🇺🇸 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT NUKING THE FILIBUSTER MEANS:
There is a serious misunderstanding.
People are under the impression that Trump is talking about "ending the filibuster rule" altogether. That's impossible.
Voting for ending the filibuster rule would require a two-thirds majority for cloture. That's not gonna happen.
Trump is just talking about "suspending the filibuster for this one thing." That's easy to do.
All you need is a Senator to raise a point of order that this bill should pass with a majority. The Chair then denies his point of order. The Senate appeals the Chair's decision. And then you get a majority vote on whether to overturn the chair.
This requires only 51 Republicans.
Once you've done that then the SAVE America Act can come up for a vote and pass.
That is what "nuking the filibuster" means.
Thune is giving the impression that Trump wants the entire filibuster rule overturned. That's not what's happening.
We've already done this before in 2013 and 2017 with judicial appointments. And we still have the filibuster don't we?
When there’s a bill that’s supported by 85% of American voters—including 95% of Republicans and 71% of Dems—we shouldn’t have to beg and plead with Senate GOP leadership to help advance it
Nor should it be an excuse that “we don’t [yet] have 60 votes”
Make filabusterers speak!
Saw this on FB: 🔥 🔥
On day 1 of my high school history class, our teacher got up and said:
“You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago, people your age were married, planted crops, had children and built a cabin before winter.
You can do your homework. The bar is set embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies.
You just have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe air-conditioned room.
You have no excuses.”
This is the kind of teachers we need.
🇺🇸 SHOCKING TRUTH: JOHN THUNE IS NOT YOUR ONLY PROBLEM. THE MATH IS YOUR PROBLEM.
I understand the frustration. I feel it too. John Thune sits in the most powerful seat in the Senate and too often it feels like he is running interference against the very agenda the American people voted for. That anger is legitimate. But I want to offer a different way to look at this, because I think we are aiming at the wrong target.
Thune is a symptom. The disease is the math.
Here is how a Majority Leader actually gets chosen. It is not a public vote. It is not decided by you or me. It is decided by the Republican Senate caucus, meaning every Republican senator votes for who leads them. And right now, MAGA is a minority inside that caucus. That is not an opinion. That is a head count.
So when people ask why we cannot get a true MAGA leader in the Senate, the answer is brutally simple. The votes are not there yet.
Think about what a slim majority actually means in practice. When you are working with two or three seat margins, a handful of globalist Republicans become kingmakers. They know it. They use it. Five RINOs in a slim majority have more leverage than fifty conservatives in a landslide majority. That is not an accident. That is how they survive.
And make no mistake about what a RINO actually is.
These are not just old school Republicans who like tax cuts and hate spending. These are globalists. They serve multinational corporate interests that have no loyalty to this country, its workers, or its borders. They oppose fair trade because their masters profit from cheap foreign labor. They oppose border security because multinationals do not see America as a nation. They see it as a market. They just happen to operate here.
McConnell built that machine and ran it for decades. His influence is finally fading. That matters more than most people realize.
But here is the hard truth. If we replace Thune tomorrow with another leader chosen by the same caucus, we get another Thune with a different face. The globalist bloc inside the Republican Senate conference does not disappear because we change the nameplate on the door.
The real win is what is already happening.
We have primaried out a number of RINOs this cycle. Real ones. And if those seats hold and the majority grows, the math starts to shift. A ten seat majority is a completely different world than a three seat majority. The leverage these people hold evaporates when the numbers move against them.
Do not stop being angry. Channel it into the right fight.
Grow the majority. Primary the globalists. And understand that the enemy is not one man in a leadership office. The enemy is a caucus that does not yet reflect the will of the people who sent them there.
That is changing. Stay in the fight.
🚨TIME TO INVOKE ARTICLE II, SECTION 3!
The Constitution gives President Trump the power on “extraordinary occasions” to convene the Senate (or both Houses) back into session.
The SAVE America Act, proof of citizenship, voter ID, and real election integrity, is exactly that kind of national emergency.
Democrats and RINOs are blocking it while our elections hang in the balance.
Bring the Senate back and force them to work.