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You know what they say, 6th times a charm.

Everyone knows 5th time is a charm.

Deflect, nice move.

Sorry about that quote, consider that disinformation. The full quote adds much more context Only 1 day notice. Horrific!! These are human beings, can't believe these like minded Governors think all alike. Read the article to listen to this governors excuse on why he thinks this is OK. Don't let him off the hook, vote him out!!!!

Biden needs to step in and stop all of these hitler'esqe Governor's from violating all these human rights. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/03/colorado-migrants-new-york-00076115

I can't agree more with Chuck about Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. She also gives Brittany Murphy a run for her money for hottest white trash character in a movie with her performance in The Wrestler.

Hey, be a good American and look the other way.

I came out ahead this year. My wife just visited her brother in Seattle earlier this month for less than 20 bucks in fee's. Last year I put some big purchases on it and than we had some unexpected bills come in. Even with a heavily discounted trip to Texas for the family I ended up losing about 100 bucks. In thinking about it now, can't remember if I took the fee into consideration either.

Or, I am freely admitting that he may have no role in this recent debacle and that blame could be solely on Southwest software combined with both of their major hubs having weather related issues, but pointing out that some past issues might get scrutinized more. Note, Tom Price resigned from his cabinet position over private flights and he didn't take that many more than Buttigieg has. That was not a big story against Buttigieg when it broke. Could something like that change though?

The only semi-argument you'll get out of me based on your response is in regards to the 180 degree political split. Publicly, yes, I agree it appears to be. Privately, unfortunately I feel there is not much of a split at all and it's pointed in a direction that doesn't benefit the average citizen.

I'm fine with the government not running the details of their business. But the airlines took a bailout during the pandemic and used some legal, but grey areas, to adhere to the rules while going against the ideas that established those rules. Here is a decent write up detailing some of that. https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/2020-bailouts-left-airlines-economy-and-federal-budget-worse-shape#:~:text=How Big Were the Bailouts,billion%2C and %2414 billion). Even if there is no legal means for DoT to reclaim or force them to pay back some of the loans they got which will otherwise be forgiven, government should have a way to deal with big business. Maybe after the first time all the airlines had trouble over the summer, instead of writing a letter asking them to get better, maybe advocate for an updated Passengers Bill of Rights which would put more financial incentive on providing reliable service. Southwest specifically had Additionally, even if this specific issue is something that Buttigieg had zero ability to proactively deal with, it wouldn't be the first time an issue has blame unjustly put on someone and opens up some other legitimate issues. I wonder if that's what we'll see here.

I still believe Buttigieg is the Dem's 'next person up' to Biden. But similar to "that's why you don't elect a businessman to run government", how much of this recent Southwest Airlines debacle might tarnish Buttigieg and start a "that's why you don't put a small town mayor in charge of something big"? The airlines got a huge bailout with the caveat that they couldn't lay off workers. Instead they used the money to pay for buyouts and still wrangled around with some non paid furloughs where they would still some benefits. We all knew it and DoT did nothing but publicly admonish the airlines to get their shit together back last summer, which if you remember, Buttigieg's himself found his flight cancelled the next day. No teeth from the DoT. The railroad 'strike' certainly isn't a win for him. The ports issue got out of control before we started to see movement on that as well. Now we're back to the airlines again, or at least Southwest. At the same time we're learning he likes to fly private quite a bit. Obviously much of this is dealing with the side effects of the pandemic, but at some point, does the tarnish wear off?

My wife and kids still like Wendy's for some reason. I don't even bother checking the bag anymore. If you send me there, I'll come back with what they gave me. You get what you get and you don't throw a fit.

The Jack White / White Stripes talk had me thinking about Lazaretto, loved that album.

Does anyone know where you can find the Hutchinson transcript and if you can, confirm this is part of it? I've heard reports from it and today the Meadows burning classified documents, but I happened across this on Twitter. Burning classified documents is pretty clear cut case for a Felony, but this seems much more interesting to me.

Understood. I really do try not to do that, but obviously it bleeds through from time to time. The last part of your statement is ringing true to me as well. I feel like that probably sums up the last page of my responses.

Care to elaborate why?

You've all convinced me. When I'm president, where ever you claim asylum, that's your new home. Family in St. Louis that you want to start your new life with? Well, i'm not going to be part of that cruelty, they can visit you if they really love you. I'd put the army on all the northern borders of the southern border states to ensure no immigrants are being 'trafficked' to other states. You really want to live in St. Louis, well find a way to that city before claiming asylum. Apparently making that portion of the process harder is not considered cruelty.

I just looked up some numbers from Google to get that number. The amount on the DeSantis plane divided by the winter population of Martha's Vineyard, which I'm guessing was not yet quite down to winter population yet in September. It's an interesting part of the thread if you care to rehash. We're reminded of when Lightfoot took 200 migrants that showed up on Chicago and sent them to the much smaller suburbs without notice. But she likes immigrants so she gets a pass. You'll also see that I've been consistent with how awful DeSantis is with this issue.

Years ago when the union portion of my company was threatening a strike, they put out an email to the company saying our CEO made 120 million over the past 5 years. The company 'shot back', informing us all how he only made 100 million. Your post reminded me of that. 1) My tempered response to your post - I'm glad to see he's trying something and the work with Venezuela is more in line with what I think would be helpful. As for the Haiti response, please reread that and tell me if you see anything that could backfire there. He "slashed" illegal immigration, which indicates he helped the border issue. But all he did was encourage Haitians to get to Mexico and come through that border and declare Asylum. Which anyone can do anyway, just lucky enough for the Haitians as they will be approved once they go through that court system at some location of their choosing in the United States. 2) The back of my mind response to your post. I thought Biden couldn't do anything because the GOP kept blocking him?

The number response was based on another number response which I guess was a dig at those that don't want any immigration, which I'm not an advocate of. So, if 1% is what your side considers a drop in the bucket, then I don't want to hear sad stories when a city is "overrun" with .2% of their winter population. And again, can you explain what was cruel in this specific scenario? People come into the southern border everyday trying to get to families or opportunities throughout the entire United States. When they setup their court date they don't have to hang around El Paso for 9 months for that court date. They are asked where they are heading and a court date is established for that jurisdiction. I know there was some talk with the DeSantis plane folks that they didn't want to go and were essentially kidnapped. That was much more nefarious and frankly out of bounds for a governor in one state to do with folks never coming through his state. For full context though, if I remember correctly, it had a decent amount of Venezuelan migrants who do not have some of the same government assistance programs in place that other migrants have and didn't realize it until they got to the United States. They were going to feel duped even if they first stepped foot in blue California. Still not excusable for what DeSantis did. This is not that DeSantis plane ride though. The federal government even has assisted in moving migrants to different states. Or like I stated before, those migrants are on their own to find a way to the city they requested to have their hearing in. If we find out that this busload of people all requested to have their hearings in San Francisco, but were duped into a bus ride to DC for a photo op, than I'll be right on your side.

You've proven time and time again you don't care about facts, unless they fit your narrative. You also have said I have no right for you to dedicate time to my posts. Maybe you should just realize I don't believe a word you say anyway and actually try to ignore my posts then?

Truth hurts huh? I like how you get so literal when it fits for you. You know I wasn't specifically talking about you and substack, but what you've done to me so many times before, ignoring any source that isn't left of Mother Jones.

You're always so literal when it fits you. My point was if I posted a substack article, your MO would be to equate it to Greenwald or Taibbi and ignore it.

Yet DeSantis sends equivalent to .2% of the winter population to Martha's Vineyard and it's the end of the world. I kind of want to do a Pfife response and blow off everything you posted because of your substack article link. Basically equate it to some of the more nefarious users of substack... Instead I'll say that what you're saying is valid, but it doesn't make my points wrong. You guys seem to think that me complaining about our border situation is because i'm your typical white GOP'er that hates brown people. Seems to be the MO for most of you. I'm complaining about our border situation because it's out of control and our border patrol which should be ensuring that people that don't pose a risk to our security and that drugs don't come across the border. Instead, they are glorified Uber drivers picking up people and transporting them to a facility to get a court date which statistically we know they will likely go to, and many will continue going to the follow up appointments, until they lose and disappear into the ether. We are wasting money and resources on an issue which I have to believe there is a better way. I'm not against more immigration. The idea of saying we're not "open" but continuously allowing migrants to run a gauntlet through Mexico isn't safe for the migrants and isn't working for us.