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Mike Lee just said the quiet part out loud. Either grind the Senate into exhaustion to force through your agenda or nuke the rules completely to get what you want. Not “win voters.” Not “build support.” Just change the system until you can push it through. And they still call this “saving democracy”? If your strategy to avoid losing is rewriting the rules, you’ve already admitted the problem. Not leadership. Not persuasion. Just power at any cost.

I can't get over this. TSA agents have been working without pay since 2/14 and Trump had the emergency funds to cover them all along. He was willing to let their families go without food and possibly housing so he could blame Senate Dems for political points. Soulless.

BREAKING: The United States just took over $126 million from Switzerland’s fighter jet account to cover missile shortfalls in the Iran war. Switzerland did not approve this. Switzerland did not consent. Switzerland had already frozen its Patriot payments after learning deliveries would be delayed four to five years. The US circumvented the freeze. SRF, Switzerland’s national broadcaster, reported on March 26 that Washington redirected Swiss funds originally allocated for 36 F-35 fighter jets to cover Patriot air defence shortfalls using the Foreign Military Sales pooled trust fund, a structure that allows the Pentagon to reallocate payments across a buyer’s contracts without that buyer’s permission. Swiss armaments chief Urs Loher confirmed the diverted amount is a “low three-digit million” Swiss francs and called the situation “very unsatisfactory.” The money Switzerland paid for jets is now subsidising a war Switzerland refused to participate in. Bern halted new arms exports to the US on March 20 citing the Iran conflict. Switzerland rejected two US military flyover requests linked to Iran operations. Two hundred years of armed neutrality, and Washington reached into the account anyway. Here is why. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors defending Gulf states in the first four days of Operation Epic Fury per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post last week. Lockheed Martin and Boeing produce 620 Patriot interceptors per year combined. In four days, America burned through eighteen months of global Patriot production. The war has consumed roughly one-third of the entire THAAD missile stockpile. Annual THAAD production does not exceed 100 units. The cost asymmetry is what makes the depletion irreversible at current production rates. Each PAC-3 interceptor costs $3.9 million. Each Iranian Shahed drone costs between $20,000 and $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Iran manufactures an estimated 10,000 Shaheds per month per Reuters. America produces 620 interceptors per year. Iran builds more drones in a single week than the United States builds interceptors in an entire year. Every interceptor fired in the Gulf is one that cannot be delivered to Switzerland, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, or Poland. The State Department warned allies on March 27 that Patriot deliveries to Ukraine would face disruptions as the Pentagon prioritises Iran per Quiver Quantitative. Senator Chris Murphy said on record: “We’ve been told again and again one reason we can’t provide interceptors for the Patriot system for Ukraine is that they’re in short supply.” Lockheed signed a framework to quadruple production to 2,000 units per year. That capacity will not arrive for six to seven years. The Pentagon has asked Congress to shift $1.5 billion from other programmes to accelerate procurement per Bloomberg. None of this helps now. The interceptors are depleting now. The allied accounts are being raided now. Switzerland is considering reducing its F-35 order from 36 to 30 jets and accelerating evaluation of European alternatives per Bluewin and Global Defense Corp. Swiss parliamentarians have called the redirection “an unacceptable violation of procurement sovereignty.” The Swiss parliament is preparing formal hearings. Switzerland is the canary. A neutral country with two centuries of armed neutrality just had its fighter jet money taken without consent to feed a four-week-old war that burns 18 months of interceptor production every 96 hours. Every US ally with a pending defence contract should be asking one question: whose account is next? Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Don’t let Republicans in DC gaslight you. Using reconciliation, Congress was able to go around the filibuster and pass a bill with less than 60 votes in the senate. It was called the Big Beautiful Bill. What did it do? It added hundreds of billions of dollars of new spending.

Pete Hegseth just removed four decorated Army Colonels from a promotion list they earned through decades of service. Two are Black. Two are women. The Army Secretary called their records “exemplary." Hegseth called it “meritocracy" while overriding him. When you purge the best officers in the world because they don't fit your preferred demographic, you’re not defending the country. You’re betraying the values that define it. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…

Franklin Graham says Donald Trump has been raised up by God and urges loyalty in the midterms. It sickens me when “Christians” claim that Trump has been raised up by God, because Trump is the antithesis of Jesus’ teachings. Instead of love, he portrays hatred; instead of forgiveness, vengeance; instead of meekness, narcissistic egoism. And the list goes on. But I am no longer surprised by Franklin Graham. This is the same man who has appeared on multiple russian propaganda channels, praised Vladimir Putin repeatedly, and urged people to pray for Putin’s “wisdom.” Not once has he called for Putin’s repentance. It is because of people like Franklin Graham that many atheists want nothing to do with the church. “The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.” – Brennan Manning

@PrettyNpink1908 @RepChipRoy @chiproytx He’s not lying. Did you see the unbelievable amount of money given to DHS under the BBB? Noem wasted 220 million dollars on a stupid ad campaign and they still have a huge amount.

@RepChipRoy @chiproytx Hey you lying bald bitch.. WE KNOW THE PLAY. So CUT THE SHIT.

Rep. Roy: "My colleagues on the other side of the aisle do not want ICE doing their job. They do not want Border Patrol doing their job, and are right here today refusing to do the job of funding DHS fully. I stand with Speaker Johnson, I stand with my colleagues. We should stand with Border Patrol. We should stand with ICE and we should defend the United States of America."

@MarkCaton19 @RepChipRoy No Democrat supports no restrictions. All they’re asking for is accountability of ICE agents in the field. For some reason, Republicans keep blocking that accountability and don’t want the bad apples in the agency to be held to any standard.

The Senate bill would end all funding for Border Patrol & ICE which is exactly the long term goal of the Democrats. The Dems want the border OPEN with NO restrictions, NO ICE & NO Border Patrol. This cannot be allowed as we will cease being a country. One future goal of the dems is to eliminate police across the country, this would be the first step toward that goal, no federal agents. This is why the Speaker would not bring the Senate passed bill to the House floor. It's obvious that the Senate did not read the bill when they voted on it or they are traitors & want the downfall of our country. @LeaderJohnThune @SenateGOP

@RepChipRoy @chiproytx Such exaggeration. Most people have never ever been negatively impacted by illegal aliens. Immigration control can be done according to the law without all the thuggery of ICE agents.

@kakeeler @juniperjrvc @RepKeithSelf @lsferguson You have no idea how angry the rest of us are at Trump and the Republicans for destroying our economy, for redacting perpetrators from the Epstein files, for getting us into another war, for hurting the poor &vulnerable, for making our allies want nothing to do with us, etc, etc.

@juniperjrvc @RepKeithSelf @lsferguson They have NO idea how angry we are. These senators are worthless. This is NOT what I voted for.

In the dead of night, with only five senators present on the floor and no one there to object, the Senate rushed through a DHS funding bill that deliberately left ICE and CBP unfunded. Now, they are leaving town. No SAVE America Act. ICE and CBP unfunded. Senate Republicans just gave the Democrats everything they wanted and more.

@juniperjrvc @RepKeithSelf @lsferguson There was no evidence presented by the Republicans in 63 cases that were brought forward for the 2021 election. Trump and the R’s have been lying about that. Trump said the SAVE ACT would help them win for 50 yrs. No one can know that, unless they were planning to cheat.

The disgust toward the senate is quite frankly ineffable. There is no future for the Republican Party without the SAVE AMERICA Act being passed through the senate. Reconciliation is a ruse to placate! Do you think the electorate are idiots? This failure ends trust and confidence. There are not words…such utter betrayal of your electorate. @POTUS @LeaderJohnThune @SpeakerJohnson @SenMcConnell @lisamurkowski @SenThomTillis @MikeCrapo @SenMikeLee @SteveDaine @SenJohnBarrasso @SenatorTimScott @realDonaldTrump

@AmberLanph21831 @samstein Hmm, your last statement is the whole reason that body cams need to be required, and they won’t be helpful if they can’t be identified. The DOJ prevented states from investigating agents that committed horrific acts. The bad characters need to be held to account, to lower anger.

They do provide administrative warrants which is all they are required to have per the law. I’m in favor of body cam footage. I’m not in favor of removing masks because they are doxxed with death threats and so are their families. They could do that if the people around them acted somewhat civilized. Instead they are assaulted by a bunch of lunatics that are either Antifa, white walkers or zombies. These rioters are an embarrassment to actual civilized people in America. They have bitten the finger off of one immigration agent, shot to death another immigration agent, thrown rocks on them, spit on them, hit them, shove them, throw food on them, throw unidentified liquids on them. So, you can fuck all the way off talking about their brutality dumbass. These brave men are doing their damn jobs and you have a bunch of retards trying to obstruct them from doing their job. Stay out of their fucking way dumbass and you won’t get hurt. It is very simple.

I'm trying to make sure i understand this. Republicans did not want to pass a standalone bill to pay TSA agents but they supportive of Trump using emergency authorities to pay TSA agents?

STOP LYING!! last year ICE & CBP received approx. $170 BILLION in the OBBB….they have plenty of funding and that funding is available to them thru 2029!! The debate is primarily about: •Whether to increase funding further •How existing funds should be used •What legal limits should apply to enforcement

@RepKeithSelf @stjezabell Thanks, Senate Republicans.

@hattorihanzoshi @SenMikeLee @BasedMikeLee @GOP Because the Senate represents the entire state, not just a small part of it, like a House representative, so they have to be mindful of all the people, not just one Republican district. Most people don’t agree with the SAVE ACT because it disenfranchises voters.

@SenMikeLee 4. The Grandest scenario: @BasedMikeLee pls explain why you and other @GOP Senators haven't considered replacing Thune. Is he untouchable?!

Here’s where we stand. The Good: President Trump is paying TSA agents, and the current bill the Senate just sent over to the House re-opens DHS. ICE and Border Patrol will continue arrests and deportations, being primarily funded through the OBBB. Democrats did not succeed in sabotaging border and immigration enforcement in any substantive way. The Bad: the Senate goes on a two week recess without passing the SAVE America Act, stand-alone voter ID, or funding all of DHS through the normal process. Democrats threw a wrench into our efforts to deliver on issues which enjoy broad support among the American people. The Ugly: Congress, especially the Senate, cannot skate by relying on President Trump to solve all our problems. Republicans have to justify their majorities by fighting for permanent policy victories, not can-kicking with unrealistic reconciliation promises. If we do not stand and fight today, we will not inspire Americans in November.

@ByMikeBaker Hey Pete! Romans 12:19 “Do not take revenge… ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord.”

Hegseth reads prayer at the Pentagon: • "Pour out your wrath" • "Let every round find its mark" • Asks for "overwhelming violence" • "Let justice be executed swiftly and without remorse — that evil may be driven back and wicked souls delivered to the eternal damnation"

@ByMikeBaker Hey Pete! Romans 12:17–21 “Do not repay anyone evil for evil… If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink… Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

@ByMikeBaker Hey Pete! •Matthew 5:44 “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” •Luke 6:27–28 “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”

@singulieroblige @JaredRyanSears Trump literally re-did that in his first term. Nothing changed. That is until he blew up all of our trade throughout the world. He’s destroying our country piece by piece.

Why don't we start with democrats apologizing for NAFTA. Then apologizing for abandoning rural America. Then come up with a plan to actually address those problems (hint: it will need to involve taking back some of the trillions upon trillions that were shoveled to the top of the income ladder).

It is time for Trump supporters to face the fact that Trump is a failure and electing him was a mistake. There were genuine grievances in 2016. Rural America had been overlooked for decades. The middle and working classes were struggling more with each passing year, and politicians were focused on the wants of corporations and the wealthy instead of the needs of the many. Washington needed to change. But electing a lifelong conman and QAnon conspiracy theorists was never the solution. It created a movement plagued by grifters and extremists that sought to exploit your frustrations for their personal gain. You must see that now. Nothing has improved with these charlatans in power. They use their positions to enrich themselves with billions and to flout the rule of law whenever it suits them. The only way that ends is to remove them from power. Show them you will not support such ineptitude and corruption. Hold Congress accountable. Target incumbents election after election until politicians see that they will only hold power when they work for us, not for corporations, not the elite few, for the hard working Americans that keep this country running. You were mad, and had a right to be, but it is time to realize your anger blinded you to the fact that MAGA has been a con from the start. Trump has used your votes to earn billions and pardon his criminal associates while the booming economy slowed to a crawl, American manufacturing declined, life became harder, and we switched from creating millions of jobs to losing tens of thousands. America is in decline. Put the country over party and demand better.

Back in the days before he surrendered his manhood to the Putinist in the White House.