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  What a fun continuing tradition for them!
context: To all people who reelected this asshole: fuck you. >
  
  Of course he gets reelected. He's spending public money to make a political statement that his constituency agrees with. It's populism devoid of ideology, and that's the hallmark of today's Republican party. >
  
  He's spending public money to hurt people.  He's an asshole.  A gold plated asshole. >
  
  It was 15 degrees outside. You would think a man in a wheelchair who claims to be pro life would have at least a shred of empathy >
  
  Just like the story of Jesus from the Bible. >
  
  Come to me, all who are weary. 
  Except you. And you. Or you. >
  
  
  Come to me, all who are white and weary. - White, Republican Jesus >
  
  What precisely do they do for the "white and weary" except give speeches of hate to them? No electricity, no government help, no good government at all. That's the Republican goal these days. >
  
  They give them dopamine hits from "hurting the right people" to distract them from their existential resentment at their own mediocre lives. >
  
  
  Three busloads of migrants were dropped off outside the Washington DC home of US vice-president Kamala Harris late on Christmas Eve, the latest episode in an escalating battle between the Joe Biden White House and the governors of southern Republican states over federal immigration policy.
  The Central and South American migrants, believed to be sent from Texas, were dropped off in below-freezing temperatures, with some wearing only sweatshirts and shorts.
  Texas’s far-right governor, Greg Abbott, has previously sent buses to Harris’s Naval Observatory home. An organizer with the Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid Network, Amy Fischer, told local news station ABC7 that Abbott orchestrated the drop off as a political stunt.
  “It really does show the cruelty behind governor Abbott and his insistence on continuing to bus people here without care about people arriving late at night on Christmas Eve when the weather is so cold,” Fischer said.
  The group took the travelers to the shelter of a local church where they were given warm food and clothes.
  Tatiana Laborde with Samu First Response, an aid group that was also there to meet the buses, said that similar drops had been made in Washington since April. “Christmas Eve and freezing cold weather is no different,” Laborde told CNN. “We are always here welcoming folks with open arms.”
  The arrivals were the latest salvo in an effort by Abbott to force the Biden administration to step up immigration controls at the US border with Mexico. Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis and Arizona’s governor Doug Ducey have also transported migrants to cities that are run by Democrats.
  “You and your administration must stop the lie that the border is secure and instead immediately deploy federal assets to address the dire problems you have caused,” Abbott wrote in a letter to Biden last week.
  Abbott added: “You must execute the duties that the US constitution mandates you perform and secure the southern border before more innocent lives are lost.”  
  
  "More innocent lives are lost." While sending people in the cold as stunts for racists to feel superior. >
  
  How did Joe cause the "border crisis"? >
  
  No policy change so far since the Orange Butthole administration, but magas can be ordered to believe Biden began it. At least now, they're not kidnapping children any more. >
  
  The Biden administration has been working tirelessly to reunite families who were separated under orange Julius Caesar’s administration when they didn’t even bother to take records of where they sent people or the names of the family members. >
  
  Now now, don’t lump Julius Caesar in with that atrocity. Julius Caesar was at least competent. >
  
  Not only that but the missus didn’t slog around the slave pens wearing a jacket with the words “I don’t care, do you?” on it! >
  
  "Et tu, Brute?" >
  
  Not me! >
  
  And keep in mind that these are not illegals. They are lawfully seeking asylum. So whatever idiotic political message they are trying to send about border security is totally irrelevant to these people's situation. It's like turning on the burner on your stove and then bellowing about how your apartment building has terrible fire-safety measures. >
  
  And if it's like prior ones, they are states away from the courts they need to report to to follow the instructions they were given to follow legal immigration. >
  
  In case you didn’t know- those instructions were bullshit. ICE? deliberately reported false addresses for the asylum seekers so that they wouldn’t be able to attend their court cases. >
  
  So double fucked.  We have an immigration problem.  It's called ICE. >
  
  I don’t know which agency was responsible for the false addresses on the asylum reports. >
  
  "I hate Jesus and his teachings. I use the Bible for votes exclusively."
  -Grogg Abot >
  
  This stunt, in addition to being probably criminal and heavily immoral, doesn't even do what its adherents want it to.
  Kamala Harris and Joe Biden probably don't even see most of the people dropped off near their address, let alone "need to deal with them". Human services (and groups of concerned citizens) deal with this stuff. It's totally ineffectual even taking the absurd viewpoint of what they want to come out of it.
  This is what Greg Abbott considers important on Christmas Eve, though. Trying to score points on "hypocrites", ignoring that the organizations who have tried to help these bused migrants have done more Christian deeds than he's done in his entire life. >
  
  This is straight sit by your fire making Mr. Burns fingers evil. >
  
  Even Mr. Burns would be like "Smithers, these assholes have gone too far." >
  
  He is desperately trying to take the spot light off the grid failure, in the traditional Republican fashion of abusing vulnerable people. At least they delivered them to folks that will actually take care of them. >
  
  It wasn’t much of a grid failure this time. Only .2% of texans lost power. >
  
  But you can bet the price of the electricity skyrocked because of "unforseen power generation requirements ". >
  
  yup. 400% increase from what i heard >
  
  GOP's message to the people on Christmas:  "~~Sorry!~~  Inn is full! Fuck off!"
  Edit:  They don't actually say they're "sorry" for their vile behavior. >
  
  Sprinkle in a little “thoughts and prayers” though I’m sure. >
  
  And this isn’t human trafficking because? >
  
  They're Republicans. >
  
  Greg Abbott's Christian values shine through. >
  
  This reminds me of how even the Nazi's called a cease fire during Christmas.  That haunted puppet from Texas is a unique kind of evil.  Texa-belle.
  Edit, it was ww1 where the soldiers called a Christmas Truce.
  Though I was wrong, abbot is still spooky. >
  
  Was ww1 if I wasn't mistaken. >
  
  “What shall I put you down for?”
  “Nothing!” Scrooge replied.
  “You wish to be anonymous?”
  “I wish to be left alone,” said Scrooge. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.”
  “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”
  “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
  —A Christmas Carol >
  
  The cruelty of Republicans has no limits. Mistreating desperate people for political theater just to own the libs. Way to mess with real people's lives. I'm sure Jesus would have done the same. >
  
  Greg Abbot is trafficking humans for political reasons. That's the headline. >
  
  Well, nothing was done when they did this before, so what makes you think they wouldn’t just do it again? People only stop doing things if there are consequences >
  
  More proof that Abbott is the worst kind of Christian...   A Conservative American Christian >
  
  Democrats could bus dozens of Covid patients to Abbots home, but we don’t use human beings as props. >
  
  Typical Republican "governing"... pushing things off on everyone else. At this point, the feds should start charging back whatever money it takes to clean up their mess. >
  
  Democrats love to spend your taxes to subsidize Latin America >
  
  Abbott is such a POS. Someone should drop a tree on him >
  
  Using the most sacred Christian holiday, the birth of Jesus, to perpetuate cruelty onto others. How Christ like of them... >
  
  They need to nip this in the bud and drop felony kidnapping charges.  This is not a “political stunt” it is a crime to transport someone under false pretenses.  Just because these are migrants and not US citizens doesn’t mean they don’t have legal protection. >
  
  Jesus was a liberal. >
  
  Texas power grid goes out again- Abbot immediately begins thinking of a distraction >
  
  Sorry to hear you lost power. Here's a fine distraction for you to enjoy. >
  
  The cruelty of this Republican Party will never end and the reason this Republican Party must be eliminated. >
  
  Let’s eliminate the Democrats - as someone from California, I invite you to come and visit so that you can seen the dystopia created by Democrats. Certain parts of San Francisco and Oakland look like a third-world country. >
  
  Republicans only take care of the rich and probably the reason states are in the mess they are in. Republicans obstruct any aid or assistance for those who really need it. So a democrat is what I will be until the day I die. >
  
  It's just like baby Jesus and his family going from inn to inn looking for a place to stay! Texas is just like all the innkeepers that turned them away and told them to pound sand! It's just like a bible story!
  ...oh wait, we're supposed to be like the OTHER people in that Bible story? The people that care and help others on a cold night? Oooohhh. Well that changes things. >
  
  Many Christians act like the Pharisees and Romans are the heroes. 
  To add: so many that idolize joining the legion or stockpiling mountains of coin at the expense of others to gloat over the unlucky ones is how I make this observation. >
  
  Republicans are disgusting. Shameful. >
  
  What a low brow MAGA thing to do. Shameless Christians. >
  
  Pretty wide net you cast
  Not all Christians think this is right >
  
  Still not posted on /r/conservative. I wonder if this is at last indefensible for them. >
  
  It's at the top rn but it's r/conservative so God forbid anyone can actually read what they're saying, that's for "flaired users only" 
  What a pathetic fucking joke >
  
  I will say that a few of the top upvoted comments were from users who saw this as abhorrent.
  The rest? The rest was typical bullshit about how "there are actions to your consequences" (they're talking about the immigrants who were dropped off in the cold not Biden or Harris) or "If she [Harris] won't come to the border, we'll bring the border to her" comments.
  Edit: for instance this comment was downvoted, but given gold:
  "Well, if she won’t go to the border, it’s only fitting we bring the border to her. 
  Merry Christmas, beyotch." >
  
  My favourite are the ones saying she’s never been to the border to find the root cause, so they’re bringing the border to her.
  Do they think she’s going to go down there with a magnifying glass and a tweed hat and start looking for clues? Do they think the root cause is AT the border? 
  It’s amazing how much value these people place on performative acts. The act is unconscionable, but Abbot is definitely playing at a level his base can engage at. >
  
  I bet they are warmer than if they were still in Texas with the states busted ass broke down power grid.