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.
Let me get this straight…
We have American athletes who were born & raised here and who even wear USA branded clothing,
Only for them to go overseas & TRASH the country that sent them there.
The goal for these players should be to WIN, not to make embarrassing headlines.
We have a bunch of silver-spoon crybaby athletes whining about America on the World Stage for the Winter Olympics.
If you have a problem with the United States while wearing that uniform, move to Iran.
I've had too many buddies come back overseas with that same flag draped across their coffin and you have the audacity to mock the United States while playing a game.
Take off the uniform and go somewhere else if you can’t stand for America.
As a dad, you are the strong one, you hold things in, don’t show emotions. You tell them that you are proud, and hope they make good choices. You are always there for them.
.@MegynKelly unloads on Don Lemon and the church service disruptors: "I want everyone in jail. I want all of them arrested. This is the red line, and they've crossed it.
Some people are too dumb to be allowed to do the news. He's too dumb and doesn't know shit about the law or the U.S. Constitution. He has no fucking clue what he's saying to that pastor there. You're going to learn the hard way, sir, how wrong you are..."
FULL: https://t.co/5fHxZZ3KfG
Sad fact: we don’t NEED to win the midterms if we keep ONLY using Congress to help Democrats fulfill their agenda… while ignoring our own.
Controversial? Shouldn’t be.
We control everything now and we can’t even pass the SAVE Act.
Can’t pass permanent tax cuts for working families.
Can’t pass term limits for Congress.
Can’t pass defunding Planned Parenthood.
Can’t pass school choice nationwide.
Can’t pass banning federal funds for gender ideology in schools.
Can’t pass eliminating the debt ceiling.
Can’t pass ending federal funding for sanctuary cities.
We hold the House, the Senate, the White House—and STILL we act like we’re the minority begging for scraps.
The disappointment is profound.
The irony is crushing.
We were given the mandate, the majority, the moment—and we’re squandering it on bipartisan “compromise” that always bends left.
This isn’t governing.
This is SURRENDER dressed as statesmanship.
America deserves better 🇺🇸
Ladies: Try opening your arms for a BIG cuddle the second your guy
walks through the door tonight. See what happens… 😉🔥
I challenge especially any who have been married for a long time to see what happens 🤣🌶️🔥