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Duke of the Foothills retweeted
The Founders most certainly did NOT design the Senate to require a 60-vote majority to pass legislation. They designed the Senate to be able to pass most legislation with a simple majority vote. Everyone in America with an internet connection knows this.
GOP Leader Thune defends Republicans not passing the SAVE Act: "This is the way the Founders designed the Senate. The filibuster gives a minority in the country a voice, which now we are going to appreciate. We are going to be that minority."
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The filibuster wasn't created by the Founders. It arose by accident in 1806 when a rules change allowed unlimited debate.
Formal cloture began in 1917 and was lowered to 60 votes in 1975. Under the Constitution, standard bills only require a simple majority to pass.
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Duke of the Foothills retweeted
The entire Senate GOP is hopeless. The base blamed Thune for the wipeout and Senators make him leader again anyway. I’m done with this group. Primary all of them in 2028. This means no SAVE Act.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
Republicans squandered the power we gave them. They should have seen this heist coming and prevented it. It was all preventable. Trump needs to rapidly issue executive orders to protect Americans from this invasion.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
We met with Jim Jordan's legal team in 2023 regarding J6. We gave them actionable evidence of a set up. His team seemed genuinely interested. Two weeks after the meeting they went dark.
Jim Jordan is a fraud and you are sadly completely ill-informed if you think otherwise.
Jim Jordan was elected under Bush in 2006, became a fierce opponent of former Speaker Boehner and the establishment then helped found the Freedom Caucus in response.
In 2018, he challenged Kevin McCarthy for Leader, but lost. Ran for Speaker in 2023 but failed to secure enough votes.
Now, after nearly two decades in Congress, Jordan has finally been elected Leader, defeating Steve Scalise by 33 votes. He is now positioned to become the next Speaker if Republicans take back the House.
This represents a change from the old guard to the new guard. Extremely promising sign.
Get ready.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
“Thune,” “Betrayed,” & “Disgusted” are the top 3 trending topics right now.
Senator Thune said it’s only the online community who feels this way.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
The American People wanted secure elections… The GOP Senate leader said no.
The American People wanted DOGE cuts codified… The GOP Senate leader said no.
The American People wanted to stop funding the Taliban… The GOP Senate leader said no.
The American People wanted a new GOP Senate leader… And the Senate GOP laughed.
They hate us.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
John Thune isn’t weak.
You don’t become Senate Majority Leader if you’re weak.
He’s cunning. He’s treacherous.
But most of all…
Thune is a traitor.
To Republicans and America.
From blocking recess appointments to legislation.
He’s the Benedict Arnold of this generation.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
I'm done. SCREW YOU, John Thune. And shame on every Republican who decided to keep him in power and make him the GOP Senate leader again.
What exactly is he leading? He led us into one of the biggest losses. Seven seats gone, the Senate gone.
John, you betrayed us. You betrayed every Republican voter. You betrayed President Donald Trump. You betrayed us by not passing the SAVE Act.
He disgusts me. Im so close to being done with the Republican Party for good.
I’m Disgusted
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
🚨 UPDATE: Bret Baier says he can't even POST about John Thune without seeing a flood of angry comments
BAIER: "A LOT of people are angry. Look at your social media. If I post about you, there's a lot of anger."
THUNE: "I love the fight...I have core values that drive me."
A LOT of that is over the SAVE America Act and secure elections
Thune himself said it's a daily occurrence for him to face fury online
He just CRUISED to reelection as Senate leader, and now that the filibuster was never nuked, says we'll appreciate having it
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
James Lankford should be primaried, and primaried hard in 2028.
He needs to be out of the Senate.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
Republicans Glad To Now Have Excuse For Not Getting Anything Done buff.ly/c1ES7Gd
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
There’s a reason DC fought Elon and DOGE…
They’re all frauds.
They’re all thieves.
America is $40+ trillion in debt.
It’s a total team effort.
Republicans and Democrats are both robbing American taxpayers.
Both parties.
Elon and DOGE exposed them.
You can’t unsee it.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
Thune pushed harder to ram the vote through so he would have no opponents for minority leader, than he pushed to pass the SAVE America Act to secure our elections
I spoke with a few sources in D.C. about what happened today with the Senate minority leader vote.
I’m told the speed at which the vote was carried out was deliberately designed to favor the incumbent.
There was no time for a challenger to campaign to even try to unseat Thune. Thune was the only contender.
Thune spoke to all the Senators today. I’m told he sounded angry and defensive.
31 GOP senators then voted to force the vote for leader through today. It’s a secret vote so there’s no official list.
Many Senators spoke in favor of delaying the vote. Those include:
Ron Johnson
John Kennedy
Mike Lee
Rick Scott
Ashley Moody
Dave Mccormick
Jim Banks
Rand Paul
Note that speaking or not speaking in favor or against doesn’t determine how anyone voted. It was a secret vote so there’s no way to know for sure how any Senator voted unless they decide to publicize it.
Absent a death or resignation, a Republican Senate Leader has never been replaced mid-Congress after they were voted in.
It seems unlikely anything will change. Thune will be the leader.
I’m told there’s a lot of frustration.
Duke of the Foothills retweeted
I’m sorry if this hurts some feelings but when people ask me how I feel about other countries…
…I genuinely just don’t care
I don’t care about Ukraine.
I don’t care about Israel.
I just don’t care.
I’ve got 3 kids and everything is 10x more expensive than I was growing up, my grocery bill looks like a car payment and the car payment looks like a mortgage and my friends can't even get a mortgage because rent eats half their paycheck and now health insurance costs more than college used to and college costs more than a house used to, and a house costs more than a small private island used to, and utilities just keep going up they never go down, car insurance keeps going up, home insurance never goes down, every single freaking thing in life is now a subscription and you can't get rid of them, and every home repair now costs $5,000 for some reason and every company that does home repairs is one gigantic company so you either pay them what they want or your roof caves in, and I can't keep up with what AI is doing but I know it's important and that I should keep up because my friends keep getting laid off of their jobs "because of AI" but no one knows which jobs are safe from AI so everyone is panicking and side hustling just in case they are laid off, and telling their kids to skip college because there "won't be those jobs in the future" but everyone is still going to college like there will be and coming out with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and I'm terrified that my kids won't ever be able to afford a home of their own and thinking back to the days when my parents raised us on one income with a house and a yard and a vacation of some kind every summer, and everyone I know is working their butts off and then some just to stay afloat, and by the time the kids are in bed and the dishes are done and I finally sit down, I don’t have the energy left to care about anything happening on the other side of the world, because I’m barely keeping up with what’s happening on this side of my own front door…
So no, I don’t have room in my heart for another country and their problems.
I'm so sorry... I just don't anymore.
And I wish, I WISH, our leaders would fight for us half as hard as they fight for everyone else.
