Why?
When we need action at the southern border like RIGHT NOW. Why DOA?
Seems like the RNC is loyal to Batman and not to Gotham City.
After the two LE got jumped by Venezuelan hoodlums in NYC you think the urgency would of escalated. But no. Other than political show boating.
Now they are attacking a republican Senator/Congressman from Oklahoma for wanting to vote for this bill.
Pretty chickenshit!
Only four votes from Rs for border bill. Fuhrer's command to kill it was enough to change R's direction entirely. And Rs know that they will not get this kind of better deal EVER, and it was bi-partisan deal to begin with.
Their sole aim is stopping funding Ukraine for the sake of Putin, and to kill the border bill for the sake of Fuhrer Trump at the same time.
No Future for Rs. They should all immigrate to Hungary or Russia. Just look at the traitor Tucker Carlson, glad to be useful idiot for Putin right now.
How many Rs voted to impeach Trump? About the same number of people who voted for the border bill. If you didn't see the resemblance here, you are totally missing what kind of party Rs became.
"Just four Republicans voted for it. In the end, even McConnell backtracked
and voted against the package that he had helped develop.
It was a jarring moment on Capitol Hill that pointed to a changed landscape: The Kentucky Republican, a one-man power center for more than a decade, is seeing his influence with fellow senators wane as his party continues to transform into the right-wing populist mold of Donald Trump. The former president, who fiercely opposed the border deal and has long pushed fellow Republicans to turn away from McConnell, is cruising to a third consecutive GOP presidential nomination."
Surprising, Even Fox News has been pushing the questioning of their motives. The MAGA GOP hasn't learned anything from history when they shut down the government trying to get their way, the public clearly blamed it on them and saw past their sheep narrative.
It’s starting to look like an internal version of the Ukrainian Quid pro quo. This is definitely an opportunity for traditional Regan Republicans to do the right thing for their border constituents and possibly reclaim a voice to their party.
Change the Subject line to "Kill Joe" and you'd make some progress on the border
Seriously, this shit has been fucked up for 100 years, we literally passed laws back in Reagan's day to give amnesty to millions in exchange for true border security/immigration reform.
We got the amnesty but never got the latter part, fucking pols.
Trump didn't really do shit, slowed it a little with the Hold in Mexico thing and Biden has allowed it to become even worse but I've heard it two ways:
One, kill the bill so Trump's got a political cudgel against Biden (does he really need one given how bad the optics are for Joe already?)
Two, the bill gave too much leeway for Biden to do whatever, so it ended up giving him an election chit but wouldn't really make any difference at the border and we'd be in the same shit soup except for Joe could tout a win that wasn't really a win
I know that Lankford and Sinema worked on it pretty hard and they're no dummies.
Actually that works well to stop an invasion on our soil.
Keep the bullets on the USA side.
There will never be any questions again from foreigners regarding illegal entry.
Two really good ideas. I think collecting and reusing brass is very healthy for the environment.
Yes, keep it on the American side. My paw is so smart.
Isn't napalm more efficient?
No brass to pick up and we'd have a nice fire lane at the end, amirite?
Fuel air bombs here and there for some shock and awe.
We're talking about the Canadian border, right?
Fucking Canuck invasion to get free Medicare procedures, bastards!
Oh, NOW we need action. We didn't need action when Biden ended Remain in Mexico. We didn't need action when it was apparent that Harris was a worthless appointment. We didn't need action when the red border states were complaining. We didn't need action when Florida made a point by busing illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard. Only now, as the election draws closer and Biden's poll numbers are lower than ever, now that even the blue SANCTUARY CITIES like NY and Chicago NOW we need action. Enforce the laws that we already have. Don't give amnesty to anyone and everyone who asks. Vote Biden and the Dems out of office. There's the action you need, OP.
And of course the Border Patrol supports the bill. Right now, they're still operating on 2023 CR money. AND they have to still pay the 5+% average raise to their employees. The bill gives them more money, AND THAT"S ALL THAT MATTERS TO THEM. They don't care about the money to Ukraine or the ridiculous "limits" on immigration that the bill is supposed to set (and which Biden won't enforce anyway - he's not enforcing the ones we have now). They don't care about any of the other provisions of the bill which will have little or no effect on stemming the tide. Why would they? That's the job of Congress to consider, not them.
MAGA's fascination for Hungary or Russia's dictatorship, strongmen and for their White Christian Nationalism.
Here is an interesting article to explain the above; written by David French in NY Times.
The obvious reason is that Trump and MAGA rights floated lies about "CrowdStrike" server allegedly being held in Ukraine, and their conspiracy theory that it was Ukraine not Russia that interfered with the 2016 election.
The other is their hatred for the left, or for "Wokeism" of the left that spread all over the West. In order to defeat the decadent West, they needed to honor anti-woke leaders who defends Christian Civilization; Putin and Orban. MAGAs don't care about their inhuman treatment of non-Whites in their land, or the gulag or other concentration camps under their leadership, or Russia's invasion on Ukraine, targeting innocent civilians and killing them, kidnapping children to bring them to Russia, raping and violating women.
MAGAs are total crackpots regardless of their higher education. Just read the following paragraphs.
"In a 2017 speech at Hillsdale College, the Claremont Institute's Christopher Caldwell declared that if 'we were to use traditional measures for understanding leaders, which involve the defense of borders and national flourishing, Putin would count as the pre-eminent statesman of our time.' In Caldwell's words, Putin 'is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy."
"In 2021, The American Conservative's Rod Dreher praised a Putin speech condemning the West and said that Putin and Hungary's Viktor Orban were 'completely clear and completely correct on the society-destroying nature of wokeness and postliberal leftism."
"A 2022 exchange between Steve Bannon and Erik Prince, the founder of private military contractor Blackwater, was even more illustrative. Bannon hosted Prince on his podcast shortly after Putin's invasion and proclaimed Putin 'anti-woke.' Prince replied supportively that the people of Russia 'still know which bathroom to use.' And Bannon kept the thought alive, asking, 'How many genders are there in Russia?"
In summary; "But the MAGA infotainment right isn't engaged in thoughtful analysis. It's turning its angry domestic grievances into foreign policy."
I posted my message in a wrong blog, so I apologize that I had to repeat it here again;
Let's hear from two senators worked on the bill, Lankford (nickname 'immigration hawk') and Sinema (she is more of an independent than a Democrat).
Lankford also said he was threatened by a 'popular commentator' who told him, 'If youtry to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to destroy you.'
Sinema: "Suddenly in the last 48 hours, the border no longer matters"
Clinton: "Majority of Republicans, if given a chance, will vote for sending aid to Ukraine and for the new border bill, but they are afraid of Trump's retribution. It is silly to watch this circus where Trump is a puppeteer. This border deal is all about security."
LOL. Quoting Hillary on the mindset of Republicans? Really? Tell me, how accurate was she about the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that she claimed was responsible for news that Bill was getting his hedge clipped by Monica in the Oval Office? Or how about blaming everyone and everything but herself for losing the election?
I also like how you crazy Progressives can reconcile Trump's supposed inability to accomplish anything with the amazing power to control Republicans and eventually establish a dictatorship. LOL. And you accuse the Right of entertaining conspiracy theories. LOL.
He's nothing, if not perservering and perseverating.
Can you see him frantically copy/pasting like a maniac?
Now you know why his real handle is Thresher.
This guy actually pays for a WAPO account
You can't get that feed without payment lol
How fucking sad is the story of Rash Cream?
The only thing that will save America is Liz Cheney and Megan McCain ticket.
Two fine ass thick white broads.....ooh the things that I can do with thos two thick milfs.