Quo Vadis GOP?

[The Larch]

Tim Pool wins edgiest.

It's the beanie, right? So edgy.

[Admiral Yi]

It's the beanie, right? So edgy.

It's a watch cap, which is pretty edgy.  Jack Nicholson killed the watch cap in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Last Detail.  And his only competition is Matt Walsh's neck beard.

[The Larch]

It's the beanie, right? So edgy.

It's a watch cap, which is pretty edgy.  Jack Nicholson killed the watch cap in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Last Detail.  And his only competition is Matt Walsh's neck beard.

Aren't they basically the same thing? A beanie and a watch cap, I mean.

[grumbler]

It's the beanie, right? So edgy.

It's a watch cap, which is pretty edgy.  Jack Nicholson killed the watch cap in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Last Detail.  And his only competition is Matt Walsh's neck beard.

Aren't they basically the same thing? A beanie and a watch cap, I mean.

I think that generally a watch cap is considered a type of beanie but fits more closely to the top of the skull than other types like ski caps.  Lots of other beanie types don't have the folded rim like a watch cap or ski cap.

So, yeah, basically the same thing but not always termed that way.

[Razgovory]

Jack Posobiec is a Nazi.

[The Larch]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends two busloads of immigrants to the DC residence of VP Kamala Harris on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record.

The Republicans insist on shamelessly and cruelly using vulnerable people as political weapons. At least DeSantis sent them by plane rather than by bus.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends two busloads of immigrants to the DC residence of VP Kamala Harris on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record.

The Republicans insist on shamelessly and cruelly using vulnerable people as political weapons. At least DeSantis sent them by plane rather than by bus.

more details on this outrageous behaviour :

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/25/kamala-harris-migrant-buses-christmas-eve-texas

I'm surprised this is even legal; but perhaps it isn't; Republicans don't seem to put much store in obeying the law of the land.

[mongers]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends two busloads of immigrants to the DC residence of VP Kamala Harris on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record.

The Republicans insist on shamelessly and cruelly using vulnerable people as political weapons. At least DeSantis sent them by plane rather than by bus.

more details on this outrageous behaviour :

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/25/kamala-harris-migrant-buses-christmas-eve-texas

I'm surprised this is even legal; but perhaps it isn't; Republicans don't seem to put much store in obeying the law of the land.

Shameful.

[The Minsky Moment]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott sends two busloads of immigrants to the DC residence of VP Kamala Harris on Christmas Eve - one of the coldest nights on record.

The Republicans insist on shamelessly and cruelly using vulnerable people as political weapons. At least DeSantis sent them by plane rather than by bus.

This is apparently what passes for being a good "Christian" in today's America.

[Admiral Yi]

Have the migrants been coerced or tricked into going?  I've heard about investigations into that issue but not a lot about the results.

I called this stunt clever political theater before, in part because any Democratic counter-narrative is difficult to sustain. 

If De Santos and friends are imposing a burden on the destination states, then that's a burden the arrival states were already bearing.

If the migrants went up voluntarily, then they can't be cast as the victims.

[The Minsky Moment]

I called this stunt clever political theater before, in part because any Democratic counter-narrative is difficult to sustain. 

if that is so, it says awful things about our national character.

[Admiral Yi]

if that is so, it says awful things about our national character.

You chopped out the part where I explained why it doesn't say awful things about our national character.  That's not like you.

[Jacob]

It's still shitty to send them to someone's house, independently of whether they want to go.

[grumbler]

There are mechanisms for moving refugees from the arrival states to states that have prepared to take them.  Such mechanisms don't serve De Santis's political objective, though, so he bypasses them to create political theater at the expense of the refugees.  There is certainly benefits to De Santis to doing this, as one of our posters here thinks that it is admirable because "clever."  It certainly does not benefit the refugees, who are just doing what they are told and then being dumped somewhere that is not prepared to receive them.

[grumbler]

if that is so, it says awful things about our national character.

You chopped out the part where I explained why it doesn't say awful things about our national character.  That's not like you.

You explained nothing, you just stated something for which there is no evidence.