"The Smartest Thing They Ever Did"
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DeSantis didn’t spend millions to give a few dozen immigrants in Texas a luxury vacation. He did it because he knew Martha’s Vineyard calling itself a sanctuary city (by the common misunderstanding of what that means at least) was virtue signaling and there’s no way these people would find lodging and the means to pay for it.
Unless you show me the consent form said something like ‘I’m going to use you as a means to an end to embarrass my political opponents. You will be sent somewhere where you ultimately have no future prospects and after a few uncomfortable days in front of the cameras you’ll be resettled elsewhere, don’t ask me specifically where because it won’t be up to me but if I were a betting man I’d say in Boston’ then I ain’t buying it.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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DeSantis didn’t spend millions to give a few dozen immigrants in Texas a luxury vacation. He did it because he knew Martha’s Vineyard calling itself a sanctuary city (by the common misunderstanding of what that means at least) was virtue signaling and there’s no way these people would find lodging and the means to pay for it.
Unless you show me the consent form said something like ‘I’m going to use you as a means to an end to embarrass my political opponents. You will be sent somewhere where you ultimately have no future prospects and after a few uncomfortable days in front of the cameras you’ll be resettled elsewhere, don’t ask me specifically where because it won’t be up to me but if I were a betting man I’d say in Boston’ then I ain’t buying it.
@jon-nyc said in "The Smartest Thing They Ever Did":
DeSantis didn’t spend millions to give a few dozen immigrants in Texas a luxury vacation. He did it because he knew Martha’s Vineyard calling itself a sanctuary city (by the common misunderstanding of what that means at least) was virtue signaling and there’s no way these people would find lodging and the means to pay for it.
Unless you show me the consent form said something like ‘I’m going to use you as a means to an end to embarrass my political opponents. You will be sent somewhere where you ultimately have no future prospects and after a few uncomfortable days in front of the cameras you’ll be resettled elsewhere, don’t ask me specifically where because it won’t be up to me but if I were a betting man I’d say in Boston’ then I ain’t buying it.
I ain't buying any moralistic framing that doesn't include details of the way in which these voluntary participants were mistreated, as compared to the treatment they could have expected if they'd said no to the opportunity.
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DeSantis didn’t spend millions to give a few dozen immigrants in Texas a luxury vacation. He did it because he knew Martha’s Vineyard calling itself a sanctuary city (by the common misunderstanding of what that means at least) was virtue signaling and there’s no way these people would find lodging and the means to pay for it.
Unless you show me the consent form said something like ‘I’m going to use you as a means to an end to embarrass my political opponents. You will be sent somewhere where you ultimately have no future prospects and after a few uncomfortable days in front of the cameras you’ll be resettled elsewhere, don’t ask me specifically where because it won’t be up to me but if I were a betting man I’d say in Boston’ then I ain’t buying it.
@jon-nyc said in "The Smartest Thing They Ever Did":
DeSantis didn’t spend millions to give a few dozen immigrants in Texas a luxury vacation.
DeSantis moved 50 people from Texas to Martha's Vineyard. He spent "millions?"
Did he rent a private jet - for each of them?
Now, if you want to talk about flying migrants around, we can talk about the people being jetted from Ecuador, Nicaragua, etc to places like Whitewater Wisconsin (as an example) where the population went up 15% - overnight.
We don't even know where they were flown to.
And yeah, it was taxpayer money.
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Now I’m seeing $1.6 to the aviation company and another million to lawyers. 52k per immigrant.
