Transientbob

Former Democrat and lifelong Californian.
Oppression is no longer a thing of the past.
With Democrats in control, we risk all freedoms.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

To be clear, this was a law that attempted to ban therapists from telling gender confused boys that they're actually boys, and girls that they're actually girls. It was literally a law prohibiting anyone in the therapy profession from verbally acknowledging biological reality to their clients. Easily one of the most psychotic pieces of legislation ever passed anywhere in the world at any time in history. The fact that Kentanji Jackson tried to uphold this law -- even as her fellow liberals broke ranks with her -- just proves again that she is the most unfit, unqualified, unhinged lunatic to ever hold a seat on the Supreme Court.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

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[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

When TSA has been tested, it has failed to stop up to 80 percent of weapons smuggled through security. TSA to this day has never actually prevented a terrorist attack. There is not a single documented case of a terror plot foiled by TSA. On top of that, TSA was formed in response to 9-11, but 9-11 was not a failure of airport security. Airport security had basically nothing to do with it. So while this stand off over TSA funding continues, keep in mind that the agency shouldn't exist and is historically terrible at its job. We should privatize airport security again. Then it can't be used as a bargaining chip by politicians.

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

JUST NOW: CA Secretary of State Signals Prosecutions After Our New Cash-for-Signatures Video by O'Keefe

@CASOSVote

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.

It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Old Dominion University shooter Mohamed Jalloh:

-Born in Sierra Leone
-Became a naturalized US citizen
-Radicalized by al-Qaeda
-Convicted for providing material support to ISIS
-Sentenced to 11 years in prison
-Released from prison early under Biden

Now watch how quickly this story disappears

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American shows in California, if you don’t have health insurance you are penalized and charged $950 per adult and $475 per child

For a full year family of 4, that’s $2,850

This was signed into law by Gavin Newsom in 2019

Illegals get healthcare for free and are exempt

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Let's go through Thune's handlers, shall we? The crossover Punchbowl sponsors who also donated to Thune.

Goldman Sachs, $150,000 to Thune:
Top financial-sector H-1B user. Relies on foreign talent pipeline for trading, quant, and tech roles. Primary stake: filibuster preservation blocks financial regulation reform. A stricter enforcement ecosystem threatens their workforce model and signals a broader documentation-verification environment they oppose.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Turns out that @LeaderJohnThune was totally projecting when he said the SAVE Act was an influencer campaign.

Senator John Thune is compromised by a company that literally exists to sell access to himself.

Pass it on.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Tonight, @RepLuna invited me on a TPUSA gathering here in DC involving almost 80 countries. She charged me with meeting with as many different countries' representatives as possible and understanding their foreign influence and NGO situation.

And ... the takeway is ... whatever we're experiencing in America right now, we have long been inflicting in other countries for decades. Mention "Soros" even once and government officials instantly share everything.

Our fight isn't for our country. It's for the entire world.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: International actors are involved in the State Department led color revolution 🚨🚨

This is not speculation; it’s straight from a recorded call.

Ex-USAID employees describe how, before January 20, they moved internal groups off government systems and into encrypted Signal chats, then quickly linked with foreign partners and NGOs after the inauguration. This attempt at creating a color revolution isn't new news; this part was already reported in NOTUS earlier this year.

But what's not reported is the international aspect. One participant explicitly frames it as "a global anti-authoritarian movement," connecting U.S. officials with "colleagues from around the world who have dealt with this directly."

They reference coordination with Johns Hopkins, "international democracy and conflict mitigation spaces," and efforts to mobilize across borders against what they perceive as domestic authoritarianism.

At what point does this become treason?

As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
👇

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Dilbert creator vs Ayatollah of Iran

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BOOM! The left does NOT know how to react to this

"Donald Trump, you released 90 MILLION hostages! They were hostage for 47 YEARS. Thank you Donald Trump!"

"You're a MAN OF YOUR WORD."

Exactly as promised 🇺🇸

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Working on a write-up.

Whatever your feelings on the Iranian strikes are...

Note that the "our democracy" crowd who has interfered in hundreds of elections around the globe and waged endless wars is opposing the removal of Ali Khamenei, whose regime massacred 36,500 people.

The "rules-based international order" doesn't actually care about democracy. They had a system with Khamenei. They knew what he wanted: sanctions relief, recognition, a nuclear deal, regional influence. Their entire identity depends on existing power over those channels.

Their track record in creating actual democracies is awful. But they sure do have a good track record in installing NGOs that waste endless amounts of money on "democracy."

Oh, by the way, @anneapplebaum is one of the architects behind the "Soul of the Nation" Biden speech which labeled half of America as threats to the Republic.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

I already generated a dossier on Spanberger, but the most interesting part of it is that she is part of a cohort of 50+ military-intelligence veterans that have been recruited to run as Democratic candidates starting in 2018. @SomeBitchIIKnow first hypothesized this, but my new dossier pipeline independently captured them.

A Democrat retires. A CIA member takes over.

Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Excited to share what I'm working on as Visiting Fellow @OversightProject.

The question I'm solving: why do Republicans vote against their own party... and their own voters on issues such as mass migration and SAVE ACT?

Surprising early finding: FEC donations are only weakly correlated with voting behavior. Institutional affiliations (where senators trained, what orgs they've moved through, where they have membership) predict it far better.

And almost nobody tracks that systematically. Building that infrastructure now.

Major stress test: why Senate Republicans are slow-walking the SAVE Act despite 80% public support. Stay tuned.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The corruption in California is INSANE

Gavin Newsom appointed a board that approved 6 rate hikes in 1 year for his donor PG&E

🚨 The commissioners on the board approving the rate hikes for PG&E then get jobs working for them GETTING PAID A MILLION PER YEAR

“When the commissioners are done approving your rate hikes, they go work for PG&E:

Former Commissioner Carla Peterman left the CPUC and went straight to PG&E

- $290,000 cash
- $270,000 in stock
- $560,000 salary

Over a million dollars a year from the company whose rate hikes she used to approve”

“A federal judge called PG&E, a continuing menace to California. Their credit rating is one level above junk bonds, and the people who are supposed to protect you are cashing checks from the company that's robbing you.”

California energy bills skyrocket because Democrats are getting filthy rich allowing it to happen

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Isn’t this the guy who gave @BarackObama his Nobel peace prize?

Asking for 77 million voters.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵THREAD: Is Trump's hunch about foreign influence in SCOTUS correct?

After the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling on tariffs, Trump said "It's my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think."

Trump is likely referring to the ideology of supranationalism -- a centuries-old ideology that considered tariffs to be among the highest economical blunders, not for economic reasons, but because tariffs dare to assert national rights in a telos of universal liberalism.

But is he right about the foreign influence?

As has been widely reported, @MikeBenzCyber has unpacked the details of the friendship between John Roberts and Norm Eisen, and their Prague vacations where they discussed "American and European rule-of-law issues" together.

But there's more to it. A lot more. 👇

As always, patience as I pull the thread together.