Because we should remember it:
I just called the owner of the business that got paid $615,000 by DeSantis to help transport 50 migrants across the country this week. I will provide updates going forward.
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) September 16, 2022
the people dropped off in Martha's Vineyard had no one there to meet them because no one knew they were coming ... they walked 3 miles to a community center with no idea where they were.... sorry but I can't get over how cruel that is
— Anna Swartz (@Anna_Snackz) September 15, 2022
I wonder if it would help to explain some nuances of the Martha's Vineyard situation that may be lost on the general public.
— Frenemy of the Court 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@flanagancan) September 17, 2022
These folks had already been processed by DHS and were in a private shelter getting ready to make onward journeys when DeSantis's people tricked them.
The DeSantis human trafficking operation, the more I read about it, really seems like they were like, "we'll send you to Massachusetts, where they'll help you, wink wink"—and then the people were mostly quite nice, and the right absolutely lost their mindshttps://t.co/9Z1PBHK9Bj pic.twitter.com/T05uMMS5Ji
— Matthew Sitman (@MatthewSitman) September 16, 2022
If it were me, and I was trying to push back against being labeled“extreme,” I wouldn’t use taxpayer money to kidnap innocent children from a state I am not the governor of and fly them and their parents to an island in another state in which I am also not the governor.
— Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) September 16, 2022
One reason why they did it:
Simply reporting on Latinx immigration increases white Republican identification by 7%! I knew it would be high, but holy shit! 7%!
— Dr. William Horne (@wihorne) November 18, 2021
From White Backlash by Marisa Abrajano & Zoltan L. Hajnal.
7%!!!!!!🤯
White people are not "sending our best," it seems. pic.twitter.com/hjrgztiJQ0
How they "justify" it:
Whole thread is a masterclass in how to launder extreme actions into polite discourse. https://t.co/6oMM063tW3
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) September 16, 2022
December 2023 update on the DeSantis presidential campaign
Hmm:
"A year after Ron DeSantis led Donald Trump in some 2024 presidential primary polls, and with just weeks to go before the first ballots are cast, the Florida governor is already explaining how Democrats conspired to stop him: by repeatedly charging the coup-attempting former president with breaking the law.
DeSantis’ campaign and super PAC have spent more than $160 million to boost him, and he spent the better part of 2023 on the road. But, he now says, it may not have been enough to overcome the advantage he believes Trump received from getting indicted four times."
— "DeSantis’ 2023: More Than $160 Million Spent To Buy A Collapse In The Polls": The Florida governor has already started blaming Democrats for indicting Donald Trump too much and thereby boosting his campaign. S.V. Date, HuffPost, Dec 29, 2023
January 2024 update on the DeSantis presidential campaign
Trump has 60%. DeSantis is in a distant second at 12%. Why does he continue to campaign? Why does he continue to talk about anything he would want to do as president? He won't win the primary.
Well, as Melissa Gira Grant says on Bluesky today (Jan 11): "the goal here isn’t to create DeSantis voters, it's to keep using the platform he has (and that he’s clinging to despite losing) to make the lives of trans people a debatable point". DeSantis knows he won't be president, so he isn't really trying to win voters. He really just wants to destroy trans people. His political talk is for that purpose. That's all.
Abortion isn't a winning 2024 strategy either, yet Republicans go hard on that too.
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