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The GOP doesn’t have a platform, they just have a pair of goalposts on wheels.

Hence it is not a ‘crisis’

I've never hated a group more than conservatives. I feel like I would be a different person if I didn't constantly hate Republican politicians and voters. I feel like I might have been a more "live love laugh" kind of person. It's just depressing at this point.

This just proves that the "border crisis" is nothing more than a political carrot on a stick for Republican leaders to manipulate their base with.

I for one love how Democrats called their bluff.

This completely undermines literally their only talking-point going into election season.

Let me just say the bill is terrible, because it grants a wishlist of right-wing "solutions" turning the border into a militarized zone.

The "crisis" we have is turning away refugees because their skin is the wrong color.

One of my main Biden criticisms is he's been no different than Trump when it comes to the border. He's continued horrible Trump era policies that are responsible for both death and family separation.

Rather than staking a leftwing position, he's ceded all discussion about the border to the rightwing narratives. And I doubt a single person has been swayed by this.

We don't need to "protect" the border. Europe by and large did away with borders and it's been a huge stabilizing factor for them.

The whole "drug smuggling" shit is equally garbage. To the extent drugs cross the border, it's through legal ports of entry. And, it's entirely silly to build up the Mexican border when the Canadian border is basically wide open. Newsflash, drug smugglers know about Canada. Further, we have ports with giant shipping containers of goods that enter and leave the US every day. Do these rightwing idiots really believe drug smugglers wouldn't simply hide drugs in a giant container of soybeans or other food item?

There's a million ways to get drugs into the country, the one way they are the least likely to come in is via some undocumented worker looking to get a job working on a farm in Idaho.

They’ve been screaming about it for 25 years without ever trying to fix it. Why would they start now?

GOP doesn't want solutions, because then they have to stop screaming

There is no such thing as an honest conservative. Every word uttered by a conservative is either deception or manipulation. Every word.

the 'deal' is a gift to the far-right in the house. but biden is in the white house, so their guy wouldn't get the credit for 'shutting the border down' when the new limits in the deal are hit.

Republicans Do Their Own Research! That's why they blame BIDEN for the Border!

They want the ‘crisis’.

Same people who said they'd have a replacement for the affordable care act day one? It's been "stay tuned" since and nothing but static. Republicans don't even have a policy, just election talking points.

Republican politicians don't give a single shit about immigrants. They only rule about it because they want to rile (and rule) their base with cheap shots.

Making a country better is hard. Blaming the immigrants / blacks / Jews / gays / those different / insert whatever group you want, is easy because people hate those that are different. It's also a feedback look where these politicians purposefully increase the hatred. People filled with hate are easy to manipulate. Then you push yourself / your group forward as "the (final) solution (tm) and they'll vote for you.

Honest question to anyone, democrat or republican: when was the last time you saw a republican politician push forward or sign in law anything that wasn't in their own best interest, that wasn't a cheap shot bullshit item (hello, border wall!)? Seriously, when was the last time a republican politician put out a law that really helped the vast majority of their constituents, typically the poor and uneducated?

I can't recall.

Of course they opposed fixing something. Heaven forbid something might actually work in the US.