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@bipartisanburns @Sassafrass_84 @LeaderJohnThune Ice was funded back in the OBBB through 2029. This vote did nothing that would affect ice or their operations.

@Sassafrass_84 @LeaderJohnThune They lost my vote. I can no longer support such a dysfunctional party who continually wastes their majority.

Let’s summarize where we are after a 40+ day Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. 1) ICE and CBP are funded, thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts and the foresight of President Trump and Republicans in Congress. 2) After holding DHS and the American people hostage for over 40 days, Dems got ZERO restrictions that would prevent ICE and CBP agents from doing their jobs safely. 3) Due to Dem obstruction of the appropriations process, ICE and CBP will get even more funding through budget reconciliation. 4) Dems have once again established themselves as the “Open Borders, Defund the Police” party heading into an election. 5) Dem leadership has proven once again they can’t be trusted to make a deal. Which begs the question if you’re a Dem senator or one of their left-wing supporters: What was this really all about?

@Sassafrass_84 @LeaderJohnThune Ice was funded back in the OBBB through 2029.

@LeaderJohnThune The Republican party continues to betray the American people. Get your shit together. Fund ICE. Pass the Save Act Thune.

@Y192814512 @Oilfield_Rando ICE was already fully funded through the OBBB through 2029. Losers like to shoot their mouth off without knowing what they're talking about just so they can whine.

@Oilfield_Rando There is nothing a Republican won't cave on. You could have an open field. Put the ball on the 5 yard line and the Republican will kick it the opposite way cause "It just wouldn't be right to win like this". Fucking losers. Absolute f*ggots that deserve to lose.

So Trump took away all of the Democrats’ leverage and Thune still folded on funding ICE? Amazing.

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

@rewegreatyet @Lady_Liberty10 @JonathanTurley Do you always give in to toddlers having a temper tantrum? The kicking and screaming you hear from those demanding to have their way is not from the Republicans who are attempting to be the adults in this situation.

@Lady_Liberty10 @JonathanTurley So it is the Republicans fault

Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just criticized Trump for sending in ICE to try to relieve the bottleneck at airports caused by the shutdown. He told CNN's Dana Bash that ICE may "brutalize or in some instances, kill" people at airports...

@0hour1 I miss the Banyan trees

Old Miami Roads

@JoeB617XYZ @unseen1_unseen

@Lady_Dutton365 @unseen1_unseen All or nothing? That’s funny. Because so far we’ve gotten nothing lol. Mass deportations - no Ending the Ukraine war - nope, we’re still funding it Cheaper gas - nope A booming economy - noooo No more cheap foreign labor - nope, he’s increasing it No more foreign wars - lol

Fake MAGA has absolutely no power, leverage, or ability to do anything accept divide MAGA which will cause everything they say they want to fail. Therefore, one must ask themselves, what really is their end goal? Counter messaging MAGA and Trump at every turn with some utopiaian version of perfect is exactly what you would expect your opposition to do, not people who say they agree with you. Once you see that in the proper light, it makes much more sense.

@JoeB617XYZ @unseen1_unseen Why don't you have the courage to say you're one of those all or nothing types. You don't get your way on everything so you're willing to subject everyone to Obama or Biden types again but even worse. You expose your level of emotional immaturity while calling others a cult.

@unseen1_unseen How about having the courage to say that this is not what we voted for? Unless you’re a cultist and lost the ability to think for yourself

@shoegal0128 @vaportrails63 @reallouiehuey His actual agenda and campaign promises. Not what people make up

@Lady_Dutton365 @vaportrails63 @reallouiehuey 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🙄🙄

We voted for and handed the Republican party all 3 branches of government and they have done NOTHING. What a waste.

@Brandon_Fuego @reallouiehuey

@reallouiehuey I’d say they’ve done quite a lot (for Israel), but nothing POSITIVE for America.

@shoegal0128 @vaportrails63 @reallouiehuey

@vaportrails63 @reallouiehuey Oh look the bots are out. GFY idiot

@mendozamicah17 @grey4626 As she is the accuser the burden is on her to provide the evidence. In this country you aren't required to prove innocence.

@grey4626 Go back and do the research yourself then and prove her wrong. Liz has not been wrong on anything child trafficking and or Epstein. I dare someone to to out research her.

Terminal fucking cognitive necrosis. This is not journalism. This is not “research.” This is the textbook pathology of a mind long since devoured by the parasitic feedback loop of conspiracy psychosis: confirmation bias metastasized into full-blown delusional grandiosity, where every widowed conservative woman who dares inherit a legacy becomes the new Epsteinesque overlord of subterranean child torture rings. Pattern recognition, darling? I’ve seen this script before...the Q-drop eschatology that always ends with the same grifter demanding you bow before her “receipts” while producing nothing but innuendo and crime-family adjacency six degrees of separation. Erika Kirk, widow of a man gunned down in cold blood, now painted as some Lombardi-Genovese-MKUltra-Synagogue-of-Satan trafficker because Candace Owens decided to turn personal succession drama into a subscription-farming blood libel. And here you are, Liz, leaping in with your signature venom, screaming “rape, torture & trafficking of children” like it’s a casual Tuesday hot take. No indictments. No arrests. No forensic trail. Just your “own research”...which, let’s be brutally precise, is the same caliber of “research” that once had you blacklisted and laughingstocked across the board. Psychologically, this is textbook: the narcissistic savior archetype fused with paranoid personality disorder. You need the world to be run by demonic cabals because it absolves your own irrelevance and feeds the dopamine hit of being the lone truth-teller against the “Con Inc” machine. It’s not courage; it’s a maladaptive coping mechanism for existential emptiness...the same mechanism that turns grieving widows into ritual sacrifice fodder in your diseased narrative. You don’t expose evil. You manufacture it to stay relevant, then dare anyone to question you with that signature “go fuck off” bravado, as if profanity and threats substitute for evidence. Fuck your conclusion, Liz. Fuck the lethal recklessness of slinging accusations of child rape at a woman whose husband’s blood is barely dry, all to chase clout. This is cognitive cowardice dressed in black-pilled drag. You are not exposing pedophiles. You are becoming the very psychological contagion you claim to hunt. And the body count of ruined reputations and fractured psyches you leave in your wake? That’s the real trafficking operation...the trafficking of sanity, one deranged tweet at a time. 💀⚖️

@Jen62843947Lisa @jabo961 @HansMahncke The hysteria was already fully in effect and driven by the media, from the first fake videos of people falling dead in China. There couldn't be a plan B and just the suggestion of one was met with outrage and derision by Fauci.

@jabo961 @HansMahncke Reasonable based on what? And yes, Trump shit the bed here. 100% He should have asked: “When in public health history has this ever been tried?” “If not, what scientific basis leads you to think this will work and at what cost?” “Give me a plan B” Total fuck-up

Six years ago today, “15 Days to Slow the Spread” began, and in many ways it never really ended. Covid Karens never snapped out of it and stand as a constant reminder of how deeply fear, hysteria, and coercion were drilled into society. It is worth remembering not only that the whole thing was a deliberate lie from day one, as Deborah Birx later admitted they had zero evidence about anything and were just making stuff up to get Trump to agree, but also that the worst policies were buried in the fine print, hoping Trump would not notice. They literally printed a glossy brochure and hid the operative part in a tiny footnote on the back page, specifically the part ordering the closure not just of schools, but also of shops, malls, gyms, bars, restaurants, and every indoor and outdoor venue where people might gather. The whole thing was a massive crime against humanity, and no one has ever been held to account.

@johnkonrad @SecScottBessent Despite all the angst a few days ago it appears the strait is not mined.

As I said days ago. The European Navies are too weak and we just don’t have enough destroyers out of maintenance. The only way @SecScottBessent’s “International Naval Coalition” will work is if we recruit Japan and South Korea But that would leave a huge imbalance between our allies and China. Could maybe work if China sends warships too. China might not even have to participate directly. They just need to be out of East Asia temporarily so a relative balance is maintained.

@HansMahncke And obviously there are no mines. Just a few days ago everybody was losing their minds over that possibility as if it was fact. Now it's time for a new outrage which will probably end similarly to all the others that have been floated recently.

It’s anyone’s guess what’s really happening, but my sense is that what’s left of the Iranian regime has realized that if U.S. troops secure Kharg Island, it’s game over. And since they’re no longer able to defend it, they’re likely trying to wind the war down as quickly as possible, hoping to avoid Trump seizing the island so they can live to fight another day.

@bayjackz @Donna_Rachel_ @BretWeinstein Which is why images and claims from the regime should be met with extreme skepticism. There has been no shortage of their fakery and lies.

@Donna_Rachel_ @BretWeinstein pictures can be faked, taken out of context, or made to appear more significant than they are.

I’m being accused of betraying Jews for personal gain, or to save my own skin. It’s vile. What I’m actually doing is using my reputation to break an artificial taboo. Why am I doing it? Because it’s right, for every reason including to protect the Republic from military adventures embarked upon over the objection of its citizens, and to protect Jews from what I see as a dire mistake being made in our name. I could, of course, be wrong in my assessment. That’s a sobering possibility that I think about a lot. But the way to find out is through open discussion in which we don’t level personal accusations at those who have not attacked us.

@AKDay89 You can't be serious. You expect them to broadcast their plan? That you think you should be privy to that and be whining about it on here is embarrassing. Exactly who the heck are you that anyone should tell you anything

"Of course the White House planned for Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz! Don't listen to the lying media!" Okay... Then what's the plan? Why haven't they implemented it? Why are they moving ~3k Marines to the region after the fact and asking China, UK, etc. to bail us out?

@Architectolder Light cream absolutely.

Dark gray or light cream?

@jlippincott_ Does the name Ross Perot ring a bell?

George HW Bush oversaw the collapse of the Soviet Union, captured Noriega, and won a lightning war against Iraq. He lost re-election.

@johnkonrad @WinriRokk @DataRepublican @EvansRyan202 @WarOnTheRocks He blocked me after I pointed out that Cynical's information was made "widely known" by Brad & his cohorts on Feb 25th when they stated his name & suggested specific terms to use to Google him which resulted in his firm being overwhelmed & death threats to his cell phone.

@WinriRokk @DataRepublican @EvansRyan202 @WarOnTheRocks Least surprising reply ever. Now watch him get ratio’d and fallback on snark The indignant elite love taking cover in snark

Hello Brad Duplessis, You pre-emptively blocked me here on 𝕏, so I am forced to make this "Hello" a standalone post. You are a retired Army infantry officer. You served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You graduated from the National War College in 2018. You are now an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Thank you for your service. But reputations are not defined by resumes. They are defined by choices. Today, you chose to doxx @CynicalPublius. Today, you published your debut article on War on the Rocks. You published his legal name. His profession. His pseudonym. All in one sentence. Indexed, archived, permanently searchable. You have changed the course of his life forever, and revealed him to the leftist ghouls who will demand his blood for forever. It doesn't matter if he was planning to reveal his identity eventually. You still made that choice. And I will make sure you are remembered for this. So, what was CP's sin such that you saw it fit to throw him to the wolves? Last month, he dared to write an article for American Greatness, centered around nine recommendations for War College reform. The recommendations included firing most civilian faculty and ending permanent military faculty positions. You hold a permanent civilian faculty position at a War College. You did not mention this in your article. In short, you named him, exposed his life to danger, because you really are arguing for your job and self-preservation. Know what is the most disgusting, hypocritical part of this is? In the Fall 2017 issue of eARMOR (the U.S. Army Armor Branch professional journal) you published an article. You titled it "Our Readiness Problem: Brigade Combat Team Lethality." You opened with General Milley: "Our fundamental task is like no other — it is to win in the unforgiving crucible of ground combat." Your thesis: "If we are to get after GEN Milley's No. 1 priority, we must first address brigade combat team (BCT) lethality." The word "lethality" appears in your article about fifty times. You meant it as a compliment. Now contrast to today's piece. You wrote this: "In staking out this Huntingtonian position, the cult of lethality does a disservice to service members and the American people." The same word. Nine years apart. You were a field commander then, and lethality was the mission. You are a faculty member now, and lethality is what your critics embarrassingly worship. Frankly - and you will never realize this - but you yourself are the living, walking example of the thesis which @PeteHegseth is proving. Also, you named a section of today's article after Colin Powell. You called him your model of what War College education produces. Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, and publicly called Donald Trump "dangerous for our democracy." Powell, who infamously tipped the scales at the UN to start the Iraq war even after privately doubting the WMD intelligence, is your hero in an article about who gets to reform the military in 2026. In addition to being a doxxer, you look a lot less like someone who's defending institutions, and a lot more like someone who exemplifies institutional capture in the name of self-preservation. And you disclosed none of it. Let me reiterate. @CynicalPublius wrote under a pseudonym and identified himself as a retired Army colonel with Afghanistan and Iraq experience. He argued about curriculum policy. You responded by putting his name on the internet. Your career depends on the institutions you are defending. Your article defending those institutions is the same article that ended his anonymity. You taught your students about the instruments of national power, Professor Duplessis. You are now a living, breathing demonstration one of them. And why reform must happen.