Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas are being heckled after a series of staged stunts involving migrants appears to have backfired.
Immigration :
The GOP, which was led by Donald Trump’s “Build That Wall” movement, has a long tradition of wanting to keep Mexicans and other “South of the Border” (read: brown skin) migrants out of the United States. So, it should come as no surprise that Gov. Ron DeSantis (who is all but certain to run for president in 2024) and Gov. Greg Abbott (who’s simply a crotchety old conservative fool) are behind a failed scheme to get back at President Joe Biden and liberal Democrats for their stance on the migrant and immigration issue.
For those migrants who have dared to cross into the State of Texas, Greg Abbott has been spending taxpayer dollars to bus them to Democratically-controlled cities, including New York and Washington, DC. As if to underscore his message, he even sent a busload of asylum seekers to the home of Vice-President Kamala Harris and ordered the driver to drop them off on her doorstep.
So as to not be outdone, Ron DeSantis took the scheme a step further and sent 2 planes filled with migrants to Martha’s Vineyard — the tiny Massachusetts island where prominent and wealthy liberals like to live and gather. He also threatened to follow Abbott’s lead and drop a busload of mostly Venezualean migrants off at the estate of Barack and Michelle Obama.
DeSantis expected a scene of hundreds of dirty migrants arriving on Martha’s Vineyard with nowhere to go — and Democrats freaking out that their prized and pristine island had been soiled by outsiders. Instead, his salty scheme didn’t exactly go as planned.
Upon arrival, the migrants were welcomed and immediately transported to a military base on Cape Cod, which provided a comfortable facility capable of handling an influx of hundreds of people that the island couldn’t supply. Additionally, the migrants were each given cell phones and $50 Visa cards.
Next, the residents of Martha’s Vineyard collected food and clothing for the weary travelers and went on to raise $175,000 for their well-being.
“There have also been a number of reports that as these buses have rolled since April, many migrants have not traveled all the way to Northern blue states but have rather hopped off in Georgia and Tennessee and other red states where the living is cheaper. And guess what? The locals got mad, GOP politicians threw gas on the fire, and in some cases the buses quit making stops in those states. But you see, since they’re open in their contempt for brown people, they’re not hypocrites, so it’s all right.”
– Michael Tomasky, The New Republic
The right-wing Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott wanted to show liberals just how uncomfortable it is to have a hundred brown migrants suddenly show up at your door. Instead, the residents of Martha’s Vineyard ended up teaching the GOP governors how to handle an unexpected situation with kindness and compassion.
Needless to say, the Republican stunt stagers are fretting and fuming: “DRATS! foiled again!”
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OK WASSUP! discusses Immigration:
Ron DeSantis and Gregg Abbott stunts backfire.
Okay I’m late getting to this……
The reason Fake-azz “TUFF” guy scmucks like Trump, DeSantis and Abbot are looked upon as leaders in the Republican party is because the Republican party ceased to be an actual political party for normal, everyday people quite some time ago.
Trump (OR more likely, Bannon and/or Stone) figured out the secret sauce to appeal to, and exploit and nd control “the base” of that Fake-azz, scmuck party in 2016, when he came down that gaudy escalator and declared his candidacy for President. That day still gives me pause because the horrific outcome was SOOO predictable! But I digress
Despite the backlash against their latest stunt, DeSantis and Abbot will no doubt keep up the stunts as long as they have the money and power to do so. Because they’re schmucks. That’s all they are. That’s all they’ll ever be.