All of this is undeniably true. But what I find most fascinating about the most recent Abbott/DeSantis ploy is how this one single event checks *ALL* the boxes of the post-Trump conservative mindset and modus operandi, throwing it into bold relief.
1. The Cruelty is the Point? Check.
2. The biggest cheerleaders are self-proclaimed conservative Christians who hide their authoritarianism behind religion? Check.
3. Politics isn’t about proposing solutions or governing, but is about the performance of resentments to own the Libs? Check.
4. The Libs are hypocrites because they are secretly cruel and racist too, so they will be unmasked by this gambit? Check.
5. When Libs welcomed the refugees conservatives reported it as if #4 had happened instead, ignoring reality itself to reinforce their own false narrative? Check.
There is no compromise, no middle ground, no reasoning with these people. All we can do is defeat them.
On one hand I find it reassuring they are all obviously souless lumps of shit incapable of feeling joy or happiness. I have no problem wishing that on my enemies. I'm just really tired of having to deal with their souless shitdom.
Funny how these people worship rich conservatives -- to the point of insisting they get tax breaks and impunity for crimes -- but despise rich liberals. And the special hatred for all the money the Obamas have made amuses me. Because they made it by writing and selling books. Pure free market, crime-free capitalism. You don't have to buy one! The market decides! Everything they claim to love has led to the Obamas having a big beachfront place on a swank island and they're jealous as hell. (Bonus: reading is for eggheads and f-gg-ts.)
'I'm fine with these criminals, rapists, drug dealers, shoplifters, what-have-you being treated like cattle and their human rights being completely negated. Now, if they were white, it would be human trafficking, and I am completely against that as my record will show.'
What amuses me I guess is that DeSantis looked at Texas & said "I need to be the bigger asshole, but can't think of anything on my own -- I know I'll do what Abbot's doing but waste MORE money doing it!"
This is sort of the Goatse theory of political strategy...
"it’s the ancient 'liberals don’t want to live with non-white people' shtick."
It's funny, because they can't hide that the thing about the Vineyard that really makes them frantic is all the rich and famous Black people who show up there, especially Barack and Michelle, but they have a regular litany. Tucker: "A planeload of highly diverse immigrants arrived on Martha's Vineyard to join the Obamas, but the Obamas didn't welcome them. There was not a word from Barack or Michelle Obama. Barack wasn't waiting at the airport to greet the diversifiers with flowers.... iBill Gates goes to Martha's Vineyard. So does Oprah, James Taylor, Spike Lee, Amy Schumer, and many more and all of them. Every one is a much better person than you are because they support diversity and now for the first time, they're going to have some diversity." https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-why-no-one-marthas-vineyard-obamas-celebrated-migrants
As a Floridian, I wonder under what authority DeSantis could use state taxpayer money to charter a plane and pay other expenses to move immigrants residing in another state? It is instructive that he did not play this stunt using refugees living in his own state.
Lost in all the trolling is the fact that many, perhaps most, migrants who come to this country actually have family here who would be willing to help out if we'd let their relatives out of detention. In fact, I believe this is already the policy of the Biden administration, it being composed of normal, functional human beings who are not psychopaths.
So sure, let's not keep everyone bottled up in a shithole state like Texas if they've got family elsewhere. And where should the Venezuelans go? (and the Ukrainians, and the Somalis, and the Syrians?) How 'bout where there's already a Venezuelan/Ukrainian/Somali/Syrian community to help get them settled? But as I said, that's how it's always been done, at least when you don't have your immigration policy run by the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels.
I’ve said for years the biggest problem with this country is that there are too many assholes in it. I can’t be sure but I have to think that on a per capita basis we must lead the world in asshole incidence.
Rothman, 400 years ago: "The slaves are better off here than they were in Africa. If you think about it, we're doing them a favor!"
Don’t get me started...
All of this is undeniably true. But what I find most fascinating about the most recent Abbott/DeSantis ploy is how this one single event checks *ALL* the boxes of the post-Trump conservative mindset and modus operandi, throwing it into bold relief.
1. The Cruelty is the Point? Check.
2. The biggest cheerleaders are self-proclaimed conservative Christians who hide their authoritarianism behind religion? Check.
3. Politics isn’t about proposing solutions or governing, but is about the performance of resentments to own the Libs? Check.
4. The Libs are hypocrites because they are secretly cruel and racist too, so they will be unmasked by this gambit? Check.
5. When Libs welcomed the refugees conservatives reported it as if #4 had happened instead, ignoring reality itself to reinforce their own false narrative? Check.
There is no compromise, no middle ground, no reasoning with these people. All we can do is defeat them.
On one hand I find it reassuring they are all obviously souless lumps of shit incapable of feeling joy or happiness. I have no problem wishing that on my enemies. I'm just really tired of having to deal with their souless shitdom.
"Morton Downey Jr.! He made Joe Pyne look like James Burnham"
Oh, yeah – old Mort the Mouth. I always forget him when trying to dredge up the spawn of Pyne.
Funny how these people worship rich conservatives -- to the point of insisting they get tax breaks and impunity for crimes -- but despise rich liberals. And the special hatred for all the money the Obamas have made amuses me. Because they made it by writing and selling books. Pure free market, crime-free capitalism. You don't have to buy one! The market decides! Everything they claim to love has led to the Obamas having a big beachfront place on a swank island and they're jealous as hell. (Bonus: reading is for eggheads and f-gg-ts.)
'I'm fine with these criminals, rapists, drug dealers, shoplifters, what-have-you being treated like cattle and their human rights being completely negated. Now, if they were white, it would be human trafficking, and I am completely against that as my record will show.'
What amuses me I guess is that DeSantis looked at Texas & said "I need to be the bigger asshole, but can't think of anything on my own -- I know I'll do what Abbot's doing but waste MORE money doing it!"
This is sort of the Goatse theory of political strategy...
That many of our fellow citizens are just no goddamned good has always been true.
"treat human beings like cargo"
I wish, this is more like treating human beings as toxic waste.
Anyway, good on the people of Martha's for behaving decently, nice to know some people still remember how.
Also, last time you wrote about this you posted a donation link to the D.C. migrant support network, could you put that up again?
"it’s the ancient 'liberals don’t want to live with non-white people' shtick."
It's funny, because they can't hide that the thing about the Vineyard that really makes them frantic is all the rich and famous Black people who show up there, especially Barack and Michelle, but they have a regular litany. Tucker: "A planeload of highly diverse immigrants arrived on Martha's Vineyard to join the Obamas, but the Obamas didn't welcome them. There was not a word from Barack or Michelle Obama. Barack wasn't waiting at the airport to greet the diversifiers with flowers.... iBill Gates goes to Martha's Vineyard. So does Oprah, James Taylor, Spike Lee, Amy Schumer, and many more and all of them. Every one is a much better person than you are because they support diversity and now for the first time, they're going to have some diversity." https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-why-no-one-marthas-vineyard-obamas-celebrated-migrants
As a Floridian, I wonder under what authority DeSantis could use state taxpayer money to charter a plane and pay other expenses to move immigrants residing in another state? It is instructive that he did not play this stunt using refugees living in his own state.
Lost in all the trolling is the fact that many, perhaps most, migrants who come to this country actually have family here who would be willing to help out if we'd let their relatives out of detention. In fact, I believe this is already the policy of the Biden administration, it being composed of normal, functional human beings who are not psychopaths.
So sure, let's not keep everyone bottled up in a shithole state like Texas if they've got family elsewhere. And where should the Venezuelans go? (and the Ukrainians, and the Somalis, and the Syrians?) How 'bout where there's already a Venezuelan/Ukrainian/Somali/Syrian community to help get them settled? But as I said, that's how it's always been done, at least when you don't have your immigration policy run by the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels.
"asshole lagniappe"
That is all.
I’ve said for years the biggest problem with this country is that there are too many assholes in it. I can’t be sure but I have to think that on a per capita basis we must lead the world in asshole incidence.