DeSantis: The Authoritarian

gwb-trading said:
It would be one thing if DeSantis was sending the immigrants from his own state and hence was addressing an actual issue with housing illegal immigrants in his own state... but he took the immigrants from Texas. Which makes this nothing more than an abusive publicity stunt.

The surprising details behind DeSantis’ and Abbott’s immigration stunts
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/politics/migrant-buses-desantis-abbott-what-matters/index.html

Republican governors are in a cynical competition to outdo each other and send migrants from the US border by bus to New York, Washington, DC, Chicago and, now, by plane to Martha’s Vineyard.

Two unannounced planes carrying an estimated 50migrants landed in the wealthy seaside enclave of Massachusetts on Wednesday night, surprising locals.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed credit for the stunt, which took the migrants from Texas, not Florida, and left them without planning on the street.

(Much more at above url)
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shitty deal for FL, tax paying advertisement for DeCuntis campaign.

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Cuddles said:
shitty deal for FL, tax paying advertisement for DeCuntis campaign.

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Ken Burns compares sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard to rise of Nazis
https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/ken-burns-likens-relocation-of-migrants-to-rise-of-nazis/

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has sparked outrage by comparing the relocation of border crossers to idyllic Martha’s Vineyard to the rise of Nazi Germany before the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Brooklyn-born, longtime Democratic donor made the direct comparison Thursday while appearing on CNN to promote his new film, “The US and the Holocaust.”

Without hesitation, he agreed with host John Berman’s suggestion that the doc addressed “some of the same themes” seen in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send “two planeloads of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.”

“This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” Burns, 69, insisted of DeSantis’ relocation of around 50 border crossers to the Massachusetts hotspot.

“What we find in our all films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present today.

“And so, when you look at the story that we’re telling of the US and the Holocaust, you understand that the time to save a democracy is before it’s lost. We promise you,” he warned.

Sitting alongside co-director Lynn Novick, Burns insisted that sending immigrants to one of the ritziest vacation spots in the US was actually “the abstraction of human life.”

“It’s basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or Lynn’s and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody’s authoritarian game,” he insisted.

“This is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis — to use human beings, to weaponize human beings for a political purpose,” he claimed.

“It’s like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida — like the Walt Disney Company — he punishes them,” Burns continued.

“This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there’s an exchange of ideas.

“This is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.”

His comments quickly sparked outrage and derision online, including memes showing an aerial shot of the exclusive enclave that has long been home to left-leaning celebrities and Democratic pols, including former President Barack Obama.

“This? This is Auschwitz?” the meme asks alongside the postcard-worthy scene.

A writer on Twitter also noted increduously, “Ron DeSantis giving migrants free food, water, and plane tickets to Martha’s Vineyard is like the Holocaust. WHAT?“

“He sent them to a place that is a bucket list for us little people,” another person tweeted.

“You aren’t allowed to compare vaccine passports to the leadup to the Holocaust but Ken Burns can compare sending illegal immigrants to a vacation island to the Holocaust,” one podcaster tweeted.

Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson also skewered Burns during a monologue on his show late Thursday.

“The horrors! This is genocide!” he said sarcastically.

He then insisted, “Martha’s Vineyard may be a modern-day death camp, but compared to where illegal aliens usually go, it doesn’t look that bad.”

He showed footage from this week of dozens of border crossers in El Paso, Texas, saying it showed “chaos, violence and filth” in the border towns “now completely overrun under [President] Biden’s border policy.”

It was followed by footage of Martha’s Vineyard. “It’s hellish, perhaps, but in a very different way,” Carlson quipped of the leftist hotspot.

“Families eating together on balconies overlooking the water; women doing their shopping in quaint little towns on their bicycles; couples strolling on the boardwalk; sailboats. It doesn’t look that bad,” he said.

Carlson also suggested they house the new arrivals in Obama’s house there.

“There is no reason Obama needs that much space — nobody needs that much space,” he said.

“You can probably fit a dozen immigrant families in Barack Obama’s pool house, and another five or six in the pantry,” he quipped.

“As Biden often reminds us — illegal immigration is a gift,” he said.
 
gwb-trading said:
Ken Burns compares sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard to rise of Nazis
https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/ken-burns-likens-relocation-of-migrants-to-rise-of-nazis/

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has sparked outrage by comparing the relocation of border crossers to idyllic Martha’s Vineyard to the rise of Nazi Germany before the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Brooklyn-born, longtime Democratic donor made the direct comparison Thursday while appearing on CNN to promote his new film, “The US and the Holocaust.”

Without hesitation, he agreed with host John Berman’s suggestion that the doc addressed “some of the same themes” seen in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send “two planeloads of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.”

“This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” Burns, 69, insisted of DeSantis’ relocation of around 50 border crossers to the Massachusetts hotspot.

“What we find in our all films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present today.

“And so, when you look at the story that we’re telling of the US and the Holocaust, you understand that the time to save a democracy is before it’s lost. We promise you,” he warned.

Sitting alongside co-director Lynn Novick, Burns insisted that sending immigrants to one of the ritziest vacation spots in the US was actually “the abstraction of human life.”

“It’s basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or Lynn’s and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody’s authoritarian game,” he insisted.

“This is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis — to use human beings, to weaponize human beings for a political purpose,” he claimed.

“It’s like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida — like the Walt Disney Company — he punishes them,” Burns continued.

“This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there’s an exchange of ideas.

“This is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.”

His comments quickly sparked outrage and derision online, including memes showing an aerial shot of the exclusive enclave that has long been home to left-leaning celebrities and Democratic pols, including former President Barack Obama.

“This? This is Auschwitz?” the meme asks alongside the postcard-worthy scene.

A writer on Twitter also noted increduously, “Ron DeSantis giving migrants free food, water, and plane tickets to Martha’s Vineyard is like the Holocaust. WHAT?“

“He sent them to a place that is a bucket list for us little people,” another person tweeted.

“You aren’t allowed to compare vaccine passports to the leadup to the Holocaust but Ken Burns can compare sending illegal immigrants to a vacation island to the Holocaust,” one podcaster tweeted.

Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson also skewered Burns during a monologue on his show late Thursday.

“The horrors! This is genocide!” he said sarcastically.

He then insisted, “Martha’s Vineyard may be a modern-day death camp, but compared to where illegal aliens usually go, it doesn’t look that bad.”

He showed footage from this week of dozens of border crossers in El Paso, Texas, saying it showed “chaos, violence and filth” in the border towns “now completely overrun under [President] Biden’s border policy.”

It was followed by footage of Martha’s Vineyard. “It’s hellish, perhaps, but in a very different way,” Carlson quipped of the leftist hotspot.

“Families eating together on balconies overlooking the water; women doing their shopping in quaint little towns on their bicycles; couples strolling on the boardwalk; sailboats. It doesn’t look that bad,” he said.

Carlson also suggested they house the new arrivals in Obama’s house there.

“There is no reason Obama needs that much space — nobody needs that much space,” he said.

“You can probably fit a dozen immigrant families in Barack Obama’s pool house, and another five or six in the pantry,” he quipped.

“As Biden often reminds us — illegal immigration is a gift,” he said.
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I mean, we told you all way back then this shit was nazi even before the toddler camps. Yet it was dismissed as "TDS".
 
gwb-trading said:
Ken Burns compares sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard to rise of Nazis
https://nypost.com/2022/09/16/ken-burns-likens-relocation-of-migrants-to-rise-of-nazis/

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has sparked outrage by comparing the relocation of border crossers to idyllic Martha’s Vineyard to the rise of Nazi Germany before the horrors of the Holocaust.

The Brooklyn-born, longtime Democratic donor made the direct comparison Thursday while appearing on CNN to promote his new film, “The US and the Holocaust.”

Without hesitation, he agreed with host John Berman’s suggestion that the doc addressed “some of the same themes” seen in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to send “two planeloads of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard.”

“This is coming straight out of the authoritarian playbook,” Burns, 69, insisted of DeSantis’ relocation of around 50 border crossers to the Massachusetts hotspot.

“What we find in our all films is that the themes that we engage in the past are present today.

“And so, when you look at the story that we’re telling of the US and the Holocaust, you understand that the time to save a democracy is before it’s lost. We promise you,” he warned.

Sitting alongside co-director Lynn Novick, Burns insisted that sending immigrants to one of the ritziest vacation spots in the US was actually “the abstraction of human life.”

“It’s basically saying that you can use a human life that is as valuable as yours or mine or Lynn’s and to put it in a position of becoming a political pawn in somebody’s authoritarian game,” he insisted.

“This is what’s so disturbing about DeSantis — to use human beings, to weaponize human beings for a political purpose,” he claimed.

“It’s like when somebody disagrees with him in Florida — like the Walt Disney Company — he punishes them,” Burns continued.

“This is not the actions of a person participating in a democratic process in which there’s an exchange of ideas.

“This is about punishing political enemies, putting on shows, political shows, political theater. And in this case, this is with the lives of human beings.”

His comments quickly sparked outrage and derision online, including memes showing an aerial shot of the exclusive enclave that has long been home to left-leaning celebrities and Democratic pols, including former President Barack Obama.

“This? This is Auschwitz?” the meme asks alongside the postcard-worthy scene.

A writer on Twitter also noted increduously, “Ron DeSantis giving migrants free food, water, and plane tickets to Martha’s Vineyard is like the Holocaust. WHAT?“

“He sent them to a place that is a bucket list for us little people,” another person tweeted.

“You aren’t allowed to compare vaccine passports to the leadup to the Holocaust but Ken Burns can compare sending illegal immigrants to a vacation island to the Holocaust,” one podcaster tweeted.

Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson also skewered Burns during a monologue on his show late Thursday.

“The horrors! This is genocide!” he said sarcastically.

He then insisted, “Martha’s Vineyard may be a modern-day death camp, but compared to where illegal aliens usually go, it doesn’t look that bad.”

He showed footage from this week of dozens of border crossers in El Paso, Texas, saying it showed “chaos, violence and filth” in the border towns “now completely overrun under [President] Biden’s border policy.”

It was followed by footage of Martha’s Vineyard. “It’s hellish, perhaps, but in a very different way,” Carlson quipped of the leftist hotspot.

“Families eating together on balconies overlooking the water; women doing their shopping in quaint little towns on their bicycles; couples strolling on the boardwalk; sailboats. It doesn’t look that bad,” he said.

Carlson also suggested they house the new arrivals in Obama’s house there.

“There is no reason Obama needs that much space — nobody needs that much space,” he said.

“You can probably fit a dozen immigrant families in Barack Obama’s pool house, and another five or six in the pantry,” he quipped.

“As Biden often reminds us — illegal immigration is a gift,” he said.
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Cuddles said:
What do you think? Texas is scooping up undocumented immigrants to weaponize them politically under the guise of a "helpful charity to aid immigrants (or some such name)".

Feds need to start charging these charter planes/buses under human trafficking statutes. I mean, if general Joe contractor gets charged for moving people in his pick up, why not these? Obv. that could backfire as grayhound/airlines freak out about it and start demanding papers.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1570948092777701376
 
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