John Thune elected as Senate majority leader
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Not surprising. I predicted a long time ago they'd let Trump win to prevent hot civil war and instead rig the house/senate races to stymie him.
The immediate goal with Majority Leader is to prevent recess appointments, ultimate goal to remove after impeachment.
Thune will keep the Senate "session" going indefinitely even when no Senators are working in DC and no votes are taking place. They'll reject Trump's picks so he'll appoint some deep-state approved guys.
Trump will then go to the Supremes and say "bullshit!" and normally they would say "too bad, strict interpretation" but since they've already been pissed off by the lawfare and having to rule on Presidential Immunity (they wanted it kept vague as a check) they'll instead rule that Trump can recess appoint if a quorum isn't in DC for more than a weekend.
But in the meantime Trump's already appointed some deep-staters, so he'll fire them during recess since they serve "at the pleasure of the President". ACLU will sue to prevent that because they weren't fired for cause and it'll go to the Supremes who echoing their Immunity will say "if you piss us off again we're making Trump world dictator now fuck off with this bullshit".
The Senators will be royally pissed off having to fly back and forth every weekend and even more so actually do their jobs, so they'll then finally appoint the good guys to the Cabinet. So that'll eat up the first year or two of his term - enough time to rig the House with enough for permanent impeachment.
This is why J.D. Vance needs to exercise his power as President of the Senate and make Thune go sit at the kiddie table. It'll be tedious but it's the only way to break the back of the Uniparty.
Otherwise we're going to get a repeat of Paul Ryan backstabbing Trump in 2016 to protect the swamp.
Unfortunately he presides over the Senate, he's not the President of the Senate.
So he doesn't make the rules or determine sessions, just a tie-breaker. Which is good, but the establishment just whips up an extra vote so it's largely symbolic.
Beg to differ.
"but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided"
You're right, but the Senate rules make it an office with no power.