Anne Applebaum
Well, well, well ... Bureaucrats in Poland's "anti-immigrant" nationalist ruling party, the same one ostentatiously building walls on the border, are suspected of selling visas, and thus bringing more than 200,000 non-Europeans into Poland last year....
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,30157205,w-tle-sledztwo-w-sprawie-gigantycznego-przerzutu-migrantow-do.htmlhttps://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,30157205,w-tle-sledztwo-w-sprawie-gigantycznego-przerzutu-migrantow-do.html
Wyborcza.pl

Sep 5, 2023 at 9:37pmWeb
Show threadLindaMarieSep 5, 2023
@anneapplebaum 🧐But Ukraine is so corrupt.😒
Show threadBence VargaSep 5, 2023
@anneapplebaum As a Hungarian this sounds somehow familiar.
Show threadAlonSep 5, 2023
@anneapplebaum Anti-immigrant sentiment has never been about numbers. It's about hierarchy: in the UK, Brexit is much less about actual reductions in immigrant numbers (Britain's are already as low as possible while keeping the economy functioning), but about being able to tell any immigrant who annoys a native "watch out or I'll call the Home Office."
Show threadEvelynSep 5, 2023

@anneapplebaum @joaocosta Creating their own market- clever.

/s/ (should be obvs; but it’s the internet, after all)

Show threadpunIssuerSep 6, 2023
@gorfram
Is it really /s/, though? If you need people to vote for you to solve a "problem", it can only benefit you if said "problem" gets worse... @anneapplebaum @joaocosta
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenSep 6, 2023
@punissuer @gorfram @anneapplebaum @joaocosta well, not if the problem gets worse while you are in power, but then you can blame the "deep state"
Show threadpunIssuerSep 6, 2023
@toriver
Obviously, once you actually fixed the problem, your aren't needed anymore and won't get elected again (as you have nothing else to offer). But if the problem gets worse while you're in power, that only indicates that you need *even more power*...
@gorfram @anneapplebaum @joaocosta
Show threadAlan MartelloSep 5, 2023
@anneapplebaum Sounds like a natural 2-fer: get more immigrants to increase your chances of obtaining / retaining power and pocket some cash to fund a corrupt lifestyle. A natural nationalist / fascist play.
Show threadDixzySep 6, 2023
@anneapplebaum create the problem, sell the solution
Show threadSteve DavidianSep 6, 2023

@anneapplebaum

From what I've read, it's even darker than we suspect.

In Hungary the fascist visa sales were to right-wing imports who tipped voting patterns in key contests giving Orban the edge.

A new form of global chess.

Show threadC0ppertopSep 6, 2023
@anneapplebaum reminds me of that story about the Republican, railing about pedophiles etc, -getting cause molesting boys.
Right-wings shit heads should more scared of each other than anything they worry the world can come up with.
Show threadJill duhSep 6, 2023
@anneapplebaum every accusation is a confession
Show threadNicole ParsonsSep 12, 2023

@anneapplebaum

Wondering if Tim Mellon's Texas border wall serves the same purpose for the GOP; a source of graft & human trafficking.

Republicans want slavery back & the border wall provides a supply.

Aside from tax cuts for the rich, a trafficking law was one of Trump's few legislative "achievements".

ICE has always been very loyal to Trump's GOP. Why?

The GOP will take money from anybody, literally anybody.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2021/10/06/scion-of-billionaire-mellon-family-has-paid-for-most-of-texas-governors-border-wall-fund/?sh=24a6a0845991

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/us/homeland-security-border-bribes.html

Scion Of Billionaire Mellon Family Has Paid For Most Of Texas Governor's Border Wall Fund

Timothy Mellon, the grandson of banking tycoon and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, has paid for 98% of donations to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border wall fund, the Texas Tribune reported.

Forbes