Posted on 02/01/2024 7:37:59 PM PST by Kazan
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) suggests that Russian influence has manipulated opponents of a border compromise that could usher in 5,000 or more migrants per day.
Parroting similar talking points about Russian influence to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, Rounds seems to suggest that Russian disinformation about the border components or a broader deal, including aid to Ukraine, is to blame for the yet-unseen deal’s opposition.
Rounds said Wednesday, “I suspect that a lot of the internet rumors are very well coming from overseas, where they would love to see this shut down because some people would rather not see funding for Ukraine.”
A group of Senate negotiators has been working for months on a compromise package pairing border security measures with tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid, mostly to Ukraine. As draft details of the deal’s border components have leaked, the bill’s prospects have increasingly dimmed.
Senators have quickly chastised the deal’s skeptics, repeatedly insisting that leaked details are not actually included. Yet paradoxically, they seem unwilling or unable to provide any information on what the bill actually contains.
Lead Republican negotiator Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) has also claimed “internet rumors” are to blame for the bill’s unpopularity, although he offered few details on the bill other than increased funding for measures generally unpopular with the Republican base, such as more funding for policies to intake and house migrants.
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Is it Russian disinformation or maybe China’s.
China is on a full court press now meddling in American affairs - you name it, China has a finger (or more) in it.
Rounds is an idiot. Not even a useful idiot, just an idiot.
Why not break the bill into to separate measures? Oh, we know why.
Its code named The Masterbatoriom Plan, guaranteed to bring about spermastic waves of joy to the globalist foot soldiers while sending shivers of tingling delight upon the legs of their loyal propagandist press & FBI Agents. 🤣
They’re also blaming China for the opposition to the border bill...
Any Republican not willing to everything to secure the border with NO preconditions is unfit to be in office and complicit in facilitating illegal immigration.
He must be holding the George McGovern seat.
Secret legislation released seconds before the vote on it ( “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, ") is utter crap. Even most of Congress has no idea what they are voting for.
Sounds like two corrupt and clueless RINOs to me.
They’re throwing matches at a powder keg.
Yeah, alot of people. Americans voters.
I don't know the solution. But I pray it will be peaceful.
Members of the stupid party in SD recognized years ago that Mike Rounds was not on the conservative side of “We the People”. Both our Senators eagerly believed in fair and square election 2020. John Thune of course is a Mich McConnel clone with a reputation that could carry him for two more Senate terms.
We have one city in the State that could reelect both of them without a single yea vote from anyone else in the State. I watch the Congressional Freedom Caucus to know generally where things ought to be going, Thune and Rounds are usually diametrically opposed to that agenda.
Secrecy by elected representatives doing the publc’s business is the ultimate of disinformation.
So Russian disinformation is causing us to suspect bad results will follow ten thousand illegal invaders a day, and if only we were smart like senators, we would see the many benefits of the uninvited guests. I wish I was smart like a senator and could see past Russian disinformation, but you know, I recognize them as experts on borders, they have crossed quite a few in their time. Senators not so much.
Next it will be Russians spreading false stories about Biden being old, he is only 42 and fit as a fiddle.
I’m implying that China is our main threat.
And they’re freezing despite all their oil, coal and natural gas, because the mechanics in charge of keeping their infrastructure going are either dead or about to die in meat grinder assaults in Ukraine. But influence American internal politics? Oh, for that they’re virtuosos. Everything that the Dems don’t like, they’re behind it with their misinformation. Nyahahaahaha.
Almost certainly the ‘5,000 a day’ language is or was part of the detail.
So show us..... so we know if and who’s been misinforming us.
Seems our enemies would like to see ‘5K a day’ and the resulting long-term ruination, more than they like the short-term disharmony over the debate.
only a handful of Senators worth anything at best.“
Correct, Mitch is the most hated politician in the country so of course the Senate Republicans made him Senate minority leader and it wasn’t even close.
Careful what you wish for. A “Biden” EO, no matter how they describe it, can do things not advertised.
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