Florida, Florida, Florida

[Steevy Maximus]

So, it seems at least some Florida residents realize that DeSantis's little spat with Disney would have VERY expensive consequences.

Florida Residents Sue DeSantis Over The Disney "Don't Say Gay" Debacle

Floridians argue that in punishing Disney, Gov. DeSantis is burdening them with a huge tax bill.

www.gamespot.com

 

[Pocket]

It really just serves to underscore how insidious the original bill was. Saddling the state's residents with billions, with a B, in debt to an already insanely wealthy company if they ever want to take back control of the territory? In no civilized country would such an arrangement have even been constitutional, but as we are all slowly learning, the US has never been a civilized country.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

You'd almost swear the entire US was built on a giant Indian burial ground.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Florida was built by people who realized they made a mistake and were desperate to sell their land to the next sucker at any price. At the time they probably thought they were ripping Disney off.

 

[Ungnome]

You'd almost swear the entire US was built on a giant Indian burial ground.

Well, that's not too far from the truth in a lot of ways.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Well, that's not too far from the truth in a lot of ways.

 

[Paladin]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1526306390469394437

expect the rest of the red states to follow suit.

 

[Pocket]

Yeah that's never surviving the Supreme Court. No way, no how.

 

[Paladin]

the same Supreme Court stacked with illegitimate conservatives who went back on their testimony that Roe V Wade was settled & just today gave a green light to campaign finance fraud?

Yes; SURELY they will save us!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

The Supreme Court already ruled in Frisby v. Schultz that you can ban protesting in front of houses. I'm sure today's court will decide that they like stare decisis again.

 

[Pocket]

So the law doesn't even ban anything that isn't already illegal? Brilliant, Ronnie.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

No. The Supreme Court didn't ban it. They just said it is constitutional to ban it. Now Florida is banning it.

 

[MrBlud]

The sooner *everyone* comes to the stark realization that the current Supreme Court is a rubber stamp for right wing Republican policies and that *no* policy is too extreme or blatantly against the Constitution enough that either one of those things will stop it from being enacted should 5 Justices wish it; the sooner we can start to maybe fix things.

The current Democratic leadership not *immediately* getting on board with court packing (even though they lack the votes) has some big “Labour rolling over for Brexit” energy.

 

[Ungnome]

Fascists gonna fascist. Sad part is the Republican base will insist that clearly fascist laws are actually protecting their freedom instead of curtailing it.

 

[Patch]

The modern day GOP has no principles other than "hug the left." Every time you think they're opposed to something, it turns out they're only opposed to it when the left does it.

 

[Plutoniumboss]

Welcome to schismogenesis.

 

[NovaSaber]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1532440904530788352

 

[Pocket]

Honestly considering this issue has never been uncontroversial, I'm impressed that a federal assistance program was covering it up till now. Who passed that?

 

[Ungnome]

Florida was at one time a purple state.. it's slide into right wing extremism is somewhat recent.

 

[MrBlud]

DeSantis only won 49.6 to 49.2