Oklahoma GOP votes to censure Lankford (R-Okla.) over Senate border talks ( thehill.com )

The Oklahoma Republican Party approved a resolution Saturday condemning and censuring Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) for his role as a chief negotiator in the Senate border security talks between Democrats and Republicans.

The resolution — a copy of which was posted on X, formerly Twitter — by state Sen. Dusty Deevers (R) said, “Senator Lankford playing fast and loose with Democrats on our border policy not only disfranchises legal immigrants seeking citizenship but it also puts the safety and security of Americans in great danger.”

Senate negotiators have been working for weeks to negotiate a compromise on border and immigration policy that is meant to address the number of migrants who come across the U.S. border with Mexico.

2piradians ,

Dusty Deevers, lmao. I went to elementary school with him for a few years. You don't forget a name like that. Trust me, he comes by the dipshitidness honestly from growing up in that Oklahoma town. It's isolated and simple, and at least 50 years behind the times. I wouldn't call anyone from there wordly.

I was obviously just a kid at the time, but an opportunity came and I noped the hell out.

Nightwingdragon ,

Remember, the GOP have already openly announced the strategy of "pounding the table" with the border issue, while simultaneously refusing to actually do anything at all about it, because doing so "would give Biden a win." Can't have that. So now Republicans must complain about border security while refusing to do anything about border security, and just blaming Biden for all of it as if immigrants have never crossed the border until Biden got elected.

So why do they do this? Because it's effective. They have conditioned their voting base to not only not care about solutions, but to actively not want them. Solutions to problems are government overreach, you know. They have conditioned their base that (a) Democrats are the cause of all their problems, (b) the Republican party is there solely to point out the "problems" that Democrats are supposedly causing, and (c) these problems can't and shouldn't be solved by the government because that would be government overreach. And when people complain about why nothing ever changes, the answer is to go back to (a) and start over.

Give a man a boogeyman to blame for all of his problems, and he'll follow you anywhere.

kibiz0r ,

Dark Brandon strikes again, by simply offering Republicans exactly what they asked for.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Fuck these immature, trash people.

Everythingispenguins ,

Why can't I have a job where the only thing I have to do is refuse to do my job...

Asafum ,

You can, just have to sell your soul and be a politician.

Everythingispenguins ,

Choices, choices.

SinningStromgald ,

He must have been the one to concede shooting illegals as they crossed the border.

DarkGamer ,

OK has no foreign border, but they sure are xenophobic.

FenrirIII ,
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It's all white in OK

FlyingSquid ,
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It isn't all white since America shoved half its indigenous population into Oklahoma.

But it's still mostly white.

BackOnMyBS ,
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America shoved half its indigenous population into Oklahoma.

The fact that the xenophobes are the ones that genocided the indigenous peoples of the land makes it so I can't tell if this whole political immigrant crisis is ironic or perfectly congruent.

themeatbridge ,

Oklahoma

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    protist ,

    You don't even know what's in this bill, how are you forming this judgment?

    Theprogressivist ,
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    Did you even read the article?

    MagicShel ,

    Am I reading this right? They condemned him for leading a negotiation with democrats, which checks notes is his job?

    newthrowaway20 ,

    Yep. This is the game now. Republicans are attacking themselves for working with Democrats.

    And some people think this'll get better somehow.

    MagicShel ,

    Not to be outdone, now there is a comment attacking Democrat leadership for negotiating with Republicans. Jesus fucking christ, people.

    crypticthree ,

    Well if they fix the problem then they won't have anything to criticize Biden for

    FabioTheNewOrder ,

    It Will get better IF after the 2024 elections the GOP will be left with a minority in both the houses, Congress and senate. At that point it will be only on the democrats to pass legislations, notwithstanding eventual characters like Sinema and Manchin.

    protist ,

    They don't even know what's in the bill, it's the concept of creating a bill at all that they're mad at

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