(Mirror.)
Republicans aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they’re orchestrating an immigration crisis specifically to give Trump a platform. Trump spent the weekend lambasting the military spending bill, which is designed to sacrifice immigrant rights in exchange for aid to Ukraine’s and [Zionism’s] wars. When asked why it was stopped just as bipartisan consensus was being reached, McConnell literally said “We don’t want to do anything to undermine [Trump],” even though this deal benefits Republicans’ entire pro-war, anti-immigrant platform.
This bill goes against everything NAA stands for, and we don’t want to see it pass. But we also recognize that the Republicans are taking this short-term “loss” in the hopes of getting a long-term win (Trump in office). While this may seem absurd from the outside, they are willing to destroy everything they stand for just to get this man back into office.
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action, which they originally captioned as ‘The Leopards Eating Your Face Party Sure is Eating a Lot of Faces’.)
And bidens solution is to offer to eliminate the asylum system.
Shut it down after a certain number of application in a given day and then don’t restart it until the number drops below a threshold.
Quick question you figure if you stop processing people early on Mondy you reckon the number of applicants will be higher or lower on Tuesday.
I think that’s precisely the idea here, and it is working. It’s a hot issue because material conditions are declining and illegal immigrants are a popular scapegoat. It’s also an issue that’s very difficult for dems to compromise on because that will alienate a lot of their base. On top of that, republicans cleverly tied this to Ukraine spending issue. People are sick of the war at this point, and it’s starting to go visibly bad, so framing it as dems caring more about their proxy war than dealing with the border is playing really well with the public.
Inspired article. “German tabloid Blid says Russia will invade Europe (where in Europe? All of it?) in the winter of 24-25.”
You’re not supposed to call it a tabloid when you reference it as an authoritative source, Andy. It has a few other gems but that is my favorite.
