And it really is an act in light of all of the excuses why the Senate can’t pass a bill that everyone wants.
Most of us tend to procrastinate or get a bit lazy at times. “Go outside and rake the leaves.” “But it’s raining!” “The rain stopped two days ago. Get to work.” My wife told me the story of a woman who presented a beautiful chocolate cake with a single candle on it to her perplexed husband. It wasn’t his birthday, and their wedding anniversary was half a year earlier. Before he blew out the candle, he asked his wife as to the occasion of their celebration. “This is the one-year anniversary of my asking you to change the burned-out light in the garage.” Needless to say, the bulbs were switched before the cake was cut.
Procrastination is one thing, lying is another. And politicians lie like the rest of us breathe. The SAVE America Act is meant to guarantee that federal elections are secured for an electorate of kosher American citizens. The purpose of the new law is to weed out illegal aliens and reduce the possibility of fraud in mail-in voting. Every normal and even sub-abnormal country in the world requires picture IDs to vote. As they say in Yiddish, Duh.
Well, it turns out that a lot of people like the current system that allows for cheating and massaging electoral outcomes. The Democrats in the Senate are monolithically opposed to election reform, and that is no surprise. They have zero ideas for making the lives of Americans better or safer. What kind of ideas are thrown around by Democrats both in Washington and in your home state and town?
- Trans for everyone, including kids who are too young to spell ID.
- Pornographic material in your kid’s school library.
- Trillions in “reparations” for people who were never slaves from people who never owned slaves.
- An open border for all to enter the U.S. and receive benefits that you paid for.
- An end to ICE deportations. Who wants to throw someone out of the party?
- More DEI in the military so that America’s tanks and destroyers can be gayer.
- More DEI in college and the workplace so that your kid can never find work.
- More Muslim immigrants to completely change the face of America.
Thus, with such a losing program, the only way to win is to cheat. I think anyone who is honest with himself will admit that there are conflicting reports as to what happened during the 2020 elections. One hears about voting machines that, in the end, can be manipulated from close and afar. He also hears that there were many mail-in votes in which the signatures were not verified. Then there were votes that came in well after the formal end to voting, and they were all for Biden. And finally, dead people and illegal aliens were proven to have voted. Did any of the above alone or in combination change the outcome of the election? Donald Trump believes so, as the margins in several key states were in the tens of thousands. Americans, including Democrats, want elections based on ID and U.S. citizenship. Many senators do not.
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So, the Democrats are a solid no. They have 47 seats currently in the Senate. Senator Fetterman has said that he would not support the SAVE America Act, though he has been otherwise a breath of fresh air in actually thinking before speaking. Bless his heart. But what of the 53 Republicans? No doubt they want fair and clean elections and would support any change in protocol regarding the filibuster in order to pass what might be the most important piece of legislation in recent memory. But such is not the case. As I wrote previously, we live in a three party system: Democrats, Republicans, and MAGA. While the latter is nominally affiliated with the Republican Party, its values and outlook fit more with the Tea Party. Patriotic, fiscally responsible, traditional in values, desirous of a closed border and ejection of illegal aliens—MAGA politicians are as different from the Chamber of Commerce Republican crowd as they are from the Democrats. But why would a non-MAGA Republican senator be opposed to making elections clean and honest? Because they hate Donald Trump no less than the Democrats do. Donald Trump has upset their apple cart. The USAID grift that kept their wives employed and their martinis chilled got the DOGE treatment. They know that if honest elections ever take place over the Fruited Plain, then their ilk will be selling used cars in the local strip mall. Americans want more like Trump and Cruz and Cotton and Hawley. Fair elections might actually allow enough of our elected officials to be of a right mind on patriotism, the budget, defense, and taxes to actually get some legislation passed and make America leaner and better. Those who are not in on the SAVE America Act don’t care if the Democrats cheat—as long as they get reelected and the NGO shtick that made them sudden millionaires keeps going. Trump cramps their style, and they have zero interest in having more people like him around.
So the Thunes and Cornyns have to be tied and dragged to vote in favor of a bill that even 75 percent of Democrats support. They and their friends on the other side of the aisle regaled us with blacks not being able to figure out how to go to the DMV to get an ID or how married women would be lost forever due to a change in their last names. Sen. Lisa Murkowski gurgled that the new law would disenfranchise Americans, though Scott Presler has said that nobody would need to register again after the law comes into effect. Chuck Schumer went so far as to say that “tens of billions of people” would be removed from the voter rolls. I knew that the airport in Vegas felt a bit crowded last time I was there—now I know why: the U.S. has more voters than there are people in the entire world.
We once had a meeting in Jerusalem between American victims of Palestinian terror and members of the DOJ, FBI, and U.S. Embassy. An official from the DOJ explained why they made zero effort to fulfill the law as written and prosecute those who harmed Americans overseas. During her remarks, she mentioned that Israel was a democracy, and all of the local Americans burst out laughing. She couldn’t understand why. The reason for the outburst is simple. Israel is a democracy—on steroids. Typical elections have 20 or 30 parties running for the Knesset. As the prime minister needs 61 members in order to form a government and no party has more than 35 seats, intense horse trading goes on. And in the end, some party with five members determines much of the political and economic policy for 10 million Israelis. And in the U.S., we also have a democracy, but one in which many involved are perfectly fine with illegal aliens voting and mail-in votes of unknown legitimacy being counted. Those folks countenance elections, but only if they are guaranteed to win. Do you remember the shock of Hillary and friends upon her losing? Google had an emergency meeting immediately after the 2016 vote in order that such an outcome should never happen again. Americans want picture IDs, something that in Israel is standard—and is standard in the U.S. for getting on a plane, buying liquor, or entering a federal building. This law has to pass if the U.S. is to have any future as a democracy. Your senator wants his grift; you want clean elections. Make sure that your senator knows that his future in the Senate depends on this upcoming vote.
Editor's Note: The Democrats are doing everything in their power to undermine the integrity of our elections.
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