Now that Trump is back in the Oval Office, smashing up the national china and turning the White House lawn into a car lot, Democrats across the country have misplaced their mojo.
Florida Phoenix
A year and half from now there will be a brawl for who gets to replace the termed-out DeSantis. And Republicans already have a full clown car of candidates.
What we saw on Nov. 5 was the real-life equivalent of school administrators handing over the running of classrooms to bullies, fools and miscreants. Or a prison warden handing murderous inmates the keys.
Florida's legislature refused to act on DeSantis's orders, belatedly remembering they’re a co-equal branch of government, channeled their inner Bugs Bunny, and proclaimed, “Of course, you realize this means war!”
America is full-on masculine again: guns, boots, trucks, well-done 48 oz. steaks, bad beer, misogyny, rage, violence, imperialism. Daddy’s got a big belt and he’s not afraid to use it.
This is the country we’re now living in: dictatorial, unrepresentative, and deeply unkind. What will be left in four years?
As America is walks backward into what looks like a dark future. It’s sadly fitting that one of the best people in American politics died just before the presidency falls into the hands of one of the worst.
DeSantis filed a 20-page petition with the Florida Supreme Court to assemble a grand jury to investigate crimes related to the use of COVID vaccines. The result was pretty much the opposite of what he wanted.
While most Florida politicians push fossil fuels, Dixie County made the switch to a much cheaper and much cleaner energy source.
No matter how much these book-banners try to shield their children from reality. Everyone eventually crashes into it. The question is: Will they be equipped to handle it?
This is what you voted for, America: ignorant bullies, junior despots, petty mediocrities who take pleasure in others’ suffering. They’re Mean Girls and Mean Girls don’t do public service.
The Loper Bright ruling opens more federal rules to those court challenges. Blue states now have a new weapon to fight conservative federal rules on issues such as immigration, climate change, abortion access and civil rights.
Authoritarians always love the poorly educated and the mis-educated. The well-educated, the readers, the questioners, those who demand evidence, gather facts, and trust verifiable information (as opposed to propaganda) are a threat.
Press freedom groups also worry that Trump’s promises to use the federal bureaucracy to seek retribution against perceived enemies would extend to journalists.
The winner of this election is also the candidate who claims climate change is a hoax. So, it won't take too much imagination to predict what he will do to make the environment worse.
Goodbye to America defining itself as a Beacon of Hope, the Light of Freedom, or any of that other stuff they told you in 3rd grade.