“We need to shut the border.… The president could take executive action to do it today—doesn’t need more money. It needs action, and this is what’s disappointing to people, and that’s why Mayorkas is gonna pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876,” Hill said.
Notably absent from Hill’s explanation was any description of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Mayorkas. Hill all but admitted that, with the impeachment, Republicans are aiming to make Mayorkas the face of their anti-Biden, anti-immigrant campaign, despite his having not committed impeachable offenses.”
Great. He gave away the game. At least 40% of Americans are going to get played. Giving up the game has no consequences. Ask freakin’ Christopher Rufo if explaining his unreasonable strategy against critical race theory hurts him in anyway. Ask Steve Bannon. Ask Donald “Aspiring Dictator For A Day” Trump. Ask Steven Miller.
The game was given up a long time ago and we’re still playin’ it.
Jordan Klepper did a segment on The Daily Show last night (it’s on YouTube) where he talked to Trump people and they want a dictator or a king. They come right out and say it.
To be fair, most Democrats do too. They just want a dictator that is going to do the things they want, like banning certain forms of speech, or taxing billionaires out of existence.
Not many people really, truly want a lost constitutional framework where a consensus needs to be reached, and compromises made, in order to do things.
most Democrats do too. They just want a dictator that is going to do the things they want,
[Citation needed]
The user doth projects too much.
banning certain forms of speech
Democrats aren’t the ones on a book banning crusade.
Nice attempt at a both-sides though.
This is such a strange take. Just because people think that the current system doesn’t work doesn’t mean they automatically jump to wanting despotism even if enlightened. People who throw up their hands at political gridlock and see it as a justification for dictatorship, and not as reasons to iterate and improve upon the existing system are weirdos.
They just want a dictator that is going to do the things they want
“They” being the majority of Americans. We want a constitutional framework that benefits everyone, not just a select few. That’s not wanting a dictatorship, it’s quite the opposite. Democrats and Republicans Are. Not. The. Same.
The real “game” here is that they are trying to downplay the seriousness of impeachment. Because their orange clown was impeached twice.
So they’ll “impeach” anyone they think they can get away with to score points with their ignorant base and to make it seems less serious.
It’s really shitty and un-American.
It works like a charm.
Go to a GOP state right now and ask 100 people who Mayorkas is. I will give $100 for every response that is little more than a confused look.
Now go to those same GOP voters in about 24 hours, after they’ve gotten their daily dose of Fox News and Trump’s dollar-store-twitter knock-off. I’ll give you another $100 for every response that isn’t how suddenly Mayorkas is the root of all evil and the source of all their problems and needs to be impeached because orange man said so.
These people are lemmings who believe the last thing Trump tells them.
This was done for multiple reasons:
- Rile up the voting base – people who 24 hours ago couldn’t pronounce the name Mayorkas, let alone know who the hell he was – and paint him as the GOP’s new boogeyman. Make him the face of the anti-immigration movement spearheaded by a MAGA base that hates brown people by default.
- Attempt to make it look like the GOP is “doing something” about the border
- De-value impeachment as a check on executive overreach, turning it into just another partisan tool that can be safely ignored by the general public as “no big deal”
- Take the focus off of Trump and everything he’s saying and doing.
“We need to shut the border.… The president could take executive action to do it today—doesn’t need more money. It needs action, and this is what’s disappointing to people, and that’s why Mayorkas is gonna pay this public relations price by being impeached for the first time since 1876,”
So if Biden could have done it through an EO, why not just write up and pass a bill that has everything you’d want the EO to have? Oh, that’s right. The Senate just did that and you rejected it out of hand because the orange man told you to. If Trump had blessed the exact same bill, you’d have been standing in front of a pulpit popping the champagne bottle while some old hag screams at random people to shut up. Fucking tool.
They just voted against the border security bill that they supported and wanted, and now they’re trying to blame someone else.
No, he didn’t “accidentally” say the reason. He just said they’re doing it “for political vandalism and fuck you too“.
They’ve been right out front with their unfiltered racist hateful shit-for-brains garbage for almost a decade now. And yet we still see these headlines like “Oops! RepubliQan Guy Accidentally Says Deeply Offensive Thing” witha bunch of “oooooh those terrible republiQans!” comments. We are stuck. In republican hell.
