@gwynnion I'm still getting GOP flyers screaming about the need "to secure our southern border." Dude, this is New Hampshire. Our southern border is Massachusetts. Sure, if you want to protect us from the Boston techbros buying up second homes here and driving up housing prices, let's talk. But I don't think Mexico poses any threat to us.
@computerchronicles Yeah, it was always racist bullshit but when northern Republicans started acting like they were personally under assault as part of the bit, it insulted our intelligence.
@computerchronicles All these militia wannabe asswipes showing up here in Texas to discover -- there's nothing. There's no invasion, no caravans, no "cartel narco-terrorists." They were lied to. But they never learn or change.
@gwynnion What makes it especially counterproductive here in New England is that everyone knows there's a depopulation crisis. Vermont is practically empty. And New Hampshire is losing people at a faster rate due to housing costs, which as I alluded to before is largely due to rich out-of-staters buying up properties for second homes/short-term rentals. Even most Republicans here know this, but they feel obliged to follow the racist BS coming from the Christian nationalists.
@gwynnion @computerchronicles Having fallen for the bamboozle, the victim's first instinct is to defend the swindler. The sucker has convinced himself that if he can only convince one other person of the Secret Inside Occult Truth he invested time, money, hope and outrage in, then maybe he's really onto something and should continue with the investment.