Dear Senator Thune:
It’s all up to you now.
You haven’t always been a worshipper at the feet of Orange Julius. Not like a lot of others. But now, for some reason, hopefully good, those others have chosen you to lead them. Congratulations. Now here’s what you have to do – SAVE THE COUNTRY!
President Biden sometimes remembers how he once used to say, “Not a joke. I mean it.” Well, this time, I’m the one not joking. I mean it, and you must know it. You, Senator, virtually alone, stand between the Orange Obesity and the people.
It’s a lot, sir. It’s a mess that needs to be cleaned up or this grand democratic experiment (small “d”) blows up. If you fail, and if you make it to the heaven you believe in, you will have to answer to Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and the bunch when they ask why you screwed up their thing.
But you’re up to it, I hope. Look at the powerful positions that you’ve already held. In your early thirties you were the head of the South Dakota Republican Party. (Just curious, how many of the under a million people in South Dakota actually try to become the head of the State Republican Party?) Never mind. Not important. From there, though, you really put yourself, or should I say, “were put” into some very stressful positions. First you were Railroad Director of South Dakota. (As the head of the Party, they couldn’t find anything better than that for you?) But you only stayed there for two years. Then you made the giant leap to Executive Director of the South Dakota Municipal League (you must have been a rousing success with the railroad to then be rewarded with a big job like that). And those got you to Congress. How many people can there be who are better qualified to turn the Senate toward the correct fork in the road and away from despotism? Probably thousands, actually, but you’re the one we’ve got.
The Deceiving Despot likes to be the intimidator – like the boxer who stares down his opponent while the ref gives instructions. Well, he’s staring down at you right now even though the first round hasn’t started yet. “Here you go, kid,” he says, “you’re going to lie prostrate while I stuff these Cabinet bimbos down your throat.” That’s his style.
Don’t let him do it. Push back. Make him know that you serve a purpose. What’s the point of you being in Washington at all if your only function is to give him what he wants. Save taxpayer money and stay home. The rubber stamps on your desk have no control over what they approve. You do. Exercise it.
This is not to ask you to become a Democrat. I know that would make your well-coiffed hair un-coiffed. Just help us out on the really bad stuff. The country can handle Burgum in Interior – bad but not catastrophic. Gaetz though? Kennedy? C’mon John.
Will future children be taught that you saved our country or that you laid down and let us be trampled by tyranny?
Your choice
We were right 
A tongue in cheek analysis of a VERY serious situation. I certainly hope Thune is up to the task ahead but nothing that I’ve seen of Republicans to date gives me any comfort of that happening. Somewhere in my files, I have a tickler of Mitch McConnell on Feb. 13, 2021 (funny how that’s stuck in my brain) opining on Trump’s impeachment, stating that Trump absolutely knew or should have known that his actions would incite the attempted insurrection (my words, not his) of Jan. 6th … but McConnell then folded, didn’t support the impeachment and, sadly, still supported Trump the next time around, even despite everything Trump said about him and his wife. Just unbelievable bowing down before an oppressor! I’ll be shocked if Thune holds down the fort … but pleasantly so.
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