Trump Orders MAGA House To Tank Biden's Border Deal, Because That's How You Fix A 'Crisis'
It's like he can't stop attacking America.
When last we left the MAGA mad House, Speaker Mike Johnson was close to a deal with Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden on border security. Republicans consider the situation at the border a national crisis but not so much of one that they’d disobey their master Donald Trump and give Biden a major win right before an election they’re just gonna try to steal again anyway.
This weekend, Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota admitted that Trump is opposed to any border deal while Biden’s still in office. He’s like Richard Nixon sabotaging Vietnam peace talks, except Trump doesn’t bother with back channels.
“I do think, you know, [Trump’s] in a campaign,” Cramer told CNN’s Manu Raju. “He’s the presumptive nominee as far as I’m concerned. His opponent will be the current president. And so he’s probably … I haven’t talked to him, but he’s probably thinking about Joe Biden victories.”
Is Cramer sure Trump’s not thinking “camel” or confusing Biden with Nikki Haley (she just has one of those faces)? Yes, we get it. Trump’s evil. Do we have to chat about it all day? He doesn’t care if people suffer so long as it personally benefits him.
However, Cramer sympathizes with the devil’s position. “He’s right in that sense,” he continued. “If Joe Biden suddenly got religion and supported a border deal [reducing] flow of immigration, it’d be good for him politically.”
Or it might even be good for the nation itself. Both things can be true. Cramer should recall that candidate Biden didn’t pressure then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi against passing COVID relief back in 2020 because he thought it would “benefit” Trump politically. Biden wouldn’t have even considered it. He puts the country first, and it’s appalling that almost half the country still supports the sociopath.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw was willing to extract concessions from Democrats on border security in exchange for Ukraine aid. This is what functioning adults might call a “negotiation,” but now MAGA extremists won’t accept any deal, especially if there’s Ukraine aid attached.
“That’s a pretty tough position to stand by,” Crenshaw said. “ … We get meaningful border policy for Ukraine aid and you’re not going to vote for that? You want Russia to win more than you want border policy changes? You defend that. Some people say, ‘Well, Biden wants it now because it’s helpful to him politically.’ OK, I want border security.”
Crenshaw’s definitely off the Trump VP short list, but Sen. Marco Rubio seems desperate for an audition. Here’s what he told Manu Raju Monday: “What [the White House wants] is for the bill to fail in the House so they can go around saying we tried to fix the border, but it was Republicans in the House, those crazy MAGA Republicans, who blocked it. That’s what they're really trying to set up here and use it as a way to get the Ukraine money.”
That’s a cynical interpretation of events, which Rubio followed up with a cynical lie. He later posted on social media: “How can there be a ‘border security deal’ with a Biden Administration that just went all the way to the Supreme Court to stop border security?”
Rubio’s referring to the Supreme Court ruling (narrowly!) that the federal government is in charge of US border security. Rubio went to law school, so he should have some passing awareness of the Supremacy Clause. General Sherman reclaiming Fort Sumter didn’t mean that Abraham Lincoln opposed naval security.
Monday, on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell said that the current deal represents the “most substantial border security agreement in 30 years.” Although Trump has told his droogs to reject a deal unless it’s “perfect” and gives them “everything” they want, McConnell keeps pointing out this might be their last chance for one: Democrats won’t support a major border deal if Trump is president, since all his “solutions” for immigrations have the stench of jackboots.
Meanwhile, Ukraine remains in great peril. It does seem as if Trump’s Republicans aren’t simply an opposition party but a hostile destabilizing force in our democracy.
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I was today years old when I realized I used to be madly in love with an utter crazy person. He was Republican when we met in 2002, but never did I think he's be MAGA (we haven't been together in over a decade). He's got a Masters degree! He lives in Boston! But today this was part of our text conversation:
HIM: I'll put it this way: the only Dem I could conceivably vote for is Ro Khanna. And I'd vote for him over 85% of the GOP who are pushing tax cuts spending cuts and Ukraine funding as if it was still 1988.
ME: Wow. So the insurrection, the promise to use the full force of the government to enact revenge on his enemies, the fact he raped E Jean Carrol, the venal stupidity, none of that gives you pause? Fascinating. And revolting.
HIM: I'm just as revolted by a president who accepts bribes and is compromised by foreign governments. Insurrection? Hah. Look up Reichstag fire.
ME: Omg you believe the Hunter Biden shit but actually have no problem with Trump admitting he took $7M from China for favors- or Jarvanka getting $2B from the Saudis. This is wild. I thought you were smarter than this. And just so I'm clear, in your Reichstag Fire analogy, Biden is Hitler and he's blaming Jan 6 on MAGA in order to suppress civil liberties? Wow.
And now this is where it goes batshit people:
HIM: It's not Biden. Biden is senile and likely sleeps most of the day. It's the Obama people who control the WH. And yes, January 6th was a federal operation. At least 200 undercover agents dressed as trump supporters. And 200 is a very low estimate . Today we discover that the Democrats deleted 100 encrypted files re January 6th before the GOP took over. And now we see the "pipe bomb" video at the DNC which was so dangerous that the video shows the feds letting women and children walk mere yards from a "bomb"
I mean, what do you even say next? I'm backing away slowly from the crazy.... holy cow.
It’s absolutely amazing the idea that the Supremacy clause would get a 5-4 vote. This wasn’t even remotely a close call, and in fact was incidentally addressed by a “civil war” in the past.
The guardrails absolutely will not hold if Trump or any wannabe gets in office and does some truly vile shit