"During a call this weekend with members of the House Republican Conference, Johnson said Congress will not be able to address the border issue until his party retakes the White House. That means this “crisis”—the preferred framing of Republicans in campaign mode and conservative media looking to lend them a helping hand—will have to wait at least another year. (Johnson’s position also implicitly requires Republicans to achieve a trifecta by gaining control of both chambers of Congress in addition to the White House, further narrowing the conditions of action that are acceptable to him.)"

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Another example of a "crisis" that the members of the New GOP are using to whip up their base without offering *anything* of substance to fix the problem. To them, this isn't an immigration problem (even though both sides of the aisle agree that the southern border is broken), it's strictly a political expediency that they think they can ride to uniparty control of the federal government. To the Psychiatric Facility Escapee Caucus, immigration is a cudgel to be wielded against the Dems, not a problem to be solved.

The Tangerine Troglodyte and his sycophants, minions, toadies and turd polishers will continue to scare the crap out of the MAGAverse with unmitigated promotion of the Great Replacement Theory. The Dems, and some secret cabal of pedophile elitists, will give every immigrant, documented or undocumented, the right to vote so the New GOP agenda gets aborted before birth (an intentional metaphor).

It's just too easy to sway any MAGA knuckle dragger who drank too much from the Kool-Aid punchbowl with a yuge orange turd floating in it. The more fear that is stoked by the MAGA leadership the more likely that the base will do whatever it takes -- including another, possibly successful, insurrection -- to put the Marigold Malignancy back in the Oval Office [turns head and spits three times between index and middle fingers]. Only then will the invading hordes be stopped in their tracks, and America made safe from all of the terrorists, gangbangers and other drug smugglers crossing our porous southern border.

(If I were a terrorist, or anyone else with criminal intent, I'd cross through the northern border with Canada. This border is much longer and much less protected, but this doesn't matter to the MAGAdroids, POC are entering America along the southern border, not the northern.)

fnord