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Home Front: Politix
Beto bombs bigly in long interview with the Washington Post
2019-01-17
[American Thinker] When a CNN anchor warns that "It’s a fine line to walk between being a blank canvas and an empty vessel," a pretty boy, Kennedyesque empty suit progressive candidate, already recognizable by his first name alone, is in trouble.

Beto looks like a beta, if we are to judge by the Washington Post’s account of his "lengthy" interview with their writer Jenna Johnson. The title gives away the verdict: "Beto O’Rourke’s immigration plan: No wall but no specifics." The lead paragraphs are no kinder. Jenna Johnson wrote:
In a digital ad that recently went viral, Beto O’Rourke tore into President Trump’s desired border wall with soaring footage of the Rio Grande Valley and an explanation of what the wall would do: cut off access to the river, shrink the size of the United States and force the seizure of privately-held land.

It noted that most undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States in the past decade came not over the border but on visas that then expired.

So what should be done to address visa overstays?

"I don’t know," O’Rourke said, pausing in a lengthy interview.

The vacuity was so obvious that even CNN anchor Brianna Keilar felt compelled to raise the alarm. The segment is embedded below, but Tommy Christopher of Mediaite cuts to the chase:
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Golly thanks, Zenobia F. A spork, really?
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-17 23:39  

#9  A slick politician of Cork,
Sodomitically porked with a spork,
Lit out for New York
Just ahead of the stork
To establish the family O'Rourke.

I got nuthin. Just wanted to chuck that image back at you, gingerly-like.
Posted by: Grens Hatrack8724   2019-01-17 22:22  

#8  #6 But, of course, the point is that Beto is an idiot and a lightweight to boot. He couldn't win a Senate seat in his home state. Lightweight.

Dad was a Judge and Father-in-law's a billionaire. Forbes tries hard to disprove that but then says: "As for Sanders —it's unlikely, though possible, that he's a billionaire. Without more info in his deals, we can’t know how well Sanders has managed the proceeds from his paydays, how much personal debt he’s taken on, or what he’s really worth. Based on the public information that Forbes has reviewed, Beto O’Rouke’s “billionaire” father-in-law is more likely to have a net worth in the neighborhood of $500 million."

So, like his emulative Kennedy clan. Born with the silver spoon planted in one or another orifice
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-17 19:32  

#7  Here is a spoof twitter account that is awesome
Posted by: Beavis   2019-01-17 15:49  

#6  But, of course, the point is that Beto is an idiot and a lightweight to boot. He couldn't win a Senate seat in his home state. Lightweight.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-17 12:31  

#5  So what should be done to address visa overstays?

"I don’t know," O’Rourke said, pausing in a lengthy interview.


Idiot. The answer to that question is simple. When the visa expires, it triggers a computer program to check a database to determine whether or not the holder of the visa has left the country. If not, send agents to deport his ass. And then, that person never receives another visa to enter this country. And then, if they are subsequently caught in this country without a visa, they do hard jail time and then get deported again. But, with a wall, it'd be harder for them to get back here.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-17 12:29  

#4  Still, don't let him give you a ride.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-01-17 10:14  

#3  A fake diagnosis of Sickle Cell Anemia could put him well over the top.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-01-17 09:31  

#2  They'll just interview him in front of a teleprompter fed by his handler.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-17 09:28  

#1  Won't matter one bit - they'll keep pushing Ted Kennedy III regardless.
Posted by: Raj   2019-01-17 09:20  

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