Lankford Gets The MAGA Treatment For Defying Trump And Legislating

Amid apparent infighting in the Oklahoma Republican Party, a resolution was passed over the weekend to formally condemn Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), who has caught the ire of Donald Trump supporters for working on the bipartisan immigration bill that Trump had asked congressional Republicans to spike.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1479244
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The politics on immigration are going to be reversed by the end of the year. The GOP is make a grave error in tanking this deal. Biden now gets to campaign as the one that wants to close the border when the influx of immigrants is too great to process.

The entire Republican party is a bunch of idiots for bending the knee to their great and mighty moron. He’s leading them over the cliff and it’s going to be so so sweet

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“because solving the border ‘crisis’ now gives Republicans one less thing to campaign on”

Why should Republicans ever fix the immigration problem?

Cats on the border

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Speaking as an expat Okie (living in Montana) this is not surprising at all. Oklahoma keeps descending further and further into right wing hysteria and paranoia.

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It is somehow fitting that the Republicans find themselves between a rock and a hard place where rock, hard place, and their position between are pretty much all of their own making.

Incidit in scyllam cupiens vitare charybdim

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The GOP are on the horns of a dilemma.

Pass bipartisan legislation that addresses what they claim is a “crisis” at the border, or kill it and lay bare that they are simply playing politics with a made up “crisis” for the sole purpose of campaigning for Trump on the issue of a fake “crisis”.

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“As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America,” Trump said Saturday.

“Dare to contradict me,” he added…

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Poor Lankford. Cry me a river. Probably voted with tRump 99.9% of the time when he had the opportunity. Still…its never enough for these freaks.

Maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention to these Repukes lately but doesn’t Lankford look a lot more blond and a bit more gaunt these days since he’s been in the Senate. Being an R in the Senate under the thumb of tRump sure has taken its toll on most of these pukes. Some of them begin to look as unhealthy as tRump. Maybe its contagious.

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Moving the goalposts to an impossible target. Are you going to close both northern and southern borders?

From Speaker Mike Johnson

Any border “shutdown” authority that ALLOWS even one illegal crossing is a non-starter. Thousands each day is outrageous. The number must be ZERO.

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Trump calls UAW president a ‘dope’ after union endorses Biden

More projection from the master.

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He’s looked that way ever since he drank the bleach as a show of support for Trump during COVID.

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"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend Donald John Trump against all enemies, foreign and democrat; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, with mental reservation for purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully cover up crimes using the office on which I am about to enter: So help me Trump”. (Hand placed on a copy of Art of the Deal)

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The irony is of course, that most “illegals” enter the country through legal ports of entry and then overstay their visas.

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It’s a shame that the few adult Republicans don’t ask (to paraphrase Henry II) Will no one rid us of this turbulent Orange Asshole (and draft dodger)?" If Trump dropped dead tomorrow, I doubt even his pond scum spawn would attend his funeral. Sad!

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I don’t often agree with Lankford on much of anything at all. But in this instance, he at least has the integrity to honor the responsibilities of the office he holds and the oath he took. I’ll tip my hat to him for that. But to be honest, I doubt I’ll ever have many other opportunities to do the same. I hope he enjoys his 15 minutes…in MAGA World, he’ll be fortunate to get even a fraction of that.

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Found this little article with fun stats to throw at MAGA folks…

https://www.thirdway.org/memo/the-truth-about-fentanyl-trafficking

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The new face of the "principled’ Republican. Amazing that we have sunk this low…

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Thanks for that article. However, as we’ve seen over the last 4 years MAGA folks don’t let ‘facts’ get in the way of Truth ™.

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Trump has openly criticized the bill as a “gift” to Democrats during a presidential election year.

This is pretty much all you need to know about the dotard and today’s republican party.

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