Senator, it is genuinely alarming that a sitting member of the United States Senate needs a civics lesson on the institution she serves in.
The filibuster rule has existed since 1806, more than two centuries of Senate procedure, precisely to prevent one-party control from becoming one-party rule. It requires 60 votes to end debate on most legislation, meaning that no majority, Republican or Democrat, can ram through a bill without at least some bipartisan support. It is the guardrail that protects the minority’s voice and keeps the Senate from turning into a rubber stamp for whoever happens to hold power that year.
So yes, Republicans hold the White House, the Senate, and the House, but thanks to the same rule you and your colleagues have used and defended for decades, Democrats can and are blocking every clean resolution to reopen the government. That is not oppression, Senator. That is obstruction.
It is embarrassing that we have to explain Senate history to someone who is supposed to be teaching it. The filibuster exists for the same reason a keel exists on a ship, to keep it from capsizing every time the political winds shift.
I don’t know this kid and haven’t seen him before recent days but I don’t think the hate is necessary. We all know no one can replace Charlie. When he was killed his microphone got handed to hundreds, thousands of US. This guy is one of the many that are needed to carry the torch
Happy Sunday! I wanted to sit down for a second to introduce myself and provide receipts for all of the people who are rightfully cautious in a moment like this!
It’s ok if you haven’t seen me before this week, but I’m definitely not a new comer. I started my podcast in the 4th grade at 11 years old.
Charlie and Candace were two of my first ever guests. They were speaking at a local campus together and for some reason took a chance on me.
Charlie and I exchanged numbers afterwards and have stayed friends, texting just before the assassination because he took the time to congratulate me on an accomplishment when he definitely didn’t have to take the time to.
He came on my podcast a second time just a few years ago. Last year, at the RNC we met up and had a conversation where he encouraged me to start speaking at TPUSA chapters. I had no experience and was nervous but he said they needed more students speaking to students and I would learn as I go but he believed in me. I did that tour last year, and that’s why I’m speaking at TPUSA chapters again. Because he inspired me. The TPUSA chapters are doing amazing, and TPUSA and their Tours team and local reps are impressing the world as they keep seamlessly pulling off adding more and more chapters.
I went from podcasting to national politics a little more in 2023 because I called out the RINOS at the RNC at the time and begged that we not go back to the neocon Bush days but instead clean house and make it MAGA. I endorsed Harmeet for Chair. Sadly she lost but she and others helped me get to still be a part of that cleaning house conversation by building the first of its kind youth council for the 2024 election.
I’m doing this tour now to try to motivate young people. I’m getting nothing but hate from it. No paycheck or speaking fee or anything like that. We’re not selling anything. I’m just walking in and talking and trying to show them if I can get involved in the 4th grade they can to!
As for other concerns, for any nosey people I’m a Baptist, which is where I went to church this morning, like I have every Sunday for the past 19 years. Jesus is King - always has been always will be!
And do a little research before believing anything random trolls claim. My family has only ever donated to local politicians. Just like every businessman in America. If you think supporting a city councilor gets me to where I am today, you’re sadly mistaken.
Finally, I said this to the NY Post but everybody just read the headline and not the article. I’m not Charlie. I’ll never be Charlie, and I don’t want to be Charlie. I can’t! He was 1 of 1. I’m Brilyn, and if I seem eager it’s because I am. I watched the guy I looked up to get shot. And I’m determined to make sure he didn’t die in vain and inspire my peers to carry out his legacy.
This is all God. I didn’t work hard enough for it. Nobody bought it for me. This is impossible in any other scenario without God. I’m legitimately making $0.00. TV hits don’t make money. Campus speeches don’t make money. This overseas money that’s “tied to me” hasn’t hit my account yet or I wouldn’t be at college working so hard on a degree!
It’s ok to be cautious. I’m not even asking you to support me! I just wanted to share that we’re on the same side, and like Charlie always encouraged me I’m going to keep going “onward” and he always liked to sign texts. I hope you’re with me. If you’re not, it’s ok. But it’s certainly not gonna stop me.
“To our enemies: you have nothing to give, you have nothing to offer. You have nothing to share but bitterness. We have beauty, we have light, we have goodness, we have determination, we have vision, we have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation, and we will defend this world. We will defend goodness; we will defend light. We will defend virtue. You cannot terrify us. You cannot frighten us. You cannot threaten us because we are on the side of goodness, we are on the side of God.” @StephenM