But Martha's Vineyard means "hypocrite".
Posted on 09/18/2022 5:25:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In a single stroke, Ron DeSantis tore the mask off hypocrisy of the smug faces of the liberal elites who love crowing about the virtues of “diversity” and the evils of “whiteness.”
It is curious how deeply the comic and the sinister are woven together in the woke dramas of our time.
Consider, to take the latest example, the embarrassing little panic to which the well-pressed and affluent denizens of Martha’s Vineyard treated the public.
Our agents are still out there counting the number of nauseating “Hate has no place here” and “No human being is illegal” signs on the front yards of posh Vineyard estates. To a man, woman, and everything in between, the neighbors of Barack and Michelle Obama in their 12 million seaside compound are echt correct. All of them, within the limits of statistical probability, hate Donald Trump. They all voted for Joe Biden. They support windmills (so long as they are not visible from the Vineyard), carbon-neutral energy policies, and a “woman’s right to choose” (though not of course if the female is yet-to-be-born: she gets no choice), etc., etc.
It would be easy to draw up a menu of things the pampered people of Martha’s Vineyard support and deplore.
One of the things they support is greater “diversity” and its primary motor, vastly increased immigration. They think Joe Biden was right when he said that the United States could very easily accommodate two million immigrants from Central America.
They pooh-pooh reports of chaos on our Southern border. Neither Kamala Harris, in whose portfolio the border was originally placed, nor Joe Biden has even bothered to visit the border. Why should they care? They like it when thousands of poor migrants huddle into places like Brownsville, Texas. When journalists such as the New York Post’s Miranda Devine began revealing that the Biden Administration was secretly shipping planeloads of illegal immigrants around the country, including into tony venues like the Westchester, New York, airport in the dead of night, their bored reaction was to pour themselves another chardonnay.
But then Florida Governor Ron DeSantis decided to attract their attention. He rounded up 50 illegal immigrants, mostly from Venezuela, who had made their way to Florida and put them on a plane to Edgartown, Massachusetts, the beating heart of Martha’s Vineyard. (And that’s just the beginning.)
The reaction of the loving, open, soft-palmed, Democrat-voting residents? “The horror, the horror”: Mr. Kurtz’s expostulation at the end of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness about sums it up.
Floundering Florida pol Charlie Crist said that DeSantis’ action “shocks the conscience of any fair-minded human being.” Hillary Clinton said that it was an example of “human trafficking,” while other talking heads decried it as pure “evil.” Documentary filmmaker and anti-American propagandist Ken Burns has just made a film about the Holocaust that explains how the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis was, at bottom, if you look at it the right (i.e., the Left) way, the fault of America. Interviewed just as the story about the migrants-come-to-Martha’s-Vineyard was breaking, Burns said that DeSantis, by sending illegal immigrant to Martha’s Vineyard, had taken a page from that “authoritarian playbook” and was “weaponizing human beings for a political purpose” just as you-know-who had done in World War II.
Surreal, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom, governor of the failing state of California, wrote to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to look into kidnapping charges for those involved in DeSantis’ gift to Martha’s Vineyard. (Newsom did not mention his own habit of shipping homeless people out of San Francisco with “one-way tickets.”) The Babylon Bee was on the case with a story explaining, “Migrants Decline Newsom’s Offer Of Asylum In CA Since They Just Came From A Collapsing Communist Hellhole With No Electricity.”
The outcry was partly amusing, partly malevolent, as Tucker Carlson showed with his customary aplomb. NBC News took to Twitter to quote a “founding member of a foundation which helps refugees” who said that DeSantis sending “asylum seekers” to Martha’s Vineyard is like “me taking my trash out and just driving to different areas where I live and just throwing my trash there.” Trash?
It wasn’t revealed whether this chap (or chapette, as the case may be) was also a student of Heart of Darkness. If so, perhaps he admires Kurtz’s exit line, scrawled at the end of his report for the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs: “exterminate all the brutes.” In any event, someone at NBC must have understood that analogizing migrants to “trash” did not send quite the right message, so the tweet was quickly deleted (but not before it was picked up and preserved for posterity by several public -spirited commentators).
Anyway, within 40 hours, the National Guard had been summoned. The blinking migrants were pushed onto buses and whisked off to a military establishment, out of sight, out of mind.
Except that they are not out of mind. In a single stroke, Ron DeSantis tore the mask of hypocrisy off the smug faces of the liberal elites who love crowing about the virtues of “diversity” and the evils of “whiteness” just so long as they don’t have to suffer any real-world consequences. “People who make and advocate certain policies,” Tucker Carlson said, “should at some point have to live with those policies.” That was the moral of Ron DeSantis’ bravura performance. God bless him for it.
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I am an evil white man™.
In fact, I am SO EVIL that at this very minute I can't decide
whether to kill myself - or go grocery shopping. Hmmm....
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Okay - I've thought it over - and grocery shopping it is.
Sorry to disappoint all of you WOKETARDS out there.
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Well - no, actually I'm NOT...
Now they have civil rights attorneys fighting for them but not to send them back to the vineyard. Lol. I love that migrant who said that this (being flown to the vineyard) was the best thing that ever happened to him in his whole life.
They wish to preserve their 50-style community - as a safe, orderly, low-crime and efficient enclave with great school.
But, they’ll make sure YOUR community won’t stay that way.
DeSantis needs to send the illegals back - in the middle of the night and to a secondary airport - same as how the feds move illegals into red areas of the country.
Martha’s Vineyard has plenty of hotels and Bed & Breakfast joints that have cleared out this time of year so there is plenty of room to house illegals.
In Los Angeles the city council voted to require hotels - including expensive hotels - to report how many empty room they have by 2 PM so homeless can be sent over to fill those rooms.
There was so much pushback it’s been delayed for a ballot initiative in 2024. With vote fraud here, it will pass.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted unanimously to place an ordinance that would house homeless people in hotels alongside guests on the March 2024 ballot rather than adopt it immediately.
But Martha's Vineyard means "hypocrite".
Interesting that when Muriel Bowser asked for the national guard to be sent in to D.C. to deal with all the illegals - she was denied.
Martha’s Vineyard calls in the national guard for 50 illegals and they respond immediately.
No sympathy for Muriel Bowser, BTW, she has declared “her city” as a sanctuary city for illegals - so keep ‘em coming. Just send them in the middle of the night like the feds do.
I thought that sanctuary status meant you did not turn over illegal aliens to the Feds.
Also, MV has more resources than most places in the world - money, housing, fine food…
Plus all the elites have left the island. There may be a couple september weddings, however. I know the season is over when my brother leaves the vineyard and that was more than a week ago. He set off for the beaches of san diego.
Yep....
And as far as Los Angeles goes, their demand to ‘quarter’ homeless and/or illegals in hotel rooms smacks of a violation of the spirit of the Third Amendment. Only difference is the ‘quartered’ aren’t soldiers, but the spirit of the amendment and its intent is the same to me.
“I Went To Martha’s Vineyard And All I Got Was This Stupid Shirt”
I can’t think of a faster way to destroy the hotel industry than this. One more lucrative business driven out of So Cal by stupid lefty propositions.
Imagine paying $500/night for a hotel only to find homeless put up in the room next door, ranting by the pool or shooting up in the lounge area.
It will be like San Francisco - where businesses, especially overseas businesses, will find other cities to do business.
Would love to see a cartoon character named Crysee the Hippo used to accompany stories that reveal the liberal hypocrisy demonstrated by these MV residents.
"Are you going to come down to the border and give them one of your special Martha's Vineyard Welcomes?" :)
I can’t either. Unless, the actual ‘paying’ clientele came to know first-hand what “chinches” means.
It doesn’t matter whether local government pretends to adequately recompense the owners for the quartering or not. A very likely infestation into the affected rooms negates all that. I know that I, as a potential actual ‘paying guest’ wouldn’t stay in a hotel that did double duty as a flop house - government mandate or not.
In-season they call Illegals, ‘Staff.’
*SNORT*
The towns that are "up island" (to the left, Aquinnah, Chilmark, West Tisbury) are the "super wealthy" areas with private beaches and palatial residences. This is where JFK jr crashed (and had a home). As a general rule, these towns are peopled with the Karen-like leftists - when I visited in 2020, there were obnoxious passive-aggressive signs telling vacationers to quarantine for 14 days before wandering about. This summarizes this lot pretty well.
As you go "down island" to Vineyard Haven, Edgartown (home of Obama's palace) and especially Oak Bluffs, it gets a little more normal. It's more commercial, more touristy, and the locals aren't as obnoxious. When I was there in 2020 and asked the locals and business owners about masks, they basically said "yeah, well, you're supposed to but if nobody says anything do what you want and I don't care." The waitresses were unhappy about the masks because they were suffocating while carrying trays of food.
That's said, the Island as a whole went 78% for Bidet - someone scolded me from a car for being unmasked WHILE WALKING and I replied "thanks Karen."
Amity, as you know, means "friendship."
But Martha's Vineyard means "hypocrite".
The flip side, is that one-fifth of the Island voted for Trump. Indeed, one guy on Circuit Ave in Oak Bluffs sells cool shirts, including an anti-Ted Kennedy shirt with an Oldsmobile under water! I suspect there were MANY year-rounders grinning and cheering about the hypocracy on display.
Rep. Hank Johnson, Dem, remarked that Governor of the Free State of Florida, was committing an act of war, by trying to capsize MV!
Yes, we need to send more. Many more. Right now.
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