Title 42 ends in EIGHT days.

Get ready for even more chaos at the southern border when it does.

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 3, 2023

Once again, even if this tweet was posted to the House Judiciary GOP’s account, there’s almost zero doubt it was actually written by spandex-wearing grapple freak Chairman Jim Jordan himself. You can tell by the excitement he shows in anticipation over a problem he constantly bitches about getting worse, a phenomenon we’re seeing more and more of these days from the right where they horseshoe too far into what’s supposed to be bad for all Americans being good for them.

Like it’d be one thing for him to be amped over, say, Hunter Biden having to disclose information about his finances next month in a deposition with his baby mama in Arkansas since there’s political value in making the Biden family look bad and that there might be some disclosures in there that they can spin as “BOMBSHELL” proof of Joe Biden’s corruption. Even if there’s nothing that’ll catch on with swing voters at the very least they get some “base maintenance” out of it where they can keep the dumbasses in MAGA nation tuned into the bullshit fantasy that the “smoking gun” that’ll bring down the “Biden crime family” is always just around the corner. More importantly, it doesn’t actually negatively affect the life of the average voter what happens in Hunter’s child support suit.

You can’t say the same about the expected surge of migrants, or at least as Republicans would have you believe about the “open border” (and let’s skip the tangent about how next week it’s going to be somehow more “open” than it already is now, or that Jordan’s ignoring the Biden Administration’s actions to manage the problem). If hard-working Americans are suffering terribly because Mexicans are coming to take their jobs washing dishes in dank kitchens and ripping apart dead chickens in nightmarishly Sinclairian poultry plants then maybe, just maybe, the excitement over the potential political benefit of a “border surge” shouldn’t, you know, pretty blatantly appear to override the feigned concern for the physical and economic safety of American voters and their families.