Summary
US Senator Chris Van Hollen defended the Constitution and fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said that the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia was “the distraction of the day.”
“Anyone who is not prepared to stand up and fight for the Constitution doesn’t deserve to lead,” Van Hollen said.
He visited El Salvador to meet with Abrego Garcia, whose deportation the Trump administration called an “administrative error.”
“Right now, we have a lawless president… who is ignoring the order of the Supreme Court of the United States to facilitate [Abrego Garcia’s] return.”
It’s literally in every oath of office as the central tenet. I swore to uphold the constitution way back as a 17 year old soldier. It is my fundamental expectation of every single person working for the government.
This shouldn’t need to be said!
I wish Newsom would fucking die already. He’s so tiresome.
Not only tiresome, which he really is, but he’s also just a stereotypical politician who talks in speeches and doublespeak, even in intimate settings, so you never actually know what he believes. Listen to him give an interview to a friendly reporter from a liberal outlet. He can barely answer the simplest questions without sounding like the most cookie-cutter mainstream Democrat. That’s not what people want anymore.
We need a down to earth candidate like AOC who communicates like a human being. Not a greasy rich white guy who talks like the most generic politician with no genuine values.
But I don’t want him to die, I just want him to go away and stop pushing himself on us.
He’s the Next One Up for the Democrats, though. Plus, he has one thing that the last two losing Democrats didn’t have: a penis. Please don’t discount how much of an advantage penis-havers get with our shitty electorate.
I’m afraid that the nomination is his to lose. (He might lose it, though, if there is meaningful reform at the DNC and a better candidate comes along. It will still be one with a penis, though.)
Would two dicks guarantee a win though? Or the second penis is a disadvantage?
if there is meaningful reform at the DNC
You realize you are talking about meaningful reform in the DNC in preparation for the 2032 elections, right? I wonder if there will even be a DNC by then.
No. This is all about the 2028 elections, which the non-fascists desperately need to win. But the DNC has been using the same “next one up” philosophy that gave us John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. (The one exception was in 2008, when Barack Obama stole Hillary’s crown out from under her).
If things at the DNC go the way they have been going, Newsom has the nomination already, and the primary will just be a formality just like all the other ones (except for 2008) have been .
I don’t think Gavin Newsom is capable of feeling shame. Talk about a guy with zero principles other than “I want to make rich people richer.”
Good point from Von here.
Maybe Van Hollen is running for president.
