DeSantis / Youngkin 2024

[ChumpDumper]

Maybe you could argue for Alpha but even then probably not in young people under 45 or so. Delta even less of a case, and I had omicron in Dec 2021-Jan 2022 and I'm as healthy as I was if not healthier before it. Yeah, it was a shitty couple weeks, but after taking hydroxychloroquine and azithroymycin, I was just fine.

Proudly a Pureblood here :tu , unvaccinated but fully protected. My gun collection is bigger than yours.

:lmao of course you need to compensate

[Winehole23]

that's literally the only reason he didn't announce in November 2022. He jumps into the race now and he'll be edging out Trump in the polls by mid summer this year.



Cope and seethe and just embrace the bitter truth that you voluntarily shortened the lifespan of your ticker by voluntarily getting a government-pushed poison jab. :lolNah, you're full of shit. I went three years without getting it, because I protected myself. And when I got it, my disease progression was mild for the same reason.

[Winehole23]

Warp Speed was a game changer, next generation prevention and treatment will be too.

[Millennial_Messiah]

:lmao of course you need to compensate

Compensate for what? I'm also 7.75" and my circumference is too much for even a Trojan Magnum to handle, in case that's what you were wondering.


Warp Speed was a game changer, next generation prevention and treatment will be too.

Warp Speed is the main reason why I don't like Trump and won't support or endorse Trump 2024.

Trump claimed he wanted to drain the swamp. Empty promises... Warp speed vax shit? That IS the swamp, orange dingus :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Compensate for what? I'm also 7.75" and my circumference is too much for even a Trojan Magnum to handle, in case that's what you were wondering.



Warp Speed is the main reason why I don't like Trump and won't support or endorse Trump 2024.:lmao you are without a doubt the most overtly insecure poster here.


Trump claimed he wanted to drain the swamp. Empty promises... Warp speed vax shit? That IS the swamp, orange dingus :lol

It's the only effective thing he did for the country and you got left out because of your insecurity. Of course you hate it.

[Ef-man]

:lmao

Walt Disney Co. sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, alleging the Republican governor has waged a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power” against the company amid a protracted fight over a controversial classroom bill.

The federal lawsuit alleges that DeSantis “orchestrated at every step” a campaign to punish Disney that now threatens the company’s business.

[Winehole23]

Voiding contracts because Disney criticized DeSantis is kind of unamerican and kind of antibusiness. Political donations are core free speech in Florida, but political speech is subject to official retaliation.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FupxG_DWIAAUGs-?format=jpg&name=900x900

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.463456/gov.uscourts.flnd.463456.1.0.pdf

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FupxrnLWIAIHcrg?format=png&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

Anti-wokeness at the level of law and government policy is viewpoint discrimination pure and simple.

[Winehole23]

I basically agree with Elie Mystal. Disney's special purpose district is screwy and undemocratic all by itself, but Florida is retaliating against Disney for criticizing Ron's antigay jihad.

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[Winehole23]

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[Splits]

that's literally the only reason he didn't announce in November 2022. He jumps into the race now and he'll be edging out Trump in the polls by mid summer this year.


Dude, just stop with your predictions. All they do is tell us what won't happen. You are hater-level

[Ef-man]

Ron DeSantis Just Lost Another Donor

Meatball Ron has lost a second donor in two weeks after a New York-based billionaire who supported Donald Trump in his 2020 presidential bid ruled out supporting the Florida governor in any potential run for the White House.

In an interview on Wednesday, John Catsimatidis—a supermarket and property magnate with an estimated $4.1 billion fortune—claimed he was pulling any future funding of the Republican over a lack of access. "Why would I support somebody to become president of the United States that doesn't return phone calls?" he told the Washington Examiner.

This news came after major GOP donor Thomas Peterffy—a financier and the 65th richest man in the world with a net worth of $25 billion—said he had put donations to DeSantis "on hold" over his stance on abortion and book banning.

[Will Hunting]

:lmao

Walt Disney Co. sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, alleging the Republican governor has waged a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power” against the company amid a protracted fight over a controversial classroom bill.

The federal lawsuit alleges that DeSantis “orchestrated at every step” a campaign to punish Disney that now threatens the company’s business.
Disney has him dead to rights too.

Normally political retaliation claims are very hard to substantiate, except in this instance they're being made against a fat bombastic wop who's guinea brain was retarded enough to give speeches about how he was retaliating against Disney for political reasons.

[Will Hunting]

that's literally the only reason he didn't announce in November 2022. He jumps into the race now and he'll be edging out Trump in the polls by mid summer this year.:lol
:lol bullshit

The Florida state leg has been in session since early March, and DeSantis could have called a special legislative session even earlier if he wanted to. It's no secret that the FL state leg does whatever DeSantis wants; this change to the resign-to-run law could have been done ages ago.

He waited until the end of Florida's legislative session (early May) because he thought it would benefit him to pass a bunch of stupid culture war bills in Florida before announcing when all he did was give Trump a 4 month head start on caving his face in.

[Ef-man]

Disney has him dead to rights too.

Normally political retaliation claims are very hard to substantiate, except in this instance they're being made against a fat bombastic wop who's guinea brain was retarded enough to give speeches about how he was retaliating against Disney for political reasons.

Headline after Disney lawsuit announcement should have been: “Disney Catches Ron with Fingers in Pudding!”

[Millennial_Messiah]

Disney has him dead to rights too.

Normally political retaliation claims are very hard to substantiate, except in this instance they're being made against a fat bombastic wop who's guinea brain was retarded enough to give speeches about how he was retaliating against Disney for political reasons.
It will be thrown out in the Florida (right wing) court as a frivolous lawsuit. Plaintiff will pay damages and attorney's fees.

Nimrata actually invited Disney to go move to Myrtle Beach in SC. Bold move attacking Desantis from the left :lmao but she's about as electable for the GOP as Liz Cheney at this point.

Disney having the autonomous woke capitalistic government within a sovereign state, like Vatican City within Italy, is one of the most anti-American thing that exists along with the BLM (the federal agency, not the domestic terrorist cult) land out west and the Indian reservations, but at least you feel sorry for the American Indians because we displaced so many of them hundreds of years ago.

Also, your clam chowdah Masshole Anglo-Saxon liberal xenophobic schtick is played out. Wop, guinea, guido, zip, goomba, pizza... and you claim to be the party of anti-racism.

[Splits]

It will be thrown out in the Florida (right wing) court as a frivolous lawsuit. Plaintiff will pay damages and attorney's fees.



well if hater_Messiah predicts it, we know this ain't happening

[Splits]

Disney has him dead to rights too.

Normally political retaliation claims are very hard to substantiate, except in this instance they're being made against a fat bombastic wop who's guinea brain was retarded enough to give speeches about how he was retaliating against Disney for political reasons.

It doesn't even matter if Disney has him on the facts or not. This is just politically stupid. They have access to one of the worlds largest and best sets of lawyers. There's no way this is going to be over before the election unless Florida just gives up and settles, then he's a big loser and Trump rips his head off. And his dumbass MAGA voter base has the attention span of ducks. They'll either go shoot up Disney World or forget what this is even about in a few hours but he's got to deal with it throughout the campaign and any non-retard/MAGA voter is like "wtf he at war with Disney we love Disney!"

It's political suicide. Too bad he's already dead.

[Will Hunting]

It will be thrown out in the Florida (right wing) court as a frivolous lawsuit. Plaintiff will pay damages and attorney's fees.
It's in federal court and the judge hearing the case is a progressive Obama appointee.

Swing and miss as usual.

[pgardn]

It will be thrown out in the Florida (right wing) court as a frivolous lawsuit. Plaintiff will pay damages and attorney's fees.

Nimrata actually invited Disney to go move to Myrtle Beach in SC. Bold move attacking Desantis from the left :lmao but she's about as electable for the GOP as Liz Cheney at this point.

Disney having the autonomous woke capitalistic government within a sovereign state, like Vatican City within Italy, is one of the most anti-American thing that exists along with the BLM (the federal agency, not the domestic terrorist cult) land out west and the Indian reservations, but at least you feel sorry for the American Indians because we displaced so many of them hundreds of years ago.

Also, your clam chowdah Masshole Anglo-Saxon liberal xenophobic schtick is played out. Wop, guinea, guido, zip, goomba, pizza... and you claim to be the party of anti-racism.

So this is close to your understanding that a 1 or 2 degree change in the temperature of the atmosphere and ocean have zero effect on climate.
You gotta start sticking to topics you actually know. Are there any?

[Winehole23]

DeSantis's rubber stamp lege, totally bereft of self-respect, totally out of touch.

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[ElNono]

I think one of the interesting subplots in this is campaign financing longer term. Disney simply prints money, there's no scenario where this fatso doesn't end up a big loser, the question is what the cost to Florida's GOP long term is going to be.

[Winehole23]

I think one of the interesting subplots in this is campaign financing longer term. Disney simply prints money, there's no scenario where this fatso doesn't end up a big loser, the question is what the cost to Florida's GOP long term is going to be.Apparently, Pudding Ron wrote it all down in his memoir.

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[SnakeBoy]

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[ChumpDumper]

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You are the enemy because you hate America.

[ElNono]

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lol @ "they"... MAGAtards still butthurt they got owned by Brandon...

[Ef-man]

Dark Brandon takes no prisoners.

https://a.pinatafarm.com/3000x1680/b5ebccf553/dark-brandon-153d7e6da3b403a6983b302ae418f584-meme.jpeg

[Winehole23]

Similar shit happened in Georgia a few years back when they cracked down on immigrants. GA GOP speedran that shit back.

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[ChumpDumper]

Is he about to sneeze?

Has he been shot?

Did he step on a Lego?

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[Winehole23]

live, laugh, love

[Winehole23]

DeSantis's sing song cadence reminds me a little of Al Gore

[Splits]

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[Winehole23]

As governor, DeSantis is the chairman of the Florida State Board of Administration (SBA), which appoints officials who make and approve investments for the state’s $180 billion (https://www.sbafla.com/fsb/Portals/FSB/Content/Performance/Annual/2021-2022-AIR.pdf?ver=2022-12-20-133041-763) retirement fund. The SBA’s other trustees are state Attorney General Ashley Moody and state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, two Republicans who are close allies of DeSantis.https://www.levernews.com/desantis-allows-anti-woke-giveaway-to-big-wall-street-donors/

[Millennial_Messiah]

He wants to raise U.S. retirement, Social Security, and Medicare age to 70.
He's gone aloof and gone to multiple countries in the past week like he's some sort of statesman. Seriously? I get going to Iowa, but you're the Florida governor. Stay in your fucking lane.
He just endorsed an absolute loser for Kentucky governor who got shellacked in the primary last night and finished a distant third place, not even cracking 20.0% :lmao

The more I get to know Desantis, the less I like him as a U.S. presidential prospect, and that may even go for 2028 and beyond now honestly.

He's been based as Florida governor. But I think he's lowered his own ceiling to that lately. Maybe he can be some cabinet position in a future GOP administration, or a senator when Rick Scott retires some day.

[Winehole23]

Eulogy for your own thread. I predict DeSantis will disappoint you again.

Amen.


The more I get to know Desantis, the less I like him as a U.S. presidential prospect, and that may even go for 2028 and beyond now honestly.

He's been based as Florida governor. But I think he's lowered his own ceiling to that lately. Maybe he can be some cabinet position in a future GOP administration, or a senator when Rick Scott retires some day.

[HemisfairArena]

He wants to raise U.S. retirement, Social Security, and Medicare age to 70.
He's gone aloof and gone to multiple countries in the past week like he's some sort of statesman. Seriously? I get going to Iowa, but you're the Florida governor. Stay in your fucking lane.
He just endorsed an absolute loser for Kentucky governor who got shellacked in the primary last night and finished a distant third place, not even cracking 20.0% :lmao

The more I get to know Desantis, the less I like him as a U.S. presidential prospect, and that may even go for 2028 and beyond now honestly.

He's been based as Florida governor. But I think he's lowered his own ceiling to that lately. Maybe he can be some cabinet position in a future GOP administration, or a senator when Rick Scott retires some day.

Remember when you made a thread proclaiming DeSantis as the new king of the republican party?,,,,I responded no way,,,Trump still rules the roost. And if DeSantis won the primary,,,I would even vote against him,,,thats what i posted and that is how bad Desantis is right now. Now a ticket of Trump/DeSantis would be the best just for sheer numbers and galvanizing the republican party but DeSantis as the main choice would almost be as bad as picking Ted Cruz.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Trump still rules the roost.

Correct.


if DeSantis won the primary,,,I would even vote against him,,,thats what i posted and that is how bad Desantis is right now.

That is mind-numbingly stupid. You have to vote red no matter the head... en masse... it's the only way we can counter blue no matter who and actually save the country. If PA voted blue no matter who for senator in 2022, we have to vote red no matter the head. In record numbers.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face is fucktarded.


Now a ticket of Trump/DeSantis would be the best just for sheer numbers and galvanizing the republican party

Correct.


DeSantis as the main choice would almost be as bad as picking Ted Cruz.

Incorrect. He would perform better than Ted Cruz. He would probably be a better POTUS than Cruz as well. Though he would have a hard time winning a bellwether state like Wisconsin. However I do believe Pennsylvania is too far gone after 2022. You have to run the table with GA/AZ/WI which is still doable but Trump and the GOP need to fix the turnout operation there especially in the suburbs and exurbs. Nevada is another possibility but the polls always seem to be too optimistic there. However having a pretty solid GOP governor there now in place may change things quite a bit. Losing all the house seats and senate seat in 2022 there was a blackpill though.

[Splits]

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[SnakeBoy]

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lol triggered germaphobes

[ChumpDumper]

lol triggered germaphobes

lmao mucus fetishist

[Winehole23]

so much social awkwardness in one studio might cause an implosion.


DeSantis Set to Announce 2024 Run on Twitter With Elon Musk


Adding a twist to the beginning of his presidential campaign, the Florida governor is expected to appear on a live audio conversation with Mr. Musk, the social platform’s owner, on Wednesday evening.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/us/politics/desantis-elon-musk-twitter.html

[Winehole23]

The DeSantis event with Mr. Musk will be moderated by David Sacks, a Republican donor who is a supporter of the governor and is close to Mr. Musk. Mr. Sacks, a technology entrepreneur and investor, donated $50,000 to Mr. DeSantis’s state political committee ahead of his re-election, campaign finance records show. He has spoken positively of the governor’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic in Florida. “He was the first governor to stop these insane lockdowns,” Mr. Sacks said (https://twitter.com/BloombergTV/status/1448075778143526918?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1448075778143526918%7Ctwgr% 5E8f843582d9c9f06b28f2c2771d7bc7e37aa0de0f%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.realclearpolitics.com%2F video%2F2021%2F10%2F13%2Ftech_investor_david_sacks _defends_hosting_desantis_fundraiser_he_was_first_ to_stop_insane_lockdowns.html) on Bloomberg TV in 2021. “I respect that.”

[Winehole23]

:lol

Twitter Spaces glitched out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fw7lmdRWYAEU3cq?format=jpg&name=small

[Winehole23]

an audio only launch on a platform less reliable than radio, what genius thought that up?

maybe DeSantis doesn't exactly have a face for TV, but it's not like his voice makes up for it.

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao

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[spurraider21]

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great ad for the dems tbh

[pgardn]

great ad for the dems tbh

Right?

wtf is wrong with his campaign, this was made for DeSantis?

and...
wtf is wrong with snaked?

[ElNono]

Right?

wtf is wrong with his campaign, this was made for DeSantis?

and...
wtf is wrong with snaked?

He got throttled by the Bidenator... never recovered, tbh

[SnakeBoy]

great ad for the dems tbh

Misinformation ,fearmongering, lashing out at others out of irrational fear does sound about right for dems

[ElNono]

Misinformation ,fearmongering, lashing out at others out of irrational fear does sound about right for dems

The irony of this coming from the party of "anti-woke" :lmao

[Winehole23]

Dis you?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxC9WawWYAA1cPI?format=jpg&name=small

[HemisfairArena]

DeSantis has no chance.

[Ef-man]

Flip-flopping meatball ron caught with fingers in pudding, again. :lol

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is attacking former President Donald Trump for “turning the country over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci in March 2020” but DeSantis was praising the chief public health official at the same time in previously unreported quotes, saying Fauci was “really, really good and really, really helpful” and “really doing a good job.”

https://www.cnn.com/ron-desantis-fauci-trump-covid (https://www.cnn.com/ron-desantis-fauci-trump-covid)

[Millennial_Messiah]

Flip-flopping meatball ron caught with fingers in pudding, again. :lol

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is attacking former President Donald Trump for “turning the country over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci in March 2020” but DeSantis was praising the chief public health official at the same time in previously unreported quotes, saying Fauci was “really, really good and really, really helpful” and “really doing a good job.”

(https://www.cnn.com/ron-desantis-fauci-trump-covid)https://www.cnn.com/ron-desantis-fauci-trump-covid

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this desantis voter just jumped back on the trump 2024 bandwagon in a hurry :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

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this desantis voter just jumped back on the trump 2024 bandwagon in a hurry :lol

You were always voting GOP, old man.

[Millennial_Messiah]

You were always voting GOP, old man.

Yeah, I mean I'll support desantis if he wins the primary, but he has about the same chance at winning the primary at this point as he has of turning the moon into green cheese. His poll numbers actually have tanked considerably in the past week since he announced formally. :lol

I bet he'll suspend his campaign sooner than later to save face. Maybe after IA/NH/SC/NV or so. He'll drop out and endorse Trump. It's a shame because he's been such a based governor in Florida but he's simply too green to be POTUS in 2025. Maybe next cycle. I think a lot of it isn't his fault though. The GOP establishment, the Karl Rove and Koch types drafting him to run because they're tired of Trump, Mike Lindell and QAnon religion-based conspiracy theories and want to get back to winning elections but still with the same or similar policy as Trump, but don't realize that Desantis is just not really electable at the national level at the top of the ticket at this point.

Perhaps the Desantis VP / Trump POTUS 2024 idea is still in the cards, especially if he drops out early. Trump or Desantis would need to renounce his Florida residence for that to happen, and it doesn't make sense for Desantis. Trump has homes in multiple places but Nevada makes the most sense because he's not in legal trouble there and it's a purple swing state and winnable and there's a juicy senate seat up for grabs there in '24. He switched from NY in 2016 to FL in 2020 so switching domicile to a state like NV would not be past Trump imo. Also, no state income tax in NV just like FL.

[CosmicCowboy]

Yeah, I mean I'll support desantis if he wins the primary, but he has about the same chance at winning the primary at this point as he has of turning the moon into green cheese. His poll numbers actually have tanked considerably in the past week since he announced formally. :lol

I bet he'll suspend his campaign sooner than later to save face. Maybe after IA/NH/SC/NV or so. He'll drop out and endorse Trump. It's a shame because he's been such a based governor in Florida but he's simply too green to be POTUS in 2025. Maybe next cycle. I think a lot of it isn't his fault though. The GOP establishment, the Karl Rove and Koch types drafting him to run because they're tired of Trump, Mike Lindell and QAnon religion-based conspiracy theories and want to get back to winning elections but still with the same or similar policy as Trump, but don't realize that Desantis is just not really electable at the national level at the top of the ticket at this point.

Perhaps the Desantis VP / Trump POTUS 2024 idea is still in the cards, especially if he drops out early. Trump or Desantis would need to renounce his Florida residence for that to happen, and it doesn't make sense for Desantis. Trump has homes in multiple places but Nevada makes the most sense because he's not in legal trouble there and it's a purple swing state and winnable and there's a juicy senate seat up for grabs there in '24. He switched from NY in 2016 to FL in 2020 so switching domicile to a state like NV would not be past Trump imo. Also, no state income tax in NV just like FL.

He apparently has an extremely well funded and organized ground game in Iowa and New Hampshire. I wouldn't write him off at this point.

[Winehole23]

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says it has completed its investigation into the transport of 49 migrants from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard last September by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and filed criminal charges with the local district attorney.


A statement from the sheriff’s office says it has filed several counts of unlawful restraint, both misdemeanors and felonies. The sheriff’s office didn’t name any individual suspects and didn’t specify when the investigation was turned over to the Bexar County district attorney.


“At this time, the case is being reviewed by the DA’s office. Once an update is available, it will be provided to the public,” the statement said.https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/05/texas-san-antonio-migrant-flight-marthas-vineyard-criminal-charges/

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

He apparently has an extremely well funded and organized ground game in Iowa and New Hampshire. I wouldn't write him off at this point.Supposing Trump doesn't die, I would.

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[Adam Lambert]

Supposing Trump doesn't die, I would.

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The GE matchup part is wild, and it's hilarious that even with this information the GOP will show up in droves for the reality TV clown.

[Winehole23]

The GE matchup part is wild, and it's hilarious that even with this information the GOP will show up in droves for the reality TV clown.With or without Trump, the GOP remains Trumpist. His main challenger, idiotically, is attempting to out-Trump Trump.

Why vote for a pretender when you can have the real thing?

Supposing Trump gets convicted in his December trial in the docs case, I don't see the GOP picking someone else -- the danger of Trump running all on his own could easily sink any alternate candidate.

[Winehole23]

Recently Truthed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0Uw-gDXwAEk5a2?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Winehole23]

Dark horse: Vivek Ramaswamy


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0SyCI6X0BQS4Z8?format=png&name=900x900

[boutons_deux]

DeSantis' policies wound Florida's economy as conventioneers flee (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/7/2179870/-DeSantis-policies-wound-Florida-s-economy-as-conventioneers-flee)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/7/2179870/-DeSantis-policies-wound-Florida-s-economy-as-conventioneers-flee

[boutons_deux]

racist, hater, misogynist Desantis passes conveniently vague genral law to screw women out of alimony

1000s of Repug women could switch party and campaign for Dems

[boutons_deux]

xenophobe Desantis chased immigrants out FL, crops rotting, construction halted

:lol

[boutons_deux]

DeSantis agenda leads to concerns about a Florida ‘brain drain’

In theory, it might seem easy for universities in Florida to recruit top-tier academic talent.

In practice, Ron DeSantis' agenda has created a problem.

Ron DeSantis (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/desantis-defends-anti-lgbtq-video-totally-fair-game-rcna92885), Florida’s ambitious Republican governor,

has already denounced college majors he disagrees with,

suggesting publicly (https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1658181262333337602) that if he disapproves of your undergraduate field of study,

you should simply relocate to some other state.

DeSantis has similarly

waged a strange campaign against “woke” ideas in higher education,

ended on-campus diversity programs, and targeted tenure.

such tactics would push some professors to take positions in other states,

while discouraging other top professors from considering Florida schools.

“some signs of an exodus are apparent.”

a candidate for a position in the philosophy department who “took a job at a lower-ranked school in another state, pointing to Florida’s political climate.”

a prospective finance professor concerned about the future of tenure in the state also took a position elsewhere.

an ecology professor said open positions that once drew over 200 applicants now see fewer than 20.

The African American studies department at UF made nine offers while trying to fill three positions. None accepted.

A report from the American Association of University Professors pointed to a law school position that couldn’t be filled and

said some candidates were turning down Florida offers with nothing else lined up.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/desantis-agenda-leads-concerns-florida-brain-drain-rcna93427

Exactly how fascism purges, homogenizes education to conform to fascist politics

[pgardn]

The irony of this coming from the party of "anti-woke" :lmao

Not to mention this is what the red team does best, hypocrisy de jour.

[pgardn]

Recently Truthed

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0Uw-gDXwAEk5a2?format=jpg&name=900x900

Did Joey "calf tats hate my grandma" approve this image?

The resident maleness inspector must put his stamp on this.

[ChumpDumper]

I'm not sure he knows how insurance works.

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[Winehole23]

The Gov trying to stay positive about the future of Florida, but comes across as assuaging/self-soothing. Such a weirdo.

[Ef-man]

I'm not sure he knows how insurance works.

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Mama mia! Meatball Ron's mama must ah have drop him on floor too many times as baby!

[Ef-man]

C'est la vie

Convention organizers are pulling out of Florida, which is devastating knock-on tourism and causing panic over the future of the industry, experts warned in a report Friday.

When asked for a reason why they were scrapping plans, one organizer wrote simply: “Governor DeSantis.”

More than half a dozen planned conventions in Broward County, which encompasses the Fort Lauderdale area, have been scrapped in recent months, according to a list drawn up by the county’s tourism promotion group Visit Lauderdale and reported by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-tourism/

[Millennial_Messiah]

C'est la vie

Convention organizers are pulling out of Florida, which is devastating knock-on tourism and causing panic over the future of the industry, experts warned in a report Friday.

When asked for a reason why they were scrapping plans, one organizer wrote simply: “Governor DeSantis.”

More than half a dozen planned conventions in Broward County, which encompasses the Fort Lauderdale area, have been scrapped in recent months, according to a list drawn up by the county’s tourism promotion group Visit Lauderdale and reported by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

https://www.rawstory.com/desantis-tourism/
Good. They can take their shitty vax-mandate mask-mandate woke business to Oregon or Massachusetts or some forever democrat run state like that. Florida is where woke goes to die and woke companies go (or stay) to die. I hope we can win California back too at some point in the next handful of cycles.


Mama mia! Meatball Ron's mama must ah have drop him on floor too many times as baby!
C'mon. That's racist. Italians don't talk like that. No one even from Staten Island talks like that. No Italian American I know talks like that. Not even the guidos on Jersey Shore talks like that.

[Ef-man]

C'mon. That's racist. Italians don't talk like that. No one even from Staten Island talks like that. No Italian American I know talks like that. Not even the guidos on Jersey Shore talks like that.

Of course guidos speak that way, you obviously have not been around them. :lol

[Winehole23]

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[Ef-man]

3-yer old driving a golf cart? Is this a FL/GA thing and why is it just being made illegal? Are there no adults in the fucking state? JFC!


A 3-year-old driving a golf cart hit and killed a 7-year-old in Florida, police say

A 3-year-old driving a golf cart struck and killed a 7-year-old on Monday afternoon in Fort Myers, Florida, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol.

The 3-year-old was approaching a right curve near a home on private property when the front of the cart hit the 7-year-old who was standing in the front yard, the release said.

The older child was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, the release said. The 3-year-old wasn’t hurt.

Concerns about minors driving golf carts in Florida recently prompted the passage of a new state law, CNN affiliate WJFX reported. Anyone under the age of 18 will soon need to have a permit or driver’s license to drive a golf cart, the station reported last month.

The bill was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis and goes into effect October 1.

https://www.cnn.com/fort-myers-golf-cart-child-death (https://www.cnn.com/fort-myers-golf-cart-child-death)

[ChumpDumper]

3-yer old driving a golf cart? Is this a FL/GA thing and why is it just being made illegal? Are there no adults in the fucking state? JFC!


A 3-year-old driving a golf cart hit and killed a 7-year-old in Florida, police say

A 3-year-old driving a golf cart struck and killed a 7-year-old on Monday afternoon in Fort Myers, Florida, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol.

The 3-year-old was approaching a right curve near a home on private property when the front of the cart hit the 7-year-old who was standing in the front yard, the release said.

The older child was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, the release said. The 3-year-old wasn’t hurt.

Concerns about minors driving golf carts in Florida recently prompted the passage of a new state law, CNN affiliate WJFX reported. Anyone under the age of 18 will soon need to have a permit or driver’s license to drive a golf cart, the station reported last month.

The bill was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis and goes into effect October 1.

https://www.cnn.com/fort-myers-golf-cart-child-death (https://www.cnn.com/fort-myers-golf-cart-child-death)

The seven year old was blocking traffic protesting for Antifa.

[Ef-man]

The seven year old was blocking traffic protesting for Antifa.

Yes, but he should have been armed and stood his ground by firing on that fascist 3 year-old, just saying.

[SnakeBoy]

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this desantis voter just jumped back on the trump 2024 bandwagon in a hurry :lol

It's been surprising to me just how bad of a campaign desantis has been running. Seems like he is listening to the same consultants that Jeb! had.

[SnakeBoy]

Damn Ron

https://mediadc.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/4ac4155/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1286x578+0+0/resize/1534x690!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F03%2F4a%2F2cc3883344 fbbfb5c0a6d4b39245%2Fscreen-shot-2023-07-20-at-3.01.01%20PM.png

[Millennial_Messiah]

Damn Ron

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Damn... Low Energy Ron! is seriously going to get beat out in the primary by the computer programmer help desk guy. :lmao

[Winehole23]

Damn... Low Energy Ron! is seriously going to get beat out in the primary by the computer programmer help desk guy. :lmaoracist af, but we already knew that about you.


Early life and family

Ramaswamy was born on August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati), to Indian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_people) Hindu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu) immigrant parents,[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3) and was raised in Ohio.[5] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-CincinnatiBC-5) His family are Brahmins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmins) from Kerala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala) who speak Tamil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_language).[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3)[7] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-DH1-7) His father, V. G. Ramaswamy, a graduate of National Institute of Technology Calicut (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Technology_Calicut), worked as an engineer and patent attorney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_attorney) for General Electric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric), while his mother, Geetha Ramaswamy, a graduate from Mysore Medical College (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_Medical_College_%26_Research_Institute) worked as a geriatric psychiatrist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric_psychiatry).[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3)[8] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-8) His parents immigrated from Palakkad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palakkad),[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Satish-9)[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-10) where the family had an ancestral home in a traditional Vadakkencherry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadakkencherry) agraharam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agraharam) village.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-TOI-11)[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Satish-9)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Kaumudi-12)

Growing up, Ramaswamy often attended the local Hindu temple (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_temple) in Dayton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio) with his family.[13] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-nyt070923-13) His conservative Christian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_conservativism) piano teacher, who gave him private lessons from elementary through high school, also influenced his social views.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3) He spent many summer vacations traveling to India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) with his parents.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-TOI-11)

Education

Ramaswamy attended public schools through the eighth grade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_grade).[14] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-FREOPP-14)[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3) He then attended Cincinnati's St. Xavier High School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Xavier_High_School_(Cincinnati)), a Catholic school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_school) affiliated with the Jesuit order (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus),[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3)[15] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-15) graduating in 2003.[16] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-St._X_E-News_2015-07-16) He was class valedictorian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valedictorian) and a nationally ranked junior tennis player.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3)

In 2007, Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_College) with a Bachelor of Arts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts), summa cum laude (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Cum_Laude), in biology, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa).[17] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-pdsoros20230222-17) At Harvard, he gained a reputation as a brash and confident libertarian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_in_the_United_States).[18] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Weisman-18) He lived in Kirkland House (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkland_House) and was a member of the Harvard Political Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Political_Union),[19] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Wood-19) becoming its president.[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3) He told the Harvard Crimson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson) that he considered himself a contrarian who loved to debate.[19] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Wood-19) While in college, he was an intern for the hedge fund (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund) Amaranth Advisors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_Advisors) and then the investment bank Goldman Sachs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs).[3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-KolhatkarNewYorker-3) He wrote his senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)) and earned a Bowdoin Prize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowdoin_Prizes).[17] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-pdsoros20230222-17) An op-ed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed) by Ramaswamy summarizing his thesis was published by the Boston Globe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Globe) and republished in the New York Times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times).[20] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-20)

In 2011, the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paul_%26_Daisy_Soros_Fellowships_for_New_Ameri cans) awarded Ramaswamy a post-graduate fellowship.[21] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Huffpo-May_4,_2023-21) In 2013, he earned a J.D. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor) from Yale Law School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School).[17] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-pdsoros20230222-17) By that point, Ramaswamy had already amassed wealth from his involvement in the finance, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries; he said in 2023 that he had a net worth of around $15 million before graduating from law school.[18] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy#cite_note-Weisman-18)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1l1Ws4WIAcjLtG?format=jpg&name=large

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

In a way the wojaks (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wojak) stood out more than the mythic jackbootery. DeSantis's messaging seems to be to be aimed at certain excessively online nihilists and fascists.

[baseline bum]

I'm not sure he knows how insurance works.

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He's got degrees from Harvard and Yale. He's just a lying pos.

[ChumpDumper]

He's got degrees from Harvard and Yale. He's just a lying pos.

Yeah it's just astounding how much people will believe him.

[SnakeBoy]

Damn... Low Energy Ron! is seriously going to get beat out in the primary by the computer programmer help desk guy. :lmao

Desperation

DeSantis suggests he could nominate Democrat RFK Jr. to lead the FDA or CDC
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-suggests-nominate-democrat-rfk-jr-lead-fda-cdc.amp

[Winehole23]

Too bad DeSantis comes off as such a weird creep, the more people see of him, the less they like him

[Ef-man]

Meatball Ron back pedaling and flip-flopping... :lol

Just two days after saying that if elected president he’d consider appointing conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead a federal public health agency, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis walked those comments back on Friday.

But DeSantis on Friday in an interview with Newsmax said that his comments were taken out of context and that a Kennedy appointment is now off the table.

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis (https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis)

[Thread]

Desperation

DeSantis suggests he could nominate Democrat RFK Jr. to lead the FDA or CDC
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-suggests-nominate-democrat-rfk-jr-lead-fda-cdc.amp

That'd just about kill the Kennedy lovers. Remember when they taught John/John-on his birthday while his father was down at the DC morgue with half his head blown off how to salute? & the little shitter was good at it. Couldn't fly a plane to save his life, but salute? Like shaved pussy.

[Thread]

Too bad DeSantis comes off as such a weird creep, the more people see of him, the less they like him

As long as he holds Florida I got nary complaints.

[Winehole23]

Political indoctrination plus grifting.

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[FrostKing]

Political indoctrination plus grifting.

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Random tweet

Imagine having the built in advantage of youth and still complaining. Democrats struggle relating with adults, especially parents.

[ChumpDumper]

Random tweet

Imagine having the built in advantage of youth and still complaining. Democrats struggle relating with adults, especially parents.

We see you whine from your place of privilege every day.

You bring shame to your race.

[FrostKing]

We see you whine from your place of privilege every day.

You bring shame to your race.
My race? Aren't we the same. Don't be a wierdo.

[ChumpDumper]

My race? Aren't we the same. Don't be a wierdo.You bring shame to the white race with your weak whining about other races. Be a man.

[FrostKing]

You bring shame to the white race with your weak whining about other races. Be a man.
Bring shame, when did you turn Asian :lol

As a Polak I don't care about race. None of you are fellow Polish.

[ChumpDumper]

Bring shame, when did you turn Asian :lol

As a Polak I don't care about race. None of you are fellow Polish.Then why do you post about race nonstop?

Please explain.

[boutons_deux]

Does Santa says on day one of his presidency he will start slitting throats?

Because he knows that you MAGAtts love to hear violence and love to commit violence

DeSantis stupid mofo doesn't realize that sooting throats will not get him elected

[Ef-man]

DeSantis on Trump’s 2020 claims: ‘Of course he lost. :lol

[Ef-man]

DeSantis: Republicans will lose if they behave like Trump.

[Winehole23]

Monique Worrell got 66% of the vote.

Really ham-fisted, same with Andrew Warren.


As anyone knows, using criminal prosecutions to advance a political agenda is only allowed for governors who send police to round up Black voters on bogus voter fraud charges. (https://www.wonkette.com/p/florida-cops-actually-embarrassed-to-be-part-of-ron-desantis-felon-vote-crackdown)
https://www.wonkette.com/p/ron-desantis-suspend-fires-another

[ElNono]

Shakespeare gets caught in Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' laws
One school district will have students read only excerpts from the Bard of Avon’s plays owing, in part, to state laws restricting content that can be deemed sexual.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/shakespeare-gets-caught-floridas-dont-say-gay-laws-rcna98970

:lol pudding fingers turning Florida into a idiocracy

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I am your creator, fart face.

Get bent.

[ChumpDumper]

So either they shut down the ride for everybody but them or simply NO ONE wanted to play with Ron.

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[Winehole23]

So either they shut down the ride for everybody but them or simply NO ONE wanted to play with Ron.

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[Thread]

I am your creator, fart face.

Get bent.

I still got it!!!

[Winehole23]

Life imitates art

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[Winehole23]

Monique Worrell got 66% of the vote.

Really ham-fisted, same with Andrew Warren.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/ron-desantis-suspend-fires-anothertl;dr

Warren was investigating shady cops.

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[Winehole23]

The begging

Second year in a row.


Ron DeSantis had just been sworn in as a member of the House in 2013 when he voted against sending $9.7 billion in disaster relief to New York and New Jersey, two states still reeling from the damage of Hurricane Sandy.

“I sympathize with the victims,” the Florida Republican said at the time, but objected to what he called Congress’ “put it on the credit card mentality” when it came to government spending.

Now, a day after Hurricane Idalia pummeled Florida less than a year since Hurricane Ian’s destruction, DeSantis is not objecting to federal borrowing when it’ll help his disaster-stricken state. As Florida’s governor — and a 2024 White House contender — he is in regular contact with President Joe Biden (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/desantis-fema-administrator-tour-hurricane-damage-00113616) as the state seeks dollars from Washington to rebuild from the storm wreckage, assist rescue efforts and aid displaced residents.https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/desantis-florida-gop-sandy-disaster-aid-00113627

[Winehole23]

Shakespeare gets caught in Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' laws
One school district will have students read only excerpts from the Bard of Avon’s plays owing, in part, to state laws restricting content that can be deemed sexual.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/shakespeare-gets-caught-floridas-dont-say-gay-laws-rcna98970

:lol pudding fingers turning Florida into a idiocracyThe notion that children can be protected from explicit content by banning books and speech in schools is laughably naive when they have unfettered access to the internet, but maybe that's not the point. The point is to hollow out public goods like education and libraries.

[Winehole23]

DeSantis is afraid of a 15 year old for asking a straightforward question he didn't want to answer.


Quinn Mitchell has seen at least 35 presidential candidates in person since 2019, when he first started showing up at New Hampshire primary events to ask them questions.

Not a single one of them had ever treated the now-15-year-old as if he were a threat—until Ron DeSantis (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/ron-desantis) came to town.

It all started with a straightforward question. In June, when DeSantis stopped for a town hall event in Hollis, Mitchell raised his hand in the crowd.

“Do you believe that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power,” the teenager asked the governor, “a key principle of American democracy that we must uphold?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell

[Winehole23]

just bonkers levels of insecurity


Speaking about it for the first time in an interview with The Daily Beast, Mitchell says that he was grabbed and physically intimidated by DeSantis security at two subsequent campaign stops, where the candidate’s staffers also monitored him in a way he perceived as hostile.

The experience, Mitchell said, was “horrifying” and amounted to “intimidation.”

At a Fourth of July parade DeSantis attended, Mitchell was swarmed by security and physically restrained after a brief interaction with the governor—with his private security contractors even demanding Mitchell stay put until they said so.

With his mother alarmed, the situation escalated to such a degree that the candidate’s wife, Casey, spoke directly with her—but to suggest her son was being dishonest about what happened, according to Mitchell.

Then, at an August 19 event—where Mitchell was tailed closely by two security guards—an attendee told The Daily Beast they saw a staffer for DeSantis’ super PAC, Never Back Down, take a photo of the teenager on Snapchat before typing out an ominous caption: “Got our kid.”

Seven other sources corroborated Mitchell’s version of events, either by sharing contemporaneous communications with the family or recounting what they witnessed in person at DeSantis events, including the Fourth of July parade. The teenager and his family say they have yet to receive any kind of apology from DeSantis.

The DeSantis campaign and Never Back Down did not return multiple requests for comment from The Daily Beast.

As astute an observer of the state’s politics as any, Mitchell had a blunt assessment of the fiasco over DeSantis’ treatment of him. “Really stupid,” he said, “in a small state like New Hampshire.”

[FuzzyLumpkins]

A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice, a state judge ruled Saturday.

Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh sent the plan back to the Florida Legislature with instructions that lawmakers should draw a new congressional map that complies with the Florida Constitution.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-redistricting-politics-gerrymandering-desantis-d04d4d69a5c52e2997e94fa842f8757e

[Millennial_Messiah]

A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice, a state judge ruled Saturday.

Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh sent the plan back to the Florida Legislature with instructions that lawmakers should draw a new congressional map that complies with the Florida Constitution.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-redistricting-politics-gerrymandering-desantis-d04d4d69a5c52e2997e94fa842f8757e

It's officially time to appeal to SCOTUS to officially remove the antiquated 1960s racist section 2 clause from the Voting Rights Act, on the account that it is segregationist and violates the 14th. Especially since Louisiana also has a similar case in progress.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It's officially time to appeal to SCOTUS to officially remove the antiquated 1960s racist section 2 clause from the Voting Rights Act, on the account that it is segregationist and violates the 14th. Especially since Louisiana also has a similar case in progress.

So the section of the law set up to prevent historically racist institutions from disenfranchising minorities is segregationist and violates equal protection? And this shitty point is supposedly furthered by another historically racist institution being under scrutiny?

This is some Orwellian shit you're peddling. You should stick to your story time.

[ChumpDumper]

Killshot.

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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1698019976819650632

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

2010 Wild Cobra takes are the GOP mainstream in 2023.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1700151138148839759?s=20

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[Winehole23]

Surely some of y'all remember Wild Cobra's shoot em at the border doctrine. Is Wild Cobra too much of a deep cut?

:lol

[Winehole23]

DeSantis is hard to like. That's politically fatal.

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[Thread]

DeSantis is hard to like. That's politically fatal.

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The only way they could sell him is if Trump took him as VP immediately. But, Trump wouldn't do it and I felt that a bit petty. Like cutting off your nose to spite your face, or, like when Trump wouldn't embrace mail in ballots.

Santis looks poorly by hisself. With Trump they'd a been very attractive.

[HemisfairArena]

The only way they could sell him is if Trump took him as VP immediately. But, Trump wouldn't do it and I felt that a bit petty. Like cutting off your nose to spite your face, or, like when Trump wouldn't embrace mail in ballots.

Santis looks poorly by hisself. With Trump they'd a been very attractive.

Disagree. To polarizing and only representing the hard right. No way you get the never trumper republicans or independents with that ticket,,,, Trump would be better pulling a wild card and convincing Condoleezza Rice to run as his VP. No one would see that coming and would actually have a black woman as VP with an Intellect above a plastic house plant unlike the VP black woman we have now.

[Thread]

Disagree. To polarizing and only representing the hard right. No way you get the never trumper republicans or independents with that ticket,,,, Trump would be better pulling a wild card and convincing Condoleezza Rice to run as his VP. No one would see that coming and would actually have a black woman as VP with an Intellect above a plastic house plant unlike the VP black woman we have now.

...but she won't do it. She'd be tempted, sure, but not enough to actually pair with him.

[Winehole23]

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[Ef-man]

WaPo:

A group of Republican legislators, angry with Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his political team for spotlighting a 15-week abortion ban ahead of Tuesday’s elections, said they will try to overthrow House Speaker Todd Gilbert for failing to push back against a strategy that they say cost the GOP control of the House, according to three delegates involved in the effort.

At a closed-door meeting in Richmond on Sunday, just days after Democrats flipped the House of Delegates and held onto the state Senate, House Republicans plan to elect their caucus leadership. As speaker, Gilbert (R-Shenandoah) was in line to become minority leader given his party’s loss of the majority. :lol

[HemisfairArena]

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now whats wrong with this dude?,,,,walkin' like hes got a gerbil up his ass,,,,,

[z0sa]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9ogOtSW8AAl73W?format=jpg&name=360x360

https://i0.wp.com/boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/image-28.png?fit=1200%2C660&ssl=1

I'm sorry, I haven't laughed this hard in quite a while! :rollin

It's like his feet are simply missing. Are they stumps? No hate, inquiring minds want to know.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_JCAHVXkAA547E?format=jpg&name=large

[Winehole23]

a guy had a heart attack at work, after a tense meeting (https://x.com/Cathy2NotToday/status/1729837333938061579?s=20). no one else was there, he was undiscovered for 24 minutes.

(furtive gestures)

1729837333938061579

[Winehole23]

I'm sorry, I haven't laughed this hard in quite a while! :rollin

It's like his feet are simply missing. Are they stumps? No hate, inquiring minds want to know.

https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1500w,f_auto,q_auto:best/mpx/2704722219/2023_11/1698885437828_n_hayes_desantis_231101_1920x1080-i8m9co.jpg

[Winehole23]

1730414623780696083

[Winehole23]

team DeSantis is cracking up


The embattled Never Back Down SuperPAC, supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is cancelling (https://twitter.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/1738220843757343157) the remainder of its 2024 airtime reservations in Iowa and New Hampshire. Reports indicate it had reserved about $2.5 million in airtime to run ads on behalf of DeSantis.https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/12/22/desantis-pac-cancels-all-2024-ads-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/

https://twitter.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/1738220843757343157

[Thread]

team DeSantis is cracking up

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/12/22/desantis-pac-cancels-all-2024-ads-in-iowa-and-new-hampshire/

https://twitter.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/1738220843757343157

Trump threw him out/Flintstone style.https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRJW4ZYV5Yu_cNux5h_rVEsYf6AsFZgA QFGilIGrKBMmSVNhF95jo_8WEzd5g&s

[scott]

Surely some of y'all remember Wild Cobra's shoot em at the border doctrine. Is Wild Cobra too much of a deep cut?

:lol

Man, some of the posters these days make Wild Cobra seem like a genius by comparison.

[Thread]

Man, some of the posters these days make Wild Cobra seem like a genius by comparison.

Your people chasin' President Trump around trying to blow him up, cut his head off and shoot him to death were no picnic either, bub.

[clambake]

Man, some of the posters these days make Wild Cobra seem like a genius by comparison.

You don’t understand. Kathy griffin and Madonna made them lose their shit…..then came the little mermaid and Barbie.


Part of their cult obligations to make you aware. This stuff comes from the top.

[scott]

You don’t understand. Kathy griffin and Madonna made them lose their shit…..then came the little mermaid and Barbie.


Part of their cult obligations to make you aware. This stuff comes from the top.

Is that what this psychopath on my ignore list keeps blathering about in my mentions? :lol

[clambake]

Is that what this psychopath on my ignore list keeps blathering about in my mentions? :lol

Hey, take it easy, it’s all he has.

Seriously not kidding. Not a joke. It’s what’s left of him.

[scott]

Sad!

[pgardn]

Hey, take it easy, it’s all he has.

Seriously not kidding. Not a joke. It’s what’s left of him.

One could feel almost sorry for him…
A complete lack of any ability? or desire to empathize, his inertial mass of wanting to hate so badly is all-consuming and unhealthy.
And he pawns it all of on mortality. He thinks we should hate deeply because we will eventually die…?
So fkn disturbing and contorted.

“hey you will face the music just like me, so get that misplaced anger in NOW buster.”

[Thread]

You don’t understand. Kathy griffin and Madonna made them lose their shit…..then came the little mermaid and Barbie.


Part of their cult obligations to make you aware. This stuff comes from the top.


Is that what this psychopath on my ignore list keeps blathering about in my mentions? :lol


Hey, take it easy, it’s all he has.

Seriously not kidding. Not a joke. It’s what’s left of him.


Sad!


One could feel almost sorry for him…
A complete lack of any ability? or desire to empathize, his inertial mass of wanting to hate so badly is all-consuming and unhealthy.
And he pawns it all of on mortality. He thinks we should hate deeply because we will eventually die…?
So fkn disturbing and contorted.

“hey you will face the music just like me, so get that misplaced anger in NOW buster.”


Your people chasin' President Trump around trying to blow him up, cut his head off and shoot him to death were no picnic either, bub.

Let us proceed...

[clambake]

Sad!

Crazy thinks you are a Kathy griffin, Madonna, little mermaid, Barbie fan.

Wonder what that means

[Thread]

Crazy thinks you are a Kathy griffin, Madonna, little mermaid, Barbie fan.

Wonder what that means

It means you and your side threatened to blow him up, decapitate him and shoot him to death numerous times. I'm a nary forgettin' nor forgivin'.

Let us proceed...

[Ef-man]

Man, some of the posters these days make Wild Cobra seem like a genius by comparison.

:lol

[Thread]

:lol


It means you and your side threatened to blow him up, decapitate him and shoot him to death numerous times. I'm a nary forgettin' nor forgivin'.

Let us proceed...

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Yeah, fuck Desantis (and Haley), tbh.

At least Chris Christie of all people, fat TDS slob that he is, acknowledged the Left's hypocrisy of being the party of muh demoocracy but trying to get Trump DQed from the ballot over a statute implemented to block Confederate leaders from holding public federal office.

[Winehole23]

:danceclub

that's my winning ticket.

[Winehole23]

Federal records show that, by the time of the Iowa caucuses, the DeSantis campaign is on pace to spend significantly more on private jets — the governor’s preferred mode of travel — than on airing television adshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/24/us/politics/desantis.html

[Ef-man]

DeSantis finds out Murica don’t ah like dem wops cause dey just white style but no really white, white.

[Spurs Homer]

DeSantis finds out Murica don’t ah like dem wops cause dey just white style but no really white, white.

no different than ramasmarmy

Like i said- indian dude running in a white supremacist party will find out what this country is about

[Ef-man]

no different than ramasmarmy

Like i said- indian dude running in a white supremacist party will find out what this country is about

It’s ah always ah fun until you find ah out dat you no really white in Murica.

Fuck ah around and ah find ah outs.

Now ah pass ah da pudding, no need for spoons, I use ah my fingers.

[ducks]

He Atleast endorsed Trump like he said he would

[Ef-man]

And Yam Tits will not endorsed anyone but himself if he loses.

[Ef-man]

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1749169468998123795

[Thread]

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1749169468998123795

& now he can go back to Florida and locate that ring you left down there after White woman from town cleaned your fuckin' clock.

tee, hee.

[Ef-man]

Mama mia!!! But it was puzzle of pudding! :lol

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made a big bet on winning Iowa as he charted out a path for capturing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

DeSantis' campaign and his affiliated super PAC, Never Back Down, crisscrossed Iowa for months to rally support, hopeful that DeSantis would make a compelling case against Yam Tits, who remained popular with conservatives in the state.

But shortly before the Iowa caucuses, DeSantis had a significant polling deficit against Trump, and had seen his support decline so much that he looked to be in a neck-and-neck race for second place with former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

And in the days before the caucuses, Never Back Down CEO Scott Wagner was photographed poring over a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle as the super PAC's staffers worked on their laptops around him in a West Des Moines office, according to a NBC News report.

https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-never-back-down-jigsaw-puzzle-iowa-caucuses-super-pac (https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-never-back-down-jigsaw-puzzle-iowa-caucuses-super-pac-2024-1)

[baseline bum]

Deathsantis has no chance in a primary until Trump dies

[FuzzyLumpkins]

It's weird. I find I am looking forward to voting in the GOP primary for once.

[Thread]

Deathsantis has no chance in a primary until Trump dies

Neither does..."DeSanctimonious."



Trump addresses enthusiastic New Hampshire volunteers, announces retirement of 'DeSanctimonious' nickname

Trump will no longer call the Florida governor 'Ron DeSanctimonious'


By Andrea Vacchiano (https://www.foxnews.com/person/v/andrea-vacchiano) Fox News (https://www.foxnews.com/)

~~~

That should just about put a stopper in the old bottle come Tuesday. The old man will pick up 99% of Santis votes and the colored girl Haley will get the other 1%, bum.

[Ef-man]

https://x.com/marionumber4/status/1749263127579955553

[HemisfairArena]

no different than ramasmarmy

Like i said- indian dude running in a white supremacist party will find out what this country is about

Just like Andrew Yang found out with the white supremist democrat party,,,,no room for the asians,,,,

[Thread]

Just like Andrew Yang found out with the white supremist democrat party,,,,no room for the asians,,,,

...but that was cleared by & with CNN & MSNBC.

[ChumpDumper]

Just like Andrew Yang found out with the white supremist democrat party,,,,no room for the asians,,,,

There are plenty of Asians in the Democratic party.

:lol dumbass

[Spurs Homer]

lol

what a dumb shit

[z0sa]

DeSantis nor any Republican has differentiated themselves successfully from Trump. It's not the Republican party anymore, it's the Trump party. He owns republicans, can say or do anything without any change in his core base (which is approximately 90% of convseratives, I'd guess) and they're enjoying every second of it.

[Thread]

There are plenty of Asians in the Democratic party.

:lol dumbass


lol

what a dumb shit

Got the both of ya's, by God.

ha, ha.

[Thread]

DeSantis nor any Republican has differentiated themselves successfully from Trump. It's not the Republican party anymore, it's the Trump party. He owns republicans, can say or do anything without any change in his core base (which is approximately 90% of convseratives, I'd guess) and they're enjoying every second of it.

You fuckin' eh, 0. But it was your side who tore this country up & apart after Trump made President.

But we're gonna keep it that-a-way; tore up & apart, ever more.

Let us proceed...

[Ef-man]

lol

what a dumb shit

There is no history of ah racism in Murica. It is ah lie.

Does italians in New Orleans in 1891, dey no lynched, they fall on ropes ah by themselves and die accidentally.

No lynching, no racism. It is a lie.

Murica GOP no hate ah Ron, no racists, Yam Tits no lynch Pudding ah Fingers.

Ron almost looka white; he name "Ron;" he mama family change their name to "Rogers," no keep Wop name.

No racism in Murica.

[Thread]

There is no history of ah racism in Murica. It is ah lie.

Does italians in New Orleans in 1891, dey no lynched, they fall on ropes ah by themselves and die accidentally.

No lynching, no racism. It is a lie.

Murica GOP no hate ah Ron, no racists, Yam Tits no lynch Pudding ah Fingers.

Ron almost looka white; he name "Ron;" he mama family change their name to "Rogers," no keep Wop name.

No racism in Murica.

Hopper straightened that all out to Walken...-True Romance-

tee, hee.

[Winehole23]

President Donald Trump brought an early end Thursday to the speculation around his favorite for the 2026 Florida governor’s race in a post on Truth Social (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114038745707654586), endorsing loyalist Rep. Byron Donalds (https://directory.politicopro.com/member/260201) for the job.

The president’s backing of Donalds is likely to have a chilling effect on the race in Florida, a state Trump won by 13 points in November and that he has called home since 2019. Trump over Truth Social urged Donalds to run and called him a “highly respected congressman” and a “TOTAL WINNER” who’d been “tested at the highest and most difficult levels.”

Trump made his choice for governor clear far before any candidate — including Donalds — stated his or her intention to run. The announcement also came as speculation has reached a fever pitch about whether Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife, Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, would run for her husband's job and as the governor has been increasingly talking about his legacy.

“Looks like that's that,” one Ron DeSantis donor and supporter texted POLITICO upon seeing Trump’s social media post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/looks-like-that-s-that-trump-may-have-just-ended-the-florida-governor-s-race/ar-AA1ztzYp

[Millennial_Messiah]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/looks-like-that-s-that-trump-may-have-just-ended-the-florida-governor-s-race/ar-AA1ztzYp

Good. We don't need Casey DeSantis to be the GOP's Hillary.

[Winehole23]

For being "from a country of concern"

This is DeSantis's pet conservative university


The New College of Florida (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida) has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law that restricts Florida’s public universities from hiring individuals they deem to be from “countries of concern”.

On Friday, Suncoast Searchlight reported (https://suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-fires-chinese-professor-florida-countries-of-concern/) the firing of Kevin Wang, a professor who has sought asylum in the US and is authorized to work in the country. According to the outlet, Wang had been teaching classes in Chinese language and culture for nearly two years when he was fired on 12 March.

According to his dismissal letter, which Suncoast Searchlight reviewed, the New College of Florida’s decision to terminate Wang’s contract was “not based on any misconduct and does not constitute a dismissal for cause or disciplinary action”.

Instead, the college cited state law SB 846 which states (https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2023/0288.860) that schools “may not accept any grant from or participate in any agreement with any college or university based in a foreign country of concern” without the approval from the board of governors, Suncoast Searchlight reports.

According to the law, the so-called “countries of concern” include China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Syria.

The law, which went into effect in July 2023, also prevents state universities from entering into partnerships with “any person who is domiciled in a foreign country of concern and is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States”.

Suncoast Searchlight reports that Wang, who was hired by the New College of Florida three weeks after the state law went into effect, said that before he came to the US in May 2022, he was a university professor in China.

“I faced political repression from the Chinese Communist Party for criticizing Xi Jinping and the CCP’s domestic and foreign policies, resulting in the loss of my teaching position and my freedom to teach, research, and express myself in China,” Wang told the outlet.

“I never expected to face such a distressing experience after escaping persecution from the CCP in China, only to encounter a somewhat similar situation at New College in the United States,” he added.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/florida-new-college-fires-chinese-professor

[Winehole23]

New College official arrested for flashing

For the fourth time



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hgpkur625or6qm6q3htsgbn/bafkreiewszzegs2lc4is5llqmekhibuzjsx3axzb3b7zwhpbf gtvz75aay@jpeg


A New College of Florida official and former spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis faces multiple charges for exposing himself, according to reports.

Frederick Joseph Piccolo Jr., 47, was arrested Tuesday for exposure of sexual organs in Manatee County, jail records show.
He faces three similar charges from October in Sarasota County, according to records.

New College told ABC 7 (https://www.mysuncoast.com/2025/04/16/new-college-marketing-director-arrested-charged-with-exposing-himself/) that Piccolo, who served as the school’s director of media and marketing, was no longer employed there.
In his latest arrest, Piccolo exposed himself to a woman after asking her for directions while driving through the Lakewood Ranch County Club on March 28, WTSP reported (https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/desantis-spokesperson-arrested-sarasota-county-mall-frederick-piccolo-new-college/67-61cdaf67-25d9-44ec-972b-01dc7ffbd6e5). She picked him out as the suspect in a photo lineup.

He was previously accused of exposing himself to employees at stores in the University Town Center, including at Banana Republic on Aug. 22 and twice at Dillard’s on Sept. 3 and 4, reports said.
Piccolo previously served as communications director for DeSantis’ office, as well as for the Florida Speaker of the House.

https://patch.com/florida/bradenton/former-desantis-spokesperson-exposed-himself-multiple-times-report

[Blake]

"MIAMI — Fla. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the defensive over questions about how $10 million in state money came to be used to fund a political campaign.

In two terms as governor, DeSantis has enjoyed strong support from the Republican-controlled legislature. But now, Republicans in the state House of Representatives say the alleged misuse of funds may warrant a criminal investigation....."

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5368535/ron-desantis-florida-governor-political-scandal

Pubs doing pub things

[Thread]

"MIAMI — Fla. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the defensive over questions about how $10 million in state money came to be used to fund a political campaign.

In two terms as governor, DeSantis has enjoyed strong support from the Republican-controlled legislature. But now, Republicans in the state House of Representatives say the alleged misuse of funds may warrant a criminal investigation....."

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5368535/ron-desantis-florida-governor-political-scandal

Pubs doing pub things

Whatever it takes, Blake.

[Winehole23]

bimetallism and state-issued currency in the 21st century...sort of

the freaky fringe is the Republican mainstream



Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Tuesday that would recognize gold and silver as legal tender in the state, paving a path for Floridians to use the commodities in payment transactions.

The bill, HB 999, starts the process of allowing government or private entities, such as businesses, to voluntarily accept gold (https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/gold-price?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) and silver (https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/silver-price?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) as a form of debt payment. The bill also outlines sales tax exemptions on the purchase of the precious metals if they meet the purity requirements or if the sale of the gold or silver exceeds $500.

HB 999 is set to go into effect on July 1, 2026, if the Florida Legislature ratifies the rules to implement the bill before then.

In a statement on X announcing the bill's signing, DeSantis said the move was to ensure the state's financial sovereignty.

"Florida stands firmly for freedom, economic self-determination, and resistance to government overreach," the governor said. "But for too long, outdated regulations and unnecessary sales taxes have made it impractical for Floridians to enter the gold and silver market."

Florida's recognition of the gold and silver follows in the footsteps of states like Utah, which implemented a law in 2011 to recognize gold and silver as legal tender (https://www.businessinsider.com/gold-silver-to-be-legal-currency-in-utah-2011-5?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com) and exempt coins from state taxes.

The Florida bill states that gold coins must have 99.5% purity and silver coins must have 99.9% purity to be recognized as legal tender.

The coins must also be stamped with their weight and purity, according to the bill.

Governmental entities can also accept gold or silver but only in the form of electronic transfer, the bill states.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/finance/news/floridians-could-soon-able-gold-025405079.html

[Millennial_Messiah]

Vance, Rubio, DeSantis are all strong candidates for 2028

Who do the Democrats have who could realistically win? Whitmer, who else?? I think she'd beat Vance but good luck getting her through the primary.

[Winehole23]

DeSantis is looking vulnerable in Florida right now and was notably weak against Trump last year

Vance is doesn't reach 50% approval in the Rasmussen poll -- not super well liked on his own side

Rubio, Vaught and Miller are basically running the government for DJT. Rubio is the most viable politician in that group, but also most exposed to backlash. Rubio is also notably not very charismatic.

Three weak candidates imho, none of them having Trump's talismanic connection with money and success

[Winehole23]

Makes more sense for the GOP to make the dynastic move to Don Trump Jr

[Millennial_Messiah]

Vance is actually a very mediocre candidate. Did I say that Vance was a strong candidate? Well, I was probably drinking.


If you look at the difference between Virginia in 2021 and 2025. It's eighteen percent. Was the environment responsible? To a small degree, sure, but candidate quality is everything. We complain in conservative circles about hemorrhaging female voters fighting feminazism and counterculture, and the gender gap and women's suffrage has never been a bigger problem, particularly younger, single females. The solution? Females go crazy for a very tall, dark, handsome man like Youngkin. It's just a fact. AND he has charisma.

I still like this ticket for 2028 against Newsom (likely Newsom - Whitmer imo, but he might mess up and pick Beshear or Wes Moore) though honestly the prospect of Youngkin - Rubio, Youngkin - DeSantis, or DeSantis - Youngkin are all tantalizingly electable tbh.

Ditch Vance. He sucks.

[GAustex]

That is going back wards

Maybe Jeb and his boy and that Cheney chic and dust off Romney

[SnakeBoy]

Vance is actually a very mediocre candidate. Did I say that Vance was a strong candidate? Well, I was probably drinking.


If you look at the difference between Virginia in 2021 and 2025. It's eighteen percent. Was the environment responsible? To a small degree, sure, but candidate quality is everything. We complain in conservative circles about hemorrhaging female voters fighting feminazism and counterculture, and the gender gap and women's suffrage has never been a bigger problem, particularly younger, single females. The solution? Females go crazy for a very tall, dark, handsome man like Youngkin. It's just a fact. AND he has charisma.

I still like this ticket for 2028 against Newsom (likely Newsom - Whitmer imo, but he might mess up and pick Beshear or Wes Moore) though honestly the prospect of Youngkin - Rubio, Youngkin - DeSantis, or DeSantis - Youngkin are all tantalizingly electable tbh.

Ditch Vance. He sucks.

GOP plan is Vance/Rubio
As it stands, they have the backing of Trumps and the tech bros. Of course, the GOP has actual primaries so I suppose anything is possible, as Trump himself proved, but atm I don't see anyone of substance who can challenge that plan given the money they will have. Wildcard is Trump himself as he can throw anyone under the bus if it suits him

Dem plan is Jewbama/Buttplug or Whitmer. Jewbama preferring Whitmer but the party wanting Buttplug. Pretty strong ticket tbh but with some obvious weaknesses. Newsome doesn't want POTUS and is playing for a high level cabinet position according to sauces. Wildcard is the progressive wing (AOC) but I'm sure they'll fall in line like they always do with AOC being bought off with a cabinet position or Schumers seat.

[Winehole23]

^^^right wing mad libs

Vance is the clear constitutional successor, I could see Vance picking Rubio in 2028

Y'all should go with that

[Millennial_Messiah]

Dem plan is Jewbama/Buttplug or Whitmer. Jewbama preferring Whitmer but the party wanting Buttplug. Pretty strong ticket tbh but with some obvious weaknesses. Newsome doesn't want POTUS and is playing for a high level cabinet position according to sauces. Wildcard is the progressive wing (AOC) but I'm sure they'll fall in line like they always do with AOC being bought off with a cabinet position or Schumers seat.

Shapiro and Buttigieg are atrociously unelectable candidates. If they really want the far left pro-Mamdani base to not turn out, they'll nominate Shapiro. Does he even win Pennsylvania honestly as the POTUS nominee? His kind isn't popular at all and Buttigieg is slightly more palatable to the general electorate as VP than POTUS but still a huge liability to social conservatives and religious people who might be more neutral to left leaning economically.

Newsom doesn't want POTUS... are you mad? Did you not watch his victory speech last night after prop 50 passed?


^^^right wing mad libs

Vance is the clear constitutional successor, I could see Vance picking Rubio in 2028

Y'all should go with that

Democrats should want Vance to be the nominee, barring some pipe dream like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Nikki Haley that would never happen. Even if Rubio is a strong and very electable VP choice, there's no question that Vance is a liability, has base issues and irritates women voters and a lot of moderates. Not as popular with the white working class as Trump given his Ivy League background. Not as popular with the right wing given his questionable faith and family choices.


lotta cope in this forum, lately

What do you mean by "right wing mad libs"?

[Winehole23]

lotta cope in this forum, lately

[Winehole23]

What do you mean by "right wing mad libs"?thick with buzzwords and slurs

[Winehole23]

I think it would be foolish to predict the JD Vance consolidation of power in detail

Many many crispy far right-wing choices will be available to him

[Winehole23]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.penguinrandomhouse.com%2Fc over%2F9780593752043&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=22e1b7aa2e29a84d4058a17c0ef506c5f9fd84c618dc57 8d9381459ade03a274

[Winehole23]

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP. O4DHqvcRTuQTFAvnHf73nQHaF7%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=7e455e2407ec2198893a86a4b0524eff2d898886030fd0 95cca20fb718be9b86&ipo=images

[Millennial_Messiah]

thick with buzzwords and slurs

me or the other guy?


I think it would be foolish to predict the JD Vance consolidation of power in detail

Many many crispy far right-wing choices will be available to him
I just think that he loses just enough support amongst both the base and suburban women compared to Trump that it puts a strong candidate like Newsom just narrowly over the edge, in PA, WI, maybe Georgia. Dems should be somewhat macro-bullish on Georgia more than the other swing states considering that state trended least back to Trump out of all the swing states vis-a-vis the national environment.

I really miss Will Hunting and his analysis. :'( him and I were like the Beltway Boys of the 1990s, him and I had the best S-tier civil socratic opposite-side civil political discourse

[Winehole23]

oh it was the other guy

sorry for any confusion

[Winehole23]

Will Hunting brought state and county level political information par excellence

We may never see his like here again

[Millennial_Messiah]

Will Hunting brought state and county level political information par excellence

We may never see his like here again

Why doesn't he post here anymore? He was here for this past presidential election and after Trump won he hasn't come back.

I'm not calling him out as a sore loser or anything but the timing of when he stopped appearing and posting here is a little sus....

[SnakeBoy]

Shapiro and Buttigieg are atrociously unelectable candidates. If they really want the far left pro-Mamdani base to not turn out, they'll nominate Shapiro. Does he even win Pennsylvania honestly as the POTUS nominee? His kind isn't popular at all and Buttigieg is slightly more palatable to the general electorate as VP than POTUS but still a huge liability to social conservatives and religious people who might be more neutral to left leaning economically.

Newsom doesn't want POTUS... are you mad? Did you not watch his victory speech last night after prop 50 passed?



Democrats should want Vance to be the nominee, barring some pipe dream like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Nikki Haley that would never happen. Even if Rubio is a strong and very electable VP choice, there's no question that Vance is a liability, has base issues and irritates women voters and a lot of moderates. Not as popular with the white working class as Trump given his Ivy League background. Not as popular with the right wing given his questionable faith and family choices.


You're giving your personal take which is fine

I'm giving you what inside sauces are saying. Same sauces that said in 2017 that Kamala had been chosen for the libs to vote for. Libs here all said lol Kamala when I posted that info...then well you know the rest

[ChumpDumper]

You're giving your personal take which is fine

I'm giving you what inside sauces are saying. Same sauces that said in 2017 that Kamala had been chosen for the libs to vote for. Libs here all said lol Kamala when I posted that info...then well you know the restWhat sources are those?

[Winehole23]

Why doesn't he post here anymore? He was here for this past presidential election and after Trump won he hasn't come back.

I'm not calling him out as a sore loser or anything but the timing of when he stopped appearing and posting here is a little sus....there are like five posters who post here now, this place is a shadow of what it used to be

[Winehole23]

New College official arrested for flashing

For the fourth time



https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hgpkur625or6qm6q3htsgbn/bafkreiewszzegs2lc4is5llqmekhibuzjsx3axzb3b7zwhpbf gtvz75aay@jpeg

https://patch.com/florida/bradenton/former-desantis-spokesperson-exposed-himself-multiple-times-reportNew College pantsed by Florida DOGE



As Gov. Ron DeSantis and his allies have boasted about “cutting waste and woke ideology” at Florida universities, his Sarasota bayside project (https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/sarasota/2025/10/28/sarasotas-new-college-to-sign-trumps-higher-education-compact/86944005007/) has escaped such scrutiny despite operating at enormous costs compared to peer state institutions.


New College of Florida appears to be the most financially inefficient school in the university system, according to a study conducted by the state, with expenses per student and per degree far above average. The study (https://www.flbog.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/State-University-System-Efficiency-Study-to-BOG-10.29.2025.pdf) was carried out by the Florida Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and state education officials are expected to review it publicly at the University of South Florida on Nov. 6.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2025/11/05/sarasota-new-college-soaring-expenses-as-florida-targets-woke-waste/87017060007/

[Winehole23]

Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.

Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765

[Millennial_Messiah]

there are like five posters who post here now, this place is a shadow of what it used to be

Well let's make this place 2010 again.

[SnakeBoy]

there are like five posters who post here now, this place is a shadow of what it used to be

You forgot to blame Trump for it

[Winehole23]

You forgot to blame Trump for itI don't blame Trump for the silence of his cowardly supporters in this subforum, nor for the operational problems of SpursTalk which seem to have driven most of the users away

[Winehole23]

Well let's make this place 2010 again.cannot be done without the hordes of casual sports fans

and I don't think that's coming back soon

[Millennial_Messiah]

cannot be done without the hordes of casual sports fans

and I don't think that's coming back soon

Adam Silver ruined the NBA/ Duncan era is long over/ internet message forums have been largely replaced by quick-fix mindless crap like TikTok and Instagram especially with younger generations so there are no real new users replacing the old ones/ there are less pro sports fans per capita now than there were a generation ago or even pre covid/ inflation and greed from TV network companies have priced out droves of people

So many negative factors

[BadMotorscooter]

I don't blame Trump for the silence of his cowardly supporters in this subforum, nor for the operational problems of SpursTalk which seem to have driven most of the users away

Trump supporters just know they dont need to waste their time on a forum with no life like democrats who rack up 100,000 posts....lmao.

[Winehole23]

DeSantis's crusade against CAIR and its donors got slapped down as unconstitutional


https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:euynv325eix7glyek377orak/bafkreihsmsq2dbay3o4w36xowoilsbbsacmc5emoppopr4zir a2g5katx4https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.536745/gov.uscourts.flnd.536745.43.0_1.pdf

[Winehole23]

DeSantis reportedly wants a job from Trump


President Trump (https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump) has told confidants that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2026/01/21/governor-desantis-claims-victory-on-public-education-in-florida) is "begging" for a job in Trump's administration — including attorney general — Axios has learned.




DeSantis also has expressed interest in being secretary of defense and even a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to six sources briefed on the discussions.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/desantis-trump-administration-attorney-general