Following a meeting with Leader John Thune and republican senators, President Trump pauses to answer questions from the assembled DC press pool. Topics included the legislative agenda, border security, deportation of illegal aliens, Liz Cheney, the California fires, Greenland and the Panama Canal.
It’s a little humorous when you consider this is what a short ‘press conference’ with a President looks like. President Trump delivers rapid fire remarks in big contrast to the four years of Joe Biden. WATCH:
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Left to Right: Vice President JD Vance, Republican Conference Chair Tom Cotton (R-AR), Assistant Majority Leader, also called the Republican “whip” John Barrasso (R-WY), [PRESIDENT TRUMP], Republican Policy Committee Chair Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV), Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Remember, the Senate is a silo -by design- isolated from influence of the American public.
If we want to change the dynamic, we must repeal the 17th amendment and return to the original constitutional construct: Senators appointed to represent the interests of each state, by State Legislature.
The Senate was designed to represent the interests of the State, not ‘the people’; that’s the job of the House of Representatives.
Machiavelli said, “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.” A prescient and oft repeated quote that is pertinent to the situation.
The House of Representatives was created to be the voice of the people, ie, “The Peoples’ House.” However, the U.S. Senate was structurally created to be the place where state government had representation in the federal government decision-making. The 17th amendment completely removed state representation, and we have been in an escalating battle over state’s rights ever since.
Overlay that DC structural issue with the fact that almost all of the bureaucracy created by this skewed DC system is now in place to defend itself from any outside effort to change it, and you get this UniParty problem that Donald Trump fully exposed.
Repeal the 17th amendment and we would see the most significant restoration of freedom, liberty and social balance in our lifetime.
I definitely support the repeal of the Seventeenth amendment… but don’t realistically expect to see it in my lifetime.
IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE REPEALED—it can be “voided” as it is unconstitutional.
There ya go.
repealing an amendment is governed by Article 5 of the constitution. A new amendment must be proposed and ratified in order to specificallly repeal the amendment in questions. There are two ways a repeal could occur…..
A. A new amendment is proposed repealing the 17th amendment. That new amendment is passed with a 2/3’s majority in both the House of Representatives and the senate AND it is then ratified by 3/4s of the state legislatures.
B.2/3’s of state legislatures call for a constitutional convention, appoint representatives to that convention, draft an amendment repealing to the 17th amendment which then must be ratified by 3/4s of the states.
so….voiding the amendment as you put it is extremely difficult which is why it happens rarely in our system of government. Probably deliberately designed by the founders to be that way.
Actually, it can be done in a single sentence. For instance, “Amendment 21, Section 1.”
“The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.”
The Constitution itself is designed not to be “easy” to Amend, and it’s very surprising that we have done so, so little. (The latest Amendment to be enacted was actually the second paragraph of the original Bill of Rights document!)
The Convention of the States is the only path to repeal the 17th amendment because the US Senate would never pass such a proposal that would remove the current group and their grip on power.
Was there corruption before the 17th amendment was passed? Sure, but nothing like the scale today, and corrupt senators were often replaced when their term expired.
The 17th is only Amendment to actually change the way our government worked as instructed by our founders… removing a very important “check” on power.
The Senate is the most powerful part of our government Constitutionally speaking…the President’s power is checked through the “advice and CONSENT” of the Senate…so the founders felt that those entrusted with so much power should each represent their ENTIRE State…hence the reason they were elected by their own State Legislators…someone popular in Miami (Florida)…and not throughout the State, per se, would not have been chosen by their legislators because that person did not serve the interests of the entire State (pretty brilliant way to get to the best possible candidates). The Electoral College serves the same purpose on a national level with all states having representation …It was imperative to the founders to create a structure of government that protected us from the tyranny that was felt by their Colonial ancestors in Europe primarily.
We should repeal the 17th Amendment and actively Protect the Electoral College…otherwise everything is Popular Vote and we all know that is the easiest way to cheat…which is where we are right now…unconstitutional elections. How can an amendment be constitutional that actually changes the power structure of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution?
“The Senate is the most powerful part of our government Constitutionally”
The House of Representatives is the most powerful. They control the purse strings.
The Speaker of the House is a very powerful position, Constitutionally. Pelosi even pointed that out once.
The House has delegated so much authority to agencies and departments that are under the Executive that it has very little true power. Delegation is unconstitutional.
Well, unfortunately, when the Senate was appointed in that way, there were associated problems, too . . .
I do think that “the 17th should go.” But the old system was no bed of roses. (“Politics,” of course, never is.)
No, it is an Amendment to that Constitution and therefore cannot be “voided.” However, as with Prohibition, an Amendment can be repealed by a new one.
And, if this Congress will not pass such an Amendment itself, as the Founders realized they might not, then the States can directly convene their own Convention to do so.
Term limits should only be one term. Any more involves reelection donors. Mathematically, it is still bribery.
And exponentially, this type of term limits will create more recipients.
Think of the solution more as a jury pool.
Better.
The Founders did not put in any term limits, and given their aversion to Monarchs, the idea certainly must have occurred to them.
They DID set it up with “3 Co-Equal branches of Government,..”
HOW can they possibly be “Co-EQUAL” when only one, the POTUS is limited to 8 years, one specifically has life time appointments (Judiciary) and one has Defacto lifetime “service”?
Obviously you can’t, ancd theres your argument its Unconstitutional.
Indeed. Been harping on this for years. Either none are limited or all are.
Except for Vance, the usual lot of crooks and creeps….Only mitch is missing….the more things change…
/and, for the record, I REALLY don’t like/trust thune…Standoffish arrogant imbecile.
I am no body language expert but the guy appeared to seething with resentment. Or, does he always look like a snake ready to strike?
Agree….his body language reminds me a lot of John Kelly when he was Trump’s Chief of Staff. ..one of overall disapproval and distain. . The problem is Thune cannot be fired.
He cannot be fired, but he can be circumvented.
I do not believe Mitch can stand up any longer. Neither can Nancy.
Look how Thune distances himself.
And overall body language and facial expressions, micro and otherwise…
If he were rubbing shouders with normal people, he’d be known as “an arrogant pr!ck.”
You’re being far too nice 🤣😂🤣
Addison Jr. was there in the person of John Thune.
The Boss is back in town.
Your blind faith doesn’t allow you to see how America First is fastly morphing Washington style? H1B program is now great and deportation includes only criminals – in prisons first and hunt for those at large. Ask yourself “But what about those 20 million peasants who just walked in? And all those babies?”
Welp, I think it’s closer to 50 million and they are on their way outta the USA after January 20th…
Wait for it..
Make E-verify mandatory and watch the self deportation train get rolling.
Yeup!
Just cut off the freebies they’re soaking up, and tax all remittances at, say, 75%. That should do it. Make it cost them more to be here than to stay home. They’ll figure it out.
Cutoff all of the federal funds going to states that support the invaders. Immediately cutoff the EBT cards and within a week or so there’d be a whole lot of self deporting
Apply that to real estate rental agreements and real estate sales, also. If yiu can’t work and have no place to live, you’ll leave quickly.
The States could have made it mandatory for all businesses in the State, to provide proof of right to work in the U.S. for all employees, every 3 months when they send in their collected sales tax, or lose their licence.
E-verify print out, Green card, copy of American birth certificate, etc.
And, spot checks like OSHA has, with employers to keep such documentation on the premises, and produce on demand, or risk loss of business licence.
The STATES are specifically recognised, in the immigration statutes, as having total authority over the licencing of businesses that operate in their State.
Of coarse, the Chamber of Commerce would resist, but the truth is the States have had the power, all along to address this, and thats before we get to a border State issueing a Declaration of Invasion, and then actually using the additional powers obtained by such issuance.
Abbot issued the Declaration, but then did nothing with it; it was all for show.
It authorises him to raise a standing army to repel the invasion, (or call up the National Guard) sign State Compacts with other States for mutual co-operation, and most relevantly collect “tonnage fees” i.e. tariffs on all goods coming in from Mexico.
Abbott, or any border State Governor has had the power to end illegal immigration for quite some time now, in adfitiin to State Legislatures writing leguslation regarding Business licence requirements…
And shut down all money being sent back to Mexico. That alone would do the trick.
Tom Homan will get the job done and then some. No one else has the fire in the belly like he does – not even Stephen Miller.
The President elect didn’t say that. The tech bros may think so, but they’re not the first, and they won’t be the last to think they have him hoodwinked only to find out otherwise.
I am not operating on blind faith.
You may continue as totally disillusioned if that pleases you.
Pour vous:
THE GAME PLAN
Sundance @TheLastRefuge2
“Trump will not find perfect solutions. He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more. Trump has stood by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on. More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change position and velocity in Trump gravity.
Bash the neocon, warmonger, and dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them one moment and come loos from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit. A few will get slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it. In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!”
Unseen1 @unseen1_unseen
Here is the game plan that the forces against Trump will be using for the foreseeable future.
They will attempt to get you to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Be it the freedom clowns and spending, the immigration hawks with H1b visas, the peace doves with timing, the cultural warriors with total bans of DEI/CRT, the neocons with war fighting, or the swamp dwellers with draining the swamp.
All of them will attempt to get you to believe on whatever issue is the issue of the day that it doesn’t go far enough or do enough. They will try to make you think that some sub issue of that issue is more important and should be handled first, that since the issue hasn’t been handled yet it won’t be, that we can’t do more than one thing, that so and so is a plant to stop the draining of the swamp, or that because it wasn’t 100% Trump lied. On every single issue, one or more groups will attempt this strategy.
You can’t allow them that power over you. If Trump secures the border and deports 2 million, don’t allow them to reduce that good by them saying well he didn’t deport 2.5 million, so he failed or lied.
You can’t allow them to use the perfect to void out the good in the coming months.
They will try. They already have with the CR and the G1b visa debates. It works, that is why they use it. You have to keep it in the front of your head on everything about to occur that half a loaf or hopefully in most cases 7/8ths a loaf is better than no loaf.
Do not allow them to gaslight you into thinking the good is the enemy of the perfect.
In the real world, most things are never perfect, but if we try real hard, we can get plenty of good accomplished in the coming 4 years.
Thank you Maquis! I wish this could be pinned on every post!
Happy New Year!
I don’t own it!
Copy it off the first page of the Presidential Post where it will be posted throughout President Trump’s Administration and paste it anywhere you feel the reminder needs to be.
Clearly Psyopsters and Doomers will need it on a regular basis!
Thank you, Maquis.
I would add that when they try to muddy the waters with sub issues, it tends to draw attention to something previously unknown that gets added to the agenda of “We the People.” And thanks to the loss of influence of the MSM, we have learned to multitask quite well so that political “sleight of hand” no longer works as well as it once did. In the long term, they end up damaging themselves quite effectively.
May I ask, where did this article come from and what is the date?
All here against the law!
Day one starts with criminals, but the plan is that all “undocumented migrants” have to go. Starting with the extreme criminal element makes mass deportations more palatable to low info citizens.
Starting with the violent criminals makes sense! They are the ones raping and murdering! Homen can deport illegals every day for 4 years and it still won’t get rid of all of them. We need them to self-deport. Cut all benefits etc.
Yes, indeed. And we need to repeal the 22nd Amendment.
There are no equal branches of government if neither the judicial nor legislative ones have term limits.
Either they ALL do, or they ALL do not.
And how is it that Congress can usurp the Constitution either for their own formation or jurisdiction over the Executive branch?
I am so infuriated!
You know the answer to that……..
Right now would be a good time to address this issue. The Supreme Court has, supposedly, more constitutional literal language justices who may interpret the constitution according to what is written in it. But exactly who has standing to request the courts to look at it?
President Trump?
See hopinow up top. Voided? OK. Let’s do it.
the word and meaning of the Constitution only matter when there is widespread citizen knowlege and a cultural commitment to it. a clear reading of the constitution would literally decimate the size and scope of the current federal government.
Get rid of lobbyists and under the table payments—then watch the ballot box be term limits. So many at once being “lame ducks?”. I know you have seen what ONE lame duck can do, how about a whole gang of them at once??? the founders left out term limits on legislators for that very reason. Besides the fact that we like to keep our constitutional legislators.
That is an interesting thought… much to explore there.
I definitely support the repeal, as do many if not most patriots do, I’m sure.
SD, any suggestions on getting that accomplished, or helping DJT to accomplish that?
The Senate certainly won’t push for it,.. nor the House,…nor the deep State they have created,…
WHO has a vested interests in having Senators represent the States?
Why, the STATES do!
But, we need MAGA people in State Governments, NOT Rinos or Dems.
HOW do we get MAGAs into State Gov….as Governors,Speakers of the House and President of the State Senate, SoS, A.G.’s,.. County Recorders, etc.?
By wresting control of the State R party away from the RINOS, THATS how..
People should go to prison for the entire Biden debacle.
That simple.
And the AD 2020 Coup!!!
And a HUGE understatement. What’s the penalty for Treason?
TO BE HANG IN THE GITMO…….
I generally enjoy and support your analysis.
What I’ve come to realize is that much of the Deep State is simply the post-WWII global need for stability, as much as the Founders knew the 1787 Constitution was needful in light of the Articles of Confederation.
We need a deep sit-and-think and a re-ratification of the Constitution that captures the post-WWI realities of foreign policy, and restores control to elected representatives by means of [hand-waving-goes-here].
Bet my YAWN gets more likes than your 1787, 1918. 1945 perambulations.
that’s because that’s how long Pelosi and Schumer have been in office! 😀
Republican Policy Committee Chair Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV)
She is a joke. She is not a republican. She was one of the Rino group that voted to confirm Mayorkas. She has blood on her hands. The people of WV need to know this!
I agree. How in the world she slipped through the cracks of the Republican Party in West Virginia is beyond belief. It shows that most, if not all, state GOP’s are really uni-party apparatuses. Repealing the 17’th amendment would, at least, make these frauds have to work harder.
Everybody surrounding PDJT at this press conference is a 🐍.
And he is well aware of that.
A meeting with corrupt snakes, coiled and determined to strike.
It’s always my hope that President Trump sees these scumbags for what they are: opportunistic operatives who represent the global stakeholders who seek to enslave us and profit handsomely from their complicity.
I’m sure he does.
But my question is “Will Trump’s blind ambition to be greatest ever President going to eclipse the MAGA mandates?”
Time will tell you the answer…..
THAT is up to We The People and our genuine return to God!
He didn’t the first time. Seeing Tom Cotton in that group pic makes me think he didn’t learn his lesson.
President Trump sometimes pulls out the poem about “The Snake”…and reads it to We The People. I think he knows.
doing cut throat business in NY for decades, I’m sure he does. He probably knows even more vicious characters than those who surrounded him at the press conference.
This is the acting president of the United States at this time.
Really? I think Bribem is a treasonous member of the coup, and only a pResident!
Like President Trump says all the time. It’s not magic. It’s common sense! Being a successful President of the United States is simply using common sense a commodity that most Democrats don’t have!
It’s not that they are “stupid people” per se, but more that they are corrupt to the core. I have a pastor friend who was very fond of saying, “Sin makes you stupid.”
I think POTUS Trump is being gracious when he calls current gov’t officials stupid.
John Thune looks like such a Bantam rooster, strutting around, fluffing his feathers, neck twisting to those around him as if to say, “Look at me!” Bwaaakkk!
Thune is just HIDEOUS!!!
Looks like one of those “sleestak” from the old “Land of the Lost” series.
Thune is molded in McConnell’s image. Don’t ever loose sight of that.
Call me crazy but it’s clear from the 4 RINO Senators they think they are the boss. That’s what their body language says to me. Trump knows what they think as well. Trump knows that they are wrong. 🇺🇸
So do we and the rest of the world!
Insecure, each and every one of them. Not like DJT, who’s secure because he’s earned what he’s built and achieved.
I think he indicated that because he repeated, “one bill or two , I dont care” as if he were giving them some leeway, throwing them a bone.
How refreshing to have a president that doesn’t have to be led around by his wife, can speak without notes, call on reporters at random and provide answers that are not scripted. Amazing!!!
I think one of my biggest reasons for a sense of relief after watching this is the absence of all those yelling school-marm women at the end, all shutting the press down with “THAT’S IT! THANK YOU!! OKAY THAT’S ALL! THANK YOU!!”
I won’t miss that spectacle, and I’m guessing the press is also relieved that they’re no longer being treated like kindergarteners on a school field trip. That was so unbelievably demeaning and demoralizing when President Biden’s “press handlers” did that, and they did it every single time.
And not one single “not a joke”.
What’s the chance 17th will be repealed?
If it’s on President Trump’s agenda; it will get done.
Why is Thune smirking when they walk out and all stand around?
Maybe President Trump cracked a joke as they were walking; not unlike him.
I did not see that at all. I see Thune and Cotton sharing a glance and quick smirk as President Trump starts to speak. But it is probably not significant. I just do not see any good coming from either one of them.
Well, I didn’t see all of that interaction, however, there just might be a liddle back and forth between those guys who know Trump when he’s being Trumpian, especially after they just had a closed door meeting with him.
He does have a great sense of humor and he can be sarcastic also. So, if they shared a back and forth smile and eye contact, maybe they could see he was getting ready to “meet with the press”…
I’ve been in those situations before and it’s really not a big deal; just sharing a liddle bit of humor between colleagues.
It’s not likely they both have the knives ready to shive him in the back, just yet…
I am sorry Abigail Straight. Really?
I think it was a tall man thing
Because he’s cocky.
Yes – “Repeal the 17th amendment and we would see the most significant restoration of freedom, liberty and social balance in our lifetime”.
President Trump just gave a presidential on the spot press conference class to Vice President Vance.
I sure hope he was paying attention.
Anyone can see those Senators know exactly who is the Boss and that he has all the receipts he needs to make “things happen in Trump time”
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To be fair, actually Vance is pretty adept at these things and did several during the campaign, on his feet without notes, ‘what’s on your mind?’
The attention Trump attracts from the International press in contrast to Biden, is like a herd of thirsty horses (or maybe donkey’s 😉) running towards water. Biden had been a 4-year drought in terms of leadership and communication. The world is FINALLY hearing from a competent and interesting US President.
It was been painful and just plain boring, to watch the senile, corrupt Biden for the past four years. The press will tolerate a lot for sake of ideology, even gross incompetence, but “boring” and irrelevance, are the unforgiveable sins.
I wanna see how the WH press corp nows behaves they were a pack
a rabid animals with Sarah and Kaylee yet with KJP they are all
professional and behaved.. Let see how they act with K..and POTUS should
tell her if they start thier rabid behavior just ended the briefing and leave
there is no reason for them to put up with that when the press
behaved with KJP
I for one, even if in a small minority here, wish he would just zip it on Greenland, Panama and Canada.
It sounds like just what it is – Imperialism*.
And now he wants to change the centuries old name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.
What’s next? Change the name of the state named New Mexico, which is even closer to home than the Gulf of Mexico, to New America ?
*Imperialism:
“Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples. Because it always involves the use of power, whether military or economic or some subtler form, imperialism has often been considered morally reprehensible. “ It is usually justified by the magic words “National Security”.
Examples in history of Imperialism include the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the old USSR, the Japanese Empire, the Third Reich, etc.
Oh! And in science fiction, the Imperialistic Borg. You will be assimilated!
No it is not Imperialism.
President Trump is protecting the United States of America.
He is starting the dialogue to negotiations and exposing the hostile countries, China and Russia, that want to shrink our territory and invade our hemisphere. This is about National Security.
BINGO!!!
RUSSIAN WANNA INVADE OUR TERRITORY…ARE YOU S*CK ??????
Respectfully disagree,
The real enemy are the people standing on either side of him. They represent entities other than us. They are wrecking our country from within. You want a boogeyman? Look at them, blame them, they do not have our backs or our interests at heart, no loyalty to America and its people, only to money and power.
“Exposing hostile countries” …Ask just about any other people on this planet and I would wager they say the United States is the most ‘hostile country’. Ask the people in the Donbas. We have 700 to 800 military bases just about everywhere you can put one, we fund terrorists and color revolutions, we bribe and overthrow when we don’t get our way, we expand NATO because ‘boogeyman bad’, we will even kill our own people in false flags to start wars. We make war for profit … it is big business.
I agree with the poster, this conversation is not what I voted for.
Right on!
You are out of it.
Wow. Rude much?!
Kind of a neo – Monroe Doctrine.
I had a friend in college who, when she wanted to do something risky, would ask her parents for something extreme so that they were relived and said yes to the thing she really wanted. Example: ask to go skydiving when she really wanted to do an overnight hiking trip.
I think Trump is employing this method w.r.t. Greenland, Gulf of Mexico etc.
Agree, Abigail. This is all about deterrence.
Bannon’s position that President Trump is building “fortress America,” i.e., that it’s all about hardening our invulnerability/physical defenses, makes excellent sense to me.
He is looking out for the U.S.A. even this here dopey Canadian can see that.
China makes “good coin” out of the Panama Canal, and you guys built it.
China will take over Greenland with bribery, as they have done here in Canada.
We Canadians have until recently been “living large”at the expense of the U.S.A.
You guys now get 1.40 -1.45
( Canadian) for your $.
Canadians that did not buy gold, U.S. $ or pay off debt will be in for a rude awakening.
Cheers!
Plus Canada can no longer defend the Arctic..Russia and China are making significant advances there.
Cheers!
Make America Look At This!
Really enjoyed the new acronym you dropped today, MIGA, Make Israel Greater Again.
Seemed kinda Imperialistic to me though.
and I guess Denmark “owning ” Greenland isnt imperialism? If Greenland doesnt accept this opportunity to join us, they will find themselves occupied by China/Russia w/i 10 years.
Did you happen to read THE ART OF THE DEAL that Trump put out in 1987 ? This rhetoric regarding Greenland, Canada and renaming the Gulf are classic Trump tactics to obtain an outcome he will settle for not for one he knows he can’t possibly achieve. If he gets fair trade deals, mutual defense agreements and border security commitments he will have gotten what he wanted
First order of business, get his nominees through the Senate approval process.
Second order of business let the RINOs know they will be primaried and defeated.
Yes, because MAGA has been so successful in our attempts to primary the long identified Decepticons 2020, 2022 and 2024.
Its no threat, and putting in Musks $ won’t make a difference.
Not just term limits. Recall votes. I’m stuck with Jerry Moran, one of McConnell’s bucket brigade, and we can’t recall him. 12 to 18 months before election, he becomes a paper cutout patriot. He needs to go… Now.
Like Graham!
Yes, when Sundance fleshes out the whole concept he notes that the new Amendment must include a provision enabling States to withdraw their Senators, an oversight in the Constitution.
Direct election of Senators, long controlled by the Derp State, has created a House of Lording Over Us, a new form of Aristocracy, a key element facilitating and controlled by the Fourth Branch, enabling unimaginable corruption and tyranny, and it is an abomination upon our Republic.
A breath of fresh air!
The American politicians of 1913 really were retarded. Income tax, federal reserve and the 17th amendment. What a set of disasters.
Not retarded. I believe it was done after most of congress had left for Christmas. The Bankers had it all planned and set up. SPIT!!!
There is sufficient evidence available to prove that the Constitutional amendments that brought us these disasters were not ratified properly.
Congress had nothing to do with the Federal Reserve, except to bend over and take it.
Repeal the 17th Amendment and add a provision for the respective state legislature to impeach the Senator.
Wouldn’t need anything so formal; they appoint, they can recall snd appoint a replacement.
Sundance has noted that the repealing Amendment must include the recall provision.
Senators would fight recall, big time, unless the Constitution blocks such foolishness.
WOW you’d need a crowbar to prise RINO Barasso away from President Trump’s side!
If I recall correctly, Barasso has always been very loyal to President Trump.
Look, they all wanted to display unity and loyalty to President Trump and the MAGA agenda.
Don’t knock it just yet; wait a bit, like after January 20th.
Barasso has always been on sundance’s many naughty lists.
I agree with steph_gray!
My memory is very long!
And I’m an Australian.
Do you think he’s had a change of heart? HaHaHa! Praise God!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
He’s doing this weird, very close sideways stance and stare at PDJT again.
“Remember, the Senate is a silo -by design- isolated from influence of the American public.” And now they are elected by the people who they do not represent.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. The Seventeenth Amendment was a net positive. All you have to do is look at the case of the Ken Paxton impeachment to see why the election of US senators should NOT revert to the state legislatures. The real treachery was the Federalists removing the ability for states to recall their federal legislators when they replaced the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution.
“Dad’s home!”
It must have been one hell of a contentious meeting.
All four of those Rino Senators look like they’ve been disciplined.
Barraso also looks like his Depends are too tight or are leaking.
Even JD does not look happy.
Thune’s going to screw with PDJT. Put money on it.
I agree about Thune..have been watching him awhile..I think he has POTUS wannabe written all over him
Interesting. A few of those pictured with President Trump look liked they were forced to take a bite of a lemon.
Two big RINOs: Capito and Thune.
While not a professor, the position of the 10th Amendment, to forestall the use of an Article 5 Conventions as the first was a debacle. The 17th, may not have been any more Constitutional, than the 16th which was not correctly ratified. The State should be able to be in control of their political officers.
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Our founders instituted a system which gave states two Senators each, obviously expecting state officials to send Senate appointees who mirrored the former body’s make-up.
Thus, states could appoint Senators from both political parties in reality.
Or, a state could offset another state by each sending a duo from the opposing parties.
To my point, the founders obviously expected ties in the Senate in order to have given the VP the tie breaking vote.
By understanding the duality of politics in the formation of this country, it is only natural that they would prepare for the duality in the Congress by providing for separate modes of representation for these United States.
The repeal of the 17th Amendment would go a long ways toward ending the falsity that is present in the phrase ‘our democracy’.
Allowing each state republic the power to appoint Senators, rather than being voted in per supposed citizen vote could give a renewed interest in what a ‘Republic’ form of government actually is.
Interestingly, if wevdid not have the 17thA, and if we assume that an R majority State Senate or House wiuld appoint an R to the U.S. Senate, and a D a D,…
The fillibuster rule would be irrelevent, as Republicans would hold more than 60 seats in the U.S. Senate, and would actually pick up seats this last election.
And, it has been this way for a # of election cycles.
Hence, it is obvious the razor thin House and Senate Majorities are a manipulation, a construct by the leadership.
America is NOT “a 50/50 nation, with slightly more voting Democrat” and those asserting this foundational false narrative can not point to any RELIABLE, UNTAINTED data to substantiate it.
Not voter rolls, or polling data, or election results,…
Current makeup of state legislatures – https://ballotpedia.org/Partisan_composition_of_state_legislatures
Selection along party lines would make the US Senate ~56 R and ~44 D.
I never thought it would sound so good to hear 20 rude fake news reporters yelling questions at President Trump again, but I loved it. Our long national nightmare is almost over!
Thune is a smirking jackass much like Paul Ryan.
I’ve been saying the same thing about the 17th Amendment myself for quite a while. If you repealed the 17th and the IRS at the same time, and instead of directly taxing citizens at the Federal level, went back to apportioning expenses to the states per-capita, the states would exert huge pressure via the Senators to keep Federal spending and regulation in check. Many, many problems would be solved in perpetuity.
1913 – 16 Amendment (income tax), 17th Amendment, creation of Federal Reserve.
USA on a slow death spiral for 111 years and counting.
Yes, of coarse we must repeal the 17th, many of us have been calling on this for a long time.
This is one part of strengthening the political power of the STATES, and reduce the power of the Federal Govrnment.
To do that, we must have State Governments that are prepared to use the 10th A. to push back and curtail the Fed. Gov.’s overreach.
In order to repeal the 17th, in order to have State Gov. willing to push back against the Fed. Gov. we need to take control of the State Republican Party, by having MAGA people in the Majority, in control positions on the State Republican Party Executive Committee.
Want true election reform, with not just one or two, but ALL of our election integrity measures?
Get MAGA control of the State R party Ex. Com.
Worried about the longevity of MAGA, after PDJT?
Get MAGA contol,…
Want to have primary challenges of Decepticons be successful?
Get MAGA control,…
And, if we FAIL to get control of State R party Exec. Comms,…well we will not achieve ANY of our goals, long term, and any short term gains will soon be wiped out by PDJT’s successors.
This is the battle that truly is for all the marbles.
If Uniparty cash rolls in, they can buy the candidates. Money talks.
Thiel bought Vance a Senate seat, cost him $15M. Ohio voters didn’t matter.
If local voters pick a candidate, the Uniparty simply starves them of cash, if not supports the other candidate. We’ve seen this. Or, the Uniparty runs 3rd party, and funds them.
You’re not wrong, but the Uniparty weight and mass works hard against your methods. Money talks.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6585/isolated-design-influence-american-public
I would hate to see my bright blue state legialature have any more voice in the federal government than it already does.
Why does Senator Thune always look like he has a sour grape in his mouth?
I know he is not fond of President Trump, but he also looked like that many times when he was standing behind Mitch McConnell.
I think his body language indicates a feeling of inferiority.
Henchmen have a certain aura.
The 17th Amendment is a foundational element of the Derp State, which MUST be destroyed!!
Thank you. I agree.
At this rate President Trump will be answering more questions from the press between winning the election and returning to the White House than President Biden did during his four years in the White House. Will the MSM report the stark contrast and lambasts Biden?
What a difference of leadership. I pray God looks over this man and his administration.
Some states passed term limits years ago, but the SC ruled those were unconstitutional. Ridiculous.
So the Uniparty selects Senate primary candidates, pays for their campaigns, and they stay in office forever. The states are effectively locked out of the process.
I had 2 Uniparty paid Senate candidates on my ballot in November. You could flip a coin, no need to pay for an election.
This is madness. The Uniparty is defending an impenetrable fortress.
Term limits, cutting off their campaign cash flow, repealing the 17th, all would help.
The SC is an impediment, as we see.
I predict we’ll have to see a huge fiscal/economic collapse to see this change.
John Thune standing there with his hands in his pockets – what an arrogant sob. Excuse the language but the look on his face identifies him for exactly what he is.
A repeal simply must be done. The founders had it right. Results of the 17th amendment have been a disaster.
Thune gives off that smug Chris Wray vibe. Facial expressions indicated he had better things to do than be there while Trump freewheeled to the press.
I fully agree that the 17th should be repealed. Of course, the old system had its problems, too. But I think that the fundamental concept was a good one that should be restored by a new Amendment. (As we did for Prohibition.)
That’s a biggy, getting rid of the 17th Amendment, another of those poison pills planted by Woodrow Wilson the Destroyer.
Politicizing the senate with direct elections countered exactly what the Founders intended. This where laws go to simmer down. Instead we have one of the most politicized institutions in our Republic, party first. You mix that in with the cheat systems, K-Street they now operate as a fully owned subsidiary of, to narrow it down, BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard.
Getting rid of the 17th Amendment would be a great start and would be real and lasting change for our Repuiblic. Much of what was foisted on us during the Wilson Administration needs to be reversed.