For weeks months years the GOP have been screaming -- shrieking really in tones so shrill one wonders if they need to change their diapers -- that immigration is the emergency, the only real issue, a dangerous and deadly influx of illegals, easily crossing the Rio Grande, and then poisoning our blood. This, IIUC, is the central platform of the Trumpanazis. It's an URGENT issue -- Not even one more day should be wasted before fortifying Our Border, adding troops, etc.
And now the Democrats say "OK."* !!! Hooray! Bipartisanship!! Maybe we can work together after all. The D's agreeing to make a major move to improve border security, was the concession to exceed all concessions. (Asked in return was that the U.S. send some arms to the Democrats in Ukraine.) President Joseph Biden son of Joseph was ready to sign in ink. Rather a happy coup for the Rational Centrists (as if they were even a thing nowadays.)
NO. The GOP and its factions like Proud Boys, Moms for Bigotry, Defenders from the Jewboy Lasers, VETOED this urgent bill to curb illegal immigration. Why, pray tell? Wasn't this their quintessential political goal? Wasn't the crisis "urgent"?
Pressed for explanations, some Republican leaders were very candid: "We don't want to help the President. Crime, recession, etc. will be GOOD for us come November. All we care about is putting Trump back in the White House."
IIUC two issues were paired in the bill. The Ukraine aid is related to the Thunderdome fight between Vladimir Vladimirovich and Hunter Biden.
How about that for a political thriller? If you're a fan of Tom Clancy novels? But would you cry into the pillow when you realize the Clancy novel is NOT fiction, that it's happening now, in front of our eyes?
That's right; it isn't fiction!! With minimal exaggeration, this is the present reality. The Putin -v- Hunter conflict would be cartoonish in the Clancy novel, but is actually based on fact. Often in the evenings Putin and his pals drink a bit of vodka and laugh their balls tingly about their good fortune. The Trump fiasco will be a bizzarity famed for millennia (if human civilization survives so long). Mainstream GOP "thought" implicitly DOES ally the U.S. with Putin -- mainly because their mascot has Malignant Narcissistic Disorder and admires successful dictators -- and phony probes like Hunter's end up being an important part of that. The novel would be a best-seller, yet truth is stranger than fiction. What can I say but ... ... ... Wow.