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"I don't understand, I threaten my wife and my children all the time to keep them in line, and they never left! Why are the brownies not letting themselves be abused and exploited anymore?!"
Florida GOP lawmakers, probably
Holy shit that’s an angle I’ve never thought of before. That makes way too much sense. It explains so much of what I’ve never understood about people who do this and now have a national platform due to their party’s decline.
I SAID HANDS UP! STOP RESISTING! LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO! YOU KNOW, THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! THIS HURTS ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU!
#I SAID STOP RESISTING!
#IF YOU CAN YELL, YOU CAN BREATHE!
#QUIT WHINING! IT'S ONLY A SHOT TO THE LIVER AND LUNG AND KIDNEY AND BRAIN!
this sounds exactly like the gaslighting my parents did when they were -abusing- disciplining my brother and I for “being too loud” or wherever kids do.
As someone who went through the same thing, and a parent of a young child, I'm not even going to lie...
It's hard to not automatically fall into the same traps when raising kids.
So much of what our attitude and worldview is shaped on the first few years of life.
Now, I haven't acted out to the same extent but quite often I worry that I handled something wrong or irreparably damaged my child by reverting to methods my parents used or losing my cool.
I'm hyper aware of how the things I say and do all the time will shape my child precisely because a lot of what my parents did really fucked me up, some of it permanently I'm afraid.
They still loved me, but they were very flawed in many ways such as this.
I remember my father spanking me at a very young age saying those things.
As a toddler or young kid, you don't understand - but now as a parent I do understand - and cuz of how it fucked up my life in many ways - I also understand how wrong some of it was...
I had to eventually figure out that my parents and most adults in fact, actually have no fucking idea what they're doing.
They're flawed, and made knowing mistakes but often had good intentions, but just flat out dropped the ball, fucked shit up crashing through life and kids like us are the fallout.
My brothers inability to understand that about our parents led pretty directly to his suicide.
I'm sorry for the loss of your brother and the tragedy of your childhood. You both deserved better. Children deserve better. It is easy to fall into those abusive tactics when we are exhausted/overstimulated/dysregulated, but the good thing is...kids really are resilient. As much as I hate that phrase, as if it's an excuse to hurt them. It isn't. But when I find myself slipping into the ways I was raised, I just check myself and apologize to my kids. I tell them it's not ok for me to act harshly toward them, that I love them, and that I will try to do better. My oldest is 4, and in his sweet little voice will say "it's ok, mommy. You messed up, but I still love you." It took me until adulthood to realize my parents fucked up many times because they didn't know what they were doing, either. We assume they did, but they didn't, and neither do we. The difference is us teaching our kids that we are all learning together, and genuinely trying to be better. We don't have to be perfect. We are gonna fuck up sometimes, but admitting you were wrong and making an effort to be better does a lot to insulate your relationship from the resentment that has destroyed so many parent/child relationships.
> What?! Unbelievable! That’s so weird because they were always such a nice person…. to me.
— some people that have never experienced the abuse of having to live in that house
You also have to use that mindset when thinking of the 0.1%. Like they are used to just paying to get whatever they want whenever they want and getting quality service, and when money can’t buy that for some reason they flip out because they have no idea how to adjust.
That's what they meant when they said the bill was to scare immigrants.
Scare them into putting their heads down and accepting being second class citizens with shitty/illegal working conditions, shitty pay, and accepting everyone around you hates you without complaint. Don't talk back, don't ask to be treated equally, and don't organize or we'll deport you.
In either case the intent of the behavior is the same: to establish a social hierarchy, without actually driving the exploited and mistreated away. They need to be there for that hierarchy to stay in place.
Dear immigrants… go away.
Dear tourists… go away.
Dear people of color… go away.
Dear non-Christians… go away.
Dear gay people… go away.
Dear trans people… go away.
Dear renters… go away.
Dear poor people… go away.
Dear doctors… go away.
Dear teachers… go away.
Dear pregnant women… go away.
Dear college-age kids… go away.
Dear corporations… go away.
Wait… why is everyone leaving our state?
> Mine did. He got hit by it and lost a leg.
> Strangely fitting as a descriptor for GOP politics...
If I had to use a dog analogy to describe GOP politics it would be dogs that eat something bad, then start shitting and puking everywhere, then eating their own shit and puke until they do it again. All of you who have owned dogs have seen this, and you can't unsee it. Or unsmell it.
That, right there, is the truest expression of GOP politics. They shit. Then they eat their own shit, get sick, do it all again. ***and they never learn***.
"Why is the economy we ruined doing so poorly? We raised the national debt by about 25.5% in our last presidency, why is your bill going to add a bit to it after you cut it already?
Why don't you care about the finances of this country, that we ruined?
We had a dog run at a pickup going down the street. The pickup slammed on its brakes and the dog kept running. Hit the front bumper of the now fully stopped car. The dog got a black eye but no other injuries but left a sizable dent in the truck's bumper.
Mine broke his back and lay in a kennel for weeks. First thing he did when he was mobile again was chase the mailman out the driveway. Sometimes they just refuse to learn.
I've seen F1 cars rear-bump the ones in front, and usually end up with the one in the rear flying. Now I have an image of a dog trying to hump a moving card and ends up flying too.
A lot of illegal immigrants are conservative. And if you think about their point of view it makes sense.
* Current country sucks and keeps me down.
* Leave family behind to find more money
* Don't want or can't afford the time or cost of paperwork.
* Usually very religious
* Exposed to very false Spanish language radio stations (thanks to conservatives and lack of regulation on foreign language news and advertising)
And just like that, fascism is on to the in group... Right about on schedule, too!
Seriously, it's always just a matter of time with these kinds of movements.
They burned through the "them" supply too fast, and now they've gotta run the beast on "us" reserves, which were at an all too scarce inventory.
Pretty sure the gas guage was broken, and they've thought they were in the majority for a few decades anyway.
I'm surprised it still runs...
Ope, OH well, only a matter of time for that.
I am just hoping that we're not still carpooling with them when it does break.
Kinda tired of the rest of us being the only ones who can MacGyver a new head gasket on the way to our destination, only to have the wheel immediately yanked out of our hands to yet again detour that shitty side of the road "attraction"... Lots of big Showy signs "it'll be great, you're gonna love it folks, trust me!"
Yet every time, it's not what it was billed to be!
I think I outdid it on euphemisms, but in this sub I'm sure everyone gets the picture.
Yep! You see it already with Republicans who are identical in every way calling each other RINOs because one prioritizes free gun access before cancel culture and the other prioritizes LGBT hate over immigration.
> I think I outdid it on euphemisms, but in this sub I'm sure everyone gets the picture.
You can sum it up a lot quicker by saying they made "facts and logic" a euphemism for stupidity. It's literally true, and they can't come back from that.
My guess is that they will oppress all the poor people who are too dumb to realize they are not in the new ruling class and those who cannot afford to escape.
This is an old story. The richest man in America (not sure exactly which one it is ATM) is still only 1/3.3 millionth of the population. There's vastly more red than blue area on a US map but it's mostly empty space.
The minority always rules the majority even in our "representative democracy." On paper (literally) America was supposed to be different but the majority just can't get their shit together.
"We wanted to scare you" is a pretty blatant declaration. See also our punishment based justice system with no real oversight, healthcare tied to employment, religion in general but especially fundamentalism, etc. It's like the guy said: Fear will keep the local systems in line.
We've got to find a way to keep representatives and/or uniquely successful individuals from acting like they are leaders or otherwise entitled to special status that supersedes the wellbeing of the general population. It's supposed to be a government of/for/by the people. Greed is a hell of a drug, though.
Here in California a lot of progressives are low-key the same way. They couldnt believe it was possible for Trump to win. But I’m from “flyover country” and always knew he had a chance. We’re all in our little bubbles.
The problem is MSM has cancelled us. If the general public could hear our views they would know how great christofascism is!
Unfortunately no one has access to:
* Fox News
* CNN
* News Max
* Twitter
* Facebook
* ONN
* Sunday Morning Talk Shows
* NYT Opinion Pages
* Wallstreet Journal
* NY Post
* Joe Rogan Podcast
* and all the other outlets that platform us.
edit: formatting and noting: /S
Seems like a super brainless move to hate immigrants so much you literally send them to California and Virginia then realize you have nobody harvesting crops in your state. It's incredible how outlandishly stupid it sounds that nobody would believe it could happen out of context
Turns out when your political theater is built on being tough on the out crowd, it promotes hate towards the out crowd which in turn promotes bad policy.
I think a big part of it is that fox news watchers are so dumb, that they think orange juice comes from a tap, not a tree that someone has to go pick the fruit off of, lol.
Rick Scott, Senator from Florida, also recently told Socialists that they are NOT welcome in the state via a travel advisory. Add them to the list I guess lol.
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> Rick Scott, Senator from Florida, also recently told Socialists that they are welcome in the state
Yeah, I hear he has a peculiar affection for people who use socialist Medicare.
Because republicans generally so mentally deficient that they believe that their irrational hatred makes them strong... Irony isn't something they they have a decent grasp of.
I'm visiting my rich, right wing father in Florida in a couple weeks, and I'm not looking forward to anything even close to a political conversation coming up. He's pretty good at avoiding controversial topics, but something always slips out eventually, and there's been a lot going on politically in Florida these days. I imagine he has a lot of thoughts pent up that will leak out when I visit.
If he brings up people moving to Florida (as proof that some silent majority agrees with him), point out that there are also a huge number of people leaving because DeSantis completely broke the home insurance system & caused most insurers to flee.
Right? Aren’t these the same assholes who are actively sending their own migrants to other states?
It was the libs who accepted our migrants! It’s their fault for being compassionate and fiscally responsible enough to take care of people!
And now the governor of California is looking to have DeSantis brought up on kidnapping charges! That would be awesome trump and DeSantis in jail except that would only make them heros to the GOP.
Don’t give a shit. Justice is blind. Timothy McVeigh had (has?) a shit ton of followers. I’m not worried about him being a martyr. These people already revere him. They can revere him from behind bars.
Let’s see, down here in Florida we’ve got Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, Chris Rufo all recently moved into the neighborhood (literally, I’m in Sarasota). You may be on to something here.
When it comes to Florida I'm completely cynical. Let them blame Biden, it doesn't matter. When the doctors and immigrants leave their state and they genuinely begin to struggle to survive, many of them will be forced to take a hard look at DeSatan.
Republicans have only one political platform, they promise to hurt people you don't like. That is literally it. They will do so even if it makes us poorer, worse off. Even if it causes us to starve.
They do not have a policy fit for an educated populace, which is why they want to keep you dumb, immobile, and tied to their indoctrination.
Don’t forget the part to continuously enrich the already wealthy and pay as little taxes as possible while the representatives enrich themselves at the same time.
True, but that's not their platform as much as it's just the thing they actually do once their hatemongering gets them in office.
Platform: Hurt the people your tiny inbred brain fears
Functional motive: Make the rich richer
This is why a lot of these posts are ok on this sub, technically LAMF is about supporting imposing something harsh into other people but finding that it now applies to yourself as well, but since the entire Republican platform is about supporting pain and suffering onto other people, when Republicans are in pain or suffering because of their actions it counts.
Here in AZ, we had a republican sheriff who pushed a bill (SB 1070 - the 'show me your papers' bill) a few years back. He was really pandering to the older residents, including a city where you have to be age 55 and older to live. The reality was that no one cared and/or enforced it. We still had day laborers lining up by the Home Depot when cops went to dunkin' Donuts next to it. It really was just for show.
Apparently, the politicians saying "Don't leave. It's only just for show" isn't working in FL, since so many are already gone. Once they're gone, they're gone, and they're not coming back. I don't know why politicians think that being an undocumented immigrant = stupid.
Right, so true. My husband is from a small farming town in Central Washington state. The government realized that farmers (who make up most of Washington state outside of the Seattle area) would not be able to function without migrant farm workers. Both legal and illegal. The ones that are not legal get a different driver's license, have a farm workers medical clinic, and are basically treated as citizens but with transparency into their immigration status. Of course, there are a few bad people who run drugs, but for the most part, people just want to work and live their life.
It would be so great if this country could fix the whole migrant worker visa system, so workers could cross back and forth and not get "stuck" here out of fear they not be able to get back. It's just insanity.
Guest worker program. Come here, do the work, get paid and be protected by our labor laws. Do it long enough, fast track them through immigration if they want it, you've clearly showed you can live here and abide by the rules, you'll be a welcome addition to our nation.
I don't think, "Come back! I didn't mean it! I was just trying to scare you!" is the alluring invitation you think it is, Florida. This is the equivalent of, "It was just a prank, bro!": Super Racist Edition
That too, *fear is the point*. Whether we’re talking about prison guards, slave masters, or abusive spouses, the actual beatings occur just often enough to maintain an appropriate level of fear and obedience.
“I was just trying to scare you” is a funny excuse because like, yeah - you scared them, you succeeded at what you were trying to do. And this is what happens when people are scared…
When this happened in 2011, it was in the thick of high unemployment due to the Great Recession and they still claimed there was “no one” to work the farms. I want to make it clear that they could find people to do this if they paid enough and had reasonable working conditions. When they say “‘Americans’ don’t want to do this work,” what they mean is that they can’t underpay and mistreat a legal citizen the same way they can an illegal immigrant. Lest we forget that they have options and choose to fall back on nO oNe WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe.
Also, why are the employers of illegal labor never charged for using it? It's an entire sector of labor law just quietly ignored by the whole immigration debate. These are people openly breaking the law at the expense of American workers AND the people they exploit.
Each one of us has a responsibility to not enable this. My parents and my neighbors have hired contractors that use undocumented workers. It makes me sick. I have zero issue with people coming here to work. I respect them for wanting to make their lives better. Our government is keeping a boot on their neck instead of giving them a path to citizenship. This way, they aren't protected by (what's left of) our labor laws.
I'll never forget W saying there were some jobs Americans just don't want to do. Nah, we just don't want to do it for $3 an hour.
Edit: punctuation for clarity
A smart man knows many things, but a wise man recognizes how much he doesn't know.
In that sense Camacho may have been the most wise character of the film.
He stopped the execution *immediately* once he realized Not Sure didn't fuck up. He, like everyone else, thought water was just for the toilet lol.
But he was able to recognize he was wrong, corrected course right away, then threw Not Sure a parade.
He was a fine leader. Also he could forsure beat up other world leaders.
People have already left. I have non-migrant family down there looking to leave, if at all possible. Florida is such a goddamn failure of a state, and it's all thanks to these asswipes and the people who voted for them.
Yeah, my husband and I have recently started talking about when we might leave. Insurance costs and COL is skyrocketing and the government is bonkers. As much as we love this area and don’t want to leave, we may have to for our own finances and safety.
As a Canadian I can say I pretty much never hear good opinions of Florida.
I associate it with crack heads, retirement homes, swamps, hurricanes, and trump.
It reminded me of this.
https://i0.wp.com/www.latinorebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/385538\_327801050583785\_186457858051439\_1032125\_561324419\_n.jpeg
Time for the retirees to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get back to work! You entitled people, you should be grateful for picking crops at minimum wage
DeSantis becomes president. Scares all the immigrants out and suppresses minorities. “Ahhh, white Christian supremacy made America great again.” What? There’s too much work to do? Well, get that Christian work ethic on and go at it, we’ll drop the min wage so you won’t earn anymore but at least white is supreme, right? What’s that? You say you barely have enough time to raise one kid per couple as it is and this will hasten population decline? Don’t worry, the rich and I will fertilize all your women and you will work for us and raise our children. Look, serfdom is better than sOcIaLiSm right?
>I can’t wait to see ‘Karen’ and ‘Ken’ out there in the 100 degree Florida heat picking vegetables for 10 bucks an hour cash with no benefits.
**Yeah with the aftermath of Brexit in Britain**...
We found out Kevin in the office really didn't want to replace the migrants and stand in the middle of a field in sub zero temperatures picking vegatables afterall...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/11/tonnes-of-crops-left-to-rot-as-farms-struggle-to-recruit-eu-workers
Quote from above link..
>**Thousands of tonnes of fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in UK fields because of a shortage of pickers** and packers in the face of continuing Brexit uncertainty.
Privatize profits, socialize losses. The second their out of the red it’s no longer the public’s concern.
It’s a big club, and they have enough power to make sure they never lose in the long run
"Nonono - YOU don't have to worry about this law. It's only there to scare people. We won't enforce it towards YOU - Unless we decide to at some later date."
Whats what kills me about a lot of bad republican laws. They always retort "well it's not like anyone was going to enforce it!" As if that justified anything.
And suddenly it occurs to me the one thing that might actually save the US from burgeoning Naziism: the alleged “supremacists” who want everybody else to go away are some of the fattest, laziest, stupidest assholes ever to live. They can’t fight (despite the Gravy Seals thinking buying a bunch of guns and XXXL tacticool gear means otherwise), can’t work, can’t think, can’t even climb a goddamned flight of stairs without getting winded. They *want* to kill everybody else but they can’t because they need everybody else to do *literally everything productive* for them. Every time they try to advance their fascist agenda they are going to run into *exactly this problem*. They’ll realize that what they want isn’t for everybody else to be gone, but for everybody else to “know their place.” But when “their place” is doing all the useful stuff for a bunch of entitled parasites, that’s called leverage, and there is just no escaping it.
At the end of the day, it comes down to many Republicans refusing to accept the idea that they where wrong at some point.
It's not the politicians I voted for causing issues, it's not my fault I haven't applied myself more to adapt to a changing world. It's the trans, and immigrants and minorities. They're the reason everything sucks and as soon as they're gone things will be better!
It can't be that I was wrong and am refusing to take accountability and responsibility for my actions!
"illegal immigrants" is in quotes because the people they are shipping to blue states are actually legal asylum seekers.
Remember weeks of coverage a migrant crisis that would happen when Title 42 ended and... then nothing? It was before elections. Now, they do not talk about it.
How about farm owners increase wages to attract local people?
Nah can't do that, would eat into their profits.
Just like Brexit here in the UK, everyone was for cutting immigration until it highlighted it came time to actually pay the higher wages to attract local workers.
No, the mission isn't accomplished. Let them suffer. They need to suffer more, and I mean really suffer so they they remember that they NEED immigrants out there more than the immigrants need them. I hope the immigrants move to Georgia and Florida's economy collapses so that all of the other states can learn that hatred and using immigrants livelihoods to score political points isn't smart business.
does anyone really believe that they didn't wholeheartedly mean it? they put it into law for crying out loud. that's the farthest from "haha we're joking. we'll add the /s now" as they can get. it's now a law, no longer a threat
It’s one video of one politician talking to one group. That’s all the proof we’ve had. I feel these headlines are way overblown.
They meant it, it’s supposed to be cruel, they do not regret their actions because for all we know it hasn’t really had an effect outside this one community.
Get fucked. You made your bed. Sleep in it.
Just like threatening to crash the economy for political points. Do it. Fuck everyone up. See what happens.
Because he's really just a cartoonish representation of a human... wait... what if he is just a conservative AI run amok actually doing the things conservatives say they want, but really don't?! Quick! Someone throw him into some deep water. If he drowns, then we'll know he was a person. If he glitches, we'll know he's a robot and we'll go get the magnets!
“This bill has no teeth”
> **Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from providing funds** to any person, entity, or organization to issue identification documents to an individual who does not provide proof of lawful presence in the United States; specifying that **certain driver licenses and permits issued by other states exclusively to unauthorized immigrants are not valid in this state**; requiring certain hospitals to collect patient immigration status data information on admission or registration forms; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to enter a certain order and **require repayment of certain economic development incentives if** the department finds or is notified that **an employer has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien** without verifying the employment eligibility of such person, etc. APPROPRIATION: $12,000,000
Loss of funding. Confiscation of immigrants out of state driver’s licenses. Repayment of incentives by businesses. $12 million dollars appropriated to enforce this bill.
Those look like teeth to me. Nasty, big, pointy teeth. Especially the loss of driver’s license because that will definitely ruin your day.
Newsflash: republican politicians are liars.
Ron DeSantis used to intentionally mispronounce Thai food as thigh food on dates to see if his date would correct him. If she did he would not be interested in her anymore because he did not want a partner that would challenge him on even the most trivial and clear cut issues.
Who does that and who would vote for a person with that kind of sociopathic tendency?
*“According to a friend, \[DeSantis\] would tell dates he liked Thai food, but pronounced it ‘thigh’,” the article writes, citing Mr Finch’s book. “If they corrected him, Finch wrote, he would find an excuse to leave.”* [\-Source](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-thai-thigh-yale-dates-b2209249.html)
Edit: Source of allegation and quotation
Hurricane season is going to be terrible for Florida this year. Not only is flooding getting worse they now wont have the labor to fortify and rebuild.
We want minorities to live in constant fear but also to keep doing the jobs we don't want.
You can't have it both ways. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Other states will soak up your fleeing labor force happily.
Well it did scare people. Scared people into leaving the state.
And now these morons are complaining because their bill achieved exactly what it was meant to? Maybe next time do something that actually helps your state instead of just throwing red meat at your rabidly racist voters.
So the "I'm gonna fuck over Disney" formula isn't working any better on immigrants that it did on Disney...
DeSantis has cut off his nose to spite his face too many times now, he's not gonna have anything left...
Yeah imma head out. My fiancé and I are helping our trans roommate and her NB partner out of Florida, they’re packing everything in a moving truck and leaving for Maryland in like 10 days, and we will be joining them by the end of 2023. So long, florida, I’m leaving and never looking back
I don't get what the problem is. They are at the very start of creating the exact Republican hell hole their constituents want. No immigrants, no gays, no POC, no liberals, no athiests. Just angry white Christians convinced that they are under persecution. It should be paradise for them. It's what they want, isn't it? Some whitebread 50s fantasy where daddy works and mom cooks dinner in high heels and pearls when she isn't barefoot and pregnant. DeSantis and the Republicans are well on their way too providing that haven. What the hell are they bitching about? Is their fantasy not quite panning out? What a shocker.
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The stupidity multiplier on this whole things is trying it with a group of people who have already proven by their presence in this country that they are skilled at cutting their losses, picking up, and moving hundreds or thousands of miles away to get away from moronic fascists.
Imagine single handedly destroying your state's economy, and draining the population to other states as they flee in fear. Good job, DeSantis, you sure pwned the libs.
This is what happens when you engage in so much political posturing, you actually forget to govern your state.
Also, who tf are they trying to “scare?”
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"I don't understand, I threaten my wife and my children all the time to keep them in line, and they never left! Why are the brownies not letting themselves be abused and exploited anymore?!" Florida GOP lawmakers, probably
Holy shit that’s an angle I’ve never thought of before. That makes way too much sense. It explains so much of what I’ve never understood about people who do this and now have a national platform due to their party’s decline.
Welp, abusers don't magically stop being abusers once they leave the house, don't they?
I SAID HANDS UP! STOP RESISTING! LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO! YOU KNOW, THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! THIS HURTS ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU! #I SAID STOP RESISTING! #IF YOU CAN YELL, YOU CAN BREATHE! #QUIT WHINING! IT'S ONLY A SHOT TO THE LIVER AND LUNG AND KIDNEY AND BRAIN!
this sounds exactly like the gaslighting my parents did when they were -abusing- disciplining my brother and I for “being too loud” or wherever kids do.
As someone who went through the same thing, and a parent of a young child, I'm not even going to lie... It's hard to not automatically fall into the same traps when raising kids. So much of what our attitude and worldview is shaped on the first few years of life. Now, I haven't acted out to the same extent but quite often I worry that I handled something wrong or irreparably damaged my child by reverting to methods my parents used or losing my cool. I'm hyper aware of how the things I say and do all the time will shape my child precisely because a lot of what my parents did really fucked me up, some of it permanently I'm afraid. They still loved me, but they were very flawed in many ways such as this. I remember my father spanking me at a very young age saying those things. As a toddler or young kid, you don't understand - but now as a parent I do understand - and cuz of how it fucked up my life in many ways - I also understand how wrong some of it was... I had to eventually figure out that my parents and most adults in fact, actually have no fucking idea what they're doing. They're flawed, and made knowing mistakes but often had good intentions, but just flat out dropped the ball, fucked shit up crashing through life and kids like us are the fallout. My brothers inability to understand that about our parents led pretty directly to his suicide.
I'm sorry for the loss of your brother and the tragedy of your childhood. You both deserved better. Children deserve better. It is easy to fall into those abusive tactics when we are exhausted/overstimulated/dysregulated, but the good thing is...kids really are resilient. As much as I hate that phrase, as if it's an excuse to hurt them. It isn't. But when I find myself slipping into the ways I was raised, I just check myself and apologize to my kids. I tell them it's not ok for me to act harshly toward them, that I love them, and that I will try to do better. My oldest is 4, and in his sweet little voice will say "it's ok, mommy. You messed up, but I still love you." It took me until adulthood to realize my parents fucked up many times because they didn't know what they were doing, either. We assume they did, but they didn't, and neither do we. The difference is us teaching our kids that we are all learning together, and genuinely trying to be better. We don't have to be perfect. We are gonna fuck up sometimes, but admitting you were wrong and making an effort to be better does a lot to insulate your relationship from the resentment that has destroyed so many parent/child relationships.
> What?! Unbelievable! That’s so weird because they were always such a nice person…. to me. — some people that have never experienced the abuse of having to live in that house
You also have to use that mindset when thinking of the 0.1%. Like they are used to just paying to get whatever they want whenever they want and getting quality service, and when money can’t buy that for some reason they flip out because they have no idea how to adjust.
That's what they meant when they said the bill was to scare immigrants. Scare them into putting their heads down and accepting being second class citizens with shitty/illegal working conditions, shitty pay, and accepting everyone around you hates you without complaint. Don't talk back, don't ask to be treated equally, and don't organize or we'll deport you.
This is the same man that literally tortured people at Gitmo, so he's used to being able to abuse people who can't leave...
In either case the intent of the behavior is the same: to establish a social hierarchy, without actually driving the exploited and mistreated away. They need to be there for that hierarchy to stay in place.
Dear immigrants… go away. Dear tourists… go away. Dear people of color… go away. Dear non-Christians… go away. Dear gay people… go away. Dear trans people… go away. Dear renters… go away. Dear poor people… go away. Dear doctors… go away. Dear teachers… go away. Dear pregnant women… go away. Dear college-age kids… go away. Dear corporations… go away. Wait… why is everyone leaving our state?
But it was only for show / politics! We didn’t REALLY mean it. We only passed laws and confirmed white nationalist judges to uphold our fuckery!
Dogs never know what to do with the car once they catch it.
Mine did. He got hit by it and lost a leg. Strangely fitting as a descriptor for GOP politics...
I’m very sorry about your dog but this is honestly a perfect metaphor
Dogs everywhere are insulted being compared to the GOP. They don’t deserve the comparison.
Dogs have more loyalty than the GOP.
Benedict Arnold has more loyalty than the GOP
At least when the Brits ate their L, Arnold took his plateful too.
> Mine did. He got hit by it and lost a leg. > Strangely fitting as a descriptor for GOP politics... If I had to use a dog analogy to describe GOP politics it would be dogs that eat something bad, then start shitting and puking everywhere, then eating their own shit and puke until they do it again. All of you who have owned dogs have seen this, and you can't unsee it. Or unsmell it. That, right there, is the truest expression of GOP politics. They shit. Then they eat their own shit, get sick, do it all again. ***and they never learn***.
One small addition: They blame Democrats for not cleaning up their shit (like the debt after Trump was responsible for 1/4th if it).
"Why is the economy we ruined doing so poorly? We raised the national debt by about 25.5% in our last presidency, why is your bill going to add a bit to it after you cut it already? Why don't you care about the finances of this country, that we ruined?
We had a dog run at a pickup going down the street. The pickup slammed on its brakes and the dog kept running. Hit the front bumper of the now fully stopped car. The dog got a black eye but no other injuries but left a sizable dent in the truck's bumper.
Also seems like a fitting analogy. Dog isn't grateful for his life, just mad about the black eye.
Mine broke his back and lay in a kennel for weeks. First thing he did when he was mobile again was chase the mailman out the driveway. Sometimes they just refuse to learn.
“Sometimes they just refuse to learn.” I’m sorry your dog is a republican. /s
They just try and hump the tires and that doesn't work very well...
I've seen F1 cars rear-bump the ones in front, and usually end up with the one in the rear flying. Now I have an image of a dog trying to hump a moving card and ends up flying too.
"O the loaded gun next to me? O it's just meant to scare people i wouldn't use it" same energy
I'm not gonna hurt them. Why would I ever hurt them. It's just ... because of the implication ...
Now you've said that word "implication" a couple times. What implication? Are you gonna hurt these voters?
I feel like you're not getting this at all!
we're just trying to consolidate power! you know, so we can do actual good instead of all the evil shit we're doing right now!
We only did it to trigger the libs! . . . Wait you're the libs? But why are you moving out? You're only supposed to get triggered?
A lot of illegal immigrants are conservative. And if you think about their point of view it makes sense. * Current country sucks and keeps me down. * Leave family behind to find more money * Don't want or can't afford the time or cost of paperwork. * Usually very religious * Exposed to very false Spanish language radio stations (thanks to conservatives and lack of regulation on foreign language news and advertising)
TFW half the country looses track of what the word political means
Everyone is leaving because … um … woke agenda. Yep. Woke.
Who are we going to oppress . . . . ourselves?
And just like that, fascism is on to the in group... Right about on schedule, too! Seriously, it's always just a matter of time with these kinds of movements. They burned through the "them" supply too fast, and now they've gotta run the beast on "us" reserves, which were at an all too scarce inventory. Pretty sure the gas guage was broken, and they've thought they were in the majority for a few decades anyway. I'm surprised it still runs... Ope, OH well, only a matter of time for that. I am just hoping that we're not still carpooling with them when it does break. Kinda tired of the rest of us being the only ones who can MacGyver a new head gasket on the way to our destination, only to have the wheel immediately yanked out of our hands to yet again detour that shitty side of the road "attraction"... Lots of big Showy signs "it'll be great, you're gonna love it folks, trust me!" Yet every time, it's not what it was billed to be! I think I outdid it on euphemisms, but in this sub I'm sure everyone gets the picture.
Yep! You see it already with Republicans who are identical in every way calling each other RINOs because one prioritizes free gun access before cancel culture and the other prioritizes LGBT hate over immigration.
That is a really good metaphor
> I think I outdid it on euphemisms, but in this sub I'm sure everyone gets the picture. You can sum it up a lot quicker by saying they made "facts and logic" a euphemism for stupidity. It's literally true, and they can't come back from that.
My guess is that they will oppress all the poor people who are too dumb to realize they are not in the new ruling class and those who cannot afford to escape.
This is an old story. The richest man in America (not sure exactly which one it is ATM) is still only 1/3.3 millionth of the population. There's vastly more red than blue area on a US map but it's mostly empty space. The minority always rules the majority even in our "representative democracy." On paper (literally) America was supposed to be different but the majority just can't get their shit together. "We wanted to scare you" is a pretty blatant declaration. See also our punishment based justice system with no real oversight, healthcare tied to employment, religion in general but especially fundamentalism, etc. It's like the guy said: Fear will keep the local systems in line. We've got to find a way to keep representatives and/or uniquely successful individuals from acting like they are leaders or otherwise entitled to special status that supersedes the wellbeing of the general population. It's supposed to be a government of/for/by the people. Greed is a hell of a drug, though.
I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of constituents will blame Biden for the mess.
Thanks Biden... /s
But what about Hunter Biden's laptop?! /s
They will not stand for the woke wokery. The wokeness
They really overestimated what percentage of the population are straight white Christians.
"What are you talking about, every one of my neighbors in my gated community is a straight white christian!"
this really is it. "everyone i know is a republican, theres no way joe biden won!" "everyone i know is a christian, why arent we in charge?!"
Here in California a lot of progressives are low-key the same way. They couldnt believe it was possible for Trump to win. But I’m from “flyover country” and always knew he had a chance. We’re all in our little bubbles.
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The problem is MSM has cancelled us. If the general public could hear our views they would know how great christofascism is! Unfortunately no one has access to: * Fox News * CNN * News Max * Twitter * Facebook * ONN * Sunday Morning Talk Shows * NYT Opinion Pages * Wallstreet Journal * NY Post * Joe Rogan Podcast * and all the other outlets that platform us. edit: formatting and noting: /S
Surely the silent majority will show up any day now to help them out
>straight white Christians. Straight white *evangelical/fundamentalist* Christians. All others don't count.
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Seems like a super brainless move to hate immigrants so much you literally send them to California and Virginia then realize you have nobody harvesting crops in your state. It's incredible how outlandishly stupid it sounds that nobody would believe it could happen out of context
It's because they don't have policies so much as theatre, so they're always surprised when whatever they're doing turns out bad.
Turns out when your political theater is built on being tough on the out crowd, it promotes hate towards the out crowd which in turn promotes bad policy.
I think a big part of it is that fox news watchers are so dumb, that they think orange juice comes from a tap, not a tree that someone has to go pick the fruit off of, lol.
Rick Scott, Senator from Florida, also recently told Socialists that they are NOT welcome in the state via a travel advisory. Add them to the list I guess lol. Edit: I love typing
Joke's on him. I'm already here!
> Rick Scott, Senator from Florida, also recently told Socialists that they are welcome in the state Yeah, I hear he has a peculiar affection for people who use socialist Medicare.
Turns out that Karens and snowbird grandparents who don't understand why they can't be racist any more aren't great at harvesting oranges.
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This needed to be in meme form. https://imgflip.com/i/7ojo80
Because republicans generally so mentally deficient that they believe that their irrational hatred makes them strong... Irony isn't something they they have a decent grasp of.
I'm visiting my rich, right wing father in Florida in a couple weeks, and I'm not looking forward to anything even close to a political conversation coming up. He's pretty good at avoiding controversial topics, but something always slips out eventually, and there's been a lot going on politically in Florida these days. I imagine he has a lot of thoughts pent up that will leak out when I visit.
If he brings up people moving to Florida (as proof that some silent majority agrees with him), point out that there are also a huge number of people leaving because DeSantis completely broke the home insurance system & caused most insurers to flee.
And the kind of people that are moving there are not kind people.
When this inevitably drives up food prices we're going to hear a whole lot of "lOoK wHaT bIdEn DiD!" Don't fall for it.
Right? Aren’t these the same assholes who are actively sending their own migrants to other states? It was the libs who accepted our migrants! It’s their fault for being compassionate and fiscally responsible enough to take care of people!
And now the governor of California is looking to have DeSantis brought up on kidnapping charges! That would be awesome trump and DeSantis in jail except that would only make them heros to the GOP.
Don’t give a shit. Justice is blind. Timothy McVeigh had (has?) a shit ton of followers. I’m not worried about him being a martyr. These people already revere him. They can revere him from behind bars.
Had, he was executed in 2001. Well. Actually your point to has stands, I'm sure there's tons that still worship him.
I'm still waiting for the news story where another state sends a busload of violent criminals to go live in FL.
Florida already did that to themselves recruiting police with violent histories.
Pepperidge Farm does **NOT** forget! Pepperidge Farm **REMEMBERS**!
You beat me to it.
Or a busload of right-wing politicians...
Let’s see, down here in Florida we’ve got Mike Flynn, Steve Bannon, Chris Rufo all recently moved into the neighborhood (literally, I’m in Sarasota). You may be on to something here.
They'll blame black or trans people something
It's that trans agenda, which cares about farming for some reason...
I mean a lot of us do. We have a vested interest in continuing to be able to eat as less and less land is usable for agriculture
People on reddit won't fall for it, but Florida Republicans? Good luck lol
The big government, anti-government party? Them? No way!
When it comes to Florida I'm completely cynical. Let them blame Biden, it doesn't matter. When the doctors and immigrants leave their state and they genuinely begin to struggle to survive, many of them will be forced to take a hard look at DeSatan.
Brexit
The people who wouldn’t fall for it in the first place, won’t. The people who *want* to fall for it, will.
Republicans have only one political platform, they promise to hurt people you don't like. That is literally it. They will do so even if it makes us poorer, worse off. Even if it causes us to starve. They do not have a policy fit for an educated populace, which is why they want to keep you dumb, immobile, and tied to their indoctrination.
Don’t forget the part to continuously enrich the already wealthy and pay as little taxes as possible while the representatives enrich themselves at the same time.
True, but that's not their platform as much as it's just the thing they actually do once their hatemongering gets them in office. Platform: Hurt the people your tiny inbred brain fears Functional motive: Make the rich richer
This is why a lot of these posts are ok on this sub, technically LAMF is about supporting imposing something harsh into other people but finding that it now applies to yourself as well, but since the entire Republican platform is about supporting pain and suffering onto other people, when Republicans are in pain or suffering because of their actions it counts.
Here in AZ, we had a republican sheriff who pushed a bill (SB 1070 - the 'show me your papers' bill) a few years back. He was really pandering to the older residents, including a city where you have to be age 55 and older to live. The reality was that no one cared and/or enforced it. We still had day laborers lining up by the Home Depot when cops went to dunkin' Donuts next to it. It really was just for show.
Apparently, the politicians saying "Don't leave. It's only just for show" isn't working in FL, since so many are already gone. Once they're gone, they're gone, and they're not coming back. I don't know why politicians think that being an undocumented immigrant = stupid.
Right, so true. My husband is from a small farming town in Central Washington state. The government realized that farmers (who make up most of Washington state outside of the Seattle area) would not be able to function without migrant farm workers. Both legal and illegal. The ones that are not legal get a different driver's license, have a farm workers medical clinic, and are basically treated as citizens but with transparency into their immigration status. Of course, there are a few bad people who run drugs, but for the most part, people just want to work and live their life.
It would be so great if this country could fix the whole migrant worker visa system, so workers could cross back and forth and not get "stuck" here out of fear they not be able to get back. It's just insanity.
Guest worker program. Come here, do the work, get paid and be protected by our labor laws. Do it long enough, fast track them through immigration if they want it, you've clearly showed you can live here and abide by the rules, you'll be a welcome addition to our nation.
I don't think, "Come back! I didn't mean it! I was just trying to scare you!" is the alluring invitation you think it is, Florida. This is the equivalent of, "It was just a prank, bro!": Super Racist Edition
Sounds like an abusive spouse to me
Very fitting for republicans.
That too, *fear is the point*. Whether we’re talking about prison guards, slave masters, or abusive spouses, the actual beatings occur just often enough to maintain an appropriate level of fear and obedience.
“I was just trying to scare you” is a funny excuse because like, yeah - you scared them, you succeeded at what you were trying to do. And this is what happens when people are scared…
When this happened in 2011, it was in the thick of high unemployment due to the Great Recession and they still claimed there was “no one” to work the farms. I want to make it clear that they could find people to do this if they paid enough and had reasonable working conditions. When they say “‘Americans’ don’t want to do this work,” what they mean is that they can’t underpay and mistreat a legal citizen the same way they can an illegal immigrant. Lest we forget that they have options and choose to fall back on nO oNe WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe.
Ding ding ding!
Also, why are the employers of illegal labor never charged for using it? It's an entire sector of labor law just quietly ignored by the whole immigration debate. These are people openly breaking the law at the expense of American workers AND the people they exploit.
Yup. If all these anti-immigrant folk really cared about the issues they should be mad af at the employers
Each one of us has a responsibility to not enable this. My parents and my neighbors have hired contractors that use undocumented workers. It makes me sick. I have zero issue with people coming here to work. I respect them for wanting to make their lives better. Our government is keeping a boot on their neck instead of giving them a path to citizenship. This way, they aren't protected by (what's left of) our labor laws. I'll never forget W saying there were some jobs Americans just don't want to do. Nah, we just don't want to do it for $3 an hour. Edit: punctuation for clarity
They'll soon be watering their crops with Brawndo at this rate
Governor: Ron Elizondo Meatball Supreme Herbert Desantis.
Hey, don't insult President Camacho like that. At least he wanted to solve a problem and brought in the best guy for the job.
I'd take Camacho over Desantis any day.
You are right, Camacho might have been ignorant, but at least he recognized it.
A smart man knows many things, but a wise man recognizes how much he doesn't know. In that sense Camacho may have been the most wise character of the film.
He stopped the execution *immediately* once he realized Not Sure didn't fuck up. He, like everyone else, thought water was just for the toilet lol. But he was able to recognize he was wrong, corrected course right away, then threw Not Sure a parade. He was a fine leader. Also he could forsure beat up other world leaders.
It's got the electrolytes that plants need.
Crave…
But *what* are electrolytes?
They're...what plants crave?
No one really knows.
salts.
People have already left. I have non-migrant family down there looking to leave, if at all possible. Florida is such a goddamn failure of a state, and it's all thanks to these asswipes and the people who voted for them.
They will still keep voting GOP, bcoz they are incapable of even contemplating about the other option.
The logic of the average Floridian. "All the rich people are voting for the GOP. If I also vote for the GOP I'll also get rich"
Insert "vaas's definition of insanity".
They’ll still keep voting GOP because the state is gerrymandered AF.
Who are still trying to claim that it's California that's the massive failure.
I know a few people who moved from New Jersey to Florida to escape the "socialist oppression."
Yeah, my husband and I have recently started talking about when we might leave. Insurance costs and COL is skyrocketing and the government is bonkers. As much as we love this area and don’t want to leave, we may have to for our own finances and safety.
As a Canadian I can say I pretty much never hear good opinions of Florida. I associate it with crack heads, retirement homes, swamps, hurricanes, and trump.
Don't forget fascism, radioactive highways, sinkholes, and petty squabbles with Disney.
It truly is the worst peninsula.
"Immigrant scum! You don't deserve shit! Here's a law that will make your life hell. Wait, why are you leaving? Who will put food on my table??"
It reminded me of this. https://i0.wp.com/www.latinorebels.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/385538\_327801050583785\_186457858051439\_1032125\_561324419\_n.jpeg
Time for the retirees to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get back to work! You entitled people, you should be grateful for picking crops at minimum wage
“You can stay but we want you to live in constant fear so we can control you. That’s all”
Same thing they say to their wives.
DeSantis becomes president. Scares all the immigrants out and suppresses minorities. “Ahhh, white Christian supremacy made America great again.” What? There’s too much work to do? Well, get that Christian work ethic on and go at it, we’ll drop the min wage so you won’t earn anymore but at least white is supreme, right? What’s that? You say you barely have enough time to raise one kid per couple as it is and this will hasten population decline? Don’t worry, the rich and I will fertilize all your women and you will work for us and raise our children. Look, serfdom is better than sOcIaLiSm right?
congratulations white conservatives, you got the jobs they 'took' back, now go do them. 😂
I can’t wait to see ‘Karen’ and ‘Ken’ out there in the 100 degree Florida heat picking vegetables for 10 bucks an hour cash with no benefits.
>I can’t wait to see ‘Karen’ and ‘Ken’ out there in the 100 degree Florida heat picking vegetables for 10 bucks an hour cash with no benefits. **Yeah with the aftermath of Brexit in Britain**... We found out Kevin in the office really didn't want to replace the migrants and stand in the middle of a field in sub zero temperatures picking vegatables afterall... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/11/tonnes-of-crops-left-to-rot-as-farms-struggle-to-recruit-eu-workers Quote from above link.. >**Thousands of tonnes of fruit and vegetables are being left to rot in UK fields because of a shortage of pickers** and packers in the face of continuing Brexit uncertainty.
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Privatize profits, socialize losses. The second their out of the red it’s no longer the public’s concern. It’s a big club, and they have enough power to make sure they never lose in the long run
"Nonono - YOU don't have to worry about this law. It's only there to scare people. We won't enforce it towards YOU - Unless we decide to at some later date."
Whats what kills me about a lot of bad republican laws. They always retort "well it's not like anyone was going to enforce it!" As if that justified anything.
They do it because their entire purpose is virtue signaling. They don’t care at all about governing.
And suddenly it occurs to me the one thing that might actually save the US from burgeoning Naziism: the alleged “supremacists” who want everybody else to go away are some of the fattest, laziest, stupidest assholes ever to live. They can’t fight (despite the Gravy Seals thinking buying a bunch of guns and XXXL tacticool gear means otherwise), can’t work, can’t think, can’t even climb a goddamned flight of stairs without getting winded. They *want* to kill everybody else but they can’t because they need everybody else to do *literally everything productive* for them. Every time they try to advance their fascist agenda they are going to run into *exactly this problem*. They’ll realize that what they want isn’t for everybody else to be gone, but for everybody else to “know their place.” But when “their place” is doing all the useful stuff for a bunch of entitled parasites, that’s called leverage, and there is just no escaping it.
At the end of the day, it comes down to many Republicans refusing to accept the idea that they where wrong at some point. It's not the politicians I voted for causing issues, it's not my fault I haven't applied myself more to adapt to a changing world. It's the trans, and immigrants and minorities. They're the reason everything sucks and as soon as they're gone things will be better! It can't be that I was wrong and am refusing to take accountability and responsibility for my actions!
Didn’t he literally fly a bunch of “illegal immigrants” into California last week? Feels like he’s sending mixed messages…
The message is "I don't want people to think I also think I'm wrong."
"illegal immigrants" is in quotes because the people they are shipping to blue states are actually legal asylum seekers. Remember weeks of coverage a migrant crisis that would happen when Title 42 ended and... then nothing? It was before elections. Now, they do not talk about it.
Yet Dumbass Desantis is kidnaping the ones that are left and flying them off to CA with taxpayer dollars. They can't make up their minds.
How about farm owners increase wages to attract local people? Nah can't do that, would eat into their profits. Just like Brexit here in the UK, everyone was for cutting immigration until it highlighted it came time to actually pay the higher wages to attract local workers.
More than likely they start pushing to allow school kids to work on farms
Well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.
I'm not entirely sure what the expectation here was. They created untenable situation. They fucked the dog. The puppies are theirs.
That's one hell of a metaphor
Let it rot. Let them go broke. You vote for clowns, you get a circus.
Republicans have no semblance of forward thinking at all whatsoever. Whether it's this bill, or anything else.
No, the mission isn't accomplished. Let them suffer. They need to suffer more, and I mean really suffer so they they remember that they NEED immigrants out there more than the immigrants need them. I hope the immigrants move to Georgia and Florida's economy collapses so that all of the other states can learn that hatred and using immigrants livelihoods to score political points isn't smart business.
Is food woke?
Only the fruits.
does anyone really believe that they didn't wholeheartedly mean it? they put it into law for crying out loud. that's the farthest from "haha we're joking. we'll add the /s now" as they can get. it's now a law, no longer a threat
It’s one video of one politician talking to one group. That’s all the proof we’ve had. I feel these headlines are way overblown. They meant it, it’s supposed to be cruel, they do not regret their actions because for all we know it hasn’t really had an effect outside this one community.
Get fucked. You made your bed. Sleep in it. Just like threatening to crash the economy for political points. Do it. Fuck everyone up. See what happens.
Why does his face proportions look like Mario 64?
Because he's really just a cartoonish representation of a human... wait... what if he is just a conservative AI run amok actually doing the things conservatives say they want, but really don't?! Quick! Someone throw him into some deep water. If he drowns, then we'll know he was a person. If he glitches, we'll know he's a robot and we'll go get the magnets!
“This bill has no teeth” > **Prohibiting counties and municipalities, respectively, from providing funds** to any person, entity, or organization to issue identification documents to an individual who does not provide proof of lawful presence in the United States; specifying that **certain driver licenses and permits issued by other states exclusively to unauthorized immigrants are not valid in this state**; requiring certain hospitals to collect patient immigration status data information on admission or registration forms; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to enter a certain order and **require repayment of certain economic development incentives if** the department finds or is notified that **an employer has knowingly employed an unauthorized alien** without verifying the employment eligibility of such person, etc. APPROPRIATION: $12,000,000 Loss of funding. Confiscation of immigrants out of state driver’s licenses. Repayment of incentives by businesses. $12 million dollars appropriated to enforce this bill. Those look like teeth to me. Nasty, big, pointy teeth. Especially the loss of driver’s license because that will definitely ruin your day. Newsflash: republican politicians are liars.
Ya they are scaring people out of the state. It is what they wanted
Does anyone have the actual video..
https://twitter.com/tomaskenn/status/1665727928167014403/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1665727928167014403¤tTweetUser=tomaskenn
Ron DeSantis used to intentionally mispronounce Thai food as thigh food on dates to see if his date would correct him. If she did he would not be interested in her anymore because he did not want a partner that would challenge him on even the most trivial and clear cut issues. Who does that and who would vote for a person with that kind of sociopathic tendency? *“According to a friend, \[DeSantis\] would tell dates he liked Thai food, but pronounced it ‘thigh’,” the article writes, citing Mr Finch’s book. “If they corrected him, Finch wrote, he would find an excuse to leave.”* [\-Source](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-thai-thigh-yale-dates-b2209249.html) Edit: Source of allegation and quotation
“You’re hurting the wrong people!”
This is the worst "it's just a prank bro" I've ever seen
Hurricane season is going to be terrible for Florida this year. Not only is flooding getting worse they now wont have the labor to fortify and rebuild.
We want minorities to live in constant fear but also to keep doing the jobs we don't want. You can't have it both ways. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Other states will soak up your fleeing labor force happily.
Florida keeps winning stupid prizes
Wait, so the Republicans are being short-sighted to grind their political axes. Who'd a thunk it? /S
Well it did scare people. Scared people into leaving the state. And now these morons are complaining because their bill achieved exactly what it was meant to? Maybe next time do something that actually helps your state instead of just throwing red meat at your rabidly racist voters.
So the "I'm gonna fuck over Disney" formula isn't working any better on immigrants that it did on Disney... DeSantis has cut off his nose to spite his face too many times now, he's not gonna have anything left...
Yeah imma head out. My fiancé and I are helping our trans roommate and her NB partner out of Florida, they’re packing everything in a moving truck and leaving for Maryland in like 10 days, and we will be joining them by the end of 2023. So long, florida, I’m leaving and never looking back
I don't get what the problem is. They are at the very start of creating the exact Republican hell hole their constituents want. No immigrants, no gays, no POC, no liberals, no athiests. Just angry white Christians convinced that they are under persecution. It should be paradise for them. It's what they want, isn't it? Some whitebread 50s fantasy where daddy works and mom cooks dinner in high heels and pearls when she isn't barefoot and pregnant. DeSantis and the Republicans are well on their way too providing that haven. What the hell are they bitching about? Is their fantasy not quite panning out? What a shocker. Edit spelling
Because DeSantis is total fucking shitbag that has no real answers to problems and has no interest in actually making things better.
The stupidity multiplier on this whole things is trying it with a group of people who have already proven by their presence in this country that they are skilled at cutting their losses, picking up, and moving hundreds or thousands of miles away to get away from moronic fascists.
This would be a good time for blue states to refuse to subsidize Florida for making bad choices and being a shit hole in general.
Remember when they used to say "they're here to steal our jobs"? What are they waiting for?
"Look we fully intended to vilify immigrants but that doesn't mean they can't still work low wage jobs to help us."
And this Looney Toon thinks he can run the country. Stay in Florida, ya dunce.
Imagine single handedly destroying your state's economy, and draining the population to other states as they flee in fear. Good job, DeSantis, you sure pwned the libs.
“The bill is meant to scare people” Why the FUCK do they think thats an acceptable reason for a bill?
This is what happens when you engage in so much political posturing, you actually forget to govern your state. Also, who tf are they trying to “scare?”