It probably won't get much attention because there is so much crazy in the House GOP, but this morning, the new chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee called it "a mistake" that Trump didn't launch missiles into Mexico to bomb meth labs. https://t.co/tHdAQlvxJa
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 7, 2023
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul… and *this* dude. The entire state of Kentucky may need a wellness check.
… Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said during an appearance on “Fox and Friends” that it was too bad that Trump didn’t launch a military attack on Mexico, a longtime U.S. ally, to try to stop drug traffickers.
“One of the things we learned post-Trump presidency is that he had ordered a bombing of a couple of fentanyl labs, crystal meth labs, in Mexico, just across the border and for whatever reason, the military didn’t do it,” said Comer. “I think that was a mistake.”
In 2020, Trump allegedly proposed firing missiles into Mexico to his then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who wrote about it in his book, “A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Defense Secretary in Extraordinary Times.” Esper, stunned, said Trump suggested this several times, telling Esper he believed “no one would know it was us” so they could keep it a secret.
When asked later if this was true, Trump said only, “No comment.”
A Comer spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment on why he thinks it would have been a good idea to attack Mexico…
The GOP chairman’s extreme pronouncements are part of a bigger push by House Republicans to appear tough on border issues. It’s all so jumbled, though, that Comer may have forgotten that he proposed cutting off all funding for border security just a few months ago.
Comer’s comments come a day before Republicans on his committee are set to hold another subcommittee hearing on disrupting crime at the border.
The reason the military didn’t do it is because it is insane.
It’s almost as if this idea came straight out of a 1989 Tom Clancy novel that was turned into a blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford.
Oh wait, it did! https://t.co/mvPBbBFfl2
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 7, 2023
In the same interview, Comer called for keeping a military presence along the southern border — both on the U.S. and Mexican sides.
Comer may have forgotten that just a few months ago he proposed cutting off all funding for border security. https://t.co/1iccMnCxmz
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) March 7, 2023
Comer remembers which of his colleagues loves a good tongue bath, though…
Comer on Jim Jordan: "Jim's the GOAT. Jim is the LeBron James of the House Republican conference." pic.twitter.com/vrtjK450dC
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2023
War for Ukraine Day 375: The Ukrainians Keep Pushing at Bakhmut
Baud
The big question is, how will the various GOP presidential candidates try to compete in the race for the Ever Bigger Outrage.
craigie
I think he meant to say that Jim is a goat.
craigie
@Baud: It won’t be long before they suggest bombing California.
Alison Rose
@craigie: Except goats are sweet little buddies and Comer is a Sour Patch Man-Baby.
Raoul Paste
My favourite part is that Trump said “they wouldn’t know it was us“ if we bombed Mexico.
Alison Rose
@Raoul Paste: Like when a kid playing hide and seek hides behind a tree that’s way smaller than they are. I guess TFG thinks everyone else is as stone cold dumb as he is.
Gravenstone
The Republican ethos has been “throw some little country up against the wall just to remind everyone that we’re the big dogs” for entirely too long. This is just an extension of that bullshit.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Raoul Paste: wasn’t this the case where he wanted to disguise the planes as being from the Chinese AF? or was this one of the times he thought thought stealth bombers were like Wonder Woman’s invisible jet?
Citizen Scientist
@Raoul Paste: Mexico would obviously blame Canada first.
patrick II
If they are going to do that, they should drop one on the Sacklers with their multi-billion getaway fund after they hooked about half of the country on oxy.
Suzanne
Um does he know he could just bomb Kentucky instead and have the same result?
Geminid
There sure are a lot of shabby politicians in that Republican House caucus. I think gerrymandering has led to a race to the bottom in that party.
delphinium
@Suzanne: Or South Dakota: Meth, we’re on it
Gvg
I am sure the rest of the world would be fine if we started bombing countries that had criminals in them, not. Sabotage teams from around the world would hit us every way they could.
And also I am sure drug smugglers, realizing they were being bombed by us, would also realize the safest place to be was among a large number of US citizens. And they would know how to get over the border. I imagine they might take some revenge, then start infiltrating our military, police and politics, just like home.
Republicans are now all morons.
Baud
It’s because Trump had just watched Breaking Bad and told the military to bomb meth labs in New Mexico.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Comer last week:
Weiss is the Delaware US Attorney appointed by the DoJ in 2018, I think the Klanself was still in charge at the time.
delphinium
@Geminid: Let’s not leave voters off the hook-they seem to be a-ok with keeping these folks in office, despite them not doing much to help out in their communities.
prostratedragon
@Raoul Paste: lord, yes, that’s where I really had to hang on. he really is a toddler.
cain
@Geminid: I think you’re right – and it will also have more and more extreme people who have no accountability to anyone including their own caucus. Eventually, no one can control them – hell, you can’t even control them now.
The house is going to keep coming up with crazy ass bills. If by some shit luck the Senate is also GOP (and likely thin margins) the house and senate are going to start fighting.
cain
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Imagine going after the president’s dead son too. What a piece of shit.
cain
BTW – lot of shit going on with our boy Tucker making it seem like Jan 6th was a sleeper. Even the Senate GOP was pissed off.
Bex
Didn’t Lindsay Graham suggest we invade Mexico and annex the “northern part”? Where have I seen that stratergy recently?
SpaceUnit
I wonder how many times Trump ordered his chief of staff to assemble The Avengers.
EarthWindFire
@delphinium: They’ve been groomed by the GOP to not expect or desire government help, until there’s a disaster a Democrat should show up for. Case in point: East Palestine
TheOtherHank
@Bex: It worked the last time we tried it. (He says writing from Alta California).
persistentillusion
@Alison Rose: I used to have a horse who would hide behind phone poles. He couldn’t see me therefore I couldn’t see his 1400 lb self. Oi, he may have been a secret Rethuglican. No wonder he would balk at jumps.
delphinium
@cain: Tucker is a proven liar, and this should be mentioned any time someone brings up anything he says. Has anyone heard if the other news orgs will be able to get the footage as well? I know they were trying to.
Sherparick
I was wondering about all the meth labs in those hollows of Kentucky. Perhaps napalming Comer’s whole district would be a start.
Scout211
@cain: Yes. Pushback from the Senate GOP, the Capitol
Police and Officer Sicknick’s family. They released a statement. Link
Ken
@Bex: I don’t know about recently, but annexing chunks of Mexico and the Caribbean for the extension of slavery was pre-war southern, and later Confederate, policy. Hardly surprising the GQP is reviving it.
delphinium
@EarthWindFire: Well then it looks like more train derailments, grid failures (TX), and rural hospital closings will be in their future. Not much we can do if they refuse to learn.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Trump bombing Kentucky wouldn’t be an international incident, but it’d be American money he was hurting. We can’t have that.
Then the reverse should be true. Let’s try this together; “LeBron James is the Gym Jordan of basketball.”
For anyone who needed clarification on how silly that thought was…
NotMax
Wag the
dogelephant.//
Switching gears, this is (as Arte Johnson used to say) verrry in-ter-es-tink.
EarthWindFire
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Could LeBron sue Comer? Because a comparison to Gym Jordan reeks of actual malice.
WaterGirl
@craigie:
That’s currently only up for discussion in “quiet rooms” and maybe fundraisers.
Brachiator
@Baud:
Oh, they will find a way!
WaterGirl
@cain: ??
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Dark corners of 4chan -> Intellectual Dark Web ->Fox News -> Rest of media -> Conventional wisdom
Scout211
@WaterGirl:
‘Bulls—‘: GOP senators rebuke Tucker Carlson for downplaying Jan. 6 as ‘mostly peaceful’
WaterGirl
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: What’s the time span from the first from the last? Less than a week? Less than a day?
cain
@Scout211:
Perhaps if he were to agree to be similarly pepper sprayed to prove the point… I mean let’s prove that it can happen. Stand by your convictions Tucker!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@WaterGirl: Varies. Sometimes they gotta tease out the way to present an idea for the masses. Pitch that dogwhistle just right.
And idiocy can start at any link in the chain, but the 2nd and 3rd probably produce the most quantity, if I were to make an educated guess. And it is bidirectional.
David 🌈☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Scout211: Sicknick’s family has a good lawsuit if they want.
Courts won’t entertain suits for emotional harm with one big exception – when the harm relates to the death of a loved one.
Josie
I hope someone is keeping a record of all Comer’s statements to use in an ad explaining why Republicans should not be in charge in the House from now on. The man is certifiable or shamelessly stupid or both.
thalarctosMaritimus
@craigie: No, he meant to say that Jordan would turn a blind eye while someone fucked an underage goat.
Matt McIrvin
@Scout211: If Murdoch were behind Tucker Carlson on this, I’d say, start the timer and see how long it takes for the senators’ story to reverse. But he might not be.
M31
more like Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy’s invisible boat (that they kept losing)
zhena gogolia
@EarthWindFire: My thoughts exactly.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Scout211: I’m glad the Rs are speaking out.
Though really, refusing to deny reality is a low bar. We all saw the attack. These congresspeople were there when it happened.
hells littlest angel
Trump: Just say it was a bunch of black kids who did it.
Quiltingfool
Or Missouri?
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Quiltingfool: I recall a This Modern World cartoon from the W era illustrating the future Bush dynasty, where mad Ludwig Bush decides to nuke Florida. Alas, I can’t find it on the ‘Net.
laura
@craigie: Two Shite-Bags from Napa were recently sentenced for their plot to blow up the Democratic Party Headquarters in Sacramento. They were very sorry they were caught and blamed everything but their stupid selves for their criming.
sdhays
@craigie: I’m convinced that the “GOAT” trend is Gen-Z trolling everyone into saying people are goats while seeming to pay them a compliment.
It’s genius!
Suzanne
@Quiltingfool: Or every GD state in the union? It’s not like meth isn’t being cooked up, uhhhhh, everywhere. Probably 100 feet from the Capitol.
This is why I need a fucken anal scan to buy allergy pills.
sdhays
@Bex: Did no one tell him that we already did that?
Ruckus
@Alison Rose:
I guess TFG thinks everyone else is as stone cold dumb as he is.
SFB thinks? Who coulda known?
WaterGirl
@Scout211: Thank you.
ReadingWatching now.RSA
It turns out that most of the guns seized in Toronto have been smuggled from the U.S. Canada presumably is not thinking about bombing Smith & Wesson factories in Tennessee—unless they’re listening to Comer, I guess.
Ruckus
@delphinium:
Not much we can do if they refuse to learn.
I’m thinking that is isn’t that they refuse to learn, it’s that they are too fucking stupid to be able to learn.
sralloway
@Bex:1848
Tony G
@craigie: A guy from Kentucky is worried about meth labs in Mexico. I guess he wants to eliminate the foreign competition so that the local businesses can make more money.
karen marie
@Suzanne: Kentucky may be number one in some books but it’s got competition.
karen marie
@Scout211: Where were those senators during Trump’s second impeachment? Oh, that’s right, they were voting to hold him harmless for the insurrection he instigated.
I’m sorry, they don’t get a pat on the back from me because they finally realized that Tucker and Fox aren’t really their friends.
Gravie
Utter disregard for innocent lives: check. Performative violence that accomplishes nothing: check. Blustering “patriotism”: check. Add your own GOP atrocities.
dm
Thomas Massie (R-Putin Hollow) is also from Kentucky.
Scout211
More texts, emails and private messages were released today by the judge in the Dominion v Fox case. One message from Tucker Carlson is interesting. LOL
Link
kalakal
@Scout211: Carlson isn’t exactly helping Fox’s defense against Dominion with his latest bilious lies
kalakal
@craigie: I think he meant to say that Gym is a scrote
hotshoe
@craigie:
Nuclear bomb attack on (one Utopian town in) California, ordered by a US rightwing govt, is a key plot point in The Shockwave Rider, by John Brunner 1975.
It’s never been unthinkable to me that the government could order such a strike, nor that a bomber crew would obey the order. (Especially not after the fundagelicals subverted the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.)
Well, the book has a happy ending.
We have hope.
sab
@karen marie: Where the fuck is Ohio on that list? So JD Vance was exaggerating a bit? Why am I not surprised?
brantl
@Baud: New Mexico, Old Mexico, what’s the difference.
Paul in KY
@SpaceUnit: 5 or 6, I’m thinking. He had a mancrush on Tony Stark and finally wanted to meet him in person.
Paul in KY
@Sherparick: I may be in it, so no.
Paul in KY
@Tony G: We do have that pioneer entrepreneurial spirit here in the KY!