Red States - Florida

[GURPS]

On Saturday, Florida Politics ran an encouraging story headlined, “Ron DeSantis thinks James Uthmeier could prosecute Anthony Fauci.” Mr. Uthmeier replaced former Attorney General Ashley Moody after the Governor appointed her to Marco Rubio’s senate seat.



Last week interest grew on social media related to prosecuting the human cockroach under state law. Biden’s infamous pardon of the deep-state doc does not extend to any potential state-law crimes. “We have got a new Attorney General coming in. I think he’s of the mindset to look at this to see what the jurisdictional hooks are, to see what if any state statutes may have been violated,” DeSantis told Yale’s Federalist Society on Saturday.

DeSantis added it was possible that “some other states would also do it.” Wouldn’t that be the most wonderful reversal of all? Florida’s Governor might have been on to something. On Saturday, Must Read Alaska ran a wonderful story headlined, “18 state Attorneys General launch investigation into Dr. Fauci’s role in Covid-19 response.”

In a letter addressed to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, the 18 attorneys general commended current congressional efforts to uncover potential misconduct. They also requested state-level cooperation in investigating any violations of state laws.

“President Biden’s blanket pardon of Dr. Fauci is a shameful attempt to prevent accountability,” said South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who drafted the letter. “If any of these findings indicate violations of state laws, we are fully prepared to take appropriate action to ensure justice is served.”

See how far we’ve come? You can scuttle under the retirement refrigerator, Fauci, but you can’t hide from the exterminator.

In more Fauci news, yesterday Newsweek reported, “Fauci museum exhibit funding canceled: DOGE.” Friday afternoon, DOGE posted on X that Health and Human Services had canceled 62 contracts worth a total of $182 million in the previous two days, including a $168,000 award to build an exhibit for Fauci at the NIH museum.

Paradoxically, Biden’s inglorious pre-emptive pardon of the highest-paid federal employee in history may have only inflamed anti-Fauci sentiment, leading to what may be a stunning reversal of fortunes for the disaster-prone doctor.

This Fauci thing isn’t over. Not by a long shot. It’s just getting started.

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www.coffeeandcovid.com

 

[vraiblonde]

Fauci will die of old age before any of this gets to the courts.

But I love this phrase:

You can scuttle under the retirement refrigerator, Fauci, but you can’t hide from the exterminator.

 

[PJay]

Abolish property taxes? DeSantis endorses the idea and explains how it could be done in Florida

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis endorsed the idea of abolishing property taxes in Florida, noting that it could be accomplished via a constitutional amendment.

www.foxnews.com

 

[stgislander]

Hey @vraiblonde... thoughts?

Casey DeSantis favored in Florida governor's race, poll finds

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis was the most favorable candidate to succeed her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, as governor, a new poll found.

www.foxnews.com

Ron has said she's not interested.

 

[vraiblonde]

Hey @vraiblonde... thoughts?

Casey DeSantis favored in Florida governor's race, poll finds

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis was the most favorable candidate to succeed her husband, Gov. Ron DeSantis, as governor, a new poll found.

www.foxnews.com

Ron has said she's not interested.

The other speculative gubernatorial candidates included in the poll’s question included former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Sen. Ashley Moody, Rep. Byron Donalds and Florida commissioner of agriculture Wilton Simpson.

Casey DeSantis is probably the only name most of them recognized so they were like, sure. 1/3 of the people polled didn't know who Matt Gaetz is, so that's all I have to say about that.

 

[GURPS]

This guy can't be real..​

 

[GURPS]

@vraiblonde


what have you heard about Fishback, he is talking a lot about the Fl Panhandle

 

[vraiblonde]

@vraiblonde


what have you heard about Fishback, he is talking a lot about the Fl Panhandle

I've seen his name but that vid is the first I've heard him speak. He's saying the right things but I have a sense of a "conservative Mamdani" promising things he won't or can't do.

DeSantis is leaving some big shoes to fill.

 

[GURPS]

He's saying the right things but I have a sense of a "conservative Mamdani" promising things he won't or can't do.

Fishback is certainly using Mandami's style .... which I think is needed to reach Gen Z terminally on line voters

Gen X is dying out ... the old GOP way no longer works 80's 90's 2000's .. no longer viable

at 62 you are at the end of Gen Jones at 60 I am, at the beginning of Gen X ... our parents generation is quickly vanishing

if you haven't heard of Gen Jones

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/

 

[Kyle]

Fishback is certainly using Mandami's style .... which I think is needed to reach Gen Z terminally on line voters

Gen X is dying out ... the old GOP way no longer works 80's 90's 2000's .. no longer viable

at 62 you are at the end of Gen Jones at 60 I am, at the beginning of Gen X ... our parents generation is quickly vanishing

if you haven't heard of Gen Jones

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenerationJones/

Never heard that reference before. I always just consider myself the last vestige of the boomers.

I do like this description though… “Think of us a generation that got the tail end of the party but had to clean up the mess.”

 

[GURPS]

Never heard that reference before. I always just consider myself the last vestige of the boomers.

I do like this description though… “Think of us a generation that got the tail end of the party but had to clean up the mess.”

yeah it may just be a Reddit thing ... but this makes sense
.. someone born 56 - 65 has very little in common with my mom's generation [ born on 41 ]


being born in 65 ... I experienced a lot of the things Gen Jones talks about

 

[vraiblonde]

yeah it may just be a Reddit thing ... but this makes sense
.. someone born 56 - 65 has very little in common with my mom's generation [ born on 41 ]


being born in 65 ... I experienced a lot of the things Gen Jones talks about

I identify as GenX. GenJones talks about a Vietnam War and hippie movement that I don't remember because I was too young. I don't have a favorite Woodstock band. Reagan was my iconic President, not JFK. Whoever made up these generation cutoffs didn't really give it a lot of cultural thought. 1960 should be the end of the Boomers and beginning of GenX.

 

[GURPS]

GenJones talks about a Vietnam War and hippie movement that I don't remember because I was too young. I

yeah I remember a lot of the stuff mentioned in the mid 70's ... pop culture with designs, colors and furniture as well as fast food restaurants
Nixon resignation but no, not so much Vietnam or Woodstock Hippies, maybe living next to DC I had more exposure
the only thing I know about Woodstock was Charleston Heston playing the Woodstock ' Movie ' within Omega Man

I was listening to a lot of 70's Music ...

I had a class assignment I had to do a scrap book for the 1976 Election ...
I remember the Carter Malaise Era .. Odd / Even Gas days ... dad parking the 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix w/425 Super Duty V-8 for a Toyota Celica in 1975 ...

Reagan was my iconic President, not JFK.

Yeah me too Class of 1984 ... Reagan, Grenada Invasion

... my mom remembers JFK she came to DC in the mid 1950's Hired right into the Federal Gov out of High School the Gov needed SO MANY Secretaries recruiters went to High Schools - mom was from a small town in central PA near Altoona

someone born in 56 is not really going to remember JFK either probably Johnson more so

 

[stgislander]

Generation Jones kinda makes sense. My father was a WWII vet which made me traditional definition of a boomer (vets came home, got married, had kids). But many of my classmates parents were still young kids during WWII. My experiences were in many ways very different than my brothers (78 and 73 yrs old.).

 

[GURPS]

Florida Congressional Hopeful Has Close Ties to Pedophile, 'Lives' at Home Owned by His Convicted Murderer Father: Aaron Baker Is an Ally of Gubernatorial Candidate James Fishback​

Congressional candidate Aaron Baker, an ally of controversial Florida gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback, bills himself as "the only Republican candidate living & working in" the Florida district he's running to represent in a primary challenge to freshman congressman Randy Fine. But records show Baker established ties to the district just two years ago, when he registered to vote at a property purchased by his convicted murderer and opioid trafficker father.

Baker, a general contractor, lived in Maryland with his partner, James Buete, before registering to vote in Florida's deep-red Sixth Congressional District in June 2023. He is stressing his rock-solid conservative credentials and has endorsed Fishback, 31, the steward of a troubled asset management firm who is taking on frontrunner Byron Donalds in the contest for Florida's GOP gubernatorial nomination.

Baker's voter registration—as well as his Florida candidate filing—lists his legal residence as a home in Sorrento, Fla. It's the same property his father, Edwin Blackwelder, purchased in May 2023, just one month before Baker registered to vote in the Sunshine State.

The Baker campaign's association with Blackwelder could prove to be a controversial one. Blackwelder has a lengthy criminal history—including murder, grand theft, and drug trafficking—going back decades. Perhaps even more troubling is what appears to be a friendship or other close relationship in Maryland with a convicted sex offender named Matthew Lucas, who pleaded guilty to abusing a minor.

 

[vraiblonde]

Florida Congressional Hopeful Has Close Ties to Pedophile, 'Lives' at Home Owned by His Convicted Murderer Father: Aaron Baker Is an Ally of Gubernatorial Candidate James Fishback​

Congressional candidate Aaron Baker, an ally of controversial Florida gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback, bills himself as "the only Republican candidate living & working in" the Florida district he's running to represent in a primary challenge to freshman congressman Randy Fine. But records show Baker established ties to the district just two years ago, when he registered to vote at a property purchased by his convicted murderer and opioid trafficker father.

Baker, a general contractor, lived in Maryland with his partner, James Buete, before registering to vote in Florida's deep-red Sixth Congressional District in June 2023. He is stressing his rock-solid conservative credentials and has endorsed Fishback, 31, the steward of a troubled asset management firm who is taking on frontrunner Byron Donalds in the contest for Florida's GOP gubernatorial nomination.

Baker's voter registration—as well as his Florida candidate filing—lists his legal residence as a home in Sorrento, Fla. It's the same property his father, Edwin Blackwelder, purchased in May 2023, just one month before Baker registered to vote in the Sunshine State.

The Baker campaign's association with Blackwelder could prove to be a controversial one. Blackwelder has a lengthy criminal history—including murder, grand theft, and drug trafficking—going back decades. Perhaps even more troubling is what appears to be a friendship or other close relationship in Maryland with a convicted sex offender named Matthew Lucas, who pleaded guilty to abusing a minor.

Yeah, this is why you have to do some homework and not just vote for the D or R. But this Baker person isn't going to win - Randy Fine, the incumbent, is extremely popular. They call him "The Hebrew Hammer" and he will almost certainly keep his seat.

But a lot can happen between now and election day.

 

[GURPS]

But a lot can happen between now and election day.

I was more wondering about the linking to fishback

 

[vraiblonde]

I was more wondering about the linking to fishback

I had to look up Fishback and yeah he's not going to be Governor or even the Republican nominee - he can't even get anyone to donate to his campign. It's not surprising that he and this Baker person are buddies and I'd lay money on them being progtards in disguise trying to screw us over - their far-right silliness is almost comical it seems so fake. Floridians aren't going to get behind an Only Fans sin tax or racist bullshit. It's a red state but all the fringe weirdos are Democrats, not Republicans.

If it were up to me we'd keep Ron DeSantis forever. I'm not seeing any 2028 POTUS buzz for him and he's given no indication he's running, but to me he's the natural candidate to pick up the reins after Trump.

 

[GURPS]

I had to look up Fishback and yeah he's not going to be Governor or even the Republican nominee -

Florida Candidate Wants 50% Tax on OnlyFans Creators​

The Sin Tax is the brainchild of a candidate for Governor of Florida James Fishback. As he calls out popular onlyfans creator Sophie Raine, demanding she cough up 42 million dollars! And the harlot in question responding that she is but a poor multi-multi-multi-multi millionaire! Should we be taxing based on morality? And is only fans doing enough damage to be worth discouraging?

 

[vraiblonde]

candidate for Governor of Florida James Fishback

Nobody outside the social media influencers (and you) is talking about this guy. His OF sin tax isn't important to people.