Posted on 03/03/2026 6:43:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
“That a government’s primary responsibility is to its citizens should not be a controversial proposition.” —Coddled Affluent Professional on X.
Senator Mitch McConnell shadows Majority Leader John Thune.
The zeitgeist is a rough beast, hard to ride as it slouches into the unknown. Our country is trying to hang on while a party of goblins vexes and needles the beast from behind, and you cannot make them stop. Sense-making gets to seem impossible.
We don’t have an explanation from Senate Majority Leader John Thune as to why he will not do what is within his power to do: pass election reform, known as the SAVE Act, by changing the filibuster procedure. At midweek Sen. Thune said Republicans were “not unified on pursuing a talking filibuster.” Understand that bringing back a real filibuster, with continuous speech in the well of the Senate, only requires the Majority Leader’s say-so, meaning Mr. Thune is prevaricating, concealing the truth.
Which might be that he does not want to pass election reform. It appears he wants to set up the midterm elections with the now-familiar kit of unverifiable mail-in ballots, millions of non-citizen motor-votes, and dragged-out vote-counting so that Democrats will seize control of the House (if not the Senate) in order to crank-up the impeachment machine again and finally get rid of President Trump. It does not look like anything else, certainly not any kind of cunning game.
What might change that would be an FBI analysis of the 2020 election year ballots, voter rolls, and vote tabulation tapes recently extracted from the Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Hub, leading to indictments. They’ve had this mass of material for a month. There was already plenty of preliminary evidence of fraud from earlier investigations — which is how come U.S. Magistrate Judge Catherine Salinas of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia found probable cause to approve a search warrant for the FBI. They must have an idea by now of what the evidence shows. It’s not that complicated.
There’s no fixed statutory timeline for a referral. The FBI can pass along the matter to the DOJ for prosecution whenever they determine the evidence is sufficient. Referrals are customarily secret, as they occur during ongoing investigations and involve sensitive, non-public information. DOJ policies emphasize confidentiality in pre-charging stages to protect investigations, potential witnesses, sources, and the integrity of any future prosecution. In general, the public learns of an FBI referral only indirectly — through later developments like indictments, or news media reporting via “sources.”
Criminal referrals on the Fulton County case might have already been made, and indictments might be forthcoming. That would have to prompt some kind of attitude adjustment for Senate Majority Leader Thune on behalf of election reform. It could happen at any time. It would at least put Senator Thune between a rock and a hard place. It’s well-understood that at least 80-percent of people polled want the SAVE Act passed.
There is no debating position that reasonably argues against it. You might have noticed that Mayor Mamdani of New York City called for volunteers to shovel snow in the latest blizzard, and that anyone who stepped-up was required to show two types of photo ID to work the job. Yet, Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), aligns with the party’s longstanding opposition to voter ID laws, including the SAVE Act. No need to go figure on that. It’s just arrant dishonesty.
The president emphasized clearly why the Democrats are against election reform in this week’s State of the Union speech: because the party can only win elections by cheating, by employing massive systematic fraud. He said it so that everybody tuned-in could hear it, and the Democrats just sat stone-faced on their side of the chamber — and that was only minutes after they refused to stand for the proposition that the government’s main job was to act in the interest of American citizens.
It’s unlikely that the president can alter election procedure himself, through executive order or by declaring some kind of national emergency. Any attempt would be instantly litigated and shut down by the judiciary. The Constitution assigns primary authority over the “times, places and manner” of elections to the states (with only Congress able to alter them by law). Either Senator Thune will do his duty or not. He must have some self-awareness that he risks going down as the greatest villain in our history, the man who wrecked the country. Does anything like personal honor still exist in this land?
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James Howard Kunstler ping
I like Kunstler. But, Dude. The UNIPARTY always HAS and always WILL look after their OWN interests first. Then MAYBE they’ll consider the wishes of ‘We The People.’ Maybe.
Plan accordingly for you and yours!
The Democrats and their RINO allies are totally serious when they claim to be just as patriotic as you and I. The difference is that their country is the globalist deep state and not the American republic.
Actually Trump can seize control of the elections if he has proof of foreign interference. Hence all the good stuff we likely confiscated along with Maduro.
Correct.
Either the filibuster should be made part of the Constitution, or it should be eliminated and all the legislation Trump needs to do a proper job should be enacted.
Two Republicans could drop a bill in the hoppers proposing a filibuster constitutional amendment be sent to the states with a 05/30/2026 limit for ratification.
The key fact is the Republicans are almost certainly going to lose control of the House & Senate.
Only the financial collapse of the states of New York and California before the 2028 elections will scare the voters straight.
“The Democrats and their RINO allies are totally serious when they claim to be just as patriotic as you and I. The difference is that their country is the globalist deep state and not the American republic.”
The PRC isn’t going to be run by WEF Caucasians who think they going to run the world.
Is obvious. The Republican Party is just waiting Trump out and intend to return us to the Bush era. That’s why Trump U.S. simping for them as a neocon. But McConnell and Thune would happily stand aside as he was impeached.
Bkmk
The Turtle has it in for Trump, no doubt. I’m not convinced Thune shares the sentiment. He knows Trump will be gone in 2 1/2 yrs.
Avoiding minority in either house is a strong incentive to cooperate.
I’m from South Dakota and even went to school with Thune’s cousins. Too bad John lost his South Dakota values by swimming in the Washington swamp. The SAVE act is a no brainer and watching Democrats trying to talk it to death would be not only entertaining, but also a political windfall for the GOP
No one gets into leadership in the house or senate without being corrupt and part of the problem.
Idk.....maybe the deep state has something on Thune.
I fear he will play it both ways. Delay, delay, delay and then after it’s well too late, make some sort of pretend move that still guarantees a Democrat takeover.
NY is workin’ on it.........
Thune’s attitude could very well indicate either there is some information he would rather not see aired or his income would be adversly affected.
Exactly.
You are correct, sir. But they are still to dumb to figure out that the PRC and Muslim “refugees” have an agenda of their own. Sad!
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