Mark Straton

I’m with him.

It’s not just fucking Thune. At all. And frankly I’m goddamn sick of hearing just his name dragged out like some lone villain while the rest of the Senate Republican caucus slithers into the shadows. Every single fucking senator who refuses to stand up, cast the vote, and rip the gavel from his hands shares the blood on this betrayal. They know the rules cold...they’ve studied the filibuster’s chokehold, watched Reid and Schumer carve it open with surgical ruthlessness when it suited their side, and understand exactly how a simple majority could install new leadership tomorrow and force a talking filibuster or nuclear-option carve-outs to ram through the SAVE Act, border sovereignty, election integrity, and the rest of the Trump mandate. Yet they choose paralysis. This isn’t prudence. It’s a caucus-wide epidemic of institutional Stockholm syndrome fused with careerist gutlessness. These are men and women psychologically captured by the Senate club...addicted to the narcotic safety of committee gavels, “bipartisanship” theater, and the warm bath of never having to govern with the ferocity their voters demanded. They fear primary challenges, Twitter mobs, and the raw exercise of power far more than they fear failing the country. Vichy Republicans in bespoke suits, performing conservatism while the agenda suffocates under 60-vote theater they’re too cowardly to dismantle. Thune is the visible symptom. The disease is systemic rot...every last one of them who sits on their hands and lets it fester. They are not leaders. They are ornate obstacles. Name them all. Demand they act with lethal will, or watch them be replaced. The polite theater is over. The American people are done waiting and we are fucking pissed off. 💀🗡️⚖️

I said it late Thursday night right before the Senate left, and I’ll say it again: America cannot afford half measures on homeland security. The threats are real. The mission is critical. Fully fund DHS. Pay TSA, CISA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard. Support ICE and Border Patrol. Democrats must end their political theater and put the safety of Americans first.

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.

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.

🚨 BREAKING: Pressure is SURGING on Senate Republicans to END the 60-vote filibuster and stop Democrat traitors from keeping America hostage If the GOP goes ALL IN like President Trump is calling for, they’ll DOMINATE the midterms Pass the SAVE America Act, fund DHS, and push every other 80-20 issue It’s common sense. It’s simple. And it’s a WIN for America 🇺🇸 Do you support ending the 60-vote filibuster so Senate Republicans can pass the SAVE America Act, fund DHS, and move the Trump agenda? A. 100% YES B. Mostly yes C. Not really D. HELL NO

Should John Thune be removed as Senate Leader?

John Thune may be an even bigger Judas than Mike Pence.

🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Mike Lee demands the Senate CANCEL VACATION, reconvene IMMEDIATELY, and get to work on DHS and SAVE America "I've been assured [by John Thune and leadership] that SAVE America, assuming we get the DHS thing funded, it'll be the first thing up after DHS is fully funded." "Just a few weeks ago, we took a one-week recess, now we're taking a two-week recess when we still haven't funded DHS and we still haven't passed SAVE America." "Now, some senators got lured into a distraction this week, saying, oh, we can pass the SAVE America Act using the procedure known as budget reconciliation on 51 votes." "You can use reconciliation for a whole lot of things. It doesn't work for Save America, because this is a policy. It is not budgetary." "I think we need to reconvene immediately!"

John Thune should not come back from this recess as Senate Leader. Oust him!

The filibuster was NEVER supposed to be a weapon for the radical left to stop us from delivering on President Trump’s agenda. IT MUST GO!