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AmericanKulak says

Martha's Vineyard has a population of under 20k in the offseason, but peaks to 100k on-season. Sometimes seeing weekends with 200k persons.
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/05/18/between.seasons.marthas.vineyard/index.html

Clearly, 50 illegals should present no problem to an island with a massive surplus in rooms available.

Yeah, but it will only take a few more planeloads of illegals to make it a problem.

The left media is making claims that relocating illegal immigrants is inhumane and disrespectful to our southern brothers and sisters

Too funny

Share the load and embrace the gift of diversity
Assholes!

I think it’s funny and it’s great for publicity about the illegals. They are likely going to be stuck with nothing to do.
I grew up spending summers in Martha’s Vineyard and then lived there for a couple of years after college.
The summer visitors with houses (previously cottages or “camps”) were usually not famous nor rich, but those came too.
The entire place shut down after Labor Day almost. The locals loved September because it was still warm but they had little work to take up their time. Most people went on unemployment which almost lasted until spring.
The fall Striped bass fishing derby brought some tourists to fish, and they liked the opening of bay scallop fishing season which also gave a little boost to the economy.
The typical unemployed local if asked his occupation: “commercial fisherman.”
Everyone outside of the few towns had a well to supply water; the most important and busy guy was a well driller, and there were not enough of them.
Off season was so slow that guys did odd jobs; the West Tisbury chief of police installed the linoleum floor in our summer house the winter after it was built for $25,000.
Zillow has it $2.6 million today, the property tax is likely absurd now.
The traffic became very bad because there are no traffic lights on the island, but they need one in Vineyard Haven at “five corners.” This is an intersection and the cars coming off the ferry go here, as does traffic from Vineyard Haven to Oak Bluffs. It’s a crazy sense of pride “no signal on the island” that prevents this being fixed.
They made Jaws one summer and people were not going to the beach yet so they hired extras to populate it. The scenes of the little kid getting killed were shot in early June, my mother was an extra and said it was freezing. The kids mother who wore black and slapped Brody later on the dock (Norton and Easterbrook) was a local, not an actress. So was the guy who took the girl to the beach at night in the first scene, I met him at a party at a neighbors house. Jaws 2 needed some island (Edgartown) scenes and in September the place was deserted so I got hired as an extra for that, it was shot in Florida.

Edit; Jaws anecdotes:
Quint's side kick in the movie was a local guy Hershel; he's seen walking behind him when Quint talks to the Selectmen and offers to kill the shark. Hershel lived on a boat in Menemsha; he evidently used a plastic drum as a chamber pot and a piece of plywood on top was his table. Another local guy made fun of him: "He really does shit where he eats!"
In the scene where Hooper (Richard Dreyfus) goes to investigate a boat at night, he sees the hole in the boat and suddenly a dead guy's head moves into view and he drops the light.
That guy was Craig Kingsbury, a local weirdo who did odd jobs and mostly drove around checking the summer houses for guys like Obama and billing them for it. Nice work if you can get it.
I saw the movie in an Oak Bluffs theatre, local people would laugh at the continuity mistakes; Brody would be driving in one direction near his house in East Chop and suddenly he'd be 30 miles up island in Gay Head after taking one turn.

My friend and neighbor during the summer said that it was becoming a real pain in the ass so he sold his place and got one in Rhode Island. Getting a car on and off the island was so annoying a neighbor just bought the cheapest Toyota he could find and kept it there.
My cousin was still living there until recently (my aunt was from there) and said they had illegals from Brazil there in some kitchens. I don’t know why not Mexicans, maybe distant relatives of some local Portugese?
Edit: fun stuff to do there
I had a small sailboat; sometimes I would sail over to another island, Naushon. It has a few houses on it and it's owned by some family I think. I would sail the boat to other beaches, or sail down to a place to dig clams, or sail up to a place to go spearfishing. Sailing in itself is really fun too.
Hitchhiking was OK; we would hitch hike into town to see a movie.
My friend hitch hiked up to "Jungle Beach" in Gay Head (changed to Aquinnah) on his day off, it's a nude beach but only residents can park there so he hitched up.
We jumped off a couple of bridges which was fun for a while.
We went to a small fresh water pond called "Seth's Pond" which was great for rinsing off after the beach; this had crystal clear and comfortable water. A nearby pond was "Ice house pond" and they used to cut up the ice and sail it to India for the English if you can believe it.
Edgartown was interesting because you could see the whaling captain's houses which had a "widow's walk" on the roof; it's a flat area on the roof to see if the husband was returning from a 4 year voyage.
Sometimes we had fun scuba diving on a wreck Port Hunter which was between the island and Cape Cod.
Every year they had the Duke's County Agricultural Fair and there were mechanical rides, ferris wheel, etc. and the usual junk foods and carny games. We had fun going up there for that; the small rental camp was actually walking distance to it.

Martha’s Vinyard

Sounds like a place from hell!

Martha's Vineyard was a lot of fun for me. But, winters were weird, although very peaceful and quiet. September was the best month of all because there were leaves on the trees but not many people around.

Nantucket is much worse in the winter; you are out of sight of the mainland there, and it's much smaller and less forested.

We would refer to going to the mainland as "getting off the Rock" (Alcatraz prison).

We would leave the keys in the ignition in unlocked cars in town; cars weren't stolen (where could you go?)
The grocery store allowed charge accounts; they would just send a bill every month. I would go shopping for food with no money in my pocket.

An island guy once visited me in Santa Cruz, CA and he went surfing and left the keys in his rental van; I had to remind him he was now "off island" and to hand me the keys for safe keeping.

The locals didn't give a shit if a guy was famous; so for Obama to go to the beach near his house he needs to beg for a key to the gate to Quansoo beach just like the other visitors do. I wonder how much they charge for the key these days? Obama's house is in front of Tisbury Great Pond which is a brackish, fetid, muddy murky scary "salt pond" which nobody would swim in and the "beach" would be mud and shells.
I just thought of one of the best experiences from my summers there; I worked for successful guys from different industries and learned that successful, intelligent men were not assholes.
They are portayed as assholes and racists by the media and movies however. Envy always seems to turn to hate evidently.
The weirdos were the writers and people in entertainment; the worst were those who had inherited wealth like Kennedys.

clambo says

Martha's Vineyard was a lot of fun for me

Kurt Vonnegut and Norman Mailer were celebrity residents and from 1968 to 1969 Tony Costa (1944-1974) was one of the first in an era of serial killers who made hash of some good looking young girls before being caught.

Tony Costa was over on Cape Cod, so were Vonnegut and Mailer.

The writer I met was Willian Styron who was writing Sophie's Choice at the time. Art Buchwald was around and so was John Hersey.

I used to visit a friend on Chappaquiddick "Chappy" and I drove by the little house rented by Teddy Kennedy to have the drunken party before he drove into the water at Dyke Bridge and Mary Jo suffocated (she was found scrunched up in the back window of the submerged car, she didn't drown).

They are already freaking out on the island; they are being FLOWN to a military base on Cape Cod, it's an emergency!

Fucking government goldbricks with nothing to do flew over to pick them up.

Funny, I had to take the ferry and a bus from Falmouth to go anywhere, it must be nice to travel in style.

This was our summer rental before we had a real house.
Behind the trees a bit would be Obama's place.
This one had no 1. electricity 2. running water 3. phone
The water was a hand pump; flush toilets with buckets.
Gas ran the refrigerator and stove; kerosene lamps were for the dark of night.
A lot of people rented places or owned small places, they were called "cottages" or "camps".
Social climbing nuveau riche like Obamas feel the need to ruin the summer and build a giant place; your summer is spent arranging for the guys to come out and fix the shingles, the roof, paint, drill a new water well, etc. etc.
Nobody local played golf either.

BayArea says

Martha’s Vinyard

Sounds like a place from hell!

I'd agree. I'm not a fan of most of the east coast. There are spots, but the major metro areas can suck on a horses cock, which is most of the eastern coast until you get to NC.

I also don't like places like Martha's Vineyard. Extravagant showing of wealth is fucking tacky as shit. I like large plots of land to have adult toys to play with (not sex toys....). I don't need a big house. I frankly don't want to be in my house besides cooking, showering and sleeping. I don't think I'd ever go bigger than 4 bed, 4 bath and 2,200 sq. ft. with the kids currently and would be fine as a couple with a 2/2 around 1,200 sq. ft. Living in IL you don't want to be here, so the house isn't that important. The $$$ is though, at least for us. Far enough away from Chicago too.

A major attraction is the temperature of the islands is moderate in the summer; when NYC is hell, it's comfortable there.

The beaches are nice and the water is not hot (like the Gulf of Mexico). I was recently at Sarasota Florida and the Gulf is disgusting, like swimming in hot soup.

You can sit at the beach without worrying about getting fried to a crisp; August in Florida is super hot at the beach and I never ever take off my nylon shirt.
The views are great. The old buildings are nice to see.
For a tourist it probaby sucks; the access to beaches is limited.

For my money, I would go to Prince Edward Island in Canada; it's beaufiful and the gulf stream hits it so the ocean isn't freezine like Maine.
I hope the bigshots don't ruin Prince Edward Island too soon, it's great up there.

WookieMan says

BayArea says

Martha’s Vinyard

Sounds like a place from hell!

I'd agree. I'm not a fan of most of the east coast. There are spots, but the major metro areas can suck on a horses cock, which is most of the eastern coast until you get to NC.

I also don't like places like Martha's Vineyard. Extravagant showing of wealth is fucking tacky as shit. I like large plots of land to have adult toys to play with (not sex toys....). I don't need a big house. I frankly don't want to be in my house besides cooking, showering and sleeping. I don't think I'd ever go bigger than 4 bed, 4 bath and 2,200 sq. ft. with the kids currently and would be fine as a couple with a 2/2 around 1,200 sq. ft. Living in IL you don't want to be here, so the house isn't that important. The $$$ is though, at least for us. Far enough away from Chicago too.

Are you looking forward to the beginning of the Safe-T Act in January 2023?

They already called in the National Guard to ship them to Lowell or Worcester.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-massachusetts-deploys-national-guard-to-assist-in-removal-of-illegal-aliens-from-marthas-vineyard

i thought democrats wanted illegals, whats the problem?

ZipperTits says

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

i thought democrats wanted illegals, whats the problem?

You should see how they are spinning this.

all i noticed is that for a chick who was all pro trans she yet doesn’t have gender pronouns. oddity…

AmericanKulak says

2. If they accept the illegals, that creates more problems for them and puts pressure on them to change policy.

Why would they change a policy that drives down property prices and drives out middle class home-owners so large financial firms can eat for cheap and make big profits? We're not operating under the assumption that anyone currently in power is concerned with the well being of the American citizens, are we?

As someone in NYC, I'd like to establish that the pressure against illegal immigration and crime has been up amongst the populous but those that would control the media make us look like some monolithic liberal idiot city, maybe because it stokes more division nationally. The legal immigrants know that many of these illegals are gang affiliated because they're the same people they ran from. Many immigrant neighborhoods (particular Asian) had Curtis Silwa (R) signs before the last mayoral election but the elite stranglehold on NYC is a powerful one.

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

i thought democrats wanted illegals, whats the problem?

Yes, but not in their backyard.

clambo says

This was our summer rental before we had a real house.
Behind the trees a bit would be Obama's place.
This one had no 1. electricity 2. running water 3. phone
The water was a hand pump; flush toilets with buckets.
Gas ran the refrigerator and stove; kerosene lamps were for the dark of night.
A lot of people rented places or owned small places, they were called "cottages" or "camps".
Social climbing nuveau riche like Obamas feel the need to ruin the summer and build a giant place; your summer is spent arranging for the guys to come out and fix the shingles, the roof, paint, drill a new water well, etc. etc.
Nobody local played golf either.

That looks like a miniature version of "Grey Gardens."

Back in the day, "Nobody, I Mean Nobody" (Foghorn Leghorn reference) built right near the North Atlantic Coast. Nor'easters would destroy anything over a hard winter.

All the old-school (pre- 1950's) rich would find the highest ground for miles and build a mansion on top of it. Case in point: Johnstown, PA, where the rich had their palace on the hill. Needless to say, the plebes got more than they could drink when things went tits up.

When we take back the government, the DoD and VA should buy R&R and Rehab facilities in Martha's, in Southhampton, along the CT shoreline, etc. for recovering wounded and PTSD vets.

Not to be snarky, they really are relaxing, beautiful places.

Of course the residents will be PISSED

If I lived closer to this island, I would buy a Greta mask and walk around, maybe in grocery stores and such, pointing at people and playing a sampled "how dare you!" from my speakerphone while wearing a "no human is illegal" shirt.

Tell their punk asses to convert one of their mansion's "3rd dining rooms" into housing for needy brown people to prove theyre arent bigoted. Be enriched.

TX and FL need to rapidly buy many more buses and significantly increase the volume. Maybe send them to blue states with a care package that includes flags and tshirts that say something clever that will get into dem's heads.

DeSantis breaks Gubernatorial Fundraising Records.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/09/florida-gov-ron-desantis-breaks-gubernatorial-fundraising-record/

They should bus a few thousand Chicago gang bangers into the vineyard. Give 'em a taste of the thug life.

ZipperTits says

From MSNBC on the ground at Martha's Vineyard:

THEY ARE VERY WELL-RECEIVED!!!

You forgot the third tenant it touches on.

Overwhelm, their system until it collapses on itself .
Which is what they are trying to do to our boarder, and immigration. But by bussing them to the big blue rich places, it will put the kybosh on their giddy little Alinsky romp.

Booger says

thats sadly accurate

Lol! a bus unloaded 50 illegal next to Kamala today. Let’s see how it goes. Till Election Day, one bus load should be sent to each great politician randomly. It’s fun to watch. In reality no party is helping economy anyway.

haha yes!!

That's a funny quote above.
The dimwit liberals on the Vineyard were sometimes so absurdly funny.
Anecdote: Once I went to a summer visitor's house and his wife served some iced tea and put a sprig of mint in it.
"We grew this mint; we're living off the land."

So can't use NG on the border to capture or turn the wetbacks away, but it's perfectly OK to use it inside the country for pretty much the same purpose?

A small plane towing a banner with the words “Vineyard Hypocrites” has been seen circling in up-Island airspace Monday morning.

According to Martha’s Vineyard Airport Director Geoff Freeman, the plane did not originate from the Island’s main airport, nor did it take off from the much smaller, private Katama Airfield, according to their representatives.

Freeman told The Times that the small plane is not communicating with MVY air traffic control tower.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), small planes like the one seen above the Vineyard Monday morning are not required to be in communication with air traffic control. Typically, such planes that fly below 1,400 feet are not seen on tower radar, and are exempt from the aviation regulations abided by larger commercial planes.

https://www.mvtimes.com/2022/09/19/marthas-vineyard-remains-national-spotlight/