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Rhiannon12866

(204,854 posts) Sat Sep 17, 2022, 02:45 AM Sep 2022

DeSantis Takes Page From Autocrats' Playbook With Migrant Plane Stunt - Alex Wagner - MSNBC

Alex Wagner outlines how couching the scapegoating and abuse of immigrants in whiney grievance politics like Ron DeSantis has done with his inhumane stunt of abruptly sending 50 migrants to an island in Massachusetts is a textbook autocrat political ploy that not even the disgraced Trump regime was willing to try. - Aired on 09/16/2022.

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DeSantis Takes Page From Autocrats' Playbook With Migrant Plane Stunt - Alex Wagner - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 OP

So let me get this straight. DeSantis poached immigrants from Texas... brush Sep 2022 #1

There was apparently a stopover in Florida on the way, but they originated in San Antonio, Texas. Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #2

brush

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1. So let me get this straight. DeSantis poached immigrants from Texas...

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Sat Sep 17, 2022, 03:39 AM

Sep 2022

and sent them to Martha's. Vineyard before Abbott could get to them?

Talk about dying for attention.

Rhiannon12866

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2. There was apparently a stopover in Florida on the way, but they originated in San Antonio, Texas.

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Sat Sep 17, 2022, 03:45 AM

Sep 2022

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