(09-19-2022, 03:26 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Why would Republicans lock immigrant kids up and separate babies from mothers?

They see them as subhuman. There's a great doc called 9500 Liberty (circa 2007) that follows a DC suburb's local fight over immigration. They read comments from the local right-wing blog and the language they use for the kids is horrendous: saying they can be used as dog food, calling them parasites, "the usual suspects", "brown faces".

(09-20-2022, 02:24 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: Ruh-Roh. Bexar County Sherriff in San Antonio is opening an investigation for human trafficking.

(09-20-2022, 02:27 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: I mean if you or I even bought a ticket for an illegal immigrant we'd be in prison faster than we could say 'it's back to their home country'.

Good to see someone is willing to do their jobs when it comes to politicians. Not that anything will come of it and this is clearly as much political theater as sending immigrants across state lines on thr taxpayer's dollar.

(09-20-2022, 05:27 PM)GMDino Wrote: What's amazing is how BAD he is at trying to lie/spin and yet so many people just go with whatever he said last.

DeSantis: Since migrants actually aren't coming into our state en masse, we had to go to an entirely different state to carry out this campaign stunt. https://t.co/X7z1J9XHXf

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) September 20, 2022

 

BREAKING: Migrants flown to Massachusetts file class action lawsuit against DeSantis and other Florida officials in federal court pic.twitter.com/Rp5xgAWOKp

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 20, 2022

(09-20-2022, 02:27 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: I mean if you or I even bought a ticket for an illegal immigrant we'd be in prison faster than we could say 'it's back to their home country'.

Good to see someone is willing to do their jobs when it comes to politicians. Not that anything will come of it and this is clearly as much political theater as sending immigrants across state lines on thr taxpayer's dollar.

(09-20-2022, 05:51 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Technically speaking, the immigrants DeSantis did this to aren't even illegal/undocumented immigrants. They are here legally while their asylum claims are processed.

(09-20-2022, 06:12 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Gee, this should really steam up all the conservatives who say they "Just want immigrants to go through the legal process and cone here the right way."

(09-20-2022, 07:10 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: If only they actually acknowledged this whole program. They consistently lump asylum seekers in with illegal border crossers. We see it with the discussion around the end of Title 42.

(09-20-2022, 09:25 PM)Forever Spinning Vinyl Wrote: His use of them as a political prop just made them eligible for a special victims of human trafficking visa which now fast tracks their applications for citizenship.

       - Yakov Smirnoff - "What a country!"

(09-22-2022, 04:23 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Hmmm, apparently the Texas sheriff who expressed intent to investigate DeSantis is getting death threats.  Maybe DeSantis is going to be more popular with the essential "domestic terrorist" wing of the GOP that is so essential for election these days after all.  The "law and order" party is breaking the law to protect a politician who may have broken the law by shipping migrants who tried to legally enter this country and they are doing so by threatening the life of a sheriff who is only expressing a desire to do his job and enforce the law.  Gah, this is deliciously insane.



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sheriff-texs-desantis-death-threats-b2172265.html

Quote:I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...


The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance

(09-23-2022, 01:39 PM)GMDino Wrote:

Emperor Desantis gives his absurdly false version of how he expects history to be taught: “It was the American Revolution that caused people to question slavery. No one had questioned it before we decided as Americans that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights.” pic.twitter.com/Nw8SMmGCUw

— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) September 22, 2022