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Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:07 pm
by EACLucifer
Their hope seems to have been to try and show up progressives as hypocritical - they wanted the refugees to be neglected and mistreated on arrival.
However, the reality was quite different. There were so many volunteers to help they had to turn some away. Both individual citizens and church groups mucked in to get people fed and sheltered, and now there's work on getting them legal advice, too.
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
by Gfamily
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Reports here are that they were flown from Texas to MV, using Florida taxpayers money.
Ah, interesting; I had heard that "migrants from Texas had been deposited onto the doorstep of the VP", and I wasn't sure whether this was the same story,
I may have been mistaken as to the point of departure, but - y'know - that is pretty much irrelevant...
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:12 pm
by dyqik
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Reports here are that they were flown from Texas to MV, using Florida taxpayers money.
Ah, interesting; I had heard that "migrants from Texas had been deposited onto the doorstep of the VP", and I wasn't sure whether this was the same story,
I may have been mistaken as to the point of departure, but - y'know - that is pretty much irrelevant...
I may also be confused
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:20 pm
by Gfamily
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:12 pm
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Reports here are that they were flown from Texas to MV, using Florida taxpayers money.
Ah, interesting; I had heard that "migrants from Texas had been deposited onto the doorstep of the VP", and I wasn't sure whether this was the same story,
I may have been mistaken as to the point of departure, but - y'know - that is pretty much irrelevant...
I may also be confused
but, rest assured that GOP are spherical shits
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2022 11:01 pm
by monkey
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:12 pm
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Reports here are that they were flown from Texas to MV, using Florida taxpayers money.
Ah, interesting; I had heard that "migrants from Texas had been deposited onto the doorstep of the VP", and I wasn't sure whether this was the same story,
I may have been mistaken as to the point of departure, but - y'know - that is pretty much irrelevant...
I may also be confused
They both happened. It's the same story, but with two locations.
Texas and Arizona have been transporting migrants out of their states for a while now (the Feds aren't happy about it, because it f.cks up the processing), it has made the news because it was made into a political stunt this time.
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2022 12:26 am
by dyqik
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:20 pm
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:12 pm
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
Ah, interesting; I had heard that "migrants from Texas had been deposited onto the doorstep of the VP", and I wasn't sure whether this was the same story,
I may have been mistaken as to the point of departure, but - y'know - that is pretty much irrelevant...
I may also be confused
but, rest assured that GOP are spherical shits
Fractal spheres of racing greyhound* sh.t.
* The worst smelling sh.t I've ever had to deal with.
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2022 12:13 am
by Gfamily
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Reports here are that they were flown from Texas to MV, using Florida taxpayers money.
Ah, interesting; I had heard that "migrants from Texas had been deposited onto the doorstep of the VP", and I wasn't sure whether this was the same story
Bussed from Texas.
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Taken off a bus in DC with no advance notice.
Baby was a month old.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ngton-home
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:31 pm
by Stranger Mouse
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:57 pm
by EACLucifer
Seems to have been a lot of lying and fraud in this one, both in how they treated the migrants, and how they presented it to the media.
Here's a good thread detailing some of the lies.
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:03 pm
by Al Capone Junior
Gfamily wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:17 pm
dyqik wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 9:00 pm
Reports here are that they were flown from Texas to MV, using Florida taxpayers money.
I may have been mistaken as to the point of departure, but - y'know - that is pretty much irrelevant...
The point of departure may have been (on average) 1000 miles or more of treacherous and terrifying travel on whatever moving objects they could manage or pay to get a ride on. The desperate ppl that actually arrive at the border being the lucky ones.
But it doesn't surprise me at all that these ppl got treated better at Martha's Vinyard than they did in Florida or Texas.
Personally, I can't bring myself to blame them for trying. Getting treated like sh.t at the border may have been a much better prospect than not crossing it illegally.
And let's not forget that much of the troubles of those fleeing north are caused by our policies bleeding south
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:26 am
by Stranger Mouse
Worth noting that these poor people we’re actually in the country legally despite GOP efforts to make it seem otherwise
Re: The future of the US Republican party
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:40 pm
by dyqik
Stranger Mouse wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:26 am
Worth noting that these poor people we’re actually in the country legally despite GOP efforts to make it seem otherwise
In fact by moving them around, the GOP has probably made it much harder for them to attend the USCIS interviews they had scheduled, and so made it more likely that they will become illegal.