@SenateGOP@LeaderJohnThune Is an absolute worthless piece of shit and has done nothing for America. You like him will be primaried because not one of you idiots had the balls to stand up to him!!! Screw him and the rest of you assholes too.
Michael Murdock, US Navy Veteran, AZ
The guards in North Vietnam's prison camps had a nickname for one young American sailor: The Incredibly Stupid One.
In August 1969, they sent him home. It backfired on them. He walked out with the names of about 256 American prisoners hidden in his head, set to the tune of Old MacDonald Had a Farm.
Doug Hegdahl was a 20-year-old Seaman Apprentice from Clark, South Dakota. Before dawn on April 6, 1967, he stepped onto the deck of the cruiser USS Canberra while she was firing on the coast in the Gulf of Tonkin.
"All I know is, I walked up on the deck, it was dark and they were firing, and the next thing I recall I was in the water."
He floated for hours. Vietnamese fishermen pulled him out. On his own ship, the morning muster came up one man short. The crew searched twice and concluded he had gone over the side.
His captors refused to believe anyone falls off a warship by accident. They beat him as a spy.
So he gave them what they wanted to see. He told them he could not read or write. When an interrogator asked what he wanted most, he said, "Why, I'd like a pillow, Sir."
They stopped worrying about him. They handed him a broom and let him sweep the camp.
Every yard he swept was a chance to learn another name.
An Air Force prisoner named Joe Crecca taught him how to memorize. Name. Date of capture. How he was captured. A dog's name, a kid's name, a Social Security number, anything a family could check. Verse after verse, he sang it to himself until it stuck.
He also went after the camp trucks with a little dirt in the fuel tanks. Five of them stopped running.
The prisoners lived by a rule: nobody accepts early release while his brothers stay behind. Hegdahl did not want to go. His senior officer, Lt. Cmdr. Richard Stratton, made it an order. As Stratton later explained it:
"You are the most junior. You have the names."
On August 5, 1969, the North Vietnamese released him as a propaganda gesture. Back home, he sang the list to American officials. Families who had been told their sons were missing learned they were alive.
The next year he flew to Paris and confronted North Vietnam's delegation over the treatment of American prisoners. Stratton later believed it helped keep him alive.
They called him the dumbest man in the camp.
He carried more than 250 families home inside a nursery rhyme.
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The GOP worked tirelessly to oppose the efforts of the first Trump administration… And nothing changed.
The GOP are in on it.
The GOP are in on all of it.
Geez, you guys.
We can't trust the GOP.
And we can't vote for commie Dems who can't even tell biological truths.
I honestly don't know what we are supposed to do.
How are we supposed to save this country?
@SenateGOP told AMERICA they don't give a shit about AMERICA FIRST, CONFIRMING ANYONE, CODIFYING ANYTHING, or doing what President Trump and the American people asked of them in 2024. Well SENATORS...Look at the following picture and then...GO FUCK YOURSELVES. You're all worthless pieces of shit and should just resign and let Democrats take over now so they can get on with their shenanigans.
Michael Murdock, US Navy Veteran, AZ
@SenateGOP told AMERICA they don't give a shit about AMERICA FIRST, CONFIRMING ANYONE, CODIFYING ANYTHING, or doing what President Trump and the American people asked of them in 2024. Well SENATORS...Look at the following picture and then...GO FUCK YOURSELVES. You're all worthless pieces of shit and should just resign and let Democrats take over now so they can get on with their shenanigans.
Michael Murdock, US Navy Veteran, AZ
Good morning from North Augusta, S.C. It’s Veterans Day 2026. I served in the U.S. Navy from 2000 to 2020, twenty years of service, countless memories, and the privilege of standing watch with some of the finest people I’ve known.
To every veteran, past and present: thank you for your service and sacrifice. To those still serving, stay safe; the nation stands behind you!
Happy Veterans Day. We remember. We honor. We are grateful. Love you all, mean it!
Almost nobody is talking about this, and it should outrage every American:
Just yesterday, Republicans in the House and Senate picked their leaders for the next Congress.
Behind closed doors - by SECRET BALLOT.
In the House, Jim Jordan beat Steve Scalise 106-73. The only reason we even know the count is because lawmakers leaked it to reporters.
In the Senate, John Thune was handed his job again after a wipeout that cost Republicans at least seven seats. Senators who wanted to delay the vote were shot down 31-15. Also in secret.
We don't know who voted for who. Not one name.
Democrats do the exact same thing.
Here's the part that should make your blood boil:
NOTHING in the Constitution requires a secret ballot.
NOTHING in federal law requires it.
They made this rule up themselves and they could end it tomorrow with one vote. They just don't want to.
We elected these people.
We pay their salaries.
We pay their staff.
We pay for their offices.
We pay for their security.
We pay their pensions.
They're using our money to run a private club that decides who runs Congress on our behalf.
That's not representation - that's a secret society.
Every one of these votes should be public, on the record, with a name attached.
If you're proud of your vote, show it.
If you're hiding it, the voters deserve to know why.
END THE SECRET BALLOT - NOW!
🚨 DID JOHN THUNE BLOCK THE SAVE AMERICA ACT?
Not by voting against it, but he refused to pursue several strategies supporters believed could get it passed.
✅ Rejected changing Senate filibuster rules.
✅ Resisted using a talking filibuster to force Democrats to sustain their opposition.
✅ Declined efforts to advance the legislation through budget reconciliation.
✅ Maintained that Republicans lacked the votes to change Senate procedures.
To be clear, Senate Democrats opposed the legislation, and Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
BOTTOM LINE: Thune allowed debate on the SAVE America Act but resisted procedural changes that supporters argued were necessary to pass it.
Was Thune protecting Senate tradition, or did Republican leadership fail to do everything possible to get the SAVE America Act across the finish line?
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The games have already commenced
Sen. Rick Scott says confirming the rest of Trump’s judicial nominees would take 200 hours of floor time, which works out to 25 eight-hour days, yet the Senate only has about 20 days left on the calendar before Democrats take control in January.
The GOP are now whining that even seven-hour days for the rest of the term are not enough, so they might need to cancel vacations.
It is called recess appointments.
Honestly, can the GOP be the Democrats’ vehicle to finish us off?