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  Double ouch!
context: Wouldn't it be super funny if someone dropped off Greg Abbott 800 miles from his home in Mexico without any ID? >
  
  I could easily imagine the swivel-eyed outrage from the Conservasphere at anyone daring to make such a suggestion, though.
  Which would conveniently ignore the attempted murder of the current House Speaker, and the assault on said Speaker's partner. >
  
  Meanwhile over at r/conservative people are congratulating him. >
  
  Fuck, that subreddit is complete trash. >
  
  Don’t bring up Ukraine over there either, they’ll spam your inbox asking if you enjoy sucking Zelenskys dick. Not only are they dumb, but they’re also really weird. >
  
  Considering how badly conservatives want to share photos of Hunter Biden's penis, conservatives having an oral fixation on Zelenskyy's penis isn't at all surprising. >
  
  They have a very big fetish for anything sexual. We all can agree that child exploitation is absolutely horrible, but I find how often they bring that up to be, well, incredibly fucking creepy. Some don’t seem to be able to answer any interview questions, related to child exploitation or not, without interjecting it. Climate change questions, bring up exploitation. Economy, exploitation. Inflation, exploitation. It’s a bit insane to constantly have child exploitation at the forefront of one’s mind. >
  
  I don't think it is so much about sex, but about power. Conservatives are all about where they fit in a hierarchy, and the focus on exploitation is about making sure they hoard all the power and share none of it. 
  Reducing women, children and gay/trans people into sexual objects diminishes the humanity of those individuals so that they may be more easily weaponized. This is why Abbot likes trafficking Mexican immigrants to Washington D.C. in freezing cold temperatures; conservatives lack empathy and do not see others who are not like them as people. 
  Coincidentally, I would posit that this lack of empathy in conservatives render them less human than the rest of us, so maybe we should be treating them in kind. >
  
  It’s striking to me how conservatives are completely unable to comprehend thought experiments that require compassion or empathy for other people.
  If you try and reason with them by saying something like “well how would you like it if someone did X to your family?” they won’t even entertain the notion or reply with a legitimate response. They’ll scoff, immediately deflect answering the question, call the person a snowflake, and respond with their own hypothetical that makes absolutely no sense with regard to the topic being discussed. It’s like how Trump said he’s basically the same person now as he was in first grade. These people never developed the emotional maturity one would expect a functioning adult to possess. >
  
  It’s because they consider themselves the ruling class.  Any question of placing themselves in the shoes of someone less fortunate is like asking them what a gorilla in a zoo must feel. >
  
  It's not a "cruel stunt".  It's a crime.  In DC, this would be attempted aggravated assault, maybe.  In a lot of states, it'd be reckless endangerment, but DC doesn't have that exact statute.
  If the immigrants didn't want to go, then it's kidnapping, and since some of them were children and this is clearly immoral, seems like a Mann Act violation.
  Abbott commited several different felonies against a whole bunch of victims, and conspiracy charges ought to attach, not just to him but to others involved.
  This shit is outright illegal.  The media and the Democrats do no one any service by prancing around that. >
  
  This is the second post I've seen citing the Mann Act. Can somebody explain this act to me? I lack context >
  
  The Mann Act is a law that was signed in 1910 that made it illegal to transport women and girls across state lines to engage in prostitution. It addresses human trafficking, but at the time it was mainly intended to address and prevent interstate prostitution. >
  
  Supposedly, at the time, it was established to arrest the late great Jack Johnson. First black Heavyweight champion of the world that openly slept with white women in the the mid 1910s. >
  
  After he beat a white boxer that came out of retirement to end the so called "Black Menace". Jack Johnson was a fucking beast. >
  
  and he loved banana pancakes >
  
  How many times must we go through this
  I’ll make you banana pancakes
  I thought you knew this >
  
  Can we also pretend like it's the weekend? 🥺 >
  
  It’s always better when we’re together >
  
  Being a heartless pos apparently doesn’t hurt you much with that crowd either >
  
  I guess the party of Christians missed the whole message of Jesus being born in a manger and that whole "You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt" bit. Abbott is a terrible human being >
  
  Christianity has precious little to do with Christ. Imagine a dark-skinned, long-haired, sandal-wearing socialist wandering into an American megachurch. I’m sure the reception would be warm. >
  
  If the biblical Jesus really did walk into one of those churches he would do some badass shit in there. >
  
  ... arrested for causing a public disturbance and misdemeanor assault.  Further investigation launched into suspicion of trafficking, and distribution of food to homeless people against city bylaws. >
  
  He was killed for the first bit. >
  
  There's a real irony around Evangelical Christians in the US: eagerly awaiting the second coming of Christ, while being the exact kind of people who had him crucified the first time round. >
  
  I mean, it kinda fits the whole bit about false prophets leading people astray and all that. >
  
  It was also 6 degrees here last night at low. Will be 8 tonight and hasn’t been above freezing in days because of this polar vortex. Luckily a church is apparently offering them shelter so they don’t fucking freeze to death in single digit temps >
  
  Throw attempted manslaughter onto the list of crimes. One count for each immigrant. They weren't given coats, doesn't take a genius to figure out they could have died in that cold. >
  
  
  they could have died in that cold
  
  Knowing the track record of Republican politicians in Texas, that was probably the goal. >
  
  Legit make this topic a hallmark Christmas movie. Actually change more hearts in middle and rural America faster than CNN will ever be able to. >
  
  They’ll call it woke propaganda and start a hashtag about how much they hate it >
  
  True. Reminds me of when the movie Knives Out came out, and I was seeing lots of reviews calling it woke propoganda because the illegal immigrant is the main character, and the movie ends with >! her getting custody of the mansion from all the rich white characters that trivialized and looked down on her and illegal immigrants the whole movie. The last shot of the movie is literally her on the balcony looking down at the angry white characters while sipping a mug that said “my house, my rules, my coffee” !< >
  
  And here I was just enjoying it as a fun "whodunnit." Silly me. >
  
  How dare you not get offended by fiction >
  
  
  "Being a heartless POS isn't going to make you the next Republican president."
  
  Why not? It worked for the last guy. >
  
  Abbot is trash. The GOP has no immigration plan and never had and never will.  Under Trump,  both the house and Senate were Republican and could have passed any law they wanted.  What did they do? Tax breaks for the rich >
  
  It still is mostly manufactured. The actual amount of "burden" it puts on the system is greatly exaggerated by Republicans. 
  Here is Texas population growth rate which in includes immigration, emigration, births, and deaths:
  2018: +1.18% 2019: +1.27% 2020: + 0.80% 2021: +1.06%
  Texas is the 5th fastest growing state in the US.
  This is manageable growth, hell it's a healthy growth! But the political theater to engage voters and donations will never paint it as just regular growth. >
  
  States like Texas and Florida also have tons of open jobs in spaces like hospitality and agriculture. 
  Florida is struggling like hell to hire enough staff at hotels and restaurants but they also close their borders. 
  Hmmmm >
  
  "That brown skinned immigrant Jew wants us to give free healthcare, is telling us to feed the hungry, and opposes the wealthy! Get him!!!" >
  
  ".. hippy Jew with space lasers...." >
  
  If Jews had space lasers, wouldn't they have already used them more than once? It's just like flat earth conspiracy crap, if you can talk about it without repercussions haven't you just proven it isn't real? >
  
  I saw a documentary once about an archaeologist who had to save one of the lasers from the Nazis. I have it on good authority it was then studied by top men, it was probably them who sent it to space. >
  
  Documentary name? Archaeologist name? Any perpetrator names? Written records of anything, including the expungement of records of the event, or at least a specific date?
  (If this is sarcasm, which it probably is, mb) >
  
  He had to do something to get peoples mind off the fact that the electricity is out.
  This is what happens when you don’t prosecute Florida for human trafficking. >
  
  “Being a heartless POS isn’t going to make you the next Republican president”. 
  Um. Yes, it will. >
  
  Maybe someone, but not him.  The base won’t vote for him because he’s handicapped >
  
  I could imagine the Republican primaries and everyone dunking on him because he "doesn't have legs to kick ass" >
  
  Yeah he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.