“What the hell is going on in the US Senate?” Tucker Carlson posted Saturday on X. “Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate.”
The candidates are John Thune, John Cornyn, and Rick Scott, and the selection will be by secret ballot.
“John Cornyn is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s” Carlson notes. True enough, and Corny has betrayed gun owners before on numerous occasions, from backing due process denying “red flag laws” and Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, to teaming up with the late Sheila (Heavy as 10 Boxes) Jackson Lee in “#StandingForPublicSafety.”
What the hell is going on in the US Senate? Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate. Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on.…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 9, 2024
Carlson is silent on Thune, who joined Cornyn and other Vichycons in supporting Harry Reid by breaking the Ted Cruz/Mike Lee Filibuster of the Anti-gun ObamaCare Law, and in voting to confirm anti-gun Merrick Garland as Attorney General.
“Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump,” Carlson declares. “Call your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott.”
Not so fast.
“I’m a gun owner and NRA member,” Scott wrote in a 2019 editorial for The Washington Post. “I support red-flag laws to help stop mass shootings.” As Florida Governor, Scott signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, containing multiple infringements to “raise the age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21, require a three-day waiting period for most gun purchases, and ban the sale or possession of ‘bump stocks.”
Considering the Trump bump stock ban along with his past statements such as “Take the guns first, go through due process second” and a call to raise the minimum age for all gun purchases to 21, and Carlson has a point, at least as far as the “old” Trump is concerned.
All three candidates, Cornyn, Thune, and Scott, should be unacceptable to gun owners whose skeptical acceptance of campaign promises about “our beautiful Second Amendment” and opposition to the Kamala Harris/Democrat citizen disarmament agenda helped Trump achieve his definitive electoral and popular victory.
And that leads to the question: What’s the rush? Why does this need to be voted on now, and why in secret?
On learning that the three had thrown their hats in the ring for Senate Majority Leader, my first question was “How are candidates chosen?” With no clear explanation defined, the process appears to be, as one colleagues opined, someone who wants the job throws a stick in the water and sees where it floats.
But how the winner is chosen is spelled out on the Senate webpage:
“With each new Congress, the Democratic and Republican Conferences elect one of their members to serve as party leader.”
The new Senate hasn’t been seated yet, and Republicans have gained four seats. Why should the current Senate take that away from them, especially before the public has had a chance to even consider the process, let alone assess the choices and suggest candidates whose records may be more beneficial, or at least less problematic?
Can we at least have some time for public input on something that can profoundly affect us all before sneaking this through?
Why have many gun owners worked their hearts out to enact the MAGA agenda only to have Republican establishment figures from The Swamp take over from here? All we need do is look at the last time the GOP was given the keys to the presidency, the House, and the Senate, and then to recall how nothing happened to deregulate suppressors, and how establishment House Speaker Paul Ryan killed concealed carry reciprocity because the “timing wasn’t right”!
The GOP under Donald Trump — thanks to the MAGA movement that many tried to kill because of their own special interests — has nothing less than a mandate to enact an agenda that can undo decades of unconstitutional citizen disarmament edicts. Gun owners who voted for it deserve bold and true forward-thinking leadership, not the same entrenched self-serving turf protectors who kill real change and side with Democrats on “gun control.”
The leadership in the gun rights community, so-called Gun Owners for Trump who supposedly have the president’s ear, should let him know that Republicans once more snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is not what their memberships signed up for. Gun owners who agree can make that known to them, to Senate Republicans, and to the president elect. Either that or we can let one of Mitch McConnell’s parting official acts to be maneuvering the RINOs to screw us over once again.
Also see: NRSC Hiding Swamp Loyalties in Fundraising Appeals to Trump Supporters
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
McConnell is pure swamp. Anyone he endorses is disqualified right there.I say make RAND PAUL the Senate Majority Leader!
H/T to Tim Harmsen for inspiring my meme.
I second that motion. If we would have listened to him after 911, we wouldn’t have the invasion of privacy that we have today.
It won’t do me any good to contact my Senators. Mine are both Dems, one soon to be replaced by Pencil Neck Schiff. No, Schiff wasn’t really elected. Remember how Trump “lost” in 2020? That’s how it’s worked in Kalifornia for nearly 30 years. I can only hope that Trump can keep the promises he made concerning Pencil Neck and Newscum when he spoke in Coachella.
We need to RICO the whole damn Demonrat Party. Seize all assets and lock ’em ALL up!!
Don’t forget the Republicans. It’s a uniparty.
RINOs aren’t Republicans. They’re Democrats in elephant skin.
How many “real” Republicans are there?
Really, how many?
Trump? Massie? Gaietz?… Beyond that I’m having trouble thinking of anyone else, unless you want to go back over a century to Col. Roosevelt.
Better a sworn enemy than backstabbing traitorous allies like Cornyn.
If Cornyn was on fire, I wouldn”t…
Well said! With Newsollini and the rest of them Commiefornia is sinking fast. FYI there another gas tax hike on the way and let us not forget the 11% excise tax on guns and ammo on top of the 10% sales tax. I’d escape if I could.
My condolences on the recent senatorial election. On a credibility scale of 0 – 100, Schiff scores a negative ninety. (0 means you can’t believe anything he says, a 100 means you can believe everything said. -90 means 100% confidence that 90% of everything said is a lie.)
What do you expect? Schiff is a J$W.
And, it would appear, you are a bigot.
I’m antiSatanic…
I’m not sure what the Tweet he posted had to do with your comment or Schiff.
Schiff’s ancestry isn’t what makes him an evil numbskull who does the deep state’s bidding. It’s his dark and corruptible soul which allows him the ability to turn his back on his own people and serve his puppet masters instead.
“thanks for your vote”.. and the betrayals begin.
mcconnell is chinas bitch
Everyone else is Israels…
Obviously Photo Shoped ! Jewish people in the background !
china … really !
My God you people are dense. No shit Sherlock.
MORE LIKE ANTISATANIC… ALL DAY… EVERY DAY!!!
His wife’s family owns a major Chinese shipping firm…
If the GOP doesn’t somehow, purge itself of 99 percent of it’s uniparty members, it’ll have gone the way of Whigs, by the next decade.
David’s article is dead on balls accurate.
All these politicians are nothing but lawyers that could not make it being a lawyer so they became politicians. They all nothing but a bunch of losers trying to become millionaires by Fing we the tax paying people of the US!!!!
I said years ago after the Las Vegas PSYOP that Mitch McConnell is a RINO and a traitor to the republican people because he held back the vote for reciprocity. Notice that the vote is going to be silent. That is so we don’t know who the traitors are to kick them out of the swamp. The saga continues and traitors to the republic are still in place to try and destroy We the People’s directive just issued election day. McConnell needs to go for a ride. President Trump says that if it comes to his desk he will sign… Read more »
Silent, i.e. secret ballot, is a good idea. These egotistical, thin skinned, vengeful assholes are very likely to seek payback against anyone who they know to have voted against them. And that would cripple any progress we need in the next 2 years.
Just like I said yesterday, Rick Scott is gone. Who is counting the votes?
I think that knowing who we need to kick out is more important than who is going to attack who! Thune won, who voted for him. Business as usual, the RINO’s in charge.
Drain the swamp.
I guess we should be happy Cornyn did not get to be SML. Like happy they only cut off your thumb instead of the whole hand. I don’t know Thune, hopefully he is the lesser of 3 weevils. But holding this election before 3 January is underhanded BS. I suppose a new interparty election can be called any time. If the Speaker of the House can be kicked out, I imagine Senate Majority Leader can too.
It’s all way beyond me. My wife says she believes that Thune is better than cornyn.
Maybe after Trump is in they can do it all over again, we can try and get Cruz in there.
LOL. Reportedly everyone on Capitol Hill hates him. That’s just one of the reasons I like him.
Well since I think the biggest percentage of people there is swamp rats, if they hate him, I am in.
This is how Republicans fuck themselves.
McConnell needs to go for a tide to the train station.
This piece resurrected from 2018 is relevant to the discussion. It may be too late to affect the outcome because this was deliberately sprung on us with little chance for input, but it’s important to have a record of objections and to let Republicans know we watch them just as closely as we do Democrats.
I also discussed this article (and more) yesterday with host Mark Walters on Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense.
And this just in: There may be a chance to delay the vote but it requires we help.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” (Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1808 – 1890)
Hopeful news that Ron Johnson might actually do something useful.Never mind, WSJ just flashed that Thune got it. So much for Johnson being helpful.Swamp Thune it is.
A perfect example of RINO’ destroying the Republican Party from within!! They refuse to obey the will of the people. We need Term Limitations, these Senior Senators have forgotten that they work for us, they continue to force their will on the people they were elected to represent. This is a disgusting example of Senators trying to block Trumps agenda.
How about MTG?
Because she’s in the House, not the Senate.