The eunuch, @LeaderJohnThune, failing, yet again, to serve the interests of the people of the United States of America. He is a selfish and petty failure of a Senator.
Hello Senator Thune,
I'm replying to your post from yesterday: "Despite Democrats' partisan games, we're still going to get the entire federal government funded."
Today, you sent the Senate home... not because of Democrats. Because of you.
Here's what actually happened.
On May 18, the DOJ announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund: $1.776 billion to compensate Americans harmed by Biden-era DOJ abuse. Your own caucus revolted. After a two-hour closed-door meeting, you departed for Memorial Day recess without a vote. ICE and CBP funding, punted to June 1. The "partisan games," it turns out, were yours.
Your stated objections: no congressional authorization, no eligibility standards, no legal precedent, executive overreach. Fine. But let's talk about November 2025, when you tucked a provision into the government funding bill.
The FBI had quietly seized phone records from eight Republican senators without notice, under an investigation codenamed "Arctic Frost."
Your provision gave those senators, and only those senators, $500,000 per violation, retroactive to 2022. The House voted 426-0 to repeal it.
The critics weren't opposed to compensating victims of DOJ abuse. They were opposed to senators compensating themselves while doing no other structural reforms.
Lindsey Graham held the Senate hostage to preserve it. He delayed a spending deal in January 2026 to secure a floor vote on his revised version.
Let's put the two columns next to each other:
➤ DOJ abused senators: $500K/violation payout, senators only, no hearings, no process, no eligibility debate, no floor vote on substance.
➤ DOJ abused Americans: "very legitimate questions," two-hour meeting, Senate goes home, reconciliation punted, June 1 deadline in jeopardy.
You told Punchbowl News you "did not personally see a need for this fund."
You personally saw a need for the fund when the targets were you.
Go cry harder to your Punchbowl friends @JakeSherman and @AndrewDesiderio, because at this rate, they'll soon become the only people who are buying what you're selling.
Dear GOP,
I know I'm new to this movement.
I'm not anyone important, I'm just a regular voter who started paying attention.
...and I'm trying to figure out WHAT IN THE HELL is going on with you
Because honestly... I'm really confused.
From where I am, it looks like you're sitting on the EASIEST WINS IN MODERN POLITICAL HISTORY and for some reason... you just won't take them.
Why aren't you forcing daily votes on clean, single-issue bills that everyone already agrees on?
Mandatory voter ID.
Defunding fraud.
Defunding the Taliban.
Stuff that polls through the roof and the stuff normal people agree on.
Why aren't you at LEAST trying to win?
I don't understand.
Why are you betraying the same people who gave you a mandate... a few months ago???
Why are you still funding fraud?!
Why are you still funding NGOs that HATE conservatives?!
Why are some of you trying to push MASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS?!
I keep trying to assume there's some smart reason I just can't think of... some masterful long game
...but it doesn't look like a long game to me
It looks A HELL OF A LOT like corruption.
It looks like you'd rather lose comfortably than win for the America people, uncomfortably.
It looks like you're more scared of making Democrats a little sad, than you are of disappointing the people who put you in power.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how that math works in your favor... unless there's corruption at play.
You tell people like me to show up.
You have said things like...
Speak up!
Vote!
Donate!
Volunteer!
Bring our friends along!
AND WE HAVE!!!
BUT WE NEED YOU TO DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING AT ALL, FOR US.
Use the power that was JUST given to you and FORCE THE VOTES.
Make the other side go on the record OVER AND OVER.
Enforce the talking filibuster.
PASS THE SAVE ACT!!!
DEFUND THE TALIBAN.
STOP PUSHING MASS AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS.
You won... would you PLEASE start acting like it?!
Because if you're not even going to try, I genuinely don't know what we're doing here.
Sincerely,
A brand new conservative who isn't going anywhere, but really, REALLY needs you to start fighting.
What we’ve learned from the radical left is:
Ten Commandments in schools, BAD.
Islamic pamphlets, GOOD.
Ten Commandments, BAD.
Free Qurans, GOOD.
Ten Commandments, BAD.
Sharia brochures, GOOD.
A free Bible display is controversial, but free Qurans and Shariah literature are treated like ‘cultural enrichment.’
The hypocrisy is STAGGERING.
Here’s how our schools should actually operate:
Math, yes.
Science, yes.
History, yes.
Reading, yes.
Religious indoctrination and foreign legal systems that conflict with American constitutional values?
Absolutely NOT.
Sharia law has no place in the United States of America, and it certainly has no place being promoted inside American schools.
These horrible people need be held accountable and tried for treason. Thanks for the great work and info (again!), @DataRepublican. You are a blessing to our Republic.
🚨ARTICLE: The Shadow Cabinet of Soros🚨
This is the story of National Security Action, a secretive Soros NGO.
Ten days after Trump's inauguration, a former Pentagon official publicly floated a military coup in Foreign Policy magazine. Within a year, she was advising a new Soros-funded organization that quietly assembled 70 former Obama national security officials under one roof.
46 of them went on to staff the Biden administration -- including the Secretary of State, CIA Director, DNI, NSA, and UN Ambassador. 88.6% were Obama alumni. The primary funder: the Open Society Action Fund.
The same woman simultaneously sat on the funder's board and the organization's advisory council. She also co-founded the Transition Integrity Project and spent 14 years at New America developing doctrine on military refusal of orders.
Read it here.
🚨 Sen. Mike Lee is HELLBENT on getting the SAVE America Act passed before the midterms
"A SUPERMAJORITY of Republican voters and Democrat voters nationwide want this passed!"
"The only place where this is even REMOTELY controversial is in the halls of congress!"
ENFORCE THE TALKING FILIBUSTER!
@BasedMikeLee@kayleighmcenany
Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.
Yes! We need action, not more mere words from the neutered, paid-for and feckless Majority (Non)Leader @LeaderJohnThune. Thune is a waste of space, and a traitor to the citizens of America if he does not pass the SAVE America Act. Keep doing what you are @SenMikeLee! @glennbeck
So PunchBowl News is reporting that @SenMikeLee's GOP colleagues want him to STOP talking about the SAVE America Act on social media. They should just have these conversations in private with their elite peers. Really?! Mike Lee is now calling for nuking the filibuster. I'm definitely for eliminating the zombie filibuster and restoring the REAL filibuster. But if our choice is to continue to let John Thune do NOTHING or nuke both... nuke it.