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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 19, 2023 20:32:51 GMT -5
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tashoya
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Post by tashoya on Jul 19, 2023 21:01:52 GMT -5
Typical of that POS. Could've been worse.... they could have been photos of her.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 19, 2023 21:52:47 GMT -5
Proud of your MAGA GOP cult? Very Christian of you, hypocrites. Keep voting for this POS. The cruelty is the point. Yee Haw? Texas troopers employed by Greg Abbott’s border patrol initiative were instructed to push children into the Rio Grande and deny migrants water in extreme heat, according to emails sent by a state employee. Nicholas Wingate, a trooper-medic from the state’s department of public safety expressed concern over “inhumane” actions towards migrants in a 3 July email to supervisors and reveals other unreported incidents involving migrants, the Houston Chronicle first reported. “The wire and barrels in the river needs to be taken out as this is nothing but an inhumane trap in high water and low visibility,” Wingate wrote. He also told officials to reverse orders to withhold water from migrants. “Due to the extreme heat, the order to not give people water needs to be immediately reversed as well,” Wingate wrote, the Chronicle reported. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/18/texas-troopers-inhumane-migrants-greg-abbott-border-initiative
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 20, 2023 11:09:11 GMT -5
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Massholya
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Post by Massholya on Jul 20, 2023 11:59:34 GMT -5
Unfortunately it is becoming increasingly clear that the majority of the Republican Party has the intellect, impulse control and maturity level of a 14 year old boy. Marjorie also has the testosterone level of a 14 year old boy. Maybe it’s time for her lay off the steroids.
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 20, 2023 12:14:30 GMT -5
Unfortunately it is becoming increasingly clear that the majority of the Republican Party has the intellect, impulse control and maturity level of a 14 year old boy. Marjorie also has the testosterone level of a 14 year old boy. Maybe it’s time for her lay off the steroids. I never want to meet the imbeciles that subscribe to her newsletter. I’m sure there are tons of pictures, no words of more than two syllables, and some fun crayon activities at the end. Essentially Highlights for “adults”. The instructions have to remind readers to print out the activities and not draw directly on the computer monitor. Her readers are easily confused.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 20, 2023 13:17:02 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 22, 2023 18:10:09 GMT -5
They're not white Americans, so who cares?
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jul 22, 2023 19:39:34 GMT -5
They're not white Americans, so who cares? The Hispnic population surpassed the white population in Texas in 2023, with 40.2% of the state population. But unlike other states where Hispanic growth is solely by immigration, Texas Hispanics could be newcomers, or sixth generation Texans. As such, there's not always a specific voting bloc, which politicians take advantage of.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 22, 2023 20:42:21 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Jul 23, 2023 7:53:31 GMT -5
They're not white Americans, so who cares? The Hispnic population surpassed the white population in Texas in 2023, with 40.2% of the state population. But unlike other states where Hispanic growth is solely by immigration, Texas Hispanics could be newcomers, or sixth generation Texans. As such, there's not always a specific voting bloc, which politicians take advantage of. The statistics and political implications you cite will be lost on the ignorant, racist and xenophobic MAGA GOP base, not just in Texas but all over the country. All the ignorant base knows is that it is an "invasion" at the border and so they will support such cruel and inhumane ineffective performative political stunts. But am I right in assuming that you do not support Abbott's political stunt only because of its ineffectiveness? Or do you believe that as a humanitarian and moral issue, Abbott is correct? Afterall, among the MAGA GOP cult, the cruelty is the point. Accordingly, this is the absolutely correct performative politcal move, as Abbott races to bottom against DeSantis, right? Tax dollars well spent for his performative politics if not effectiveness? Governor Abbott is a shrewd operator. He has combined media savvy and audacious use of government funds and powers to secure billions of dollars and heaps of political capital for his notion of a military-style crackdown at the border. He has charged ahead with little resistance, even though governors and presidents have spent decades taking this iron-fisted approach with little empirical success to show for it. In mid-July, state contractors were nearly complete installing the floating border barrier, a $1m, 1,000-foot pearl string of giant orange buoys with strong netting in between, anchored to the river floor. According to leaks from the Texas Department of Public Safety, which oversees the state’s border scheme, this policy includes intentionally putting migrants into harm’s way. In a series of emails shared with news outlets including The Independent, a border medic described questioning orders from superiors to push exhausted migrants back into the river and to refrain from giving them water if captured. “We were given orders to push the people back into the water to go to Mexico. We decided that this was not the correct thing to do. With the very real potential of exhausted people drowning,” the trooper wrote. The DPS source also claimed in the span of one week in late June, a teen mother was trapped in razor wire at the border while having a miscarriage, a 15-year-old broke his leg as he tried to find a way around the deterrence buoys, and a man lacerated his leg while trying to rescue his child from razor wire placed on a buoy. Texas officials have defended the use of the razor wire while denying reports troopers were told to push people into the river. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/greg-abbott-rio-grande-buoys-migrants-b2379629.html
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Post by hoyajinx on Jul 23, 2023 9:07:26 GMT -5
Is it really a surprise that the people lamenting that the green M&M wasn’t sexy enough anymore are upset by a movie about a doll? At the risk of repeating myself, this culture war nonsense really resonates with the Republican base that isn’t particularly bright or well-informed. Any actual policy debate (if Republicans even had a policy at this point) would be entirely lost on those rubes.
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