Florida, Florida, Florida

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Congratulations, America: you now have your very own third-world state within your borders, complete with malaria!

Ron DeSantis under pressure as Florida malaria cases spread

A further two cases have been discovered in the state, amid reports two top official public-health roles regarding communicable diseases have been left vacant.

www.newsweek.com

 

[wonko the sane?]

Coming soon! RADIOACTIVE malaria, as spread by mutant mosquitos.

 

[abates]

Well, at least there's a malaria vaccine that's recently b-oh wait, I forgot Ron's an anti-vaxxer.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

We effectively don't have a governor right now. This is going to suck.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

Frankly I'm not sure an empty chair could do worse than DeSantis. At least the chair isn't actively malicious. Probably.

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

Frankly I'm not sure an empty chair could do worse than DeSantis. At least the chair isn't actively malicious. Probably.

Florida's new governor, Kaon.

Kaon (G1) - Transformers Wiki

tfwiki.net

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Florida's new governor, Kaon.

Kaon (G1) - Transformers Wiki

tfwiki.net

In the UK, we can't even vote for our leaders...

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Watch: Man catches Florida's longest-ever Burmese python

A Florida hunter has wrestled and caught a 19-ft Burmese python, the longest ever documented in the state.

www.bbc.com

 

[abates]

Florida State Guard's looking pretty military, apparently:

Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard, citing militia-style training

According to records reviewed by the Times/Herald and interviews with program volunteers, some recruits quit after the first training class last month because they feared it was becoming too milita…

www.orlandosentinel.com

That's worrying.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It's also looking very slapdash and amateurish. So maybe DeSantis is just trying to keep it true to Florida's proud military history.

 

[Plutoniumboss]

Florida State Guard's looking pretty military, apparently:

Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard, citing militia-style training

According to records reviewed by the Times/Herald and interviews with program volunteers, some recruits quit after the first training class last month because they feared it was becoming too milita…

www.orlandosentinel.com

That's worrying.

“I don’t even think the governor knows what’s going on. I don’t think this is a fly on his radar right now,” Newhouse said, noting that DeSantis himself is a veteran.

”I think he would be appalled that a veteran — a disabled veteran — would be abused by other military members.”

Oh. Oh no. He actually believes this. That Ron DeSantis has a shred of decency, so must be ignorant of the situation.

 

[abates]

It's also looking very slapdash and amateurish. So maybe DeSantis is just trying to keep it true to Florida's proud military history.

I'm just wondering what the plan is here that he needs a more military state guard.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The plan is to intimidate anyone DeFascist doesn't like.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Oh; and to normalize both the funding and training of militia on a state level that is in on no way accountable to anyone on the federal level. Another layer of authoritarian presence, more guns in the streets for no other reason than more guns, and loyal to; not even just the state head, but specifically a REPUBLICAN state head.

Another step in "might makes right" in the off chance that a progressive might win a position of authority in the heavily gerrymandered, voter purged, jack booted post trump red states.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Florida's new black history curriculum 'sanitised', say critics

The revised standards for black history lessons suggest some received "personal benefit" from slavery.

www.bbc.com

 

[Ironbite4]

Sanitized my ass. It's indoctrination to create more GOP voters.

 

[Teufel]

After the weird very online sociopath DeSantis video about LGBT, here's a very weird DeSantis video that ends with his face superimposed over a Sonnenrad as soldiers march towards it.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1683126430534598656

Allegedly retweeted by a campaign staffer, the previous video was reported to have been made in house and then passed off as a video from the wild, so very fair question to wonder if this was also in-house job and pushed out through this desantiscams twitter account.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Even Jeb! had a better campaign than this.

 

[NovaSaber]

Hard to be worse than using a literal Neo-Nazi symbol.

 

[Dekafox]

Not the best account name either - I keep wanting to read that account name as Desanti-scams.