Just now, brkmsn said:

I'm sure it won't be long until having someone else pay your mortgage is a "human right."

Derp.

3 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

We know….

Keep hating, I'll be in the pool.

 

There should be punishment for misusing federal funds, but there probably won't be.

1 minute ago, Boogyman said:

There should be punishment for misusing federal funds, but there probably won't be.

Like covid relief funds?

Just now, brkmsn said:

Like covid relief funds?

Yup like all that. Party is irrelevant, misuse funds, face a penalty. 

 

Since we agree, I'm sure you are all for Desantis facing a penalty for his political stunt, right?

Just now, Boogyman said:

Yup like all that. Party is irrelevant, misuse funds, face a penalty. 

 

Since we agree, I'm sure you are all for Desantis facing a penalty for his political stunt, right?

Sure, so long as everybody else faces political stunt penalties. Party is irrelevant.

1 minute ago, brkmsn said:

Sure, so long as everybody else faces political stunt penalties. Party is irrelevant.

Yes we agree. 

18 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

Well if they are willing to pay for it, let them. If someone randomly just started paying my mortgage I wouldn't stop them.

Like your wife?

Just now, ToastJenkins said:

Like your wife?

No, like your wife.

9 minutes ago, Boogyman said:

No, like your wife.

Pretty sure she makes more than your household too lol…

 

4 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Pretty sure she makes more than your household too lol…

 

That's great, I'm happy for you both. You must live an amazing lifestyle. Kudos.

1 hour ago, Boogyman said:

Keep hating, I'll be in the pool.

 

There should be punishment for misusing federal funds, but there probably won't be.

I’ll be by to throw a toaster in the pool 

7 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

I’ll be by to throw a toaster in the pool 

That's the exact type of hateriffic comment I've come to expect from you.

1 hour ago, brkmsn said:

Like covid relief funds?

Are they the ones DeSantis used to fly migrants on private jets to Martha's VIneyard?

On 9/17/2022 at 10:07 PM, lynched1 said:

This ought to be good.

Please entertain me with your definition.

It's not my definition, its the definition. The term came from not prosecuting illegals who were witnesses to crime. Basically if an illegal is a witness to a crime and you deport them when they talk to police about what they saw, they aren't gong to talk to police. It was/is a measure to try to crack down on crime. The term has since been coopted by the right just like "open borders" which virtually no one is in favor of. 

 

1 hour ago, Boogyman said:

That's the exact type of hateriffic comment I've come to expect from you.

I thought that was a little light for me. I need to step my game up

Massachusetts seeks human trafficking probe targeting Florida Gov. DeSantis over migrants

Authorities in Massachusetts said Sunday that they have requested a federal human trafficking probe after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis boasted of sending about 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard to shine a national spotlight on immigration issues.

"We are requesting that the Department of Justice open an investigation to hold DeSantis and others accountable for these inhumane acts," state Rep. Dylan Fernandes tweeted Sunday. "Not only is it morally criminal, there are legal implications around fraud, kidnapping, deprivation of liberty, and human trafficking."

Fernandes said he had spoken with Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachel Rollins and was "grateful to hear she is pushing for a response from the DOJ."

The migrants were picked up in Texas, but DeSantis said the flights were part of a $12 million Florida program to transport undocumented immigrants to so-called sanctuary destinations. DeSantis denied claims that the migrants were duped into taking the flights with promises of jobs that did not exist. And he said he was "perplexed" to hear that President Joe Biden was "surging resources" to the Texas border in response to the flights.

"It’s only when you have 50 illegal aliens end up in a wealthy rich enclave that he (Biden) decides to scramble at this,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis and Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott have also sent migrants to other sanctuary cities, including New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where some were dropped off outside the home of Vice President Kamala Harris.

40 minutes ago, 20dawk4life said:

I thought that was a little light for me. I need to step my game up

Please. Something.

Who's your favorite Sugarbaker's employee?

I'm a Mary Jo guy, myself, but I'm guessing there are quite a few Suzanne's in here... not to mention a handful of Anthony Bouviers.

Suzanne
 

Racists bused Black mothers with many children to Cape Cod decades ago. Sound familiar?

The migrants in Martha’s Vineyard mirror "Reverse Freedom Riders,” Blacks allegedly duped by White segregationists in 1962 as retaliation for the Freedom Rides.

For some Black families used as pawns in a political ruse by White segregationists many decades ago, the act of Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard brings back memories of a familiar, ugly past.

According to The Washington Post, the migrants in Martha’s Vineyard were reportedly transported to the same military facility on Cape Cod as the "Reverse Freedom Riders,” Blacks who were allegedly duped by White segregationists in 1962 as retaliation for the Freedom Rides of the previous summer, when volunteers rode buses through the South in support of desegregation.

The plan back then was orchestrated by the white supremacist Citizens’ Councils in Arkansas, who purchased radio ads and created fliers advertising the "opportunity” to African Americans. They marketed to men with criminal records and single mothers with a lot of children, assuming White liberals would welcome them the least.

Alabama mother of eight Eliza Davis, 36, an agricultural laborer who had been promised employment and lodging in exchange for taking a free trip to another state, was among those uprooting their families. In 1962, Davis and her kids were bussed to Hyannis, Massachusetts — not far from then-President John F. Kennedy’s vacation home — and left there.

 

Lela Mae Williams, an Arkansas mom also dropped off in Hyannis with her nine youngest children, arrived wearing her best clothes because she was told that Kennedy himself would welcome them. One of Williams’ daughters told NPR’s "CodeSwitch” in 2020 that the family eventually moved into a Boston housing complex, where they suffered without any relatives nearby and were harassed by racist white neighbors, who disapproved of them attending public schools.

President Kennedy dodged the subject, referring to the Reverse Freedom Rides as "a fairly cheap exercise.” His administration turned down the governor of Massachusetts’ request for federal assistance.

In a 2004 dissertation on the Reverse Freedom Rides, American history professor Clive Webb of the University of Sussex stated that Southern segregationist organizations blatantly misled Black families using strategies parodying the Freedom Rides.

There were recruitment posters that read, "President Kennedy’s brother assures you a grand reception to Massachusetts. Good jobs, housing etc. are promised,” The Post reported. The Greater New Orleans Citizens’ Council advertised in newspapers that it would provide free transportation plus $5 for any Black individual or families looking to "migrate to the Nation’s Capital or any place in the north of their choice.”

Webb said there were also notices placed in jails offering free transportation to inmates whose sentences were about to end.

Some of the Southerners transported to Hyannis found employment as chefs, chambermaids or in candle-making factories. Jobs in Hyannis eventually ended, and all but one relocated family — that of volunteer nurse Victoria Bell — departed.

According to Webb, "moderate” segregationists were turned off by the manipulation of low-income African Americans, which is part of what led to the Reverse Freedom Rides’ political failure. The Arkansas Gazette reported that the strategy was never supported by its "better thinking folks,” and it was criticized by New Orleans radio and television station WDSU as "sick sensationalism bordering on the moronic,” The Post reported.

The buses were paid for in the 1960s by unidentified donors to private segregationist organizations. While DeSantis has not disclosed how the flights he organized to Martha’s Vineyard were financed, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott — also a Republican — utilized state funds and donations for the buses.

In the end, in the early ’60s, fewer than 200 persons were dispatched up north on Reverse Freedom Rides. That’s a stark contrast to the thousands of migrants who have recently been sent to Massachusetts, New York, Washington, D.C. and other locations.

On 9/18/2022 at 5:33 AM, JohnSnowsHair said:

Let me see if I have this correct.

Migrants flee a communist country (Venezuela) and seek asylum in America.

GOP brain trust DeSantis and Abbott cook up this scheme where they lie to migrants seeking asylum about why they're being moved, some of whom have hearings in Texas in the coming days and weeks, and then spend $615k of taxpayer dollars to move 50 from Texas through Florida (not a border state last I checked) to drop them in Cape Cod for a political stunt.

So already here we have a state government spending over $12k per migrant for nothing more than a political stunt.

These migrants are dropped at Cape Cod with nothing more than maps of the area. Locals are baffled, and when they start to understand what happened what do they do? They spend the next few days hosting the migrants, supplying them from local donations, with the local high schools AP Spanish class volunteering to help even:

The state - which has a Republican governor btw - arranges for the migrants to be moved to Cape Cod Joint Military Base, which serves as a disaster relief center and is the most appropriate to safely house 50 migrants.

 

And this .... is owning the libs?

Yeah ok.

The right is broken. And anybody cheering this or who thinks somehow it's anything more than a pathetic desperate attempt for DeSantis to remain relevant, is an idiot and a clown. 

What it is, is sad. Massachusetts opened its doors and has been welcoming to these migrants, but in right-wing MEMEistan you'd think they closed up shop to let them die in the streets. You know why? Because that's what these right-wing lunatics like to imagine they'd do. Casual cruelty in their minds is a balm and corrective measure that would somehow suppress the flow of migrants, and they NEED to believe the outcome of this stunt was that the left "suddenly realized" border state problems.

Pure unadulterated fantasy designed to appeal to mouth breathers and useful idiots, so congrats on being that I guess.

If DeSantis and Abbott had any desire to actually solve immigration problems (spoiler: they don't; they're dogs that already caught one car [overturning Roe] and are paying a political price), they'd be appealing to other states for help directly and working with the federal government more earnestly about immigration reform. Instead they WANT the problem to fester because in the world of politics that gives them an endless source of political fool's gold to mine, so they can toss shiny nuggets to their base.

Nobody is "angry" that Massachusetts handled this situation very well. People are angry because a couple of carnival barking governor's decided it was a good idea to use these migrants as political pawns, not caring about the casual cruelty of the move, and on top of that is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to find it. And that you rubes look at this and think "I want to see more of that from my elected officials"

Idiocracy.

 

On 9/18/2022 at 8:31 AM, DEagle7 said:

You idiots really think this was some kind of "own the libs" moment? 

Pathetic. 

 

On 9/18/2022 at 8:34 AM, we_gotta_believe said:

After the past two years, can't say I'm surprised at all over how everyone lined up on this one. Simple minded folks once again failing to read beyond the headlines, or worse, being duped by Fox News that conveniently leaves out the deception perpetrated on these people by two Republican governors looking to score political points and garner publicity.

Triggered all the right people. I'd say it was a great move.   

6 hours ago, 20dawk4life said:

We know….

 

 

Texas sheriff opens criminal probe into DeSantis operation to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-sheriff-opens-criminal-probe-desantis-operation-fly-migrants-marthas-vineyard

Apparently, without any illegals of his own to trick, DeSantis sent somebody to Texas to lure illegals onto charter planes.