Because they don’t want solutions, they want to complain. We should stop attempting to solve problems they just want to complain about.
The Republican party does this because they know they have no topic to campaign about because they did not do jack from 2020-2024. A solution is there, but they choose to not fix it. They are purposely dividing America.
When will we learn to not follow the radical populists?
> For months, Republicans have shouted from the rooftops about a migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and how President Joe Biden needs to act to address it, insisting the flow of migrants is an urgent national security threat.
>
> Now many on the right are urging their party to reject the very same things they said were needed to fix the problem, including tougher enforcement measures and a proposal to automatically shut down border crossings when it is overwhelmed. Instead, they appear set on impeaching the top Cabinet official in charge of the border, even though there is no evidence of a crime.
This doesn’t surprise me.
They don’t want to fix anything, they want to run on fixing things.
Can’t fix the main problem while you campaign on it
We need to be blasting this message to every news outlet.
Republicans are weak on the border. Only democrats work to secure our nation.
I am not from the US, is there a timeline for a new Ukraine deal or does it look like it will not happen at all?
As is tradition.
It’s okay for Cancun Cruz to hop the border while he failed his constituents with the electric grid to seek asylum in another country.
If you live in the Conservative or Republican sub you wouldn’t even know any of this is happening.
They trot this “problem” out every few years in order to rile up their willfully ignorant, chronically stupid, bigoted base, who will take *any* excuse to start fuming and bitching about non-white people.
And these hypocritical Republican leaders in border states don’t actually want to *stop* illegal immigration— the big business in their states **love** the cheap labor, and oftentimes they depend on it.
But illegals make *great* scapegoats, because it’s so difficult for them to speak on their own behalf. Kind of like unborn babies in that way— they’re a useful group because the GOP gets to invent a narrative, and then parade it around like that makes it the truth.
Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. GOP. They show us every single day that they’re unfit to govern.
Never, *never* vote Republican.
To the surprise of no one.
This are not serious people or good faith actors. We need to stop pretending like they are.
Par for the course…
“Crap, they are trying to fix what we’re using as fear p0rn during the election cycle. WHAT DO WE DO!?!?”
“Let’s get mad at the fact that they are trying to fix it!”
“<scumbag GOP politician’s name>, you’re a GENIUS!!”
They all voted against Biden’s “build back better” plans but take credit when come come into their states
THAT is the correct way to phrase this. It needs to be hammered home that Republicans don’t want to fix the border. They’ve spent years complaining about the border and immigration, and the moment we can make real progress to fix it, they don’t want to do anything about it? GTFO.
That’s because complaining about immigration and the border is one of the only policies the GOP has and finding a solution means they would have to go find something new to wage a propaganda war about.
“those who have less represeantational power than you are never the source of your problems” Beau of the Fifth column
Party over country, it’s the Republican way.
Republicans want chaos, peace and solutions hurt.
Plus any success is met with skepticism and future punishment.
I feel sorry you their kids.
Person before party, and party before country, Like a prayer in a cult.
It’s the same thing Everytime. Does everyone remember them not having a plan to replace Obama Care with Trump care?
If it git fixed. They’d lose a crutch they use to cough up embellishments and fear mongering. In the right wing opinion host circuit
That’s what happens when you don’t have total control of the House. You need to make some concessions to the other half to get things done. It’s almost like they don’t want to govern, like other Republican-majority congresses have done.
The GOP is not really good at governing*, but they are really good at being outraged by the dems. They are not good at regulations, which is why the money shifted to justices, and we are going to see the end of the Chevron doctrine.
*the exception is tax cuts for rich people. 3 of the last 4 GOP presidents proudly cut taxes in a way that benefits the super rich.
Can’t continue to scream about it, if they allow it to get fixed.
< touches side of head>
::shocked Pikachu face::
Who would have thought the “do nothing party” would continue too… hold on, checking my notes. AH YES! Continue to do absolutely NOTHING.
Because the fix doesn’t include inhumanity they need for their voters
In past times, literally yelling about obstructing things to use as election issues was considered a no-no. The Republicans have lost all subtlety.
As always it’s not the problem they are worried about. It’s the optics…
Biden should be shouting this shit from the rooftops, so EVERY American knows the real reason we have a crisis at the border the right now is because of Trump and his goons in Congress. Though, Trump did openly admit it during a campaign speech last week, I think it was. What a mess.
It must be a functional and healthy democracy with one major party trying relentlessly to make the other look bad, right?
Three weeks ago, the Republicans were behind the plan to tie these border control to funding for Ukraine and Israel.
The Chaos erupts, as Trump doesn’t want any border deal!
Now the deal appears done in the Senate. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, seems willing to block any vote on the deal.
Republicans are politically schizophrenic, with chaos resulting that threatens everyone.
Welp, they fell for it. A proposal endorsed by Biden that would solve these issues, and as predicted, they’re the ones shooting it down because working with or agreeing with any Democrat is an absolute no-go in the GOP. Grooming kids is more acceptable than working with the Dems even when they’re giving huge concessions.
And it’s a *bipartisan* bill, negotiated in the senate with some of the more conservative senators. Exactly how divided government is meant to work.
It can’t be any more clear that they don’t want a solution, they want an issue to run against.
The GOP always complains, then does nothing, except give tax cuts to the Rich, defund the IRS, and increase the debt, which is why we have inflation today.
Is there even a “crisis” at the border?
Republicans are busy impeaching anybody trying to secure the border. It’s ridiculous.
You know hilariously I just saw a video about the border. There was the gate with all the guards and the razor wire right? And this guy drove down the road from that gate about 45 seconds so he was just chatting with the viewers to the next gate, which was sitting open, unwired, and entirely unguarded. There were no Mexicans streaming through, there were no armed guards, the razor wire was out by that point. It was just an open gate that people were driving around near. Nobody streaming through or anything.
Let’s go back before Biden, let’s look at 2014 https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/07/senate-republicans-block-2-7-billion-border-funding-bill yep, still Democrats trying to pass funding for the border and help immigration issues, still Republicans blocking it at every opportunity citing that they cannot allow the other team to get progress and look good. Sorry no, they cite whatever other things get added to the bill, but we all know that it’s really because we can’t allow the Democrats to fix the border and have more success than they already are showing on economic and social issues. This was back under obama, this remains true today. Economy is harder today, absolutely, however it has become incredibly robust compared to the speculations on where we were expected to have been after covid. Biden’s admin has had extremely productive results for this economy and that’s the only reason that we are not in a super depression after 2 years of a pandemic without a response team, because that also had a democratic tag attached to it. That dirty Obama.
It’s just a fucking joke, the border is fine if you don’t need all of these efforts to help the issue right now, either you desperately need help or you have time to cherry pick the assistance you’d like to receive and file your forms in triplicate.
Edit: you know what, don’t take my word, go watch the video and decide if you think that looks like a crisis. Last 15s for the open gate
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Don’t y’all love a game of “No, not that way.”
Because they don’t want solutions, they want to complain. We should stop attempting to solve problems they just want to complain about.
The Republican party does this because they know they have no topic to campaign about because they did not do jack from 2020-2024. A solution is there, but they choose to not fix it. They are purposely dividing America.
When will we learn to not follow the radical populists?
> For months, Republicans have shouted from the rooftops about a migrant crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and how President Joe Biden needs to act to address it, insisting the flow of migrants is an urgent national security threat.
>
> Now many on the right are urging their party to reject the very same things they said were needed to fix the problem, including tougher enforcement measures and a proposal to automatically shut down border crossings when it is overwhelmed. Instead, they appear set on impeaching the top Cabinet official in charge of the border, even though there is no evidence of a crime.
This doesn’t surprise me.
They don’t want to fix anything, they want to run on fixing things.
Can’t fix the main problem while you campaign on it
We need to be blasting this message to every news outlet.
Republicans are weak on the border. Only democrats work to secure our nation.
I am not from the US, is there a timeline for a new Ukraine deal or does it look like it will not happen at all?
As is tradition.
It’s okay for Cancun Cruz to hop the border while he failed his constituents with the electric grid to seek asylum in another country.
If you live in the Conservative or Republican sub you wouldn’t even know any of this is happening.
They trot this “problem” out every few years in order to rile up their willfully ignorant, chronically stupid, bigoted base, who will take *any* excuse to start fuming and bitching about non-white people.
And these hypocritical Republican leaders in border states don’t actually want to *stop* illegal immigration— the big business in their states **love** the cheap labor, and oftentimes they depend on it.
But illegals make *great* scapegoats, because it’s so difficult for them to speak on their own behalf. Kind of like unborn babies in that way— they’re a useful group because the GOP gets to invent a narrative, and then parade it around like that makes it the truth.
Gaslight, Obstruct, Project. GOP. They show us every single day that they’re unfit to govern.
Never, *never* vote Republican.
To the surprise of no one.
This are not serious people or good faith actors. We need to stop pretending like they are.
Par for the course…
“Crap, they are trying to fix what we’re using as fear p0rn during the election cycle. WHAT DO WE DO!?!?”
“Let’s get mad at the fact that they are trying to fix it!”
“<scumbag GOP politician’s name>, you’re a GENIUS!!”
They all voted against Biden’s “build back better” plans but take credit when come come into their states
THAT is the correct way to phrase this. It needs to be hammered home that Republicans don’t want to fix the border. They’ve spent years complaining about the border and immigration, and the moment we can make real progress to fix it, they don’t want to do anything about it? GTFO.
That’s because complaining about immigration and the border is one of the only policies the GOP has and finding a solution means they would have to go find something new to wage a propaganda war about.
“those who have less represeantational power than you are never the source of your problems” Beau of the Fifth column
Party over country, it’s the Republican way.
Republicans want chaos, peace and solutions hurt.
Plus any success is met with skepticism and future punishment.
I feel sorry you their kids.
Person before party, and party before country, Like a prayer in a cult.
It’s the same thing Everytime. Does everyone remember them not having a plan to replace Obama Care with Trump care?
If it git fixed. They’d lose a crutch they use to cough up embellishments and fear mongering. In the right wing opinion host circuit
That’s what happens when you don’t have total control of the House. You need to make some concessions to the other half to get things done. It’s almost like they don’t want to govern, like other Republican-majority congresses have done.
The GOP is not really good at governing*, but they are really good at being outraged by the dems. They are not good at regulations, which is why the money shifted to justices, and we are going to see the end of the Chevron doctrine.
*the exception is tax cuts for rich people. 3 of the last 4 GOP presidents proudly cut taxes in a way that benefits the super rich.
Can’t continue to scream about it, if they allow it to get fixed.
< touches side of head>
::shocked Pikachu face::
Who would have thought the “do nothing party” would continue too… hold on, checking my notes. AH YES! Continue to do absolutely NOTHING.
Because the fix doesn’t include inhumanity they need for their voters
In past times, literally yelling about obstructing things to use as election issues was considered a no-no. The Republicans have lost all subtlety.
As always it’s not the problem they are worried about. It’s the optics…
Biden should be shouting this shit from the rooftops, so EVERY American knows the real reason we have a crisis at the border the right now is because of Trump and his goons in Congress. Though, Trump did openly admit it during a campaign speech last week, I think it was. What a mess.
It must be a functional and healthy democracy with one major party trying relentlessly to make the other look bad, right?
Three weeks ago, the Republicans were behind the plan to tie these border control to funding for Ukraine and Israel.
The Chaos erupts, as Trump doesn’t want any border deal!
Now the deal appears done in the Senate. Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, seems willing to block any vote on the deal.
Republicans are politically schizophrenic, with chaos resulting that threatens everyone.
Welp, they fell for it. A proposal endorsed by Biden that would solve these issues, and as predicted, they’re the ones shooting it down because working with or agreeing with any Democrat is an absolute no-go in the GOP. Grooming kids is more acceptable than working with the Dems even when they’re giving huge concessions.
And it’s a *bipartisan* bill, negotiated in the senate with some of the more conservative senators. Exactly how divided government is meant to work.
It can’t be any more clear that they don’t want a solution, they want an issue to run against.
The GOP always complains, then does nothing, except give tax cuts to the Rich, defund the IRS, and increase the debt, which is why we have inflation today.
Is there even a “crisis” at the border?
Republicans are busy impeaching anybody trying to secure the border. It’s ridiculous.
You know hilariously I just saw a video about the border. There was the gate with all the guards and the razor wire right? And this guy drove down the road from that gate about 45 seconds so he was just chatting with the viewers to the next gate, which was sitting open, unwired, and entirely unguarded. There were no Mexicans streaming through, there were no armed guards, the razor wire was out by that point. It was just an open gate that people were driving around near. Nobody streaming through or anything.
Incredible allocation of resources.
https://www.thirdway.org/blog/republican-efforts-to-defund-border-security here instead, have some GOP defunding the border.
Have some Biden border work.
https://nypost.com/2021/06/07/biden-admin-starts-using-controversial-facial-recognition-tool-on-migrants-report/ from 2021
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/presidents-us-mexico-meet-after-summit-tensions-2022-07-12/ 2022, and follow me on this one, he got Mexico to pay for some of the Border improvements too. 1.5 billion dollars in fact
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2023/11/02/texas-republicans-react-to-president-biden-border-request 14 billion rejected in 2023
https://rollcall.com/2022/04/27/senate-republicans-balk-on-funds-related-to-bidens-border-move/ 2022, gop rejected 15 billion for helping the border
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/29/trump-republicans-border-deal-senate-immigration. Let’s not forget the baboon is currently whipping the gop into a frenzy and trying to influence their politics *as a private citizen not currently involved in governmental affairs*. He’s also blocking the border. Again.
Let’s go back before Biden, let’s look at 2014
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/07/senate-republicans-block-2-7-billion-border-funding-bill yep, still Democrats trying to pass funding for the border and help immigration issues, still Republicans blocking it at every opportunity citing that they cannot allow the other team to get progress and look good. Sorry no, they cite whatever other things get added to the bill, but we all know that it’s really because we can’t allow the Democrats to fix the border and have more success than they already are showing on economic and social issues. This was back under obama, this remains true today. Economy is harder today, absolutely, however it has become incredibly robust compared to the speculations on where we were expected to have been after covid. Biden’s admin has had extremely productive results for this economy and that’s the only reason that we are not in a super depression after 2 years of a pandemic without a response team, because that also had a democratic tag attached to it. That dirty Obama.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/senate-votes-to-block-trump-national-emergency-over-border-wall.html – Republicans under Trump declare it’s not an emergency, the Senate overrides his presidential order. The Republicans declared this. It is not an emergency except when the Democrats are in charge.
It’s just a fucking joke, the border is fine if you don’t need all of these efforts to help the issue right now, either you desperately need help or you have time to cherry pick the assistance you’d like to receive and file your forms in triplicate.
Edit: you know what, don’t take my word, go watch the video and decide if you think that looks like a crisis. Last 15s for the open gate
https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/Me0qw4zolv
Solutions won’t rile up their voters. Problems will.