Posted on 04/22/2026 5:47:32 AM PDT by DFG
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following months of urging from President Trump and the American people to pass the SAVE Act and secure the integrity of U.S. elections, the party that promised to save America announced that it wasn't really interested in saving America anymore.
Republican leaders in the Senate held a press conference on Tuesday to officially set aside any plan to move forward with the SAVE Act, citing a waning desire to fulfill countless campaign promises to save the country.
"We know we campaigned on saving the country, but honestly, we don't really care," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune. "You know how it is. You want to get elected, and you figure out what the voters really want to hear from you, so you just say stuff. All that jazz about election integrity and passing voter ID legislation… it's not something we're all that interested in. We hope the American people will understand that we're mostly just wanting to stay in power and maintain the status quo. Until we're up for re-election, that is. Then, we'll really be committed to turning things around."
Other Senate Republicans affirmed Thune's announcement. "Yes, it's true, we don't really care about saving America," said Senator Tom Cotton. "We all talk a lot about it when we give speeches, but let's be honest, that's only when there are cameras, donors, and voters around to hear us. So let's just move past this ‘SAVE Act' stuff and get back to pretending to do things without actually making any difference."
At publishing time, Senate Republicans reminded voters that they would once again need their support this November so they could stay in power while not accomplishing anything.
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Painfully accurate
So the Bee is shifting to hard news now?
Meanwhile, the Democrats campaign on destroying America — and they are in fact laser-focused on achieving precisely that.
Not surprising coming from the Diva Party. I wonder if the rumor going around about Thune and McConnell are actually identical twins separated at birth are true.
Politics is politics and the same keeps going forward. The
need as politicians see it is :keep the money flowing and
we’ll find ways to spend it be it :good or bad:. Live your
three score and ten as best you can to fit your needs.
Yep. Never ceases to amaze me how close to reality The Bee can get their satire.
This time I really don’t think it qualifies as humor as much as truth.
All summed up in the last sentence. Vote for us so we can continue to do nothing.
They’re pathetic losers who want to be a forever minority party.
They DO NOT want to save this Country!
What can we do?????
I think every politician wants to do something; it’s just never agreed on what that “something” should be, so nothing ever gets done. If something does/did get done there would be hearty disagreement on whether it was right or wrong, so that same mistake won’t likely get made again.
I don’t think we’re voting our way out of this.
“I don’t think we’re voting our way out of this.”
Correct. As shown in Virginia last night, the majority of people in this country really do want a leftists dictatorship. They’re fine with it. At this point assume that Trump won only because the middle-dems are so naturally lazy they didn’t care or Trump somehow gamed the system so the votes would shift his way.
Either way, the futures so dark...you’ll never have to wear shades.
Sad but true! I have total disdain for all of them.
“What can we do?????”
Nothing. We get to watch it all come tumbling down once Trump is gone. Trump has said it himself, the communist’s target is us, he’s in their way.
The media/Hollywood/public education has done an amazing job of creating a public that is unable to think critically and desires communism.
I am often admonished here, told that I need to “fight”. Fight how? The machine gives us our candidates, and our candidates do nothing.
The Bee nails it.
It has now been almost one month since the last Senate debate on the SAVE Act.
Foot dragging has to end ASAP.
Here is the link to one of Sen Mike Lee’s daily speeches on the SAVE Act.
Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 20th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsMBbal9jIg
“””Nothing. We get to watch it all come tumbling down once Trump is gone. Trump has said it himself, the communist’s target is us, he’s in their way.
The media/Hollywood/public education has done an amazing job of creating a public that is unable to think critically and desires communism.
I am often admonished here, told that I need to “fight”. Fight how? The machine gives us our candidates, and our candidates do nothing.”””
So correct. I have heard from reliable sources that Thune is about to introduce the “SAVE US FROM TRUMP ACT”.
“I think every politician wants to do something”
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Every politician wants to keep their seat. Their real objective therefore becomes one of “what do I need to say that will keep me in my job”? Doing things means being accountable, and having to defend one’s position which can lead to disagreement and become problematic. Much easier for them to simply talk about doing things rather than actually doing them. Voters often can’t distinguish between rhetoric and results anyhow. Politicians know that its easy to fool most of the people most of the time.
Nor satire.
EVERYONES FIRST THOUGHT.
ITS NOT SATIRE IF ITS TRUE
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