DeSantis Cruelty, and Florida's Ruin

So this was the Rage Thing of the Day: Finding out my evil-ass GOP Governor of Doom Ron DeSantis wasted $12 million of Florida state funds - earmarked for our residents - to stage a campaign event by rounding up migrants at the Texas border and shipping them off by plane in a deceitful manner up to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts all in the name of mocking Sanctuary Cities and libruls in general. Via Ana Ceballos at Miami Herald (may be paywalled):

In a surprise announcement Wednesday evening, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office took credit for sending two planes with migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, apparently jump-starting an immigration program without revealing any details. The governor told reporters three weeks ago that the program was on standby, and the Florida Department of Transportation, which is overseeing the immigrant relocation program, said it had no details about how it would work yet. 

Things changed on Wednesday — on DeSantis’ birthday. “Florida can confirm that two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha’s Vineyard today were part of the state’s relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities,” Taryn Fenske, the governor’s communication director, said in a statement.

Martha’s Vineyard is an island south of Cape Cod, popular for summer vacations and accessible only by plane or ferry. 

Fox News was given an exclusive, and it showed footage of the migrants arriving in Martha’s Vineyard on its nightly, prime-time show...

Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Cape Cod, said one plane left from San Antonio, and that this appeared to be part of a larger campaign to divert migrants from border states, according to The Vineyard Gazette. 

“Just like the reverse freedom rides in the 1960s, this endeavor is a cruel ruse that is manipulating families who are seeking a better life,” Cyr told the Gazette. “No one should be capitalizing on the difficult circumstances that these families are in and contorting that for the purposes of a ‘gotcha’ moment.”

Spent most of the day thinking "Christ, DeSantis Is An Asshole."

Again, the dogma of the modern Republican Party is "The Cruelty Is the Point" and dear God DeSantis keeps proving that with his bullying and open displays of hate.

Everything about this was staged. DeSantis made sure Fox Not-News had the exclusive coverage. He pulled this stunt on his birthday. He had camera crews recording the whole thing so he could make campaign ads about it later. He intentionally sent the planes to a well-known liberal hotbed, as though he was dumping trash on a hated neighbor's yard.

Fox Not-News happily trumpeted that fact:

“Everyone on the left has a home there. Do you think they are going to be embracing their new neighbors?” Fox News host Jesse Watters said.

Joke's on you, Watters and all the rest of you haters. The island residents immediately rallied to provide food, shelter, and legal aid to the immigrants. They ARE embracing their new neighbors. Liberals you decry as irreligious monsters are acting more Christian - they are acting by Jesus' teachings of Matthew 25 - and charitable than you and yours.

But this is all on DeSantis. This is his "project," whatever the hell he thinks he can accomplish.

Just what the hell is DeSantis doing taking money meant for FLORIDA to spend on transporting immigrants at the TEXAS border?

There's reports that DeSantis' people on the ground gave false assurances to the migrant families to get them to board the plane. That could be an illegal act in violation of federal immigration laws (8 USC 1324), and people are already filing lawsuits over that.

And what the hell is a state Governor doing messing around in FEDERAL affairs such as immigration? For DeSantis to pull this off, he had to get past the Departments of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whom last I heard were opposing - yeah, even ICE - these stunts as harmful and chaotic.

Nobody truly benefits from the stunt DeSantis just pulled - and what he threatens to keep pulling - other than himself, all because it gets him national airtime and more media coverage (there is for Republicans no longer such a thing as "bad news").

That sadistic fuck.

Every single Florida Republican still thinking of voting for this sadistic fuck should hang their heads in shame. DeSantis is willfully harming people, disrupting our legal system, all so he could pander to YOUR racism towards Latino immigrants coming from Venezuela, Peru, Honduras, Mexico. These are families with children, looking for honest work and better lives just like our ancestors did, and DeSantis is mocking the American immigrant experience just so he can bully and lie his way to a second term as Governor these midterms (and position himself for the Presidency run in 2024).

Again. That sadistic fuck.

For the LOVE OF GOD, Florida. For the LOVE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AND YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS WHO TRAVELED TO THESE SHORES SO YOU COULD BE AMERICANS. For the love of everything humane and decent, DO NOT VOTE FOR DESANTIS.

This shouldn't be hard, Florida. DeSantis is an openly avowed bully and racist. Charlie Crist has been more decent a human being on our public stage long enough for us to know Crist won't turn our state into a global mockery.

For the LOVE OF GOD, Florida. We can be better than this. Stop DeSantis, vote for Crist, make Florida shine again...