Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from being
exposed for opposing it.
How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.
So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.
Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.
So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.
Good time for this thought experiment for the left and Bulwarkian Right:
In your fantasies about passing federal gun control and disarming the population, how did you imagine that playing out?
Did it involve federal agents going into communities to enforce federal law?
Billionaires, you now have a choice: You can be globalist billionaires, in which case both the left and right will want to kill you and take your stuff, or you can be nationalist billionaires, and only the left will want to kill you and take your stuff. Choose wisely, good luck.
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet
If everyone assumes everyone else is scamming, it makes people feel like losers for playing by the rules
You cannot let random Somali pirates publicly steal billions of dollars in the most brazen way possible and do nothing about it
It's one thing if nobody knows it's happening, but when it becomes public you DO have to actually do something, or the rest of the country's just gonna join in
Libtards: You don't understand, Trump isn't toppling Venezuela because they're socialist, it's the PETROLEUM!
Trump: We're taking the oil.
Libtards: Just admit it, you tyrant, you just want natural resources!
Trump: They werent doing a good job with it so we will be taking the oil.
Libtards: We all see past your dogwhistles.