The small Delaware town of Rehoboth Beach, where President Joe Biden has a vacation home, appears to be the landing spot for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ next round of expensive migrant flights, according to flight plans.https://t.co/xdfWoci9ko
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 20, 2022
The element of surprise only works when it’s surprising:
The small Delaware town of Rehoboth Beach, where President Joe Biden has a vacation home, scrambled Tuesday to prepare for the expected arrival of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ next round of expensive migrant flights—but the day only ended with more confusion in the Diamond State.
Instead, confusion swirled as the chartered plane that was scheduled to leave Texas on Tuesday morning, filled with migrants, departed hours late and bound for a different city—Nashville, Tennessee—with no passengers on board.
Delaware officials had sprung into action on Monday night after word got out that the same plane DeSantis used to fly migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last week was listed on a public schedule to fly to Delaware, via Florida, on Tuesday morning. There was also a $950,000 payment made by Florida to Vertol Systems Company Inc, the same charter company that flew migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
Once word spread, however, DeSantis lost the element of surprise that marked his Martha’s Vineyard stunt. This time, city, state and federal officials immediately began preparing for a possible arrival.
“We are aware of the situation and are working with state and local partners to compassionately address this situation and take care of the migrants who may arrive,” a spokesperson for Rehoboth Beach, a city of 1,108 people, said in a statement to The Daily Beast on Tuesday morning.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) told CNN on Tuesday that he spent much of Monday night on the phone, coordinating with community leaders “to make sure that we provide an appropriate, welcoming and supportive reception in Delaware.”…
The White House also indicated that federal agencies had reached out to coordinate with Delaware Gov. John Carney and service providers in a bid to prevent a repeat of the Martha’s Vineyard episode…
The Republican mantra has been that any publicity is good publicity, but I’m not sure these stories look good to those not already part of the GOP Death Cult…
The San Antonio sheriff is launching a criminal probe into DeSantis’s kidnapping operation:
“What infuriates me most in this case is that we have 48 people who are already on hard times, they are here legally…and I believe they were preyed upon.” pic.twitter.com/CC33Em7BGT
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) September 19, 2022
Venezuelan migrants flown to the upscale Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his transportation secretary Tuesday for engaging in a "fraudulent and discriminatory scheme" to relocate them. https://t.co/yItYqwzCc8
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 20, 2022
Earned media, the flip side!
Ron DeSantis thinks using millions in taxpayer dollars to run a state sponsored human trafficking scheme is a good way to spend Floridians money.
Remember that on November 8th.
— Charlie Crist (@CharlieCrist) September 20, 2022
SpaceUnit
Arrest the pilots. Yank their licenses.
evodevo
You want to stop this shit? Start prosecuting the little guys at the bottom…the pilots, bus drivers, dispatchers, whatever…it will only take one or two arrests, or threatening the CEO of the private transport co. and this will halt tout suite…when the worker bees refuse to be involved for fear of legal consequences, it will end…threatening to prosecute DeathSantis or Abbottoire will only add to the martyrbation of those two…
I see Space Unit and I think alike lol
SpaceUnit
@evodevo:
Right on.
ETA: Also impound the planes.
lowtechcyclist
@SpaceUnit:
What laws have the pilots broken?
ETA:
@evodevo:
I hate to be pedantic, but exactly WTF are you going to charge these people with? What laws did they break?
Ben Cisco🎖️🖥️♦️👌🏽
Wow, this thread came from outta nowhere…
Purely in jest, I humbly submit the following.
OzarkHillbilly
@evodevo: @SpaceUnit:
Speaking as a working man who spent his life doing what he was told whether it made sense or not, don’t, unless you are giving him/her a very broad off ramp. All too often working folks have been forced to pay for the sins of their “betters.”
P Thomas
Well, I think I’ll just start floating stories about a plane load of Antifa landing at Orlando ANY MINUTE and watch the morons run over and start a panic. Two can play at this game.
Dangerman
@SpaceUnit: Nah. Impound the plane for a thorough investigation. Pilots are cheap. Planes aren’t.
SpaceUnit
@lowtechcyclist:
I dunno. Human trafficking. Interstate fraud. Racketeering. Get creative
Also, that Texas sheriff investigating the Martha’s Vineyard stunt seems very sure a crime was committed.
cain
@evodevo:
The company though still got a cool million dollars to fly an empty plane to Nashville. Someone should ask about that.
ETA deleted some stuff
brantl
Impound the plane as a vehicle used in a crime, and as evidence. Hold it several days to be examined and dusted for prints, etc. And return it, after they squeal about their lost revenue. Ground it and impound it out of Florida, make it as big a pain in the ass as possible. I suspect law enforcement in the state where it lands will be on the lookout for this shit, now, and this might actually happen. And somebody in Florida needs to look into a class action suit against DeShmuckis, for misappropriating the states money. Him transporting people from another state, not his own, with state funds has to be illegal.
Nelle
@lowtechcyclist: We have a friend who unknowingly gave a ride to someone involved with drugs. No drugs involved. FBI came after him too. Confiscated a very nice plane. He decided not to risk a jury trial as his passenger got a plea deal by implicating him, the pilot. He pled guilty, got a year or two in a more cushy prison ( did you know that you can hire “counselors” to help you get into a prison of your choice? Sort of like college advisors). Definitely go after those driving the buses and flying the planes. There is precedent.
brantl
@lowtechcyclist: Transportation of “Illegal” aliens, it only takes one that is in the country illegally, and then these assholes can go to jail.
The Moar You Know
Wow, arresting the little guys? For real? Shit that’s what the fucking Nazis do. Should we arrest Starbucks baristas because their company union busts? That is literally the same idea as what you are suggesting.
You wanna get this shit stopped just impound that plane for two weeks. That’s all. Nobody will ever charter the state of Florida a plane ever again.
Tony Jay
A LETTER FROM BREXITANIA
“House of the Drags On”
Slumping on the couch yesterday morning with a mug of coffee and a day of leisure ahead I turned on the TV and was greeted, as has become customary over this recent long forever, by the dismal sight of all five terrestrial networks plus BBC News 24 concentrating their fullest attention and maximum level of obsequiousness on matters monarchical. In this case, the state funeral of… what’s that? Oh, I’m so terribly sorry, how unforgivably rude of me… on ‘The Royal State Funeral of Her Most Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the Royal House of Windsor, by the Grace of God, Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Beloved Royal Grandmother of All People & All Things Royal, Non-Royal and Merely Common, Defender of the Faith, Walker of Red Carpets, Waver of Very Economical Waves, Alpha-Prime of All Septs of Clan Corgi’, etc, etc, on into infinity, for verily she didst possess more titles than Barbara Cartland’s back catalogue multiplied by a full accounting of the Now That’s What I Call Music oeuvre.
“Fuck”, I said, “that”, and turned on The Infinite Monkey Cage, which while sometimes being almost as ridiculous as the very idea of hereditary monarchy, is at least doing so for a laugh, and otherwise concentrates on filling your fragile human head with things you don’t know but absolutely should, even if only for as long as it takes to go “Wow!” and impress a stranger on a bus. Some wag on the Intertubes christened the BBC’s over the top waaaahvalanche of blubbering as ‘a 24 hour subscription to Mournhub’, and I really don’t think I can top that for succinctness. From the unedifying sight of Cash-Only Charlie peremptorily sacking his entire Clarence House staff by e-mail (one is moving on to bigger and better things, you see) then demanding that some nameless minion make an unwanted inkwell their problem live on TV, to the Police going full meathead on anyone verbalising their opinion on the stiffly uncomfortable rehabilitation of our own $16 Million Dollar Man, Prince Andrew the Poreless Porker, it’s been either an embarrassment of riches or a cornucopia of outrage for those who’d rather not tug the forelock to their ‘betters’.
Outside of this suffocating bubble of manufactured/mandated grief and pomp (gromp?) the real world is still where we left it before Charlie’s trip to the Make A Wish Foundation with a brown envelope of untraceable riyals bore such gilded fruit. On the cold, hard streets of a Britain where no Royal dares or cares to tread there’s a massive cost of living crisis with no end in sight. Energy bills are spiralling upwards thanks to unrestricted price gouging. Food prices are shooting skywards quicker than a cartoon spring with a wide-eyed Wile E Coyote on it. Wages (outside of the top echelons of bastardy) are falling waaaaay behind inflation. Waves of strikes are either taking place or being planned across the nation’s infrastructure. Brexit and its oft predicted repercussions are still kicking the shit out of the underlying infrastructure of the economy and the damage is accelerating. Every economist with a degree that didn’t come rolling out of cereal packet is predicting that the multi-pronged crisis we’re experiencing is going to get ever so much worse unless the Government takes immediate and drastic action to right the ship.
So, what are they proposing?
Tax Cuts! Yaaaaay. Big, swinging tax cuts aimed at the already comfortably well off and larger bank accounts north of them. Thanks to forty years of ‘free-market reforms’ and ‘modernisation’ the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is up to its neck in late-stage Númenór roleplay and sinking lower every week, but our unelected Government’s only conceivable strategy is to chuck another couple hundred billion of public money onto the Great Pyre and dance around it ululating in praise of Melkó while the smoke plumes thicken above and coalesce into a cloud shaped exactly like a geriatric Australian hand with its bony middle finger thrust upright.
It’s not like this was even unexpected. When an undetermined but nevertheless tiny number of Tory members chose the barely sentient hodgepodge of conflicting behaviour modification strategies called Liz Truss to be Flobalob’s replacement they were choosing one of the authors of Britannia Unchained, a turgid gobblejob of corporate-speak Glibertarianism that was once seen as a shameful insight into the mania infecting the Tory Party fringes, but now serves as a modern-day Mein Kampf for the Tory Party’s core phalanx of extremists. It’s all there. Truss, along with Kwasi Kwarteng (her new Chancellor of the Exchequer) Priti Patel (former Home Secretary under Flobby) Dominic Raab (former Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister under Flobby) and Chris Skidmore (the runt of the litter, promotionwise) put their empty little heads together to collectively vomit forth every single discredited economic truism of the Kapitalism Uber Alles era like the good little virions they are, describing the UK as, amongst other things, a “bloated state, (with) high taxes and excessive regulation” populated by “…the worst idlers in the world.” because “We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor.”
Now this may astonish you, but their fully worked out solution to all the ills of this world that Modern Conservatism built? More of the same, baybee, on rocket-fuelled steroids. Cut those taxes, defund that Welfare State, eliminate those pesky regulations, slash that useless social spending and funnel the savings into yet more corporate handouts. Basically, instruct the peons that they have to sacrifice every single observable improvement made to their lives since the Industrial Revolution so that the Job Creators will feel it worth their while to bless them with their Presence. Or even more basically, “Only People Fail, Not The System”.
Very familiar, no? It’s the formula for every failed Red State in America transferred to Great Britain and sold in the same way, wrapped in a tatty flag and dripping with culture war venom. That’s what Truss is gearing up to inflict on the country now that the boneless obstacle of Flobalob and his desperate need to be loved has been removed from their path. You’d think that this would be an open goal for any Opposition worth its salt, and you’d be right, it absolutely would be, but we haven’t had one of those in a while. Instead, and as is absolutely par for the course where Shocked Face Starmer and his menagerie of shit-flinging pseudo savants are concerned, while a genuine Government-in-Waiting would see in this lunatic agenda a bow-wrapped present delivering them a chance to absolutely savage an overreaching Administration while carving out bright red dividing lines putting themselves firmly on the side of the British people, the absolute legends (in their own tiny minds) who run NuNew Labour’s policy shop are incapable of seeing past another opportunity to further divide the Party and play their Mean Girls games.
Banning your MPs from saying anything (and I mean anything) vaguely political for two whole weeks – other than tongue bathing the Wonderful Widow of Windsor – while the new Tory regime are under no such self-imposed omerta? That’s the kind of political malpractice that I’m sure sounded ‘proper respectful’ to the culturally conservative swing voters NuNew Labour uses in its focus groups, but won’t shift a single vote their way out in the real world. Still, I’m sure everyone with column inches will at least pretend to be surprised when the Student Union Stalins twitching Starmer’s strings decide to suspend and deselect ‘troublesome’ MPs for (what’s the word their anonymous viper used in the FTF Guardian? Ah, yes) for ‘egregiously’ violating Starmer’s pointless little diktat by doing their actual jobs in a way the Daily Mail might disapprove of.
Pardon me for being cynical in the extreme, but once again it’s almost like giving them a wafer-thin excuse to trot-hunting just before the Party Conference season starts was the main reason behind issuing such a ridiculous order in the first place. Wouldn’t want the wrong people voting the wrong way at the annual festival of rubber-stamping, would we?
As for the country? Fuck the country. Who in their right mind would want to win a General Election now and take over the job of fixing the mess over a decade of Tory madness has bequeathed us? Far better to purge the Party of dissident voices and prepare to inherit those lovely Government limos after Truss has had a couple of years to drag the status quo another few Imperial miles to the far-Right, when simply ordering the phased closure of the five best known destructive labour camps constructed around the partially sunken ruins of central London can be packaged and presented as a great victory for moderate centrism. Forward thinkers, they are.
Sarcasm. It’s plentiful and it’s free.
All of this dangerous nonsense is taking place right now, but has been mostly obscured behind an artificially generated screen of pompous caste-signalling honouring the second most boring ‘celebrity in a box’ event since David Blaine’s heyday. It’s 2022, and all appearances to the contrary I’m actually a grown-up, so when I’m in the mood for a bit of throne-based action I want my Kings and Queens where they belong, which is on a TV screen or the pages of enormous books with multiple maps, occasionally swinging massive bastard-swords or doing sexy things with dwarfs, but mostly having character building adventures during which they learn how very important it is for them not to be a pampered, over-privileged parasite who exists only to maintain their dynasty in the luxury to which it has become accustomed.
We don’t have that. We’ve got the shit version, where we’re all playing the role of Dung Heap Peasant#35 and our only speaking part in the whole performance is to chant “ God Save the King” loud enough to drown out the meaty thunk of teenage skaters’ heads getting slammed into concrete paving slabs because the Police forgot to close off the road for a Royal motorcade and, well, you never know do you, they could have had a gun or a bomb couldn’t they? Or, horror of horrors, a neatly written placard asking why we’re supposed to be content with this farce of a system when they don’t even have any fucking dragons? So that’s alright then. Kids getting roughed up by the Po-Po is just the price we apparently agreed to pay in order to keep the really important people 100% safe from imaginary threats.
Still, the fog of gromp might be lifting a little now that every single succulent droplet of coverage has been wrung out of the most important event in the history of the world. I certainly bloody hope so. Truss has already been humiliated by smiling Joe Biden’s distain, and with the announcement that there’s not going to be a US/UK trade deal another few bricks fall out of the crumbling Got Brexit Done edifice. There might not be anything good to look forward to, but at least we can look forward now. The car is on fire, the wheels are flat, there’s a wolf on the roof and something about the driver’s expression screams “I have a death-wish”, but look on the bright side, we’re going downhill, and chances are that wall at the bottom of the hill was going to be demolished soon anyway.
What’s not to love about that?
Now, back to your scheduled head-shaking at the inhuman cruelty and boundless stupidity of your domestic Conservatives, who I’m quietly confident are going to roemember this November with all the fondness of a dog at a firework display.
Doug R
@lowtechcyclist: Pilot is legally supposed to know who they are flying.
Roger Moore
@lowtechcyclist:
Kidnapping and human trafficking. They transported people who had been kidnapped and trafficked from one place to another. That makes them part of the crime. My suggestion would be to prosecute them but offer them a favorable plea bargain if they’ll serve as prosecution witnesses for the higher-ups.
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@SpaceUnit: Or just impound the planes as evidence until after the trial (in a year or two) then no charter company will risk working for them again.
I see I am jjust agreeing with @Dangerman:
Doug R
@The Moar You Know:
Uh, no-because baristas aren’t management.
NorthLeft
@Dangerman: Actually, there is a pretty serious shortage of experienced pilots. If the pilot takes a stand regarding “trafficking” of people, I am pretty sure that his employers would not cut their own throats and fire him.
Danielx
@Tony Jay:
thank you.
Doug R
@NorthLeft: If your company fires you because you take a stand against trafficking, you don’t want to work there anyway.
Bunter
I imagine the pilots assume theyll be fired if they refuse, wonder if the religious freedom act would work for the pilots? Like, I can’t fly them because my religion says welcome the stranger, not dump them in another city?
Citizen_X
Also: any cops investigating a criminal enterprise.
Fuck these crooks. Yes, bust them. Make ‘em squeal and work your way up.
HinTN
Bingo
Tony Jay
@Danielx:
It was bubbling up, now it’s out.
Always a relief.
Sparkedcat
@Tony Jay: The Queen is thankfully in the ground.
Scout211
More details and information from the Sheriff and CNN. Link
bcw
These guys acted like any smuggling operation, they aborted the attempt once the ability to be in and out without detection was lost. And yes, the company would know the people it’s carrying don’t want to end up in a small town in Delaware so they would know they are kidnapping people.
Ken
That’s what I like about your dispatches, Tony: Your boundless optimism.
I was expecting additional memorial observances on a monthly if not weekly basis, all dutifully followed by the US media, and culminating in a few months with the coronation of your third Charles.
SpaceUnit
I once pissed off a cop in a park and got a ticket for creating the possibility of a public inconvenience.
I’m sure they can come up with something for these guys.
Geminid
It sounds like “Perla” and her coyote-conspirators chickened out this time.
I give some credit to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar for announcing a criminal investigation into the circumstances of the first flight of migrants from San Antonio. Sheriff Salazar looked like he meant business!
Tony Jay
@Sparkedcat:
I’m not pleased she’s dead, I’m pleased the whole WORLD IMPORTANT EVENT is over.
They banned adverts. Out of ‘respect’. FFS.
Watching the PTBs handle the coverage of the last two weeks with all the sure-handed calmness of a blind man tossed a bucket of tarantulas has been… uncomfortable viewing.
Skepticat
Spot on.
Expatchad
The T. JAY INCREDIBLE STUDY IN NEAR-INFINITE ANTI-MONARCHICAL TEDIOSITY IS HEREBY
kalakal
@Tony Jay: Be fair, they were simply trying to let todays British youngsters know what a Sunday afternoon in 1980 was like
Anonymous At Work
Josh Marshall at TPM is on the right track here: Florida hired outside contractors and vendors to perform these operations. Breaking laws would void the contracts that MUST be in place. Every state also has rules and regulations for selecting vendors based on bidding or pricing sheets that must be followed, terms of employment, etc. There’s a lot of paperwork.
OR
There was a lot of work being done by the DeathSantis campaign staff to make this happen, which is illegal to intermingle government and campaign funds and operations.
This won’t be as clean as DeathSantis thinks it is. Not since the persons moved across state lines.
Tony Jay
@Ken:
Whenever Truss needs a distraction, I’m sure something mawkishly monarchical will be dragged out of storage.
I give Charlie six months before he’s gotten himself into hot water one way or another. The people who matter don’t want to be reporting on a spiky old fart when there are fresher generations of scandal-spawn to be mined for headlines.
And with that, it’s late over here and I yearn for the sleep of the no-longer editing.
C Stars
@P Thomas: This happened. Great article
https://www.wired.com/story/antifa-social-media-rumor-forks-washington/
All of backwoods Oregon and Washington was in a panic in the summer of 2020, thinking that every suspicious new vehicle that passed through was chock full of antifa coming to take away their cheeseburgers. I was telling a friend of mine about this article and he laughed and mentioned that his (Trumpy) family in the mountains in Oregon had told him sometime in fall 2020 that they scared off a car full of “antifa” who were trying to drive through the local McDonalds.
ETA fix dates
Dorothy A. Winsor
Miss Bianca
@Tony Jay: OK, my awe at your command of imagery and invective is now warring with my mild arachnophobia as I savor (?) the squirm-worthy mental picture of “a blind man being tossed a bucket of tarantulas.” Eeek!
Scout211
@Dorothy A. Winsor: So what will she announce?
Tony Jay
@kalakal:
Heh, Christ, those were the days.
Sleep in, cartoons on ITV, Errol Flynn movie, Roast dinner, ‘Knights of God’ miniseries, then something Godly with Harry Secombe and I was already looking forward to being back at school on Monday.
Kids these days don’t know they’re born.
Ken
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @Scout211: Tish James is running for mayor of New York?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Scout211: An indictment? A girl can hope
Tony Jay
@Miss Bianca:
I’m a bit put off myself. Shudder.
Another Scott
@Scout211:
Hehehe.
Cheers,
Scott.
Scout211
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Reading just now, it would more likely be the lawsuit that she was considering a few days ago after rejecting the settlement offer from the Trump attorneys. Link
SpaceUnit
@Another Scott:
Just out of curiosity, how does a person pronounce Hugh Ghass?
Gvg
I don’t think the pilots or even management of the company had to know that those asylum seekers were being lied to. They were transporting people who weren’t in cages, didn’t appear to be threatened and thought they were going somewhere they wanted to go. They had been lied to about where that was and what was there where they were going. The transport company employees might have fully realized it, or might not. They might have caught a few things one person said wrong but just thought, oh he’s confused, or even I don’t care. They also might not know much about any particular place they fly to themselves. or they might be gleeful creeps. We actually don’t have any info on them except their company got paid to fly. Since this is a new kind of gig, they must normally fly regular people, but since it’s the GOP which always grifts, I bet the bosses are friends or donors of conservative causes. That doesn’t mean the employees are.
Since I am a Florida taxpayer, my reaction is get DeSantis for stealing my money. This can’t be legal. Unless the pilot or crew heard something definite I don’t think they likely did anything illegal. The spending though sure seems hinkey, and anyway, I want the Governor not some fall guy.
lowtechcyclist
@Tony Jay:
And the dashboard’s melted, but we still have the radio
lowtechcyclist
@SpaceUnit:
Probably the way Moe the bartender on The Simpsons would.
Argiope
@Tony Jay:
Sweet dreams, and thanks for the missive. I always enjoy them, even while shaking my head about the underlying clusterfucks they depict.
lowtechcyclist
@Gvg:
And even if this part isn’t illegal, he just basically threw away a million bucks of state money and got nothing in return for it.
Gin & Tonic
@Expatchad: Hereby what? The suspense is killing me.
SpaceUnit
@lowtechcyclist:
“I’m looking for a Hugh Ghass!
ETA: Yes I am an easily amused ten year old.
Poe Larity
Enough of all this transneoantidisenstablishmentarian caterwauling.
I learned more new words this week than any bombastic Tonyism. Like catafalque. I feel brilliant.
Harry 2028.
Starfish
Dan B
@Tony Jay: Tarantulas make good pets because they’re calm but throwing them might produce different behavior. And… there’s a South American version that is deadly. Choose carefully.
Geminid
Protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Tehran’s morality police have continued for a third day. Although protesters in Ms. Amini’s native Kurdestan Province are especially active, large and angry crowds gathered again in cities across Iran. Security forces are responding with tear gas, water cannons, beatings and arrests. So far live fire seems to be limited to shotguns. At least six protesters have been killed.
The media site Iran News Wire (based in Europe) has put up a video clips of protests in numerous cities. They show a lot of young people. I’ve read that 45% of Iranians are under age 35.
Right now Iran’s President, Ebraham Raisi, is in New York City, preparing for his UN speech on Saturday. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khameini, is recovering from gastro-intestinal surgery. I can only guess at how this will affect the regime’s handling of what could turn into a serious threat to its survival.
The last time such widespread protests occurred was “Bloody November,” 2019. The protests were widespread, and they were put down savagely. The US State Department estimated the death toll at 1000 people, and Reuters said it was1500.
Starfish
@lowtechcyclist: He got his name splashed around in news stories, which enhances name recognition for future elections. It also made some Florida golf course resident sad.
mrmoshpotato
“Fooy!”
“You mean curses darling.”
“Please, Natasha. This is kiddie show.”
different-church-lady
You where they probably wouldn’t welcome a plane full of migrants?
Texas.
HumboldtBlue
Guys, guys, Herschel Walker learned today he was a black man.
Origuy
It’s still not clear who sent a planeload of migrants from Texas to Sacramento.
I bet I could guess, though.
trollhattan
Iran security evidently now killing Masha Amini protestors.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1572334618879090689?cxt=HHwWgoCzpauAh9IrAAAA
trollhattan
@Origuy:
Huh. And to think Texas is always claiming Californians are fleeing to their state in droves.
Counterdrove?
BigJimSlade
Maybe we could have truck loads of coal delivered to the Florida state house, dumping it in a way to block all the entrances. They like the extractive resources industry, right? They should thank us for it.
El Muneco
@C Stars: Note that Forks is a bit of a special case, as it was the setting of the _Twilight_ novels, so it has tended to draw visiting pilgrims of a young, urban, emo demographic – much more so than your typical logging town of that size four hours from a major city.
Paul in KY
@evodevo: Not sure that is ‘politically’ the right solution. I think focusing on the cost & cruelty of DeSatanis’ actions will hurt him more.
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: Sorry things are so fucked up over there, Tony. Enjoyed the screed, though. Cheers!
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: Henry the Prince of Wales, etc. etc. would have been much more fun to report on than Henry V.
Paul in KY
@C Stars: Those poor people on that bus that entered Bumfuck, WA.