Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) bizarrely claims 40,000 Brazilians heading for Connecticut

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) bizarrely claims 40,000 Brazilians heading for Connecticut "wearing designer clothes and Gucci bags" illegally crossed the border: “This is not economic migration anymore.”


6:49 AM · Oct 13, 2021

Wait.......wut??!?

[NameAlreadyTaken]

1. Is he jealous?

Does he wish he was going to Connecticut in designer clothes and with Gucci bags?

[Deep State Witch]

2. Did They Look Like This?

[underpants]

4. After having studied this picture extensively

I…what was the question?

[dchill]

9. Emerson Brazilians. (?)

[NCDem47]

10. Oh, we know who Lindsey has eyes on in this pic.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Deep State Witch]

11. It Was The Only Pic I Could Find

Of a male Brazilian carnival dancer.

[Polybius]

28. Lol, I was thinking the same thing

I like the one on the far left, or far right, or top middle, or, oh heck, all of the women are beautiful in that pic.

[Haggard Celine]

3. These fuckers just make it up as they go along.

I wouldn't be surprised if Trump called Lindsey and told him to say that. And Trump, in turn, heard Alex Jones say it. They know Fox News won't challenge them on anything they say, and the other networks aren't that much better. We would be so much better off if the press would simply question the shit they hear from these politicians. They don't, so the people watching at home don't either. It's maddening!

[underpants]

8. I actually found this from 2013.

Brazilians in Connecticut Celebrate Independence Day This Weekend

According to the Brazilian consulate, there are about 40,000 Brazilians living in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Sunday's festivities get underway at noon. You can learn more at braziliandayct.com.

https://www.ctpublic.org/arts-and-culture/2013-09-13/brazilians-in-connecticut-celebrate-independence-day-this-weekend

[Haggard Celine]

25. So he's bringing up stuff that happened

8 years ago? That’s odd.

[gratuitous]

5. "This is not economic migration anymore"

Did I miss something? Were Republicans on board at any time with "economic migration"? Despite Ms. Lazarus' words on that big statue in New York Harbor, Republicans (to my knowledge) never been all that comfortable with the wretched refuse of other countries. So they can't be poor, and now Sen. Graham says they can't be wearing designer clothes and carrying Gucci bags. So, who's fit to immigrate to the United States, Senator?

[Thunderbeast]

7. Arians

[Celerity]

17. Were Republicans on board at any time with "economic migration"?

Hell yes, they turn the other eye when the fields need to be picked, their lawns manicured, or the tech firm (that they own shares in via some convoluted trust scheme) who just bribed, no, scratch,.. 'lobbied' them with a half of a million in dosh needs to bring in a shedload of Indian IT workers (on a quarter of the salary the yanks before them were making) on special visas.

[gratuitous]

20. Republicans have always been okay with cheap labor

The cheaper and more desperate, the better. But as soon as the job or the season was over, all them furriners had best get back to wherever they came from, and no, you don't get your last paycheck. In Republicanland, there was never a path to permanent legal immigrant status or citizenship.

[underpants]

6. A BRAZILIAN???? That's a lot!

I googled Bush Brazilian looking for a meme…found other than meme 😄

[Deep State Witch]

12. Definitely NSFW

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Wow, that's terrible. How many is a Brazillion?

[underpants]

15. 🥁

[sanatanadharma]

27. A Brazillion is worth half its pre-Bolsonaro value

And it is pronounced 'brah zee sjhon' where I shop.

[Retrograde]

14. My town had a big influx of Brazilians in '94

when Stanford hosted some of the World Cup games. They were pretty easy to spot, being for the most part painted green and yellow. They sure knew how to party!

Hey Lindsey - maybe they're just tourists come up for the New England fall color.

[malaise]

16. He must have received a PM

from the RWs, Evangelicals and Brazil's crooked president.
These Caravans are no accident.

[TheRealNorth]

23. I have had the same thought....

Probably doesn't cost much to have someone convince desperate poor people to go join some astro turf caravan. Its interesting that the media has never done any in-depth investigation on how these caravans are organized.

[malaise]

24. I know some of the direct links between some of the evangelicals and cheap labor

in the US. Right across this hemisphere, many of these churches get jobs in the US for their members. Many are rabid anti-intellectuals RWs as well.

[Walleye]

18. Blame it on the Bossa Nova

[Nanjeanne]

19. As a Connecticutter I say - Caipirinhas for everyone!

[mackdaddy]

21. Is this going to cause a catastrophic Wax shortage?

And where will that find all of the Estheticians? This is just a labor crisis waiting to happen. (NOT)

[sop]

22. How about the Russians, Lindsey? Oh, right...don't want to bite the hand that feeds you.

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. This AssClown is a US Senator - think about that for a second.

[CrackityJones75]

29. When they say shit like this...

When they say shit like this, you just know they are giving away some play they have in the works.

[lagomorph777]

30. Is that Jason Miller's next plot?

After the Brazilian/Haitian "caravans" that he bussed to our border?

[onethatcares]

32. I wonder, in this age of shortages

where the Biden administration found enough busses and drivers to move 40,000 people from an imigration center before grahamcrackers got there. There wasn't even a live traffic report about them on I 95 south.

Hell, we can't even fill the school bus driver shortage here in sunny Floriduh.

[Bluethroughu]

31. Lol, how do people watch this shit and think it's real.

I couldn't make it through 15 seconds without laughing out loud at how stupid he is for saying this.

The thought of that audience getting all worked up about the bedazzled Brazilians invading Conn. Had me running to the bathroom.

[flotsam2]

33. I used to live there

The Hell with Gucci-If they wax the beaches could use them...

[BlueIdaho]

34. Man, look at those eyes...

This guy needs to lay off the sauce.