Tony StarkDec 26, 2022

All over the country, there are emergency responders and workers actually, actively taking care of life.

To all the emergency responders, snow plow drivers, utility workers, medical professionals, service workers, and those like the people who showed up here to take care of freezing, mistreated migrants- to all people that had to brave the elements to the benefit of others, thank you. The public owes you debt of gratitude.

On the other hand, scorn should be heaped upon Greg Abbott. Oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: scapegoat and demonize a racial group. Give your angry supporters--for whom you feel nothing but contempt anyway, by the way--someone to feel superior to. Frees you from the need to actually do anything for them, doesn't it?

It's ugly and wrong.

Migrants from Texas dropped off outside VP Harris' home on freezing Christmas Eve-
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-texas-harris-house-christmas-eve-rcna63204

Migrants from Texas dropped off outside VP Harris' home on freezing Christmas Eve

Three buses from Texas dropped off about 140 recent migrants — including babies and young children — near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington

NBC News
Show threadMaria HillDec 26, 2022
@TonyStark I was outside for a while on Christmas Eve day, as I took transit to visit a friend. I was bundled up and walking fast, and was only outside and still for a few minutes to wait for the train. I knew I was coming back to my heated house, and while I was walking Ukraine with no power due to Russian bombing of infrastructure. Imagine being on a bus with how cold it has been this week and not knowing if you had a place to stay. But we know that the cruelty is the point.
Angela MarxDec 26, 2022
Show threadMJ
@TonyStark @MariaHill Forced transportation generally has a dark history which I’m sure isn’t missing people like Greg Abbott.
Dec 26, 2022 at 5:44pmWeb
Show threadMaria HillDec 26, 2022

@MJ

It has typically ended quite poorly.

Abbott and his pals like Ducey and DeSantis are trying to make people in other cities/states hate immigrants and refugees as much as they do, but it's not working very well. New York, DC, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston (where the migrants sent to Martha's Vineyard went because Boston has services and Martha's Vineyard doesn't) already have many immigrants, refugees, and asylees, and most people are accustomed to working and living with them as neighbors and friends. We need immigrants to fill jobs and diversity isn't threatening to us.

@TonyStark

Show threadSteven SavageDec 26, 2022
@MariaHill @MJ @TonyStark they keep being crap to immigrants and it only a) intensifies support for immigrants and b) illustrates how awful GOP policies and politics are.
Show threadMy Blue Check is MIADec 26, 2022
@StevenSavage @MariaHill @MJ @TonyStark If these immigrants were white they'd be welcomed with a marching band.
Show threadMJDec 27, 2022
@MariaHill @TonyStark @StevenSavage @AbortTheGQPNOW 💯
Show threadCrypto_TaylorDec 27, 2022
@AbortTheGQPNOW @StevenSavage @MariaHill @MJ @TonyStark
Just being pain the time after my Twitter account got suspended for not being active for 3weeks oh gosh lot of changes over their
Show threadRod_RescuemanDec 27, 2022
@AbortTheGQPNOW @StevenSavage @MariaHill @MJ @TonyStark it’s true, tho. When Bosnian refugees arrived in the 90s, we rolled out the red carpet. Gave practically an entire section of STL city to them, and VERY heavy subsidies. Wonder what the difference was.
Show threadprogressiveartistDec 27, 2022
@AbortTheGQPNOW @StevenSavage @MariaHill @MJ @TonyStark See the Ukrainians. I don't begrudge them asylum one bit, but where are the Yemenis, the Syrians, and others who have suffered just as greatly? I wonder if people realize that we, the U.S., have been much the cause of the problems to our global south, would it make a difference? Maybe...for some.
Show threadcommchfDec 27, 2022
@progressiveartist @AbortTheGQPNOW @StevenSavage @MariaHill @MJ @TonyStark
Nope, not qwhite enough.
Show threadTony StarkDec 27, 2022
@StevenSavage @progressiveartist @MariaHill @MJ @AbortTheGQPNOW That’s unfortunately true. We, as a country, just don’t care about people of color in the same way and a lot of people don’t admit it although Republicans are the worst as many don’t care about Ukraine or any other country.
Show threadMaria HillDec 27, 2022

@TonyStark

Republicans are so isolationist right now that a lot of them wouldn't even welcome white immigrants. Sure, they loved Schwarzenegger, but they've also gotten a lot worse in the last 20 years.

I'd be surprised if half of the Republicans in Congress could find Ukraine on a map.

@StevenSavage @progressiveartist @MJ @AbortTheGQPNOW

Show thread@daraghhayesDec 27, 2022
@MariaHill @TonyStark @StevenSavage @progressiveartist @MJ @AbortTheGQPNOW I recall watching a Reagan and Bush Sr (?) debate from way back that sounded like it would be on the Democratic Socialist end of the political spectrum today when they got on the topic of immigration
Show threadJeffDec 27, 2022
@MariaHill @TonyStark @StevenSavage @progressiveartist @MJ @AbortTheGQPNOW anything people are for republican are against
Show threadRod_RescuemanDec 26, 2022
@MJ @TonyStark @MariaHill