Martha's Vineyard and the Migrants

 

So, I think that the DeSantis stunt of hijacking undocumented people from Texas (who had not ever stepped a foot in Florida) and were mostly Venezuelan (escaping a left-wing government nightmare that would be familiar in treachery to Cuban immigrants) was obviously signaling about his national ambitions, not the current gubernatorial battle; his ass thinks he has that sewed up.  I want to concentrate on how what he did here, spending some ridiculous sum to transport asylum seekers processed by DHS to try and own libs, was dumb as hell. (Is it human trafficking--or kidnapping? It totally feels like a violation of human rights.)

I have been saying DeSantis is covering up his clusterfuckery with culture war signifying, and this is just another example of that. Does someone need to spend taxpayer money for 50 people that never set a step in Florida to actually get decent treatment in a receptive and empathetic community of people who are welcoming and actually happy to help people in trouble--in a whole other state? 

You know, a lot of liberals are going to focus on the cruelty. That these people were misled to get them onto the transport with promises of jobs and they weren't even fed or told where they were going to go. I don't think that matters to DeSantis fans. They love the cruelty part of it. They get off on it. These thimble dicks think that owning libs is exactly what went down and...

That isn't what happened. 

Migrants and local high school AP Spanish students, who have been dismissed from school to help interpret, play a ball game in the Parish House parking lot to pass the time. pic.twitter.com/KsyRKsoslv

— Brooke Kushwaha (@BrookeKushwaha) September 15, 2022

What really happened was a whole community chipped in.  This could have been Ron DeSantis, but he doesn't have that grace. This could have been Greg Abbott too, who did the same stunt times two in DC. What if just treating immigrants and asylum-seekers like human beings was such an accessible idea that governors in an election year never had to signify about treating them like pawns and not even people, and just--fucking showed basic human decency? What if decency was always an option, and we recognized that choosing whatever this is--is not ok? 

Anyway, Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis spent a lot of money to send scads of migrants into liberal communities that understand how to treat people because their bullshit signifying administrations are too bullshit to do basic decency, so that was a nice reminder of why they are the worst and need to not get re-elected. 

If we needed any concrete example of their obvious intent to promote chaos and failure instead of ever doing smart and good things.

UPDATE: Just so much fundamentally better and more humane in liberal land:

Volunteers unload dinner for the 48 migrants flown here from Texas courtesy of Florida @GovRonDeSantis. They are spending another night on the Vineyard #wcvb pic.twitter.com/PDdnYof3oK

— Sharman Sacchetti (@SharmanTV) September 15, 2022