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.
sorry kazan
I call BS
What you or I or the American people want is irrelevant.
You can primary some if you want, but the same corrupt incentives will be in place and we'll soon be in the same position as before. And that's assuming that media pressure, censorship and ballot stuffing allow any conservatives to get voted in to begin with.
I am becoming extremely pessimistic watching this parade of unreality and corruption. Most people on the right seem to either have no idea how late in the game it is or prefer to avert their gaze and hope going through the motions of an election will be sufficient. It's extraordinarily difficult to restore a system once a carefully nurtured web of corruption and backscratching has been established.
More like you post BS.
Speak in clear english Russian boy.
But they don't, and so it doesn't.
” I wouldn’t at all be surprised if Johnson pushed for amnesty next. “
He has to be re-elected first. But it is critical he be re-elected, because if Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker AMERICA WILL COME TO AN END ! / s
He had a trail for those who voted him in LOBBYISTS DUH.
There is no “reforming” this Regime.
It has to fall before anything can change.
Just like Vladimir Putin.
I’m sure that the omission was just an oversight.
I remember when Trump couldn’t get even 5 billion for the wall and now they hand many times that to foreigners like candy
With all we are discussing, open borders, funding for Ukraine, etc. WHY IS TRUMP SUPPORTING JOHNSON? Are we seeing the new Trump through this?
Exactly. And we, the taxpaying public, lose.
Jim Jordan voted for this bill.
You want to make him an enemy now?
Johnson is a good conservative and a good Christian.
Some people need to reexamine their reactions.
Judas Johnson was a RINO from the start.
traitor and yess he indirectly supported open borders
https://babylonbee.com/news/mike-johnson-unzips-skinsuit-revealing-he-was-kevin-mccarthy-all-along
He is a good Paul Ryan. Well we tried, but we couldn’t get you anything you want. We just need to get through the budget a stand the country bankrupt. Once that is done we have prepared some nice conservative legislation that you will love [and now that we have given everyone what they want, It will never pass tehee tehee.] I am done falling for that line. He screwed his supporters and can rot with his colleagues who joined him in this.
Are you turning on Jim Jordan now?
Trump will be in office soon. He needs the status quo preserved.
No one screwed you. This is a national security issue.
The border is a national security issue. The west Pacific is a national security issue. Ukraine is a mechanism for executing domestic corruption.
Well you’re mistaken. I will follow the judgment of Jim Jordan.
Paul RINO Johnson turned on me and his country.
Likely compromised like most in Congress are through drugs, sex tapes and the promise of cash through insider information and washing foreign aid into offshore accounts. Darryl Issa is the same-he goes to WEF events and votes for more aid to Ukraine.
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