We were played for political fools.

Nick Varrecchio Facebook 11/5/2026

A big share of the blame goes to him and the useless, wobbly Republicans that refused to pass a critical portion of President Trump's program. Thune should know better. Instead, he leads the Sellout Parade ...

Okeechobee County Republican Party

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Much of the blame for the blue wave can be placed right here with John Thune.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune refused bring President Trump’s Top election-security priority to the Senate floor (SAVE), left 700 House-passed measures sitting on his desk, and sent the upper chamber on multiple vacations while blocking Trump recess appointments through pro forma sessions.  

Thune failed to codify President Trump's agenda that voters expected, and mandated. Now the next Democrat can walk into office and reverse every border security measure, and women's rights executive orders taking the U.S. back to Biden era policies of 300,000 illegals crossing the border each month, D.E.I., and men demolishing women's rights.  

Critics say that Thune had an opportunity to change the country for the better, secure elections, and safeguard American values but instead he blocked President Trump at every opportunity.  

Thune, a South Dakota who his Republican colleagues and Trump supporters call a RINO, became majority leader after the 2024 election in a secret, behind closed doors vote by Senators.  

He repeatedly claimed that the SAVE America Act could not be passed but refused to nuke the filibuster to secure the country.

The House passed the original version in April 2025, 220-208, and an expanded version requiring proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote in February 2026, 218-213.  

In the Senate, Thune refused to remove the Senate Parliamentarians when she refused to allow the SAVE act to be attached to other bills and refused to nuke the filibuster even though a voter ID measure passed with the 51 votes needed on a simple majority.  

Thun claimed Republicans would need the filibuster later to stop Democratic priorities - however experts predict that the Democrats will immediately nuke the filibuster, stack the Supreme Court and make sure that the U.S. turns into a one party state by importing their voting bloc and ensuring they continue to vote in elections.  

The Senate is set to return to D.C. for a post-election lame-duck session, where he has an opportunity to deliver on some of Trump's agenda items.

What do you think? Is Thune to blame, at least in part, for the Republicans losing both chambers of Congress?

- Christina Aguayo

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Tinker: I agree, and a lot more political corruption over the years from the elected officials that we, the people, trusted to vote for, only to be played for political fools.

We the people are finished with the Bush family's liberal, hypocritical politics, holding back the will of the voters all these past years in the Republican Party and the two-party system's corrupt shadow government. This past midterm election was the failsafe; deep-state establishment lies went into oblivion by voting for crazy Democrats. The Republican Senate Majority Leader says he's still running for Republican Minority Leader. Can his words get any more depraved and evil? People are running the government without being elected because they are wealthy and influential, taking advantage of everyone else, and supporting a double standard of living in evil.

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