Ron DeSantis wants to make America just like Florida, where the maximum leader (Ron DeSantis) has a docile legislature that lets him decide what everyone else is allowed to do and punishes those bold enough to ignore his orders.
That’s why he is running for President. He thinks the whole nation needs and wants a maximum leader with a reactionary view of behavior and morality.
Florida is where you are free to do whatever Ron DeSantis tells you to do and free to think what he believes. If you disagree, you are no longer free.
The Miami Herald editorial board says DeSantis has turned Florida into a mean state. No, you don’t want to make America Florida.
Florida, under Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican Legislature, is increasingly hard to recognize. It’s an intolerant and repressive place that bears scant resemblance to the Sunshine State of just a few years ago.
The 2023 legislative session cemented those appalling setbacks. Florida is now a state where government intrusion into the personal lives of Floridians is commonplace. What will it take for citizens to push back on this unprecedented encroachment on their rights? And, more broadly, what if Desantis supporters get what they want, which is to “make America Florida”?
The latest round of laws makes Florida sound more and more dystopian — something voters in the rest of the nation should note if they are considering what a DeSantis presidency could look like. The state has new rules for who can use which bathroom, what pronouns can be used in schools, which books can be taught and when women can get an abortion (almost never.) There are measures to strip union protections from public employees, keep transgender children and their parents from choosing to seek medical treatment, prevent universities from discussing diversity or inclusion and ban talk of gender identity or sexuality in schools all the way through 12th grade.
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Trump is already saying that he won’t debate (probably due to his cognitive and physical decline, which would be too obvious in a debate format. So, it will be interesting to see how many candidates show up for the Debates with Everyone Except the Big Seditionist (DWEEBS). With his sqeaky, Mickey-Mousey voice and hair-trigger temper, Ron Ron isn’t likely to do well in a large debate format either. People are repelled by mean-spirited, narrow, whiny, tantrum-throwing bullies.
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Ron Debacle has been peddling his dystopian vision to Iowans. Anyone that constantly talks about how tough he is and his ‘stellar leadership’ is showing his insecurity. Great leaders lead by example, not puffed up blather. One older gentleman that had listened to DeSantis’ pitch commented that he didn’t think Ron was a good person. That’s an understatement.
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I left vindictive off my list of adjectives. That’s a big one. It’s not an attractive personality trait.
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OMG rt, Ron Debacle is hilarious. I was just looking for a new DeSantis handle; DeStalinist was getting old.
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I still like DeFascist
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Ron Debacle! haaaaaaa!
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We already have a crowded field of Groping Old Party candidates for Glorious Leader, including
Chris Christie, Benjy Compson, Ron DeSantis, Aleksandr Dugin, Larry Elder, Arthur Fleck, Elmer Fudd, The Ghost of Christmas Past, the Golgothan, Gollum, Asa Hutchinson, Richard Kuklinski, Foghorn Leghorn, Professor Marvel, various slime molds, Napoleon the Pig, Sheev Palpatine, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tim Scott, Donald Trump, Homer Simpson, Agent Smith, and Lord Voldemort
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It all comes down to whether you want a whiny, vindictive, autocratic representative of the intolerant fringe of fundamentalist white nationalist cretins or a president for all the creatures like, say, Sauron.
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“with a reactionary view”
Yes, 1,000 X yes!
We need more to call these regressive/reactionary xtian fundie theofascists what they are. They like to call themselves “conservative” but that moniker is just another of the thousands of lies they tell.
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Quotation of the Day:
“No one is teaching your kids to be gay! Sometimes, they just are gay. I have math to teach. I literally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.”
–Alyssa Marano, former (recently resigned) math teacher
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Love it,
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Note that DeSantis only places his restrictions on the smallest minority. Now. Reaching ascendancy, he would, of course, be forced to broaden the pool of people his followers should fear. So goes the rise of authoritarian rulers.
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You know the old saying about “First they came for the trans kids—1% of the population—-“
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Robespierre did this. First he attacked the Girondin. Then the Dantonists. Then the Hebertists.
Hitler began with the hated Jews, but soon there were many other groups in his trains to the places of death.
Tyrants achieve their power by scare. If they have no one to fear, people will desert the tyrant. Democrats need a placid society, where people feel their representation understands and listens.
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Reblogged this on Lloyd Lofthouse and commented:
“Florida is where you are free to do whatever Ron DeSantis tells you to do and free to think what he believes. If you disagree, you are no longer free.”
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I wonder why this person if filled with so much hate for others? Good article here: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a42812024/what-would-a-ron-desantis-presidency-look-like/
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Great article. “Ron DeSantis Man of No Qualities” He normalized cruelty.
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I hope the press stops portraying him as a smarter version of Trump. He’s like Trump. He’s smarter. But he is a fascist.
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@Diane — I just wonder where in his life was he hurt so badly that he turned into a very dangerous man? He is very scary, but what is worse are the people who keep moving him forward. 8.2 million in 24 hours and at school all I wanted was some extra “change” for art supplies. I wonder what psychologists say.
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Easiest. Call. Ever. (Apologies to our friends in Florida.)
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