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.
Bowser didn’t have a problem with the bus loads of BLM rioters who came to town to loot and burn.
The idea is to put the media spotlight on the arrival of illegals. No point sending them in at night,
Not for nothing, recall that Obama opened the border. That’s a big reason why Trump got elected. Obama began the night flights that redistributed the illegal aliens. Obama set up the network of government paid NGOs that provide taxpayer funded support to the mass of illegal aliens. The nice thing about the uncaught border crossers is that they already have a job and don’t need welfare.
I used to vacation on Martha’s Vineyard during the Reagan era. The natives weren’t snotty a-holes back then.
DeSantis took the Vineyard denizens at their word and helped some poor immigrants to achieve the blessing of residence in a community of love and acceptance.
Not a single immigrant was offered housing, employment, or an invitation to visit a local mansion.
Not one was provided the chance to share the luxury of the virtuous wealthy.
Thousands of luxury hotel accommodations remained empty that could have housed these struggling dreamers.
Not one was permitted to sit at a fine dining table and savor the delights of wealth and comfort.
They were ever so gently locked up in a nearby military camp and will be sent packing back to Venezuela.
Do it again Governor.
In a book written about the Indian Wars by an army lieutenant, he was talking about how sympathetic people in the east were to the Indians, when he observed that the further away they were from the situation, the more sympathetic they were. Just human nature.
When things fit it’s worth repeating.
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 Bee sure has great headlines!
And there it is in a nutshell.
Did you expect anything else from rich, #woke elitists? This is the truth of liberalism.
Indeed
I enjoy watching liberal’s heads explode.
5.56mm
I’ll bet Abbott is seething about all the attention DeSantis is getting off this. Abbott has been doing busses for a little while now, but it would appear that by the time the busses get to their ultimate destination, most of the illegal invaders have jumped ship, so they have a lot less impact. Put them on a plane and they can only debark in flight with a parachute. (At this point, I’m not opposed at early ejection from the planes of any male of military age.Women and children should be flown to Argentina)
Martha’s Vineyard Resident Calls Police To Report A Hispanic In The Neighborhood Not Operating A Leaf Blower, Sep 15, 2022 · BabylonBee.com
MARTHA’S VINEYARD, MA — Residents of upscale Martha’s Vineyard are in a panic after several buses dropped off illegal immigrants from Florida this week. One terrified resident reportedly called the authorities after seeing Hispanic males outside her home, not even operating a leaf blower or any other kind of gardening equipment.
“Hello, is this 911? Yes, there are brown-looking Latinx people outside my 20,000-square-foot seaside home, and they aren’t even carrying leaf blowers,” said a terrified Mavis McWhite to the dispatcher. “They aren’t even holding so much as a rake. They’re up to no good. I’m scared! Please send help!”
Early reports from one of the wealthiest zip codes on earth indicate that approximately 50 people from countries south of the equator are striking fear in the hearts of local oligarchs, movie stars, and millionaire politicians who reside there. “It was so inconsiderate for DeSantis to ship these dark-skinned people up to our neighborhood without the tools they need to maintain our multimillion-dollar properties,” said Town Councilmember Pam Karen-Cindy. “What else are they going to do all day? Just despicable.”
At publishing time, the Hispanic immigrants who currently work as landscapers and house servants in Martha’s Vineyard for minimum wage had organized a demonstration to protest the arrival of new Hispanic immigrants who will work for even cheaper.
I believe that the beaches are probably regulated to no over night camping.
I had a cousin who worked as a bartender in MV, and made outrageously good money.
However, the overnight hotel/motel accommodations were so very expensive, that he paid to camp out in someone's back yard.
While he made good money, he said his expenses for food and shelter made the experience 'a bust',
and he had very little savings from that experience.
He said he would never go back, or do it again - too expensive !
The emporer has no .......
Another destination could be to send a bunch to Colorado where they are giving $12,000 to each and every homeless person. These people surely qualify.
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