Deportees
Let’s see. JD Vance and MAGA Gov. Greg Abbott are asking voters not to pay attention to the MAGA record. Instead, they are saying Democrats are radicals. It is not going to work.
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Chron Business Columnist Chris Tomlinson has a piece today on Hindu Americans after the racist attack on UT students last weekend. Here is from the Tomlinson column:
The growing bigotry even has a social media hashtag: #IndianInvasion.
“If you go to some of these areas, you feel like you’re in a foreign country, and that’s a problem,” U.S. Rep. Brandon Gill, a North Texas Republican, told conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson in April. “America is for our people. We have a distinct heritage … and that’s something we as conservatives should seek to actually conserve.”
Gill and his compatriots sound like my grandfathers, who were committed to keeping Anglo-Saxon Protestant men in charge of the state they loved. Ever since President Donald Trump entered politics, white men like Gill have built political careers out of attacking broad groups of people based on their appearance, ethnicity or accent in ways considered indecent only a decade ago.
Here is the entire column: Why Texas politicians are turning against Indian immigrants.
This MAGA arsehole congressman obviously has a problem with diversity. What this punkarse means is he thinks America is for white folks. Nope.
That train left the station awhile back. Another racist dumbsh_t on full display.
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I am sure you heard about this. See this from CBS News:
Washington — Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida warned President Trump in a new campaign ad that some of his immigration enforcement campaigns have “gone too far” and said that Hispanic voters who propelled him to the White House in 2024 “feel betrayed.”
Salazar, who is Cuban-American, has been critical of the president’s deportation efforts before, but her message on immigration serves as a stark example of a GOP candidate distancing herself from the president just weeks before the midterm elections.
“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,” Salazar said in her ad. “In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policy. The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today. You can be for immigration what Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. I’m not talking about giving them amnesty. I’m talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land.”
My fellow Latinos must have missed the night at the MAGA national convention in the summer of 2024 when MAGA delegates were waving those mass deportation signs. See the featured photo with the pendejo Latino holding a mass deportation sign. MAGA Cong. Maria Elvira Salazar was at the convention. Maybe she is worried someone close to her could be a deportee.
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We had 5 dingers last night and a win. We are back to a 1 game lead in the AL West with 9 games left to play. Atlanta is at Daikin Park for the weekend. This will be the last regular season homie for the Astros. Down to the wire.