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  Yes it will.
  For the record, conservatives utilize vertical morality in their decision making process. They literally think "Am I better than this group? If yes then they deserve poor treatment, if no, they deserve good things."
  Yes, it is as easy as convincing someone they are better than others to make them a Republican.
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. >
  
  Double ouch! >
  
  “So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, but King Herod wanted to own the libs, so he put Mary and Joseph on a bus and dropped them off at Kamala Harris’ house.” Luke 2:4-7 (MAGA Translation) >
  
  The seeds of fascism have spread so much. I’ve recently lost a cousin who was the smartest man I swear. He could tell you about anything, he read so much. He’s a good man too. He was, but now he talks to me and tries to make fascism seem…idk logical. It’s terrifying. I know a lot of coal mine canary’s have been wrung, but this one felt so dangerous to me >
  
  I'm sorry for your loss.
  The smart ones are the dumbest.  They wake up one day and decide that both sides are the same, everyone lies, and they are the only people who can discern truth from fiction.  When you no longer trust scientists, journalists, doctors, professors, etc., you get to just make shit up.  That's why it sounds "logical" -- it just can't withstand any external scrutiny. >
  
  
  Being a heartless POS isn't going to make you the next Republican president
  
  Actually, yeah: it might. It appears to be the only RNC candidates' requirement. >
  
  Yeah, being heartless probably wouldn't hurt his chances with the RNC. Being in a wheelchair might though. >
  
  The racism is the point. >
  
  Cruelty is the point, Racism is the reason. >
  
  Fascism is the point. Cruelty is the method. Racism is the belief. >
  
  The gospel truth. >
  
  Actually that's exactly what it takes to be the next republican president! >
  
  That group is not going to vote for a man in a wheelchair to be president, no matter how often he surrounds himself with CBP/National Guard/LEOs and their vehicles and equipment at every PR opportunity. >
  
  1000% this. And Cruz has already crapped out of a few primaries himself in part because he’s not at all a real Texan and he can’t do a good impression like W did. >
  
  Heir abhorrent >
  
  Heartless POS describes most Republicans. >
  
  Your Jesus was born in a manger because nobody would give Joseph and Mary a place to stay. And yet here these cowardly conservatives are, doing the most anti-Christian thing imaginable by taking people looking for a place to stay and sending them out into the cold. On Christmas. The people behind this are twisted, pathetic hypocrites. >
  
  He’s trying to distract us from the fact that the power is out in Texas again. Apparently they did nothing since last year to prevent the same thing happening again. >
  
  I always think of human shields in conflicts like the War in Iraq. Greb Abbott is using these poor people as fodder for his ideological campaigns. Literally just warm bodies used like SWATting or bogus pizza orders. This is no less dehumanizing than how the Nazis convinced German citizens though their radio broadcasts and propaganda leaflets, then Kristallnacht, pogroms, and the "final solution," that Jews somehow were not real people,  not souls worth caring about. >
  
  Well, in all fairness, they wouldn't be warm bodies for very long with the temperatures where they're at. Still kind of fucked up to do this though. Doesn't Abbott have anything better to do on Christmas Eve, like change his colostomy bag or something? >
  
  
  "Being a heartless POS isn't going to make you the next Republican president."
  
  Apparently he hasnt been paying attention to the Republican party or its voters these days. >
  
  He’ll never be the GOP nominee.  They love that he’s hateful to migrants, but we all know they’d never vote for a handicapped guy if they have other choices >
  
  True he's not just weak, but to them he looks weak. >
  
  Shouldn’t he be more worried about the failed grid? >
  
  why would he? the apathetic morons who constitute his voting base and those who can't be bothered to vote apparently don't care about a little frostbite. I mean they did reelect him after it happened the first time. >
  
  That’s kinda the crazy part. Grid failure, Uvalde; spend the money on money on helping to solve those issues instead of sending migrants in shorts and T-shirts up north. >
  
  Just to remind you "Migrant" does not mean illegal immigrant, and even then, illegal immigrant doesn’t mean you can treat someone like a fucking traffickable "thing" >
  
  The people who voted for him will put up with almost freezing to death to combat a manufactured issue designed to keep the same asshole in power.  Go Texas:( >
  
  Can we arrest these assholes? How is that legal? >
  
  Mother of god. How can you do this to poor families on Christmas?! >
  
  Seems like the powerful are never held accountable. Him and the Florida turd need to be charged. >
  
  He won an election - he could murder someone wearing the wrong team colors and those "real Christians" wouldn't give two fucks. >
  
  
  [person] blasted for [action]
  
  I fucking hate these headlines. >
  
  Me too. Absolute hyperbole. “Slammed for” or “slammed by” are also popular, and just as idiotic. >
  
  What is the problem?
  He is just bussing some disaffected people to a state with a functioning power grid during the coldest month of the year. /s
  The VP should hold a presser saying that Abbot doing this indicates he needs federal help managing a humanitarian crisis, and offer to have the fed step in to support their backwards power infrastructure to keep people warm in the winter so they don't need to bus them to more functional states. >
  
  This is vile and despicable but its not like anything will stop them, nobody is going to hold them accountable. Dropping these poor people off in front of Kamala's residence is a blatant shot across the bow and it needs to be answered. >
  
  Abbott and desantis are in a race to see who can be the bigger piece of shit and their christian base love them for it. >
  
  Actually being a POS is exactly how you become a Republican President.
  Totally ashamed as a native Texan.  What a horrific human being. >
  
  Totally ashamed native Texan here as well. Disgusting behavior. >
  
  Abbott knows that the only Christian treatment they'd get, would be from a Democrat. Good thing Republicans are slowly coming to terms with the fact that they are the polar opposite of real christians. >
  
  Stupid tactic, Abbott is showing himself as perhaps even less adept at politics than Trump was. >
  
  Yeah, doesn't he realize he's supposed to keep promising or threatening to do it but have absolutely poor follow-through so he can keep edging supporters? >
  
  Exactly!!.. lay on thick, then stand back out of the way. >
  
  If you actually do it, they'll want something new next time. Doing it again will get more and more boring.
  If you only dangle the carrot, they won't get tired of the carrot and start asking for ranch or some dumb analogy like that. >
  
  Being a heartless POS isn't a prerequisite to be president. It is, however, a prerequisite to being the republican nominee. You need four things to be guaranteed the republican nomination. 
  
  
  You need to be the biggest bastard to the "out" groups. That includes gay people, homeless people, women, poor people, children, democrats, etc. That means taking stances meant to hurt people.
  
  
  You need to be the biggest moron in the room that sounds intelligent enough. That means you need to talk fast so that other morons don't notice you are spewing incoherent garbage. Stupid people will be none the wiser and think that you speak for them.
  
  
  Your political history doesn't matter. All you need to do is spew republican talking points without any actual plan to implement them.
  
  
  You need to give off a strong man impression to morons, while simultaneously be the poor oppressed republican victim. That means non-stop complaining about press, election officials, voting machines, courts, voters, and pretty much everything else. >
  
  Spot on. To number 1 I would add: while being sanctimonious about being "a person of God". >
  
  Proving, again, that there's too much religious domestic terrorism in the churches that the despicable fuck goes to and not enough compassion and humanity. >
  
  "Being a heartless POS isn't going to make you the next Republican president."
  won't it though?  years of republican behavior tells me otherwise. i'm exhausted of 6 years of trying to convince myself these are decent people. and i've just about had it. >
  
  I wish his voters would be a little more outraged about how immigrants get more of his attention and resources than their infrastructure.
  Also it's weird how their answer to their presence is shipping them further inland. >
  
  Being a dumb POS is what they vote for. >
  
  To be fair, being a heartless POS is the main quality the GOP looks for in candidates. >
  
  Awwww. So Christ-like. And just in time for Christmas. Was it Exodus where it said “lo, ye should ship all foreigners out of state in the cold and use them as political props to rile up ye dumbass base and own ye enemies?”
  Can’t remember. No maybe it said  “Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.” Yeah that’s it. Guess they skip over the Old Testament parts they don’t like down there go figure. >
  
  Hey no one gives a shit if he “got blasted”. Unless charges are going im tired of believing that pol who do bad things get punished. >
  
  It’s ironic why right wing “Christians” vote for these monsters who do the most inhumane things. >
  
  It’s just sickening to think that not just Abbott but multiple people who were aware of this plan, thought it was a great idea, and took time out of their Christmas Eve to execute it. >
  
  Non American here, isn't this essentially kidnapping? Shouldn't he be behind bars by now? >
  
  Fixed the headline: Human trafficker Greg Abbot gets a slightly mean comment instead of an indictment. >
  
  What is the phrase these "save Christmas" types chant?
  "Peace on earth,
  Good will toward men"? >
  
  His state is freezing because their shitty power grid went down again and he's flying immigrants across the country to score political points. What a guy. >
  
  Man, SLAMMED and BLASTED in one week. Shits tough for Abbott this xmas. >
  
  For someone in a wheel chair and the the accompanying adversities - you’d think he would be kinder. What a cruel human. Literally using other humans ‘to send a message’ What a manchild. Imagine what he must be like when someone privately disagrees with him! >
  
  This is human trafficking. >
  
  Guys… This is fucking atrocious.  Please vote these twats out when you get a chance.
  Sincerely, the rest of the world 👍
  EDIT: For the republicans, “atrocious” means “bad”. >
  
  Lol. Thanks for dumbing it down for them. >
  
  Someone’s gotta do it.  Although most of them don’t have electricity at the moment.  And i’m sure they’re freezing their asses off thinking that all of the magic sparky stuff is being held in Hunter’s laptop or some mad shit. >
  
  It's true! People are saying Hunters Laptop became sentient after Hillary Clinton and George Soros sacrificed a Christian baby to a Drag Queen then it finally had the power to hack into the Texas power grid just to make Donald Trump look like he has small hands and and lost the election so the Libs could take their guns, burn their bibles and make their kids gay. Even a moron could see that. >
  
  This stuff blows my mind. Antics like this is how you lose independent voters. The Republican Party just comes off as clowns and unprofessionals using innocents for performance. 
  The midterms made it clear that they’re losing a key portion of the younger population. I don’t see how strategically they can afford to do this shit and expect to win elections. The highly radical trump portion of the population is very clearly not the majority. All this does is pump up turnout against their party. 
  I would be really curious to hear what the RNC leadership is thinking. >
  
  The only thing more useless than Greg Abott are his legs. >
  
  How about fixing the dumb ass Texas grid Greg? >
  
  I watched “The Indian in the Cupboard” with my kid yesterday. Had a great moral. “They’re people, don’t use people!”