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Eating Their Own: Beto O'Rourke Turns on Biden

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Texas gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis (Beto) O’Rourke continues to beclown himself as he is now criticizing his only remaining fan base—Joe Biden and the Democrat party—saying that the rightward tilt of Latino voters is due to the failure of the Left to take their concerns seriously.

“Candidate Biden didn’t spend a dime or day in the Rio Grande Valley or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter, once we got down in the homestretch of the general election,” O’Rourke told a crowd at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin on Saturday. “You got to be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win.”

Evidently O’Rourke didn’t have a handler there to tell him to zip it, and not criticize the only people left who actually like him. He continued with a backhanded compliment to none other than the evil former President Donald Trump:

“It was literally one syllable one word, it was ‘jobs,’ and he [Trump] kind of offered a false choice: ‘I can either keep you holed up in your house during this pandemic, or I can open up all places of employment and prioritize the economy,’” O’Rourke said Saturday. “What did we have on our side? Nothing.”

I’m not sure what “false choice” O’Rourke is referring to, since there is nothing false about what Trump offered. Here are Beto’s words of wisdom from Saturday at theTexas Tribune Festival:

According to the political website FiveThirtyEight, the rightward shift of Latino voters came to the forefront in the 2020 election:

One major storyline coming out of the 2020 election was the rightward shift of Latino voters, who supported former President Donald Trump at a higher rate than they had four years earlier. Although about 3 in 5 Latinos voted for President Joe Biden, this still represented a decline in Democratic support from 2016, when around 2 in 3 backed Hillary Clinton.

Republican representative Tony Gonzales, whose district spans the border, thinks the rightward shift of Hispanic voters will continue:

“We’re going to be winning races that no one thought we’d win before. And how are we going to do it? By leaning into our conservative values,” Gonzales told Fox News Digital on Saturday.

O’Rourke faces an uphill battle, as polls show him seven percent behind sitting governor Greg Abbott. The candidate said he’s taking the news of the polls with a “grain of salt.” I would suggest he read them with a shot of whiskey—because those are pretty daunting numbers.

The New York Times, predictably, ran a fawning piece Sunday on Beto in which the author blasted Abbott’s sending immigrants to other states as a “stunt.” This is rich considering O’Rourke recently staged one of the most obscene political stunts in memory—crashing a press conference after the horrific Uvalde school shooting and trying to make it all about himself:

On Saturday, O’Rourke defended his famed interruption and said he had no second thoughts. “No, I don’t regret being there,” O’Rourke said. “I wanted to fight for those families in Uvalde, for our families across the state.”

Despite famously appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair in 2019 with the headline, “I’m just born to be in it,” O’Rourke has failed to catch on with the public, losing a senatorial race to Senator Ted Cruz in 2018, floundering in his 2020 presidential bid, and now trailing badly in his race against Abbott. There’s something clownish about him, and despite the media’s endless attempts to make us take him seriously, the American people see right through it. Despite his proficiency at spouting every Leftist talking point as if it’s the Gospel, he’s just not ready for prime time and this may be his last rodeo.

Not sure what he was thinking by turning on his few friends in the political world, Joe Biden and the Democrat machine, but I don’t think it’s going to change his fortunes.

Mayorkas Delusionally Declares Biden Is 'Doing So Much' to 'Enforce the Law' at the Border

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It almost reads like a headline from the satire site, The Babylon Bee, huh?

With nearly 2.5 million — and counting — Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens since Joe Biden moved into the Oval Office, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday declared during an appearance on equally-delusional MSNBC that he and the administration are taking a proactive approach to “enforce the law” along the U.S.-Mexico border. Demonstrably false, many times over.

It was clear from the outset that Mayorkas was going to receive a free pass (MSNBC, #duh) from host José Díaz-Balart, who promptly blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in part, for the Biden Border Crisis™.

As transcribed by Breitbart, Díaz-Balart asked Mayorkas to explain what the administration is doing to stop the influx of illegal aliens into the United States.

Secretary, I’m here in El Paso, where about 2,000 people are arriving every day. This fiscal year, we’re looking at roughly 2.4 million apprehensions. Countless others are crossing and not being apprehended. Secretary, what is the United States’ border policy?

With that set-up, Mayorkas immediately began to lie.

Well, we are doing so much, Jose. You know what our policy is? Our policy is to enforce the law. And that is indeed what we are doing. Individuals who arrive at our border who do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States are being removed.

And those that do have a valid basis under the laws that Congress has passed are able to stay, as the law provides. That is our policy, to enforce immigration law.

That “legal basis” is seeking asylum, the game many illegals are coached to play before they take a single step to the north. Moreover, those who are allowed to remain in the U.S. are processed and given a future date to appear for a court hearing — as the debate about how many actually show up continues.

Mayorkas continued lying:

At the same time, we continue to urge Congress to pass immigration reform, because one thing that everyone agrees upon, in an area where there’s very little agreement, the area of immigration, is that our system is broken and it is in dire and desperate need of reform.

This is the Democrats’ top straw-dog argument. Because the system is “broken,” Biden has no choice in the meantime, other than allowing hundreds of thousands of illegals to continue streaming across the virtually-open border — along with millions of doses of deadly fentanyl.

The choice is a false one, while people continue to die.

Diaz-Balart reinforced Mayorkas’ lie, before momentarily assuming the role of a legitimate journalist and presenting the DHS secretary with inconvenient truths about the state of the southern border:

And so, the issue of immigration reform is clearly a priority, which has not, until this moment, been done in Washington. But I take you back to the border, Secretary. And you have been at the border countless times.

Towns all along the 1,800-mile Mexico-U.S. border are dealing with a humanitarian crisis. What do you tell local officials in these towns?

El Paso is spending $300,000 a day in dealing with the crisis. It’s a humanitarian crisis. What do, Secretary, you tell towns all across these 1,800 miles of border?

Mayorkas, of course, was ready.

Jose, I say a number of things. Number one, we have surged resources to the border. We have 23,000 personnel dedicated there. The president has, for the first time since 2011, the first president to do so in about 11 years, plussed up, increased the number of Border Patrol agents. That is reflected in his fiscal year 2023 budget.

And one other important thing that I’d say, among a number of others, is, work with us. Coordinate. We work in close partnership with local communities to bring order, to bring safety and bring humanity to the situation.

I know you’re in El Paso. We work very closely with Oscar Leeser, the mayor of El Paso. We reimburse the city for expenses through our emergency food and shelter program. When we work in coordination with one another, we address the situation ably and effectively.

When a governor acts unilaterally and refuses to coordinate with other government officials, that is when problems arise. And that is when we deplore political statesmanship, when we’re dealing with the lives of vulnerable individuals who are reflective of a challenge that our entire hemisphere faces.

So it’s Greg Abbott’s fault, in effect, for saying “Texas is mad as hell and we’re not going to take it, anymore,” and working at the state level to enforce illegal immigration laws and shore up his state’s southern border.

Sounds totally legit, Mr. Secretary. Now, do Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Numbers don’t lie, Mr. Secretary. Unlike you and the apparent majority of the Joe Biden administration.

BREAKING: Rep. Adam Schiff Calls for House Select Committee to Investigate DeSantis for Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

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DISCLAIMER: The following is satire and did not actually happen.

 

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has called for the creation of a House Select Committee to look into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for sending Venezuelan migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. He and his colleagues hope this will help to get to the bottom of the issue, which he calls “one of the most traumatic experiences Americans living in Martha’s Vineyard have ever had and a blight on the nation.”

While addressing reporters at a press conference, Schiff excoriated DeSantis for bringing brown people to the nation’s most popular bastion for wealthy white progressives. “This was like 9/11 – or even worse – Jan. 6 for the people living in Martha’s Vineyard,” the lawmaker fumed. “It is our duty to find out what happened.”

When asked if he might be exaggerating by comparing the flying of migrants to the island to Jan. 6, Schiff replied, “Look, the name of the place is Martha’s Vineyard, not Maria’s Vineyard – do you understand? Forcing us to deal with these people is nothing less than barbaric.”

Schiff then revealed that he had evidence of Russian involvement in the matter. He said:

“But I haven’t even gotten to the good part yet. I am in possession of evidence showing that Russia has been deeply involved in this whole initiative to send illegals to Democrat-run cities. Apparently, both Abbott and DeSantis have quite a cozy relationship with Putin. At least one witness has come forward claiming at least two of the bus drivers appeared to be of Russian descent.”

The lawmaker said he would be going public with the rest of the evidence “really really soon, I promise.”

Since DeSantis joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in transporting illegal immigrants and migrants to blue cities, Democrats have been wracking their brains to figure out how to stop them. They even tried changing the legal definition of the term “human trafficking” in the hopes that they could levy criminal charges against the two men. But now, Schiff seems to believe he has the answer: The House Select Making Us Deal With Migrants Committee.

“I mean, what else are we supposed to do? Yell at Biden to make him do something about the migrant crisis? Get outta here!” Schiff said.

'Punked': DeSantis 'Plan' to Ship Illegal Aliens to Biden's Delaware Home Arrives…Not Even Close

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Oh, this was good. And you know Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis loves every minute of it. After sending 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard, setting the stage for traumatized Vineyard residents to reveal their hypocritical selves to the world, word had it that DeSantis’s next target was Joe Biden’s Delaware home.

The media being its silly media self, ran with the “news” like wildfire. Daily Mail proclaimed in a headline:

First Martha’s Vineyard, Now Joe’s Backyard! Delaware Readies for Surprise Influx of Migrants After Plane Used by DeSantis to Drop Venezuelans in Martha’s Vineyard Prepares to Touch Down

Game on. DeSantis’s cat-and-mouse game, that is. Reuters warned:

Delaware braces for migrant flight in U.S. political standoff

Oops.

More via Reuters:

Local government officials, advocates and reporters swarmed a small coastal airport near President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Tuesday in anticipation of a possible flight carrying migrants from Texas.

Flight tracking websites showed a scheduled flight set to leave San Antonio, Texas, heading to Georgetown, Delaware, on Tuesday chartered by the same company that was used by Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis to send migrants to the wealthy island of Martha’s Vineyard last week.

Sorry, not even close.

As one might assume, The Most Trusted Name in News™ was all over the “breaking” news, as well.

NBC News digital national political reporter Marc Caputo quoted a source close to DeSantis:

The source told NBC:

He didn’t tell anyone and purposely left people in the dark. So technically the media, the Democrats, everyone got punked who decided to heed some s— on Twitter instead of waiting for confirmation from the governor’s office. The entire point of this is to put a spotlight on the border. It’s what the governor has said.

And DeSantis, along with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, has masterfully done exactly that.

DeSantis campaign rapid response director Christina Pushaw nailed it in a tweet, as well.

Lol yup. All these reporters who are suddenly so interested in illegal immigration that they swarmed Delaware today, should try visiting the border once in a while. They’ll find plenty of illegal immigrants there.

To be fair, RedState also reported on the story, under the title (emphasis mine), Ron DeSantis May Have a Special Delivery for Joe Biden in Delaware, in which we included an image of a purported flight plan. That said, we made the point, as did Christina Pushaw, that the real issue is the continuing Biden Border Crisis.

So, what did happen?

If the flight never arrived near Biden’s Delaware home, where did it land? Some reports suggested New Jersey; others said it never left the ground. But, as The Tampa Bay Times reported, after hours of delays, the flight departed San Antonio and headed to Nashville. The Times further reported there were no indications that illegals were aboard the flight, after all.

Here’s more from The Times:

Before the change, the flight’s ultimate destination had appeared to be a Delaware airport near Biden’s Rehoboth Beach vacation home, according to data posted on the website FlightAware. That followed a pattern: Former president Barack Obama owns a vacation home in Martha’s Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts.

It’s not clear what happened and DeSantis’ office didn’t respond to questions.

So, was this the punk job of the year — or did the rabid liberal media get out over their skis?

Was the flight originally destined for Delaware but ended up diverting to Nashville? That seems highly unlikely given there were apparently no illegal aliens aboard. Either way, does it matter? No.

Why? Because, as was the case with the brilliantly orchestrated Martha’s Vineyard drop-off of 50 illegals and the hypocritical left’s histrionic response, this time DeSantis didn’t even have to pull the trigger to once again illustrate the left’s hypocritical concern about a bunch of illegals “coming to a town near (liberal) you.”

The bottom line:

As the media continues to rage about flights of illegal aliens by Governors DeSantis and Abbott to Democrat strongholds as “inhumane,” “illegal human trafficking,” and worse, it’s these two “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore” governors who continue to demonstrate real democracy — a far cry from Biden’s silly warning that Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans are “the greatest threat to our democracy.” Unless that is, we’re talking about Democrat Party-style “democracy.”

Sorry, Progressives – Most Hispanics Support the Abbott Express

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Remember when Politico published an op-ed claiming that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sending migrants to blue areas of the country would harm him politically with Hispanics?

Well, it appears this isn’t the case. In fact, a Politico/Morning Consult poll reveals quite the opposite. The Abbott Express and DeSantis Air initiatives are quite popular with Latino voters.

The survey found that 41 percent of Hispanics believed that the busing of migrants to blue cities was “appropriate” while 35 percent disagreed. About 25 percent indicated they had no opinion on the matter.

To put it simply, 66 percent of Latinos either support the initiative or don’t give a crap about it, meaning that neither governor is likely to lose support among this voting bloc over this issue.

To progressives, these results might be a surprise – mostly because they are out of touch with the opinions of regular everyday Americans. But to others, this isn’t quite as shocking.

The reality that the open borders crowd does not want to face is that they brought this situation on themselves. Democratic politicians – especially the ones leading the cities to which Abbott and DeSantis are sending migrants and illegal aliens – blatantly support policies that attract these individuals.

President Joe Biden all but rolled out the red carpet upon taking office, reversing most of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Individuals traveling to the southern border in caravans wore shirts asking Biden to let them into the country. Some told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz that they chose to cross the border illegally because Trump was no longer in office.

The bottom line is that the days of Democrats supporting open borders policies without having to deal with the consequences of such measures are over. Both Abbott and DeSantis indicated they will not stop sending migrants to these areas until the White House finally decides to take the issue seriously. The fact that Latinos are largely on board with this should show progressives that their approach isn’t what the American people want.

But realistically, when have progressives ever cared what the plebes think? They will continue trying to import as many people – legally and illegally – as possible. But perhaps if they are forced to feel the pain, they will no longer be able to keep up this foolishness. One can only hope, right?