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.
My feed: "women can't be at seminaries" + megachurch knew a pastor molested a girl & "restored" him to ministry.
Christians telling women their femaleness forever disqualifies them while we cannot find the will to tell a man his behavior has permanently disqualified him.
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So many, many strangers have come to my page in the last three days to strongly declare that Julie Roys is bad news.
They accuse her of gossip, of slander, of division, of witch hunts.
I am not going to say she does her job perfectly. None of us do. What I will say is that she is METICULOUS with receipts. If she makes a claim, she's going to make darn sure to back it up with evidence, which is a helluva lot more than the people coming here to condemn her are able to do when asked why they dislike her so much.
You know what else she does that these guys NEVER do? She repents when she gets things wrong. She owns her mistakes. She apologizes for them. She names her sin, and not in the slimy damage-control way we see in so many churches where the pastor only issues a half-ass vague apology so he can retain power.
Women who rock the boat in the church are held to a much higher standard in the public eye than many of our pastors are.
John MacArthur publicly excommunicated Eileen Gray in front of thousands of people and encouraged his congregation to treat her like an enemy when she refused to return to her criminally abusive sexual predator of a husband. He never apologized.
Mark Driscoll can call women "penis homes" and use church funds to advance his book to the top of the New York Times bestseller list and be credibly accused by literally dozens of church members of pastoral abuse, and yet he's invited to be a keynote speaker at major Christian conferences.
Doug Wilson can call women cunts and harpies and lumberjack dykes. He can say that American slavery wasn't bad. He can preach that women shouldn't vote. He can write softcore porn about sex robots. He can harbor numerous pedophiles in his church and shame their victims into silence and still be invited to lead prayer sessions at nationally important events.
Greg Locke can abandon his marriage and marry his secretary. He can abuse his congregation and make bogus accusations about having proof that Joel Osteen is an actual pedophile, and he's still on the main circuit.
Ravi Zacharias, Bill Hybels, Robert Morris, Tullian Tchividjian, Paige Patterson, Mile Bickle, and on and on and on ad nauseam. How long did it take for any of the truths about these guys to be known? And how would anyone know if people like Julie weren't tirelessly doing the work most of us neglect?
It wouldn't. But if you'd rather pretend like the real problem is Julie Roys instead of a culture of whitewashing abuse, then at least have the courtesy to apply the same standard of care in reporting that she does: Bring the receipts. Show me where she reported something untrue about someone. And then tell me why you're more upset about her talking than you are about these leaders abusing their power.
Apparently "nobody is perfect" applies to pastors who spiritually terrorize people, protect predators, exploit congregants, lie, bully, manipulate, and destroy lives.
But let a woman raise her voice too loudly while exposing it, and suddenly precision, holiness, gentleness, and biblical ethics become urgent concerns.
I'm sorry, but no. I don't buy it anymore.
If your greatest outrage is reserved for the people exposing rot instead of the people creating it, you are not protecting the church. You are protecting the machine.
Parents of young daughters,
Teach them how women were raped, killed and beaten with no way out prior to the suffrage movement. Things began to change one small step at a time with that movement and it took years to make changes happen.
Men want to blame something else, anything else, but themselves for the abuse afflicted on their wife’s when 40-45% of women in marriages were living in abuse.
Men like Dale Partridge want to see a return to that abuse placed on women. It’s always these low T effeminate men who try to dominate like this because they aren’t truly men themselves.
It is the day after #GigglevTickle and I haven’t woken up believing that men can be women. You can try & punish me for not believing it, but you can never make me believe it.
Men cannot be women.
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