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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Texas Gov. Spent $221 Million on Migrant Busing 'Political Stunt'

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Texas Gov. Spent $221 Million on Migrant Busing 'Political Stunt'

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 9 months ago
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Texas Gov. Spent $221 Million on Migrant Busing 'Political Stunt' | Common Dreams
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spent over $221 million to bus nearly 120,000 migrants to Democrat-led cities.
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    It ain’t his money, it’s the people of Texas’ money, and they keep electing these racist scumbags, so I guess it’s worth it to them to just piss their taxes up a wall, to virtue singal

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      Many vote red but it is also all the barriers they put in the way for democratic voters. This is a deeply corrupt state.

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        Yeah, it’s probably the most gerrymandered state in the entire country and that’s fucking SAYING something!

        The simple fact that Ted Cruz keeps getting reelected in spite of being almost universally despised should tell you all you need about the state of representative democracy in Texas…

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          Ted Cruz wins a statewide election it can’t be gerrymandered.

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            I was using “gerrymandered” as a synecdoche for general election tampering and ratfucking, not in the literal sense of drawing districts.

            Sorry if I wasn’t being clear enough 🙂

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              synecdoche

              Today I learned a new word. Thanks.

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                You’re very welcome 🙂

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                Watch the movie “Syndecoche NY”

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              Sign a kyne a dodie chodie?

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                It means to use one in place of the whole (or the other way around). Like how sailors are called hands, cattle are heads, and most Republicans are dicks.

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                  Sy-nuhnuh-kynuh-dohdee-chowdee

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                    I love that channel! Who would have thought that Taylor Swift is pronounced “Todd Swanson”? 😂

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