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[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

BREAKING: John Thune just LAUGHED at the fact President Trump could turn on him for not passing the Save America Act

HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT ‘WE THE PEOPLE’

FIRE JOHN THUNE

[Publius @OcrazioCornPop]

🚨 THUNE: "Save America Act" IS DEAD!

"We don't have the votes. The SAVE America Act didn't even get 50 votes on the floor. But even just on photo voter ID and citizenship, it takes 60 votes, and the only way to do it is get rid of the filibuster. There aren't even close to the votes to get rid of it."

Thune then LAUGHED when asked if he thought Trump would TURN ON HIM.

WHAT IS YOUR MESSAGE TO @LeaderJohnThune?

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

And Last…

“For the first time in more than four decades, a new privately developed non-light-water reactor has reached criticality in the United States. … I look forward to seeing continued progress in the American nuclear renaissance.” —Energy Secretary Chris Wright

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Culture War Victories

“[Harley-Davidson] chased political trends. We back the people who matter. Since 1901, Indian Motorcycle has been American-made. … Uncompromised.” —Indian Motorcycle ad with a graphic highlighting Harley’s embrace of DEI

“Is this the first time a company has straight-up attacked their competitor over DEI? If they keep this up they might just take the crown from Harley.” —Robby Starbuck

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Calling Out Conspiracies

“In 1991, during the Gulf War, American A-10 Warthogs mistakenly targeted and opened fire on a column of allied British armored vehicles. 9 British soldiers were tragically killed. 11 more were injured. Why haven’t you heard about it? Why aren’t there false-flag conspiracies? Why isn’t Marjorie Taylor Greene posting on X about it? Because Jews weren’t involved.” —Joel Berry

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

For the Record

“The Iranians lie. They cheat. Every word that comes out of their mouth … you have to regard with extreme skepticism. A lot of it is manifestly untrue. … So we still have the fundamental question of whether it’s ever possible to get a verifiable deal with this regime.” —Brit Hume

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Re: The Left

“I am troubled by the conduct and messaging of organizations that claim to fight hatred while profiteering from division. Recent allegations reportedly contained in a federal superseding indictment raise serious questions about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s activities. … I reject racism. I reject hatred. I reject white supremacy. … But I also reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as threats or terrorists simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought.” —Dr. Alveda King

“If history is any judge, it’s wise to bet on the Trump economy and against his critics — who have a perfect record of being wrong.” —Stephen Moore

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Re: Commiefornia

“In California, the real scandal is what’s legal: with a universal mail-in ballot option, a seemingly endless window for ballot-counting, and legal mechanisms for unions and organizers to harvest (and later 'cure’) ballots, California’s system is a black box to everyone except well-informed organizers and jaded electoral analysts — almost as if it were intentionally designed to fuel paranoia.” —Jeffrey Blehar

“What we’re witnessing in Los Angeles is the destruction of our cherished right to vote! Democrat election fraud is the real danger to our constitutional Republic.” —Gary Bauer

“California is an embarrassment because it has chosen to be so.” —National Review

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Friendly Fire

“We need to figure out in California how we can get the vote counted faster and results tabulated so it does not drag on. We should make the investments in operational improvements and resources in the wealthiest state in the nation. It is worth spending the resources to get the vast majority of the vote counted within 48 hours. Right now the system is eroding trust and spawning conspiracy theories.” —Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA)

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Inquiring Minds Want to Know

“How can Graham Planter … ever be seriously considered for such a job, given the amount of personal baggage he carries? The answer is we have so lowered our standards and think so little of our politicians that, as the saying used to go, anyone can grow up to be president, or senator.” —Cal Thomas

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

@17QStorm Elected cowards all

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

🚨 THUNE'S ARROGANT ADMISSION: Senate Leader John Thune just declared the SAVE America Act DEAD — admitting he won't lift a finger to end the filibuster and smirking when asked if President Trump would hold him accountable for it!

"We don't have the votes," he whines. Even simple photo voter ID and citizenship requirements need 60 votes... and the only way forward is nuking the filibuster, which they refuse to do.

Here's the red pill: If Republicans actually listened to Trump and passed real election security, the midterms would become a total bloodbath for Democrats. Cheating crushed. Patriot turnout surging. The fraud machine exposed.

Instead, these establishment cowards are rolling over and handing the advantage straight back to the same people who rigged the system for years.

This is why government accountability starts inside our own house. The RINOs blocking secure elections must be primaried and replaced with fighters.

No more excuses. No more delays. Secure our votes — or lose the country.

[CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOT🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 BREAKING: PRESIDENT TRUMP JUST DID WHAT NO ONE ELSE WOULD! 🔥
He invited the hardworking American heroes who restored the Reflecting Pool straight into the OVAL OFFICE… shook their hands, looked them in the eyes, and personally thanked them with SIGNED MAGA hats and official Presidential Challenge Coins!
While the fake news media stays silent, Trump proves once again — HE CARES ABOUT THE REAL PEOPLE! The forgotten men and women who built this country! 💪🇺🇸
This is LEADERSHIP. This is RESPECT. This is TRUMP BEING THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF OUR LIFETIME!
Who else could make Washington feel like America again?
RT if you’re proud! Comment “TRUMP CARES” 👇 #Trump2028 #MAGA #RealLeadership

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Demagogue

“If I had it my way, elections would last two months, they would be publicly funded, and if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way, we’d put him in jail.” —Maine Senate Democrat nominee Graham Platner

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

Three days after D-Day, the Allies deliberately sailed 70 ships to Normandy and sank them on purpose.

This is the story of the most audacious feat of engineering in military history, conceived by Winston Churchill in a bathtub, built in secret by 45,000 workers, and tested by the worst storm in 80 years.

The problem with invading France was supply. You could land men on a beach, but keeping them fed, armed, and reinforced required ports. Every major port on the French coast was either heavily fortified or would be destroyed by the Germans before they gave it up. The Allies knew from the disastrous 1942 Dieppe Raid what trying to capture a defended port looked like.

So Churchill proposed building one from scratch. In the middle of the English Channel.

The idea reportedly came to him while traveling to Washington on the Queen Mary in 1943. His scientific adviser, Professor John Bernal, floated paper boats in the Prime Minister's bathtub to demonstrate the concept, agitating the water to simulate Channel swells, then used a loofah as a breakwater to show how calm water could be created behind a barrier. Churchill was convinced. He sent a memo to his staff: "Piers for use on beaches. They must float up and down with the tide. The anchor problem must be mastered. Let me have the best solution worked out. Don't argue the matter. The difficulties will argue for themselves."

Work had actually started in secret as early as 1941. By 1943, 45,000 workers across dockyards on the Thames and the Clyde were building the components, with no single worker knowing what the whole thing was for.

The plan had layers. The outermost defense came first: old ships. 70 obsolete merchant vessels and warships were gathered at Oban on the west coast of Scotland, stripped of anything useful, ballasted for stability, and loaded with explosive scuttling charges. Among them was the French battleship Courbet, built in 1911, and HMS Centurion, an old British battleship. Skeleton crews sailed them across the Channel under their own power and steered them into position off each of the five landing beaches.

Then the charges were detonated from the inside.

The hulls settled on the seafloor in rows, creating sheltered water behind them. These were the Gooseberries, and they went in between June 7 and June 10, three days after D-Day. Inside those lines of sunken ships, engineers then began assembling the next layer: 146 massive concrete caissons called Phoenixes, each one the size of a five-story building, towed across the Channel and sunk in sequence to form the outer wall of two full artificial harbors.

Inside the harbor walls came 6 miles of floating steel roadway, code-named Whales, riding on pontoons, connected to pierheads that rose and fell with the tide on steel legs drilled into the seafloor. Trucks could drive from ship to shore across open water.

On June 19, thirteen days after D-Day, the worst storm in 80 years hit the Normandy coast.

It blew for three days. The American Mulberry harbor was destroyed beyond repair, its pieces scattered across the beach. 800 vessels of all sizes were wrecked or grounded. The storm did more damage to the Allied supply operation than the Germans had managed in nearly two weeks of trying.

The Gooseberries held. The sunken ships, sitting on the seafloor, barely moved.

The French battleship Courbet, resting on the bottom with water up to her decks, continued to fly the French naval ensign throughout the storm. Her crew had stayed aboard and kept her anti-aircraft guns manned. A sunk warship, still fighting.

The British Mulberry harbor at Arromanches survived, was repaired using components salvaged from the destroyed American one, and kept running for ten months.

Through it passed 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies.

The invasion of Europe ran through a harbor made of sunken ships, concrete dropped in the open sea, and floating roads held together by pontoons, all dreamed up in a bathtub with a loofah.

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

While King Haakon was fleeing through Norwegian forests, 10,000 Scottish soldiers in France had no idea their war was about to end in catastrophe.

Here is the detail that most people don't know: the 51st Highland Division was not at Dunkirk.

338,000 men were evacuated from Dunkirk between May 26 and June 4. It is one of the most famous rescues in military history. But the 51st Highlanders were not there. They were attached to the French 9th Army, holding the Somme further south, considered too important to the Allied defensive line to pull back. When France collapsed and Dunkirk began, the order never came for them.

They were simply left.

Rommel's 7th Panzer Division moved at a pace nobody had planned for. The 51st had to retreat in lockstep with the French 31st Division, who could only march 18 kilometers per night, in darkness, to avoid Luftwaffe attacks. Rommel covered that distance in under an hour.

He didn't chase them. He flanked them. His tanks swung wide, cut the road to Le Havre, and drove the entire division toward the cliffs of the Normandy coast like cattle. The only port still open was a small fishing village called St-Valery-en-Caux. Population 5,000. One narrow beach. 10,000 exhausted soldiers poured in with nowhere left to go.

The Royal Navy assembled over 200 ships to evacuate them. Every vessel available. They waited offshore on the night of June 9, engines running, ready to send boats to the beach.

Then the fog came in.

Not thin coastal mist. A thick, total, impenetrable North Sea fog. German artillery had already zeroed in on the port from the cliffs above. Any ship that tried to enter got shelled. Any small boat trying to reach the beach was navigating blind toward a coast it couldn't see, under fire from guns it couldn't locate.

200 ships sat there, a few miles offshore, completely useless. The men on the beach could do nothing but watch the fog and wait.

On the morning of June 12, Major-General Victor Fortune concluded the situation was finished. No ammunition. No artillery shells. No air cover. Three weeks of fighting and retreating without proper rest. He sat down and wrote the surrender order.

His name was Victor Fortune. The cruelest joke in British military history.

When the order came down the line, soldiers refused to believe it. They thought it was a German trick, a psychological operation to break their will. When they realized it was real, men who had held the line for weeks broke down and wept on the beach.

Rommel himself accepted Fortune's surrender. He later wrote that the 51st Highlanders were among the finest soldiers he faced in the entire war.

10,000 Scottish soldiers marched into German captivity. Over 1,000 had already been killed. Fortune, now the most senior British officer in German hands, spent the next five years negotiating with German authorities to improve conditions for British POWs across the entire system. He organized sports. He got curling stones shipped to a 13th century castle POW camp through the British Consul in Switzerland and flooded the dry moat in winter so his men could curl on the ice.

In 1944 he suffered a stroke. The Germans offered to repatriate him on medical grounds.

He refused. "I brought these men here," he told them. "I will go home with them."

He was liberated in April 1945 and knighted by King George VI shortly after.

Dunkirk got the movie, the speeches, the legend. St-Valery got silence. 10,000 men vanished from the story of the war and didn't come home for five years, and most people alive today have never heard their name.

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Seattle’s World Cup tiny homes for vagrants
With crowds of international World Cup fans soon to be descending on cities across North America, Seattle’s leftist mayor is suddenly concerned about getting the city’s vagrant population off the streets. Katie Wilson, who recently dismissed millionaires fleeing her city’s growing onerous tax policies with a shrug and a “bye-bye” response, has announced a plan for 500 emergency shelter units. These units amount to 70-foot-square boxes on pallets, where vagrants can be placed in order to get them off the streets and out of public view. Of course, this is only a temporary measure, as once the crowds of soccer fans are gone, the vagrants will be let out onto Seattle’s streets again.

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

Talarico the flip-flopper
Pay no attention to my beliefs before the general election, insinuates Texas Democrat seminarian James Talarico, who has publicly claimed that God is nonbinary and that there are six genders. As Talarico seeks to win a general statewide race in Texas, suddenly, his truly insane leftist principles no longer apply. When confronted on his support for transing the kids, he now claims to “oppose gender reassignment surgeries for minors.” Unfortunately for Talarico, he’s on record voting against a ban on taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgeries — or gender mutilation surgeries, as they are more properly called. The man who is as leftist as they come and flipped on his vegan stance to now do photoshoots with turkey legs will have a tough time convincing Texas voters he’s anything but an insane wokester.

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

House passes $70B ICE funding bill, heads to Trump’s desk
As expected, once the $70 billion, three-year funding bill for ICE and the DHS made it through the Senate, passage in the House was a comparatively easy task. On Tuesday, the House narrowly approved the bill in a 214-212 vote, sending it to President Trump’s desk. The vote was slightly delayed because Speaker Mike Johnson hoped to approve the bill by the end of last week, and there was some drama during the vote yesterday. The House Freedom Caucus held up the procedural vote earlier in the day before leadership managed to bring them on board. The final vote was briefly tied at 213-213, though Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) changed from “No” to “Yes,” and the leadership immediately closed the vote.

[Patrick Laidlaw @patrick_laidlaw]

May’s inflation report
The consumer price index rose by 0.5% in May, driving the annual inflation rate up to 4.2%. This increase puts the inflation rate at its highest level in three years. The increase came amid the sustained rise in energy costs due to the U.S.‘s ongoing conflict with Iran. The Bureau of Labor Statistics report notes that energy prices jumped 3.9% last month, bringing the total increase over the last 12 months to 23.5%. Not every economic sector saw price increases, as transportation services dropped by 0.6% and new vehicle costs declined by 0.3%. Given this report, it is unlikely that the Federal Reserve will make any changes to interest rates anytime soon.