if I pled to the felony. The felony was a lie, so I refused and went to trial.
At trial the prosecution for 2 days straight was allowed to show footage to the jury of things that occurred around the Capitol I wasn't present for "for context." When we asked to put forward footage that contradicted the prosecution's "context" we were not allowed. They could show what they wanted, we could not.
Police officers were then put on the stand for the next 2 days who cried about their experiences. I had no idea who they were. They admitted they never saw me or interacted with me.
Nevertheless like every other J6er, I lost, and was sentenced to 4 years and $22k in fines and restitution. Yet even after the Supreme Court overturned the felony, the judge would not let me out until my misdemeanor sentences of a year were maxed out. Because she can't count she actually kept me in longer - to the extent she intervened at the last minute to make the prison release me on a Sunday, something that is against BOP rules. My family sat outside the prison gates the Friday before practically the whole day waiting in vain because of this pettiness.
But the government wasn't satisfied with their pound of flesh: after my release they took me back in for resentencing, to attempt to have me resentenced after the fact to my misdemeanors consecutively, so I'd be taken from my family again and have another 1.5 years behind bars. This time I won, as they had no legal precedent and it skirted on violating double jeopardy since I had served my full prison time. Even still, it cast a cloud over the holidays and cost me another 20k my family couldn't afford.
People ask whether prison was bad, and yeah of course prison sucked. It was a hard and violent place. I was present for a stabbing, and was lucky to avoid two fights and a race war.
But dealing with Biden's DOJ and the DC Judiciary was the real trauma - they would grind down your spirit by weaponizing the legal system and use the endless procedure to bankrupt you. I had nightmares for months after release that I had somehow been hit with new charges.
By the time I was pardoned by President Trump, I had spent literally every single day of Biden's presidency either in prison or under some form of supervision. I had incurred over $300k in legal fees and over $1 million in lost business.
It was a reign of terror, and yet it was a mere foreshadowing of what they had planned for anyone else who opposed them under Kamala. The country should never forget it.