Ken Parsons 🇺🇸

Senate leadership sent notice of the DHS bill at 12:55am. Then a voice vote was held at 2:19am. The notice said, “with a substitute amendment” and gave no description of the substitute. The legislative language of the substitute was not sent around to GOP Senate staff. (Idk about Dems.) If you’re a staffer watching your email at that hour (some were!) you had to request the language of the bill. Track down leadership staff to find out how quickly this is moving. Try to read and understand it quickly. Understand how it changed from the original. Get your boss on the phone and explain it. Talk to other staffers to figure out if there’s a coalition to block it — they don’t know — their boss is trying to decide what to do too. Whoops, your one hour is up, the bill is passing and nothing you can do. Purposefully sneaky. They can do this kind of maneuver to not fund immigration enforcement. They would never dream of doing it for your priorities.

How did we get to be $39 trillion in debt? The zombie filibuster—coupled with a chronic unwillingness among senators to break through it by putting in the hard work—has contributed to it substantially. For decades, this dynamic has been giving Senate Democrats way too much power when it comes to spending bills—even when they’re in the minority. Spending bills in the Senate routinely get to 60 votes—regardless of who’s in the majority and who controls the House and the White House—with votes coming from (1) basically every Senate Democrat and (2) a much smaller group of Republicans (predominantly members of the Appropriations Committee), in many cases just a few more than whatever it takes to achieve cloture. As a result, disagreements on spending bills tend to be resolved by simply spending more—to give those voting for it what they need to vote for it. This is one of many reasons why I’ve been pushing so hard on the talking filibuster which, if fully utilized and given the time it needs to work, could help us pass the SAVE America Act. But the benefits wouldn’t end there, as they could help us avoid not only the kind of shutdown hell we’re now experiencing, but also rein in our debt and deficit—at least while Republicans are in charge. Share if you’d like to see the Senate use the talking filibuster—to fully fund DHS, to pass the SAVE America Act, to reduce spending, and otherwise!

🚨 HOLY SMOKES!! Speaker Johnson just told the Senate to SCREW OFF, he's NOT passing their DHS funding deal that leaves out ICE "This GAMBIT that was done last night is a JOKE! It CAN'T be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill!" 🔥🔥🔥 Johnson then READS where the bill says ICE won't get funded "WE'RE NOT DOING THAT and it is unconscionable to me that the Democrats would force some sort of negotiation at 3 o'clock in the morning and try to hoist this upon the American people and then get on their JETS and GO HOME for their holiday and pretend and think that we're going to go along with that!" FIGHT HARD MAGA MIKE

Bill Gates walked into the Tesla Gigafactory and declared the long-range electric semi impossible. The truck was already in production. Pepsi was running it on live routes. Musk: “I was like, well, but we literally have them. And you can drive them. And Pepsi is literally using them right now.” Gates was standing inside the factory that built the vehicle he was dismissing. It existed. It was moving freight. Musk: “He’s like, ‘No, no, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.’ And I’m like… I’m kind of stuck here.” Musk didn’t argue. He asked for the math. Musk: “You must think we can’t achieve the energy density of the battery pack, or that the watt-hours per mile of the truck is too high. Which one of those numbers do you think we have wrong, and what numbers do you think are correct?” Gates didn’t have wrong numbers. He had no numbers. Musk: “He didn’t know any of the numbers.” The co-founder of Microsoft walked into an operating factory, stood next to a truck hauling Pepsi’s freight, and declared it impossible without a single figure. No energy density. No efficiency metric. No math. Just conviction wearing a $130 billion net worth as a credential. Musk: “Doesn’t it seem that it’s perhaps premature to conclude that a long-range semi cannot work if you do not know the energy density of the battery pack or the energy efficiency of the truck chassis?” One question. Nowhere left to stand. Musk: “You’d think he’d be really quite strong in the sciences. But actually, he is not strong in the sciences. It is really surprising.” Gates built his empire on software. Abstraction. Code that never has to satisfy a physics equation. Musk builds in atoms. Battery cells have energy densities. Truck chassis have drag coefficients. A semi either makes the route or it doesn’t. There is no patch. Physics does not negotiate. Thirty years inside abstraction and a man starts believing his intuition applies everywhere. It doesn’t. The truck exists. The routes are logged. Pepsi is running them. Gates declared it impossible and couldn’t produce the math to prove it. The truck already had.

Democrats are ultra SNEAKY. They pretend Democrats are Republicans to get elected. There are 15 GOP Senators with a “F” Liberty Score. They are actual DEMOCRATS. They are: Collins Murkowski Graham Capito McConnell Tillis Wicker Moran Thune Young Rounds Cornyn Hyde-Smith Cassidy Grassley