It ain't his money, it's the people of Texas' money, and they keep electing these racist scumbags, so I guess it's worth it to them to just piss their taxes up a wall, to virtue singal
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Many vote red but it is also all the barriers they put in the way for democratic voters. This is a deeply corrupt state.
Yeah, it's probably the most gerrymandered state in the entire country and that's fucking SAYING something!
The simple fact that Ted Cruz keeps getting reelected in spite of being almost universally despised should tell you all you need about the state of representative democracy in Texas..
Ted Cruz wins a statewide election it can't be gerrymandered.
I was using "gerrymandered" as a synecdoche for general election tampering and ratfucking, not in the literal sense of drawing districts.
Sorry if I wasn't being clear enough 🙂
Sign a kyne a dodie chodie?
It means to use one in place of the whole (or the other way around). Like how sailors are called hands, cattle are heads, and most Republicans are dicks.
I love that channel! Who would have thought that Taylor Swift is pronounced "Todd Swanson"? 😂
synecdoche
Today I learned a new word. Thanks.
You're very welcome 🙂
Watch the movie "Syndecoche NY"
Should have spent that money on their shitbird electrical grid.
Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.
Yeah, they love sending them to Denver in the middle of the night during cold winters. They’ve been asked to drop them off during the day, but that wouldn’t be cruel, you know. We welcome our guests, and I will continue to knit and donate scarves for them. Fuck Texas.
Thats $1841.67 per Migrant.
Not counting legal fees incurred by retaliation from the migrants.
so an empathetic government could have actually just handed them all relief checks a la COVID
Or ironically just let them be so they don't cost taxpayers money, something Repugnantcans claim to care about.
I prefer repuglicunts, but yours works too.
If you're going to quote, might as well make it worse:
"By comparison, a bus ticket to New York costs about $215, while a flight costs about $350," he highlighted. "It would have WAY cheaper to just give migrants money for tickets. Abbott's effort not only made it a political stunt, it lined a contractor's pocket."
That's a MUCH better use of My Taxpayer Dollars then Feeding STARVING AMERICAN CHILDREN!
So, its funny. I remember another statewide leader taking a historic bus trip with a group of immigrants.
Pharmacies just on the other side of the US/Mexico border are selling the exact same prescription drugs as those available in Texas pharmacies at drastically reduced prices, entirely thanks to the cartelized nature of domestic pharmaceutical prices. While it is not illegal to buy these drugs for personal use and transport them across the border, it is illegal to buy them and bring them across the border for sale.
When you think about what a guy like Greg Abbott is doing, when he rounds up a bunch of "illegal immigrants" and buses them around the country, its worth considering what does and does not constitute as crime.
at drastically reduced prices
They're not reduced prices. They're normal prices. The cost for insulin in the US is bloated and excessive beyond all comprehension. Framing it as a reduced or discount price in Mexico feeds into the idea that the US prices are somehow reasonable or normal. They are not.
Just a fun reminder that Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine that costs like $1 per shot.
I feel like healthcare costs could be a real catalyst for left-policies in the U.S but the Healthcare Industry is going to fight it every step of the way.
Is the WHO like a medical UN or ICC? Like third party org with some neutrality/impartiality that could "absorb" and evaluate this drug, solely from a medical and not political lens? Do we have that type of org in the world for pure scientific breakthrough that is trapped in otherwise difficult countries or between political feuds?
Fucking monster.
Though there is some schadenfreude to be had that he managed to actually get the attention he wanted from this only for his colleages in congress to spike the biggest gift of an immigration bill they could have ever hoped for at the behest of their orange toddler-in-chief.
And Republican Texans will gobble it up and see no real problem with it, because it hurts the people they dont like. He could bankrupt the state and Republicans would be okay with it if it was in the name of hurting people they don't like
His citizens freeze to death during the winter and overheat during the summer, but whatever lets bus people 2000 miles away as a stunt. Or you could build apt buildings to house them in...this guy is the worst
Gov. Fascism on Wheels giving $2k government handouts to a bunch of migrants lmao.
It would be actually funny, but these desperate people are being treated like subhuman political pawns.
It seems like the entire immigration system keeps getting more cruel over the years. And now Dems are pushing a far-right immigration bill, and Trump is advocating for a final solution for 12 million people.
Think of how many gun sanctuaries they could have built with that money.
Human trafficking*
It's not "migrant bussing" it's fuckin blatant human trafficking.
Call it what it is and hold this piece of shit accountable.
Worst coyotes ever.
Politically I’d argue it did get some democrats to wake up to the issue, maybe not to the extent most would like though. This could’ve been “solved” with Senator Lankford’s bill, but Trump had to … Trump I guess. Hopefully this is resolved soon in some way or another after the election.
This shit is enraging
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