You begin to wonder if there’s something about Florida that encourages a complete disregard not just of decent behavior but of the rule of law.
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DeSantis and his cronies are more than eager to be in on the immigrant cruelty delivery business by creating a detention center in the middle of the Everglades.
In a rare moment of sanity during this year’s legislative session, a bill to lower minimum wage failed. But the governor and Legislature succeeded in casting citizens’ ballot initiatives as ethically and legally dubious.
84-year-old historian and scholar Dr. Marvin Dunn is living proof of the wretched history of the Jim Crow era that DeSantis and MAGA so desperately want to hide.
DeSantis blew up the search for UF's new president. Seems the finalists, admired scholars and seasoned leaders, are crypto-Marxist, Trump-hating eggheads bent on destroying America.
The relationship between Ron DeSantis and his former rubber-stamp, "give him any law he wants" legislature has devolved into a Three-Stooges like slap fight.
The DeSantis blitzkrieg through higher education has included book bans and removing women’s studies, African American history, and critical race theory from university curricula.
In a state that has redefined slavery as a "job training program," advancing a bill to combat the conspiracy theory of "chemtrails" being used to spray populations or control the weather sounds perfectly logical.
Employers can’t believe their luck: It’s almost as good as exploiting undocumented workers. Florida’s powerful will always protect their own children. They just don’t give a damn about yours.
DeSantis has his eyes firmly set on running for the White House in 2028, which necessitates rebuilding the frayed ties with Trump and his loyal supporters.
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.
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?
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