I called Senator John Thune's offices today to encourage him to enforce the talking filibuster. Please do the same if you care about the Save America Act.
@BasedMikeLee I'm so new to following politics indepth -I thought senators still spoke when filibustering. Never knew the definition of filibuster had weakened over the years. Do your job, senators! Thank you, Mike Lee!
Outstanding video from the @FreedomCaucusF making the case for the SAVE America Act—and explaining how we can use the talking filibuster to pass it in the Senate
Please spend 60 seconds watching it—and share it if you agree!
This stopped me cold. Facing stage 4 cancer, Ben Sasse speaks with clarity about faith, mortality, and redeeming the time, then turns to Congress, higher ed, and our attention-starved republic. Worth your time. Watch. Share. What stood out?
Enforcing the Talking Filibuster isn’t “nuking” the filibuster
It involves making senators speak—not sleep—to filibuster
Consistent with Senate rules
It can be hard work, but sometimes that’s necessary—and passing the SAVE America Act is worth the effort
Share if you agree
He was ENSLAVED.
Then he enslaved OTHERS.
Then he wrote the most famous hymn in the world 🇬🇧
His name was John Newton.
Born in London, 1725. Mother died when he was six. At sea by eleven. By twenty, he was wild, reckless, flogged by the Navy.
Then enslaved in Sierra Leone by a slave trader's wife.
A storm nearly killed him on the voyage home.
He cried out to God for the first time in years. He called March 21st his spiritual birthday.
But here's the uncomfortable part.
He didn't stop. He became a slave ship captain.
Three voyages. Hundreds of people in chains below his deck.
He knew it was wrong. He kept doing it.
A stroke ended his sea career. Slowly, over years, something changed. He became a clergyman.
In 1772, in a small parish in Buckinghamshire, he wrote a hymn.
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me."
He meant every word.
But the hymn wasn't the ending. In 1785, a young MP called William Wilberforce came to see him. Wilberforce wanted to leave Parliament for the church.
Newton told him to stay. To fight slavery from inside the system.
Wilberforce stayed.
In 1788, Newton published his testimony - “Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade." 3,000 copies. One for every MP and Lord.
He described what he'd done. No one could dismiss it. He'd been there.
On 25 March 1807, Parliament abolished the slave trade.
Newton was 82. Nearly blind. Still alive.
He'd prayed to live long enough to see it. He died nine months later.
The hymn he wrote became the most recorded song in the English language.
The anthem of the civil rights movement.
A slave trader's guilt became the voice of FREEDOM 🙏
One man's guilt. One conversation. One hymn. One law.
They don't teach you the full story. We do 👇 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf
Be part of us.
Be proud of us. 🇬🇧
Let me break this down in as basic a manner as I can:
1. America elects a President that the Democrat/Media Complex does not like.
2. Democrats engage in violent riots over whatever their otherwise perfectly legal cause du jour might be.
3. "See? The fact that this guy is President is causing riots. If you vote for us this abnormal rioting that the President is causing will stop."
4. Democrats win next election. Riots stop.
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This is no different than the Mafia threatening to burn down a store unless the owner pays protection money.
IT IS EXTORTION.
When will America realize what the Democrat's evil game is and send them to where they belong?
“Bastiat proves beyond all doubt that the proper function of government is to protect the lives, liberty, and property of its citizens, but not to provide for them.”
“For in order to provide for some, first it must take from others, becoming the mechanism for legalized plunder.”
As I sit in the dark this morning talking to God and drinking my coffee I am overcome with how bad things are in America but I’m also given hope. We have the ability to change this mess. It begins with me and you. Let’s fix this mess.
The real insurrection isn’t happening in the streets of Minnesota, it’s happening in the halls of Congress, where Republican politicians are refusing to carry out the will of the people who elected them.
We're all thinking about Trump's battle with the Federal Reserve the wrong way. Trump isn't taking revenge on Jerome Powell for refusing to do his bidding on interest rates.
This is about who controls the economy. The Founders said YOU do. Want to change how Congress handles your taxes? Vote them out! Is Congress trying to influence the free market too much? Vote them out!
But Congress gave much of their power to the Fed, which answers to the BANKS, not you. Now, the Fed sets interest rates and holds our tax dollars.
Want to make the system fair again? ABOLISH THE FED.