A Texas sheriff will investigate DeSantis' flight of migrants to Martha's Vineyard

And this will certainly go somewhere!

I don't expect DeSantis will have to reckon with any real consequences; I doubt he saw all this backlash coming, though. I don't think he'll reap the benefits he was expecting from his stunt.

R2, there's supposedly another flight scheduled to take more migrants from Texas to Florida to Biden's house on the same plane. Someone posted about the flight plan in another thread.

I hope he gets charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, illegally moving minors across state lines, and on and on.

Nothing ever happens to Him.

good. Texans investigating Floridians.

a fake brochure promising eight months cash assistance, food, job training/placement, help with housing + more was given to migrants who were lured by @GovRonDeSantis into boarding a flight to martha’s vineyard.

Currently, both of the top two 2024 Republican frontrunners are under criminal investigation.

So much for the party of law and order.

Last Wednesday, two planes landed in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and dropped off about 50 migrants from Venezuela. DeSantis quickly took credit. The migrants were used as political pawns in the hopes of provoking a negative reaction from a liberal community.

"When people are brought to their front door, they go berserk," DeSantis said.

"Their virtue signaling is a fraud." But the people in Martha's Vineyard did not go berserk. Instead, they rallied together to provide shelter, food, clothing, and other necessities for the group.

On Friday, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) facilitated their voluntary relocation to Joint Base Cape Cod, which is "a safe temporary accommodation appropriate for the specific needs of families and individuals."

BREAKING: Florida's Voice has confirmed with Ron DeSantis' office the below brochure was given to migrants who were voluntarily flown to Martha's Vineyard

The brochure contains information directly from the Massachusetts government website

If DeSantis runs in '24, a good campaign will be....Kidnapper, human trafficker in chief. I hope this really bites him in the ass.

Boston immigration attorney Rachel Self explains all we need to know about the lawful asylum seekers that DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard.

DHS officials gave them falsified U.S. addresses, likely ensuring that they’d be deemed in our country illegally.

Words cannot express how much I hate this man.

This (gubernatorial) election can't come soon enough for me... OTOH, he'll probably win, and then I'll have to jump off a bridge.

A woman named "Perla" was the person who enticed Venezuelan asylum seekers onto a plane in San Antonio, using brochures that falsely promised assistance at their destination. This "Perla" was described as a white woman with blonde hair.

This is Christina Pushaw, DeSantis minion

So far Arizona has spent $4m on migrant buses to DC.

Texas has spent $12m.

Florida appropriated $12m.

If this is really about “sharing the burden” of cost of absorbing migrants — wasting money on pranks is a strange way to demonstrate state fiscal duress.

[quote] This (gubernatorial) election can't come soon enough for me... OTOH, he'll probably win, and then I'll have to jump off a bridge.

I hear ya.

But I’m clinging to hope.

So the person who lured them onto the planes was also a Venezuelan migrant? She was tricked into this too, I'm guessing. It's so vile. I can't believe anyone could do this and live with themselves. Actually, whoever did it probably enjoyed it and has been tickled pink by the results.

Jesus god r13, what is wrong with that woman's face?

Twitter describes the expression as a 1000 ft maga stare,r17

someone who is a republican and has a lot of money is hiring people to talk people into coming to the border. in these awful countries I don't think things are any worse than they have ever been in these countries yet they are flooding this country. they need to stop those people in order to try and get some of this under control. It started with Trump when he accused all the immigrants of awful things and how they were going to be coming here nonstop. Then lo and behold we all of a sudden had a crisis with so many people trying to get in. It slowed down and then Biden was elected and again they are flooding in. This is no coincidence.

I have never hated anyone before but these men and women with money who can never have enough make me sick along with about 90% of our elected republican politicians along with 30% of registered Republicans. I am no longer sure I will live long enough to see this get all straightened out. For money and power they do not care who or what they destroy.

These weren't people crossing the border, these were Venezuelans who were being processed as LEGAL immigrants who were applying for asylum status.

Someone changed their addresses and information in the government system, per an immigration lawyer working with them, trying to hide the fact that they were asylum seekers.

If you find this disgusting and live in Florida (you have my sympathies), go vote for Charlie Crist. And if you aren't registered, REGISTER NOW!

R20. maga doesn't "do" facts

I live in PA not FL and we are fighting our own battles with Mastriano and OZ. I will be voting against both of them.

I wasn't just talking about the current Venezuelans. I am talking about all that has happened since Trump.

I hate to be Debbie Downer, but fatso Ron or Hot Wheels Abbott won't be punished. It's like when Chris Christie ordered that bridge to Jersey shut down--they know how to say/do things like a mob boss and not be explicit about it. Just like their leader Trump does. Maybe a few lower level flunkies will be prosecuted, like happened with Bridgegate. The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise.

Team - These are the barbarians taking money to fly @GovRonDeSantis illegal asylum seeker flights.

@flyUltimateAir

You know what to do. Let's make sure their customers know the type of business people they are using for their charters.

Sorry to be superficial, but is the woman at r13 really this “Perla” person? And more importantly, why does her face look like the human embodiment of Big Bird?

"Here’s the thing about @RonDeSantisFL : He’s not ready for prime time. They’ve kept him protected in a safe cocoon taking softballs from the likes of Hannity. He’s easily offended. He’s easily angered. He reacts horribly when challenged. And he has a glass jaw."

Same thing here in PA with Doug Mastriano. He already has bodyguards around him to prevent him from someone who doesn't think he's fucking god.

These "Il Douche" wannabes really are delicate little pussies whose outsized egos must be stroked constantly.

Repeating "nothing ever happens to them" over and over again is sexually gratifying for maga.

Biden moves migrants to Florida. DeSantis moves them to MA. How is there any difference?

Facts are irrelevant to maga. Only thing their rancid belief system is relevant.

The San Antonio sheriff is launching a criminal probe into DeSantis’s kidnapping operation:

Did President Biden have brochures printed up to lure asylum seekers aboard an airplane for assistance that wouldn't be waiting for them?

If so, provide a link to a credible source.

Facts don't matter. Blacks don't matter. Only my feelings matter.

R16.

Not too difficult to find a diseased prostitute to stand in front of desperate people and lie to them.

R13 wtf is that?

Facts are slowly trickling in.

A white female with blond hair lured asylum seekers to board the plane with assurances help would be waiting for them.

It hasn't been confirmed if Pushpaw is that person.

What the hell kind of name is Pushpaw?

Not confirmed yet.

Fact= asylum seekers were lured aboard a plane by a white female with blond hair.

Not confirmed Christina Pushaw is the person

I got kicked off Twitter for posting this cartoon to Christina Pushaw's page. She's a con and many believe a Russian asset

"Pushaw" is supposedly a bastardized variant of the French name Pochard, which was already a variant of Bouchard.

Last night on Fox News, @RonDeSantisFL said that he hired a "vendor" to lure migrants onto charter planes in Texas.

What vendor did DeSantis hire and how much was the vendor paid?

The offer must've been tremendous for Pushpaw to manage to lure anyone despite the ongoing situation on her face.

DeSantis defends Christina Pushaw after report of her registering as foreign agent

Pushaw, DeSantis’ press secretary, worked for the former president of the country of Georgia from 2018-2020.

Lock him up

Facts. Don't. Matter.

As I noted last night, a lynching posse came for sheriff within minutes of his press conference.

Criticism will not be tolerated!

Goddamn, it's Russians all the way down.

[quote]The Lincoln Project@ProjectLincoln - Currently, both of the top two 2024 Republican frontrunners are under criminal investigation.

The Manatee and DeWannabe

It appears that Ron DeSantis is having trouble rounding up more victims in his latest kidnapping spree. Word has spread that his maps and brochures are all lies. The candyman got caught.

Doesn't matter, R49. We're talking about a self-styled Mussolini/Mafioso wannabe Republican. He'll herd them up at gun point and force them on the plane, and no one will say a fucking word about it and the MAGAts will cum all over themselves just thinking about it.

R49:

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday defended his press secretary, Christina Pushaw, after The Washington Post reported that Pushaw this week registered as a foreign agent because of previous work for the former president of the country of Georgia.

The Post report said Pushaw “belatedly” registered as a foreign agent of Mikheil Saakashvili after working for Saakashvili from 2018 to 2020.

The Post quoted Pushaw’s attorney as saying that the U.S. Department of Justice had contacted Pushaw to inform her of a requirement to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Democrats, including Florida gubernatorial candidates Nikki Fried and Charlie Crist, quickly criticized DeSantis and Pushaw.

But asked about the Post story, DeSantis described it as a “smear” against Pushaw.

“I am not deterred by any smear piece from these legacy media outlets. The only reason they’re attacking her is because she does a great job, and she’s very effective at calling out their lies and their phony narratives. And so, whenever they’re smearing somebody, you know that person is over the target, and so they’re scared of that. I would be much more concerned with my press secretary if The Washington Post was writing puff pieces about her,” DeSantis said.

VICTORY! The @GovRonDeSantis illegal express canceled the flight from San Antonio to Delaware today! The tucked their tails & fled!

Lord, I just can't. I can't believe this is where we are politically and it all feels so toxic and maybe the cruelty is the point. Jesus.

He was just on CNN sayin they should be allowed in and given jobs.

So, maga is gonna make America great again by handing over the keys to Russia? Is that how this works?

Republicans love to work for the Russians.

The former head of the NY FBI office's Intelligence department, Charles McGonigle, went to work for Oleg Deripaska and "belatedly registered" as a foreign agent, too, and now he's under investigation for working for the Russians while STILL IN the FBI.

[quote]the ongoing situation on her face

Very polite.

R51 ≠ R53

These people are working to undermine the standard of living in America and free elections.

Although the state budget provision DeSantis is using to transport these folks required them to be in Florida, DeSantis is now skipping that step altogether. Last week he brought them to Florida from Texas.

Today's flight was scheduled to stop in Crestview, Florida but he changed plans.

Now, spooked by presence at Crestview, FL airport, the flight is skipping Florida altogether heading to Delaware from Texas through Tennessee.

Twitter is a place where accounts try to be first in relaying information, this leads to redundancies and inaccuracies.

This account is a blue check who is connecting the dots about the scheme with accuracy.

The funny and nerdy/hot Seth Meyers explains it all for you.

@GovAbbottand @GovRonDeSantis are colluding to traffic human beings. Isn't that RICO?

But today, the people and decent elected officials stood up to both of these monsters.

Their plane turned tail and ran scared back to NJ.

Looking forward to @sheriffsalazar's investigation.

The October Surprise is bound to be a doozy this year!

Stock up on your celebratory champagne, folks. There'll be a run on the wine and liquor stores once the Feds, et al start indicting these bastards.

Just want to be able to cast my vote and have that vote counted without violence or trouble. Maga does not like this. Maga does not like majority rule. Maga does not like free and fair elections. Maga = I hate the United States

Make America Great Again? Hire Russian agents?

Back the blue? Assault and kill fellow cops?

[quote] At the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration was aware of reports that a plane was heading to Delaware and that it had been in "close contact" with Delaware officials. The White House has not been in touch with DeSantis or his administration, she said.

[quote] “Our heads up did not come from Gov. DeSantis because his only goal, as he's made it really quite clear, is to create chaos and using immigrants fleeing communism as political pawns,” Jean-Pierre said. “So it's about creating political theater for him. It's not about getting to a solution.”

Jean Pierre is a light weight.

Thanks for the link, r69

This is what I've been thinking.

DeSantis is a bully and, at heart, really weak (and short and fat, but I digress). Casler goes on:

[quote] I use to say DeSantis was Trump with self-discipline but he's become sloppy & cocky and isn't as smart as he think he is, my advice is to relentlessly investigate this stunt. He's sweating under the sh*tty suit.

I've said before that I think he's on a leash held by mainline GOP who stoke the cascade of a firebrand because that is what is getting their agenda passed (at the moment). But those people working in the dark don't have to answer to anyone. As much as they SHOULD care about electoral success, they are more hedonistic and focused on being victorious in their generations long quests (overturning Roe) and spite ("owning" x, y, or z). DeSantis is as disposable to them as Paul Ryan or even the legacy of John McCain.

As someone said upthread, figure out who is spiking the influx of migrants and who is doing the "research" and who is contracting the relocation to fix the problem. I would love to see DeSantis get burned in the process--and I have a bit of hope that this might be just the one or two grains of sand necessary to keep him from getting re-elected--but I suspect thee is a much bigger scandal in the works here. Bigger than the San Antonio Sheriff or even the governors of Texas and Florida.

Lawsuit filed:

People talk and talk and talk but never have anything to say.

^ What song is that from? 🤔

In 2018, Gillum was the nominee of the Florida Democratic Party to be the governor of Florida. He had won the Democratic primary election over a field of five other candidates, including former U.S. representative Gwen Graham and former Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine. In the general election, he lost in a close race to Republican U.S. representative Ron DeSantis.

In 2022, Gillum was indicted on 21 felony counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements, for allegedly diverting money raised during the campaign to a company controlled by one of his top advisor

Gilliam, a closeted black gay won the gubernatorial election in 18, in the same fashion Clinton won the presidential election in 2016.

Pukes pulled the switcheroo to secure a win for DeSantis.

Pukes don't win elections anymore which is why they are openly embracing fascism, authoritarian and Mother Russia.

R76 / R77, I said here at the time and I'll say again here, now (and maybe on the "conspiracies only you believe" thread) that the circumstances of Gillum's ignominious fall seemed very, suspicious. Add to that the LACK of gloating from the DeSantis camp.

I always wondered if the destruction of Gillum was a signal from TPTB to keep in line.

Which, actually, ties into my thoughts at R72 about why this may seem like a reckless move by DeSantis and the comments elsewhere about how he's struggling to coherently articulate a gameplan.

Gilliam, was photographed completely incapacitated and nude.

One of the people in the room with him, cruelly stood directly over Gillium to take photos and his foot is the image.

Isn't it strange that no one else in that room with Gillium was similarly incapacitated?

t one point, one of the undercover FBI agents offered to contribute money to Gillum surreptitiously on the condition that Southern Pines get favorable consideration in City Hall, the indictment said. Gillum, unaware that he and an unnamed associate were talking to an undercover agent, later lied in June 2017 to the FBI by saying he had cut off contact with "Southern Pines," according to the indictment.

The FBI investigation and the revelations of his hobnobbing with lobbyists helped doom his campaign against DeSantis, who repeatedly described Gillum as “corrupt” and defeated him by less than half a percentage point.

Florida taxpayers already paid $1.5 million for this stunt — they should not have to pay a dollar more.

Ron DeSantis should fund his defense and pay damages through his campaign account.

If they are illegal immigrants, how could they have legal documents/ IDs to board a plane? That's another lawbreaking issue committed by the DeSatanist gang.

Lock him up!

R83, you can have an ID from any country

Migrants flown to Massachusetts file class action lawsuit against DeSantis and other Florida officials in federal court.

A Texas sheriff? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I think the "results" of the investigation were already determined before the investigation was announced.

[quote] Isn't it strange that no one else in that room with Gillium was similarly incapacitated?

That’s not accurate, R80.

[quote] Andrew Gillum, who in 2018 came within 34,000 votes of becoming Florida’s governor, was discovered by police at a South Beach hotel early Friday morning in a room with bags of possible methamphetamine [bold] and in the company of a man who appeared to have overdosed on drugs, [/bold] according to a Miami Beach police report. Police say they were called to the Mondrian South Beach early Friday morning [bold] and found paramedics treating Travis Dyson, a 30-year-old Miami man, for an apparent heart attack. [/bold] They say two other men were in the room: Aldo Mejias and Gillum.

Your tax dollars at work folks. You paid for the blond hooker who lured asylum seekers on the plane, you paid for the phony brochures. You paid for the plane trip and now you will pay for these lawsuits.

Pukes are financial 🧙‍♂️

R88, curious whose pasty foot is in that pic of Gillum passed out naked.Aldo Mejias ?

R90, it very well could have been Travis Dyson, the hooker, who took the pics. If I recall correctly, he is the one who called Mejias because Gillum had passed out and Dyson felt quite sick, hence the paramedics treating for a “ heart attack,“ a/k/a a drug overdose, which cost him his job as a nurse.

UPDATE: In response to the class action lawsuit, DeSantis has released the "consent forms" allegedly signed by the migrants.

But the lawsuit alleges DeSantis and his accomplices went to extraordinary lengths to coerce migrants into signing these forms

Despicable DeSantis.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), when asked why the state paid to transport migrants from Texas instead of from Florida:

“The problem is we’re not seeing mass movements of them into Florida … It’s just coming in onesie-twosies.”

Hey R92 - A person cannot "sign away" their basic rights, as much as DeSatan would like us to believe.

This is akin to those School Field Trip Permission Forms that kids had to get their parents to sign in order to go to museums, farms, theme parks, etc. If a student was injured or killed on one of those field trips the school district is still 100% on the hook for negligence and many other potential charges.

Also, these "Adult Permission Slips" open up a whole new slew of charges, including FRAUD.

They signed consent forms but were deceived by blondie who promised help was waiting for them at the end of the plane ride.

Trolling is not problem solving or constructive. Republicans are useless.

Has DeSantis even bothered to give an explanation why the consent form was not fully translated?

That document would be the smoking gun in anything but a kangaroo court.

R94 is the comment referenced in the tweet at R72.

And it bears repeating: if he knows who/how/when/how people from Venezuela are finding their way from Texas to Florida, then

a) he has a top notch intelligence operation going on that

b) he is not willing to talk about nor

c) take RESPONSIBLE, legal, constructive action to address

Can that hag Judge Eileen Cannon come to Ron's rescue and stop this whole thing?

R98 - You rang?

What was her previous job? Did it involve a pole?

[quote] Can that hag Judge Eileen Cannon come to Ron's rescue and stop this whole thing?

No. We haven’t lost that much of our democracy — at least not yet. The crimes are being investigated by the Bexar County Sheriff in San Antonio, Texas and would be prosecuted there. The class-action lawsuit was filed by the asylum seekers in Massachusetts. Cannon has no authority to interfere in either case.

Not to worry R103, I'm sure there's some corrupt MAGA judge in Texas just salivating over the thought of throwing a monkey wrench in this.

Wouldn't it be the height of IRONY and SCHADENFREUDE if it were discovered that Aileen Cannon entered the United States illegally, was disbarred, and got shipped back to Columbia or Cuba posthaste?!?

Imma poleeetuhkul preesonuh

Also note that DeSantis was a history major at Yale...

Ivies just cranking out the scumbags

Conservatives are furious that the ELECTED sheriff is a Democrat

Am I in hell? Have I just not figured that out yet? Can an elected official of the USA really be this vile, corrupt and just plain evil? The Rethugs aren’t even PRETENDING to not be Nazis now. There doesn’t seem to be a bottom with DeSatan. And the worse he gets, the more his crazed followers eat it up.

DeSantis won't say why Florida paid his hand-picked vendor Vertol Systems Company $950,000 to charter plane from Texas to Teterboro yesterday with only crew on board.

I repeat. Let's put the immigration issue aside for a minute. Is this an eligible use of State Relief Funds?

Sadly. This Democratic sheriff will a ton of shit from deplorables now. Probably even death threats.

Majewski’s account of his time in the military is just one aspect of his biography that is suspect. His post-military career has been defined by exaggerations, conspiracy theories, talk of violent action against the U.S. government and occasional financial duress.

Still, thanks to an unflinching allegiance to former President Donald Trump — Majewski once painted a massive Trump mural on his lawn — he also stands a chance of defeating longtime Democratic Rep Marcy Kaptur in a district recently redrawn to favor Republicans.

With no previous political experience, Majewski is perhaps an unlikely person to be the Republican nominee taking on Kaptur, who has represented the Toledo area since 1983.

But two state legislators who were also on the ballot in the August GOP primary split the establishment vote.

That cleared a path for Majewski, who previously worked in the nuclear power industry and dabbled in politics as a pro-Trump hip-hop performer and promoter of the QAnon conspiracy theory. He was also at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.

I love the name "Pushpaw" for her in place of her real name. Reminds me of Francine Fishpaw.

DeSantis human trafficking update (day 7)

-$1.565 million paid to Vertol so far by FL from COVID-19 relief interest

-Vertol website still down

-DeSantis under criminal investigation in TX

-DeSantis sued in MA class action

-Empty plane travels from TX to Teterboro skipping FL

I really hope that crew-only flight to Teterboro is the result of the pilots/crew panicking and not wanting to risk charges, a lawsuit, or just bad publicity for participating.

Biden needs to hit back hard on this. The reason the MAGAts keep upping the ante on the cruelty is because they keep getting away with it.

You R118 are absolutely correct.

Is Ron DeSantis a human trafficker?

Yesterday Ron Desantis paid a private company nearly $1,000,000 in taxpayer money to fly an empty plane to New Jersey for a stunt to deceive the press.

That company has donated tens of thousands to the Florida Republican Party.

So, R121, campaign finance fraud, bribery, and misappropriation of campaign funds as well. Great.

This link has more about the company alluded to @ r121.

The more I read, the more I question if the horror of trafficking human beings is actually a byproduct of money laundering. The question of WHEN IS MATT GAETZ GOING TO BE INDICTED keeps getting met with a response that his buddy Joel Greenberg is singing like canary and many, many people (including DeSantis) might be implicated)

Lawyering up is expensive and all of the names in this article (as well as others) are connected to Florida GOP, Gaetz's former law firm and past money laundering felony convictions.

Desantis is being sued!

Whatever happened to the old canard of the "Republicans are fiscally conservative" (which was all BS anyway, but at least they gave it lip service).

Do the people of FL care that fatso Ron is wasting millions on stunts? Maybe that money could be better spent fixing potholes or building a seawall around Miami (which will be under water in 20 years).

I guess they could give 2 shits as long as the libs are owned.

that million dollars can pay market rate rents for dozens of homeless people for a few years

I spoke to two of my elderly female deplorable neighbors today about DeSantis' recent antics. These are both women I managed to talk into changing their registrations to Democratic and I took them with me when they had early voting for the Democratic primary so they could vote as Democrats for the first time.

They thought what he did was simply hilarious.

I tried to explain to them (it's so hard when people are this s-l-o-w) that FL has plenty of local illegal aliens (I know, I know -- but there's no point in trying to explain the nuances of immigrants seeking political asylum to these idiots) without DeSatan chartering planes to TX (using FL money) to fly Abbot's immigrants to MA, DE, etc.

They still don't get it. And the woman I spoke to today understood that what he did was wrong but she still couldn't stop laughing about it.

I told her if she didn't vote for Val and Crist that I was going to strangle her with my bare hands... Gee...was that wrong?

[quote]They thought what he did was simply hilarious.

Not surprising. Deplorables are just awful. They simply do not give a shit about how people they think are their "lessers" are treated.

Yeah, absolutely hilarious that human beings, in America, LEGALLY, in 2022, are so desperate for food that they'll try anything for $10 worth of McDonalds

[quote]They still don't get it. And the woman I spoke to today understood that what he did was wrong but she still couldn't stop laughing about it. I told her if she didn't vote for Val and Crist that I was going to strangle her with my bare hands... Gee...was that wrong?

Tell her this is not a circus and a Governor is supposed to be a public official , not a clown from a Stephen King novel running around scaring human beings who have fled SOCIALISM-COMMUNISM, and wasting public money on stupid stints.

If she wants to be entertained, she can watch a show or a movie.

[quote] For the people at the hotel, there was nothing funny about what DeSantis’s people had done.

[quote] One man had been hoping the flight to Delaware might help get him closer to Washington, DC, where he has a court hearing (may be an ICE check-in).

[quote] Now he’s stranded in Texas.

Link

DeSantis is trolling reporters, and wasting thousands doing so? WTF. This is leadership?

Wasting, R134?

More likely, diverting public money into the coffers of buddies. Who's to say that some of this money won't find its way to his PAC?

[quote] Luigia Colucci was an Italian immigrant who came here in 1917, unable to read or write and thanks to what some on the right might call 'chain migration.' She also happens to be the great-great-grandmother of Ron DeSantis - my commentary on his hypocrisy

Great, great grandmother? How could this be? For a 44 year old, it would only be a great grandmother. Even for Prince Harry, his grandmother was born in 1926 so 1917 would be the time of a great grandmother. How did a whole generation get added in?

Will they walk back to Venezuela now? I calculate it would take 2.5 months.

This is one of the most inhumane political stunts I’ve ever been made privy to, via the news.

Of course sane people are shocked by this. But what is even more dismaying, is that it appears that not one single person in DeSantis’ orbit, had the gravitas or gumption, to communicate to him how absolutely depraved this would make him appear, or why.

And what sucks even more is that sociopaths like DeSantis, and his predecessor, Trump, are literally playing to a very small, yet influential base, due to the antiquated and long defunct, Electoral College.

The Electoral College is the thorn in the side of the United States. If we can not dismantle it and make it a thing of the past, we will regularly be exposed to these charlatans, and will continually hold on to democracy by a very bare thread.

Eventually, either Dems turn these areas purple to blue by moving there, or we lose democracy as we know.

Of course, there are other measures to be applied in order to turn this around. However, the problem at hand is that we may not have enough time to do so.

Good luck to us. We’re all gonna need it.

R136: Luigia might have arrived here a middle-aged mother-to-be in 1917, so her being DeWannabe's great-great-grandmother isn't as far-fetched as we might think.

Are we sure she didn't arrive as Mafia? It might help to explain DeSantis desire for extensive power based on criminality and nefarious associations...

[quote] Deplorables are just awful. They simply do not give a shit about how people they think are their "lessers" are treated.

R129 Indeed, and DeSantis's stunts reinforce their prejudices for his political gain.

[quote] Absolutely hilarious that human beings, in America, LEGALLY, in 2022, are so desperate for food that they'll try anything for $10 worth of McDonalds

R130 Wait, I thought this thread was about DeSantis, not Trump.

#infightingisfunny

DeSantis is gaining a lot of weight. He wants to be like Trump that much?

I honestly dont think he has the temperament to be president. His anger issues will be the reason for his downfall. Yes, he does seem to be getting fatter everyday.

"I honestly don't think he has the temperament to be president."

And Trump did/does?

Temperament or the intelligence. Has a squeaky girl voice and is too bitchy

Florida migrant-moving company gave GOP cash, has ties to DeSantis' immigration 'czar' and Rep. Matt Gaetz

@r146, "And Trump did/does? "

No, that's why he's no longer President and why no one wants a carbon copy in DeSantis

So here’s my prediction …this whole thing will end up with Vertol Systems being ordered to pay a fine that will be donated to immigrant charities. DeSantis and Gaetz will skate. Years later, it will be reported in one paragraph that only a fraction of the fine was paid before it was dismissed for some legal/financial reason when nobody was looking,

How much is this costing Florida taxpayers? I've heard figures between $1.5M and $12M. Crist needs to pound away at it.

Big guys like Sheriff Salazar are very much my type. Grr.

He.he.he.... Gets. Away. With. Evvvvvverrrythhiiiing.

Is this not human trafficking? He lied to them.

Yale needs to yank that degree back!

^^^.

R43 what a hideous disgusting looking bitch, both vile inside and out.

How tall is this woman and does she own a wig?

More about R121, r123 & R148:

[quote] NEW: When @GovRon DeSantis needed a company he could trust to fly migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, he turned to Vertol Systems Co., an aviation firm with a private jet, and close ties to his immigration czar, Larry Keefe.

[quote] When Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration needed a company it could trust to carry out a controversial program to transport migrants to other states, it chose an unusual option.

[quote] For years, Keefe represented Vertol Systems Company in a dozen lawsuits from suing former employees and contractors to seeking damages from a lawn care provider who accidentally damaged one of the company’s helicopters./2

[quote] The company is also a partner in Zeppelin Holdings LLC with Jay Odom, a prominent Okaloosa County developer, which owns a private jet that just happened to travel to San Antonio a week before the flights to Martha's Vineyard, and returned for another trip two days afterwards./3

[quote] On Sept. 5, the week leading up to the Martha Vineyard’s flights, the plane traveled from Destin to Tallahassee, stopped in Tampa, returned to Destin and then traveled to San Antonio where it stayed until Sept. 7. /4

[quote] Keefe’s ties to Vertol Systems are the closest explanation yet for why the state has paid them more than $1.56 million to transport migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard last week. /5

R159

Random. Very random

Another lawsuit

Shouldn't DeSatan be mouthing off about all those illegal Cubans in his state? Oh, that's right, they vote for him.

DeSantis’ eyes are like those of Hermann Goering…cold and dead.

Ron DeSantis is Governor of Florida. These were asylum seekers. They were here legally. They were not in Florida. He used taxpayer money not earmarked for anything close to this. He used massive deception - dehumanizing the vulnerable. Ron DeSantis privately knows he overreached.

Governor Handsome weighs in

And Pete

Good night, sweet prince,

And flights of migrants sing thee to thy rest

Do they have plus sized jails for fat boys like Ron and Trump?

Stop saying these people are legitimate asylum seekers. They are economic opportunists. They could have easily gone to the first safe country, like Costa Rica. But the US is where the money is.

[quote] The off-duty officer, Lt. Col. Christopher Hoffman, 51, of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, who recorded his pursuit of the bus on Facebook Live, thought the bus was part of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' effort to bring migrants who crossed the southern U.S. border to Cape Cod. He can be heard praising DeSantis on the live stream video.

Flight Company DeSantis Hired For Martha’s Vineyard Stunt May Have Violated Law Banning Political Donations

The woman who lured migrants into Ron DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt was a former Army counterintelligence agent named PERLA HUERTA.

[quote] Florida officials have provided little information about the program or how it was engineered. But details have begun to emerge of the clandestine mission that was carried out without the knowledge of even the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, a fellow Republican: flights paid for with state money in possible violation of the state law that allocated the money; a charter airline company with political ties to the Florida governor.

[quote] And, in the middle of it all, a woman with a background in military counterintelligence who investigators believe was sent to Texas from Tampa in order to fill the planes.

[...]

[quote] The pamphlet, reviewed by The Times, also promised “up to eight months of cash assistance” for “income-eligible” refugees in Massachusetts, apparently mimicking benefits offered to refugees who arrive in the United States through the country’s official resettlement program, which the Venezuelans were not part of.

[...]

[quote] “We were tricked in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico — and then in the United States,” said Carlos Guanaguanay, 25, who was approached by the woman called Perla while strolling the aisles of a supermarket near a shelter where he had been staying in San Antonio. He had told her he was searching for work, and she made him an offer he found hard to resist.

[quote] It had taken him a month and 20 days to reach the U.S. border, he said, with little food and nowhere to sleep, and he jumped at the promise of transport to a place where he would be cared for and offered a job. “We can work at anything,” Mr. Guanaguanay said. “We are here for our families.”

[...]

[quote] Staff members at the community center in Martha’s Vineyard arranged for a migrant named Pablo to call home to Venezuela, Ms. Rolanti said. He appeared broken.

[quote] “My love, we were tricked,” he told his wife, weeping uncontrollably. “This woman lied to us. She lied.”

***Also of note:***

At exactly the same time this is realized by the New York Times, a hit piece against Kamala Harris starts trending on Twitter.

It's only been 23 minutes...

^ released...

Trump's administration was good for one thing: it proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that almost all elected officials and wealthy people in fact are above the law.

I used to hear "no one is above the law" as truth and 2016-present proved that was Orwellian brainwashing, telling us the opposite of truth is truth.

DeSantis inappropriately used state funds in this endeavor. He needs to go to one of his jails and lived there for a long time. His most recent crime is evacuation procedures in Florida.

Nothing will happen to DeSantis. He's winning points for being the Savior of Florida after the hurricanes.

How, exactly did he "save Florida". Paper towels? Are all the houses rebuilt? Did he bring the 80+ dead back to life?

A democrat Texas sheriff will investigate DeSantis' flight of migrants to Martha's Vineyard

Unexpected plot twist

[quote] How, exactly did he "save Florida".

By signing the "Don't Say Gay Law". And restricting abortions.

You know, important things.

R177 Aaron Schock was indicted on 24 (!!!!) counts of stealing federal funds for his own personal use and he didn't get a sungle day in court, much mess jail. He claimed he was a victim on two grounds: First, the anti-gay congressman claimed he was being persecuted because of his sexuality. Then, after the charges were dropped, he went on Morning Joe and told a very supportive and consoling Mika Brzezinski that he did in fact commit the crimes but he was not guilty of anything because he was ignorant of the crimes. He said he was considering running again to pass legislation to protect lawmakers from being unfairly prosecuted when they break federal laws.

Ignorance of the law is blah,blah,blah

Puss in Boots

Morning Joe and his mistress had candidate dump as a featured guest for hours during the campaign of 2016.

All that lovely airtime gave credence the idea that dump is a real candidate.

"what do ya hafta lose", the twice divorced, "successful" business man with multiple bankruptcies asked as an answer to defend his candidacy.

So now, we know what we have to lose, "everything" is the answer

[quote]The Bexar County, TX Sheriff’s Office has completed their criminal investigation of migrants flights to Martha’s Vineyard and has recommended criminal charges to the DA against senior Desantis Admin officials.

San Antonio is in Bexar County.

Scum.

A Texas 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 sheriff will investigate DeSantis