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Party That Promised To Save America Announces It's Not Really Interested In Saving America Anymore
Babylon Bee ^ | 04/21/2026 | Babylon Bee

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.


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; johnthune; saveact; senate; thune; tootrue; voterid

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Not satire
1 posted on 04/22/2026 5:47:32 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Painfully accurate


2 posted on 04/22/2026 5:50:40 AM PDT by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: DFG

So the Bee is shifting to hard news now?


3 posted on 04/22/2026 5:53:48 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: DFG

Meanwhile, the Democrats campaign on destroying America — and they are in fact laser-focused on achieving precisely that.


4 posted on 04/22/2026 6:04:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: DFG

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.


5 posted on 04/22/2026 6:16:07 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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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.


6 posted on 04/22/2026 6:16:41 AM PDT by deport
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To: Made In The USA

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.


7 posted on 04/22/2026 6:19:35 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it, won't leave)
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To: DFG
The Bee has become Not The Bee.
8 posted on 04/22/2026 6:20:12 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: DFG

All summed up in the last sentence. Vote for us so we can continue to do nothing.


9 posted on 04/22/2026 6:23:47 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: DFG

They’re pathetic losers who want to be a forever minority party.
They DO NOT want to save this Country!

What can we do?????


10 posted on 04/22/2026 6:29:03 AM PDT by bantam
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To: Starboard

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.


11 posted on 04/22/2026 6:34:57 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: DFG

I don’t think we’re voting our way out of this.


12 posted on 04/22/2026 6:35:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

“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.


13 posted on 04/22/2026 6:38:13 AM PDT by Battlestar (Tired of transgenders, drug addicts, and mentally ill taking over our streets, schools, government)
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To: DFG

Sad but true! I have total disdain for all of them.


14 posted on 04/22/2026 6:48:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: bantam

“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.


15 posted on 04/22/2026 6:53:54 AM PDT by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: DFG

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


16 posted on 04/22/2026 7:00:45 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: brownsfan

“””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”.


17 posted on 04/22/2026 7:06:51 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: oldtech

“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.


18 posted on 04/22/2026 7:09:53 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: DFG

Nor satire.

EVERYONES FIRST THOUGHT.


19 posted on 04/22/2026 7:13:43 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: DFG

ITS NOT SATIRE IF ITS TRUE


20 posted on 04/22/2026 7:31:31 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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