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@ScottPresler@LeaderJohnThune@TaxCuts He’s thinking why should he pass the SAVE America Act? His steak and martini dinners for being a pretend lobbyist are too good.
Hello Senator Thune,
Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."
You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.
Here's how we know:
Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.
Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:
Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.
Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.
Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.
Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.
You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.
Now let's talk donors:
• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants
Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."
Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.
We see the loop.
You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.
What we want:
1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.
YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.
You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.
Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.
🚨 BOOM! Dr. King DROPS THE MIC on abortionists 🫳🏻🎤
REP. BRANDON GILL: Dr. King, are pro-lifers white supremacists?
DR. ALVEDA KING: Pro-lifers cannot be white supremacists...white supremacists are PLANNED PARENTHOOD who ADMITTED they do have racist underpinnings with an agenda to reduce the black population by abortion. We have been aborted as blacks in America disproportionately.
"Pro-lifers believe in life from the womb to the tomb and beyond. Pro-lifers fight for every baby in the womb, regardless of skin color."
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Alveda King explained her uncle’s dream better than any politician ever could.
Dr. King dreamed of a nation where Americans would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Not by race.
Not by quotas.
Not by identity politics.
By character.
Yet today, many on the left insist that every Black American must think the same, vote the same, and belong to the same political party. That would make Black Americans the only people in America expected to surrender their individual beliefs for the sake of racial solidarity.
That is the opposite of Dr. King’s dream.
His dream was freedom. Freedom to think. Freedom to choose. Freedom to rise based on merit and character.
I know…
because I live that dream EVERY DAY.
🚨WATCH: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE shows An African migrant attempting to BEHEAD somebody in North Belfast 🇮🇪
The attack was carried out with a Stanley blade and happened at around 10:30pm last night (Monday 8th June) on Kinnaird Avenue.
Every single one must leave, ALL OF THEM 🚫
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
For a while, it looked like the California Dem supermajority was going for a neo-feudalist blueprint that included tech bros and Hollywood celebrities in the elite class. But now it looks like they've decided on the Soviet model, where only 2 classes exist:
1) The political party elite
2) The poor masses (everyone else)
@ChuckAFlint@FoxNews Take away health care from all illegals! Shut down all the fraudulent businesses! Don’t let the most vulnerable be collateral damage!
Reporter: “Are you going to debate Karen Bass again?”
Spencer Pratt: “I love debating her on NBC. I look forward to a couple more on NBC and Fox. We can do debates every Friday if she would like. Because this actually became my most favorite thing to do.”
“So yes, as many debates as Mayor Bass would like.”
“She knows it’s on. I hope she’s ready.”