Senator Thom Tillis appears to have been granted a larger slice of the lobbyist money from Thune and McConnell because he certainly is taking up a position next to Joni Ernst in strategic opposition to President Donald Trump.
The level of passive aggressive threat-speak within Tillis’ very carefully selected wording is quite concerning. “President Trump enjoyed a great deal of Republican support in his first term,” Tillis notes. “But if people want to play the outside [pressure] game, they run a lot of risk,” he continues. “Four votes is all it’s going to take to kill a nomination here, so they should take pause,” Tillis reminds everyone.
Senator Tillis from North Carolina represents the aloof mindset of the Senate at large, and the detached mindset of the Republicans in the senate specifically.
The republicans in North Carolina in 2024 are highlighting just how similar they are to the republicans in Georgia, circa 2020.
called him out on FB … now is the TIME to let them know that it is #MAGA or the highway……….
We lose America if Democrats gain a single inch. We are that close.
23 million government employees (D) is now a ticking time bomb to destroy this country from within.
I’m right behind you. Actually, I, as a North Carolinian, see this as a gift from God. We have some strong primary opponents for Tillis and this should energize MAGA. He is the worst.
I really wish PDJT didn’t cater to shitbums like this. Time to play hardball with turncoats RINO’s. We don’t have time to screw around with trash like this….stop pretending…..
👏👏👏👏 noooo pretending.
Starve him, the Chicago way. Obama would keep federal money out of their state if they crossed him. Tillis is scared.
Maybe Elon can help?
You want Elon to take over our problems but we need to figure out solutions on our own. We’re more honestly concerned with our country.
Several times now you have answered commenters with “Elon?” WTH
Do not want him to buy Swannanoa Valley
facebook? really?
If that’s where the enemy hangs out, that’s where to confront him. It’s a very public venue as opposed to sending an email you never get an answer to.
Someone needs to inform this buffoon that “we put you in the congress – we can take you out.”
I think they forget that, just like they forget to work for the people….
One thing that amazes me if how so many Congressional “members” can earn a $176K/year salary, and become multimillionaires in just 4 years. They must have the same stock picking skills as Nasty’s husband.
Don’t forget the bribes they get from lobbyists….
It’s the vote buying they do to get legislation passed. Sundance has talked about this often. And they make much more money in the minority than the majority.
Yes, we know how they get rich, and each one that does should be voted out.
He’s in the crosshairs and he knows it, so all this smack is coming out of his mouth
North Carolinian republicans need to swarm their local GOP meetings. They need to fill local precinct chairmanships and put pressure on the state party officials. It is a rigged game inside the state party structure, they undermine the primary challengers.
Right, remind them we are the majority, not them
Have them show up, and NOT. SAY. A. THING.
Flood the room , and don’t utter a peep.
And, do it repeatedly, at random events.
Peacefully assemble, en mass. Have online postings
of where meetings occur, and let the involved pick and
choose where they’ll mass assemble.
On X there has been a massive campaign to recall, primary or censure in thousands of original tweets with countless relies picked up by accounts commanding hundreds of thousands of followers I’m sure it’s infuriating we the voters telling him what to do.
Well, he did seem to make it clear that we are on “the outside”. Guess we have nothing to lose then by going after these people with everything we’ve got.
Someone, somewhere, certainly has to be in the know of skeletons in the closets of these MAGA blockers. Hopefully they will come out of the woodwork and enjoy the sunshine of “Freedom” for doing so!
My sentiments exactly. None are without Skeltons. Time for Halloween.
I just posted the exact same thing above. Musk will be able to dig up dirt on these Rinos. They will soon find out Trump controls the Republican Party not them.
I know its O/T but I bring good news, Christine Freeland has resigned in Canada. Not gone tho’ just resigned.
A win is a win, no matter how small!
French Government falls but Macron is still there.
German Government falls but Scholz is still there.
Freeland resigns but she’s still there.
WTF!
wonder if it’s due to the bend the knee to Trump / USMCA mess she decided to ignore
My guess is she sees Trudeau will be history soon and she is trying to position herself so she can run against him. I hope Canadians can see through this, if I’m correct.
He, Murkowski, and their ilk need to be voted out.
Even Alaska does not even want her, but outside money gamed the system with “ranked voting”.
ChiCom Mitch gave her $Ms to spread around ensuring that demoncraps pushed her over the line. Again.
Outside money taking advantage of the “stupidity of the American voters”?
Kind of like they did here in Ohio with their abortion issues.
Or renditioned out….
:::shudder:::
This means war is coming…..
Telling people to stop speaking up is not going to work. Has that ever worked?
The arrogance and in-your-face “lecturing” of Senator supremacy over the populace oozes from both parties and actually defines the UniParty! This was the driving motivation of The TEA Party and obvious how much of that effort remains unfinished! If the MAGA coalition expects to survive, they better view raw politics as the common enemy, act accordingly and focus on strong primary resistance from whatever State needs new Senators or even Representatives. This is NOT a State issue, but the whole of country! It is critical that the oldest and longest tenure usually represents the most prime primary targets!
Grandpa, this is a state issue. The people of a state are the only ones that can vote these Senators or Representatives out of office.
If a Senator bows to leadership in their first term they will protect them with big bucks when the 6 years is up. Every term it gets harder to primary them. Two reasons. 1. Money and 2. Majority of Republican voters aren’t paying attention. If a candidate has an R after their name they must be good guys. I know I have a family full of voters who think that way. That’s why Cornyn is still in office here in Texas.
I also suspect that the Uniparty picks Repubs to win (fraudulent voting) who side with them for the ‘sake of pretending there is a 2-party adversarial competition.
Showboat, we here in NC are paying attention and there is absolutely no love here for the likes of Thom Tillis.
Unfortunately, North Carolina doesn’t have any *real* leaders *representing* us. The only one we can see on the horizon is the man getting sworn in as president on January 20, 2025.
The corrupt Raleigh Republican leadership was not about to offer a real MAGA Republican during the primaries as an alternative, so there was no viable option but to hold our nose and vote for this disgusting Republikan (vs a Demonrat).
Until the big money in the trough that the pigs in Raleigh continue to feed at comes to an end, the pigs are in charge of this animal farm. It will likely take outside influence, big money, and organization (as well as honest Law Enforcement) to counter this corrupt rotation of clowns in charge.
So the voters are the problem, not the politicians. They tell you who they are and rarely hide it. But voters aren’t paying attention.
These morons forget who they work for. Can we please get people in the Senate and House that will do their job and support America?
The balls on this guy. Who TF do they think they are?
Above the riffraff. An aristocrat in all but name.
They believe they are our betters.
Twenty Republican Senators voted to confirm GARLAND, MAYORKAS and LLOYD AUSTIN not to mention confirming the transgender admiral from Pennsylvania and clepto nuclear waste cross-dressing psycho!
Somebody needs to remind Tillis what side of the river he’s on?
Oh, he knows which side of the river he is on. He is not at all confused about this.
He just doesn’t give a damn what his constituents think about it.
Memo to Senator Tillis: your threats matter only as long as you are in office. Go ahead, make your case for your own re-election. Now.
I would like to see a pic of all FJB’s cabinet like the one just shown of Trump’s “nontraditional” picks per Jake Tapper.
Then use it to remind the Senate that they confirmed these incompetent, cringy fools and they, the senators, are the ones being evaluated for “advise and consent” of the electorate.
It seems to me that these smug, cringy establishment RINOs have been the beneficiaries of the fixed elections for so long (I’m certain they get paid or elected or both for their complicity in it.) that they will be utterly shocked when they’re ousted in truly fair elections.
I think this is what has really and truly sent shock waves through the political class: TPTB were stopped from rigging 2024 per the usual means.
Uni-party members are owned by others and do not work for America or even their own constituents. What they don’t understand is We the People are never going back to sleep so the evil doers can have their way with us. Our eyes are now fully open, we can see you and we will stop you – whatever it takes.
BINGO!!!
and there’s this:
BINGO!!!
I believe he wants her there to embarrass herself. No one thinks she is capable.
This statement by Comer re. AOC is really pi$$ing Dem voters off.
Pretty funny!
they are not their enemies
We must stop believing it is republicans and democrats.
People must begin to see by now it is money grabbing , hate America probably satanist pedos on one side and Patriots on the other and we Patriots are far outnumbered in DC and Congress.
The old system is just there to protect itself and it must be destroyed.
They sure keep making the case yet here they are.
EXACTLY!!!
Tillis is going to find out this time who controls the Republican Party and it is TRUMP. They are going to find out more dirt on these Rinos than they can imagine.
Oh Thom… You a funny man. I got a better idea than voting citizens of your state being on the receiving end of your empty threats.
How about you take that threat and GFY, while the good people of NC continue to call and write call and write, ( I would recommend TRIPLING that effort, I digress) as is their right and duty since they pay your stupid ass and finance your luxurious lifestyle. I have kin folk in the NC mountains. Maybe I’ll give a call on their behalf.
The need for control is a reaction to fear.
What a pompous jerk. Lots of blather, dither and delay, reach across the aisle, do the work, try to get 7-8 Democrat votes, all of that baloney. We are sick of it. This guy doesn’t get the message. We won. In a landslide. Now, lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Gee, I wonder what the good folks in NC have to say about this? Maybe this idiot needs to learn exactly WHOM he works for?
Lots of liberals in NC. LOTS. The Raleigh triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston Salem, Asheville and Wilmington. It a wonder TRUMP WINS.
Pull the plug on most of these government funded programs at the research triangle and watch the jobs along with the liberals disappear.
They are not heritage North Carolinians. Spit.
Left out Franklin.
That SOB should never have been elected. He ran as a conservative, but I told all my friends in NC he was not a Conservative and was a snake. They all thought he was great. There really are some stupid people in polictics.
Tillis has NEVER garnered more than 50% of NC vote. His ONLY salvation is the left-wing zealots running against him.
However, 2026 is coming and Tillis will either sit it out, be heavily primaried or lose to the dem.
HIS days are numbered.
For translation, Tillis votes TO THE LEFT of Bernie Sanders.
NC NOT returning Tillis to senate. He CANNOT garner enough republican votes in a general to defeat any dem that will gain 100% of the dem vote.
The RINO must become extinct
For your amusement from the multi-headed American Pravda:
The Real Reason Why Americans Approve of Trump’s Disastrous Transition
How is it possible that Americans are good with this corrupt cavalcade of unqualified extremists Trump is nominating?
https://newrepublic.com/article/189409/trump-transition-media-misinformation-criticism
How can it be, you may be wondering, that 55 percent of Americans tell pollsters they approve of how Donald Trump is handling the transition? He has nominated—almost but not quite literally across the board—unqualified extremists. These are people who’ve never run large, complex organizations and who, if they shouldn’t be ruled out on those grounds, should certainly be ruled out on the basis of their way-outside-the-mainstream views and announced goals to all but destroy the agencies they’re going to run; they’re people whose only association with the word cabinet should be the ones they select when remodeling their kitchens.
Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kash Patel are just the starting rotation, as it were (and Matt Gaetz the lone casualty so far). Many, many others are objectionable in some way. Trump’s would-be IRS guy is an auctioneer (seriously) who, in a brief congressional stint, sponsored something called the Tax Code Termination Act. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guy, another former congressman who runs a medical practice and whom Trump proposes to head a 13,000-employee, $9 billion operation, is arguably more anti-vax than RFK Jr. And so on, and so on. We could do this with about two-thirds of them.
Interesting… Barack Obama was an unqualified extremist when he ran for president…
My time at Wake Forest (many moons ago) taught me that these Southern Boys are no dummies, they talk real slick and offer up honey laced words where one should pay close attention to their actions.
Also, Yankees have been moving into the Carolinas for decades, bringing unwanted attitudes into communities who were used to doing things in a Southern manner…so under one’s breath might lurk a pursed lip where sabotage may be coming.
This Senator provides a clue Trump’s team should not miss nor forget.
President Trump is a bonafide yankee who brings “unwanted attitudes” towards DC politicians who are “used to doing things” in a RINO manner. God bless him for that.
I’ll bet that good ole sweet talkin boys club in the Carolinas could use a little “yankee” attitude, as well.
Gee. Who could have seen this coming? Trump has owned the GOP as much as any politician has owned any political party since FDR. He has failed to separate the wheat from the chaff with his endorsements. Tillis has always been an idiot. Trump made this problem for himself.
AP June 25, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump endorsed North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis on Tuesday, delivering a significant political asset for the first-term Republican senator already facing a primary challenge for his reelection next year in the closely divided state.
Trump tweeted his “Full and Total Endorsement” to Tillis, who has faced criticisms from members of the state’s GOP base questioning whether he’s given full-throated support to the president.
Garland Tucker, a retired investment company firm executive who jumped into the primary last month, has made Tillis’ initial opposition to Trump’s emergency declaration for a U.S.-Mexico border wall a campaign issue. Tillis later reversed himself and supported the declaration. He also co-sponsored bipartisan legislation that would have prevented Trump from firing special counsel Robert Mueller.
These don’t appear to bother Trump too much.
Tillis “has really stepped up to the plate,” the president tweeted. “Thom is tough on Crime, Strong on the Border and fights hard against Illegal Immigration. He loves our Military, our Vets and our great Second Amendment. I give Thom my Full and Total Endorsement!”
Wanna know what the problem is?
Yes, please explicate further.
YOU!!!! “RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)”
Trump endorses Tillis despite Tillis’ America Last actions and you’re so purblind that you cannot see DJT is causing his own difficulties (Eve)?
And I am the problem (DANQ)??
Yikes. CTH has got some real Mensa candidates…
It is great that the RINOs are willing to publicly show their “stripes”, and help us to know those RINOs that need to be primaried out. I’m keeping a list of those that fail to support the MAGA agenda, and need to update their resume. Tillis will be up for reelection in 2026, and, IMESHO, the RNC should be seeking his replacement soon.
“It is great that the RINOs are willing to publicly show their ‘stripes’”
Among the 20 D and F-rated RINOs in the Senate, just the stupid ones who don’t lie, make noncommittal statements or simply keep their mouths shut until the time comes where their “nay” opinion counts during confirmation hearings.
I believe Tillis is up for reelection in 2026 if he chooses. FAFO Thom.
I live in nc. The state gop is as corrupt as it gets
He has already started his campaign. I am going to try to do all I can to defeat him.
The State GOPs are the foundation of the problem. This is not limited to NC, but all across the south.
I should think by now the message “You are replaceable,” might have started to sink in.
But maybe we need another GOP senator to lose his seat.
Ya Tillis, forget all about how NC is hurting from hurricane Helene and worry about President Trumps nominees. What a scumbag. I can say for sure that if Tillis was homeless and without much help to survive, he would care less about nominees.
Perhaps Mr. Tillis needs to be expelled from the party. Stop playing nice with these assholes.
Same for the 20 D and F-rated RINOs in the Senate, but that ain’t gonna’ happen. In the list of them I posted, note how many times many of the worst of them have been reelected.
Why?
She points out stupid contradictions on the same ballot seen during manual recounts – voting for a conservative and then the worst liberals. It’s all about image and not substance.
Meghan Reckling: Most Voters Don’t Follow Politics (1:44)
14 Dec 2024
https://rumble.com/v5z9q5z-meghan-reckling-most-voters-dont-follow-politicsmessaging-and-resources-are.html
Gosh, I thought PDJT was doing so well, now I’m not so sure…………
NOT …
These are the most vicious and vindictive, power hungry people! They hate America and us. There is no bar too low for them to slither under.
Bring on January 20 🙏🏻🇺🇸
You will rue this day Thom Tillis.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/04/exclusive-tillis-backs-bondi-for-ag-patel-for-fbi-will-vote-for-hegseth-and-all-trump-nominees-on-floor-if-reported-favorably-out-of-committee/
Tillis will also vote for former Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense assuming the Senate Armed Services Committee reports his nomination favorably ahead of a floor vote next year.“Senator Tillis has been focused on reviewing the nominees in his committees of jurisdiction and making sure they get fair hearings, and he is working on making sure Pam Bondi and Kash Patel get through the Senate Judiciary Committee and get confirmed on the floor,” Tillis spokesman Daniel Keylin told Breitbart News on Wednesday. “Senator Tillis trusts his Republican colleagues to ensure that all of President Trump’s nominees get a fair confirmation process, and any nominee that gets a favorable vote out of committee will get the Senator’s vote on the floor.”
Tillis also sent this out to his constituents in NC; I received this recently.
Obviously, Breitbart must be filled with deceivers and traitors to have anything positive to say about Tillis. We must all
primaryboycott Breitbart!Thom Tillis has been wholly ineffective lobbying Biden for assistance to NC. Now, he threatens Republicans that he will subvert the clear will of the people. Just another RINO that needs to lose his seat.
The poster child for why the 17th Amendment should be immediately repealed.
The arrogance of this pompous half-wit is why we should never have allowed the direct election of Senators to 6 year terms.
Tillis doesn’t yet seem to understand WHY we voted for PTrump, and we don’t respond well to threats.
Tillis is the one who should be careful, lest the voters Harriscide his butt too.
Lousy prick In my finger just won’t heal. It’s my middle finger too so it extends out longer
That is some mind blowing logic… I am not doing what you want. If you try to force me to do what you want than I really won’t do what you want.
Hey Tillis, it only requires ONE vote to enable all of these appointments by RECESS.
In modern-day politics in the U.S. it is NEVER about what is best for WE, THE PEOPLE.
If Tillis wants to threaten American voters, HE should – in his words – *take pause*. These legislators fail to remember that they serve at the pleasure and will of WE, THE PEOPLE.
Here ya go, Thom. This one’s for you:
Thanks for this. Sidney Powell is a straight shooter, tells it like it is.
Thom Tillis, like Asa Hutchinson and Lisa Murkowski, only says what he means behind closed doors, with the other bald-faced liars and power brokers who’ve learned to milk the cash cow until the udders dry up and the cow is then butchered and cut into steaks for the Senators dining at Le Diplomate.
None of this comes as a surprise to Trump…or to any Sundance reader. What is coming as a surprise to these elitist pseudo-pachyderms is the outside pressure from the MAGA movement to punish the usual bad neocon behavior. They’ve never experienced anything like it, so they’re lashing because they hate being held accountable to their constituents!
I pray PDJT gets the opportunity to put the Congress and Senate in recess.
Vance could take over the Senate and force a recess but more likely Speaker Johnson can recess the House and force the issue.
Tillis sounds like a prideful RINO-kind-of-guy. May your retirement be sooner than later…
It is my understanding that Tillis has already said he will not run for re-election. He has been a total disappointment for conservatives in NC. He lied to NC voters who supported him for his conservatism. He’s a liar.
The people spoke Thom! We’re tired of your Bullshit platforms! You’re gone next election! Where in the Hell were you when your people needed help this past Summer? You can take those 4 votes and shove them where the sun don’t shine, SIDEWAYS! You better learn to code Democrat, cuz that’s all you are!
I agree with Sundance, Tillis appears to be threatening We the People to back off from being critical of Senators who appear to want to vote down some of Trump’s picks. While it is their prerogative to make a selection, Senators need to know there will be consequences if they get in the way of Making America Great Again. Tillis doesn’t like this. He’s been sitting pretty, and I’m sure he was assuming he could keep sitting pretty and eventually outlast Trump.
But if electoral reform happens, he may not be able to get re-elected and this is probably bothering him. The nearest scapegoat to blame are We the People who are letting people know on X and other platforms that RINOs are not going to get a pass anymore.
I think he’s outraged that we have organized and are dedicated to primarying RINOS who hurt Trump’s team or his efforts.
It means we are over the target people!
It shows how lacking in self-perception Tillis is that he can go on TV and threaten the American people for actually caring that Trump get his appointees through Congress. He seems to feel he is entitled to call the shots and no one is going to make him feel vulnerable.
But just threatening Trump supporters is showing his vulnerability, and typically people like this deal with feeling vulnerable by trying to make others feel vulnerable.
He’s making the same mistake as all the others who try to get in Trump’s way and are lying on the ashheap of their careers.
Indeed. Hope he has Loser Liz on speed dial under “Alternative Post Congress Careers”.
Reminds me of a joke:
Q: What do you call an attorney gone bad?
A: Senator
“trying to make others feel vulnerable”
This is typical narcissistic behavior, a learned behavior. Yes he is definitely telling the American people to stand down, he might be talking directly to Elon Musk, another bad move. Narcissists always thinks they are the smartest person in the room…usually they are not. 😉
Elon’s list of losers to be primaried is getting longer.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year……….
He is also deluding himself into thinking thats its NOT the vast majority of Trump voters, who utterly rejected all the attempts to brainwash/gaslight/manipulate them into dropping their support for PDJT,….NOoooo
It some unnamed smal faction of rebel rousers who hope to profit of off gynning up ‘the Trump supporters’.
In other words, once again dismissive of us, and SOooo out of touch.
Just got off the phone with his answering machine, let him know We know, and we will be firing him.
Tillis is a nobody – he’s polly-parroting McConnell, Thune, and fellow N Carolinian Burr. If any of the latter 3 makes a quick turn it would break Tillis’ nose.
Wasn’t Burr the one who got his hand caught doing a little INSIDER TRADING to benefit his family? I believe he already made his exit!
Tillis was a big fish in the NC pond of legislators. Unfortunately for him, he is nothing but a turd in the DC Swamp!
Just as Brexit presaged the 2016 earthquake (and was and is ignored by the professional politicians), Nigel Farage’s new party dooming the Tories in Name Only (TINOs) in the last election, our RINOs are missing the omens gathering like storm clouds over their careers.
Tillis thinks MAGA have no choice but to vote for him and his ilk given how awful the Democrats are, but as the Brits showed when they kicked the Tories to the curb, when people have had enough of “in name only pols” sometimes they’ll cut off their noses to spite their faces.
I read that Farage’s nascent party just picked up another seat.
Oh, the Lindsay Graham philosophy, huh?
It appears to be that Mr. Tillis believes himself to be smarter than the people who elected PRESIDENT TRUMP. Looked it up and you are up in 2026. Guess that’s why you are shaking in your boots. You’ve been a McConnell Midget to date in the Senate. Ole Mitch thinks he still controls the party and maybe he does. The Uniparty–that club who serves the well=connected, the elitist, the uppity ones who believe themselves to be better than everyone in the lower and middle classes. You and your ilk have enriched yourselves via your position at the expense of the American citizenry. WE THE PEOPLE spoke loudly and clearly on November 5th of 2024. Maybe you chose NOT to listen. That would be on you. WE THE PEOPLE vote Congressmen and Senators into office (although sometimes the cheaters destroy the will of the people in order to preserve the criminal element in DC) and WE THE PEOPLE can vote you out.
Funny, how they never voted down Obama’s or Biden’s picks!