Posted on 04/19/2024 9:25:34 AM PDT by Kazan
House Speaker Mike Johnson supported shutting down the Southern border until it got in the way of his real priorities: sending money abroad.
There’s a very simple logic to the Democrat position on Ukraine: Its continued welfare sponsored by American taxpayers is very important, but it’s not more important than maintaining an open Southern border for the world’s criminal and destitute to flood the nation (again, sponsored by American taxpayers).
We know that’s the indisputable Democrat position because while they, including the Biden White House, insist there’s nothing more urgent than sending tens of billions dollars more to Ukraine, they’re not willing to do so if it means blocking the access of a single illegal alien to America’s interior. After months of negotiating a matter that shouldn’t require more than a second’s worth of debate, Democrats put forward a bill that legalized the unauthorized entry of up to 5,000 aliens per day. That’s how serious they are about keeping the border agape.
It’s an untenable position, yet that brings us to House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican who has stunningly revealed himself this week to hold the exact same position. Immediately after he was elected to lead the House and his party, Johnson emphatically stated in public multiple times that solving the border crisis, both instigated and exacerbated by the president, was not just a priority but mandatory.
“Any national security package has to begin with the security of our own border… We have to effect real policy change at the border, and that is a necessary condition to anything we do going forward,” Johnson said on December 6, 2023.
When Democrats presented their “bipartisan” bill to legalize nearly another 2 million aliens per year, enough Republicans walked away to kill both that bill and any further welfare for Ukraine. But then Johnson had a few meetings with Biden administration officials and he’s now on the same side as Democrats. He’s calling himself a “wartime speaker,” a consequential figure of historical proportions, and promising to put up another round of legislation for Ukraine after having secured nothing on the border.
If Democrats weren’t willing to budge on the border for the sake of their beloved Ukraine, but Johnson is, what does that mean?
No matter how you cut it, Mike Johnson supports an open Southern border, too.
My opinion of Johnson is he has been compromised by the 3 letter agencies AND if he had one ounce of character he would resign as speaker!!! I am quite sure they have pics of him with an underaged girl/boy and they set him up, if he were TRULY a Christian man he would have been beyond reproach!! So my assessment of Johnson is he is LYING SCUM!!!
Washington politicians should not try to buy their way into Heaven with taxpayer money.
At this point, it’s all just re-arranging the deck chairs on The Titanic.
He nor Republicans in the House, who control the purse strings, have done a think to reign the FBI or to force Biden to secure the borders.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if Johnson pushed for amnesty next.
Simply more nonsense. The House could pass any amount of border funding it wanted, explicitly tighter immigration restrictions, even (as we just saw) and they would all do absolutely nothing.
The US regime is controlled by criminals who also have complete control of the highest level of law enforcement and (in many cases like the DC circuit), the courts. They are untouchable, they want the border open, and no amount of posturing in the House will change that.
The only solution to closing the border is removing the "Biden" regime. The rest is theater.
And those of you wishing to harm the regime by imposing defeat abroad like Hanoi Jane ought to consider the fact that if Russia wins, the external threat, exaggerated or not, will be used as an excuse to crack down on dissent here even more.
even impeachment
The way to prevent such blackmail is to ensure the politician or judge will profit greatly (say by a $5 million federal payout) if the information is revealed by a hostile actor.
We need to greatly reduce the effective ability to blackmail critical government people.
When people get married, the saying goes “speak now or forever hold your peace.”
https://www.brides.com/speak-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace-5100968
Trump loves to endorse RINOs.
Trump will continue to support Mike Johnson because he can’t afford to lose the house. That doesn’t absolve Johnson. Johnson has already betrayed the American people and he’s just getting started.
‘We the people’ are in for a world of hurt.
>> This article does not even slightly state that Johnson supports an open border.
DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE (which you obviously didn’t read before shooting off your zeeper yap):
“No matter how you cut it, Mike Johnson supports an open Southern border, too.”
Does he have much choice? Good people stay away from politics, like the plague, so he has to choose from what's available.
Paul Ryan.
“This is the best we’re going to be able to get.”
“his real priorities: sending money abroad.”
So they can buy from our US defense contractors.
So legalize the illegal entry of 1.* million illegal unvetted immigrants a year. What a deal!
It means the stupid Republican are going to get a Democrat speaker and 30 million illegals given citizenship before the election!
No Trump
No republican House
No republican Senate
No America
So the house could have supported no funding for anything that was not part of a deal for shutting down illegal immigration.
“If someone knew a member of the couple to be already married, underage, unbaptized (church law), or forcefully coerced into the union, it was considered their duty to object. The same was true if they knew the couple to be too closely related by blood.”
from the link
Federal law might be made such that withholding blackmail information on a federally nominated person for more than seven days would be a federal crime with incarceration time.
Meet the new boss…..same as the old boss…
There is no enforcement action the House can take to see that the law is followed. You could zero CBP funding and they would just move money from elsewhere to fund sending illegals into he country.
This whole debate is useless and shows how many people just can't realize that this regime is simply controlled by criminals, and in that case, if you want any change you have to remove the regime. No normal legal requirements will work, just like "gun control" laws do not affect criminals.
So pass nothing. It’s fine with me.
Excuse me the article stating that Johnson supports something is not even remotely any evidence that he supports it.
He has always supported securing the border. And he has never wavered from that position.
This article is conflating his position on the border with the idea that allowing Ukraine aid without securing the border first is not acceptable
It’s a shame we have a lot of people here who have really made themselves deluded about the issue of Ukraine.
God willing president Trump will be in office in a very short time and he will be able to deal with both Ukraine and the border.
Until then if you want to turn the house over to democrats it shows that you have no common sense.
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