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Van Hollen: If you won’t fight for the Constitution, you don’t deserve to lead

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Van Hollen Defends His Fight for Abrego Garcia's Constitutional Rights

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.”

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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.)
  
  They have to have a penis, and identify as male.
  
  Would two dicks guarantee a win though? Or the second penis is a disadvantage?
  
  Too bad that double dick guy on Reddit turned out to be a fake.
  
  I mean, Washington got two terms.
  
  The Iron Lotus...
  
  Gender identity is in the mind, not the pants.
  
  These fucks discriminate based on both sex and gender identity though, and I was trying to make fun of that. Sorry if it came out wrong, didn't want to offend.
  
  No worries. I think I misunderstood what you meant.
  
  Ru Paul would make an awesome President
  
  The only member of the Paul family that you could say that for.
  
  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 .
  
  Oh, I misunderstood you, I took that the "nomination is his to lose" to mean that the nomination is his so he can lose the general, and you expect that might trigger reform after 2028.
  To be honest, the DNC can either clean house or die at this point. What I expect to happen is that it will slowly wither away through like 20 more years of being "the only viable opposition party".
  I see some hope in the progressive wing taking over and actually starting to fight, and the pendulum to swing back very hard on Trump et al. But those are just hopes at this point.
  
  He's already the nominee. They just haven't gone through the kabuki theater democrats call primaries yet.
- I wish he would use the word “secede” more.

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