Florida, Florida, Florida

[Ungnome]

He's pretty much pissed off everyone who isn't his base at this point. Petty dictator trying to take his brand of conservatism national. Hopefully he gets smacked down during his attempt to expand past Florida and won't even be able to win a position of gator tour guide once this is all over.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

And then the FEC scrambled to figure out why DeSantis' opponents had a sudden wave of suspiciously wealthy donors to their campaigns.

 

[Pocket]

And then the FEC scrambled to figure out why DeSantis' opponents had a sudden wave of suspiciously wealthy donors to their campaigns.

Gee, I sure hope not. That would mean that there are a lot of rich furries who have had the power to swing US politics in our favor and they just couldn't be assed to use it until now. I'm already uneasy with the idea that there are a lot of rich furries, period.

 

[Dekafox]

This is one of the top brain surgeons in the US.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1574415452788477955

This person was one of the developers behind the COVID Moderna vaccine(via the NIH side of things)

Not to mention how well paid a lot of IT is combined with how common furries are in that department. This may be a joke, but there's a reason jokes like this exist:

There may not be any real billionare furries, not sure if there are any millionaires, but there's plenty that ARE well off; you just don't hear about them often from the outside.

Fursuit prices regularly run into the thousands, and this guy obviously gets enough business at these prices(though tbf he is an exception with these prices, most are well under 1k in that department, more like the $200-400 range for full color art)

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

 

[Pocket]

I mean, in literally any demographic I should hope there are at least a few hundred-thousandaires. But if we're talking "enough money to collectively destroy a presidential campaign"... that's more like, Koch brothers money.

 

[Dekafox]

Check out the charity donations and drives sometime, that most cons tend to run at least one of. it may not be Koch brothers money(which is fair, not sure if our imaginary furry PAC could hit that) but furries are excellent at fundraising for a cause. And to bring it back around, I don't know if you'd NEED Koch Brothers money to trash someone like DeSantis. If he can't attain that level of support, you wouldn't need to either, especially with the right words in the right ears. Anthrocon and some of the bigger cons are a bigger factor than you'd think in the economy of the cities they're hosted in, from what I've heard. (Except maybe MFF? I would think Chicago's big enough that even they couldn't put a huge dent in things there.) It's basically an entire small town moving in during those.

Rank	Convention	Year	Location	Country	Attendance
1	Midwest FurFest	2022	Rosemont, Illinois	USA	13,641
2	Furry Weekend Atlanta	2023	Atlanta, Georgia	USA	10,328
3	Anthrocon	2022	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	USA	9,702

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Florida man nearly loses leg to flesh-eating disease after getting bitten in a family brawl

Donnie Adams said he was breaking up a family fight when a relative bit him. He has since recovered from the life-threatening infection.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

He's pretty much pissed off everyone who isn't his base at this point. Petty dictator trying to take his brand of conservatism national. Hopefully he gets smacked down during his attempt to expand past Florida and won't even be able to win a position of gator tour guide once this is all over.

No, no, let the gators have their chance....

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

No, no, let the gators have their chance....

Perhaps Disney could invite him to their updated Indy Jones ride, now featuring local fauna as part of its eco tourism initiative?

 

[Spin-Out]

The return of P&R Furries:

Furry Convention Disrupted by Florida Governor's New Law

Florida furry convention Megaplex has closed its doors to under-18 attendees due to recent changes in state legislation from governor Ron DeSantis.

www.cbr.com

meanwhile anime cons will still sell l*licon jive, and DeSaster doesn't give a hug about that bc he definitely molested some teenage girls when he was a teacher at his underage drinking parties with his students

the GQP is a cabal of trump-worshiping pedophiles and rapists at this point; all the jive they say about LGBTQ+ peeps being groomers is projection and deflection

 

[Corvus]

Indeed it is. All GQP accusations are confessions.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Florida and Russia continue to be basically the same place, just hot and cold.

 

[The Predaking]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article276774441.html

Florida man shoots at his own pool cleaner, fires two shots at him and then another 28 wildly out his windows through closed blinds, faces no charges.

There is video of this, and the police recording of the 911 call.

 

[Ungnome]

Firing blindly out of his window should at the very least warrant reckless endangerment. Bullets don't respect property lines after they are fired, after all.

 

[The Predaking]

Firing blindly out of his window should at the very least warrant reckless endangerment. Bullets don't respect property lines after they are fired, after all.

I know right! He literally can't see through blinds, and is just blindly firing through his closed windows. They released the surveillance footage of the home owner's camera and the poor pool boy was just there with his cleaning gear and was waving to the people. At no point did he even get within arm's reach of the door. He had been their pool cleaner for at least the last six months, so they know who this guy is. His wife sounded a bit drunk/high on the phone call as she couldn't seem to answer the operator's basic questions, and he kept on firing well after even his wife told him to stop.

Just an utterly horrible law and I hope that this idiot gets sued in civil court by the pool cleaner, the company, and his neighbors.

 

[KidTDragon]

Lots of burglars rob houses using pool vacuums, buckets of chlorine, and nets on long sticks, so this was justified.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

We need new cops and new prosecutors, because the ones we have do not seem to understand this law or don't care. Even with this law, we are not supposed to be allowed to shoot at someone who's retreating. And if they couldn't see that he was retreating because this idiot was shooting through closed blinds, that is obviously completely reckless and undercuts his argument for having a reasonable fear. "Reasonable" and "not even attempting to have any situational awareness" are different things.

 

[KidTDragon]

Does Florida even know what "reasonable" is?

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article276774441.html

Florida man shoots at his own pool cleaner, fires two shots at him and then another 28 wildly out his windows through closed blinds, faces no charges.

There is video of this, and the police recording of the 911 call.

I can't view the link as it's hidden behind an adwall. Is there a direct link to the video please?