This is so perfectly Republican.
Republican senators have slipped a provision into the Continuing Resolution bill to re-open government, that forbids the DOJ or Judicial branch from subpoenas targeting their phone records. The Senate will be protected from abuses to the 4th amendment, but you and me – no such luck.
Additionally, as further evidence to the structural priorities of the professional Republicans, if the legislative provision is violated, each instance of violation will result in a $500,000 payment to the senator. Go figure.
WASHINGTON DC – Senate Republicans secured a provision in the bipartisan, shutdown-ending government funding package that could award senators hundreds of thousands of dollars for having their phone records collected without their knowledge as part of a Biden-era investigation.
[…] It was tucked into the legislative branch spending measure for fiscal year 2026, part of a three-bill “minibus” of appropriations measures that Senators were set to vote on Monday night alongside a continuing resolution to fund the government through Jan. 30. The House is expected to clear the package for President Donald Trump’s signature as early as Wednesday.
[…] The provision states that electronic services providers must notify a Senate office if the provider receives a request to disclose the data from that senator, or senator’s office. Moreover, the legislative language stipulates that the provider cannot be barred from notifying the senate office under a court order, though that notification may be delayed in the event the senator in question is under criminal investigation.
[…] This portion of the legislative branch appropriations bill also appears to provide a cash bonus for those Senators who were targeted by Smith’s probe. If the provision included in the bill is violated, the Senator can sue the federal government, and if the lawmaker succeeds in the case, the person will be awarded $500,000 or more for each violation by the government. (read more)
Don’t forget, in the last FISA-702 reauthorization, Congress also forbade any member of the legislative branch from being subject to the illegal use of the NSA surveillance system.
Congress is exempt from the FISA abuse they authorize on Americans, and Congress is exempt from subpoenas against their phone records that are authorized against Americans.
Seriously folks, we just cannot make this stuff up.
So who now are the Kings?
A whisper of gratitude could be heard from the left.
Too bad the constitution doesn’t speak directly to congress passing laws that exempt them that don’t apply to other Americans. Is this a lifetime exemption, what if you only serve 2 or 3 terms or like Nancy retire, do you lose your superpowers?
Maybe the solution to that problem is jailing the perpetrator.
Somebody already in government needs to talk to the Justice Branch about subpoenas being issued by liberal judges on spotting justification from a SP/SC from the other party. We’ll have another ‘Russiagate’ unless this is addressed but at least all 100 senators won’t have any worries.
What a novel idea..jailing the perpetrator instead of rewarding the politicians with our tax dollars.
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Without the coin, you wouldn’t have a place to complain about the coin…
Lighten up Francis….
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“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.”
George Carlin
plastic and the earth.
Carlin didn’t account for the global IC and corporatism manipulation that starts years prior to any given primary in question all the way through to election rigging and post election blackmail and bribing.
It’s a seductive statement but it is also cover for the IC and compromised pols.
Thankyou for posting this. Spot on.
Our ancestors fought for, created and bequeathed us a Republic.
We, as taken as a whole, unique American society, have detioriated spiritually and become selfish and uneducated.
The rampant obesity is a physical manifestation of laziness.
Poisoned food, poisonous drugs, poisoned air and water, broken financial system, corrupt voting, Corrupt officials at every level of government in every branch of the government combined with 5th generation psychological warfare. How does the next generation get up and go to work every morning?
Considering all of this, I am amazed at the enthusiastic caring families I see every time I go to our local Little League baseball field and youth soccer fields to see practices and games. These moms and dads are working very hard to provide for their families, attend to their children’s physical, emotional and spiritual needs while working long hours and volunteering in the community. And, some run for public office and observe first hand the manipulation by “special” interests.
I am so hopeful that real issues will continue to be addressed. The growth of “alternative (you know, TRUTHFUL media)” has awakened many to the abuses by our government officials, government employees, financial institutions and those paid to protect law abiding citizens. I suspect the remaining unawakened will only figure it out when their bank account is impacted. Considering the rate of dollar debasement I suspect that time will come sooner rather than later.
Rampant obesity is a symptom of processed food, the result of being obese is the inability to move. Get off your bias high horse and no I am not obese.
I am well aware of the poor dietary choices to consume over processed foods of why many are obese, as well as chronic health conditions. There is no mocking of, or criticism of these individuals.
I am referring to obesity in the context due to the rampant laziness of so many young people and teenagers.
This has become a generational issue, combined with a lack of opportunity and widespread lack of education has degraded our critical human capital.
and lack of self-respect
I think good and honorable people are primaried out, so that crooked people can be manipulated for votes.
good point
You just figuring that out now?
You’ve never seen the RINO scum in action in NJ….
It’s the go to for them….yank the rug out of someone the RINO scum don’t like…
Yeah…filthier than the Commie scum we oppose…..
They don’t fall from the sky?
Is this where The Cackler’s falling out of the coconut tree came from?
“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?” (George Carlin)
Relevant to the continuing managed decline of the US.
Success is apparently defined as achieving a planned end state: A diminished totalitarian US integrated with the forming totalitarian “multi-polar geopolitical order”.
The shutdown marked another step down, exacerbating sinking dysfunctions and now resuming the overspending fiat debt spiral as the nascent hegemony in the east continues to accelerate its buildup.
And some have suggested that shutting down most DoD Civilians for over 42 days after decimating their experience pool and leadership with months of cuts, implies that DOGE and the shutdown may have been part of a plan for managed decline of the US military.
So it does not appear to be simple “garbage in, garbage out” with US leadership and policy. All trends appear to be part of managed decline. Everything is apparently executing according to plan, leading up to a pivot to US totalitarianism that will likely be effected by major war, bioterror democide, or both.
‘All trends appear to be part of managed decline.’
The plandemic and insidiously harmful genetic manipulation shots coerced on only the US and aligned nations illuminated this quite clearly.
More bioterror democide appears likely:
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/self-amplifying-mrna-vaccines
Rome fell and its citizens couldn’t stop it either, circumstances may be different, but Rome’s citizens didn’t have the internet, we do and nobody will standup to the ‘Ruling Class Elite’.
Some suggest:
The visible “Ruling Class Elite” are themselves controlled.
By veiled Controllers even more powerful than the visible Elite or visible rulers of nations.
The visible Elite serve the Controllers’ designs, as well as providing a red herring to explain globally controlled machinations.
WEF is an example, providing a target to blame as well as stoking fear with things like “you will own nothing and be happy”, “you vill eat ze bugs”, and crazy transhumanist nonsense.
Follow the Money……..and the “Family ” bloodlines. Fascinating history that SHOULD be taught in our halls of education, golly, wonder why it isn’t?
Exactly, a wise man once said, the name escapes me, “I like humanity, its people I cannot stand.”
Give The People some credit. Elections are rigged, that means we’re doing something right.
Lester Maddox, former Governor of Georgia, in response to the lack of quality in Georgia prisons, that we needed a higher quality of prisoners.
So there is that.
Dirty.
Flood the WH internet with “I DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS PFJT”
PFJT ?
Separation of Powers.
I wonder. If the POTUS wants the phone service providers to show POTUS the Senator phone content, who could stop him if such was in good faith pursuit of domestic and foreign infiltration and criminal activity, including evidence of insider trading and other potential threats to national security and cartelization of government assets and resources?
What if POTUS sent the US Marines to gather what the DOJ has just been legislatively banned from collecting?
The US Senate is not The President of The POTUS.
No one expects it to come down to force on force. But if it does?
The US Marines are not going to go to war with the US Senate.
I think if push came to shove, the Marines would come down on our side. They, at least, have a duty to the Constitution and America. Obviously Congress has no such duty – only to themselves.
If it does, the Republic is not just toast, but cinder toast. Never do this.
THEM….and us.
Get ready for the dem pushback, maybe as soon as 2026 or 28.
MAGA is living in a state of irrational exuberance.
Outrageous. But really no surprise.
Moreover, the legislative language stipulates that the provider cannot be barred from notifying the senate office under a court order, though that notification may be delayed in the event the senator in question is under criminal investigation.
Delayed until when? Arguably the senator could request this as Brady material after indictment, but requiring disclosure beforehand would be tipping off a crooked politician that the feds were one to him (or her).
Reminds me of that time when they exempted themselves from having to take the covid vaccines they were forcing on to us.
And The Club is a bi-partisan organization.
It is one Uniparty, we have been a one party state for many decades.
The arguing and feigned emotions based on non existent solemnly held beliefs is all theater. Prostitutes have far more solid principles.
Similar to divorce attorneys representing estranged spouses divorcing.
They threaten, make a strong showing, drag out the proceedings for maximum billing hours.
But after 5, meet at the local bar, exchange toasts and calculate how long the couple’s assets will last before settling.
And other leaders see through this clearly, its’ obvious to everyone overseas, just Americans don’t see it.
Some see it but pretend not to notice for different reasons.
Fake Pandemic
The phone companies will just volunteer the republican phone records, no subpoena needed.
Idiots.
I think the govt buys the lists, as do many other commercial interests. Then they know where to go look, find something, then go back with a subpoena, making it all look like they recovered unseemly things through the subpoena.
Same mechanism as crossfire hurricane or Artic Frost, or any other thing DC and northern Virginia want to know about.
Salt the ground they live on.
…and God Bless America, and each and everyone of us.
Of course they do…the crooks.
Now the President needs to go after their campaign financing funds.
Then they need to go after the personal financial accounts of the Senators and their immediate family members, subject to a wider net to their siblings and parents of the Senator and her/his spouse.
Which Senator proposed this? Who had it placed in what bill, and when?
Start asking the right ******* questions.
Trump should veto this, and <very> loudly say exactly why.
Salt the ground.
His priority is kicking the can down… Err, sorry… passing the CR
Ouch. Hope it ain’t so.
Some Senator needs to be identified….
Thank you – AGAIN – Sundance!
Our Congress critters are the scum of the earth.
And yet still we vote for them and then consent. So they kinda dont care how they appear to us anymore.
Aren’t we beginning to even question whether any politician gets into office without ballot manipulation?
Uniparty RINOs fully support illegal 702 surveillance and the abolition of the Sixth Amendment protections … just so long as it’s not used against them. They hate us every bit as much as the radical Marxist extremist Democrats!
That is the same reality I see. Peas in a pod pretending to be two different kinds of peas.
But not as much as we hate them.
And they KNOW it….
It’s why they leave little puddles of Legislative urine on the floor….
It will be their demise…..
Hope so.
How a German domestic spy agency classified a random man as a “potential right-wing extremist” for no reason and nearly ruined his life
eugyppius Nov 11, 2025
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/how-a-german-domestic-spy-agency
It will be quite interesting to see how PDJT treats this new side show provision tagged on to the deal to end the shut down that goes far beyond reopening the government.
Presiden Trump’s willingness to sign the law without striking the provision will also be an important tell. The dims and repukelickens seem to want POTUS backed against the wall.
We will see what happens.
Ny post says there is a hemp ban snuck in too…
He is going to sign it
Yes, it looks like he will sign it as is. I hope he reads it before signing.
Yes, he’ll sign. Optimal results with the corrupt Senators he’s forced to deal with. I’d like to see a Constitutional challenge to the unequal exception.
Uniparty.
Probably the only issue on which the Uniparty could agree.
Funny, this isn’t a provision we’re hearing about in the news.
It’s a Feudal System.
The “Lords” aren’t gonna spy on each other or break each other’s rights. They’ll do it to the plebs though. Isn’t this the most visible of the Two Legal Systems in operation?
Rand Paul is the holdout on the hemp problem. I don’t blame him. Somebody snuck a provision in the bill banning selling hemp products in truck stops, service stations, etc. Rand Paul said this would hurt hemp producers in Kentucky. The first thing I thought after reading about it was lobbiosts wanting to regulate the products.
Crap Weasels! Thanks for the report, Sundance!
lol, another law oughta do the trick!
are these mofos that really that stupid?
yes.
Exactly…typical of the ‘Money Hungary’ boys and girls holding those seats. That is ONE reason I register to vote as an Independent. The other reason is the Democrats ‘Power Hungary’ appetite.
They are all selling us out!
Again
So basically Adam Schiff, Mark Warner and the other Russiagate conspirators just got saved by the GOP. Nice.
You know, it’s ‘national security’ and all that jazz.
It is so UniParty. Just like with FISA and the rest. The UniParty is not going to follow the law. We need Charges and Arrests Now. Do you really think a Jack Smith in the future will not tap Senators? Not tap the White House? Not tap us?
Now Law is applied to honest people. The terrorists, Islamists, and Communists just ignore the law.
We had a Fedsurrection on J6. They were taking down a Sitting President on that day……A Sitting President that had just WON REELECTION.
Republican’ts could f*** up a cup of coffee. What are we doing here, really?
We are spinning the tires like a New Yorican in a lowrider Honda station wagon stuck in the sugar sand on his first excursion to Daytona Beach.
I finally got more than 3 hrs sleep in one sitting and I wake up to this?
Jack Smith got to do it but nobody else.
LOL.
The Senators are starting to show signs of fearing the DOJ and the people! Good!
It’s called a tell….
Someone(s) is/are hiding somethings….
Time to dig for pearls…start with the one who thought this up…..
There’s gold in there….
NO MERCY!
Not only did they provide no protections for average American citizens, they didn’t even cover their friends on the other side of Congress! Talk about self-absorbed!
It is time for the people to demand that this BS come to a screeching halt. It’s been going on for far too long but it became really obvious to me under the WingMan himself. He didn’t try to hide it. In fact, he was fine flaunting it in our faces while his Bro kept telling us that “elections have consequences”. The real assault on the Constitution began in 2009 and has only magnified since. Imagine if Hillary had won in 2016–we would likely be left of Communist China and the entirity of the EU by now. As a former Democrat, I find it illogical and insane that what was once an American party has now taken over the tenets of the former USSR and Communist China and now is embracing Islam over Christianity. Even the Catholic Church, it seems, is fine with replacing the Bible with the Quoran.
I heard a statement this morning on radio that said that the real push behind the shutdown was the elimination of all the old members from the Democrat party and their replacement with the new Democrat Socialists. I think it actually goes one step farther, the Democrat Socialists would like to see the elimination of ALL older citizens thus providing more free stuff for the next generation to destroy. Just based on the No Kings protests (which should have been played on Comedy Central), it appeared that the vast majority of the “generic protesters” were white seniors. Maybe they were privvy to the real plans of the Democrat Socialists and saw their “protests” as a way of surviving.
All 535 are corrupt. It has always been thus.
I lol at people who inevitably claim “my rep is good, my senator is good”. Um, no. No they are not.
I loathe the Bunker Class.
Another nail in the national coffin.
Phone records?
Their phone conversations should be made public when they conduct the government’s business as my representative!
I had heard that Kash Patel had some kind of evidence against Pelosi based on her phone records. Does this now go away. Maybe why she is retiring.
Now that a huge chunk of USAID $ is turned off, the Senators have to codify another way to hit the pay window. I see this being abused.
I hate every last one of them
Is there a record of who/names proposes these add bits of legislation?
I recall Sundance telling us that ALL bells are written /prepared by lobbyists.
The IC will do as they please in conjunction with a supporting AG and DOJ until people are held accountable for prior abuses. They have seven ways from Sunday to get any data they want. So far FISA abuses have been ignored. Must be because someone with a black robe approves it making it legal and subject to impunity.
Corruption has no boundaries!
So the actual shutdown was to give more freedom and protection to congress and less to the people.
Didn’t they subpoena Trump’s phone records and every MAGA congressman’s phone records over the J6 riot the D’s and Rino’s staged? Does their anti-Constitutional exemption apply to Congress’s subpoena power too? Or just DOJ’s?
Completely and totally unconstitutional….
WE need to shove that particular provision where the sun don’t shine….
Filthy rotten scum…..
NO MERCY!
This is why they never allow ‘line item veto power’ to the President.
Dang SD!
You had me laughing with the juxtaposition of certain Senators and Mickey’s sign language.
Is that even legal?
No, it’s not….
It violates multiple Constitutional provisions….
We can start at equal protection and separation of powers…
TOTALLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL….
Find the people behind this effort and SQUEEZE…
Not surprised when many of these same Senators ignored the FISA 702 violations and findings by FISC Judge Collyer in 2014 … that they only thought of themselves.
And Congress has their own “Social Security” system, and their own “healthcare” system, apart from what they deem as sufficient for us.
Truly, people, the members of Congress are an evil, self-serving group of power brokers who could care less about America.
I would like to add to the title “…. you/me and THE CURRENT PRESIDENT AND ADMINISTRATION, not so much.