It’s a series of tweets explaining why the immigration bill, as Ted Cruz says, is a disaster.
All you need to know about immigration: The Democrats will not vote for any kind of border enforcement with triggers, that is…
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
…where they're required to agree to border enforcement to get amnesty. Why? Because they do not want border enforcement.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
All the Republican "compromises" are efforts to pretend at border enforcement while respecting Dems' redline of no enforcement.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
So anyone who believes this shit is a fool and anyone who advocates for it is a liar.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
The entire goal here is to cook up something that Dumb Conservatives can be tricked into thinking is security, but Democrats know isn't.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
Every single proposal in which Democrats *must* perform border security is shot down as a redline they will not agree to.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
Why? Because they have no intention of that, and refuse to be bound by a law that says they must.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
As @drewmtips says, this is a walking issue for me. It's even less about the issue than it is about being treated like a fool to be abused.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
The entire game from the beginning has been to sell the Democrats' agenda, in full, to Dumb Conservatives, with measures designed to con.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
You know how serious this bill is about security when EVERY GODDAMN ACTUAL GUARANTEE OR HARD TRIGGER gets shot down as a liberal redline.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
If they had ANY INTENTION of doing these things, why would they balk at a requirement for doing so, a hard trigger mandating they do so?
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
Simple: They have no such intentions, and neither do any of dishonorable liars in league with them.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
So enjoy your "soft triggers" and "goals," Conservatives. They think absolutely nothing of you at all, and they think you're this stupid.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 20, 2013
You know what a goal means in a contract? It means that's not going to happen. If you wanted it to happen it would be a term of the contract
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Hey if anyone wants to give me $10,000 I promise them a "goal" of delivering back to them $20,000 in goods and services.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Remember it's a goal, so… you know… sometimes things happen… but I promise I'll totally get right on that, after I have my $10K.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Democrats are promising to do what they've always refused to do AFTER we give them everything we want and have no more leverage, right?
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Right, I believe that, and I believe Bob Corker and Marco Rubio, because I'm a f***ing moron who's every bit as stupid as they think I am.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
at the point of highest leverage, Dems absolutely refuse, calling it a redline, but at lowest leverage, they'll… voluntarily acquiesce?
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Very strange set of premises I'm being expected to will my stupid, backwards, God-bothered conservative brain to believe.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
of course your kid will eat his vegetables AFTER you let him have what he really wants, his desert. Of course. Why even question it?
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
GOP Voter: Hey, Senators, we've been trying to get actual border enforcement since it was promised in 1986. Can we have that now? GOP: Nah
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
GOP Voter: I'd like to be heard once in a while, instead of you just plotting how to con me… Will you address my concerns? GOP: Nah
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
GOP Voter: I sort of think our side of compromise was agreeing to amnesty at all… can we get something out of the deal? GOP: Nah bro
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
GOP Voter: I see I'm being expected to give up a lot here… any chance the open borders crowd will have to give too? GOP: Nah bro
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
hey remember when @SenJohnMcCain promised to see to building the danged fence in 2008? Yeah that was awesome.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Past performance MAY be indicative of future results.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Voter: Why would you do now what you promised to do for 35 years? GOP: This time we mean it. Voter: You really mean it? GOP: Nah
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Voter: I kinda get the feeling you don't really respect me. GOP: No we respect you. Voter: Really? GOP: Nah, just kiddin'. You're rubes.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
@TheH2 Voter: Well as long as you're really sorry. GOP: We're not. Voter: You're *not*? GOP: Nah
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Voter: You promised in 2010 to oppose the plan you're pushing now. Rubio: There's a reason for that. Voter: Oh? Rubio: Nah, I was lying.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
It's simply extraordinary how very much rethinking and evolution GOP Senators do *after* they've tricked conservatives into voting for them.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
This may be a strange notion, but perhaps they ought to think about these issues and fully evolve before announcing promises to voters.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
Re: that issue we discussed, about which I made certain promises: After rethinking, I've evolved on the issue. I *do* in fact have Herpes.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
I assure you my evolution from a No I don't have Herpes to a Yes I do have Herpes position was in good faith and not just to get some ass.
— DepressiveBlogger69 (@AceofSpadesHQ) June 21, 2013
That’s the crux of the issue. Trust is the crux of the issue.
Democrats are not to be trusted, because they are not good as their word. Democrats will flat-out lie to get a deal with Republicans on immigration so that they can flat-out lie to get another deal with Republicans on immigration. And ultimately, Democrats will fundamentally alter the demographics of the country in such a way that we will become a Third World multicultural/balkanized disaster zone. We know this, because we have seen what the socialist Left in Europe, which Democrats ape every chance they get and openly admire, has done with immigration. The socialists in France, Labor in the UK, socialist parties in Spain, Sweden, Holland and others – they’ve all greatly ramped up immigration from the Third World in an effort to get more people who will vote for their party rather than attempt to win the argument with people in their own countries.
That’s what the Democrats want to do. They were successful with it in California, and they now rule over the ruins of what was once a great state. What’s good for Democrats in California is good for the nation, right?
And the Democrats are perfectly willing to take their time with this project. They know that over time they can get Republicans to back down on just about everything.
Why? Because on this issue, Republican politicians are driven by two things – one, an insanely stupid willingness to believe everything the left-wing media in Washington and New York tells them and their D.C. political consultants (who are rife with incompetence and self-dealing to such a colossal extent as to illuminate what a powerful movement conservatism is that it has survived their ministrations as well as it has without being destroyed), and two, the corruption coming from taking big money from donors who want the cheap labor an open border would supply.
So what these people are looking for is political cover to sell out to the Democrats. They’re not willing to represent their political supporters; they’re more interested in a pretext to sell us out.
Bear in mind that the border security stuff the GOP is attempting to tout as indispensable to its support of the amnesty bill – all that stuff is already the law of the land. That border fence? It’s already the law of the land.
These are laws the government doesn’t enforce and hasn’t enforced. If the government was actually doing its job and enforcing the immigration laws already on the books we wouldn’t have much need for immigration reform – because if it was harder to get here and even harder to work here as an illegal, then a lot fewer people would try.
Virtually nobody in the Republican Party is standing up for the people who will be victims of this bill. Why isn’t the GOP using this as an appeal to the black community, which is going to be devastated when the party it monolithically votes for floods the labor market with newly-legal Mexican workers to take all the low-skill jobs black kids need? It’s not like a community with a 16 percent unemployment rate can look at this bill’s passage with anything but dread. And why isn’t anybody in the GOP talking about the four million people who are waiting in line in crappy countries abroad to become legal immigrants? They’re playing by the rules and suffering for it, but nobody cares.
So we get a deal. And the deal is that we’ll have 20,000 more border guards who will be hired and work for a Department of Homeland Security which sees conservatives as potential terrorists. And that Department is run by government bureaucrats who have proven they’ll abuse their power for political purposes.
Plus, those 20,000 border guards will be members of a public-employee union whose dues will go to fund Democrat political candidates to the tune of 94 percent of the time.
What comes out of this? We do a deal on immigration, and Democrats get a brand-new source of campaign funds now – plus a brand new source of bloc voters later.
Republicans and conservatives get – what, exactly? A promise that a few more Mexicans will vote for us? Cheap labor for big companies who give to Democrats as often as Republicans? A new perception in the Democrat-partisan media that we’re not as racist as they’ve portrayed us to be for the better part of two generations now?
Oh, and here’s a fun one – the actual problem gets solved by the exact same means it was supposed to be solved back in 1986?
In other words, nothing.
The good news is that this is going to be almost impossible to pass in the House, because the House has a lot more people in it who are connected to their constituents rather than the D.C. lobby crowd, and they know they’ll get strung up by their thumbs back home if they vote for this.
But in the Senate, replete as it is with preening nincompoops like John McCain and Lindsey Graham and, unfortunately, Marco Rubio, there is no such representation.
Look, it’s not necessary to act like Tom Tancredo to be a Republican. There is no reason to antagonize Hispanics – and more specifically, Mexican-Americans – on this issue. Ted Cruz, who is Hispanic (though he’s of Cuban and not Mexican extraction) and from Texas, understands that the way to get Mexican votes is to govern properly and grow the economy rather than pandering to them on immigration as though they could be bought so cheaply.
But if you act like a mark, you’ll get treated like a mark. That cuts across all ethnic lines. And make not mistake about it – the GOP in the Senate is a bunch of EASY marks. Worse, they think their voters are as well.
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