Lamb Fish Lion

The things that are for us here are NOT the things that we are here for!

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[John DePetro Show @JohnDePetroshow]

I keep getting messages from Lindsay Clancy supporters telling me to stop posting pictures of the three Clancy children.

[Lamb Fish Lion @LambFishLion]

@MarkJCarney Prime Memester has spoken!

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@MarkJCarney Yes Sir! Prime Memester!

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@MarkJCarney This you?

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@MarkJCarney You mad bro?

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@MarkJCarney You scared of this?

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@MarkJCarney You are a disgrace to Canada.

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@TheEconomist The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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@MaryBowdenMD Grok is covertly becoming more woke every day.

[Lamb Fish Lion @LambFishLion]

@Tablesalt13 What can you expect from the Retard Clown Moron Police? 🤦‍♂️

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

Show me where communism has ever worked before—whether it’s the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Venezuela. With these policies, you always end up with less.

Core inflation, which came out days ago, was 2.5%—a very good number, moving toward the Fed’s 2% target.

What we’ve seen over the past year is that wages for the bottom 25% of working Americans were up 5.5%.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Here’s the Democrat playbook:

-Create a fraudulent business
-Receive fraudulent govt funding
-Launder fraudulent money back to the Democrat Party

They are funding their entire operation with YOUR tax dollars!

IT’S FRAUD.

[Shemeka Michelle @ShemekaMichelle]

Black privilege is wearing an ugly blond wig, appropriating white culture, while attacking white women, then whining about the consequences.

[Lamb Fish Lion @LambFishLion]

@LeaderJohnThune @SenateGOP Pass the SAVE America Act!

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

LET'S GO 🚨

@JDVance is meeting with Majority @LeaderJohnThune right now in the Senate

(RP) if you want him to use the powers vested in him and preside over the Senate, until the Save America Act is passed

He'll see this... if we get enough of of a response

[Lamb Fish Lion @LambFishLion]

@LeaderJohnThune @TaxCuts @SenateGOP Are you getting ready to go on vacation? What about the passing of the SAVE America Act?

[Lamb Fish Lion @LambFishLion]

@LeaderJohnThune @POTUS @SenateGOP Why aren’t you talking about passing the SAVE America Act? Are you stalling?

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

My colleague from South Dakota suggests here that the talking filibuster hasn’t been used in a century, and that it was not used to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

He’s mistaken.

As I’ve explained to the entire Senate GOP on multiple occasions, the talking filibuster *was* used effectively to break the weeks-long filibuster mounted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Leader Thune and others point out that the Senate ultimately invoked cloture on the Civil Rights Act, and on that basis wrongly conclude that the talking filibuster was *not* the tool used to achieve that victory.

This argument ignores the fact that this is *how* the Senate closed a staggering 30-vote cloture deficit in 1964. After many weeks of fighting a losing battle, filibustering senators predictably started to lose their resolve to hold up the bill indefinitely, especially when they realized how hard they’d have to work to keep the effort alive.

So they started proposing and supporting amendments to the bill to make it more palatable and help them save face.

I still maintain that this is a viable approach that could work well—even better—in the context of the SAVE America Act, especially considering that the bill is less complicated and less controversial with voters than was the Civil Rights Act, and currently has a cloture deficit of only 10 votes—tiny compared to the 30-vote deficit faced by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

My colleague also mistakenly suggests that Senate Republicans would have to vote to enforce the talking filibuster. That simply isn’t true; no vote is required for this step. All we need is a majority leader willing to announce that we’re getting on the bill and that we will continue to debate it until it passes—all with the understanding that if filibustering senators fail to show up to debate it, we can “call the question” and pass it with a simple majority.

That understanding, in turn, is what motivates the filibustering senators to show up and speak, but it’s also what naturally causes them to tire of the exercise after a few weeks, at which point they start looking for a face-saving off-ramp.

Finally, Leader Thune suggests that the talking filibuster would be thwarted by being “reset” every time Democrats offered an amendment. There’s a valid point in there, but it’s not a good reason not to invoke the talking filibuster. It appears he’s referring indirectly to paragraph 1(a) of Senate Rule 19 (the two-speech rule). While offering a new amendment can create a new question under longstanding practice, the September 25, 1986 precedent narrowed how rigidly the two-speech rule is applied by clarifying that many procedural actions do not count as speeches at all.

Particularly in light of that 1986 clarification, it’s been a long time since I’ve suggested we consider rigid enforcement of Rule 19’s two-speech limit as part of a talking filibuster strategy for the SAVE America Act. We don’t need it!

Nor was that rule aggressively enforced during the Senate’s consideration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield correctly focused on requiring actual debate from filibustering senators rather than looking for technical ways to shut the debate down.

To give credit where it’s due, I appreciate what Leader Thune said in this interview about the possibility of passing some iteration of SAVE America using budget reconciliation—a procedure in which there is no 60-vote cloture hurdle. I’ve been skeptical of this approach in the past, but I’m starting to believe the SAVE America Act has more budgetary features than I initially considered possible.

That said, reconciliation is fraught with all kinds of problems, challenges, risks, and uncertainties. Also, failure can be far too easy to blame on the parliamentarian.

I’m open to considering the reconciliation path, but we should make this decision with our eyes open. To do that, we need to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the talking filibuster.

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵

[Lamb Fish Lion @LambFishLion]

@LeaderJohnThune Now prove that you are the true leader of the Senate.