Matthew 5
37 But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.
Just yesterday, I heard John Thune implying that the Filibuster was the Framers' idea, which is a Big Lie, repeated.
In fact, in his maiden speech as an alleged "Leader", he names keeping the illegitimate anti-Constitutional Filibuster AS HIS VERY FIRST LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY!
Thune Delivers First Remarks as Senate Majority Leader - Sen. John Thune Official Press Release | LegiStorm:
“... Mr. President, when it came time to draft the Constitution, the Founders established safeguards – checks and balances – throughout our government to keep the government in check and ensure that the rights of all Americans were protected.
“One of those safeguards was the United States Senate.
“In his discussion of the Senate in Federalist 62, the author notes, and I quote, ‘… a senate, as a second branch of the legislative assembly, distinct from, and dividing the power with, a first, must be in all cases a salutary check on the government. It doubles the security to the people, by requiring the concurrence of two distinct bodies in schemes of usurpation or perfidy …’
“He further notes, and I quote, ‘that as the improbability of sinister combinations will be in proportion to the dissimilarity in the genius of the two bodies, it must be politic to distinguish them from each other by every circumstance which will consist with a due harmony in all proper measures, and with the genuine principles of republican government.’
“And the Founders did indeed distinguish the House from the Senate.
“They made the Senate smaller and senators’ terms of office longer, with the intention of creating a more stable, more thoughtful, and more deliberative legislative body to check ill-considered or intemperate legislation and protect the rights of the American people.
“And as the past 237 years attest, it is a structure that has served our nation well.
“Unfortunately, today there are a lot of people out there who would like to see the Senate turn into a copy of the House of Representatives.
“That, Mr. President, is not what our Founders intended – or what our country needs.
“And one of my priorities as leader will be to ensure that the Senate stays the Senate.
“That means preserving the legislative filibuster – the Senate rule that today has perhaps the greatest impact in preserving the Founders’ vision of the Senate." .......
"The Senate rule"--that's the problem.
The Founders thought Legislative Super-Majority requirements were so important, they listed them specifically in the Constitution and then RATIFIED them properly.
That was their "vision of the Senate". And it did not include a Filibuster, and certainly not one installed by Senate rules instead of Ratification by the People and the States.
These Grifters know that their corrupt Filibuster would not bear up under such scrutiny.
In fact, the Founder's vision was expressed in this clause:
“The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.”
They presumed a simple majority vote, not a 60-Vote Pre-Vote before getting to a simple majority vote.
Yes--“Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings”–but those rules may not contradict or subvert the Constitution or be an end run around the Constitution's Amendment and Ratification Clause.
Convicting an Impeachment: 2/3 majority in the Senate
Expulsion of a member of one house of Congress: 2/3 vote
Override a Presidential Veto: 2/3 majority in both the House and the Senate
Ratify a treaty: 2/3 majority in the Senate
Passing of a Constitutional Amendment by Congress: 2/3 majority in both the House and the Senate
Calling for a Constitutional Convention; 2/3 of the state legislatures
Ratifying a Constitutional Amendment: 3/4 of the states
Restore the ability of certain rebels to serve in the government: 2/3 majority in both the House and the Senate
Approval of removal of the President from his position after the Vice President and the Cabinet approve such removal and after the President contests the removal: 2/3 majority in both the House and the Senate
Also a super-majority for quorums: Choice of a President in the House when no majority of electoral votes is achieved: member or members from 2/3 of the states
Choice of a Vice President in the Senate when no majority of electoral votes is achieved: 2/3 of all Senators
There's something missing: any notion of a 3/5ths Filibuster. Yet Thune claims it was in the Founders' vision.
Like any good liar, John Thune mixes truth with lies; yes, the Senate was meant to be more deliberative. But they did not consider the Filibuster worthwhile. They also required Super-Majority Provisions to be placed in the Constitution and ratified. This is not some geek-out; it has life and death consequences.
If we had a real Court, the Filibuster would have been stricken long ago. But our Court is headed by Johnny "Cartel" Roberts, the guy who installed every FISA Judge alive and sicced them on Candidate Trump. And even now, despite a mixed bag of rulings, will not constrain Trump-Deranged inferior judges from assaulting the Rule of Law.
Now that we've established that the Filibuster is illegal and illegitimate, we need to understand the other half of the Big Lie. Namely, the malicious motivations for it and why Thune would make it his foundational legislative priority.
Forget all that flowery language about Thune's undying fealty to the Constitution and the Founders vision yada yada yada, blah blah blah.
There are several motives, and all of them bad.
The Filibuster is a tool they use to put the Swamp's priorities over the People's.
Right now it is being used to thwart Honest Elections, which are like daylight to these Crypt-Dwelling Vampires.
The Filibuster is protecting Rigged Elections, which, in turn, protects the Filibuster, which protects Rigged Elections, which the protects the Filibuster, which protects Rigged Elections, which protects the Filibuster, which protects Rigged Elections, which protects... you see how that works. It is enacting the Swamp's priorities over the Peoples'.
The Swamp, including Thune, want to enact the Democrats' agenda. They want to gut ICE. They want to cripple the Coast Guard for the Cartels. They want TSA hamstrung and Cyber Protection crippled because they want terrorists to attack us. It would hurt Trump, you see.
And what is the solution that allows all that? A: the Filibuster.
You may find it hard to believe that the soft-spoken, dulcet-toned Thune really wants that. I did. But after watching the carnage and chaos year after year after year, with Americans never getting their priorities, and the Swamp always getting theirs, at least until President Trump, I realized that the carnage WAS THE DESIRED OUTCOME.
And that's why John Thune named the Filibuster as his absolute, top of the list, Number One Priority.
It also allows them to evade accountability. It muddies the waters because there is no clean up or down vote.
For example, Mitch McConnell--or whoever pushes Vegetable McConnell's wheelchair--just voted to proceed with the SAVE Show. Under no circumstances does Mitch want Honest Elections. But he gets to pretend he does, knowing that Thune's Filibuster will protect him from his own vote. Even #Fake Patriots in the House get to cast Phony Votes, too, knowing that Thune will protect them with the Filibuster.
It also lets Left Swamp and Right Swamp swap power, while always maintaining the UNIPARTY and their own thievery, perversion and Power, Power, Power above all. They keep the margins of victory small for this reason. I think PDT won 60 to 70 Senate seats, and they simply could not allow that.
Obama was the only one given 60 Senate seats, and that was to pass ObamaCare. That was so all the controls such as Ivermectin bans, Remdesivir and stripping doctors of their licenses could be in place for Epstein's Virus/Vaxx Plandemic.
Yeah--that was Epstein's Show. I bet you didn't know that. It's in the Files.
The Filibuster also transfers power from the President to the Senate Swamp by making his legislation harder to pass.
Speaking of Thune's alleged fealty to the Constitution, why has Thune prevented President Trump from making a single Recess Appointment like the Constitution says? Other Presidents made hundreds. PDT has ZERO.
The Senate also gives the President a list of acceptable candidates. In a constitutional Reversal, the Senate nominates and the president gives advise and consent. That's how we got that Nazi Pug Chris Wray.
And how do one or two senators block a nominee if the Constitution says "the Senate", all 100, shall "advise and consent"? The Blue Slip Scam is another illegal Senate rule-End Run around the Constitution, this time a Super-Minority.
Thune plans to put on a Dog and Pony Show, tell the President "Gee, we really tried" and then go back to Treason as Usual.
Not this time, sonny. We're on to you and your Filibuster Double Game.No more Mullahs, in Washington DC or Iran.
And no more lies, corruption and tyranny, in Your America, Father, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen!
Isaiah 63
4 For the day of punishment was in My heart.
And My year to save My people and make them free has come.”
Yes, Lord!
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Thank You, Lord, for sending Your eagle over us, Hallelujah!
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