If at first you don't succeed, waste more time on bullshit.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Except this time they did both.
They're traitors. America is a dead country with Republicans in control.
Ain’t dead yet. Still life in the old girl if we can flush out the sump, change the oil and clean out the carb.
Shoot a little brake cleaner in that carb and turn her over, I bet this bitch will fire right up.
Do something that matters you pusillanimous, pustulant excuses for politicians. Constant pandering to your base gains the nation nothing.
Oh they've made crystal clear that pandering to their base is all they care about. Anything that helps the country as a whole gains them nothing, thanks to the beet-red color of their constituencies. It must not even benefit the rest of the country and their base, as a matter of fact. No, it must benefit only their base, to everyone else's detriment, in order for them to give a shit. It's a zero sum game for them, and we will continuously suffer until their dipshit voting base starts to feel actual, tangible pain as a result of their shortsightedness.
Dumb fucks. Do your jobs.
These are not serious people.
They don't have the votes today so it's a no go for now.
Edit to last: House Republican source told Fox News that all GOP members are now in town ahead of the Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment vote.
Votes are expected to begin at around 6:30 p.m. ET.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The US House of Representatives could vote on Tuesday on whether to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, Joe Biden’s secretary of homeland security, on explicitly political charges related to deteriorating conditions at the southern border and Republican attempts to capitalise on the issue in an election year.
If Republicans are successful, the effort to remove Mayorkas – for allegedly refusing to enforce immigration law – would move to the Senate, where it has next to no chance of producing a conviction.
I’m inspired every single day by the remarkable work that 216,000 men and women in our department perform on behalf of the American public.”
Conditions at the border with Mexico, where numbers of undocumented migrants remain high, “certainly” represented “a crisis”, Mayorkas said.
Last week, Republicans in the Senate abandoned and sank an immigration and border deal, reached after extensive negotiations with Democrats, after Donald Trump, the likely Republican presidential nominee, made his opposition clear.
Such a purely political impeachment, he added, would “set a dangerous new precedent that will be weaponized against future Republican administrations”.
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