Month: January 2024
Trump’s Emasculation of Ron DeSantis
“Donald Trump plumbed new depths of degradation in his savage takedown of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a yearlong campaign of emasculation and humiliation that helped force one of the party’s rising stars out of the presidential race after just one contest and left him to pick up the pieces of his political future.”
— New York Times
Florida Republicans Want Floridians to Pay Trump’s Legal Costs
$5 million
“Florida Republicans may set aside millions in taxpayer money to help pay for former President Donald Trump’s multiple legal battles,” Politico reports. “A Miami Republican who endorsed Trump’s reelection has filed a bill for this year’s legislative session that could allow the state to hand out up to $5 million to the embattled Republican frontrunner for president.”
Tyrant of Tallahassee Returns
Ron DeSantis is nobody’s favorite political gnome,
And his toxic smile ain’t a symptom — it’s a syndrome.
So we Floridians rightly fear
What he’ll do in the next three years,
Because our bitter loser fascist governor is coming home.
Before Politics Turned Into Entertainment
“Creating a false reality to trick voters is central to undermining democracy, and it is no secret that autocratic states like Russia, Iran, and China are spreading disinformation in the U.S. But I have always wondered what would happen when the American people finally pushed back against suggestions and innuendo and instead demanded actual evidence and policies designed to address problems, as they did before American politics turned into entertainment.”
— Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American
All the Bad Words
The Free State of Florida is full of reactionaries
Who are adept at removing books from school libraries.
The worst books, we heard,
Are full of sexy words,
Which is why they’ve now banned dictionaries.
DeSantistan: ‘A Refuge of Freedom and Sanity’
Except it’s not. Gov. Ron DeSantis gave his State of the State address yesterday to open the Florida Legislature’s 2024 60-day session. It was a tissue of lies, exaggerations, misrepresentations and coverups of the reality on the ground in the Sunshine State. Lil’ D did not bother to paint a vision for the state’s future because his focus is on his losing bid for presidency.
“It was a speech written for Iowa and New Hampshire voters, House Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell, D-Tampa, said afterward,” reported the Tampa Bay Times. “I was surprised that there was no real vision for Florida,” Driskell said. “I came away feeling, OK, so where do you want to take us next?”
DeSantis’s “small government” is more intrusive in citizens’ lives, his robust state budget relies on federal handouts and his anti-woke agenda is based on curtailing individual constitutional freedoms of assembly, speech and privacy.
So much for the “free state of Florida.”
