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@bdomenech @jimmykimmel Not to worry, as a former plumber, Markwayne is used to dealing with large shits like Jimmy.

When Markwayne Mullin was 20 his dad's health took a turn. He dropped out of college to run the family business. He built it from 6 people into a multimillion dollar HVAC company with 150+ employees. He's a pillar of his community, and @jimmykimmel can't even tell a funny joke.

@Cjpearson Just means he has experience dealing with shits like Jimmy.

Jimmy Kimmel: "Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was plumber. That's right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now." The elitism of Hollywood summarized in one moment. 👇

@Legendfam41 @FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen I ask, because the original point is she claimed Republicans are holding TSA hostage.

@Legendfam41 @FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen Yes they are both DHS. Doing 2 completely different functions, but both DHS. Now tell me, the dems claim to have submitted multiple bills to fund the TSA. Read them. Are any of them single purpose bills that will provide operational funding for TSA and do nothing else?

I'm here in DC, demanding my Republican colleagues fund TSA. It's unacceptable that our TSA workers are being held hostage because Republicans refuse to work with us to rein in ICE. We're going to keep fighting to pay the workers who provide critical services every day.

@LGBTQPete Probably because compared to his predecessor, he's doing awesome.

I don’t understand why Sean Duffy isn’t taking more heat for how poorly he’s running the transportation department.

@Legendfam41 @FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen It's almost like they really want open borders, but realize to openly push what the quietly encourage would be the end of their party.

@Legendfam41 @FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen And does it bother you at all the Dems want to "rein in ICE," or "slap cuff on ICE," but none of them are actually submitting legislation to change the laws ICE enforces? It's almost like they want to have laws that they enforce if and when they choose.

@Legendfam41 @FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen Basic education for people not paying attention in civics class. This bill requires 60 votes in the senate to pass. the Republicans have 53 seats. Dems requiring discussion of an unrelated agency (ICE) as a precursor to passing the legislation means this fail is on the dems.

@old_jester1968 @FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen Who’s in charge?

@ForeignPolicy @hofrench You are pathetic and sad, and deserve the frogging you are in the process of receiving.

It is precisely because the U.S. body politic has found no way of reining in Trump that we must hope that the current conflict with Iran can finally do so, argues columnist @hofrench. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/20/us-…

@VodkaPundit I, too, am a huge Tolkien fan. This does not qualify me to be a screen writer. If I had Colbert's money, it would qualify me to be (maybe) a producer.

This is what I call "strip-mining the IP," and I'm sick of it even more than I'm sick of Colbert's schtick. pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/20…

@ImKingGinger @ThatChrisGore I am also a massive fan of Lord of the Rings. That does not make me a talented screen writer with a record of success that proves I have the skill and ability to write a Lord of the Rings movie.

I so want to hate this and everything within me hates this but there's a part of me that truly believes Colbert really and deeply loves LOTR. And he does have a true deep demonstrated knowledge of it. I'll assume he's keeping his politics out of it and will be faithful to the world until I see otherwise.

Hollywood finally found the bottom of the barrel.

@ThatChrisGore If only... But I'm afraid the barrel has a hole on the bottom, and that is just the entrance to a deep cave system, filled with spaces that have never been touched by the cleansing power of sunlight.

Colbert is apparently a "massive fan" of Lord of the Rings. I am also a massive fan of Lord of the Rings. That does not make me a talented screen writer with a record of success that proves I have the skill and ability to write a Lord of the Rings movie.

@FreeAsCanBeOG @RepPettersen As you can see from her statement, it's the Dems refusing to pay for critical services. ~ "TSA workers are being held hostage because Republicans refuse to work with us to rein in ICE" ~ Until Rs cave and do what the Dems want re:ICE, the Dems will continue to hold TSA hostage.

@RepPettersen That’s a lie, you are demanding it if they meet your demands. Why even lie?

P1: "I don't know where this very important document is." P2: "Here are the very simple steps to get that very important document replaced." P1: "I'm not going to do that..." ~ P1: "SAVE ACT kIcKeD Me OfF ThE vOtEr RoLlS!!1!"

@SCShipyards Lessons will be learned, just not by the owners of the biggest SciFi and Fantasy Intellectual Properties in existence. All hail the rise of the small press.

And, sadly, absolutely no lessons will be learned from Project Hail Mary's success and Starfleet Academy's failure.

@fandompulse Disney DID ruin the Finn character, a Storm Trooper rebelling against the system that made him is a gold mine of story potential. In Disney's defense, they also ruined the Rey and Kylo characters.

John Boyega implies Disney ruined his Finn character in the new Star Wars series because of racism: "You guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver. But when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know f*ck all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything."

@FurkanGozukara Part of the Iranian position was "We have enriched enough Uranium to 60% (6% is peaceful power use, 90% is weapons grade, 60% is about 17x agreed to limits), well past any pretense at peaceful use, that we would be able to make 11 bombs..."

BOMBSHELL: Jake Sullivan reveals that just days before the US started bombing Iran, Tehran put a massive peace proposal on the table in Geneva. The US negotiators "simply didn't understand what they were being offered" and bombed them anyway!

Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.