Can’t a GOP governor catch a break?
Red states around the country are flooding the southern border with as many as 50 cops or troops each to stem the tide of fentanyl-toting cartel members from Uzbekistan.
Why don’t they all don speedos and pose like bodybuilders? It’d be about as useful.
“The idea that a whole bunch of immigrants who are desperately trying to cross the desert and get into the U.S., the idea that they’re researching the national guard tactics at the border and therefore you need to keep them secret so those people don’t figure it out — that’s very far-fetched,” she said.
Its relation to reality is besides the point: the whole justification is delusional, so pretty much anything can be woven into the fabric of the story as long as it has the right tenor for the xenophobic and paranoiac audience it’s targeted at. (ed.)
Vermont has a Republican governor. No one is asking him about sending out the national guard to the Canadian border to prevent the raging hordes of Canucks crossing into the state.
History is just one damned thing after another. --Toynbee
Just never thought I’d see so much of it in my lifetime.
I feel like we should file this under “What Could Possibly Go Wrong!?”
I don’t think it is true, but I heard that the caddies from the Greenbrier and the Charlotte, NC, public school crossing guards were just deployed.
That’s because they’re bribing the border guards with fake Canadian health care system ID cards.
So, there’s now a new way for GOP governors to show fealty: send state troopers, animal control officers, water meter readers…anyone with a uniform and delusions. This will be a comic clusterfuck at the border when they all get there; lots of posturing and drinking will be in order.
The mind positively reels at the thought.
Gov Costello has over 20,000 Texas Army National Guardsmen available for deployment. Notice that he is letting the other Governors pay for this.
Next level grifting…
Fun Fact: Whereas 99% of the National Guard budget is paid for by the Federal Government, this goat rope will be paid for by the citizens of those republican states (State level deployment). Added bonus: We enter Q4 FY 2021 tomorrow. There is NO money to pay for this.
The last time we put the National Guard on the border, they shot and killed a Mexican citizen. Who was in Mexico, not the US.
Which may be why Gov Costello isn’t deploying the TXARNG.
Booga! Booga booga BOOGA!
Just as long as a certain Don doesn’t don a speedo. Haven’t we all suffered enough?
What’s the matter with Tennessee?
And just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Or depending on how many actually get sent there how many pairs of toes get stepped on.
Send Marsha, Marsha, Marsha to the border. She’d scare the hell out of any approaching immigrants.
Good Humor Ice Cream trucks? Could be nice.
The Tennessee National Guard did not immediately return TPM’s request for comment.
“What an amazing coincidence that every member of our public affairs office has a dental appointment on the exact same day!”
Oh hell, they don’t deserve that. What is wrong with you.
Bill Lee
Bill Hagerty
Marsha Fucking Blackburn
I could go on and on, but you get the idea.