Over at The Gateway Pundit they have a piece on a resort in Texas that is supposedly being purchased by Baptist Child & Family Services (BCFS) for use in temporary housing for children who are apprehended at our border. The write-up of the piece is fairly balanced, although it is obviously intended to cause outrage by emphasizing the luxuriousness of the accommodations and the fact that BCFS has allegedly been awarded a $50 million federal contract for this purpose. Still, the information is presented in a straightforward manner and without drama. The comments section, however, is a whole other kettle of fish.
Steel yourself before heading over there because it’s a rancid cesspool of bigotry, intolerance, paranoia, and hate. There are suggestions that we simple carpet bomb the area of Mexico that borders our country, or that we start military exercises with live fire. There are already over 2,700 comments, almost all of them demonstrating a shocking level of disregard for the children who would be spending an estimated 15 days each at this resort.
Update [2014-7-16 18:34:40 by BooMan]: Predictably, the story is bunk.
This has been today’s installment of, “They are who we thought they were.”
Well they’ve two problems: they’re not white, and they’re no longer fetuses.
“For Republicans, life begins at conception and ends at birth.”—Barney Frank
“2,700 comments”
This is what happens when a major political party operates always to keep its supporters down in the muck, never lift them up.
Revel in the sewage, Team Conservative. Just keep the fire hose blasting it….
This is what happens when a major political party operates always to keep its supporters down in the muck, never lift them up.
Fascists need authoritarian enablers to act as both physical muscle (Camoshirts as the modern equivalent of Black/Brownshirts…with guns as part of the uniform) and as a voice to shout-down anyone with a less hostile opinion.
Of course the major political party in question keep their highly-trained rabble in the dark and in the muck.
This horrifies me.
On a day when my own community is under a summer siege of 10 wildfires encircling our valley that all are a result of lightning strikes on Monday, I’m coming from town where DNR crews are being cheered on the streets; neighbors are streaming down in private vehicles to haul hundreds of cattle, horses, sheep, mules, goats and chickens out of harms way and to safety. The roads are packed with neighbors hauling belongings of friends and lines of people are arriving at the Red Cross temp station to offer help in any way that they can.
Looking at the lines of people I see many brown faces. I see people of all colors, shapes and ages hugging each other and working side by side to help DNR, major incident groups, local Fire District, smoke jumpers, everyone waving as the Canadian tankers sweep overhead with yet another load of fire retardant.
2,700 vile commenters don’t have a clue what life in America really is. My community does. It’s a rough day here.
Just looks like a GOP love to hate fest to me.
the luxuriousness of the accommodations
Er, no. There’s already a post debunking this at Little Green Footballs, and I’m working on a post elaborating on what LGF found. It’s really just a modest hotel that happens to have a few amenities, but is quite shabby overall.
figures.
The comment section is still unhinged however.
Horrible comments. However, does nobody have any questions about this decision? $50 million/year in federal funds to a religious organization. No curiosity about why this Palm Aire Resort is available (for sale or lease?) and the cost of the facility. Etc.
The $50 million number is a projected boon to the local economy not what the government paid.
Why would BCFS be throwing out a number that would be a boon to a local economy? It’s a charitable organization, not a business.
BCFS is now saying that it hadn’t submitted a proposal to the US Department of Health and Human Services. However, it had offered to buy the property for $3.8 million, and it does seem odd that they would do that on spec. Plus the sketch of the plan they released was strange as they intended to use it to process undocumented immigrant teens who would stay no more than fifteen days.
The property may be perfectly fine to temporarily house teen refugees. And nothing wrong with providing them with a swimming pool to help them recoup. At $3.8 million with another million or so to rehab the place, it’s a bargain. But make it a publicly owned and operated facility and not another instance of government paying to line some private entity’s pockets.
The $50 million number is a projected boon to the local economy not what the government paid.
The federal government is funneling this response through a church group, just like Dubya’s old Faith Based Initiative envisioned, and even that doesn’t stem the firehose of rancid. Not that an intellectual RINO like Dubya could get elected in today’s GOP.
Ladies and Gentlemen, your modern Republican Party in full flower. How’s that outreach to minorities going?
My post on this is here.
It doesn’t matter, though, because the mob grabbed their torches and pitchforks, and now BCFS has dropped its plan to convert the hotel, as Fox News liar Todd Starnes exultantly notes.
Wait.
You mean the perpetually-spittle-flecked are going into hyper-rage about something that doesn’t exist?
File this in the July 16th 2014 folder of our continuing experiment in American Fascism.
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Are you stupid, lying, or both? The last thing these right-wing racist assholes care about or support is “taking care of our own children”, certainly not after they’re actually born. They want nobody but themselves taken care of.
Increasingly it looks as if the only where the Conservatives would be happy sending the Central Amercian children is to Guantanamo.
Love the pictures of semi-automatic weaponry in close proximity with the drooling Obama-hating in that comments section. Reads/looks like the ultimate destination of Arthur Gilroy’s flight path.