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John Thune’s Hidden Strength: Is This the Political Comeback That Will Shock Everyone?

Ever wonder if the filibuster could make a comeback—not as some dusty procedural relic, but in its original, epic endurance-test glory? Picture this: senators reading Gravity’s Rainbow so slowly, it takes them days to make a single point. Sounds exhausting, right? Yet maybe that’s exactly the kind of pluck Washington needs right now. With the Senate tangled up over the president’s latest “SAVE America and My Ass” bill, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune caught between a rock and some very loud MAGA stans pushing for a “talking” filibuster revival, the political drama is hotter than a high-intensity interval workout. Meanwhile, the president’s juggle of bombastic demands and culture-war theatrics keeps shaking things up, and the GOP is left scrambling to keep its act together without losing its mind—or the filibuster itself. So, can old-school filibustering save the day? Or is it just time to sweat it out and move on? Let’s dive in and unpack this mess—because politics, much like fitness, surprisingly comes down to endurance and strategy. LEARN MORE

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I don’t necessarily believe the filibuster has to go. I think it should revert to its original form—speak until you drop. Read Gravity’s Rainbow, very slowly. Mr. Smith yourself into a coma. Die at the podium, if need be. Hell, Cory Booker’s already gone for 25 hours. He’s probably ready to swim the channel again.

With the Senate now in knots over the president’s beloved SAVE America and My Ass bill, Senate majority leader John Thune, who is taking incoming hits from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, took some more from MAGA stans who proposed bringing back the “talking” filibuster as a way to counter the unified Democratic opposition to the bill. By way of response, Thune has said he will bring the bill to the floor next week. From Politico:

“It just kind of comes with the territory,” he said. “You just roll with it, you know. It’s the times in which we live.” Thune spoke just hours after announcing plans to call up the bill next week in a bid to bring an unusually acrimonious stretch for his conference to an end. It will not include a talking filibuster gambit that would skirt the usual 60-vote threshold by instead forcing Democrats to hold the floor if they want to block the bill.

The pressure has frustrated GOP senators who believe the increasingly public infighting has transformed an issue that polls well for them—preventing noncitizens from voting in federal elections—into a messy internal brawl.

Fed up with a crowd of conservative social media influencers flooding their online accounts with messages about a talking filibuster—many of them egged on by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)—a few are growing more blunt about those frustrations.

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Right now, the president is enthusiastically screwing his own pooch. He’s doing all he can to bully and threaten GOP senators. He’s already broken the brain of Senator John Cornyn, who has flip-flopped on doing away with the filibuster in the hope that El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago will endorse him in his primary campaign against Ken Paxton. Thune, who is capable of looking beyond the next election and perhaps dreading what a Democratic Senate might do without a filibuster, is refusing to consider it.

The president also is not doing himself any favors by attempting to lard the bill up with extraneous culture-war nonsense aimed at further demonizing our fellow trans citizens. In a remarkable fit of pique even for his toddler brain, the president is threatening not to sign any laws unless he gets his way on this issue. So far, Thune is holding firm. I figure he’d rather be in Washington than back home in South Dakota, now that Kristi Noem is loose again.